He was asked about jihad?

The questioner : May Allah reward you, O our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And you, if Allah wills.

The questioner : A brother asks, saying: After some speakers at the conference explained the principles of the Ummah’s return to jihad and that it is capable of returning to the true religion without resorting to enthusiasm and emotion, some of the attendees found this difficult. So he asked: Do you order us to sit idle, or to engage in jihad?

The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.

The questioner : The answer from one of the attendees or speakers was: We order you to sit idle in your severe, weak state in which you are currently situated, until you are truly and sincerely capable of jihad in the path of Allah, then you should carry it out. This answer was difficult for some people. What is your opinion regarding the question and the answer?

The Shaykh : I agree with this answer, and I thank the one who gave this answer. He was successful in mentioning the preparation that Allah ordered us to make. And after we clarified that it is obligatory to have spiritual and religious preparation, as mentioned in that answer which I agreed with, I remind those who raised the question and received the correct answer—though the difficulty may still remain in their minds—of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): I am as certain that these people who directed that question are imagining from our words that we are ordering them to sit idle regarding jihad. This falls under a trait from which it seems they have not been liberated, which is the trait of having bad suspicions about Muslims. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says regarding the polytheists: And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: How can these people have such suspicions?The questioner : One or the other.The questioner : How can they have such suspicions after this clear, explanatory clarification that we are ordering the enthusiastic Muslim youth to sit idle, while we are telling them: Return to understanding Islam correctly in light of the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous predecessors, then apply this Islam within the limits
of your ability. We also order the rulers who rule over you to apply Islam, pure Islam. This is the greatest jihad. After that comes the jihad against the disbeliever. How do they have bad suspicions about us, saying: Do we sit with those who sit? I return to remind them of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): If I were among you, I would see many of these youth violating the Shari'ah of Allah in themselves, in their prayer, in their worship. And the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said long ago: So you can draw the attention of some enthusiastic youth, on my behalf, to the fact that they have not applied Islam in themselves, in their wives, in their sisters, in their daughters, and so on. Therefore, we said earlier, quoting that phrase which I consider the height of wisdom: "Establish the state of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." So we do not say: Sit idle. We say: Engage in jihad. As for the jihad of fighting, it requires preparation with the strongest possible means in the present era. These means are available to states, not to individuals. Therefore, it is obligatory for us all, O Muslims, to raise our voices and demand that our states, and especially the state that publicly declares to the Muslim and non-Muslim community that it rules by what Allah has revealed, to mobilize entirely and to declare jihad, not just in words, but in words, action, and application.

The questioner : May Allah reward you, O our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And you as well, if Allah wills.

The questioner : Our Shaykh, we have five minutes left until the two hours are complete. We want an answer that serves as a principle regarding what you will hear. And although I say that the answer has already been given in general terms as general principles, it is necessary to say what is necessary. The brother says:The questioner : What is your advice to some Muslim youth who are currently destroying some places of corruption and killing some open sinners or disbelievers in some Islamic countries, on the pretext that this is part of jihad or enjoining good and forbidding evil, while many harms result from this? What is your answer? May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you greatly. And please excuse me, as much ofThe Shaykh : the beginning of the question has gone from my mind. So please repeat the question for me?

The questioner : The brother says,The questioner : What is your advice to some Muslim youth who are currently in some Islamic countries

The Shaykh : That is enough, it is finished.

The questioner : Destroying some places of corruption

The Shaykh : Thank you, thank you. I understood.

The questioner : On the pretext that this is part of jihad or enjoining good and forbidding evil, while some harms result from this action. What is your answer? May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : You did well when you said that the answer to this question can be taken from my first detailed answer. But as I said, may Allah bless you, it is necessary to say what is necessary. So I say: This individual action that some individuals are doing in some Islamic countries, such as killing, breaking, shedding blood, and the like, is not prescribed. This is because the cause that permits such an action does not exist. The cause that permits such an action is that there is a ruling established by Islam, as it was in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and in the time of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the Muslim kings whose good predominated over their evil. In that case, if the Muslim ruler ordered the execution of such matters as those mentioned in the question, like killing some of the wicked or the disbelievers among the Muslim fighters, then it must be executed. But for individuals to act in a state that declares its constitution is Islam, but unfortunately does not know of Islam except its name, and therefore they wish that Muslim individuals, all Muslims, would display such behavior, which is an aggression against some individuals, which is not permissible even in our opinion, we scholars, jurists, or students of knowledge among Muslims. Those rulers wish that every Muslim in their land would display such behavior, killing the innocent, so that they could take that as a means and a path to shed the blood of these Muslims who must preserve their lives and their blood for the day that we... because that should come after achieving purification, education, and unity based on the Book and the Sunnah. We say that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) truly said: But the scholars who encompassed the jurisprudence of the Book and the Sunnah with the encompassing of a bracelet around a wrist, these jurists who gathered all the rulings of Islam and knew the specific and the general, the restricted and the absolute, the abrogating and the abrogated, and the like, these said: "Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand." The matter is not limited to changing evil with the hand, but rather these three levels. And that is only from the beauty of the legislation and its wisdom, because Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who created the servants and commanded them with what they are capable of, knows that many evils cannot always be changed by hand. And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the completion of the hadith: