105 The physical jihad is also Fard Kifayah, but when the enemies occupy a Muslim land it becomes a Fard Ayn upon all of its mature and above residents to defend their home | Scholars of Usul al-Fiqh disagree on who is entitled to perform the Fard al-Kifayah |
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Everyone should work according to his capacity: those who can teach it to children, those who can study how to build it, those who can write, those who can fund the process, those who can support it politically, those who can only pray and wish… etc |
Gazali, al-Mustasfa min Ilm al-Usul, Vol | " Ibn al-Hajib, Mukhtasar Muntaha al-Sool, p |
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40-118, Ibn al-Laham, al-Qawa'id wa al-Fawa'id, pp | " Ibn al-Hajib, Mukhtasar Muntaha al-Sool, p |
" Qur'an 3:104 So only a group of them is enough and entitled.
6Ibn al-Laham, al-Qawa'id wa al-Fawa'id, p | Or a good swimmer in a case of saving a drowning person when there is no one able of doing it but him |
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42 Duty on all of the Ummah: This group of scholars used a number of arguments to support their argument | 143 Initiation of Work: Some scholars Zarqashi, Nawawi, Suyuti, ibn Al-Hajib, Ibn al-Najar, Ibn al-Laham argued if a man or a group of people initiated four kinds of Fard Kifayah, it becomes a Fard Ayn on them to complete it: the fighting in Jihad to not to defeat the army , the prayer of Janazah as a respect to the dead Muslim , al-Hajj voluntarily and learning and teaching what you have learnt |
So, the former is an act that will benefit the individual personally even religiously but the latter helps in organising the community and facilitating the collective performance of the prayer.
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