The Punishment Of Those Who Don’t Participate In Jihad

Allah, the Exalted, says:

"Say [O Muhammad], “If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and dwellings with which you are pleased, are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and jihad in His cause then wait until Allah executes His command. And Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.” (Tawbah, 24)

In this ayah is a sufficient warning for anyone who leaves jihad with their selves and their wealth.

“O you who have believed, what is [the matter] with you that, when you are told to go forth in the cause of Allah, you adhere heavily to the earth? Are you satisfied with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But what is the enjoyment of worldly life compared to the Hereafter except a [very] little. If you do not go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment and will replace you with another people, and you will not harm Him at all. And Allah is over all things competent." (Tawbah, 38-39)

“Those who remained behind rejoiced at their staying [at home] after [the departure of] the Messenger of Allah and disliked to strive with their wealth and their lives in the cause of Allah and said, “Do not go forth in the heat.” Say, “The fire of Hell is more intense in heat”-if they would but understand So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn.” (Tawbah, 81-82)

10. Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما) narrates: I heard the Messenger of Allah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) saying, “If you trade in each, and follow the tails of cows, and became content with being farmers, and ignored jihad, Allah will impose on you a humiliation that would not be taken away until you go back to your religion.” (Abu Dawud - Authentic)

The meaning of the hadith is that if people ignore jihad because of their involvement in agriculture and similar affairs, Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) will unleash upon them their enemies which would bring them humiliation which cannot be eliminated unless they go back to what is a duty upon them to start with and that is jihad against the non-believers, and being harsh and rough on them, and establishing religion to give Islam and its followers victory and to raise the word of Allah high and to humiliate disbelief and its followers. This hadith shows that leaving jihad is leaving Islam because the Messenger of Allah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) said: “until you go back to your religion.”

11. Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه) states that, “If any people stop jihad Allah will cover them all with punishment.” (al-Tabarani, agreeable chain)

12. Ibn Asakir (رحمه الله) narrates that when Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه) became the Khalifah he stood on the pulpit and among what he said was, “If people do not practice jihad Allah will inflict them with poverty.”

One might say that ‘I see some people not practicing jihad nevertheless they are wealthy’. The answer is that wealth is not the amount of money you have, but wealth is a feeling of contentment and satisfaction that exists in the heart. When people stop practicing jihad they miss out on the booty of war. When they do that and instead turn their attention and effort to making wealth from various other means, they get involved in a lot of prohibited methods of making money. You then rarely find anyone among them whose wealth is all pure halal. They became greedy over miser things of this world. That made them humiliated and they became slaves to money.

But the mujahid is free of greed and is depending on Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) for his provisions. Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) provides for him from the booty. He wins it by his sword and it is pure halal.

13. Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) said: “Whoever dies and has not fought or had the intention of fighting dies on a branch of hypocrisy.” (Muslim)

14. Abu Umamah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) said: “Whoever has not fought or prepared a fighter or taken care of a fighter in his absence, Allah will strike him with a disaster.” (Abu Dawud, Agreeable)

[Mashari al-Ashwaq ila Masari al-Ushaaq]

» Posted by Seifeddine-M on 27th January 2011

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