In The Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful
The essential goal of Sheikh Osama bin Laden is for Muslims to have control of their own affairs. This means: (1) the removal of American troops from the Land of the Two Holy Places; (2) an end to American influence in, blackmail of, and aggression against Muslim countries; (3) an end to American support for the Zionist occupation of Palestine; and (4) an end to the American and Allied occupation of Afghanistan.
The American government and their allies and supporters - both infidel and Muslim - do not want the world, and especially the Muslim world, to know about these goals, which is why they have portrayed Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his supporters as "terrorists". The American President - arrogantly drunk on the insolence of power - has gone even further and described Sheikh Osama bin Laden as "a man dominated by evil, an evil man," who has no goal but evil. Thus has the American government set themselves up as "the good guys" who are fighting "the evil guys" and thus do the officials of that government and its armed forces swagger around the world demanding - on pain of death, bombing, and imprisonment - that everyone, especially Muslims, do exactly as they are told.
In effect, the American President, and his government, are trying to usurp that which belongs to Allah (SWT) alone. That is, they are defining - for the whole world, and especially the Muslim world - what is lawful, and what is unlawful as they are using their military force, and their economic power, to kill, capture, humiliate or imprison anyone who defies them and their laws.
But Muslims accept that only Allah (SWT) has the right to define what is lawful and unlawful: what is halal and haram. To do other than what Allah (SWT) has decreed is therefore wrong.
"And in truth, this is My straight path, so follow it, and follow not (other) paths, for they will separate you away from His path. This He has ordained for you that you may become Al' Muttaqoon ." [al-An'aam 6:153 Interpretation of Meaning]America has proved in Afghanistan that it respects only the principle that "might is right" just as it has proved with its fake video-tape of Sheikh Osama bin Laden, and its lies about the killing of civilians by its bombs, that it is prepared to lie and deceive in order to get its own way."And whosoever does not judge by what All�h has revealed, such are the K�fir�n." [5:44 Interpretation of meaning]
"And so judge between them by what Allaah has revealed . . ." [al-Maa'idah 5: 49 Interpretation of Meaning]Thus have the Americans and their allies, through their insolent arrogance - through their striving to usurp that which belong to Allah (SWT) alone - become infidels: the enemy of the true Believers who strive to judge only by what Allah (SWT) has revealed."In truth, those who persecute and condemn the Believers, and then do not turn (to Allaah) in repentance, will have the torment of Hell, and the punishment of the burning Fire. " [Al Buruj 85: 10 Interpretation of Meaning]
"A Muslim is a brother to fellow Muslims. He neither does them injustice, nor lets them down, nor surrenders them." (Hadith)
"The Jews and Christians will never be satisfied with you until you follow their way of life." [al-Baqarah (2): 120 Interpretation of Meaning]As Sheikh Osama bin Laden has said:
"The unequivocal truth is that (President) Bush has carried the Cross and raised its banner high and stood at the front of its supporters. Anyone who lines up behind Bush in this campaign has committed one of the 10 actions that nullifies one's Islam." (Statement from Sheikh Osama bin Laden: 15 Sha`ban 1422 )
Allah (SWT) knows best.
Abdul Aziz
