Reasons for studying this concise treatise:

The motives that led me to examine this work and ascertain the correct view it contains are several, which I summarize below:

1 – There is great confusion among many of the youth of the Ummah concerning the rulings of jihad, to the extent that they have brought into it matters that do not belong—such as killing those who are neither combatants nor actively resisting—and they have failed to weigh the balance of benefit and harm. In doing so they have contravened the Book, the Sunnah, and the practice of the majority of this nation, thereby constricting the Muslims. To Allah we belong and to Him we return.

2 – To clarify the balanced, middle-way methodology of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah in all issues, foremost among them the matters of killing and fighting disbelievers, and to show that this moderate approach to warfare is the very path followed by Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in establishing his call and his striving, upon which this blessed state—the Saudi State, may Allah preserve it through Islam—was founded. Indeed, in this concise treatise lies the most telling rebuttal of those who