And know that the souls of the martyrs are within the bellies of green birds, which roam freely in Paradise and they return to shelter to lamps beneath the Throne.
And the souls of the wicked and the disbelievers are in the well of Barahoot and are in Sijjeen.
His saying, “And know that the souls of the martyrs are within the bellies of green birds, which roam freely in Paradise,” for the rooh (soul) by means of which a person lives and moves and grasps things by his senses, it is a secret matter from the secrets of Allaah, the Majestic and Most High. No-one knows it except Allaah, meaning no-one knows its true reality except Allaah, the Majestic and Most High.
The martyr (ash-shaheed) is the person who is killed on the battlefield whilst fighting against the disbelievers. He fights so that the word of Allaah is uppermost.
Everything of this person will be forgiven by Allaah, except for a debt (ad-dayn) which is upon him because a debt is the right of the people and a right of a person will not fall away unless it is given to him or he pardons with regard to it. But as for the sins which are between the person and Allaah then Allaah will forgive them all on account of a person being martyred in the cause of Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic.
And the Hajj and fighting jihaad along with the ruler continue. And the Jumu`ah Prayer behind them is allowed; and after it six rak`ahs are prayed, separating each pair of rak`ahs. This was the saying of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
The functions carried out by the ruler are many, and the place to find them enumerated and to find them mentioned together, and where you can acquaint yourself with them is the books on the rulings relating to rulership (al-ahkaamus-sultaaniyyah) such as alAhkaamus-Sultaaniyyah of al-Maawardiyy and al-Ahkaamus-Sultaaniyyah of Aboo Ya`laa al-Hanbaliyy and books which have been written on this topic which explain the functions of the ruler. And it is mentioned in the books of fiqh and in the books of `aqaa∙id (creed and belief) also as occurs here.
Aqeedah Tahaawiyyah: Lesson 44 : Point [167]
Dawud Burbank [Audio|English]
Based on Shaykh Fawzan & Shaykh Albani’s Explanation
167. And the Hajj and Jihaad continue along with those in authority over the Muslims: those (leaders) who are righteous and those who are sinners, until the establishment of the Hour; nothing abolishes it or cancels it.
At-Ta`leeqaat Al-Mukhtasarah `alaa Matn Al-`Aqeedah At–Tahaawiyyah. By ShaykhSaalih ibn Fawzaan al-Fawzaan hafizahullaah. Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood Burbank, rahimahullaah, in 1426AH
Posted with kind permission from Dawud Burbank rahimahullaah
How to fight the Eastern and Western cultural invasion [1]
All praise be to Allah Alone, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family and Companions.
There is no doubt that the gravest danger that Muslim societies are facing nowadays is the so-called cultural invasion with its different weapons, including all media means, printed and broadcast alike. Invaders have realized in the modern age that the old ways have become ineffective. Nations fight courageously to defend their religion, homelands and their heritage. Usurping by violence and terrorism is an inherently refused concept, especially in modern times after the spread of awareness among the people. The world has become like a small village and many organizations were established to defend the rights of nations, refuse political invasion, and claim the right to self-determination. Every nation has the right to have sovereignty over its own territory, invest its resources, and rule its territories according to its own standards. Nations also adopt different beliefs, creeds and ruling systems, which made invaders leave these countries after fierce, bloody wars.
Abu Thabit from Sahl bin Hunaif (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“He who asks Allah for martyrdom, Allah will raise him to the high status of the martyrs, even if he dies on his bed”.
[Muslim].
الرابع: عن أبي ثابت، وقيل أبي سعيد، وقيل أبي الوليد، سهل بن حنيف ، وهو بدري، رضي الله عنه، أن النبي ، صلى الله عليه وسلم، قال: “من سأل الله، تعالى، الشهادة بصدق بلغه الله منازل الشهداء، وإن مات على فراشه” ((رواه مسلم)) .
Riyad as-Salihin » The Book of Miscellany – Book 1, Hadith 57
This was a three part question asked over Paltalk. The first two questions were about du’aa and and so they were left out and consequently the tape recording was edited and abridged to pertinent part only. The recording is not clear in some parts, which we have highlighted in the text with […].
Question: The youth would like your advice O Shaikh, on what our obligation is with regard to what is occurring currently in Palestine. May Allaah reward you! As-Salaam ‘Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh.
