Wa alaikum salaam
You see bro, them are wise words, but the thing is, in this day and age, thats not going to work.
In the past when you had a visible enemy and you knew for certain that was the enemy and you knew for certain that was the person who was out to destroy you. It would not work. In todays world it is the only means that will work.
The kaffir these days are humiliating the muslim lands.
Except the problem is the true enemies are not in, nor even near the Muslim lands.
We have our brothers being tortured, sisters being raped, we cannot simply go to the kaffir, and show them our strength in Emaan. What would that do?
If we simply showed our strength in Imaan, it would have no effect no the kaffir.
In the nations where Islam is growing and the Kuffar are accepting Islam, are the nations in which the Ummah is showing the strongest Imaan and the least physical fighting. In the areas where the fiercest fighting is taking place, there are very few people reverting. People do not revert from fear of dieing or by being impressed by shows of strength. They revert by being shown the truth. having spent more that just a few years as a combat souldiers, I have no fear of a man with guns or bombs. They can only make me angry and give me a self justification to shot them. the enemy I fear is the one who is capable of controlling peoples minds, and is not seen.
It is now cowardice to use weapons. In many ways that shows bravery.
Bravery is a very subjective term. to a young man it is the taking up of arms and facing an enemy face to face and showing no fear in battle. But, after one matures and learns that the true enemy can not be reached with weapons and that it is necessary to walk into their den and face them unarmed and stand up and prove the truth rather then destroy, the hiding behind weapons becomes cowardly.
You see in the time of rasulallah (SAW), as well as showing their Emaan, they showed their physical strength too, that is how Islam spread so widely. If it wasnt for Jihaad fi sabeelillah, most likely, we would not be sitting here as muslims.
True and that was the most powerful and most effective means of fighting at that time. today their are more and stronger enemies. The proper weapons need to be used and physical weapons are no longer effective. to effectively fight one must first identify the enemy. The enemy is not always obvious. The war with weapons has become mechanical and is no longer true war, is is mechanical killing out of perceived hatred. It does not conquer, it does not protect and it does not change attitudes. It is simply self destruction under the pretext of fighting.
So you are right to say, we should use our faith, but that does not mean, we shouldnt fight, does it?
It is even more important for us to fight. But, in order to fight effectively we need to learn what is the most effective means. we need to learn who the actual enemy is and we need to learn how to change the enemy instead of wasting our time and efforts on fighting false battles that benefits only the enemy.
If we dont fight, we will be humiliated as the hadeeth states.
true, but if we fight in the wrong manner we humiliate ourselves more than any enemy ever could. we need to forget the old ways of fighting and learn how to use wisdom and truth as our weapons. we can kill an enemy with weapons, but we can not destroy them. That method in todays world, works against us and becomes a means of self destruction and causes us to believe we are our own protectore, we forget that Allah(swt) is the one to turn to for protection.
