THERE IS NO LIFE WITOUT JIHAD<br />AND<br />THERE IS NO JIHAD WITHOUT HIJRAH<br /><br />Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) said,<br /><br />{O YOU WHO HAVE BELIEVED, RESPOND TO ALLAH AND TO THE MESSENGER WHEN HE CALLS YOU TO THAT WHICH GIVES YOU LIFE}<br />[Surah Al Anfāl 8:24]<br /><br />Urwah Ibn Az Zubayr (رحيم الله) said,<br /><br />“{THAT WHICH GIVES YOU LIFE} MEANS WAR, BY WHICH ALLAH HONORED YOU AFTER HUMILIATION, STRENGTHENED YOU AFTER WEAKNESS, AND DEFENDED YOU FROM YOUR ENEMY AFTER THEIR SUBJUGATION OF YOU”<br />[Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr]<br /><br />Jihād not only grants life on the larger scale of the Ummah, it also grants a fuller life on the scale of the individual.<br /><br />Ibnul-Qayyim (رحيم الله) said,<br /><br />“If there were nothing in archery except that it repelled worry and sorrow from the heart, then that would be a sufficient virtue. Moreover, the people of archery have experienced this.<br /><br />Also, At- Tabarānī reported from the hadīth of Hishām Ibn ‘Urwah from his father, from ‘Ā’ishah that Allah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said,<br /><br />“WHENEVER ONE’S WORRY SEIZES HIM, HE ONLY NEEDS TO WEAR HIS BOW AND USE IT TO THEREBY EXPEL HIS WORRY”<br />[The isnād contains a very weak narrator named Muhammad az-Zubaydī, as mentioned in “Majma’ az-Zawā’id”]<br /><br /><br />This is similar to the statement of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم),<br /><br />“PERFORM JIHĀD FĪ SABĪLILLĀH, FOR IT IS A GATE OF THE GATES OF JANNAH BY WHICH ALLAH REPELS WORRY AND SORROW FROM THE SOULS”<br />[Sahīh – reported by Imām Ahmad and al-Hākim on the authority of ‘Ubādah Ibn as-Sāmit]<br /><br />This is also derived from the statement of Allah (سبحانه وتعالى),<br /><br />{FIGHT THEM; ALLAH WILL PUNISH THEM BY YOUR HANDS AND WILL DISGRACE THEM AND GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER THEM AND SATISFY THE BREASTS OF A BELIEVING PEOPLE AND REMOVE THE FURY IN THE BELIEVERS’ HEARTS. AND ALLAH TURNS IN FORGIVENESS TO WHOM HE WILLS; AND ALLAH IS KNOWING AND WISE}<br />[Surah At Tawbah 9:14-15]”<br />[Al-Furūsiyyah]