ADVICE TO A JIHĀD ENTHUSIAST

SHAYKH MUHAMMAD NASIRUD-DĪN AL-ALBĀNY

Questioner: Ok, there is another question about our brothers in Bosnia …

Shaykh Al-Albāny: Yes.
Questioner: I heard that you said to some brothers who had wanted to go there
to fight in the cause of Allāh with their lives: fight against yourselves (i.e. purify
yourselves)
Shaykh Al-Albāny: Yes, that's true.
Questioner: This means that you don't advise (people) to go there (for jihād)?
Shaykh Al-Albāny: That's true.
Questioner: Well don't you think that people there are in need of help?
Shaykh Al-Albāny: How can I not think so? Yet is help achieved by putting more
lives of Muslims to death in vain? Where is the preparation with which we have
been commanded in the Noble Qur’ān?
Questioner: What if there is a benefit?
Shaykh Al-Albāny: If you believe that there is a benefit, then it (jihād) is
compulsory. Do you believe so?
Questioner: Yes.
Shaykh Al-Albāny: On what basis?
Questioner: There are weak Muslims...
Shaykh Al-Albāny: Please brother, don’t tell me about the status quo; tell me
what the benefit is.
Questioner: The benefit is helping them and (unclear speech) …
Shaykh Al-Albāny: May Allāh guide you! Helping them requires (the
intervention) of the States not individuals. The situation needs organized army
that are trained in using weapons. It needs tanks, aircrafts, etc. What individual
means are you talking about? If we sent one thousand people from here and
there, they would be easy targets of (the enemy) fire. What could these people do
in the face of the tanks and destructive weapons (of the enemy)?
Questioner: Yeah
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Shaykh Al-Albāny: Glory be to Allāh! I am surprised at how the youth do not
look at these issues except in a very limited way. I asked you if there were a
benefit. You said, “Yes.” What is this benefit? They are weak! May Allah guide
you, Abu Suhaib! As if I did not know that they are weak and that they are few
in number and under-armed compared to the Serbs first and their allies second
and particularly the Americans who have destroyed everything. Don't you know
these facts?
Questioner: Yes
Shaykh Al-Albāny: How can you say that there is a benefit? Is there a benefit in
destroying Muslims in vain and that's exactly what happened in Afghanistan?
Do you think that jihād in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be any stronger than in
Afghanistan?
Questioner: No.
Shaykh Al-Albāny: What was the result there? Uh? The result was that we
reaped bitter melon (i.e. we suffered defeat) ...
Questioner: Yes.
Shaykh Al-Albāny: … and we brought destruction upon ourselves because we
opposed the religious teachings in many, many details, the most apparent of
which, as the bad end results showed, was (differing and split). (Allāh says):
﴾‫﴿ﯴﯵﯶﯷﯸﯹﯺﯻﯼﯽﯾﯿﰀﰁﰃﰄﰅ‬
And be you not of Al-Mushrikun (polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the
oneness of Allah). Of those who split up their religion and became sects, each
sect rejoicing in that which is with it. (30: 31-32)
Seven parties fighting against one party and that is the Communist party. The
Communist party, which is a kafir party, vs three Muslim parties. How could
this happen? Therefore, don't forget, even though you live far away from us, the
principle that the beginning should be with tasfia wat-tarbia (i.e. purification and
education) …
Questioner: Yes
Shaykh Al-Albāny: … and then remember the saying of Allāh :

﴾‫﴿ﯽﯾﯿﰀﰁﰂﰃﰄﰅﰆﰇ‬
And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have
earned. And He pardons much. (42:30)
And we ask Allāh  to grant victory to our Muslims brother in all Muslim land.
Yes unfortunately as our Lord says in the Nobel Qur’ān:
﴾‫﴿ﯳﯴﯵﯶﯷﯸﯹﯺﯻﯼﯽﯾﯿﰀ‬
That was the Way of Allāh in the case of those who passed away of old, and
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 you will not find any change in the Way of Allāh. (33:62)

﴾‫﴿ﯶﯷﯸﯹﯺﯻ‬
And no turning off will you find in the Sunnah of Allāh. (35:43)

﴾‫﴿ﮬﮭﮮﮯﮰﮱ﮲﮳﮴﮵ ﮶﮷﮸﮹﮺﮻﮼﮽﮾﮿﯀﯁﯂﯃﯄﯅﯆‬
Verily, Allāh will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they
do not change their state (of goodness) themselves. But when Allāh wills a
people's punishment, there can be no turning back of it, and they will find
besides Allāh no protector. (13:11)

Therefore, if we want to defend a nation from among the Islamic nations we

must first and foremost defend Islam in our very home countries. Yet we don't
defend Islam in our countries and that's why we have been inflicted by
calamities in our home countries, and this is something we feel sorry about and
we ask Allāh to grant Muslims His True Promise:
﴾‫﴿ﭥﭦﭧﭨﭩﭪﭫﭬ‬
Verily, We will indeed make victorious Our Messengers and those who
believe (in the Oneness of Allāh Islāmic Monotheism) in this world's life ...
(40:51)
“There will not cease to be a group of my Ummah, victorious upon truth and not
harmed by those who oppose them until the Hour is established.” Maybe this is
enough for you.
Questioner: May Allāh reward you with good, shaykh.
Shaykh Al-Albāny: The same to you, by Allāh's will. Let me hear your voice
soon.

The Arabic version of the Audio

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 TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY ABU ILYAS ABDULALI JOURARI AL-MAGHREBI

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