Muslims do not like wats, with their inevitable consequences of destruction and loss, any more than anyone else. Like everyone else we prefer well-being and stability. Peace is eminently desirable so long as people's rights are protected and their faith respected. However, when peace can only be secured at the cost of the surrender of basic rights and the acceptance of domination by unbelief, then it is not an option in spite of people's basic reluctance to fight: "Fighting is prescribed for you even though it is hateful to you. It may be that you hate a thing when it is good for you and it may be that you love a thing when it is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know" (2:216)
The fighting which has dominated the world in recent times, fighting for national or tribal domination or to gain the wealth of weaker nations by colonising their lands, is certainly not fighting for the sake of Allah. It is fighting for the sake of Shaytan. Fighting for the sake of Allah means fighting so that the worship of Allah may be established and maintained and the worship of Shaytan overthrown.
Book: Muhammad al-Ghazali, Aisha Bewley translated, Journey thought the Qur'an: Themes and Messages of the Holy Qur'an(Norwich: Redwood Books, 1998), pp.15-16
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