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The
Council of Senior Scholars on the Riyadh Suicide Bombings
All Praise is for Allaah Alone, may the Salaah and Salaam
be upon the last Prophet and his family and Companions. To
proceed:
The
Council of Senior Scholars held a special sitting in Riyadh,
Wednesday the 13th of Rabee’ Al-Awwal, 1424, about the
explosions that occurred in the city of Riyadh on Monday,
the 11th of Rabee’ Al-Awwal, 1424, regarding what took
place of the killing, destruction, terrorizing, and damage
inflicted upon people, (both) Muslims and other than them.
And
it is well known that the Sharee'ah
of Islaam came to protect the five necessary things and prohibit
transgression against them, and they are:
1)
the religion,
2) life,
3) wealth,
4) honour, and
5) intellect.
And
the Muslims do not differ over the prohibition of transgression
against persons who have a right to be protected. The people
who have a right to be protected, according to the Religion
of Islaam, are:
Muslims
- It is never permissible to transgress against any Muslim
person or to kill one without right. Whoever does this has
committed a major sin, one of the huge kabaa’ir! And
Allaah the Most High has said:
{And
whoever kills a Muslim intentionally, then his recompense
is Jahannam, he will reside there for an extensive amount
of time, and Allaah’s Anger and Curses are upon him,
and He has prepared a great torment for him...}
...And
He Subhaanahu
has said:
{And
due to that we prescribed for the Children of Israa’eel
that whoever kills a person, not as a recompense for his killing
of another, or to spread corruption on earth, then it is as
if he has killed all of mankind...} the verse
Mujaahid
said, may Allaah have Mercy on him, ((by
his sin (meaning: “His sin is as heavy as the one who
has actually killed all of mankind), this shows the severity
of killing a person with no due (legal) right))
And
the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((The
blood of a Muslim that bears witness that none has the right
to be worshipped (in truth) except Allaah and that I am the
Messenger of Allaah is not permissible (to spill), except
in three cases: 1) recompense for killing someone else, 2)
stoning the adulterer, 3) the one who leaves his Deen, abandoning
the jamaa’ah)) [Agreed upon (Bukhaaree
and Muslim)]
This is the version of Bukhaaree.
And
the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((I
have been ordered to fight the people until they testify that
there is no deity worthy of worship other than Allaah and
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah, establish the prayer,
and pay zakaat, and if they do this, then their blood and
money shall be protected from me, except by an Islaamic right,
and their account will be with Allaah)) [Agreed
upon, from the hadeeth
of Ibn ‘Umar, may Allaah be pleased with him]
And
in the Sunan of An-Nasaa’ee, on the authority of ‘Abdullaah
ibn ‘Amr, (radhi-yallaahu
'anhu), the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((The
cessation of the dunyaa (world) is less significant to Allaah
than the killing of a single Muslim man (i.e. person)))
And
one day, Ibn ‘Umar looked to the House, or the Ka'bah,
and said: ((How great you are,
and how great is your sanctity, and the believer is even greater
in sanctity to Allaah than you)) (Meaning
that the haram is safe and protected from fighting and bloodshed,
and the believer has even more right to be safe and protected
from bloodshed)
All
of these texts and others show the serious reality of the
sanctity of a Muslim’s blood, and the prohibition of
killing a Muslim for any reason other than what has been mentioned
in the Sharee'ah’s
texts, so it is not permissible to transgress against any
Muslim without right...
Usaamah
bin Zaid reported, “Allaah’s Messenger sent us
towards Al-Huruqa, and in the morning we attacked them and
defeated them. I and an Ansari man followed a man from among
them and when we overwhelmed him, he said, “La ilaha
illal-Lah.” On hearing that, the Ansari man stopped,
but I killed him by stabbing him with my spear. When we returned,
the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) came to know about that and he said:
((O
Usaamah! Did you kill him after he had said “La ilaha
ilal-Lah?” I said, “But he said so only to save
himself.” He kept on repeating that so often that I
wished I had not embraced Islam before that day))
[Agreed upon, and this is the wording of Bukhaaree.]
