All Praise and All Thanks are for Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) to whom we shall
all return to be judged on The Last Day.
"Do not think that those who are killed in the Way of Allah are dead.
Rather, they are alive, fulfilled, and with their Rabb. They rejoice because
of what Allah has bestowed upon them in His generosity. They rejoice because
of those who have not yet joined them, but have been left behind - that no
fear, no grieving should come to them. They rejoice because of the favour
that Allah has shown them in His mercy: for no dishonour touched them and
Allah always rewards the Believers. Thus for those who heard and answered
(the Call of) Allah and His Messenger Muhammad after harm touched them - for
those of them who did honourable deeds and feared Allah - there will be the
best reward of all." 3: 169-172 Interpretation of Meaning
Resistance to Evil:
As Muslims, we are commanded by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to uphold what is
honourable, and good (Al-Maruf) and to restrain from, and forbid and fight,
what is dishonourable, and bad (Al-Munkar) defined as such things are by Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. We know what is good, and what is wrong, because we have
been given the guidelines we need in the Quran and Sunnah.
Furthermore, as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"And there shall be no blame for those who take revenge after they have
suffered injustice. The way (of blame) is only for those rebellious ones who
oppress others and who insolently walk on the earth: for these there will be
a painful torment indeed." 42: 41-42 Interpretation of Meaning
"Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them
find in you a harshness." 9:123 Interpretation of Meaning
"To counter them, use whatever force [quwah] you can, including
steeds of combat, that you might strike great fear into the enemies of Allah
who are your enemies." 8:60 Interpretation of Meaning
"If anyone attacks you, then retaliate and attack them in the way
that they have attacked you." 2: 194 Interpretation of Meaning
That is, to use a colloquial English phrase, we give our enemies, who are the
enemies of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, "a taste of their own
medicine" - so we fight them, we are stern toward them, and do not take
them as friends, allies, protectors or advisors, for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
says:
"They long for you to
disbelieve even as they disbelieve, so that you may be the same (as them).
Therefore, do not choose them as friends, or allies, until they turn (to
follow) the way of Allah." 4:89 Interpretation of Meaning
The Dishonour and Evil of the Kuffar:
One result, one lesson, of the Jumaada Al-Thaani attacks - of the Washington
and New York expeditions - is that they have revealed to more and more Muslims
the true nature of the kuffar, the true nature of Amerika and its allies. This
nature is that of a cowardly, arrogant, swaggering, lying, deceitful bully. Of
men (and women) like those Amerikans who tortured our brothers and sisters at
Abu Gharib; like those Amerikans who stripped naked our injured brother Hamza
Walker Lindh after his capture and brutal interrogation, blindfolded him,
strapped him so tightly to a stretcher that he could not move, and who in an
act typical of bullies wrote an offensive obscene word on his blindfold and
laughed and took photographs of him in his distress and pain, which
photographs they circulated among themselves, just as the torturers at Abu
Gharib did. These are the people who forced our brothers, held in cages in
Guantanamo Bay, to kneel with their hands tied behind their backs and hoods
over their head, and who paraded them to be photographed like that in the hope
it would serve as "a warning" to other Muslims.
These are the people who, in just the first three months after their invasion
of Afghanistan, killed thousands of women and children - our brothers and
sisters - by dropping bombs and firing missiles at them. These are the people
who, since then, have killed tens upon tens of thousands more of our brothers
and sisters in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who have tortured and humiliated and
imprisoned thousands upon thousands of our brothers and sisters. These are the
people who have special secret interrogation centres around the world where -
for over five years - they have ruthlessly tried to break and brainwash those
thousands of our brothers and sisters whom they have singled out for
"special treatment", for special torture, because these Muslims
refuse to co-operate with these bullies, with these dishonourable cowards,
these torturers.
These are the people who bombarded Fallujah for days, killing thousands of
Muslims, and who now, in imitation of the Nazis, force every resident of that
city to wear or carry a badge and who regularly "round-up" Muslim
men - young and old - for interrogation, some of whom are taken away and never
heard from again. These are the people who, in Haditha, massacred over a dozen
Muslims and who then stormed into a house killing women and children and
raping our sister who they then killed and whose body they burnt in the hope
of avoiding detection. These are the people - with a character imitating
Shaitan (see Note 1) - who in the last hundred years or so have killed well
over one hundred million people, who have committed atrocity after atrocity
all over the world, and whose societies, which they demand we admire and
imitate, are full of violence, crime, addiction, inequality, vice, and
corruption at every level.
These are the people who lied about Haditha, Fallujah, Abu Gharib and the
killing of women and children by bombs and missiles in Afghanistan - who lied
about the massacre at My Lai - until caught out, and who deceive and who lie
by nature, even to themselves. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"There is a sickness within which ails
them
And Allah has increased this sickness
Because they lie even to themselves:
For this, they will grievously suffer.
And when someone says to them:
"Do not be so ignoble on this earth,"
They reply: "We are only bringing peace!"
