its true sources of power; how, then, can it ever hope to prevail over its enemies?!

They also spread the notion that Islam did not advance through preaching but only by warfare and by coercing people into the faith. This drove some zealous Muslims to declare that Islam’s wars were nothing but purely defensive campaigns and to cite the verse, “There is no compulsion in religion.” Thus a novel understanding came to dominate discussion of the Muslim wars—wars whose aim is to disseminate the faith, convey it to all peoples, and demolish the walls that prevent the truth from reaching the ears of the heedless, those subjugated nations that yearn to know it.

Human society may indeed be compelled to fight: to champion the rights of the oppressed and lift the yoke of tyrants from them, so that they may behold truth and guidance and freely embrace the religion in which their hearts find rest and faith.

After this clarification, fair-minded, rational people will see no need to apologize for the pillar of jihad in Allah’s path—fighting the rebellious tyrants, the oppressive despots who force others to do their bidding.

The issue of jihad in Allah’s path through armed struggle, undertaken to secure the message of daʿwah, protect it, and establish justice, is a divinely ordained right whose objective is among the most exalted and noble of ends.

An astonishing irony is that many of those who denounce Islam over this great obligation themselves practice the ugliest forms of religious coercion and the vilest kinds of bigotry against Muslims. They employ every means of violence to compel Muslims to abandon their religion, their beliefs, and their worldview, even waging genocidal wars against them whenever they find an opportunity.

Islam has many enemies, yet its fiercest adversary is the “triangle” whose sides meet in communism, Zionism—embodied in Freemasonry—and the missionaries. May Allah nullify their plots and exalt His word. Āmīn. End of quotation.