Military struggle has a set of conditions that must be observed and fulfilled and since one of the conditions is that in the absence of an Emir it is not compulsory, while we witness the reality of the Muslims today that they do not have a Muslim Emir ruling over them; the question is:

What should the Muslims do in case their lands are attacked by an occupying aggressor, as is the case today in Palestine? Would the Muslims let their lands be violated and their blood be shed?

Duty of Sufficiency

The answer to this is that the Shari’ah rule related to the Muslims who live in these lands stipulates that they are obliged to repel the enemy in case he attacks their lands and they must collectively go forth to fight the aggressor and expel him from their lands. If the sufficiency to repel the enemy is not achieved, the obligation to repel shifts to the Muslims living nearest to these lands and so on, until sufficiency is achieved.

If sufficiency is achieved and the Muslims succeed in repelling the enemy aggressor from their lands, the rest of the Muslims would be absolved of blame. However, if the enemy succeeded in defeating the Muslims and in dominating and occupying their lands, the obligation of repelling the enemy shifts to the Muslims nearest to them, because the attacked people would be under coercion and subjugated, unable to repel the enemy; thus, it is obligatory upon the Muslims to work towards recapturing these lands from the occupation irrespective of the sacrifices they may have to make.

Objective is Full Liberation

However, the recapture of these lands is achieved through the restoration of a state built on the Islamic Aqeedah, that will prepare the armies and mobilise the Muslims to liberate the occupied lands. The liberation of the occupied lands is not through the forming of groups that undertake some military actions against the occupying forces. This type of resistance does not achieve the objective of liberating the occupied lands.

This is so because the issue is not merely to fight, but to fight for an objective, namely to liberate the lands from the occupation and the dominion of the occupiers. If the Muslims contented themselves with the fighting undertaken by mere groups, they would be letting their brethren down and squandering the faculties of everyone; this may also lead to consolidating the occupying forces in the Muslims’ lands instead of vanquishing them.

There is not a shade of doubt that sufficiency from a material perspective exists within the Muslim lands surrounding Gaza specifically and Palestine generally. The combined active personnel in the Egyptian and Jordanian army is 410,500, with a combined 440,000 reserves. Compare this to 169,500 occupying personnel in occupied Palestine alongside 465,000 reserves. Besides, we have seen the occupying army struggle to fight groups of militia who are not militarily trained, on a single front. How then would they withstand a military collision with Jordan and Egypt with fully trained military personnel who carry the fervour of fighting in the path of Allah and desire for martyrdom?

Remove Regimes and Replace With a Sincere Islamic Leadership

It is clear that what is required for the liberation of Palestine is the removal of the guard dog regimes who use their armies for no more than the slaughter of their own people and the oppression of the masses in the region. The guard dog regimes preserve the existence of the occupation and recent events should lift the veil from any sincere Muslims eyes to see that the solution to the bloodshed in Palestine is the removal of the deep state apparatus in those lands, the establishment of a state upon the Islamic Aqeedah, a confrontation of the occupying forces and a closure of the American bases that arm the occupation alongside the closure of the American embassies that act as a tool of modern day colonialism. The American embassies in these lands practically run the domestic affairs of the aforementioned countries with the guard dog regimes acting as mere figure heads to execute U.S. foreign policy directives.

Collective Mobilisation to Change the Situation

A call has been made to the heads of the armies in Egypt and Jordan by the Muslims in those lands which has not yet been heeded and the bloodshed has continued unhindered in Gaza. The inhabitants of those lands and Muslims the world over should collectivise into a popular movement to change the political situation in the lands of Islam which would usher in a new era that would see the mobilisation of the material forces to liberate the first qibla and struggle against hostile states for the international situation to break the yoke of colonialism, alongside the hegemony of hostile powers over the international situation.

Our people have been buried under rubble from air raids, children orphaned, women widowed and parents have buried body parts of their infants who have been barbarically slaughtered by the blood thirsty occupier. The need and necessity of the time is mobilisation under a sincere Islamic leadership and our question to the Ummah is:

If not now, when? If you will not move, then who?