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spend all their income in their own enjoyment and amusementand in making people their slaves, we are commanded torescue these innocent people from their talons and guide themto happiness. This order, this ’ibâda, can be done by helpingthe State, the army of jihâd. If it is done without the State’spermission, it is not jihâd but fitna and anarchy. Allâhu ta’âlâhelps the working people. He dislikes and does not help thosewho sit idly.It was declared in a hadîth quoted in al-Bukhârî’s andMuslim’s Sahîhain and explained in Barîqa and Al-hadîqa thatthose who would be called Muslims would part into seventythreegroups. These groups of different beliefs cannot unite withone another. First it is necessary to unify them in belief. Thosewho say, “Let’s unify the various groups of Muslims,” should besincere in that they should be unified on the truth, for only whatthe Ahl as-Sunna scholars have taught is true among all ofthem. It was declared in the Hadîth that the remaining seventytwogroups would go to Hell on account of their heretical beliefs.The unification of Muslims on the truth requires for all of them tohold the same belief, the Ahl as-Sunna i’tiqâd. Foraccomplishing this, we should read the books, magazines andpapers writing about what the Ahl as-Sunna scholars havereported and provide them for our acquintances. We shouldstrive hard to spread this knowledge. We should check ourchildren every evening when they are back from school, and ifthe teacher sabotages their moral values and tries to underminetheir religious beliefs, we should report him to the Ministry ofEducation and transfer them to a school with conscientious,honourable, learned teachers who are men of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Weshould prevent our children from being dragged on to endlessperdition and we should be quite vigilent lest they should fallinto the traps of the enemies of Islam. We should send ourchildren to the teachers of the Qur’ân before they reach theschool-age. We should strive to illuminate their fresh brains andpure souls with the light of the Qur’ân al-kerîm. This is the onlyway of raising our children as Muslims. A country can remainMuslim only if the children are brought up as Muslims. Thesewritings constitute the ideological jihâd, and this jihâd is fard likethe jihâd through warfare.51 - In his book World’s Peace and Islam, Sayyid Qutbwrote:- 204 -