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00:00Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah wa kafa wa salatu wa salamu ala ibadihi al lazeen astafa, khususan
00:11ala akhzalihin wa khatimin nabiyyin, wa humbadin al ameen, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een.
00:19Amma ba'du fuqad qalu allahu tabarak wa ta'ala kama warada fi surat as-saf, a'uzu billahi
00:29minash shaitanir rajim. Bismillahir rahmanir rahim. Ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanu hal adullukum
00:36ala tijaratin tunjikum min azabin aleem. Tu'minuna billahi wa rasulihi wa tujahiduna fi sabili
00:48Allahi bi anzalikum wa anfusikum. Zalikum khayrun lakum in kuntum ta'lamun. Wa qala
01:00azza wajal kama warada fi surat al-hujurat. Qalati al-arabu aamannaa. Kun lam tu'minu
01:08walakin kunu aslamnaa. Walamma yadkhulil iman fi kulubikum. Ila qawlihi ta'ala.
01:17Innamal mu'minuna al-lazeena aamanu billahi wa rasulihi. Summa lam yartabu wa jahadu
01:26bi anzalihim wa anfusihim fi sabili Allah. Ulaika humus sadiqun. Wa qala azza wajal kama
01:36warada fi surat as-saf. Inna allaha yuhibbu al-lazeena yuqatilun fi sabilihi safan ka
01:45annahum bunyanum marsus. Wa qala jalla wa ala kama warada fi surat al-anfal. Wa qatiluhum
01:55hatta la takuna fitnatun wa yakuna al-dinu kulluhu lillah. Sadaqallahul azeem.
02:03Wa anil haris al-ashariyya radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu. Qala qala rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi
02:11wa sallam. Aamurukum bi khamsin bil jamaat wa s-sama'i wa t-ta'ati wal-hijrati wal-jihad
02:19fi sabili Allah. Fawahu l-imam Ahmad wal-imam al-tirmidhi rahimahum Allah.
02:27Wa an anasin radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu. Qala qala rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
02:35Al-jihad mazin munzu ba'sani Allah ila an yuqatila aakhiru hadhihil ummati d-dajjal.
02:45Fawahu l-imam Abu Dawood rahimahullah. Rabbi ishrahli sadri wa yassirli amri.
02:51Wahlu l-luqdatan min l-lisadi. Yafqahu qauli. Allahumma Rabbana alhilna rushdana
02:57wa izna min shururi anfusina. Allahumma arina l-haqqa haqqan warzuqna attibaah.
03:03Wa arina l-baatila baatilan warzuqna jtinaabah. Allahumma wafiqna lima tuhibbu wa tardaa.
03:11Allahumma wafiqna an-nujahida fi sabilika bi-anwalina wa anfusina.
03:17Allahumma arzuqna shahadatan fi sabilika. Ameen. Ya Rabb al-alameen.
03:25Dear brothers and sisters and sons and daughters in Islam,
03:29As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
03:33As you must be knowing, today we have to discuss the subject of jihad fi sabili Allah.
03:43And without spending any time in any preliminary talk, I want to proceed with the subject.
03:52First of all, what is the importance of jihad in Islam?
03:59These things have been discussed already.
04:04During our discussions on Iman, we have discussed these ayat which I have again recited today.
04:12First of all, we find in Surah As-Saff, ayat number 10 and 11.
04:21Ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanu hal adullukum ala tijaratin tunjikun min azaabin aleem.
04:28O you who believe, should I lead you, should I tell you, the bargain, the trade,
04:38that will save you from the punishment of the fire of hell.
04:45What is that bargain? After the question, the answer comes.
04:50Tuminuna billahi wa rasulihi wa tujahiduna fi sabili Allahi bi-anwalikum wa anfusikum.
04:57Have real faith in Allah and His Messenger and make jihad for His cause, in His way,
05:05with your belongings, with your lives, with your bodily resources, as well as economic resources.
05:14What does this mean? You cannot hope salvation,
05:19you cannot hope to be saved from the fire of hell in the hereafter,
05:25without making jihad for the cause of Allah.
05:28It's the clear conclusion, logical inference.
05:33But here one can feel, one may think, that iman and jihad are two separate entities.
05:43Now when we come to the ayat of Surah Al-Hujurat that I have recited,
05:48here we find that jihad fi sabili Allah is an integral part of iman itself.
05:56Nobody can be a real Momin unless he makes jihad for the cause of Allah.
06:02There, as we have seen already, first of all a distinction has been made between a Muslim and a Momin.
06:09Qalatil araabu aamannaa qullamtu minu walakin qulu aslamnaa
06:14These Bedouins are claiming that we have come to believe, tell them, O Muhammad s.a.w.
06:20Don't be under this wrong impression, don't be mistaken.
06:25You have not at all come to believe, you have not at all become Momin.
06:30All you may say is you have become Muslims, you have surrendered.
06:34And the next ayah tells us that who is a Momin?
06:39Innamal Mominoonallazeena aamanu billahi wa rasoolihi summa lam yartaabu
06:45wa jahadu bi-anwalihim wa anfusihim fi sabili Allah
06:49The real Momins are only those who have faith, who have iman in Allah and His Messenger
06:57to the extent that there remain no doubts in their hearts and heads
07:03summa lam yartaabu, no raib whatsoever.
07:07This iman becomes a conviction.
07:10It reaches the level of yaqeen.
07:13And the second necessary thing to qualify as a Momin is
07:19wa jahadu bi-anwalihim wa anfusihim fi sabili Allah
07:24And then they made jihad for the cause of Allah, in the path of Allah, with their belongings and their lives.
07:30So here we find that jihad fi sabili Allah is an integral part of the definition of a Momin.