This
shows, with the greatest of indications, the sanctity of life.
This was a mushrik
man, and they were making jihaad,
on the plains of battle (fighting), and when they overwhelmed
him, and gained power over him, he spoke with (the utterance
of) Tawheed, and Usaamah bin Zaid killed him, holding that
he only said it in order to prevent his own death, and the
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) did not accept his excuse, and his
interpretation (of the situation). And this is from the greatest
of (affairs) that indicates the sanctity of the blood of the
Muslims and the mighty crime of the one who violates it.
Just
like the blood of the Muslims is prohibited, then their wealth
is also protected by the saying of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam):
((Your
blood and your properties are sacred to one another like the
sanctity of this day of yours, in this (sacred) town (Mecca)
of yours, in this month of yours)) Reported
by Muslim,
and this speech was said by the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) in the khutbah
of the Day of 'Arafah,
and both Bukhaaree
and Muslim
reported its like regarding the Day of An-Nahr.
From
what has preceded, the prohibition of killing the soul that
has been protected without any due right becomes clear.
Also
from the lives that are protected in Islaam, are the lives
of
1)
those (non-Muslims) who are given agreements (guarantees),
2) the dhimmees, and
3) those who seek protection (from the Muslims).
From
‘Abdullah bin Amr bin al-Aaas (radhi-yallaahu
'anhumaa) from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) who said:
((Whoever
killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not
smell the smell of Paradise though its smell is perceived
from a distance of forty years)) [Related
by al-Bukhaaree]
And
to whomever the wali ul-amr allows entry (into the land) with
the covenant and promise of ensuring his safety and security,
then his life and wealth are protected, it is not permissible
to harm him, and whoever kills him, then he is as the Prophet
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((...he
will not smell the smell of Paradise...))
And this is a very severe warning for the one who turns upon
those who have been given agreements.
And
it is known that the custody (protection) of the people of
Islaam is a single entity (i.e. a collective whole, equal),
the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((The
blood of the Believers is equal (one to another), and the
least of them strives for their protection...))
And
when Umm Haani (radhi-yallaahu
'anhaa) granted sanctuary (i.e. protection, on account
of a benefit arising from that) to a man from the Mushrikoon
in the year of the conquest, and when 'Alee bin Abee Taalib
(radhi-yallaahu
'anhu) desired to kill him, she went to the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam), and informed him (of that) so he (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((We have granted sanctuary
to the one you have granted sanctuary O Umm Haani))
reported by Bukhaaree
and Muslim.
The
intent here is that the one who entered (the land) with an
agreement of personal security, or who had a pledge from the
one in authority, due to a maslahah (benefit) that he (the
one in authority) saw (in giving this person that pledge),
then it is not permissible to turn upon him and nor to transgress
upon him or his wealth.
When
all of this has become clear, then what occurred of the bombing
incidents in the city of Riyadh is a prohibited matter that
the religion of Islaam does not affirm, and its unlawfulness
has come from numerous angles:
1)
That this action is a transgression upon the sanctity of the
land of the Muslims, and frightening of those who are secure
and safe therein
2) That it contains the killing of lives that the Islaamic
Sharee'ah
protects
3) That it is causing corruption upon the earth
4) That it contains destruction of wealth and belongings that
are protected
And
the gathering of the Council of Senior Scholars explains this
matter in order to warn the Muslims from falling into the
destroying prohibited matters, and in order to warn them from
the plots of Shaytaan,
for he never ceases to work upon the servant until he enters
him into the things that destroy, either with extremism, exaggeration
in the religion or with disaffection towards it, and fighting
against it, and refuge is with Allaah. And Shaytaan
does not care by which of the two he can triumph over the
servant, because both of these paths, that of extremism and
that of disaffection are from the paths of Shaytaan
that make a person fall under the wrath and punishment of
ar-Rahmaan.