Answer: Wa ‘Alaika as-Salaam wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh…
As for your third question, which is on directing the youth, or advising the youth concerning what is occurring in Palestine, then (we say that) Allaah knows that our hearts have become broken (over the current situation). However, we do not let our passions overtake us, rather we let the Sunnah direct us. And the Sunnah in this regard is to return the matter to those people who are capable of producing solutions and conclusions (Ahlul Halli wal-‘Aqd) – the leaders and rulers.
So it is not permissible for every Tom, Dick and Harry to speak his mind, because this falls into provoking and instigating turmoil.
Firstly, I will mention the legislated principle that has been stated in the Noble Qur’aan, which is: “And when a matter concerning (public) fear or security comes to them, they spread it (out to the people). But if they had only returned it back to the Messenger and to those in authority among them, those who derive (the correct understanding) among them would have made (the matter) known (upon its correct understanding).” [Surah An-Nisaa: 83]
Secondly, I warn the Muslim youth, specifically, and all the Muslims, generally, to not oppose this principle by instead accepting the call of these foolish speakers, who send messages asking for certain things which they have no right over, such as boycotting the purchase of American products, for example. Or they send letters over the commercial lines or by fax saying: “Give your support, Give your support!”…
So these people are assuming a responsibility that they have no authority over. And furthermore, we, all praise be to Allaah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in the Gulf states and other neighboring states, as well as the Arab lands, are being ruled by Muslims from among us. We do not claim that they are infallible or that they are free from error. However, they are Muslims and there are scholars around them. And they have advisors from the scholars, judges, ministers, and those who have experience in law and politics.
So it is not permissible to follow other than them, the command is solely for them…
And I advise you to seek refuge in Allaah, by making supplication (for them) – that He alleviate their suffering and relieve them from their distress. And ask that He solve their dilemma and grant them victory over the Jews in the state of the Tribe of Isra’eel, as well as those who join sides with them, from the disbelievers and polytheists. This is the advice in brief and Allaah knows best.
Source: Question and Answer Session after his class on ‘Umdat-ul-Ahkaam over Paltalk (4/6/02) Translator: isma’eel alarcon
Scholar: ´Allâmah Sâlih bin Fawzân al-Fawzân
Source & reference: Darulhadith.com
Translation & video: aFatwa com (site no more exists)
Shaykh al-Fawzân: We love Jihâd and wish for it, but this is not Jihâd! We have said that this is not Jihâd. This is destruction! Is it Jihâd to kill people without due right? He even kills himself without due right. Is this Jihâd? This is not Jihâd. Jihâd has rulings, conditions and rules. It is the Muslim ruler who leads and calls to it.
Even the israelites said to their prophet:
“Send to us a king, and we will fight in the way of Allah” (2:246)
They didn’t go armed to fight on their own:
“Send to us a king, and we will fight in the way of Allah” (2:246)
I.e. a leader. Who did they ask it from? One of their prophets, the ruler.
Jihâd, which is one of the disposals of the ruler, is referred to the ruler. He is the one who orders it and takes on it. He is the one who recruits armies and prepares weapons. Allâh said:
“… by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (8:60)
He did not say you should terrify the Muslims and those one has a treaty with. He said:
“… by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (8:60)
Scholar: ´Allâmah Sâlih bin Fawzân al-Fawzân
Reference: Darulhadith, Sweden
Translation & Video by aFatwa.com (site is down)
Question: There are those who incite the youths and say that our brothers are dying everywhere. They call in the name of Jihâd and that one shouldn’t obey the ruler in this (I.e. in Jihâd). Can you say something regarding this matter?
Shaykh al-Fawzân: Shall we then also kill our own children, tear our homes apart and kill the Muslims if our brothers die everywhere? They rejoice in this. They rejoice in getting our brothers into these countries. They rejoice over these homicide-attacks in our countries. Is this Jihâd? Does this affect our enemies? It only affects us. It only affects the Muslims.
The Shaykh (حفظه الله تعالى) told us a story of a young man. He was a person who was involved in sinning.
He said: Normally when a person lives a life like this as soon as be becomes religious, if he lived previously in sin he wants to find the shortest or quickest path to Paradise. And this individual arrived and sat in their localities. He was their in their gatherings for 14 day. One of the big players from them approached him and said: ‘Ma shaa Allah, Allah has chosen you for a mission to go and blow yourself up.’
