Their duty is to ensure peace and security through defence and maintenance of the city or ‘madinah’.
“WARS and different kinds of fighting have always occurred in the world since God created it,” wrote Muslim historian and thinker Ibn Khaldun in his Muqaddimah. In his view, war is rooted in the self’s desire for vengeance against perceived injustice.
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