Allah (swt) has honoured the Muslims by making them the conveyors of the Message of Islam to the whole world and He (pbuh) has determined for them the method of carrying its Message by means of D’awa and Jihad. He  made Jihad compulsory upon them and thus military training is an obligation.

Therefore, every male Muslim, who reaches the age of fifteen, should begin military training in readiness for Jihad. As for the military conscription, this is in fact a collective duty.

Evidence of this is reflected in Allah’s (swt) saying;

“And fight them on until there is no persecution and Deen (submission in its entirety) becomes to Allah” [TMQ 8:39]

and the Hadith of the Prophet of Allah (pbuh);

“Do perform Jihad against the Mushrikeen with your wealth, hands and tongues.” [Narrated by Abu Dawood on the authority of Anas] In order to be carried out according to the way determined by Shari’ah, fighting with the aim of beating the enemy and conquering the land, necessitates military training. Therefore military training is compulsory like Jihad, in accordance with the Shar’ai principle that states; “That which is necessary to accomplish a duty is itself a duty”. The soliciting of fighting falls within the order “and fight them” which came in general form. When Allah (swt) says;

“And fight them”.

This is an order to fight and an order to perform any task that makes the fighting possible. Besides this, Allah (swt) says,

“Make ready for them all that (of armed force) you can.” [TMQ 8:60]

Training and high military expertise form part of the preparation of fighting power, for they have to be readily available in order to make the fighting possible. Thus training forms part of the force that must be obtained such as military hardware and military missions etc. As for the military conscription, this necessitates the assignment of people to permanently be part of the armed forces, i.e. to have Mujahideen performing effective Jihad and whatever the duty of Jihad entails; this is compulsory. This is because the performance of Jihad is a continuous duty whether the enemy attacked us or not, which is why military conscription is a duty that is included in the Hukm of Jihad.