Khan denounced martyrdom operations as, according to Islam, people can become martyrs, but they cannot court a martyr's death deliberately. He supports his own position on the debate with Sura Al-Anfal. In Khan's commentary, he elaborates that the Surah only shows the responsibility to prepare military deterrent defenses as a "demonstration of force." In Khan's words, "the verse offers us a peaceful strategy to counter the enemy." For this reason, he thinks that the Surah only means building a strong defense to deter warfare and attacks. 
Thus, at one stroke, Khan formulate two different ideas. One is a type of constraining military theory of defense in Islam, and the other involves opposition to suicide bombing in Islam. Regarding the first idea, the building of a powerful state army is not only important for maintaining peace; it is an Islamic injunction of correct policy to avoid war by preparing defenses. Regarding the second idea, Khan also directly refutes the usage of sacred history to make suicide operations legal in Islam and mentions the debated examples of the solo attack on enemy fortifications by the soldier al-Barāʾ ibn Mālik, during the rule of Abū Bakr, and the example of the soldier "Quzmanuz Zufra," who fought alongside the Prophet.