# Is the world today dar al-harb, the land of war?

*Hizb ut-Tahrir's teaching that the whole world is dar al-harb*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/2/
- Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (9:31–12:04)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=571s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/

**Topics:** Extremism, crime and justice; Caliphate

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth rejects the teaching that the whole world is dar al-harb, saying it puts people one step from treating their neighbours as enemy combatants.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that believing the world is the land of war puts people only a step away from declaring the people around them enemy combatants.

**Evidence, his words at 10:08:** “if we are living in that all harm then we are only a step away from declaring the people here as enemy combatants” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=608s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says this is why he is against such da'wah: it draws attention-craving people to groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir [?]. He says these groups teach that all non-Muslims are impure and were created to be subdued and ruled by Muslims, and that the whole world today, Muslims included, lives in kufr and is dar al-harb. He says that if we are living in the land of war we are only a step away from declaring the people around us enemy combatants, and that their idea of Islam is about power and forcing jizya on others, which he promises to address in a later session. He calls it a virus breeding hatred, and says they deny hating non-Muslims while claiming God wants them to rule.

## Sources and names cited

- Hizb ut-Tahrir [?]
- Dar al-Harb
- Dar al-Islam
- jizya
- Abdullah al-Andalusi

## Transcript (machine tier, 9:31–12:04)

[8:52] because he's white so he becomes the face and many deluded Muslims obviously we have that white Savior inferiority complex so we think oh yes all subhanAllah mashallah this white brother this this brother Vasco de Gama he's going to recapture the Caliphate for us I mean yes Salaam and this is what really this HT in this this is just a way this is why I'm against our seriously this is why I'm

[9:30] against Dawa because this is what it causes it brings these kind of attention craving nut cases to Islam who is then coming they become deluded with these groups like Hezbollah hurried and these people who by do you know what these people believe by the way let me tell you what they believe they believe that all co-firing this on this earth are not only nudges are impure and have been created to be subdued and ruled over by muslims they believe that the whole world today is living in Kufa in this

[10:08] belief including muslims they believe that the whole world is split into Darul help and aural islam that the land of war and today the entire world is dar al-harb land of war this is what they teach and believe now tell me if that's if we are living in that all harm then we are only a step away from declaring the people here as enemy combatants we're only a step away because if we're living in the land of war then hey these cough are these impure who ought to be subdued

[10:47] cough are really are just enemy combatants that's a step away and they and then what's the next step then this is what they teach in the name of islam islam is all about powering and having a sort of bond and forcing islam and then they can pay us jizya and this cheesier thing is messed up and mixed up and I'll in Charlotte in the future maybe next week do a whole session on Jie Jie to clarify that this is what they're teaching ask them this is a virus man it is breathing hatred why do you hate the kuffar why they go we don't hate the ku far but they have

[11:27] to say that now you see so if you ask these kind of our Vasco de Gama these things they all do we don't hate the kuffar oh but we just design but largest wants us to rule them a br who's us you Portuguese you wanna rule the 1.8 billion Muslims of the world and they can say no no no I just want to set up the Caliphate power-hungry nothing but you know Oh what is it what we wanna really what do you want to do when you

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 4WUwTJQAmx0/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/2/

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