07:39As I explained during my discussions on iman, that Islam is aam, iman is khas.
07:48Islam is general, iman is particular.
07:52Every Momin must be a Muslim.
07:55But every Muslim is not a Momin.
07:58And we know there are five pillars of Islam.
08:01shahadati alla ilaha illallah wa anna muhammadur rasulullah
08:05wa iqamil salati, wa hitaiz zakati, wa sawmi rabadana, wa hajjil bayti, man istata ilayhi sabila
08:11It's one of the most famous ahadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
08:15muttafaqun alayh, agreed upon by both Imam Muslim and Imam Bukhari.
08:20And it has been reported by Abdullah ibn Umar r.a.
08:25So these are the five pillars of Islam.
08:30You have to add two, one on this side, one on this side.
08:34One is yaqeen fil qalb, conviction in the heart,
08:39reaching the level that there remains no doubt.
08:43And the other is jihad fi sabili Allah.
08:46So actually these two are essential pillars of Iman.
08:51Yaqeen fil qalb, jihad fil amal.
08:55So this I think should be enough to tell us what is the importance of jihad in Islam.
09:04Now I come to the second point.
09:07There have been two great misconceptions.
09:12And there are, these misconceptions are persisting.
09:17These misconceptions about jihad, not to speak of non-Muslims,
09:25they are there in the minds of the Muslims themselves.
09:29But rather the Muslims are to be blamed,
09:32because the non-Muslims got these misconceptions from the Muslims.
09:38So we should understand what are those great misconceptions about jihad.
09:44Number one, that jihad means war.
09:50This is the basic mistake.
09:53Jihad can be war,
09:56but there is a definite separate term for war,
10:00to go into war for the cause of Allah.
10:03And that is tatal fi sabili Allah.
10:06Then we have two different terms, definite terms.
10:10And I told you before that in no language,
10:15there can be two words having exactly the same connotations.
10:20The words are coined for different and definite meanings.
10:25If the words are two, meanings are different.
10:28Maybe they are very close,
10:30but they are essentially different.
10:32So jihad fi sabili Allah is a term of the Quran.
10:36Tatal fi sabili Allah is another term of the Quran.
10:39Here again the same, you know, relationship of aam and khas.
10:44Jihad is aam, it is general.
10:47Katal is khas, it is particular.
10:50Katal is jihad necessarily,
10:53but every jihad is not katal.
10:57The Prophet s.a.w. and his companions
11:01a.s.w. were making jihad in Mecca.
11:06We find this term in the Meccan Surahs.
11:14This is the last ayah of Surah Al-Ankabut,
11:16which was revealed in the 5th or 6th year
11:19after the beginning of Wahi,
11:22about 8 years before Hijrah.
11:25In the same Surah in the beginning,
11:27in the first part, first section we find
11:33So jihad is there and jihad was going on there
11:36for 12 long years at Mecca,
11:38but no katal.
11:40Katal started after Hijrah.
11:43So there are two different and definite terms
11:48and we must keep in mind
11:50that jihad is not equal to war.
11:54And what is the very unfortunate result
12:00that because war is not everywhere
12:04and all the time war is not going,
12:07so we have understood jihad
12:11when we say it is katal,
12:13it means it is not for the end.
12:17We are not required to make jihad all the time
12:21because when it means war,
12:23then only when there is a war,
12:26then you are called to make jihad for the cause of Allah.
12:29So this concept has disappeared
12:32from our basic concepts of deen
12:35while the ayat which I have quoted,
12:38they tell us that it is the integral part of iman.
12:42There can be no iman without jihad.
12:45There can be no salvation without jihad.
12:49And maybe during the whole lifetime of a person,
12:54there is no occasion of going to war.
12:57What does it mean?
12:59He didn't make any jihad.
13:01And Allah is saying in these ayat
13:04that it is essential to be saved from the fire of hell.
13:07It is included in the essential definition of iman.
13:12That is why you know this concept of jihad
13:16has disappeared from our minds
13:19because we equated it with war.
13:22So actually one mistake,
13:25it is based on another mistake.
13:27The basic mistake was that jihad is war.
13:31The result is that war is not going all the time.
13:35So it is not for the end.
13:38It becomes for the kefaya.
13:40Whenever there is need,
13:43when the requisite number of people volunteer themselves,
13:47well that for the kefaya is fully accomplished and completed.
13:52The others are not to blame.
13:55So that is the result of the basic mistake.
13:59Now what is the second,
14:01and let me say the greater misconception.
14:04Whenever a Muslim goes to war,
14:08it is jihad fee sabirillah.
14:12This concept has brought bad name to Islam.
14:16Despotic rulers
14:19going to war
14:21for the sake of their own personal ends,
14:24only to increase their own territory,
14:27only to have more luxuries,
14:30only to have more revenues,
14:33going to war.
14:35And it becomes jihad fee sabirillah.
14:38Actually this has brought bad name to Islam and Iman.
14:42And I told you,
14:44that if the non-Muslims have misconceptions about jihad,
14:48we can't blame them.
14:50Actually we are to blame.
14:52We have, you know,
14:54perverted the meanings of this very sacred term of Islam.
14:59Let me quote here a very famous hadith.
15:03The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was once asked,
15:14There is a person who is going to war
15:17for some tribal or ethnic
15:21or nationalistic feelings.
15:24There is another person who goes to war
15:27to show off his bravery
15:30and his strength and his courage.
15:33There is another person who goes to war
15:36to get booty, to get wealth,
15:39to get, you know, share of the maal-e-dhanima.
15:42Who amongst these three is mujahid fee sabirillah?
15:47The reply was, none of them is mujahid fee sabirillah.
