Is our statement: "Beware of fighting the disbelievers until weapons are ready" to be applied to the situation of our brothers in Bosnia?
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The student: ... We recently derived a benefit, which is to beware of fighting the disbelievers until weapons are ready. Now, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is very clear: they are not receiving weapons, nor are they receiving aid, and they are in a state of constant retreat. Should not the scholars issue a ruling that it is obligatory for them to accept any plan in order to save the lives of those who remain?
The Shaykh : I see that this is not what is required. If the Muslims had adopted the weapon of boycotting the disbelieving states, do you think the disbelieving states would submit or not? They would submit, even against their will. What occupies their workers? What occupies their factories? Nothing but the consumption by Muslims of what they produce. Who funds them with oil and other things? None but the Muslims. By Allah, if we boycotted them economically—let us leave aside politics—they would respond. Are the Western states not currently fighting those they fight through the economy? What did they do to Iraq? Have they not tightened the noose around them now? ... Considering reality, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed to the truce that took place between him and Quraysh at al-Hudaybiyyah, and it was a truce that appeared to be against us but turned out to be for us, and praise be to Allah. I do not blame, for example, the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina for agreeing to the plan drawn up by these people. I do not blame him because this is the lesser of two evils. But by Allah, I blame the Muslim Ummah, and I see that they are responsible for this before Allah: that they remain silent in this silence and leave these Muslims as prey for the Christians. And what gives us security now that if they destroy the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they will not move on to Albania and proceed? I mean, we hear things we do not like to say now, considering the ambitions of the Christians and the ambitions of the polytheists. I mean, they are ambitious to reach the Ka'bah, so what gives us security? By Allah, I hold the Muslims responsible for this before Allah, and I see that they are falling short and that they have left these disbelievers to run rampant in the land with corruption while they remain silent. And if you were to think about it, you would find that this is indeed a shortcoming on the part of the Muslims.
Then the Muslims—there is no power and no strength except by Allah—are deaf, dumb, and blind, so they do not understand. Now they are trying to make peace with the Jews. And what have the Jews done to the Lebanese? They drive them out of their homes, they kill them, and they say, "Come to the table of peace." Where is the peace? Then they also declare openly, the leaders of the Jews say that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jews and that they cannot turn away from it. So let us make peace with them on what?
So the important thing is that we do not have sincerity, but I hope, and I ask Allah the Mighty and Majestic, that this new youthful generation is the one through whose hands victory will come, if they are granted wisdom and refrain from violence. Because what harms the youth now is that they rush, wanting the matter to be resolved overnight. They do not know that the disbelieving nations, and those behind them who are the tails of the rulers of some Islamic or Arab states, do not know that they are their enemies and that they are well-established. So it is obligatory for the youth to be patient. Be patient with harm and be patient in the call; the road is long. But our brothers want to jump from the lowest step to the highest step, and this is not correct. And victory, by the power of Allah, is for the Muslims. And what the Jews are gathering now from the right and the left, the east and the west, in Palestine is nothing but a preparation and a groundwork for the Muslims to fight them. It is not for the Arabs to fight them, but for the Muslims. For this reason, the tree says, if the Muslims and the Jews fight, the last battle, it says: It does not say "O Arab," and the battle between the Arabs and the Jews is a failure. How many battles have taken place between the Arabs and the Jews? Three or four, and all of them were defeats for the Arabs, and the defeat will be for the Arabs always as long as they fight for Arabism. Whoever fights so that the word of Allah is the highest, he is the highest. So in any case, we thank Allah the Mighty and Majestic for our state today, that we are in a state that is pitiful in reality. By Allah, the friend weeps for us, and if I did not take a risk, I would say even the enemy weeps. Now they say that in America, some people who have a kind of mercy held demonstrations for what is being done in Bosnia: the violation of honor and the killing of children in front of their mothers and fathers. It was even said that they force the mother to drink from the blood of her son while he is being slaughtered in front of her. I seek refuge in Allah, it is a strange thing that horrifies the conscience. And yet we are silent. If one person only saw the refrigerator and the ice and the cold water, by Allah, sometimes when I drink water I say, how can I drink this water while our brothers in Bosnia are drinking from the sewers? We ask Allah for well-being. He who does not fear Allah does not feel the feeling of his brothers. To Allah we belong and to Him we return.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, if the rulers of the Muslims had the feeling that is in their peoples, they would never have been patient with this situation. But most of the rulers of the Muslims, unfortunately, each one of them wants to remain in his chair at any cost, and he does not care. Look now, some of the rulers of the Muslims now want the Muslim state to be secular, where the Jew, the Christian, the Buddhist, and the Muslim are all equal, and each one is the same. This is the reality with many of the rulers of the Muslims. By Allah, if the rulers of the Muslims felt what the peoples feel, they would not have been silent, and they would have known how the shoulder is eaten, and they would have known how to deal with these Christians. The Christians are now living off the Muslims in reality. Their factories are not consumed by anyone but the Muslims. Their affairs, even the military ones, are huge jobs for these disbelievers. Yes.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, the duty of the peoples is that they cannot do anything at all, but their duty is supplication. They should call upon Allah the Mighty and Majestic to give victory to Islam and the Muslims in every place. And Allah the Mighty and Majestic, if a person calls upon Him in distress, He answers him. Yes.
