Were you saying that the war in Afghanistan is not Islamic jihad?
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The questioner : I used to hear from you in the past, meaning you used to tell the brothers that this war is not a declared Islamic jihad, and that Islamic jihad has conditions, and the conditions do not apply to the existing war. Then recently, we heard a tape of one of the brothers; it seems he asked you in a gathering in Saudi Arabia in a session.
The Shaykh : What you mentioned before has no basis, and I did not hear it.
The questioner : ... I heard it ... .
The Shaykh : I never heard it, but I heard something else.
The questioner : The brothers used to come to you, and I used to sit and listen. They would ask you, and you would tell them that this is not a declared Islamic jihad, and it is Palestine. If you want to do jihad, I heard you more than once say this. Did you say this?
The Shaykh : Never. As for jihad in Palestine, we say that whoever wants to engage in jihad must have these conditions met.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : What a difference between what you are enjoying and what you attributed to me unjustly and oppressively!
The questioner : I mean, when it was...
The Shaykh : Jihad in Afghanistan is defensive jihad. Jihad in Afghanistan is defensive. But when a group of people wants to say that there is jihad in some Islamic lands, they must meet conditions, including that it is under an Islamic banner and under a man pledged to jihad in the cause of Allah the Exalted.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you and bestow upon you.
The questioner : And beware of that.
The Shaykh : And I hope that your words are always...
The questioner : Gentle.
The Shaykh : Gentle. This is one thing. And if the disbelievers attack Islamic lands, these are details that are not addressed here at all. Rather, it is obligatory for all Muslims to mobilize entirely to repel the aggression of this enemy. And now is not the time for organization, investigation, and selection, etc. So you mixed things up, and there is no surprise, not because you are in Sha'ban. You mixed Sha'ban with Ramadan.
The questioner : But even if I am in Sha'ban, that is also an insult to me. I mix it with Ramadan, and it hasn't arrived yet.
The Shaykh : You must memorize well, and...
The questioner : Some brothers said it is permissible, being enthusiastic, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood. They tell you, "We want to go and so on." You tell them, "Do you think it is Islamic jihad?" They say, "Yes." You tell them, "Okay, and you are sitting in front of me, what are you doing now? Since you think it is Islamic jihad, you must have gone, not come to discuss with me and talk."
The Shaykh : This is an argument against you and for you.
Another questioner : An argument against him.
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you. May Allah reward you with good. Thank you.
The questioner : This is a clarification that you did not think it was Islamic jihad and that it was obligatory to support it, regarding the men and...
The Shaykh : First of all, my brother, this statement is not sound. Okay.
The questioner : No, by Allah, for me it is not okay.
The Shaykh : It is true that for you it is not okay, but I am saying this so that it is not said that you spoke to me kindly or unkindly. Hmm, in my time I said something and then retracted it. What happened to me?
The questioner : Nothing happened to you, but we want to clarify that what is the reason you used to say it and then retracted it? We want to see what evidence you have for why you retracted it?
The Shaykh : We discussed this just now. We discussed this just now. And the matter is not that I retracted, but I am telling you, suppose...
The questioner : No problem, no problem. We want the clarification.
The Shaykh : Suppose I retracted, what happened?
The questioner: O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : If so, why do you care about nothing?
The questioner : I want to see, I mean, why did you return from your statement?
The Shaykh : I am telling you, I did not retract. Glory be to my Lord!
Another questioner : On the assumption.
The Shaykh : But on the assumption that I retracted, what happened to me? Who among you will remind me, and may Allah reward him with good, that I retracted from many matters?
The questioner : The Islamic Bank, when it first started, used to issue fatwas for us.The Shaykh : Then when it sat with its manager, it completely changed its idea!
The Shaykh : I retracted, what happened, I mean...
The questioner : I retracted, meaning you want to deal with it, meaning... .
The Shaykh : Against it, what happened to me, Professor Ali?
The questioner : Withdraw your balance.
Another questioner : I would like Professor Ali to know why he did this.
Another questioner : I have a balance in the Islamic Bank.
The questioner : This is it now, I mean, you see that it is obligatory for Muslims everywhere to respond to the call of jihad.
