Jihad ni wajibu wa lazima kabisa, na haizuiliwi wala haitegemei jambo lolote. Aya inayohusu jambo hilo ni ya jumla na isiyo na masharti:

Jihad is an absolute obligation, and it is not restricted or conditional upon anything. The ayah concerning it is absolute:

Uwepo wa Khalifah hauingilii wajibu wa jihadi; bali jihadi ni wajibu iwe kuna Khalifah au hakuna. Hata hivyo, pale panapokuwepo Khalifah ambaye Ukhalifa wake umefungwa kihalali na ambaye hajauacha kwa sababu yoyote, jambo la jihadi linakabidhiwa kwa Khalifah na ijtihadi yake, mradi awe Khalifah, hata kama ni mwovu, mradi tu abaki katika makao makuu ya Ukhalifa. Raia wana wajibu wa kutii maoni yake katika hili, hata kama angemwamuru yeyote kati yao apigane pamoja na Amir mwovu, kwa sababu ya yale aliyoyapokea Abu Dawud kwa mnyororo wake wa wapokezi kutoka kwa Abu Hurairah (ra): Mtume wa Allah ﷺ alisema:

The presence of the Khalifah has no interference upon the obligation of jihad; rather jihad is obligatory whether there is a Khalifah or not. However, when there is a Khalifah whose Khilafah has been contracted legally and who has not left it for any reason, the matter of jihad is delegated to the Khalifah and his ijtihad as long as he is the Khalifah even if he was wicked as long as he remains in the headquarters of the Khilafah. The citizens are obliged to obey his opinion over this even if he were to command any one of them to fight together with a wicked Amir due to what Abu Dawud narrated with his chain from Abu Hurairah (ra): The Messenger of Allah (saw):

Ni wajibu kwa Khalifah wa Waislamu kutumia juhudi zake wakati wote, kwa kwenda yeye mwenyewe au kutuma majeshi ya Kiislamu au misafara, kisha awe na yakini juu ya ahadi nzuri ya Allah (SWT) ya kumsaidia, katika kauli Yake:

It is obliged upon the Muslims’ Khalifah to expend his effort at every time to go out personally or send Muslim armies or expeditions, then be confident in the beautiful promise of Allah (swt) to support him in Allah’s statement:

Anapaswa kuanza kupanga jeshi katika mipaka ya nchi ili liweze kutosha kukabiliana na wale wanaokabiliana nao miongoni mwa makafiri. Khalifah haruhusiwi kuacha mpaka wowote bila kundi la Waislamu wanaotosha kupigana na adui; bali ni wajibu kwamba mipaka yote ijazwe na jeshi la Kiislamu wakati wote. Ni lazima aanzishe kila kitu kitakachowalinda Waislamu na ardhi ya Waislamu dhidi ya madhara ya adui, kama ngome, mitaro au chochote kingine, na ni lazima aandae kila aina ya nguvu awezavyo ili kulinda Dola ya Kiislamu na ardhi ya Kiislamu dhidi ya makafiri na njama zao.

He is obliged to begin organizing the army in the country’s extremities so as to be sufficient against those who they are facing from the disbelievers. It is not allowed for the Khalifah to leave any frontier empty of a group of Muslims who are sufficient to fight the enemy; rather it is obligatory that all frontiers be packed with the Islamic army at all times. It is obliged that he establishes all that will defend the Muslims and the Muslims’ land from the enemy’s harm such as fortresses, trenches or anything, and it is obliged that he prepares what he can of all types of strength to protect the Islamic State and Islamic land from the disbelievers and their conspiracies.

