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jazakallah khair for your response. fully agree with you. I think sometimes the comments section should be strictly monitored to avoid people diverting the topic by bringing in unnecessarily ‘criticism’. when that happens, obviously people are likely to react in an unpleasant manner and then leads to personal remarks etc. As the shaykh rightly mentioned, if you want to voice your opinion in an effort to forbid the evil on this issue, then this is not the right place.

THANK YOU FOR RESTORING THE SANITY………………
AS ALWAYS YOUR WORDS ARE FULL OF WISDOM AND GUIDANCE.
MashAllah
Definately a SENIOR
salam

I don’t believe that there is any benefit to anyone of us trying to debate the fiqh of the assumed battle tactics of other people here in this commentary section. We are out of line in attempting to sift through hadith and fiqh books in this regards as none of us here are mujtahid scholars, and I believe if there was a mujtahid here that he would defer the issue to those who have intimate knowledge of the circumstances and not to people sitting in the lap of luxury thousands of miles away. The stark reality brothers and sisters is that there have been and continue to be mujtahid scholars in that part of the world who hold variant opinions, and in deference and respect to them we should remember the hadith of the Prophet (saas) in Sahih al-Bukhari wherein he said:

Narrated ‘Amr ibnal-’Aas that he heard the Messenger of Allah saying, “If a judge gives a verdict according to the best of his knowledge and his verdict is correct he will receive a double reward, and if he gives a verdict according to the best of his knowledge and his verdict is wrong, even then he will get a reward .”

The purpose of this post in particular was to explore how our own sins are contributing to our deplorable condition. So, as the author, it is sad to see people ignoring that matter in particular and increasing in sin through attacking one another and speaking to one another with disregard, disrespect and without manners. If you are interested in debating war philosophy then this is not the right website for you and you should go and wrangle elsewhere. I have repeatedly attempted to explain to some of you that I personally feel that 1) it is not my place as a low level student of knowledge to comment on some of the grand issues under comment right now, and 2) that I feel that no one here, unless he is blogging from his laptop direct from Gaza after a meeting with the leadership there, has sufficient knowledge of the circumstances to comment.

Those of you who apparently have some Islamic knowledge should then remember that silence is golden in such cases. We are not better than the Sahaba who in far lesser circumstances would remain silent. We are not better than those great Sahaba who stayed out of the fitnah between Ali and Mu’aawiya and remained silent and avoided disparaging one side or the other, remembering the bonds and right of brotherhood they should keep. I am 110% certain that no one here on this website agrees with or supports the killing of innocent civilians and this has been our policy since the website started; so let us leave the issue of tactics at that and get back to the road we have strayed from which is to improve our own souls before what is happening there comes to our own doorstep.

For those that see this as a matter of commanding good and forbidding evil, then again you are voicing your concerns to the wrong people (preaching to the choir). I have not seen anyone here recommending, commending or agreeing with the intentional targeting of civilians. So your words are directed in the wrong place. If you sincerely seek to command the good and forbid the evil, then you should direct your comments to an organization that is involved in the region and can get your concerns to the right people. Since I have no contact whatsoever with anyone in those organizations deemed terrorist groups by the US State Dept, I cannot help you with how to get your concerns heard.

So, remember – this is about what you can practically do to help the general condition of the Ummah and it involves looking inward first. I, for one, am not done with that process of self-purification and I am in no need of heaping even more sin upon my already large pile by abusing any other person who says laa ilaaha illallah. I am concerned more at the moment with accounting my own soul rather than accounting the souls of those thousands of miles away with whose condition I am not intimately aware. I would humbly recommend that you all do the same, and Allah knows best.

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O you who believe! Fear Allah, and let every soul look to what (provision) He has sent forth for tomorrow. Indeed, fear Allah! For Allah is well-acquainted with (all) that you do. [59:18]

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