Said the Shaykh in his commentary on Riyâdus-Sâlihîn
over Hadith 31
Translation by Aboo Aamir Is'haaq bn AbdirRaheem
'As
for what some people do today viz. committing suicide (in warfare) whereby one
of them will wrap some explosives to his body then go to the midst of the Kuffâr
then detonate the explosives. The act is taking one's life, we seek refuge in Allâh.
Whoever takes his own life will abide forever in the Hellfire as it has come in
a hadith of the Prophet – SallaLlahu alahye wa sallam.
The person has only killed himself and this is not in service to Islam; he just
killed himself and killed some other ten, or one hundred or two hundred (Kuffâr);
he has brought no good to Islam with that…it often occurs that the harm thereof
is greater that the (presumed) benefit. [An example of that] is what goes on
between the Jews and the Palestinians; whenever a person dies among the Jews
due to a suicide bomb attack (from the Muslims), or he kills six or seven, the Jews
will in turn kill about sixty (Muslims) or more. With that, there is no benefit
for Islam; it is even unhelpful to the cause of those who blow themselves up.
This is why we say suicide bombing is indeed an act of taking one's life
unjustly, it is a means of entering the Hell – we seek refuge in Allâh. Whoever
carries out the act is never a martyr. A person who does this relying on some
textual misinterpretation thinking that it is permissible, we hope he will be
saved from the sin thereof, but there is no martyrdom for him because he did
not take the correct path to it. Whoever strives (with knowledge) and makes a
mistake will have one reward.'
