Mufti Menk – ONE of the MAJOR Sins

He says,

The day of the war, to run away

without the instruction of the commander is a

major sin.

In fact, there is a verse of the

Quran that tells that to us.

At a time of war,

when you are a warrior and you are

going forth to fight the enemy,

to run away, or to turn back from

that,

And without the instruction of the commander, you

would actually be considered a person who engaged

in a major sin.

What happens to a believer when he is

in a war zone, and he has to

fight on to protect

the Ummah or his people or whoever else

it may be? One of 2 good things

happened

to him.

Either

there is victory on the ground, so we

are victorious. Or

he is considered a martyr because he lost

his life and he will get Jannah. Was

there a loss? In actual fact, for a

believer, there was no loss. The idea here

is to strengthen the warriors, to tell them,

you do not go back.

Make sure you follow the instructions of the

commander. You know the battle of Uhud. Some

of the people did not follow the instruction

of the prophet

and they came down from a certain hillock

where they were supposed to be guarding. And

that caused a lot of destruction

for the Muslims.

May Allah

grant us goodness.