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We must understand how to live with all classes <strong>of</strong> people. What do we do if <strong>the</strong>y ask to<br />

have Dhat Anwat? [See page 59.] What do we do if <strong>the</strong>y commit a heretical act or crime; if<br />

<strong>the</strong>y drink wine, for example? When do we punish <strong>the</strong>m and to what extent and when do<br />

we reconcile with <strong>the</strong>m, and to what extent? Shaykh `Abd Allah `Azzam (may God have<br />

mercy on him) says: "The battle <strong>which</strong> has beset <strong>the</strong> sons <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Islamic movement forces<br />

<strong>the</strong>m to live with all classes <strong>of</strong> people. ‘Of <strong>the</strong>m some wrong <strong>the</strong>mselves, some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m are<br />

lukewarm, and some are outstrippers in goodworks by <strong>the</strong> leave <strong>of</strong> God; that is <strong>the</strong> great<br />

bounty’ (Qur'an 35:32). Forcing <strong>the</strong>m to live with all classes <strong>of</strong> people—those who are<br />

wasteful and those who are negligent, those who are erring, those who stumble, and those<br />

who are truthful and committed—gives <strong>the</strong>m experience, knowledge, and worldly knowhow<br />

based on pr<strong>of</strong>ound efforts to uplift <strong>the</strong> levels (<strong>of</strong> people) and attempts to create<br />

harmony among dissimilar levels who are living in a single base, confronting a single enemy<br />

for ten continuous years in a single life beneath <strong>the</strong> shade <strong>of</strong> a single ro<strong>of</strong>, ga<strong>the</strong>ring at a<br />

single table, moving with one movement as if <strong>the</strong>y were single body. In contrast, <strong>the</strong> Islamic<br />

missionaries in many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> countries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Islamic world live in elite, clean societies where<br />

<strong>the</strong>y do not have to interact with <strong>most</strong> classes <strong>of</strong> believing people except in ga<strong>the</strong>rings,<br />

conferences, sermons, and meetings." In this manner, our leaders <strong>will</strong> gain <strong>the</strong>ir experience.<br />

Shaykh `Abd Allah `Azzam (may God have mercy on him) says: "Each one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m (by<br />

<strong>which</strong> he, may God have mercy on him, means <strong>the</strong> leaders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> jihad) must find a solution<br />

to <strong>the</strong> social problems and to <strong>the</strong> issues <strong>of</strong> aridity <strong>which</strong> bite that region with its teeth. He<br />

must find a solution to <strong>the</strong> issues <strong>of</strong> wounds <strong>which</strong> do not stop hemorrhaging and to <strong>the</strong><br />

problems <strong>of</strong> orphans and widows. He must look for a means <strong>of</strong> creating a way out for <strong>the</strong><br />

hundreds <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> children who do not know how to read. Surely, he must open<br />

some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> schools, even if <strong>the</strong>y are in mountain caves or beneath <strong>the</strong> trees. Each one <strong>of</strong>

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