15:52Mujahid fee sabirillah is the only person
15:57allazi yuqatiluh
15:59litakuna kalimatullahi yal uliya
16:03whosoever is going to war
16:06for the exclusive cause,
16:09with the exclusive intention,
16:12with the khalis niyah
16:14that the word of Allah shall become supreme.
16:18Only he is a mujahid fee sabirillah.
16:22If you are fighting, going to war
16:24for some worldly ends,
16:26for your own personal, you know, ambitions,
16:30then this is not mujahid fee sabirillah.
16:33So, these two misconceptions,
16:38please remove them from your minds.
16:41And please try
16:43to remove these misconceptions
16:46from the minds of all the Muslims.
16:49Now we come to the positive side of our discussion.
16:53Then what is jihad?
16:56Here, as in the case of Iman,
17:00let us first understand
17:02the literal meanings of jihad.
17:05As I told you,
17:0799.9 recurrent percent
17:12words in Arabic language
17:14are derived from a three-lettered root.
17:18And from there the words,
17:20they are derived, coined,
17:22on different patterns.
17:25Iman was from amr,
17:28Islam from salm.
17:31In the same way, jihad is from juhud.
17:35And this word is used in Urdu language also.
17:39Every Urdu speaking, Persian speaking person knows juhud.
17:43Rather we use the word jiddu juhud.
17:46Jid is again to strive for something
17:49and juhud to strive for something.
17:52You are making effort in some direction.
17:55You are striving for something, it is juhud.
17:59But what is the difference between juhud and jihad?
18:03Jihad and mujahida,
18:06they are from bab-ul-mufala.
18:09There are patterns in Arabic language, as I told you.
18:12It's a very mathematical language.
18:15The three-lettered root, and from that,
18:18on different patterns words are being coined.
18:21Mufala, this is a wazn.
18:24When the words are in this pattern,
18:28two meanings are added.
18:31Number one, mubalaga.
18:33That in that action one is striving very hard,
18:36very hard, very hard.
18:38And number two,
18:40now this action, this fail,
18:43is bilateral.
18:45There are two groups
18:48pitched against each other in this action.
18:51The example will be very clear.
18:54Juhud, that is,
18:57to strive for something.
18:59You are also striving.
19:01He is also striving.
19:03He is also striving.
19:05So there is a confrontation.
19:09Juhud, pitched against juhud.
19:13Juhud, confronting juhud.
19:16Juhud from this side,
19:18juhud from this side,
19:20coming against each other.
19:22This is jihad or mujahidah.
19:25And you have to strive more and more and more.
19:29Because when you are striving unilaterally,
19:32you can be slow.
19:34But when there is opposition,
19:37either you win or you lose.
19:40Then you have to use all your energies,
19:43all your resources.
19:45Because now,
19:47either you win or you lose.
19:49So actually, in mifada,
19:51you have two added meanings.
19:53Mubalagah and mukabalah.
19:56These two words are also on the same pattern.
19:58Mujahidah.
20:00Let me give you another example.
20:01Qatl.
20:03Qatl is a unilateral action.
20:05Somebody was going
20:07and somebody shot him.
20:09He was killed.
20:11This is unilateral action.
20:13But if there are two groups,
20:16pitched against each other,
20:18they want to kill them,
20:19and they want to kill them.
20:21Now it is mukabalah or qatal.
20:25So the difference between qatl,
20:27being a unilateral phenomenon,
20:29and qatal or mukabalah,
20:30being a bilateral phenomenon.
20:32The same is the relationship
20:34between juhud and mujahidah.
20:37And there are so many words, you know.
20:39Because most of us here,
20:41they know Urdu,
20:43and these words are used in Urdu bahas.
20:45To argue.
20:47Mubahasa.
20:49There are two groups, two individuals.
20:51They are arguing against each other.
20:54He wants to prove his point.
20:57And you know,
20:58prove that the other point is false.
21:01And the other person is trying to prove his point.
21:04And he is trying to prove
21:06that this man, whatever he is saying is false.
21:09This is mubahasa.
21:11So bahas is unilateral.
21:13Mubahasa, it is bilateral.
21:17In the same way, share.
21:19A poet is saying, you know, poetry.
21:22Mushara.
21:24What is mushara?
21:25Poets gather together,
21:27and they are competing.
21:29They want to show off,
21:31you know, their expertise.
21:33And they have to see
21:35who has won that mushara.
21:37So these, you know, these are few examples
21:40which make it amply clear
21:42that the basic three-letter root is johut.
21:46And from johut to jihad or mujahida.
21:49From katil to qital or muqatila.
21:53From nafak
21:55to nifaq and munafiqa.
21:57Actually, this is the subject
21:59of tomorrow's discussion.
22:01So I'll discuss it,
22:03inshallah, tomorrow.
22:05What is munafiqa and nifaq?
22:07Derived from nafiq.
22:09From share, mushara.
22:11From bahas, mubahasa.
22:13So, I think this should be sufficient
22:16for the literal meaning
22:18of the word jihad.
22:20Now I'm coming to the fourth point.
22:23Levels of jihad.
22:27Number one.
22:29And these levels,
22:31I'll discuss in general terms.
22:34Just as I described
22:36the process and methodology
22:38of the revolution of Muhammad s.a.w.
22:41First in general terms.
22:43Not using the Quranic terminology
22:45or the Islamic terminology.
22:47In the same way,
22:48so that you have a deep understanding,
22:50a deep insight.
22:52And it will be better
22:54that we understand these things
22:56in generalized terms.
22:58First of all,
23:00every living being,
23:02every living creature,
23:05every living organism,
23:08is making jihad all the time.
23:12This is called
23:14struggle for existence.
