Chapters
Jihad
The Wilderness or the Path to Allah · Imam Ahmed al-Hasan
The Almighty said, ﴾39 Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged . And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory . 40 [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right - only because they say, “Our Lord is Allah .” And were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned . And Allah will surely support those who support Him . Indeed, Allah is powerful and exalted in might .﴿[1] O believing men and women, those rulers dominated the Muslims forcefully, and spilled the blood which Allah forbade through deception, deceit, and buying the mercenaries from the lowest people, and they started fighting every free human being who rejects worshipping by their laws, because they see themselves as gods who must be obeyed apart from Allah, they consider themselves higher than human beings, so they must say and act and that people must praise their sayings and actions, they are arrogant and they do not understand the good word, rather they only understand force, and only force solves our problem with those arrogant oppressors, and this is our destiny, Allah swt willed to test the believers through jihad, to know the difference between the one sincere in his belief and the liar who claims to be a believer . The Almighty said, ﴾1 Alif, Lam, Meem . 2 Do the people think that they will be left to say, “We believe,” and they will not be tested? 3 But We have certainly tested those before them, and Allah will surely make evident those who are truthful, and He will surely make evident the liars . 4 Or do those who do evil deeds think they can outrun Us? Evil is what they judge . 5 Whoever should hope for the meeting with Allah - indeed, the term decreed by Allah is coming . And He is the Hearing, the Knowing . 6 And whoever strives only strives for [the benefit of] himself . Indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds .﴿[2] These tyrants have placed [the people] between two [alternatives], fighting or humiliation, as was said by our master al-Hussain pbuh .[3]
And Allah, His Prophet, and the believers refuse humiliation for us, so we must do jihad against those tyrants and their mercenaries who are sucking the blood of the Muslims, before a day comes where we are bodies without blood, and are dead walking the earth, and no Muslim should say, “I do not wish to get involved in politics,” because every Muslim who is committed to his Islam and who is knowledgeable in his religion is a politician . Look at the books of the Islamic jurisprudence, the verdicts of the economic, social, judicial, and political transactions are far more than the verdicts of the acts of worship . Moreover, is the Quran not the constitution of our lives, and is the path which it draws not a straight path which we must walk on? So if we contemplate the Quran we find it to be the revolution of the prophets pbut , and the oppressed believers in the face of the arrogant tyrants, and if we contemplate the sayings of the Prophet pbuhap we find him saying, ﴾The finest jihad is a word of Truth in the face of an oppressive sultan .”﴿[4] In this saying there is a predilection for the jihad against the oppressive ruler; and that is because he rules with the rule of the days of ignorance, and he follows his desires and violates blood, money, and women, and none remains of Islam except what agrees with his desires, and he buys from among the clerics of evil he who interprets the Quran according to his desires, so he [the cleric of evil] makes those in authority-in the verse: ﴾O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you .﴿[5]to be the unjust rulers and not the twelve infallible Imams pbut , so Moses and Ali, and al-Hussain pbut become oppressors against the Imams of their age, like Pharaoh, Muawya, and Yazeed (may Allah curse them), and by ﴾The man of an unknown father, son of the man of an unknown father has left me between two matters, fighting or humiliation . And never will they have that from me! Never will we be humiliated! Allah has refused that for us, and His Messenger and the believers, and the pure ones who raised us, that the obedience of the evil ones is preferred over the deaths of the fine ones . I am crawling with this family, in spite of our small number, the great number of the enemy, and the apathy of our supporter . So if we were to move, we would move ahead . And if we were to run away [it would never happen], they will not make us run away . So if the kings were to last forever, then we would have lasted . And if the fine ones had remained, we would have remained . So tell those who gloat concerning us to wake up . The gloaters will find what we have found .”﴿ Al-Ihtijaj by al-Tobrosi Vol . 2 page 24 .
this, people return to the days of ignorance and nothing remains from the Quran except its drawing, and nothing of Islam except its name . And from this we know that the jihad against the oppressive ruler is a jihad which defends Islam, thus the Muslims must do jihad against the tyrants who dominated the Islamic countries and they must eliminate their mercenaries, and establish the divine Islamic government, thus implement what Allah prescribed in the Holy Quran on the tongue of His great Prophet pbuhap, and what was brought by the twelve infallible Imams pbut from the Messenger of Allah pbuhap about the countries and the servants, and the spread of justice and elimination of corruption . And the armed jihad is necessary, and in order for us to prepare this nation for this stage, the following matters are necessary: