What is your advice to the Mujaddidi government regarding stopping the war with the other factions to avert fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and to stop the shedding of blood?
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The questioner : I ask permission from our Shaykh to ask a question.
The Shaykh : Please.
The questioner : You know the circumstances for which the Mujaddidi government was imposed. It is perhaps just to say that the government of Hekmat Yar is lighter if we choose the lighter option. He is now fighting him, or so it is said, because this one says it was imposed on them, and even if it was not explicitly stated that the government was imposed on him by other parties, I do not accept that. Some scholars say that the Mujaddidis, or Hekmat Yar and those with him, should accept this government, even if we do not agree with it, to preserve blood and honor and to stop fighting among Muslims. And people talk about how the Afghan jihad will end. Some say, "No, he has the right and must fight as he fought the communists. He must fight these people until he wins or is killed." So what is your guidance?
The Shaykh : What you mentioned, in my view, is correct, because there is a very big difference between the jihad that was previously established against the communists. There was an established state with employees, numbering thousands upon thousands, organized to serve this destructive communist ideology. We cannot compare the followers of this so-called Mujaddidi movement to those communists. Therefore, I am with those scholars you mentioned but did not name, in that this is a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) now, and one should not support it. I see that the aid that was previously provided to the mujahideen should now be reduced and not continued, because the conflict will occur among Muslims themselves, and the fighting, Allah knows best, will not stop between Hekmat Yar and his party, and betweenThe Shaykh : this Sufi who was imposed as the head of this state and those who take refuge with him. I see that, in the way of reducing evil and taking the lesser of two harms, we should not support Hekmat Yar, and even less so his opponent. Allah knows best.
The questioner : Shaykh, what do you see as the correct position for our brothers in Kunar, the group of the Qur'an and the Sunnah, regarding these events?
The Shaykh : May Allah aid them. I had previously told them, when they consulted me by phone, and they were suspecting what actually happened later from those who attacked them in their own homes, that what seems to me, and Allah knows the truth, is that they must not attack, but rather they should stay in the area where they live. If they are attacked, they should defend themselves only, in the way of defense.
The questioner : Themselves, and not their state or their emirate?
The Shaykh : That is what I mean, themselves and the land they are in.
The questioner : For example, if they are warned that we will fight you if you do not surrender in their province, should they surrender to them or not?
The Shaykh : No, surrendering is not required.
The questioner : They defend themselves even if they are informed and they are Muslims like them?
The Shaykh : Because this notification is not from a state, meaning a pledge of allegiance from the Muslims, so that these people would be considered Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) against whom they must submit.
The questioner : Well, to preserve the blood of Muslims, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : To preserve the blood, as they did with Hekmat Yar?
The Shaykh : This is what I see; this statement has its place.Sahih Muslim 141a If a person is attacked in his own home, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) established this principle: if he defends himself and kills, the one killed is in the Fire, and if he is killed, he is a martyr. This is the right of defense, and I grant it.
The questioner : I mean that they should tell them, "You must submit to us," after now establishing the state, the Mujaddidi state, they offer it to them.
The Shaykh : Let us stay with the first issue for now, have we finished with it?
The questioner : We have finished, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : I did not understand from you that we have finished. On this occasion, I say: put a hadith point, and I think you do not know it.
The questioner : We will learn it, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Take it on the go. It was the custom of hadith scholars that when they copied a book of hadith with the chain and the text, they would place a small circle at the end of each hadith until the copying was finished. When it was finished, they would go back to compare the copy with the original. So whenever they passed a hadith and finished with it, they would place the point in the middle of the circle, indicating that it has been compared. Therefore, I want our brothers, if there is a research, say A, B, and the answer is finished, and he is convincedThe questioner : and he wants to move on, he should place a hadith point in the middle of a clear and distinct circle. So then we have finished with the first issue.
The Shaykh : Please.
The questioner : You know the circumstances for which the Mujaddidi government was imposed. It is perhaps just to say that the government of Hekmat Yar is lighter if we choose the lighter option. He is now fighting him, or so it is said, because this one says it was imposed on them, and even if it was not explicitly stated that the government was imposed on him by other parties, I do not accept that. Some scholars say that the Mujaddidis, or Hekmat Yar and those with him, should accept this government, even if we do not agree with it, to preserve blood and honor and to stop fighting among Muslims. And people talk about how the Afghan jihad will end. Some say, "No, he has the right and must fight as he fought the communists. He must fight these people until he wins or is killed." So what is your guidance?
The Shaykh : What you mentioned, in my view, is correct, because there is a very big difference between the jihad that was previously established against the communists. There was an established state with employees, numbering thousands upon thousands, organized to serve this destructive communist ideology. We cannot compare the followers of this so-called Mujaddidi movement to those communists. Therefore, I am with those scholars you mentioned but did not name, in that this is a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) now, and one should not support it. I see that the aid that was previously provided to the mujahideen should now be reduced and not continued, because the conflict will occur among Muslims themselves, and the fighting, Allah knows best, will not stop between Hekmat Yar and his party, and betweenThe Shaykh : this Sufi who was imposed as the head of this state and those who take refuge with him. I see that, in the way of reducing evil and taking the lesser of two harms, we should not support Hekmat Yar, and even less so his opponent. Allah knows best.
The questioner : Shaykh, what do you see as the correct position for our brothers in Kunar, the group of the Qur'an and the Sunnah, regarding these events?
The Shaykh : May Allah aid them. I had previously told them, when they consulted me by phone, and they were suspecting what actually happened later from those who attacked them in their own homes, that what seems to me, and Allah knows the truth, is that they must not attack, but rather they should stay in the area where they live. If they are attacked, they should defend themselves only, in the way of defense.
The questioner : Themselves, and not their state or their emirate?
The Shaykh : That is what I mean, themselves and the land they are in.
The questioner : For example, if they are warned that we will fight you if you do not surrender in their province, should they surrender to them or not?
The Shaykh : No, surrendering is not required.
The questioner : They defend themselves even if they are informed and they are Muslims like them?
The Shaykh : Because this notification is not from a state, meaning a pledge of allegiance from the Muslims, so that these people would be considered Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) against whom they must submit.
The questioner : Well, to preserve the blood of Muslims, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : To preserve the blood, as they did with Hekmat Yar?
The Shaykh : This is what I see; this statement has its place.
He who died in protecting his property is a martyr.
من قُتل دون ماله فهو شهيدThe questioner : I mean that they should tell them, "You must submit to us," after now establishing the state, the Mujaddidi state, they offer it to them.
The Shaykh : Let us stay with the first issue for now, have we finished with it?
The questioner : We have finished, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : I did not understand from you that we have finished. On this occasion, I say: put a hadith point, and I think you do not know it.
The questioner : We will learn it, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Take it on the go. It was the custom of hadith scholars that when they copied a book of hadith with the chain and the text, they would place a small circle at the end of each hadith until the copying was finished. When it was finished, they would go back to compare the copy with the original. So whenever they passed a hadith and finished with it, they would place the point in the middle of the circle, indicating that it has been compared. Therefore, I want our brothers, if there is a research, say A, B, and the answer is finished, and he is convincedThe questioner : and he wants to move on, he should place a hadith point in the middle of a clear and distinct circle. So then we have finished with the first issue.
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