What is the ruling if Afghanistan adopts the Hanafi school of jurisprudence as its law, and a person went to fight there based on your previous fatwa?

The questioner : If, in your view, when you compare the state of Afghanistan, it is going to adopt the Hanafi school as its law, is that right?

The Shaykh: What is it?

The questioner : As its law, meaning it rules by it, it refers to the Hanafi school, and does not refer to the Book and the Sunnah, is that right? So this view is from the beginning, meaning several years ago, correct?

The Shaykh: Correct.

The questioner : So if I participated, meaning, for example, several years ago I came and asked you, and you said to me: for example, what is the ruling on the Afghan jihad? That is what was imposed on us, is that right? I am just asking a question. I am going to participate according to your fatwa. What am I going to do? I am going to support this group that is going to refer to the Hanafi school. Is this correct?

The Shaykh : Correct. And I answered you previously. If I had foreseen the answer, I would have spared you the question, automatically, as they say today. Do you not remember that I said to you just now: "May Allah have mercy on you, some evil is less than some"?
The student : Yes, correct, I said this.

The Shaykh : Yes, that is the answer.
The student : That is it.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. This confirms to me that we, or at least I, are in need of sitting with you often, so that I may attain that.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So that I may attain that.