Tackling ISIS by reclaiming Traditional Islam- Mufti Abu Layth

the issue of Isis is they and the Olimar do you need to treat it I do feel that in order to tackle it we need to reclaim traditional Islam I feel that there is what we don't want to do is just become so apologetically defensive which will actually help the cause of these groups so for example the topic of jihad and things like this jihad as always that the topic the concept of jihad has existed within the Quran within the Sun nights it's been the majority of the Ummah traditionally I've always accepted

these notions now there has been some debate usually most of the Ummah historically the scholarship from what they've interpreted from the Quran and Sunnah is that jihad was served and utilized by the you know by the Muslim empires offensively as well where it was strategic to do so historically they did do these type of things now to deny this you see to deny this concept to deny these things sometimes it fuels it's an easy way out like somebody sometimes you get some people saying oh there's no

such thing as jihad in Islam it's all you had enough it's just struggling against itself or some people say oh no the only time jihad has ever existed was when you were an absolute dire threat and a form of ultimate last self-defense but the problem with this quick exit means that it actually feeds the the frenzy of these fanatics like Isis all these other people because they then say oh look see these people are getting it all wrong they don't even know the Deen they don't even know the sources so the true way is to take to tackle the bull by the horns

you take true ownership you're appropriated that yes these things have existed yes they are within Islam but however they have a context to them they have Commission's to them they have it's not just you know something that is just used at the whims and desires of anybody but it's like any type of you know you'd say any type of civilization has had its military aspect so I mean to really tackle to take these questions head-on is the way to also deal with threats like Isis because to just ignore to just play washdown or play down these

type of concepts it feeds into their that our their type of what they're preaching because they will preach to people that most scholars you come across most people you come across will be sellouts they will be people that will deny things there will be people that say this doesn't even exist but yet look here it isn't this hadith here it is in this verse of the Quran here it is so if you just speak that rhetoric you won't even be listened to by people who are maybe contem or who find the appeal of radical groups like Isis appealing so I think you know may Allah give a snowflake to really reclaim traditional

Islam I mean and to you know to really help and aid the spread of the true harmonious message of this thing