abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass

The term "jihad": How can the Umma fight each other for the sake of the Taghut and call
this "jihad"? The people march behind this noble, great word, but they die for the sake of
someone other than God.
Regrettably, the error—whether intentionally or unintentionally—in rendering many terms
in our current situation and in defining the meanings denoted by the words is the cause of
great corruption and unending fitnas, either because of exaggerating or eviscerating them.
Examples are infinite: "warlike/civilized/jahiliyya/Taghut/gradual/benefit and harm. Even
the term "fitna" causes a fitna when it is not defined! What is the fitna which a man must
avoid? What is the fitna in whose turmoil a man must stand and if he dies he dies a martyr?
What is that in which there is a fitna by avoiding the fitna?
Let us pause here briefly at a term which influences all of our actions for the sake of
changing the reality of the Umma and extracting it from the dark tunnel in which it lies. It is
the term "benefit and harm". We will choose a single subject to demonstrate the distortion
which happened in applying that term to the real life. This subject is "the benefit and harm
of rebelling against the apostate ruler". It is a good, practical example for similar subjects of
jihad related to the fighting of the original infidels who have assailed our homes in recent
centuries. They were dealt with in a corrupted manner due to the misunderstanding of the
term “benefit and harm” and not defining it properly.
The people of distortion begin with the correct premise that the commands of the sharia
came to bring about benefits and maximize them and to prevent harmful things and