The Shaykh : What is your opinion? Al-Albani's opinion, this anomalous one that has been going on for two or three years, he issues a fatwa on its obligation. Now, at the end of the battle there, contrary to what pleases the Muslims, the fatwa of the World Islamic Scientific Assembly in Mecca came out in agreement with Al-Albani's opinion.
The questioner : This is in a magazine.
The Shaykh : Yes, a magazine.
Another questioner : What does Al-Albani say? That jihad is obligatory.
The Shaykh : Yes, he said it, he said it.
Another questioner : You don't know, I mean, this talk.
Another questioner : My brothers, you are not letting us talk with...The Shaykh .
The Shaykh : You are not letting him vent his frustration. Let him vent his frustration.
The questioner : I am sure that now his brother, Abu Badr Hattat, who is now in Pakistan with the mujahideen, according to the news I received, told you that it is jihad, and I don't know what else, and you told him, "Professor, it is not jihad."
Another questioner : When was this talk?
The questioner : This talk was five years ago.
Another questioner : Ah, correct.
The questioner: Why?
Another questioner : Because this statement was not clear, it was...The Shaykh : He did not speak.
The Shaykh : We did not say that at that time, we spoke.
The questioner : There was a discussion.
The Shaykh : Correct, correct... .
Another questioner : I recorded it.
The questioner : The other: There was a great benefit, by Allah, in what you recorded. It is an honor to hear it.
The Shaykh : As proof, what did we tell you? We told you, where were you at that time? What are you telling us? We told you, "It is not that you are full from eating."
The questioner : I mean, move the lunch.
Another questioner : You work on the food of the soul and the heart, and I work on the food of the body. What do I do?
The Shaykh : I am telling you, may Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : The other: And you too.
The questioner : My master, may Allah reward you with good. I mean, at the beginning, you were really issuing a fatwa.
The questioner : The other: No.
The questioner : My master, I understand.
The Shaykh : I was suspended.
The questioner : Yesterday you were arguing with him or clarifying to him, did you think that the jihad...
The Shaykh : I was suspended.
The questioner : I still do not think it is jihad.
The questioner : The other: Okay, excellent.
The Shaykh : I was suspended. I do not say it is an individual obligation, nor that it is a collective obligation.
The questioner : Correct.
The Shaykh : Because the features are not clear, and we discussed it just now.
The questioner : Exactly, well done.
The Shaykh : And it is recorded. Listen to it, go.
Another questioner : Shaykh, no blame on you.
Another questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : No, I want the summary. I want to hear the summary.
The Shaykh : This is the summary: it is an individual obligation.
The questioner : Now it became an individual obligation.
The Shaykh : Not now, but three years ago.
The questioner : Three years ago, meaning we are now lagging behind in the matter... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, I hope that not even half a lagging behind catches you.
The questioner : The other: May Allah reward you with good, but reach them.
The Shaykh : But I do not know what your ability is in this.
The questioner : My ability, by Allah, is a boy who can fight with stones from one valley to another.
The Shaykh : But you can, so go with it.
Another questioner : Then a sniper, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The other: A sniper.
Another questioner: Allahu Akbar.
Another questioner : Bring us the heads of the Russians.
The Shaykh : Not a sniper. This sniper is a hunter, not a warrior. What did we do if we heard an explosion of a bomb and he turned his back and fled?
The questioner : Muhammad Tahir, do you accept his testimony in shooting? Your Shaykh is a bird shooter.
The Shaykh : But your question fell previously when you asked the son and left the father.
The questioner : Where is the father? I am looking for him, I do not see him.
The Shaykh : Be patient with him a little, he will come now.
The questioner : I mean, now it is obligatory, so if some brothers spoke on the occasion, I was...
The Shaykh : Whoever is able to do jihad, it is upon him...
The questioner : To catch up.
The Shaykh : It is an individual obligation.
The questioner : To catch up with them and the mujahideen. Dr. Abdullah Azzam, if you allow me... the fatwa from you is as if it was written by your hand, your handwriting. And once he came to me at the mosque and told the people, "Al-Albani's fatwa on the permissibility of collecting funds, I don't know what, on its obligation, he raises it."
Another questioner : Dr. Abdullah held it.