Ni wajibu kwa Khalifa kusimamia moja kwa moja uongozi wa vitendo wa jeshi katika sera zake za kijeshi na utawala wake. Anapomweka juu yake kiongozi mwenye ujuzi wa kijeshi, anamweka tu kama mwakilishi wake, kwa kuwa Khalifa si tu kamanda wa jeshi bali ni kiongozi wake wa vitendo. Mtume ﷺ alisimamia uongozi wa jeshi mwenyewe, na alipotuma vikosi alifanya hivyo kwa nafasi yake kama kiongozi wa jeshi ﷺ. Umar (ra) alikuwa akituma taarifa za kina kwa viongozi wake huko Persia na Sham, jambo linalodhihirisha kwamba Khalifa ndiye kiongozi wa jeshi kwa vitendo. Utii kwake ni wajibu kwa kila mtu aliye jeshini, awe askari au kiongozi, kama ilivyo wajibu kwa kila raia mmoja mmoja. Muslim amepokea kutoka kwa mnyororo wa wapokezi wa Abu Hurairah (ra) kwamba Mtume ﷺ alisema:

It is obliged that the Khalifah personally supervises the practical leadership of the army in its military policy and administration. When he places upon it a leader with military expertise he only places him as his representative, since the Khalifah is not only Allah commander of the army but rather its practical leader. The Messenger (saw) supervised the army leadership himself, and when he would send expeditions would do so in his capacity as an army leader. Umar (ra) would send detailed information to his leaders in Persia and Sham which indicates that the Khalifah is the army’s leader practically. His obedience is obligatory upon every individual in the army whether he is a soldier or leader, just the same as it is obligatory upon every individual citizen. Muslim has narrated from a chain of Abu Hurairah (ra) that the Prophet (saw) said:

Maana ya Imamu kuwa ngao ni kwamba yeye ni ngao kwa sababu anazuia adui asiwadhuru Waislamu. Hata hivyo, Khalifa hapaswi kutoa amri ya lazima isiyo na athari isipokuwa ndani ya uwezo wa watu; akijua kwamba hawataweza kutekeleza, hawalazimishi nayo kwa ukali. Wala hapaswi kuwapeleka Waislamu kwenye kujiangamiza, wala kuwaamuru jambo ambalo anaogopa kusalitiwa nao.

The meaning of the Imam being a shield is (that he) is a shield because he prevents the enemy from harming Muslims. However the Khalifah should not command a decisive command that has no effect except within the people’s capability; if he knows that they will not be able to perform he does not command them with it strictly. Nor should he carry the Muslims to suicide, nor command them with something for which he fears betrayal from them.

Hii ni pale kuna Khalifah; ikiwa Khalifah hayupo, jihadi haichelewi kwa namna yoyote ile kwa kuwa manufaa yake hupotea kwa kuchelewa kwake. Ikiwa Khalifah atatuma jeshi na kuwaweka juu yao Amiri ambaye anauawa au anakufa, basi ni wajibu kwa jeshi kumteua mmoja wao, kama walivyofanya Maswahaba wa Nabii ﷺ katika jeshi la Mu'tah, na Mtume ﷺ akalikubali jambo hilo. Ikiwa jeshi lina Amiri, hakuna mtu yeyote katika jeshi anayeweza kuondoka kambini kwa sababu yoyote isipokuwa kwa idhini ya Amiri. Na akiamuru kufanya jambo au kuacha jambo, utiifu wake ni wajibu, na ni haramu kupingana naye kutokana na kauli ya Allah:

This is when there is a Khalifah; if the Khalifah is absent, jihad is not delayed in any way whatsoever since its benefit disappears with its delay. If the Khalifah sends an army and commands over them an Amir who is killed or dies, then it is upon the army to appoint one of them as did the Prophet’s Sahabah in the army of Mu’tah upon which the Messenger (saw) consented. If the army has an Amir, none of the army can leave the camp for any purpose except with the Amir’s permission. And if he commands the doing of something or the leaving of something, his obedience is obligatory and it is forbidden to contradict him due to Allah’s statement:

Kinachotumika hapa kwa Mtume kinatumika pia kwa Khalifah, na Amir hupimwa kwa kulinganishwa na Khalifah, na pia kwa sababu ya kauli yake ﷺ:

What applies here to the Prophet applies to the Khalifah, and the Amir is measured by analogy upon the Khalifah and (also) due to his (saw) statement: