about the hadith regarding the virtue of equipping the one who goes out for jihad?
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The Shaykh : Jihad is of two types: one is an individual obligation, and the other is a collective obligation. It is known from this distinction that the difference is that when the ruling of a collective obligation is fulfilled by some people, the ruling drops off the others. As for an individual obligation, the ruling is not fulfilled except by all the capable and able people. Therefore, when some people perform it while others do not, those who perform it have fulfilled an individual obligation, and those who do not perform it have left off an individual obligation; so they are sinful; meaning, it is like the one who prays and the one who does not pray, completely.
But regarding the hadith just mentioned, which encourages equipping the one who goes out for jihad, and being the successor to his family after him: if this person going out for jihad intends to go out for an individual obligation, and there is a wealthy person who is the only one able to equip him, then as long as the person going out for jihad will go out for an individual obligation, fulfilling the ruling becomes for him himself, meaning it is an individual obligation. This is if we assume that no one else can do this except this person. But if the jihad is a collective obligation, and this person going out for jihad wants to go out, and there are other people who are going out and fulfilling the collective obligation, then it is not obligatory for anyone to help a specific person who wants to go out for jihad. Why? Because the collective obligation is being fulfilled by others. Is that clear?
But the door of good remains open; meaning, if we assume that ten thousand people going out for jihad exist and are scattered in the lands, in the state of the jihad being a collective obligation, and not what? An individual obligation, then one person in addition to the ten thousand wants to go out for jihad, helping him in that is good, but it is not an obligation. Is that clear?
The questioner : Is that clear?
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
But regarding the hadith just mentioned, which encourages equipping the one who goes out for jihad, and being the successor to his family after him: if this person going out for jihad intends to go out for an individual obligation, and there is a wealthy person who is the only one able to equip him, then as long as the person going out for jihad will go out for an individual obligation, fulfilling the ruling becomes for him himself, meaning it is an individual obligation. This is if we assume that no one else can do this except this person. But if the jihad is a collective obligation, and this person going out for jihad wants to go out, and there are other people who are going out and fulfilling the collective obligation, then it is not obligatory for anyone to help a specific person who wants to go out for jihad. Why? Because the collective obligation is being fulfilled by others. Is that clear?
But the door of good remains open; meaning, if we assume that ten thousand people going out for jihad exist and are scattered in the lands, in the state of the jihad being a collective obligation, and not what? An individual obligation, then one person in addition to the ten thousand wants to go out for jihad, helping him in that is good, but it is not an obligation. Is that clear?
The questioner : Is that clear?
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
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