23:17There's competition.
23:20You have to support yourself.
23:23And there is going competition, you know.
23:25Struggle for existence.
23:27Survival of the fittest.
23:29Every living organism
23:31is in jihad all the time.
23:33We call it
23:35jihad lil haya
23:37for life.
23:39Jihad lil baqa.
23:41Struggle for existence.
23:44Only the dead things
23:47are not doing any jihad.
23:49Every living organism,
23:51it is all time,
23:53it is making jihad
23:55because there is competition.
23:57You have to compete to live.
23:59So it is jihad lil baqa,
24:01jihad lil baqa, jihad lil haya.
24:03Struggle for existence.
24:05Struggle for life.
24:07Now,
24:09number two.
24:11Every self-respecting human being,
24:17every self-respecting human being
24:21has to make jihad
24:23irrespective of whether
24:25he is a Muslim or a non-Muslim.
24:27Every
24:29self-respecting
24:31human being makes jihad, number one,
24:33for his rights.
24:35Jihad lil haquq.
24:38To get the rights
24:40from the usurpers.
24:42Those who have usurped their rights.
24:45Those who have
24:47made them slaves.
24:49Those who are exploiting them.
24:52Those who are suppressing them.
24:55Those who are depriving them of their rights.
24:58So you have to make jihad.
25:01This is jihad lil haquq.
25:04And the most important in this is
25:07jihad lil hurriya.
25:10Struggle for freedom.
25:13Struggle for self-rule.
25:16Struggle for self-determination.
25:19Struggle to get freedom.
25:22And this goes to,
25:25as jihad goes to qital,
25:27this also goes to qital.
25:29War of independence.
25:32Now these two levels of jihad
25:35are common to all human beings.
25:39Whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims.
25:42Whether they are believers or non-believers.
25:45Whether they are religious or secular.
25:48But, please note here,
25:51if a Muslim is making these two jihads,
25:56he is making jihad
25:58at the first or the second level.
26:01And he observes
26:03the rules of the sharia,
26:05in this jihad also.
26:08He
26:10resorts to only the halal means,
26:13which are permissible according to the law of the sharia,
26:17to the divine rule.
26:19And he refrains from the haram means,
26:22things which are not permitted.
26:25Now he will be rewarded
26:27for these two jihads also.
26:30The Prophet said,
26:32al-qasibu habibullah,
26:34whosoever is working hard,
26:37he is, you know,
26:39working hard to earn his livelihood,
26:42to support himself and his family.
26:45Innal nafsika alayka haqqan wa innal izawjika alayka haqqan.
26:49Your body has rights over you,
26:51your nafs has rights over you,
26:53your wife has rights over you,
26:55your children have rights over you.
26:57If you are striving for existence,
27:00for maintaining yourself and your family,
27:03but for that,
27:05you are not resorting to anything haram.
27:08You are observing the laws of sharia.
27:11It is actually ibadah.
27:14This is a worship.
27:16And a mu'min is rewarded for this also.
27:20In the same way,
27:22if a Muslim or a mu'min
27:25is striving to get self-rule,
27:28independence,
27:30he wants or they want,
27:32the Muslim nation,
27:34wants their rights,
27:36they want to snatch their rights from the usurpers.
27:39They are struggling to have independence,
27:42to have self-rule,
27:43to have self-determination.
27:45This is also a jaiz jihad.
27:49This is also a part of ibadah.
27:52He will be rewarded.
27:54But mind you,
27:56these two jihads
27:58are not jihad fee sabeelillah.
28:02Differentiate between these things.
28:05A jaiz jihad,
28:07jihad for supporting your own self.
28:11But if you are doing it
28:13within the limits of the sharia,
28:15it's part of ibadah,
28:17you will be rewarded.
28:19If you are making jihad
28:22to get your rights
28:24and to snatch freedom,
28:26your rights from the usurpers,
28:28this is also jihad,
28:30permissible jihad,
28:32jaiz jihad,
28:33and you get reward.
28:34This is also part of ibadah.
28:36But not jihad fee sabeelillah.
28:39Jihad fee sabeelillah is something else
28:42that we shall discuss inshallah shortly.
28:45But here again,
28:47please let me mention,
28:49a Muslim, if he dies,
28:53while he is only protecting his property,
28:57he lays down his life.
28:59There are robbers
29:01who attack him.
29:03They want his wealth.
29:05Now there are two ways open for him.
29:07Either to give him,
29:09give them what they demand
29:11and save himself.
29:13Or if he resists,
29:15suppose he is shot at,
29:17he is killed.
29:18The Prophet said,
29:24He was not making any jihad fee sabeelillah here.
29:28He was only,
29:30he was only defending his belongings.
29:34And here he has been killed.
29:36He is again shaheed.
29:38But you know there are levels of shahada.
29:41A shaheed,
29:43who lays down his life,
29:45while fighting for the cause of Allah,
29:47that is something different.
29:49That is at a very high level.
29:55You have to keep in view levels.
29:59You know there are ahadith.
30:01A Muslim dying in an epidemic
30:04is also shaheed.
30:06A Muslim if he is drowned,
30:09is also shaheed.
30:11A Muslim who is burnt alive in some accident
30:16is also shaheed.
30:18So actually there are levels of shahada.
30:21And a Muslim who is killed protecting his wealth
30:25and money,
30:26he is also shaheed.
30:27So these things are all,
30:29there are levels of shahada.
30:31But martyrdom,
30:33that high level,
30:35when one is killed,
30:37when he was going to war only
30:40to make the deen of Allah supreme,
30:42that was a positive endeavor on his side.
30:45And he laid down his life for that.
30:47That is the highest level of shahada.
