Ibn 'Umar himself says: "I have never been so much grieved at heart on anything as on account of this verse as to why I did not fight the rebels as enjoined by Allah | In this case whether they have a legal ground or do not have any, the government in any case is justified to wage war against them and it is obligatory to side with it |
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transgressors and whether it is obligatory to fight them or not | Allah's Command unplies that the rebel group should submit to what isright according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of AIIah, and should give up the attitude and conduct that amounts to aggression according to this criterion of the truth |
and they are brought before the courts of the government after the rebellion has been put down, they will not be enforced.
7Imam Malik's view as cited in Al-Mudawwanah is: "If the rebels come out to fight against a just ruler, they should be forcibly opposed | A large group of the jurists of Islam which includes some major scholars, declares those rising in revolt as "rebels only in case they rise in revolt against a just ruler |
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Somali - Abduh : Hadday Laba qolo oo mu'miniinta ah dagaallamaan heshiisiiya dhexdooda hadday midu ku xadgudubto tan kale la dirira tan xadgudubtay intay amarka Eebe uga noqoto xaqa aqoonsato Hadday u noqotana si caddaalad ah u wanaajiya dhexdooda una garsoora Eebe wuxuu jecelahay kuwa garsooree• No explanation of this law is found in the Sof the Holy Prophet except one Hadith which we shall take up below | " Some of his soldiers made the demand that the opponents and their |
2 The rebels against the government may also be of several kinds: Those who may have risen only to create chaos and confusion, and may have no legal ground for their revolt.
26In other words, Allah dces not approve that the other Muslims should just sit and watch the clash when two groups of their own community have fallen to mutual fighting | " After citing these different views, Qadi Abu Bakr says: "We will not fight except on the side of the just ruler, whom the truth-loving people have made their head of their own free will |
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Their weapons and conveyances, if seized during the war, will be used- against them, but will not be made the possession of the victors and distributed as the spoils; and if there is no more fear of a rebellion from them, their these things also will be returned to them | Ibn Humam writes in Fath al-Qadir commentary of Hedaya : "In the parlance of the jurists the rebel is he who gives up obedience of regard rising in revolt against an unjust ruler as lawful and present Hadrat Husain's revolt as an argument |
e Those who may revolt against an unjust government, which might have come to power by coercion and whose leaders might be wicked and the rebels might have risen to establish justice and enforce articles of the Divine Law, and they might appear to be righteous.
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