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.