When is jihad an individual obligation or a collective obligation?
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Question:
Is it possible for jihad to be an individual obligation like fasting, as the Exalted said: [Surat al-Tawbah: 122]?
Answer:
This is a collective obligation.
Q: Can jihad become an individual obligation like prayer and fasting?
The Shaykh: As the scholars have clarified, if one is in the ranks, or the imam mobilizes them, or the enemy attacks them, it becomes an individual obligation.
Q: Like prayer and fasting?
The Shaykh: Yes, it is an individual obligation, just as when the enemy attacks him and he defends himself, it is obligatory upon him.
Is it possible for jihad to be an individual obligation like fasting, as the Exalted said:
And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every division of them a group
وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنْفِرُوا كَافَّةً فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِنْ كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ..Answer:
This is a collective obligation.
Q: Can jihad become an individual obligation like prayer and fasting?
The Shaykh: As the scholars have clarified, if one is in the ranks, or the imam mobilizes them, or the enemy attacks them, it becomes an individual obligation.
Q: Like prayer and fasting?
The Shaykh: Yes, it is an individual obligation, just as when the enemy attacks him and he defends himself, it is obligatory upon him.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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