"The Benefits of Jihâd"
"The Benefits of Jihâd"
by the 'Allâmah of al-Qasîm, ash-Shaykh 'Abdir-Rahmân bin Nâsir as-Sa'dî (may Allâh have Mercy upon him)
Translated by: at-Tibyân Publications
"The Jihâd of this Ummah is a struggle that is legislated in the Book and the Sunnah, and it has two great and necessary benefits:
The first of them: repelling the aggression of the aggressors against Islâm and the Muslims, whom if it was not for them, all religions would have been wiped out:
وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَع وَصَلَوَاتٌ وَمَسَاجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا اسْمُ اللَّهِ كَثِيرا
{"For had it not been that Allâh checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of Allâh is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down."} [al-Hajj; 40]
أُذِنَ لِلَّذِينَ يُقَاتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِير
{"Permission to fight is given to those who are fighting them because they have been wronged, and surely, Allâh is Able to give them victory."} [al-Hajj; 39]
The second of them: kindness towards all of the creation by spreading the Religion that they are obligated to follow, from other than which they will find no happiness or success, and calling those who are to be held accountable to that which they were created for: the worship of Allâh without any partners, and the abandonment of all things which contradict or oppose this.
And this is the purpose of benefiting and being kind to the creation:
وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لاَ تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلّ
{"And fight them until there is no more fitnah and the Religion will all be for Allâh Alone." } [al-Anfâl; 39]
…and this is from the greatest of qualities of Islâm, since the goal of the Jihâd in this Dîn is not simply control of the creation or bringing them under the submission of other creation, nor is the goal death and destruction, nor is it oppression under the guise of justice (as it is the goal of the wars fought by those who have strayed from the correct religion). And because of this, its results have differed from other than it: so, the results of the Jihâd of Islâm are the spreading of justice and mercy and goodness and happiness and success and righteousness, and the results of other than it are death and destruction and enslaving the creation and oppressing them in regards to their blood and wealth and lives."
[From the book 'Majmû' al-Fawâ'id wa Iqtinâs al-'Awâbid' of Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmân as-Sa'dî]
by the 'Allâmah of al-Qasîm, ash-Shaykh 'Abdir-Rahmân bin Nâsir as-Sa'dî (may Allâh have Mercy upon him)
Translated by: at-Tibyân Publications
"The Jihâd of this Ummah is a struggle that is legislated in the Book and the Sunnah, and it has two great and necessary benefits:
The first of them: repelling the aggression of the aggressors against Islâm and the Muslims, whom if it was not for them, all religions would have been wiped out:
وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَع وَصَلَوَاتٌ وَمَسَاجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا اسْمُ اللَّهِ كَثِيرا
{"For had it not been that Allâh checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of Allâh is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down."} [al-Hajj; 40]
أُذِنَ لِلَّذِينَ يُقَاتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِير
{"Permission to fight is given to those who are fighting them because they have been wronged, and surely, Allâh is Able to give them victory."} [al-Hajj; 39]
The second of them: kindness towards all of the creation by spreading the Religion that they are obligated to follow, from other than which they will find no happiness or success, and calling those who are to be held accountable to that which they were created for: the worship of Allâh without any partners, and the abandonment of all things which contradict or oppose this.
And this is the purpose of benefiting and being kind to the creation:
وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لاَ تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلّ
{"And fight them until there is no more fitnah and the Religion will all be for Allâh Alone." } [al-Anfâl; 39]
…and this is from the greatest of qualities of Islâm, since the goal of the Jihâd in this Dîn is not simply control of the creation or bringing them under the submission of other creation, nor is the goal death and destruction, nor is it oppression under the guise of justice (as it is the goal of the wars fought by those who have strayed from the correct religion). And because of this, its results have differed from other than it: so, the results of the Jihâd of Islâm are the spreading of justice and mercy and goodness and happiness and success and righteousness, and the results of other than it are death and destruction and enslaving the creation and oppressing them in regards to their blood and wealth and lives."
[From the book 'Majmû' al-Fawâ'id wa Iqtinâs al-'Awâbid' of Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmân as-Sa'dî]
posted by Muhammed Mustharshid at 11:43 AM
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