The Shaykh : I mean, if this is true, what is in it?
Another questioner : No problem, no problem!
The Shaykh : No problem, but I said something about him.
The questioner : No, I did not say anything.
The Shaykh : No, he is saying no problem.
The questioner : I want to tell you what the idea in my mind is about this matter.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : He held...The Shaykh : Abdullah Azzam and told him, now...The Shaykh : Al-Albani's fatwa has become important to you to this extent. How do you raise it? I mean, if the fatwa agrees with your opinion or your desire, Al-Albani becomes the first scholar and the first hadith scholar. And if the fatwa does not please you, you say, "How, Shaykh? It is forbidden for you to say this. This is an accusation against your Muslim brother."
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : I said, an accusation against my brother. This matter, I am aware of it and I know it. I mean, the accusation against my Muslim brother. My Muslim brother shows me both sides. How long do I have to keep thinking well of him!
Another questioner : The brothers increased it and increased it for them...
The Shaykh : They increased it, they increased it; whoever wanted, he ate.
The questioner : Are you really a professor who wrote a fatwa like this for him?
The Shaykh : I do not remember that I wrote it.
Another questioner : The fatwa is on a tape; it is not written. It was printed in a magazine, but not in his handwriting.The Shaykh .
The questioner : By Allah, yes, it might be.
The questioner : The other: It is on a tape, and they printed it in a magazine called...
The questioner : Is there anything in my hand? What is this written thing? I did not know what it was.
The questioner : The other: Tawhid and the Salafi University Magazine.
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, it might be.
The questioner : The other: This is the fatwa you were asked about, our professor... and he took it with him to Afghanistan when he went to Pakistan, with Siyaf and these others, and they published it on a large scale, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Another questioner : A ruling.The Shaykh : ... to Abdullah 'Azzam who published it.
The questioner: No.
The questioner : The other: That it is an individual obligation...
Another questioner : Regarding the topic of... please, my brother, please, Shaykh.
Another questioner : It is not going to end.
Another questioner : I have only heard from my friend's students.
Another questioner : He wantsThe Shaykh : to keep talking if there is no one to talk.
The questioner : We do not want to letThe Shaykh : him swallow his saliva.
Another questioner : It should not be from anyone but you.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The Shaykh : What you mentioned before has no basis, and I did not hear it.
The questioner : ... I heard it ... .
The Shaykh : I never heard it, but I heard something else.
The questioner : The brothers used to come to you, and I used to sit and listen. They would ask you, and you would tell them that this is not a declared Islamic jihad, and it is Palestine. If you want to do jihad, I heard you more than once say this. Did you say this?
The Shaykh : Never. As for jihad in Palestine, we say that whoever wants to engage in jihad must have these conditions met.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : What a difference between what you are enjoying and what you attributed to me unjustly and oppressively!
The questioner : I mean, when it was...
The Shaykh : Jihad in Afghanistan is defensive jihad. Jihad in Afghanistan is defensive. But when a group of people wants to say that there is jihad in some Islamic lands, they must meet conditions, including that it is under an Islamic banner and under a man pledged to jihad in the cause of Allah the Exalted.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you and bestow upon you.
The questioner : And beware of that.
The Shaykh : And I hope that your words are always...
The questioner : Gentle.
The Shaykh : Gentle. This is one thing. And if the disbelievers attack Islamic lands, these are details that are not addressed here at all. Rather, it is obligatory for all Muslims to mobilize entirely to repel the aggression of this enemy. And now is not the time for organization, investigation, and selection, etc. So you mixed things up, and there is no surprise, not because you are in Sha'ban. You mixed Sha'ban with Ramadan.
The questioner : But even if I am in Sha'ban, that is also an insult to me. I mix it with Ramadan, and it hasn't arrived yet.
The Shaykh : You must memorize well, and...
The questioner : Some brothers said it is permissible, being enthusiastic, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood. They tell you, "We want to go and so on." You tell them, "Do you think it is Islamic jihad?" They say, "Yes." You tell them, "Okay, and you are sitting in front of me, what are you doing now? Since you think it is Islamic jihad, you must have gone, not come to discuss with me and talk."