Although it is they who bring disorder
While so deceiving themselves."
(2: 10-12 Interpretation of Meaning)
These are the people - the bullies, the tyrants, the barbarians - who, in
their arrogance, will continue to spread their lies, who will continue to
spread their evil, who will continue to commit atrocities and do dishonourable
deeds until they are stopped by a formidable foe. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
says:
"Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and
disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the hearts of a
believing people." 9:14 Interpretation of Meaning
"Undertake combat in the Way of Allah, for you will be held responsible
only for what you do. And inspire the believers. It may be that Allah will
restrain the dishonourable deeds of the unbelievers. For Allah is the most
powerful, in both strength and punishment." 4:84 Interpretation of
Meaning
"Will you not fight? Or is it that you are afraid of them? Rather -
fear Allah most of all, if you do indeed believe." 9: 13 Interpretation
of Meaning
"You are the best of people among all peoples, for you command Al-Maruf
and forbid Al-Munkar, and you submit [in belief] to Allah." 3: 110
Interpretation of Meaning
Lessons of the Intifada:
One important lesson of the Jihadi Intifada is that despite the military and
economic superiority of the kuffar - despite their lies, their torture, their
massive propaganda campaign, their imprisonment of captured Mujahideen, their
campaign of terror against Muslims who resist their demands - they have not
defeated the Mujahideen, Alhamdulillah. Thus, even when the Mujahideen are
vastly outnumbered and subject to massive bombardment, even when they are low
on ammunition and have only limited weapons, the kuffar do not achieve their
objectives, as was the case, for example, in Fallujah (MashaAllah) during the
operation the kuffar called
Vigilant Resolve when their highly
trained and well-equipped forces could not defeat the boys, and the young and
elderly men, of the Muslim resistance. It was the case at Jenin (MashaAllah)
when for nine days and nights a small group of Mujahideen armed only with hand
held automatic weapons took on the might of the American supplied and financed
Zionist occupation army, and held them back until the Mujahideen ran out of
ammunition, resisting the Zionist onslaught for three days longer than the
combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan resisted during the misnamed
"Six Day War" over three decades before. It was the case (MashaAllah)
at Tora Bora, as described by Sheikh Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin (hafidhahullah):
"I have mentioned this battle of Tora Bora,
last year, in a previous statement. This great battle was one where the power
of belief triumphed over the materialistic forces of the people of evil: where
we adhered to our [honourable] principles, thanks to Almighty Allah. Thus, I
will narrate for you part of that great battle to reveal just how cowardly our
enemies are and how effective trenches are in a war of attrition.
We were about 300 Mujahideen and we dug about
100 trenches, spread over an area less than one square mile, with one
trench for every three brothers, thus avoiding any great human losses that
might result from bombardment.
From the very the first hour of the US campaign
on 20 Rajab 1422, that is 7 October 2001, our sites were subject to a
concerted, massive, bombardment with this bombardment continuing until the
middle of Ramadan. On 17 Ramadan, an intense bombardment began, since the US
leadership was certain that some of Al-Qaeda leaders were still in Tora Bora,
including this humble servant of Allah and our brother Mujahid, Dr Aymin al-Zawahiri.
This bombardment was continuous with the warplanes flying over us both day and
night. The US Pentagon, together with its allies, worked without a break to
blow up and destroy this one small area. War-planes poured their fire down
upon us, intent on accomplishing their main mission in Afghanistan.
The US forces attacked us with smart bombs, with
bombs that weighed thousands of pounds, with cluster bombs, with
bunker-busting bombs. Bombers, such as the B-52, flew above us for more
than two hours at a time, dropping 20 to 30 bombs each. Modified C-130
aircraft carpet-bombed us at night, using sophisticated bombs.
But the US forces dared not attack our
positions, despite this massive bombing and despite an ignoble unprecedented
propaganda campaign directed against us, and even though we were besieged in a
such a small area. And this is without even mentioning the forces of
hypocrites, whom they [the US] demanded must fight us continuously for 15
days. Every single time these forces attacked us, we forced them out of our
area, carrying their dead and wounded.
Is there any clearer proof of their cowardice,
their fear, their lies concerning how their own power is superior?
In conclusion, that battle was a complete,
total, failure for the international alliance of evil, for all its forces
could not overcome a small number of Mujahideen - 300 Mujahideen, secreted in
trenches spread over an area of less than one square mile when the temperature
was 10 degrees below zero. The battle resulted in the deaths of only about six
percent of our people - may Allah accept them as martyrs - and damaged only
about two percent of the trenches, All Thanks and All Praise are for Allah.
If all the international forces of evil could
not achieve their goals in an area less than one square mile, against a small
number of Mujahideen who possessed only limited weapons, how can these evil
forces triumph over the entire Muslim world?"