30:50That is the highest level of martyrdom.
30:53So now,
30:55I have discussed three points up till now.
30:57Number one,
30:59every living being is making jihad all the time.
31:04That is the struggle for existence.
31:08If a momin is making it,
31:10within the limits of the sharia,
31:12he will be rewarded.
31:14It is actually a part of ibadah.
31:17The broader concept of ibadah
31:19is observing the rules of the sharia,
31:21not transgressing the limits of the sharia.
31:24Number two,
31:25every self-respecting
31:28human being,
31:30he makes jihad
31:32to get his rights
31:34and to get his freedom,
31:36his right of self-rule,
31:38his right of self-determination.
31:40And when a Muslim is doing it,
31:42this is also jihad.
31:44Although it is jihad for the non-Muslims also.
31:47But when a Muslim is doing it,
31:49again the two conditions should be fulfilled.
31:52Not resorting to any haram means,
31:56confining yourself to the halal methods only.
32:00Then you will be rewarded.
32:02You will get reward in the hereafter.
32:05And if you are killed,
32:07you have achieved a shahada,
32:11although this is not jihad fee sabeelillah.
32:15And this shahada is not of that level,
32:17which one gets when he is fighting for the cause of Allah.
32:21Now the third level is,
32:23again in generalized term,
32:25ideological jihad.
32:28Jihad for existence.
32:33Jihad for rights.
32:36And now the ideological jihad.
32:39We have seen in our discussion on Iman,
32:43that every human being
32:45has an ideology.
32:48Either unconsciously or consciously.
32:51Either he knows,
32:54and he adopts an ideology,
32:56a world view, a philosophy,
32:58a Weltanschauung,
33:00in the German philosophical terminology,
33:02everyone has it.
33:04Either he has chosen it for him,
33:06after thinking, studying,
33:08or he is only following the society.
33:12The things which are agreed upon in his society,
33:16he is also accepting them.
33:18But he does have an ideology.
33:22Everybody has some philosophy,
33:24some metaphysical view,
33:26some world view,
33:27some Weltanschauung.
33:29And every ideology gives you an ideal.
33:35Ideal, goal in life.
33:38Objective in life.
33:40And that is called in Arabic,
33:42nasab ul-ayn.
33:45Your gaze is fixed.
33:48These eyes.
33:50Nasab, fixing.
33:52Everybody has a goal.
33:54And on his goal, his eyes are fixed.
33:58You know when the two football teams,
34:00or hockey teams,
34:02they are contesting match against each other,
34:05both have eyes on the goals.
34:08We have to go there.
34:10And the opposite is the case
34:12of the second team.
34:14So every human being has a goal.
34:17And this is called nasab ul-ayn.
34:20In Hindi it is called aadrash.
34:23There is some ideal,
34:25some objective,
34:27some cause everybody has before him.
34:30Now the struggle for that cause
34:34is the ideological jihad.
34:37And you know here you will have to add two terms.
34:42You will have to fix what is the cause.
34:45Struggle for which cause?
34:48For that we in Arabic, in Quranic terminology,
34:51we add fee sabeel.
34:54So there can be so many causes.
34:57Jihad fee sabeel is shirk.
35:01Abu Jahl was also making jihad.
35:04He made qital.
35:07But his jihad and qital was
35:09fee sabeel is shirk.
35:11And Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
35:13and his companions,
35:15razi allahu ta'ala anhum,
35:17they were making jihad
35:19fee sabeel tawhid.
35:21Jihad is on both the sides.
35:24Let me mention here in two places in the Quran,
35:27in surah al-ankaboot and surah al-uqman.
35:31This word has been used for the mushrik parents
35:35of the young people who accepted iman.
35:39وَإِن جَاهَدَاكَ عَلَىٰ أَن تُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعِهُمَهَا
35:45This is in surah al-ankaboot.
35:47وَإِن جَاهَدَاكَ لَتُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعِهُمَهَا
35:53Only difference of laam and ala.
35:55The same ayah repeated
35:57in surah al-ankaboot, surah al-uqman.
36:00The mushrik parents,
36:02they were compelling, you know,
36:04their sons and daughters
36:06to come back to the fold of shirk and kufr.
36:09To leave tawhid.
36:12To leave the company of Muhammad s.a.w.
36:15And this pressurization
36:18from their side, Quran says
36:20they are making jihad.
36:22But this jihad is
36:24feasibly shirk.
36:26And the momineen, they were making the jihad
36:28feasibly tawhid.
36:30In the same way,
36:32a communist
36:34or a democrat
36:36he makes a jihad.
36:38Jihad fee sabeel al-ishtaraqiyah.
36:42Jihad fee sabeel al-demokratiyah.
36:45For the cause of democracy.
36:47And you know people gave their lives,
36:49gave their blood
36:51for the French revolution. What for?
36:53For democracy.
36:55People gave their lives, their blood
36:57in the Bolshevik revolution. What for?
36:59To establish communism.
37:01So they were mujahideen.
37:03They were making qital also.
37:05But only difference is
37:07their jihad and qital was
37:09fee sabeel al-ishtaraqiyah
37:11or fee sabeel al-demokratiyah.
37:14Either for the cause of democracy
37:16or for the cause of communism
37:18or socialism.
37:20Compared to that,
37:21what is the jihad
37:23that we have?
37:25Jihad fee sabeel al-islam.
37:27To establish Islam.
37:29Just as they wanted
37:31to establish democracy
37:33or they wanted to establish
37:35communism.
37:37We have to make jihad to establish
37:39Islam.
37:41In the same way,
37:43there is jihad fee sabeel shaitaan.
37:45And Quran says,
37:47jihad fee sabeel taahoot.
