What is the Islamic ruling on supplying the US army with food and water, without fighting along with them, believing the claim of the US Administration that it aims at establishing democracy in Iraq?

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear questioner, we would like to thank you for the great confidence you place in us, and we earnestly implore Allah to help us serve the cause of Islam.

In the first place, we would like to stress that Islam is the most peaceful religion in the world. It calls upon its followers to uphold peace and security. It forbids killing and destroying mankind and animals.

Also, we would like to emphasize that offering any help to the American-led invaders who launch aggressive war against the Iraqi people is considered a major sin and an act of befriending the enemies of Allah, which is forbidden. This is explicitly prohibited in the Glorious Qur’an: “O ye who believe! Choose not My enemy and your enemy for friends. Do ye give them friendship when they disbelieve in that truth which hath come unto you, driving out the Messenger and you because ye believe in Allah, your Lord? If ye have come forth to strive in My way and seeking My good pleasure, (show them not friendship). Do ye show friendship unto them in secret, when I am best Aware of what ye hide and what ye proclaim? And whosoever doeth it among you, be verily hath strayed from the right way.� (Al-Mumtahanah: 1)

Responding to your question, Dr. Sano Koutoub Moustapha, Professor of Jurisprudence and Its Principles at the International Islamic University, Malaysia, adds:

“Islam is the most peaceful religion in the world. It calls upon its followers to uphold peace and security. It forbids killing and destroying mankind and animals. Therefore, it condemns all acts leading to killing or fighting among its followers or against innocent people.

On this ground, killing a Muslim or a non-Muslim for the sake of democracy or anything is considered a grave sin that all parties involved in will be punished for on the Day of Judgment. Muslims and non-Muslims should all do their best to prevent any action and ambition that leads to war, be it among Muslims or between Muslims and non-Muslims.

Those who assist directly or indirectly in killing a fellow Muslim or any human being will be equally punished on the Day of Judgment. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) clearly stated that whoever contributed to the killing of a Muslim, even by half word, he or she will be severely punished in the Hereafter. What about those who provide all kinds of support to those people willing to kill Muslims or non-Muslims without any justification before Allah? May Allah protect all blood in Iraq and elsewhere.�

Moreover, Dr. `Abdul-Fatah Idrees, Professor of Comparative Fiqh at Al-Azhar and United Arab Emirates Universities, states the following:

“Allah Almighty prohibited cooperation in committing sins or oppressing others. Allah Almighty says: “But help ye one another unto righteousness and pious duty. Help not one another unto sin and transgression.� (Al-Ma’idah: 2)

The aim behind the tactics of the invading alliance is not to establish democracy in Iraq as they claim, but to annihilate and exterminate the Iraqi people who have committed no fault but being Muslims, testifying that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. The vicious schemes of these invaders are to misappropriate the wealth of the Muslim World. This becomes clear when we notice their cooperation to fight against Muslims, disregarding any outcomes of the war they launch.

Therefore, those who help the invaders in their war against Muslims are staining their hands with the blood of Muslim brothers, that is to say, they help in killing their brothers by the armies of the enemy that terrorize the secure people and disturb their normal course of life.

Allah Almighty has forbidden mutual help in the course of sins and transgression. So whoever cooperates with those aggressive transgressors is, in fact, committing a grave sin. Not only that, but he who lends them any form of support in the aggression is befriending them, and whoever befriends a kafir (disbeliever) at the expense of his Muslim brothers is similar to the kafir he befriends.�

source : islamonline.net