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

God should give us power and we take control and justice spreads, how tender the people of
faith will be at that time and they will say to the people: "Go, for you are free."
In addition to this, one should note that violence and coarseness must not transgress the
limits of the Sharia and that one must pay heed to the benefit and harm (that results from) it,
which the Sharia considers to be, in the rules of jihad, as one of the most important subjects
for the guidance of creation, if not the most important subject. Pertaining to this, whenever
there are reasonable people among the enemy who recognize the truth which every rational
mind must assent to, we can lighten the severity of the violence against them. As for the
haughty enemy and his troops and his supporters, that is another matter.
Among the things connected with the subject of violence is "the policy of paying the price":
No harm comes to the Umma or to us without (the enemy) paying a price. Thus, in this
stage of “the power of vexation and exhaustion,” following the strategy of "paying the price"
spreads hopelessness in the hearts of the enemy. Any preventative [lit. “aborting”] act of any
kind against the groups of vexation should be met with a reaction which makes the enemy
completely "pay the price" for his crime so that he will be deterred from doing its like again
and think one thousand times before undertaking an attack against us, such that he stops
even at the mere thought of committing a crime and his actions are limited to defending
himself.
"Paying the price" must be accomplished even if it is after a long period, even if it is years.
The enemy should be reminded of that in a statement justifying the operation of "paying the
price," which will make a deep impression on the leaders of the enemy that there is no