Allahu Akbar!
How many Muslims have the kuffar killed in the last two years, in
Palestine, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and elsewhere? Tens of thousands? Twenty
thousand - or more? Even now the kuffar are plotting to gain control of another
land where Muslims live: Sudan. The war by the kuffar against Islam goes on.
But the kuffar should know that no matter how many Muslims they kill, imprison,
humiliate, torture or corrupt to the materialistic, hedonistic, kaffir ways of
the West, they will always be some Muslims who will resist them and their kaffir
ways: resist with force of arms; resist with words; resist in their hearts;
resist with du'a to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
"Let those who would trade the life of this world for the life Hereafter
fight in the Cause of Allah. And those who do fight in the Cause of Allah -
whether they be killed or are victorious - will have bestowed on them, by
Us, a great reward." [4: 74 Interpretation of Meaning.]
"There is nothing more beloved to Allah than two drops or two marks. The
teardrop that falls because of (love and) fear of Allah, and the drop of
blood shed in the Path of Allah. And as for the marks, then a mark in the
Path of Allah, and a mark in an obligation from the obligations to Allah". (Hasan,
reported by at-Tirmidhi)
The kuffar should now that they cannot kill the spirit of Jihad which lives
within us, which will always live within us so long as we Muslims submit only to
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and follow the Quran and Sunnah and these alone. For
we have been promised victory by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and the words of
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - the perfect example of the Prophet Muhammad (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) - live within our hearts, live within our very being.
We will never bow down to the kuffar and their ways, and will strive, InshaAllah,
for however long it takes to undermine, subvert, attack, and destroy the kuffar
and their ways until we are victorious and Islam is triumphant in this world.
Abdullah ibn Umar (RA) narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa sallam) said:
“I have been ordered to begin the fighting against the unbelievers - a fight
which will last until they testify that there is no god save Allah, that
Muhammad is His Messenger and Prophet, and establish Salat and pay Zakat.”
[Bukhari and Muslim].
"You will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, making
friendship with and loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam), even if they are their fathers or their sons or
their kin-folk..." [ 58:22 Interpretation of Meaning]
The kuffar should know that even if they kill us, we will have won - for then,
InshaAllah, we have attained the ultimate goal of Jannah.
"Anyone who truly submits [to Allah] who dies and has been bestowed good
from Allah, does not wish to return to the World, even if he is given the
World and what it contains; except a Shaheed, due to what he sees from the
virtues of Martyrdom. So he wishes to return to the World in order to be
killed again." [al-Bukhari and Muslim]
"Thus they who persecute believing men and believing women and who do not
repent will have the doom of hell, and the doom of burning. And they who
believe and do what has been commanded, will be in those Gardens underneath
which rivers flow. That is the greatest achievement of all." [85: 7-11
Interpretation of Meaning]
"The life of this world is nothing - only play and amusement. What is best
is the dwelling in the Life-to-Come - for those who possess Taqwa." [6:32
Interpretation of Meaning ]
The kuffar should know that they cannot destroy our organizations, like Hamas,
however many Muslims and leaders they kill or imprison or torture. For the
spirit of, the enthusiasm for, resistance to the kuffar and their ways and their
oppression and injustice lives within us: it is part of Islam, and they will
always InshaAllah be young men and young women ready to sacrifice their lives in
this world for the sake of Islam, for the sake of Jannah, for this sacrifice,
this martyrdom, is central to Islam. Though the kuffar may seem to destroy such
an organization, it will arise again, perhaps with another name, to challenge
them and their dishonourable oppression and materialistic ways.
We Muslims, if we are true to the Message of Islam, are inspired - have always
been inspired - by stories of Jihad, by stories of Shuhadaah. The first battles
of Islam are as alive to us, today, as they were a thousand years ago. For the
Kuffar have not realized that we are inspired by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
Whose words endure, and by our beloved Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) whose example endures, while the kuffar are inspired by temporary,
causal, material things, which but briefly flourish, and the assuredly decline
and die.
As I have written before:
"While to many it seems that the infidel
forces have achieved a triumph in their battles against the true believers in
Afghanistan, this is not so. For the victory of the infidels and their apostate
allies is only a temporary, geographical, worldly one: that of a few battles in
a very long world-wide war. The real truth is that there has been a victory for
the true believers, many of whom, Insha'Allah, have through martyrdom obtained
the ultimate victory which is entering Paradise.
So, while the infidels and their apostate allies
may cheer their temporary success - which Allah (SWT) has allowed them, perhaps
as test for this Ummah - the true believers are the real victors in this war,
which in truth has only just begun.
For this war is not only or even mainly about
temporary, worldly gains, achieved through military force. It is about the
meaning, the purpose of Islam itself: about the Right Path, about distinguishing
between Imaan and Kufr, and about that ultimate victory, which is us, as
individuals, attaining Paradise.
What for a Muslim is victory, or defeat? Victory is
being guided to and along the Right Path, and following this Path to the final
victory which is Paradise. Defeat is being led astray, by others or by one's own
animal nature, and following the wrong path which leads only to eternal
damnation.
Thus, the infidels and their apostate allies see
and understand only a temporary, worldly, victory, as they strive only on the
basis of worldly things. They measure their final success by the deaths, injury
and destruction they cause; by the Muslims they capture, torture and imprison;
by the land they capture and maintain through military force or blackmail or
bribery or oppression.
But the Muslims - the true believers - see the
greater picture, the wider perspective beyond this temporal world." (Why
Sheikh Osama bin Laden Has Won)
We Muslims are what the kuffar fear the most - an enemy who endures; an enemy
who refuses to submit to them and their bullying, ignorant, dishonourable, ways.
An enemy who has purity, truth, honour and nobility living in our hearts, in our
lives, in our communities, which is why of course they fear us, and have tried
so hard to humiliate us and are trying so hard to subvert Islam, to make it
conform to their materialistic, decadent, ignoble kaffir ways. It is this fear
that lies at the heart of the treatment of Muslims by the kuffar in places like
Abu-Gharib and Guatanamo Bay.
But the truth is we Muslims will endure, century upon century, thousand year
upon thousand year, while the oppression, the tyranny, the killings, the profane
ways of the kuffar will come, and go. For them, they will only be the loss of
Jannah; for us - if we strive through Jihad, and taqwa, if we submit only to
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - there will be InshAllah the triumph of Jannah.
How many tens of tousands of people, in the West, have converted to Islam in the
last few years - despite all the propaganda of the kuffar? How many have
converted - despite the oppression of the kuffar, despite the injustice and
hypocrisy and lies of the kuffar? Have many, in the West, have rejected the ways
of the kuffar in favour of the prefect, noble way of Al-Islam?
In truth, the kuffar are afraid. They are weak, in terms of character; while we
are strong, and we have only to return to the pure simplicity of Quran and
Sunnah, and these alone, to triumph in this life and the next.
"This is My path which is straight, true. Therefore follow it, and do not
follow other paths all of which will lead you astray you from this, His
Way." [6:153 Interpretation of Meaning]
The Messenger of Allah (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) said: "The world is the prison of the
Mu`min, and a Paradise for the Kaffir."
(Saheeh Muslim, Kitaabuz-Zuhdi war-Raqaa`iq [18/93] Sharh an-Nawawi)
"In truth, Islamic history is not written except with the blood of the
Shuhadaa', except with the stories of the Shuhadaa' and except with the
examples of the Shuhadaa'." Sheikh Abdullah Azzam (shaheed)
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.
Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) knows best.
Abdul-Aziz
25 Jumaad Al-Thaani 1425