forgot about the obligations in religion, you know, so Prayer wasn't being observed, alcohol was widely drunk, you know, inter, you know, relationship between the genders were taking place but the people who were being called Takfiris are now left their families and have gone to support them in the struggles of jihad in Bosnia. Look at the double standards here. Who is the real Takfiri and who isn’t the real Takfiri?” 205. Tenth, the Claimant then turns to outline the writings of Sheikh bin Baz in relation to the jihad in Palestinian. The Claimant explains that “if people are against the jihad now in Palestine” they should understand that Sheikh bin Baz wrote a whole fatwa (legal opinion) when Hamas was formed in 1993. The Claimant cites Sheikh bin Baz saying that the Palestinian cause is " first and foremost an Islamic Cause” and “from beginning to end an Islamic issue”, i.e. not an Arab cause or issue as portrayed by the enemies of Islam. He then quotes the following passages from Sheikh bin Baz: “By solidarity among Muslims to save it and to have that unity amongst the Muslims to save Palestine… and by fighting the Jews in an Islamic Jihad until the Territory goes back to its proper people… and to make jihad against the Jews [Jews], in an Islamic Jihad, Islamic jihad until the Territory goes back to its proper people… until the earth, i.e. the land of Palestine returns to its people i.e. the Muslims of Palestine.” 206. Eleventh, during questions from the audience, the Claimant confirms that the religious meaning of jihad is “physically fighting in the path of Allah” and goes on to emphasise that those who make physical jihad (i.e. fight) have a higher status and rewards than those who do not fight and merely remain sitting and have an inner struggle: “[Audience]: “Quick question, can you just say again the religious meaning of jihad? [Shakeel Begg]: Fighting in the path of Allah the enemies of Islam. [Audience]: Right. Yes. [Shakeel Begg]: “Question was what’s the religious definition of jihad? So, we said the linguistic definition that, you know, it’s a struggle, okay, from Arabic Verb: Jahada (which means "to strive"), from that linguistic definition. But it has a religious definition, a religious definition, which refers to physically fighting in the path of Allah, the Glorified. Where do we get these in terms of the rewards of the Mujahid (Fighter). If it was just a struggle and we die sitting in London in UK, and we die, you know, can we say that when our blood spills that the first drop of that blood, all the sins are forgiven? That we get, you know, intercede for 70 members of our family, those encouragers towards jihad, that there will be no punishment of the grave, that they will be in the house of green birds in Paradise that, you know, all our sins will be forgiven? No. So it’s not the struggle, the inner struggle that we go through every day that it’s referring to, it’s referring to 47