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with them) were living models and exemplars of patience, fortitude, lofty ambition, courage,
and humility along with might, power, and justice.
Regarding that, I was surprised by a specious argument that is widespread among a number
of the groups of the Islamic movement; even though its source was the leaders of the
Brethren movement, its bothersome message has now been transmitted in more than one
direction.
This specious argument says: "We are working now and we do not need
difficulties and a jihad. Rather, we are preparing for the generation of jihad who will be our
sons and our grandsons..."
We submit this question to the originator of this specious argument and those who follow it,
fleeing from carrying out the sharia commands:
Where are the living human exemplars whom those sons will take as models? You are
models for your sons; if you sit, they will sit. They will practice jihad in the form of "gradual
defensive battle" 13 and they will abandon the fight just as their fathers did.
(5) Education by Momentous Events
The stances which individuals take are among the greatest influences for shaping their
consciousness. When your day and your life are both a chain made up of significant stances
you take in the face of the fitna of the vicissitudes of fate—the fitna of children, money,
wife, and the enemy—and when all of these stances connect in their particulars with huge
events which dazzle the mind and put you in constant conflict with your soul, you become
teach.
13 "Gradual defensive battle" is a technical term which the leaders of the institutions movement