The Shaykh’s compilation of the answers to the remaining previous doubts, along with the answer to the current doubt.

The Shaykh: And this connects us to some of the questions you previously read to us, so we include the answer to that question regarding jihad. It appears that these people do not distinguish between one type of jihad and another; they do not distinguish between defensive jihad, which means that Muslims have been attacked in their own homeland. In that case, all Muslims, even women, must each do whatever they can of jihad to repel the aggression of these enemies attacking Muslims in their own homeland. Here, the issue of authority, the ruler, and the preparation that Muslims must undertake does not arise. On the other hand, the jihad of which we say that it requires authority, leadership, and preparation in both the moral and material senses, and so on, is the jihad intended to carry the Islamic call from an Islamic country to a non-Islamic country. Therefore, in reality, they are mixing up Sha'ban with Ramadan! They are mixing up the individual obligation with the collective obligation. The first type of jihad I mentioned earlier in my speech—defending the Muslim country under attack—is an individual obligation for every Muslim. As for the other type, the collective obligation, it is obligatory only for a group of Muslims, not for every individual Muslim.
And when you understand this distinction, all their evidence falls away, which they list to refute those who deny the type of jihad intended to carry the call from a Muslim country to a disbeliever country, which is intended to fight the disbelievers who are near us. This requires preparation, it requires organization, and it requires every means of the means that appear to people—and it is necessary, —that they be among the causes of victory and triumph over the disbelievers.