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Regarding
suicide bombings
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Question:
Are suicide operations (bombings) permissible? And are there
(any) conditions for the acceptability of these actions?
Response:
Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) says:
{And
do not kill yourselves. Surely, Allaah is Most Merciful to
you. And whoever commits that through aggression and injustice,
We shall cast him into the Fire, and that is easy for Allaah},
[Soorah
an-Nisaa, Aayaat
29-30]
So,
it is not permissible for a person to kill himself, rather,
he must protect himself in the full meaning of the word. And
this does not prevent him from killing in the Path of Allaah
and making jihaad
in the Path of Allaah, and if he is open to being killed and
martyred (therein) then that is good.
However,
if he opens himself to being killed (in other than the Path
of Allaah) then this is not permissible.
In
the time of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam), one of the brave (fighters) was fighting
alongside the Messenger (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) and then he was killed. So the (other)
companions said:
((None
of us fought as courageously as so-and-so))
So,
the Messenger (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((He
is in the Fire (of Hell)))
...and
that was after he was injured and before he died. And this
(matter) was difficult for the companions (to grasp). So one
of the men followed the injured man and saw him place a sword
on the ground – raising its blade and then impaled himself
upon the blade, entering his chest and dying (as a result).
So
this man (returned) and said:
((The
Messenger (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) has spoken the truth))
...
and they knew the Messenger never spoke from his whims and
desires.
(So)
why did he enter the Fire having done this action? Because
he killed himself and was not patient (at what had befallen
him); so it is not permissible for a man to kill himself.
Shaykh
Ibn Fowzaan
al-Amaliyaat al-Istish.haadiyah – suwaruhaa wa ahkaamuhaa
– Page 85
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