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US war on Iran | MEGATHREAD #2 (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷— NEW | Sayyid Sistani has announced "Sufficiency Jihad" (Jihad al-Kifa’i) in Iran to encourage public participation in supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sufficiency Jihad includes any collective defensive action or protection of society and religion.

Kifai obligation or duty (Wojoob Kifai) is the duty which, if performed by a sufficient number of Muslims to achieve the purpose (such as protecting the country or repelling aggression or in this case participation in Pro-Iran gatherings), absolves the rest of the responsibility on other people.

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🇮🇷 — Here's the Question and Answer:

Given the current sensitive circumstances and the society’s dire need for maximum presence and public solidarity in the field; and in order to prevent the sedition of rioters seeking to create despair and frustration among the people, weaken religious beliefs, promote moral decay and corruption, and engage in killing, looting, sabotage of public property, and chaos; as well as the enemies' conspiracies to partition Iran and overthrow the Islamic system—I feel a religious duty (Taklif Shar'i) regarding the necessity of being present in mosques, streets, and public places to declare a stance, support the aspirations of the Islamic Revolution, and thwart the enemies.

Question 1: Is the aforementioned presence a religious obligation for me and those like me?

Answer: Under the premise of the question, presence and participation are a collective obligation (Wajib Kifa’i) to the extent required.

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🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷 — Just to clarify | The fatwa mentioned in the answer of Sayyed Sistani is clear. It mentions the collective obligation to prevent discord in Iran against the enemy.

This means it is forbidden to sow division and weaken the Republic's position vis-à-vis America.

That's what the term jihad we mentioned means in itself. It's struggling in that way to prevent discord.

⚜️@TheSimurgh313

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷 — Just to clarify | The fatwa mentioned in the answer of Sayyed Sistani is clear. It mentions the collective obligation to prevent discord in Iran against the enemy.

This means it is forbidden to sow division and weaken the Republic's position vis-à-vis America.

That's what the term jihad we mentioned means in itself. It's struggling in that way to prevent discord.

⚜️@TheSimurgh313

Context I Can Provide

Basically, every Shia Muslim is required to pick a Marja to follow for religious affairs, I myself use to pick Sistani as my Marja and still use his discretion on religious interactions in my daily life, like for example determine what foods are Halal or Haraam. The point of the Marja system is essentially for Shia Muslims to follow who they view as "the most learned" scholar on theological matters.

For those unaware, Sayyid Sistani is probably the most widely followed Marja (scholar) in the Shia faith. He's the disciple of Ayotallah Khoe before him, who was suppressed by Sadaam. Sistani could honestly be credited in large part to the eradication of Daesh in Iraq after he issued a Fatwa calling for people to fight against Deash. That fatwa managed to rally a large portion of the Iraqi public, shiite or not even, into organizing against Deash.

The statement is much softer than others calling for Jihad against the US and Israel, however that's to be expected as Sistani actively argues for the separation of politics and religion (in contrast to the Iranian position of Wilyat Al-Faqi, which Khomeini argued for.)

To put it short, this is an extremely massive statement.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the info and extra context on it. Really interesting!