Is jihad in Afghanistan an individual obligation?

The questioner : The third question: Is the Afghan jihad currently an individual obligation or a collective obligation?

The Shaykh : The Afghan jihad remains obligatory as it was before; in fact, I believe it is now more obligatory than it was before. This is because the jihad has reached, or nearly reached, its final stage. Therefore, it is not permissible to cut off the support for it, whether that support is money, personnel, or any other type of assistance that is religiously obligatory. These forms of assistance are now more obligatory until these mujahideen achieve their goal, despite the regrettable differences among them, one of the last consequences of which was the killing ofThe Shaykh : Jamil al-Rahman (may Allah have mercy on him). However, we do not know and cannot judge, as we are far from the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) there, who incited this killer to kill this noble man, Jamil al-Rahman. The important point is that the obligation remains upon all Muslims, governments, peoples, and individuals, until the mujahideen in Afghanistan achieve their goal of eliminating the communist tyranny and then establishing the rule of Islam in Afghanistan, as they say. I sincerely hope that they will be successful in that.