The Shaykh : I see that this is not what is required. If the Muslims had adopted the weapon of boycotting the disbelieving states, do you think the disbelieving states would submit or not? They would submit, even against their will. What occupies their workers? What occupies their factories? Nothing but the consumption by Muslims of what they produce. Who funds them with oil and other things? None but the Muslims. By Allah, if we boycotted them economically—let us leave aside politics—they would respond. Are the Western states not currently fighting those they fight through the economy? What did they do to Iraq? Have they not tightened the noose around them now? ... Considering reality, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed to the truce that took place between him and Quraysh at al-Hudaybiyyah, and it was a truce that appeared to be against us but turned out to be for us, and praise be to Allah. I do not blame, for example, the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina for agreeing to the plan drawn up by these people. I do not blame him because this is the lesser of two evils. But by Allah, I blame the Muslim Ummah, and I see that they are responsible for this before Allah: that they remain silent in this silence and leave these Muslims as prey for the Christians. And what gives us security now that if they destroy the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they will not move on to Albania and proceed? I mean, we hear things we do not like to say now, considering the ambitions of the Christians and the ambitions of the polytheists. I mean, they are ambitious to reach the Ka'bah, so what gives us security? By Allah, I hold the Muslims responsible for this before Allah, and I see that they are falling short and that they have left these disbelievers to run rampant in the land with corruption while they remain silent. And if you were to think about it, you would find that this is indeed a shortcoming on the part of the Muslims.
Then the Muslims—there is no power and no strength except by Allah—are deaf, dumb, and blind, so they do not understand. Now they are trying to make peace with the Jews. And what have the Jews done to the Lebanese? They drive them out of their homes, they kill them, and they say, "Come to the table of peace." Where is the peace? Then they also declare openly, the leaders of the Jews say that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jews and that they cannot turn away from it. So let us make peace with them on what?
So the important thing is that we do not have sincerity, but I hope, and I ask Allah the Mighty and Majestic, that this new youthful generation is the one through whose hands victory will come, if they are granted wisdom and refrain from violence. Because what harms the youth now is that they rush, wanting the matter to be resolved overnight. They do not know that the disbelieving nations, and those behind them who are the tails of the rulers of some Islamic or Arab states, do not know that they are their enemies and that they are well-established. So it is obligatory for the youth to be patient. Be patient with harm and be patient in the call; the road is long. But our brothers want to jump from the lowest step to the highest step, and this is not correct. And victory, by the power of Allah, is for the Muslims. And what the Jews are gathering now from the right and the left, the east and the west, in Palestine is nothing but a preparation and a groundwork for the Muslims to fight them. It is not for the Arabs to fight them, but for the Muslims. For this reason, the tree says, if the Muslims and the Jews fight, the last battle, it says:
O Muslim, or O servant of Allah, this is a Jew, so kill him
يا مسلم أو يا عبد الله هذا يهودي فاقتلهThe student: ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, if the rulers of the Muslims had the feeling that is in their peoples, they would never have been patient with this situation. But most of the rulers of the Muslims, unfortunately, each one of them wants to remain in his chair at any cost, and he does not care. Look now, some of the rulers of the Muslims now want the Muslim state to be secular, where the Jew, the Christian, the Buddhist, and the Muslim are all equal, and each one is the same. This is the reality with many of the rulers of the Muslims. By Allah, if the rulers of the Muslims felt what the peoples feel, they would not have been silent, and they would have known how the shoulder is eaten, and they would have known how to deal with these Christians. The Christians are now living off the Muslims in reality. Their factories are not consumed by anyone but the Muslims. Their affairs, even the military ones, are huge jobs for these disbelievers. Yes.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, the duty of the peoples is that they cannot do anything at all, but their duty is supplication. They should call upon Allah the Mighty and Majestic to give victory to Islam and the Muslims in every place. And Allah the Mighty and Majestic, if a person calls upon Him in distress, He answers him. Yes.