37:51And compared to it,
37:53there is jihad fee sabeelillah.
37:57Now there is an ayah, that is
37:59verse 76 of surah an-nisa.
38:01Very beautiful comparison
38:03in this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
38:05has made.
38:15Those who are
38:17Momins, they are going to war
38:19for the cause of Allah.
38:21And those
38:23who are kafirs,
38:25they are also going to war.
38:27They are also risking their lives.
38:29Was not Abu Jahl
38:31killed in Badr?
38:33Along with
38:3569 more,
38:3770 you know,
38:39Qureshis of Mecca
38:41laid down their lives, what for?
38:43For the cause of shirk?
38:45For the cause of taahoot?
38:53Very simple, so simple.
38:55There is kataan
38:57from both sides, there is jihad from both sides.
39:01Then there is jihad fee sabeel
39:03nafs.
39:05What is that jihad?
39:07To accumulate
39:09more and more wealth.
39:13To have fame
39:15in the world, a big
39:17name.
39:19To have power,
39:21the urge
39:23to dominate of Adler.
39:25Professor Adler's view
39:27that the most important
39:29and most powerful urgent man
39:31is the urge to dominate.
39:33Now if somebody is
39:35working for that end,
39:37he is doing jihad.
39:39But fee sabeel nafs.
39:41So compared
39:43to these jihads,
39:45there is the jihad
39:47fee sabeelillah.
39:49So this is the ideological level
39:51of jihad. Everybody
39:53is doing something.
39:55Either he is making jihad for his nafs,
39:57having
39:59more and more wealth, having fame
40:01in the world, to earn
40:03a big name,
40:05or to have
40:07power, require power and authority.
40:09Or somebody is making
40:11jihad for his false ideologies.
40:13Maybe it is
40:15Marxism, maybe it is
40:17nationalism, maybe it is
40:19something else.
40:21Somebody is making, he wants only his
40:23country to be all
40:25powerful, his nation
40:27to dominate all the nations
40:29of the world, they are making jihad.
40:31So every human
40:33being has an
40:35ideology, number one,
40:37either consciously or
40:39unconsciously.
40:41Every human being has a goal in
40:43life, an objective,
40:45in a sabeel ayn, an adrash.
40:47And everybody
40:49is making jihad,
40:51compared to all those jihads.
40:53Now we have the jihad
40:55fee sabeelillah.
40:57Now the second term which has to be added
40:59to this jihad is,
41:01you know this is with ba.
41:03You have to make jihad
41:05with something.
41:07Now let me
41:09hurriedly give you
41:11a list of the words.
41:13Jihad bil maal.
41:15You are spending your
41:17belongings, your wealth, for that goal,
41:19for that cause. This is
41:21jihad bil maal. Here ba
41:23will be added. Jihad
41:25bil nafs.
41:27You are spending your bodily
41:29resources for that cause.
41:31Your time,
41:33your energies,
41:35your intelligence, your understanding,
41:37your
41:39human resources,
41:41whatever you have from them.
41:43Then jihad
41:45bil qalb.
41:47That is the term which appears
41:49in a hadith
41:51from Hazrat Abu Sayyid
41:53al-Khudi r.a.
41:55man ra'a minkum
41:57munkaran fal yughayyiru biyadihi
41:59fa illam yastateefa bil lisanihi
42:01fa illam yastateefa biqalbihi
42:03And another hadith from Abdullah ibn Masud
42:05and there the word that jihad,
42:07man jahadahum biyadihi
42:09fahuwa mominun, wa man jahadahum
42:11biqalbihi fahuwa mominun,
42:13wa man jahadahum biqalbihi
42:15fahuwa mominun.
42:17If you have grief
42:19and pain
42:21and sorrow,
42:23why this thing is happening?
42:25This is also a jihad
42:27with your qalb.
42:29If you are using your tongue,
42:31forbidding people don't do these things.
42:33These are haram things.
42:35This is not permissible.
42:37This is, you know,
42:39prohibited by the shariah.
42:41Unlawful. Don't do it.
42:43You are making jihad with your tongue.
42:45And if you, you know,
42:47stop the person with force,
42:49you are doing the jihad
42:51bil yad, with your hands.
42:53Then there can be jihad
42:55bil qalam.
42:57You are writing books,
42:59articles,
43:01so that you promote the ideology
43:03that you believe in.
43:05Then there is
43:07jihad bil quran.
43:09This is the word used in Quran itself.
43:13This is from
43:15surah al-furqan.
43:17falatuta'il kafireena wa jahidhum
43:19bihi jihadan kabira
43:21O Muhammad s.a.w.
43:23Don't obey these kuffar
43:25and make jihad against them
43:27with Quran.
43:29This is your sword
43:31against wrong
43:33ideologies.
43:35The only sword that can be used
43:37against wrong ideologies
43:39is Quran.
43:41You can't fight against ideologies
43:43with sword.
43:45So there you have to
43:47make jihad bil quran.
43:49Then finally is
43:51jihad bis saif.
43:53Now you use
43:55arms.
43:57As we have seen, you know, in that process of revolution.
43:59These are the stages.
44:01So this is
44:03the ideological jihad.
44:05Here you specify that ideology,
44:07that goal, with the word fee sabeel.
44:09And you add
44:11harf ba
44:13bil maal, bil nafs,
44:15bil qalam, bil lisan,
44:17bil yad,
44:19bil quran, bis saif,
44:21bil quwah.
44:23You can go on adding the words.
44:25Now, there are
44:27three levels of this ideological
44:29jihad.
44:31And now we are coming actually
44:33directly to jihad fee sabeelillah.
44:39These are three stages.
44:43What is the ideology of
44:45Islam or Quran?
