:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
(Peace be upon you)
My honest and studied opinion on this subject is that
Daesh is that the organization is a murderous evil, nefarious, ignorant and extremist death cult that has made perversion of Islam which it purports to follow an acrobatic art and has even taken Salafist understanding of various things to such heinous conclusions that even Salafi scholars have issued fatwas against
Daesh. Now, as to who has joined this organization,
perhaps in the very beginning of the Syrian conflict when the news started airing on television channels and the subject was being covered on Assad regime's human rights and war crimes against the Syrian people, some Muslims thought to travel to join the conflict as a means of alleviating the suffering of the Syrian civilians. However, shortly, subsequently,
Daesh itself started publicizing about its evil deeds whether through twitter, magazines, justpasteit articles and video releases that it became clear that people who are in the organization have lost both their moral compass and humanity and are the modern-day
Khawaraij. Please know Islamic scholars are united on
Daesh being a fake Caliphate and an evil organization, and they only differed as to whether the people who were part of the organization are to be deemed deviants,
Khawarij, or non-Muslims. From what I understand at least, most Islamic scholars deem them
Khawarij. Therefore, when scholars have united on this matter, it is not up to any layperson to adopt a different understanding. Also, I have talked on another site people who said they were part of
Daesh, and it has been clear that they have no interest in having a moral compass because their hatred blinds them to their own faults and
ghuluw (extremism); most importantly, I have read
Daesh publications and articles from their own point of view, not non-Muslim or Western sources, and it is clear that they are only interested in destruction and death and not any constructive solutions to the maladies that face the Muslim
ummah.
Therefore, my humble and sincere advice to you is to save yourself the bother of speculating on them and instead leave their entire case to Allah. For sure, Allah's punishment is going to rain down on them, even the ones who you think might have had not-so bad intentions because Allah has said in
Surah Baqarah (Chapter Cow) (Qur'an 2:195), "
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction." And those that have thrown themselves in destruction must suffer even if they did have not-so bad intentions and wanted to fight for the Syrian people because by throwing their lot in with ill-intentioned people, they too became part of the disaster which has inflicted the
ummah and so must suffer the fate that unjust like Pharaoh and his army drowned in the Red Sea.
Take care, instead, brother of yourself, because I'd read in another thread that you were depressed; please do not think of matters as this that are depressing and of no benefit to you. Instead, turn to Allah and place your trust in Him.
:wa: (And peace be upon you)
