regarding the condition of some of the brothers in Palestine who are suffering from heavy taxation, and whether they should focus on purification and education and be patient, or what else they should do

The questioner : Yes, now, my Shaykh, news is reaching us about the brothers in the West Bank that the taxes have been doubled significantly, and that they have reached a stage of great humiliation and degradation. So, should the brothers who are on the methodology and who have only purification and education remain silent and stick to purification and education, or do you see something else for them?

The Shaykh : No, by Allah, I do not see that they have done anything wrong if they engage in purification and education, for they have done what the masses of Muslim scholars in the countries of the world do not do.

The questioner: All right.

The Shaykh : I mean, it is as if you are unfamiliar with the subject of purification and education.

The questioner : No, by Allah, if Allah wills, I am not unfamiliar with it.

The Shaykh : And that is the opinion held of you.

The questioner : If Allah wills.

The Shaykh : But your words make me feel something contrary to what we believe.

The questioner : Where?

The Shaykh : That is, that education and purification are the limit, and that is all, and there is nothing else for them. I am saying this because the life of the Muslim is this.

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : What is the difference now between us and them? Let us be like what they say, a simple Ahmad. What is the difference between us and these Salafis whom you imagined in those lands? What are we doing here now?

The questioner : Here, there is purification and education.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : And, by Allah, our situation here is different from their situation there.

The questioner : In some way.

The Shaykh : In our favor or in someone else's favor?

The questioner : They are not like us. We are, by the will of Allah, in safety and...

The Shaykh : If the answer is in our favor, may Allah guide you, then why, since our situation is better than theirs, are we not doing anything? What is the reason? Purification and education.

The questioner : We cannot do anything other than that.

The Shaykh : And those people can.

The Shaykh : Have you seen your contradiction?

The questioner : You have entered the door of capability.

Another questioner : A fortiori, as long as the matter is in our favor.

The Shaykh : The contradiction that is in it has not yet become apparent.

The questioner : ... in safety and security, and the situation.

The Shaykh : The contradiction has not become apparent to you.

The questioner : This matter is a fortiori that they cannot.

The Shaykh : We advise Abu Ahmad with good.

The questioner : Now, are the people in Afghanistan not also required to engage in purification and education?

The Shaykh : All Muslims, may Allah guide you.

The questioner : Yes, I mean this example. Now the enemy has come to them and wanted to take their land, so we said, following our Shaykh and following the evidence, it is an individual obligation (fard 'ayn) for every Muslim to stand on this front and fight.

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.

The questioner : Now, they are engaging in purification and education, and yet they also engaged in fighting the enemies.

The Shaykh : Who are the ones who engaged in purification and education?

The questioner : The Afghans.

The Shaykh : No, they do not engage in education and purification.

The questioner : Some of them, for example, Jamil Abu Ahmad has fifty thousand fighters who engage in purification and education and fight on the fronts. I want to reach a point.

The Shaykh : Yes, please go ahead.

The questioner : So, this elite, for example, among our brothers in the West Bank who are engaging in purification and education, wanted to organize, for example, an operation every night, for example, to take, for example, some Jews and kill them, for example. Is this action permissible, obligatory, or not permissible?

The Shaykh : O Shaykh, be gentle, I have not known you to be like this.

The questioner : I, I.

The Shaykh : That you are searching in the imagination. Now, those who are in the West Bank, like those you spoke about, who are they? Tell me.

The questioner : And: Jamil al-Rahman.

The Shaykh : Jamil al-Rahman? Yes, do they have weapons or do they not have weapons?

The questioner : In the West Bank.

The Shaykh : No, no, these Jamil al-Rahman people have them.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : These are like those.

The questioner : These are enemies.

The Shaykh: Do not go around, do not go around.

The questioner : Enemies of the...

The Shaykh : No, do not say that, do not say that, may Allah guide you.

Another questioner : They differ.

The questioner : They will differ, of course.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. We have finished saying that these people did not prepare anything other than the stones that were more available to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) than we want to return to the past.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : I am asking you now, do these Jamil people in Afghanistan have weapons or not?

The questioner : They have them.

The Shaykh : These have weapons, say no, here you are doubting the obvious.

The questioner : I am speaking, they have them.

The Shaykh : Who are these?

The questioner : Those in the West Bank who use them.

The Shaykh : No, allow me a moment.

The questioner : No, no, I am speaking, they have stones and gasoline.

Another questioner : Stones.

The questioner : I mean, gasoline was not with the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : Do not take us, I see you are tired today, rest a little.

The questioner : Why not...

The Shaykh : Rest a little, my brother. O Shaykh, the answer is according to the question. When I ask you, do these have weapons, do these Jamil people have weapons, I mean do they have stones, do you understand my question!

The questioner : No, the Jamil people have lethal weapons.

The Shaykh : I, I, when I ask you do these have weapons or not, do I mean stones?

The questioner : No, you mean weapons.

The Shaykh : But, but, do not add, they have stones.

The questioner : No, you mean weapons.

The Shaykh : Okay, so when I tell you these, you say yes, these have weapons. Stones. This is my question.

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : What does this mean? It means you are one of two things: either you are really tired now, or you are arguing with falsehood, and that is far from you.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, and thank you for your good opinion.

The Shaykh : So, if...

The questioner : I have, my Shaykh, the matter is relative. These people were able to prepare weapons...

The Shaykh : By Allah, I understood you.

The questioner : And these people were able to prepare stones and gasoline.

Another questioner : No, here, in truth, I am explaining to the Shaykh. If the stone leads to the killing of a Jew and the practical results of it are these proofs, we say, by Allah, it has become a weapon. But let us be realistic. Until now, the stone has not killed a Jew. And if we continue with fighting with stones, we will not kill. If we kill, we will kill two, three, four. So the net result is that the stone does not kill!

The questioner: Correct.

Another questioner : But the knife may kill. If we take the matter relatively, if each of them armed himself with a knife and this knife killed a Jew, then there are tangible results. And there may be this available equipment now, and we are speaking relatively, so the stone now does not kill.

The questioner : We do not have weapons.

Another questioner : There is an additional point, my professor. They say they have weapons, but in our planning for this matter, we do not want to use it now. We want to use these burning bottles that contain, for example, gasoline, or sometimes some knives, or sometimes some stones. It is a planning process until the time for using the weapons comes. This is part of their arrangement, so they say.