44:47Allah is the
44:49ruler of this world.
44:55Sovereignty belongs to him and him alone.
44:57It's the duty
44:59of the Muslims
45:01to establish his rule
45:03in this world.
45:05For this cause,
45:07you have to make jihad.
45:09This is jihad fee sabeelillah.
45:11You may call it
45:13to establish
45:15the kingdom of heaven on earth.
45:17This is the terminology adopted
45:19by Bible.
45:21You know, just like we have suratul fatiha.
45:23They have the Lord's prayer.
45:25And the words
45:27are, thy kingdom
45:29come.
45:31Thy will be done
45:33on earth as it is in
45:35heavens.
45:37Your will should be
45:39supreme. And that's
45:41the word that the Prophet used.
45:43Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
45:45Itakuna kalimatullahi
45:47al-awliya. So that the
45:49word of Allah, the command of Allah
45:51becomes supreme.
45:53So actually, there are
45:55so many terms.
45:57But the meanings are the same.
46:03Pluralism in terminology.
46:05But actually what is meant
46:07is the same thing. You may call it
46:09establishing the system of caliphate.
46:13When you establish the system of sovereignty of Allah,
46:15what does it mean? For humanity,
46:17it is the caliphate.
46:19So establishing
46:21the deen of Allah on earth,
46:23establishing the kingdom
46:25of heaven on earth,
46:27establishing the system of khilafah
46:29on earth, you may call it
46:31anything, but this is the
46:33goal. This is the
46:35cause. This is the
46:37nasab-ul-ain. This is the
46:39adrash. If one
46:41is working to that end,
46:43he is a mujahid fi-sabilillah.
46:45Now there are three
46:47stages of this jihad fi-sabilillah
46:49also.
46:51First of all,
46:53establish Allah's
46:55deen on your own self.
46:59Be a
47:01caliph of Allah, vice-student of
47:03Allah on your own
47:05body, on your
47:07own self.
47:09And
47:11be a caliph of Allah in this
47:13sphere where you have authority.
47:15If you are the head
47:17of a family, you have the authority.
47:23Each one of you is like,
47:25you know, a shepherd.
47:27And he has
47:29the goats, you know,
47:31in his custody.
47:33And he is responsible for the goats and the sheep.
47:35So actually,
47:37in the same way, every human being
47:39has some human beings
47:41given to him by
47:43Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his family.
47:45And he is the custodian.
47:47He has to behave as caliph of Allah.
47:49Number one, on his own body,
47:51on his own personality,
47:53and then in this sphere and
47:55zone of his authority.
47:57This we call in the
47:59Quranic terminology,
48:01oh abudullah,
48:03be a bondsman to Allah.
48:05Worship Allah alone.
48:07This we call
48:09in Quranic terminology,
48:11ya ayyuhal lazeena man khulu
48:13jissilmi kaafah
48:17Enter Islam totally.
48:19Obey Allah in
48:21totality.
48:23You cannot discriminate between his commandments.
48:25afatoo minoona bi baazil kitabi
48:27wa takfuroona bi baas
48:29fama jazao mayyafalo zalika minkum
48:31illa khizyun fil hayati al dunya
48:33wa yawmal qiyamati yuraddoona ila shabdil asab
48:35I have repeated this ayah
48:37many times during these days,
48:39and I am not going to translate it again.
48:41So actually
48:43this is the first stage of jihad
48:45fi sabirillah.
48:47Before establishing the rule of Allah on earth,
48:49you establish it on your own self.
48:53And if you are not doing it,
48:55and you claim that you want
48:57to establish the rule of Allah on earth,
49:01you are
49:03a hypocrite,
49:05a munafiq.
49:07You are a liar.
49:11You have to establish the
49:13deen of Allah on your own personality,
49:15on your own self,
49:17and in your own sphere
49:19of authority, first of all.
49:21That is why this is called
49:23the real jihad,
49:25the basic jihad,
49:27and the supreme jihad.
49:29But here, please note,
49:31if you have a
49:33three-storied building,
49:35the highest is the third-story,
49:37but the most
49:39important is the first-story.
49:41Because the second-story
49:43cannot exist without first.
49:45What to speak of
49:47the third?
49:49Highest is the third.
49:51Highest jihad would be
49:53to establish the deen of Allah on earth.
49:55But the most important
49:57jihad is
49:59to establish the deen of Allah on your own self.
50:01Because
50:03without that, you can't proceed.
50:05Just as you can't build the
50:07second-story without the first one.
50:09And what to speak of the
50:11third one? There's no possibility.
50:13You can't
50:15build it in atmosphere,
50:17in air. You have to have
50:19the first-story first, and then the second,
50:21and then the third.
50:23So that is why when the Prophet
50:25was asked a question, a direct question,
50:27I will jihad the
50:29afzal, O Ya Rasulullah.
50:31Now here, please note the word afzal.
50:33Afzal is
50:35something which is most
50:37precious, which is most
50:39important. But ala
50:41is something which is
50:43highest. So actually
50:45these two words you must keep in mind.
50:47Ala and
50:49afzal. Ayyul jihad-e-afzalu
50:51Ya Rasulullah. Antu
50:53jahida nafsa kafi ta'atillah.
50:55The answer was that you
50:57make jihad against your own
50:59id or libido
51:01or baser self or against your
51:03own animal instincts,
51:05and you compel your nafs
51:07to obey Allah.
51:09And let me mention here
51:11again one thing. I said, you know,
51:13at some time in my
51:15discussion, that I'll
51:17explain the word hijrah also.
51:19Hijrah,
51:21which we in Urdu pronounce
51:23hijrat.
51:25This is the negative side
51:27of jihad.