And
what was done by those who performed these actions, of killing
themselves by blowing themselves up, then that enters into
the generality of the saying of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam):
((Whoever
killed himself in the world with anything, then Allaah will
punish him by that same thing on the Day of Judgement)),
reported by Abu Awaanah in his Mustakhraj from the hadeeth
of Thaabit bin ad-Dahak, (radhi-yallaahu
'anhu).
The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((He
who commits suicide by stabbing himself with an iron (blade)
shall that have that iron (blade) in his hand, and he will
thrust it into his body in the fire of Hell, remaining therein
forever (in that state), and whoever took poison and killed
himself, then he will drink it in the Fire of Hell, remaining
therein forever (in that state), and whoever threw himself
off a mountain and killed himself, then he will be falling
in the Fire of Hell, remaining therein for ever (in that state)))
And this is also in Bukhaaree
with something similar.
Then
let everyone know that the enemies, from every angle, have
designated today the Islamic Ummah for domination. They (the
enemies) rejoice with all the ways that justify this domination
for them, over the people of Islaam, and (which justify) humiliating
them, and taking advantage of their resources and riches.
Hence, whoever aided them in their goal, and opened up avenues
amongst the Muslims and in the Muslim lands for them, then
he has aided in (bringing about) harm upon the Muslims and
in dominating their lands. This is from the greatest of oppression.
It
is obligatory (upon all) to be concerned with the Sharee'ah
knowledge that is founded upon the Book
and the Sunnah
in accordance with the understanding of the (Pious) Predecessors
of the Ummah, and this occurs in the schools, universities
and the mosques, and the media of information. Just like it
is also obligatory to be concerned with commanding the good
and prohibiting the evil, and giving mutual advice upon the
truth. This is because the need, rather the necessity, calls
to this now more than any time that has passed before. And
it is upon the Muslim youth to have a good opinion of their
Scholars and to take from them so that they come to know that
what the enemies of the religion are striving towards is revilement
between the Ummah’s
youth and (revilement) of the Scholars and (revilement) between
them and the Rulers, so that their strength weakens, and therefore,
taking control over them (as a result) becomes easier. Hence,
it is obligatory to be aware of this.
May
Allaah protect everyone from the plot of the enemies, and
it is upon all the Muslims to have fear of Allaah in the secret
and in the open, and to make a sincere, truthful repentance
from all sins. For no calamity has descended except due to
a sin, and no (calamity) has been raised except due to repentance.
We ask Allaah that He rectifies the condition of the Muslims,
and distances the lands of the Muslims from every evil and
dislikeable thing, and prayers and peace be upon our Prophet
Muhammad, his family and his companions.
The
Council of Senior Scholars
The
Head of the gathering, ‘Abdul-Azeez
bin Abdullaah bin Muhammad Aal ash-Shaykh
Saalih bin Muhammad al-Lahaydaan
Abdullaah
bin Sulaymaan al-Munee’
Abdullaah
bin Abdur-Rahmaan al-Ghudayaan
Dr.
Saalih bin Saalih al-Fawzaan
Hasan bin Ja’far al-’Atamee
Muhammad bin Abdullaah as-Subayyil
Dr. Abdullaah bin Muhammad bin Ibraaheem Aal ash-Shaykh
Muhammad bin Sulaymaan al-Badr
Dr. Abdullaah bin Muhsin al-Turkee
Muhammad bin Zaid as-Sulaymaan
Dr. Bakr bin Abdullaah Abu Zaid (was not present due to illness)
Dr. Abdul-Wahhaab bin Ibraaheem as-Sulaymaan (was not present)
Dr. Saalih bin Abdullaah al-Humayd
Dr. Ahmad bin Sayr al-Mubaarakee
Dr. Abdullaah bin ‘Alee ar-Rukbaan
Dr. Abdullaah bin Muhammad al-Mutlaq
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Translated by: Abul-'Abbaas and Abu 'Iyaad
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