“the truth must have a power to protect it. For how many times has truth been defeated because of neglect of its possessors, and how many falsehoods have been raised by its allies and men willing to sacrifice.”
Prophet said: “two of the most evil of faults are miserliness/stinginess and cowardice. These faults lead to the corruption of the soul and deterioration of the society.”
“The first obligation after Iman is the repulsion of the enemy aggressor who assaults the religion and the worldly affairs" Ibn Taymia
Abdullah Azzam, A scholar from Palestine who witnessed tanks rolling into his village in West Bank when he was young, had to migrate to Jordan, learn to fight, return back to West Bank and Resist the occupation with PLO(palestine liberation organisation), until Jordan banned PLO and he too realised the secularist notions of PLO.
Eventually he went to Syria and Egypt and completed his PhD in Principles of Jurisprudence (usul e fiqh)
Until in 1979, Soviets entered Afghanistan and PDPA(people’s democratic party of afghanistan) requested for Fatwa of Jihad.
Which Abdullah Azzam issued, got signed from Major scholars (ibn Baaz, Abdullah Nasih Ulwan, Salih ibn Uthaymeen etc), declared it in sermon of Hajj, asked for any objections to it, and received none.
He himself then participated in Afghan Jihad and gathered Global support for it.
He ,on his way to Jummah prayer, eventually was blown up in Peshawar, Pakistan. Alongside his 2 sons, including a young 14 y/o, who blew up and his legs were hanging in electric wires and hands thrown on side of road.
This is his Fatwa, which justifies the Fard-Ayn of Jihad on muslim ummah, for Palestine and Afghanistan(at that time)
The summary is:
- Jihad by your person is Fard Ayn upon every Muslim in the earth.
- No permission for one from another for Jihad and no permission from the parents for the child.
- Jihad by your wealth is Fard Ayn and it is Harram to make savings while the jihad is in need of the Muslims' money.
- Neglecting the jihad is like abandoning fasting and praying, more than that, neglecting the jihad is worse in these days. We quote from Ibn Rushd: "It is agreed that when jihad becomes Fard Ayn it takes precedence over the Fard of Hajj."
It is as scary as truthful it is.
How this, from 1979, translates today, I donot know yet. But strictly according to this Fatwa, We all are in collective sin, no! Individual sins since its fard ayn.