What is the viewpoint of Islam toward self-
defense? Is it a right? Are there conditions on
that right? Does the Qur'an speak to the issue
of self-defense?
Praise be to Allaah.
Protecting oneself and one’s honour, mind,
wealth and religion is a well-established basic
principle in Islam. These are the five essentials
which are well known to Muslims. A person
has to defend himself; it is not permissible for
him to consume that which will harm him, and
it is not permissible for him to allow anyone to
harm him. If a person or a vicious animal etc
attacks him, he has to defend himself, or his
family or his property, and if he is killed he is
counted as a shaheed (martyr), and the killer
will be in Hell.
If the harm that will result from this
aggression is little and he gives up defending
himself for the sake of Allaah, then
undoubtedly Allaah will compensate him for
that, so long as this does not cause any
increase in the wrongdoing against him or
anyone else.

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr.

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