Thus have we been given many Signs, Alhamdulillah, for as Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala says:
"The believers are as one family." 49:10 Interpretation of Meaning
"You who believe! If anyone turns away from this Deen, then Allah will
replace that person with many whom He loves, who love Him - those who are
loyal to the Believers, stern toward the kuffar, who fight in the Way of
Allah, and who do not heed the criticism of their critics. For this is the
honour that He bestows upon whomsoever He wills - for Allah is The
All-Knowing, The Infinite One. In truth, your champions are Allah, His
Messenger, and the Believers - those who undertake As-Salat, who give Zakat
and who submit [in loyalty to Allah]. For whomsoever has Allah, His
Messenger, and Believers as their Champion, are the ones who will achieve
victory." 5: 54-56 Interpretation of Meaning
"In exchange for their lives and their goods, Allah has given those who
believe Paradise. Thus will they fight in Allah's cause, and thus will they
kill, and be killed." 9: 111
Hence, there has been, and thus there is, a Muslim revival - a return to being
Muslim; a return to Quran and Sunnah, a rejection of the Tawagheet of the
kuffar, and a re-affirmation of what being Muslim means. For the truth is that
we Muslims have something special which the kuffar lack: a simple belief and
trust in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala Who has offered us the eternal life of
Jannah in return for our obedience to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone.
Thus, we do not measure our success by the material, by the causal, by the
abstract and fallible standards of the kuffar - by the Tawagheet which they
obey and worship and which they judge by. Our success is not measured by some
victory in some battle, nor by the admiration we might receive from other
people for our deeds in combat or in life. Neither is our success measured by
our material wealth, by our property, by satisfying our desires, or by gaining
power and influence over others.
Rather, our success is measured by how well we please our Rabb, how well we
obey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - how well we do our duty, as Muslims. And this
duty means fighting the kuffar who have invaded and occupied our lands and who
have killed, humiliated and tortured hundreds of thousands of our brothers and
sisters. It means us refusing to cooperate with the kuffar and their apostate
lackeys in any way whatsoever until they leave our lands, cease interfering in
our affairs, free all Muslim captives, and cease to support in any way the
tyrants, lackeys and apostates who now rule and govern every land where
Muslims are the majority. This duty - this Muslim measure, this Muslim
standard of success - means that we are not bothered nor concerned about our
own death, in battle or elsewhere, for we place our trust solely in Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, knowing that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will reward His
trusting and obedient servants with Jannah, which reward is the goal of this
brief mortal life of ours.
Thus, if we live as Muslims - stern, and fierce, toward the kuffar but
honourable and gentle toward our brothers and sisters - and are prepared to
die, as Muslims, fighting for what is right, what is honourable, what is
Muslim, then we are a formidable foe: the most formidable foe the
dishonourable kuffar face, have faced or ever will face: a determined foe,
guided by a simple beautiful purity of sacred purpose which they, the allies
of Shaitan, both fear and detest, which is why, of course, they, like the
dishonourable cowards they are, take great delight in humiliating us, in
torturing us, in trying to "break us" and have us embrace their own
decadent, profane, dysfunctional way of life, and why they want, and demand,
that we bow down in submission to their Tawagheet, to the idols that they in
their arrogance and ignorance have manufactured.
But we say to them what our Rabb has said to us:
"They [the kafiroon] want to extinguish Allah's Light with their
deceit, their lies, but Allah will never allow this - for His Light will be
seen even though they the Kafiroon hate (it). For it is He Who has sent His
Messenger to reveal the Way of truth, to make it triumph over all other Ways
even though they, the Mushrikun, hate (it)." 9: 32-33 Interpretation of
Meaning
Thus the Jihadi Intifada - the Muslim resistance to the profane dishonourable
arrogant kuffar - will continue, for as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Fight against those who do not believe in Allah, or in The Last Day,
and who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His
Messenger, as well as those among the people of the book who do not
acknowledge the Deen of Truth, and fight them until they pay the Jizya with
willing submission." 9:29 interpretation of Meaning
"When they [the deniers] seek compromise, they only desire you to
compromise." 68: 9 Interpretation of Meaning
Thus do we know that our aim is not the manufactured worldly "peace"
beloved by the kuffar, although in truth when they speak of "peace"
what they mean is surrender to them. Rather, our aim, our victory, as Muslims,
is the eternal, perfect and Muslim peace which is Jannah.
"And there shall be conflict between you while you dwell, resting for a
while, on Earth which shall provide for you." (2: 36 Interpretation of
Meaning)
"We only created the heavens and this Earth, and everything in and
around them, for a reason, and for a finite period. But the unbelievers turn
away [in their arrogance] from the warnings given to them." 46:3
Interpretation of Meaning
May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala protect us from all forms of Al-asabiyyah Al-Jahiliyyah,
forgive us for our mistakes, and guide us to and keep us on the Right Path. Wa
Allahu Allam.
Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
27 Shaban 1428
Notes:
(1) Refer to Sheikh ul-Islam Ibn Taimiyyah (Rahimullah):
al-Firqan
Bayna Awliya al-Rahman wa Awliya ash-Shaitan (The Criterion Between the
Awliya of al-Rahman and the Awliya of Shaitan).