This individual said: ‘What?’
The big player said: ‘We’ll put an explosive vest and you will go in the midst of these people and blow yourself up killing the kuffar and the apostates.’
The Shaykh (حفظه الله تعالى) said: They make takfeer for everything!
This individual said: ‘I want Jihaad, I want to fight. I shoot them they shoot me, back and forth, we trade fire, this is what I want. Blowing myself up…’
The response of the big player was: ‘Allah has chosen you to be a martyr for shahadah (martyrdom)!’
This individual said: ‘I just came, 14 days.’ He then asked the big player: ‘How long have you been in Jihaad for?’
The response of the big player was: ‘I have been in Jihaad for 14 years, when the Americans first came in to Iraaq…’
This individual said: ’14 years and Allah hasn’t chosen you and 14 days and Allah has chosen me…’
When the leader saw the response of this young man in front of everybody. He said: ‘OK, the affair goes back to you, but we are going to consult amongst us and we will give you the final answer at Maghrib time.’
This individual he recants after he escaped from them. He knew that the Maghrib time meant that they were going to kill him at Maghrib time. They would say that you have apostated from Islam and kill him like this. Simple as that!
The Shaykh (حفظه الله تعالى) said: ‘Cold blooded murder!’
The Shaykh (حفظه الله تعالى) said: ‘This young man saw them previously saw that they did this to some of the young men there.’
This individual said: ‘I’m dead either way. If I waited till Maghrib I’m dead. If I die on the way trying to escape, either way I am going to die!’
So he found an individual who knew somebody that he knew and this individual understood his circumstances and made easy for him an escape route.
The Shaykh (حفظه الله تعالى) said: ‘And of course he had no paperwork, because when he came he came as a mujahid wanting Paradise so he ripped up all of his paperwork. Once he reached the border with Turkey, there were individuals who came from the Saudi Embassy and spoke to this individual and now he is being advised…’
Translator: Abu Afnaan Muhammad ‘Abdullah حفظه الله
أخوكم
أبو بلال نعيم بن عبد المجيد
(وفق الله الجميع للعلم النافع والعمل الصالح)
(May Allah aid us in acquiring beneficial knowledge & righteous actions)
Question: Are bombings and acts of suicide considered legitimate means of propagating Islam?
Answer: Those people who carry out these kinds of acts assuming they are calling to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His messenger (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم), they themselves are in need of being called to (Islam and having it propagated to them)! How could someone be promoting Islam among people while at the same time carrying out explosions and acts of destruction? This is not calling and propagation. Instead, it is deterrence and repelling (people from Islam).
Did the prophet (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم) propagate the religion this way? When he was in Mecca, was there even a single day that he or his companions destroyed anything or carried out any act of devastation? Of course not, he did the very opposite; he used to call to his Lord with wisdom and good preaching, requesting the people to join and assist him in this. He never carried out any destructive acts among people because this harms the Muslims the most and even causes some of the non-Muslims to rejoice. So, it is never permissible or condoned (by Islam). It is rather a way of calling to Satan and calling to the fire (Hell). Allah (تعالى) said:
Those invite to the Fire, but Allah invites to Paradise.
[Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:221]
So, it is possible for someone’s way of calling and propagation to actually be a call to the Fire if that call is to misguidance as the prophet (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم) said:
“Whoever calls to misguidance, there is upon him a sin similar to the sin of anyone who follows him in that without taking anything away from their own sins.”[2]
So, it is certainly possible that such a call could really be to the Fire and not to the truth.[3]
Footnotes
[1] This Fatwá was taken from a book called “al-Fatāwá al-Shar’iyyah fī al-Qadhāyá al-‘Asriyyah,” a collection of various rulings by Muḥammad Ibn Fahd al-Ḥuṣayn.
[2] Recorded by Muslim (no. 2674) from the Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه).
[3] Taken from the cassette: Fatāwá al-‘Ulamā’ fī al-Aḥdāth al-Rāhinah allatī Ḥadathat bisharq Madīnah ar-Riyādh.(1424 Hijrah / 2004).
Question: What is the ruling of these (suicidal) acts that are referred to today by some as “acts of martyrdom?”