The Shaykh : This is an argument against you and for you.
Another questioner : An argument against him.
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you. May Allah reward you with good. Thank you.
The questioner : This is a clarification that you did not think it was Islamic jihad and that it was obligatory to support it, regarding the men and...
The Shaykh : First of all, my brother, this statement is not sound. Okay.
The questioner : No, by Allah, for me it is not okay.
The Shaykh : It is true that for you it is not okay, but I am saying this so that it is not said that you spoke to me kindly or unkindly. Hmm, in my time I said something and then retracted it. What happened to me?
The questioner : Nothing happened to you, but we want to clarify that what is the reason you used to say it and then retracted it? We want to see what evidence you have for why you retracted it?
The Shaykh : We discussed this just now. We discussed this just now. And the matter is not that I retracted, but I am telling you, suppose...
The questioner : No problem, no problem. We want the clarification.
The Shaykh : Suppose I retracted, what happened?
The questioner: O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : If so, why do you care about nothing?
The questioner : I want to see, I mean, why did you return from your statement?
The Shaykh : I am telling you, I did not retract. Glory be to my Lord!
Another questioner : On the assumption.
The Shaykh : But on the assumption that I retracted, what happened to me? Who among you will remind me, and may Allah reward him with good, that I retracted from many matters?
The questioner : The Islamic Bank, when it first started, used to issue fatwas for us.The Shaykh : Then when it sat with its manager, it completely changed its idea!
The Shaykh : I retracted, what happened, I mean...
The questioner : I retracted, meaning you want to deal with it, meaning... .
The Shaykh : Against it, what happened to me, Professor Ali?
The questioner : Withdraw your balance.
Another questioner : I would like Professor Ali to know why he did this.
Another questioner : I have a balance in the Islamic Bank.
The questioner : This is it now, I mean, you see that it is obligatory for Muslims everywhere to respond to the call of jihad.
The Shaykh : What is your opinion? Al-Albani's opinion, this anomalous one that has been going on for two or three years, he issues a fatwa on its obligation. Now, at the end of the battle there, contrary to what pleases the Muslims, the fatwa of the World Islamic Scientific Assembly in Mecca came out in agreement with Al-Albani's opinion.
The questioner : This is in a magazine.
The Shaykh : Yes, a magazine.
Another questioner : What does Al-Albani say? That jihad is obligatory.
The Shaykh : Yes, he said it, he said it.
Another questioner : You don't know, I mean, this talk.
Another questioner : My brothers, you are not letting us talk with...The Shaykh .
The Shaykh : You are not letting him vent his frustration. Let him vent his frustration.
The questioner : I am sure that now his brother, Abu Badr Hattat, who is now in Pakistan with the mujahideen, according to the news I received, told you that it is jihad, and I don't know what else, and you told him, "Professor, it is not jihad."
Another questioner : When was this talk?
The questioner : This talk was five years ago.
Another questioner : Ah, correct.
The questioner: Why?
Another questioner : Because this statement was not clear, it was...The Shaykh : He did not speak.
The Shaykh : We did not say that at that time, we spoke.
The questioner : There was a discussion.
The Shaykh : Correct, correct... .
Another questioner : I recorded it.
The questioner : The other: There was a great benefit, by Allah, in what you recorded. It is an honor to hear it.
The Shaykh : As proof, what did we tell you? We told you, where were you at that time? What are you telling us? We told you, "It is not that you are full from eating."
The questioner : I mean, move the lunch.
Another questioner : You work on the food of the soul and the heart, and I work on the food of the body. What do I do?
The Shaykh : I am telling you, may Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : The other: And you too.
The questioner : My master, may Allah reward you with good. I mean, at the beginning, you were really issuing a fatwa.
The questioner : The other: No.
The questioner : My master, I understand.
The Shaykh : I was suspended.
The questioner : Yesterday you were arguing with him or clarifying to him, did you think that the jihad...
The Shaykh : I was suspended.
The questioner : I still do not think it is jihad.
The questioner : The other: Okay, excellent.
The Shaykh : I was suspended. I do not say it is an individual obligation, nor that it is a collective obligation.
The questioner : Correct.
The Shaykh : Because the features are not clear, and we discussed it just now.
