Fatwa: Spending Zakah Money on Jihad
Spending Zakah Money on JihadSheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the prominent Muslim scholar, states the following:
The meaning of Jihad in our present time particularly refers to striving to liberate Muslim lands from the grip of the disbelievers who usurped them and imposed on them their own laws in lieu of the Divine Law. Those disbelievers may be Jews, Christians or both or even pagans, who follow no particular religion at all. Disbelievers are all alike. Capitalists, Communists, Westerners, Easterners, People of the Book and pagans are by no means different from one other. Muslims have never been more severely afflicted than they are nowadays. Many of their lands have been captured by the disbelievers, on top of which is Palestine that has fallen victim to corrupt Jews. Similarly, Kashmir has been dominated by pagan Hindus. Chechnya and other Islamic states have fallen in the grip of pagan tyrannical communism. Retrieving these lands, freeing them from the clutches of atheists and their twisted laws is the joint responsibility of all Muslims. Declaring Jihad to save our land is an Islamic obligation. If war is waged anywhere to achieve this goal, namely to free the occupied lands of the laws and the tyranny of disbelievers, it is undoubtedly a case of Jihad for the sake of Allah. It thus needs to be financed from the money of Zakah, the amount of which is to be decided based on the total sum of the charity, the requirements of Jihad as well as the degree of the need of other potential recipients of charity. This is all to be decided by reliable scholars, if they are to be found.
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Some interesting articles on Islam and archeology:
Byzantine mosaic in Gaza left behind:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#112677299088947754
After the world has taken in stride the fact that Arabs cannot live in peace as long as Jews (dead or alive) are anywhere near, how long do you think the Byzantine remnants are going to stay around?
Saudi Arabia destroying Mecca's Islamic past:
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/18123
reposting the link, since it didn't seem to come out right:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com
/2005_09_01_paleojudaica_archive.html
#112677299088947754
"Those disbelievers may be Jews, Christians or both ..."
Now there's someone who really knows what he is talking about!
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