Answer: Referring to these types of acts as “martyrdom” is a lie and totally incorrect. What is correct is that they’re nothing but acts of suicide and of killing others without right…
So, whoever condones these kinds of actions having no proof, such a person talks about Allāh with no knowledge. Any act of worship requires a supporting proof and there is no proof to be found supporting any of these actions. On the contrary, the texts are explicit in the forbiddance of a person just committing suicide – Allāh (تعالى) says:
And do not throw yourselves into destruction by your own hands.
[Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:195]
The prophet himself (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم) used to even do battle wearing two coats of armor and used to avoid and forbid people from exposing themselves to destruction and killing. This is what the Companions understood from him (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم). As for someone who tries to justify actions like these by referring to unrelated issues (martyrdom) and then considering them as supportive proofs for their permissibility, then that person only follows his own desires, and we seek refuge with Allāh. And Allāh knows best.[2]
Footnotes
[1] This fatwá was taken from a book called “Al-Fatāwā Ash-Shar’iyyah fī Al-Qadhāyā Al-‘Asriyyah,” a collection of various rulings by Muhammad Ibn Fahd Al-Husayn.
[2] From a reorded meeting with Shaykh ‘Abd al-Muḥsin Āli-‘Ubaykān prepared by Muhammad al- Ḥuṣayn.
Question: Are political overthrows, insurgences, and revolutions from the characteristics of Islām and forms of Jihād?
Answer: The question should more appropriately be, “Is chaos and causes of unjustified bloodshed from Islām?” because this is the actual meaning of such things. Those actions are the most severe factors that destroy Islāmic lands. If we look at the nonbelievers, for example the Jewish country (Israel) which contains resources and support from all over the world, we find that not once did a political overthrow occur. We do not find, during these times, overthrows and revolutions in the major nations of the east and west. No one supports and starts political overthrows and insurgences except for someone that has no concern for the well-being of his own nation or for its security. These are ways of jeopardizing the very existence of a nation, cultivating enmity among its people, spilling blood, and allowing its enemies to gain control over it. The evil of such tactics are obvious, yet the good of them is rare and minute and most of the time nonexistent.
The first overthrow to occur with regards to the Muslims was the insurgency against ‘Uthmān (رضي الله عنه) which eventually resulted in his murder. All the Companions unanimously agreed upon the evil of that action. So, it is compulsory upon every single Muslim to free himself and abstain from these affairs. When the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the leaders, he commanded that everyone must listen to and obey them, and he forbade division and disunity. Also, when a group of senior scholars from Baghdad (during the Abbasid rule) came to Imam Ahmad talking bad about the Abbasid ruler, he then became angry with them and warned them from such things. So, these are evil, despised actions and the good lies only in following the Salaf.[3]
Footnotes
[1] Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaydān: One of the leading scholars of Saudi Arabia. He currently holds the position of chief judiciary of The Ministry of Justice in Saudi Arabia. -T.N.
[2] This fatwā was taken from a book called “Al-Fatāwā Ash-Shar’iyyah fī Al-Qadhāyā Al-‘Asriyyah,” a collection of various rulings by Muhammad Ibn Fahd al-Ḥuṣayn.
[3] From the cassette: al-Jihād wa Ḍawābiṭuhu al-Shari’yyah.
The great scholar, Dr. Ṣāliḥ Ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān, a member of Saudi Arabia’s council of senior scholars and the Permanent Committee of scholars, describes those who claim they are performing “Jihad” for the sake of Allah by committing suicide are actually fighting for the sake of Satan.
Those people who fall into this type of corruption never sought the council of any Islamic scholars, never learned anything from them. Instead, they isolate themselves from mainstream Muslims and privately accompany people who act as the worst “human idols.” Such people then began brain washing individuals until they eventually harbor enmity towards the public and thus carry out these types of attacks. They consider Muslims to be disbelievers, they murder them, blow up buildings indiscriminately killing both the young and old, male and female, Muslims and those non-Muslims guaranteed safety and living peacefully under Muslim laws (in Muslim nations) – all because of this corrupt ideology.
Question: Noble Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. We are a group of police officers and we would like to direct a question to you since we have been entrusted in this country with investigating those who wish to disturb the peace or oppose and reject obedience to the leader of affairs.
And we have heard of a religious verdict stating that it is impermissible to track these people down to pursue them and fight them because they are “Mujāhidūn” (people making religious Jihad), and because they want to expel the nonbelievers who fight Muslims in other countries such as Iraq. So, what is the correct opinion regarding this, may Allah grant you success.
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