The questioner : Exactly, well done.
The Shaykh : And it is recorded. Listen to it, go.
Another questioner : Shaykh, no blame on you.
Another questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : No, I want the summary. I want to hear the summary.
The Shaykh : This is the summary: it is an individual obligation.
The questioner : Now it became an individual obligation.
The Shaykh : Not now, but three years ago.
The questioner : Three years ago, meaning we are now lagging behind in the matter... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, I hope that not even half a lagging behind catches you.
The questioner : The other: May Allah reward you with good, but reach them.
The Shaykh : But I do not know what your ability is in this.
The questioner : My ability, by Allah, is a boy who can fight with stones from one valley to another.
The Shaykh : But you can, so go with it.
Another questioner : Then a sniper, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The other: A sniper.
Another questioner: Allahu Akbar.
Another questioner : Bring us the heads of the Russians.
The Shaykh : Not a sniper. This sniper is a hunter, not a warrior. What did we do if we heard an explosion of a bomb and he turned his back and fled?
The questioner : Muhammad Tahir, do you accept his testimony in shooting? Your Shaykh is a bird shooter.
The Shaykh : But your question fell previously when you asked the son and left the father.
The questioner : Where is the father? I am looking for him, I do not see him.
The Shaykh : Be patient with him a little, he will come now.
The questioner : I mean, now it is obligatory, so if some brothers spoke on the occasion, I was...
The Shaykh : Whoever is able to do jihad, it is upon him...
The questioner : To catch up.
The Shaykh : It is an individual obligation.
The questioner : To catch up with them and the mujahideen. Dr. Abdullah Azzam, if you allow me... the fatwa from you is as if it was written by your hand, your handwriting. And once he came to me at the mosque and told the people, "Al-Albani's fatwa on the permissibility of collecting funds, I don't know what, on its obligation, he raises it."
Another questioner : Dr. Abdullah held it.
The Shaykh : I mean, if this is true, what is in it?
Another questioner : No problem, no problem!
The Shaykh : No problem, but I said something about him.
The questioner : No, I did not say anything.
The Shaykh : No, he is saying no problem.
The questioner : I want to tell you what the idea in my mind is about this matter.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : He held...The Shaykh : Abdullah Azzam and told him, now...The Shaykh : Al-Albani's fatwa has become important to you to this extent. How do you raise it? I mean, if the fatwa agrees with your opinion or your desire, Al-Albani becomes the first scholar and the first hadith scholar. And if the fatwa does not please you, you say, "How, Shaykh? It is forbidden for you to say this. This is an accusation against your Muslim brother."
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : I said, an accusation against my brother. This matter, I am aware of it and I know it. I mean, the accusation against my Muslim brother. My Muslim brother shows me both sides. How long do I have to keep thinking well of him!
Another questioner : The brothers increased it and increased it for them...
The Shaykh : They increased it, they increased it; whoever wanted, he ate.
The questioner : Are you really a professor who wrote a fatwa like this for him?
The Shaykh : I do not remember that I wrote it.
Another questioner : The fatwa is on a tape; it is not written. It was printed in a magazine, but not in his handwriting.The Shaykh .
The questioner : By Allah, yes, it might be.
The questioner : The other: It is on a tape, and they printed it in a magazine called...
The questioner : Is there anything in my hand? What is this written thing? I did not know what it was.
The questioner : The other: Tawhid and the Salafi University Magazine.
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, it might be.
The questioner : The other: This is the fatwa you were asked about, our professor... and he took it with him to Afghanistan when he went to Pakistan, with Siyaf and these others, and they published it on a large scale, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Another questioner : A ruling.The Shaykh : ... to Abdullah 'Azzam who published it.
The questioner: No.
The questioner : The other: That it is an individual obligation...
Another questioner : Regarding the topic of... please, my brother, please, Shaykh.
Another questioner : It is not going to end.
Another questioner : I have only heard from my friend's students.
Another questioner : He wantsThe Shaykh : to keep talking if there is no one to talk.
The questioner : We do not want to letThe Shaykh : him swallow his saliva.
Another questioner : It should not be from anyone but you.
The Shaykh: Yes.
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