Fi sabeelilAllah
The necessity of fighting and why peace can only be attained when fighting requires purpose, ideology, theological backing and strategy with techniques.
Fighting represents an individual’s struggle to attain power and mastery, this is the process of struggling against various aspects of the self that tries to weaken and overpower the individual particularly from the aspects of certain behaviours like anxiety created worries, doubts, fears and uncertainties. Fighting enables one to overcome these aspects by attaining mastery over them, fighting against desires that try to bring a person to weakness, immorality and misguidance. Also fighting to attain power is the process of the form the physical body being disciplined with the formless the mind being clear and like an empty vessel that enables it to perceive the hidden aspects of a person that can only be discovered through regular repetitive practice of various forms and exercises that are all connected with the breath the place where the cosmic energy or the life force is able to enlighten not just the body but the individuals spiritual discovery of their own heart. When the heart is awakened to the goodness of the soul and the battle is continuous against the self the heart and the soul conquer and master the person rather than the evil of base desires that cause social and personal problems through the beautification of evil behavior.
Fighting for the truth means aligning yourself with righteous people and good persons. Truthfulness is a necessary component of when a person fights by attaining company of those that are righteous in conduct, speech and behavior that brings goodness of life into a person’s daily struggle. Fighting for the truth is what a person has to align themselves with, this means speaking a straight truthful words otherwise remaining silent. For it is because of speech that the damage is most done to people and one of the leading causes for the downfall of humans. And a person who fights against the truth has aligned themselves with wrongdoers and people of ill repute and bad character.
Fighting animals or people means a struggle to attain power, just like wrestling against a powerful creature such as a human or some animal when a person undertakes the process of trying to wrestle the opponent to beat them in combat the strength of an individual along with strategy, timing, technique and skills of holds and grappling these combat styles are used in defeating the opponent which through the process a person attains power. Even in defeat there is power attained through acknowledging the opponents victory as an individual who has deep respect for their fighting abilities, and through practice and preparation a person can come back to attain the upper hand in the next duel that is inevitable while there is life, there is fighting that is necessary to attain power and mastery and a deep respect for the fighting arts. Fighting against a particular person in which the winner may actually be the defeated such an example is fighting against an oppressor that is subjugating people to harm and misfortune through their ill treatment and throughout the battle even if death is written and your time is up, victory lies not only in defeating the oppressor but also in martyrdom for fighting against the evil of the injustice of oppression.
However fighting can also mean troubles, problems and misfortune this is when a person has caused the means of the fighting to be used for other than a righteous virtuous purpose, as fighting that creates troubles, problems is misfortune for the fighter and the one he fights. Sometimes a person can only be understood after you involve them in a particular struggle against an opponent, that they can only be known in a specific matter or a particular intention that fighting a person unravels the truth of the nature of an individual.
Fighting can bring a lot of jealousy amongst those that don’t have the capability of the strength of a great fighter, when a person fights and battles different opponents they will come across certain capable honed strong fighters that creates jealousy and envy within their hearts and also admiration and deep respect depending on the nature of the heart of the person that is fighting against the strength of a very strong opponent.
Fighting can instill fear amongst the opposing persons, when a person struggles in the battle against the opponents, it may cause a certain fear that defeat is inevitable yet the fight even in matters related to styles that can be used to create fear in the individual or perhaps knowing that even in defeat the fear is something that instills the ability to still fight and respond with an appropriate response that sometime only a good fight is the only answer for some responses, and fear is something that is part of the process that can create the individual to attain discipline over their behaviour. Fighting talk is best dealt with a suitable response like let’s have a good old fight as those that speak ill and rotten speech are asking for a beating and it is because of loose ill manners and speech that leads to fights usually from those that are evil in nature and problematic that results in them being fought against that continues till they are thoroughly beaten.
Best of all fighting is necessary when its time to fight the oppressors particularly in war, this is a mans job as the women and children the majority require protection from the injustice and evil of oppressors who are trying to attribute their evil way of life upon another nation such as those that fight against the cause of Islam. Fighting in the struggle and path of Allah is one of the most virtuous and noble and best acts that is highly recommended and after observing prayer on time and good kind treatment to one’s parents is the righteous struggle fighting in the path of Allah.