Is it permissible to mutilate the disbelievers in jihad?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : O Shaykh, may Allah preserve you: One of the brother mujahideen from Bosnia and Herzegovina came to us and spoke about the enemies and mutilating them.
The Shaykh : About what?
The questioner : He spoke about the enemies and mutilating them, so one of the brothers objected to him and said: This is not permissible, it is forbidden. The brother who came from the jihad replied to him: This is permissible before killing them, but after killing them, it is not permissible to mutilate them. What is your opinion? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Whoever holds that it is not permissible to mutilate the disbelievers if they are found, absolutely, takes the generality of the hadith in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to advise those he sent out in armies and expeditions:. However, this generality is specified by the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Baqarah 2:194]. So if they do that to us, we have the right to do to them what they do to us, because if we were to hold back from this, it would result in humiliation. And they will not benefit from it if we do not mutilate them in a way that makes them refrain from mutilating us in the future. Otherwise, if we expected them to refrain, we would say: Considering this benefit, we do not mutilate them.
The questioner : Okay, O Shaykh, a story happened.
The Shaykh : No, we are done with you.
The questioner : It is an important story, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : We will learn it from you later.
The questioner : Very well.
The Shaykh : About what?
The questioner : He spoke about the enemies and mutilating them, so one of the brothers objected to him and said: This is not permissible, it is forbidden. The brother who came from the jihad replied to him: This is permissible before killing them, but after killing them, it is not permissible to mutilate them. What is your opinion? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Whoever holds that it is not permissible to mutilate the disbelievers if they are found, absolutely, takes the generality of the hadith in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to advise those he sent out in armies and expeditions:
Do not mutilate
ألا تمثلواSo whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you
فَمَنِ اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْ فَاعْتَدُوا عَلَيْهِ بِمِثْلِ مَا اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْThe questioner : Okay, O Shaykh, a story happened.
The Shaykh : No, we are done with you.
The questioner : It is an important story, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : We will learn it from you later.
The questioner : Very well.