Defensive Holy War, Purposes, Importance and Principles

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

استادیار مجتمع آموزش عالی شهید محلاتی

Abstract

Nowadays Muslim’s realm has been attacked seriously by enemies, while pagant’s sovereignty over Muslims has been originally disagreed with the holy Quran and they have been divinely commanded to defend themselves against transgressors . Now regarding what runs in Islam world, it is  Muslim’s  divine duty  to be acquainted with Islimic teachings about defense and the matter is more emphasized for the youngs. This paper has paid attention to the importance, the divinity and the goals of defense; meanwhile the states and conditions of defendants are pointed out too.
   Fighting against transgressors is an obvious, reasonable and natural action that the holy verses of Quran and many authoritative  traditions have known it to be a religiously necessary duty. Muslim jurisprudents, specially those of Imamiyeh, have come into an agreement that when being transgressed by enemy, they are all divinely commanded to defend themselves using all their abilities in every possible way. And this defense is not conditioned by any thing at all.

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