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goals—so that the missionary call will be secure within it in order to guide humanity, which
Satan has led astray—as well as not ruining property and destroying souls without reason.
Therefore, achieving their goals requires using the universal methods [asbab kawniyya] at
their disposal. Their adoption of battle as a universal method which they supplement with
other universal methods—which are in the sharia, of course—achieves all of their goals.
They avoid targeting children and women as long as there is no greater sharia benefit in
targeting them—such as deterring the enemy from doing the same, according to the school
of thought of some of the people of knowledge. They do not target the enemy on account
of his race or his nationality. Those among the enemy who repent and makes amends, take,
by their action, a place in this world and the next that is greater than those who already
believed, as long as their action is better (than the those who already believed).
Meanwhile, others pay no attention to these principles unless they need other goals or goals
resembling the goals of the people of faith.
Likewise, nothing prevents others from completely uniting against a common enemy with
those who completely differ with them in their belief, whereas some of the goals of the
people of faith are purifying the ideology and the dogma from mixture and corruption.
Thus, they do not follow this law in this way. This final point has degrees and is detailed.
Likewise, the victory of the ideology and the recompense in the hereafter is put before
material interests in the eyes of believers. Therefore, they continue in the battle, even
though they have been defeated, out of a desire to attain martyrdom or to not yield to the