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Someone
who dies fighting the spread of drugs
Question:
There is no doubt that the Office of Drug Enforcement struggles
to stop the means by which the poison of drugs enters this
pure country. Despite continued attempts by drug traffickers,
by the help of Allaah and the efforts of the drug-prevention
officers, the attempts of the drug traffickers fail at every
turn. My question to you, O honoured Shaykh, is: If an officer
is killed in a raid on a group of traffickers, is he a martyr?
And what about those who help those officers to find the hideouts
of traffickers, what is their reward?
Response:
Without a doubt, fighting intoxicant and drug traffic is one
of the greatest forms of jihaad
in the way of Allaah. Individuals in the society helping in
its prevention is one of the most important obligations because
it is for the benefit of the society and because its spread
and proliferation is deterimental, and if his intention was
good, he died a martyr. And whosoever helps to stop these
traffickers and informs the authorities about them then he
will be rewarded for that as one who struggles in the way
of the truth, and in the cause of benefit for the Muslims,
and protecting their society from harm.
So
we ask Allaah to guide those drug dealers and to protect them
from the evil of their own selves as well as from the plots
of Shaytaan.
We also ask Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) to help the agencies that fight the spread
of drugs and to make them victorious over the party of Shaytaan.
And He is the Best to ask.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa Islaamiyyah - Volume 4, Page 263
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