Is the ability to perform jihad necessarily required, as in the case of Palestine?
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The questioner : If the ruler is a colonizer, like the Jews in Palestine, or in Kosovo, Kashmir, and elsewhere, and we do not have the ability to resist them, do we refrain?
The Shaykh : But these colonizers are not our rulers; those within the borders of the Jews cannot [resist].
The questioner : Some of them even issued a ruling regarding the French campaign against Egypt, ruling that they should not resist the French campaign due to their lack of ability.
The Shaykh : Every obligation requires the ability to fulfill it; every obligation, by the saying of Allah the Exalted:[At-Taghabun 64:16]. No, they are not enemies according to the testimony of the whole world, never; rather, they are friends to much of the world. In fact, I say the Jews are friends to the Europeans and the Americans, friends without a doubt. Likewise, the Serbs are friends, and the war currently raging between the Serbs and the Bosnians, if a person reflects on it, he might say it is perhaps an agreed-upon plan. The Atlantic Alliance strikes the Serbs, and they strike the Kosovars, and then when the region of Kosovo is emptied of its people, they rebuild what they destroyed upon the Serbs. The Serbs have deemed this permissible, which is called ethnic cleansing. We do not know.
The questioner : Why should there be no resistance, because the right will be lost, like the position of Imam Ahmad? That is a matter of creed, and this is also, O Shaykh, a matter of the rights of Muslims?
The Shaykh : But the problem now is that resistance is not intellectual or moral; resistance now is physical. If they are stronger than us and we move, they will exterminate us. Yes, we lie in wait for them and look for the appropriate time.
The Shaykh : But these colonizers are not our rulers; those within the borders of the Jews cannot [resist].
The questioner : Some of them even issued a ruling regarding the French campaign against Egypt, ruling that they should not resist the French campaign due to their lack of ability.
The Shaykh : Every obligation requires the ability to fulfill it; every obligation, by the saying of Allah the Exalted:
So fear Allah as much as you are able
فاتقوا الله ما استطعتمThe questioner : Why should there be no resistance, because the right will be lost, like the position of Imam Ahmad? That is a matter of creed, and this is also, O Shaykh, a matter of the rights of Muslims?
The Shaykh : But the problem now is that resistance is not intellectual or moral; resistance now is physical. If they are stronger than us and we move, they will exterminate us. Yes, we lie in wait for them and look for the appropriate time.