51:29To obey Allah,
51:31you have to leave certain things.
51:33You have to leave haram
51:35to be a Muslim actually.
51:37You have to refrain
51:39from those things which have
51:41been forbidden. Then only you
51:43can claim to be a Muslim.
51:45So actually hijrah and jihad go
51:47side by side. And here
51:49let me quote the hadith.
51:51He was asked a question.
51:53Ayyul hijrat-e-afzalu Ya Rasulullah.
51:55Which hijrat is afzal?
51:57The answer was
51:59Antahjurah kullama
52:01yakrahuhu.
52:03That you give
52:05away, you
52:07refrain from everything
52:09which Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala doesn't
52:11like.
52:13The habits,
52:15all your habits,
52:17if you know
52:19Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala doesn't like this habit
52:21of mine, and you are leaving
52:23it, you are making hijrah.
52:25You are
52:27leaving, you know, luxuriously
52:29on earnings that were haram.
52:31Now you are
52:33giving them up. Although you have
52:35difficulty.
52:37You may not have enough to eat now.
52:39But this is hijrah.
52:41Hijrah has started.
52:43You have made hijrah
52:45from haram to halal.
52:47So actually hijrah and jihad
52:49go side by side.
52:51Because that hadith, you know,
52:53aamurukum bi khamsin
52:55bil jamate
52:57wassame, watate, walhijrate
52:59waljihade fee sabeelillah.
53:01These five things.
53:03The Prophet said, I command you.
53:05I put
53:07five things imperative upon you.
53:09Essential upon you.
53:11Allahu amrani bihinna.
53:13And actually Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
53:15has ordained them.
53:17And that is to be
53:19in the form of a party.
53:21The party
53:23to have the discipline of
53:25sabotaat. And what will the
53:27party do? Hijrah and jihad.
53:29Hijrah is starting.
53:31Antahjura kullama
53:33yakrahoo. You give away
53:35everything. You refrain
53:37from every act, every habit
53:39which is not liked by
53:41Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
53:43And you are spending your time and your energy.
53:45And you are compelling, you know,
53:47first of all your own nafs
53:49to obey Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
53:51Now this jihad,
53:53actually we discussed it
53:55at quite length
53:57in our discussion on Iman.
53:59This jihad has three
54:01aspects.
54:03I discussed, you know,
54:05the Quranic psychology.
54:07And there I told you,
54:09we have this id,
54:11or libido, number one.
54:13Pride also recognizes
54:15three levels of our existence.
54:17Our internal existence,
54:19our logical existence.
54:21The lowest is id or libido.
54:23Then ego, then superego.
54:25You just forget about the ego
54:27and the superego. I am talking
54:29about the id or libido.
54:31So you have to suppress them.
54:33Because they are blind.
54:35Passions. They want
54:37their sensual gratification.
54:39There is hunger.
54:41Your stomach is contracting. It wants some food.
54:43It doesn't want
54:45to discriminate between halal and haram.
54:47It wants
54:49only that hunger should be satisfied.
54:51A sexual urge,
54:53you know, emerges
54:55from the lower levels of your nafs.
54:57This is blind.
54:59It will not discriminate between
55:01halal and haram. It wants
55:03its own sensual gratification,
55:05nothing else. It wants its own
55:07satisfaction and nothing else.
55:09But it's your duty to see.
55:11It's your first to see and
55:13discriminate what is halal, what is haram.
55:15So the first jihad
55:17is against your own nafs.
55:19But behind this nafs
55:21is shaitan.
55:27The shaitan, the jinn,
55:29the iblis, and you know
55:31the disciples of iblis
55:33from jinnat.
55:35There is a hadith.
55:37The prophet said,
55:39shaitan permeates the body of human
55:41beings like blood.
55:46Just like the blood is circulating
55:48and no cell of my body
55:50can live without
55:52this circulation. Blood is reaching it.
55:54In the same way, shaitan
55:56also reaches all the cells of our
55:58organism. So actually
56:00you have to fight against shaitan
56:02and its
56:04disciples.
56:06Number three, you
56:08have, if a society
56:10is perverted,
56:12is going on wrong lines,
56:14you have to struggle against
56:16the pressures of the society.
56:18Social pressures.
56:20They push you in the wrong direction.
56:22So you have to make resistance
56:24against them. There is a
56:26very beautiful saying in Persian language,
56:28zamana baato na saazad.
56:30If your
56:32environment is
56:34not compatible with you,
56:36you feel
56:38in some other way,
56:40the environment is going in some other way,
56:42your values are different,
56:44the values of the society are different.
56:46There is a confrontation. Zamana baato na saazad.
56:48Now there are two alternatives with you.
56:50Tu ba zamana be saaz.
56:52You become
56:54and you adjust yourself
56:56with the environment.
56:58Or the other alternative
57:00is tu ba zamana satez.
57:02Fight against this
57:04environment. Fight it out.
57:06And you go in your own direction.
57:08So you have
57:10to make three
57:12jihads at this level.
57:14Three aspects of this jihad.
57:16Against your own nafs.
57:18Against the shaitan.
57:20Against the social pressures
57:22of a perverted society.
57:24And then only you can
57:26be a real Muslim, a real
57:28bondsman to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
57:30Then only
57:32you can say you have entered Islam
57:34completely. Udkhuloo fi silmi
57:36kaafatan. Ittaqullaha
57:38haqqato qatihi.
57:40You are fearing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
57:42as you ought to fear him.
57:44So that is the first level of
57:46ideological jihad in Islam.
57:48And the other two levels
57:50inshaAllah. And the requisites
57:52of each level we shall discuss in the next session.
57:54Aqooloo qauli haza
57:56wa astaghfirullah li walakum.