Qāʿidah fī Qitāl al-KuffārIbn Taimiya

Illuminating Sayings

• Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “Disbelievers are fought only when they take up arms, as the majority of scholars affirm and as the Book and the Sunnah indicate—this is expounded elsewhere.” Al-Nubuwwāt, p. 140.

• Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “Retributive killing has been legislated in response to armed hostility, not for the mere fact of disbelief. For that reason women, children, the chronically ill, the blind, and monks who do not fight are not to be killed; rather, we fight only those who fight us.” Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimmā, 1/110.

• He also said: “He never coerced anyone into the religion; he fought only those who fought him. Whoever made peace with him or entered into a truce, he neither fought nor compelled to embrace his faith, in obedience to the command of his Lord … Whoever studies the Prophet’s life will realize that he never forced anyone into his religion. He fought only those who fought him, and as for anyone who maintained his treaty, the Prophet did not fight him so long as he upheld it.” Hidāyat al-Ḥayārā, 1/12.

كلمات مضيئة * قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية رحمه الله تعالى: (الكفار إنما يقاتلون بشرط الحراب، كما ذهب اليه جمهور العلماء، وكما دل عليه الكتاب والسنة، كما هو مبسوط في موضعه) "النبوات" ص (١٤٠). * * * * قال ابن القيم رحمه الله تعالى: (ولأن القتل إنما وجب في مقابلة الحراب لا في مقابلة الكفر، ولذلك لا يقتل النساء، ولا الصبيان، ولا الزمنى، والعميان، ولا الرهبان الذين لا يقاتلون؛ بل نقاتل من حاربنا) "أحكام أهل الذمة" (١/ ١١٠). * * * * وقال أيضًا: (ولم يكره أحدًا قط على الدين، وإنما كان يقاتل من يحاربه ويقاتله، وأما من سالمه وهادنه فلم يقاتله ولم يكرهه على الدخول في دينه امتثالًا لأمر ربه سبحانه ... ومن تأمل سيرة النبي ﷺ تبين له أنه لم يكره أحدًا على دينه قط، وأنه إنما قاتل من قاتله، وأما من هادنه فلم يقاتله ما دام مقيمًا على هدنته لم ينقض عهده) "هداية الحيارى" (١/ ١٢).

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