Islam, Honour and Duty
Q: Is it true that you have returned to Islam, as evident in the recent
Islamist articles you have written, such as The War Against Islam?
A: Bismillah. I have never left Islam since my reversion, Alhamdulillah,
although in the eight years or so since then I have had some periods during
which I have not written, or published, any articles dealing with Al-Islam. Not
publishing anything, or not getting involved in some public debate or other,
does not imply or mean what you and some others seem to have assumed.
Furthermore, I take exception to your use of the term "Islamist". It
is a pejorative and propagandistic term, and, for Muslims who strive to adhere
to the Quran and Sunnah, has no meaning - it only has meaning for the enemies of
the Muslims, and is indicative of their ignorance and arrogance; a sign of how
removed they are from the simple purity of Tawheed; from a correct knowledge of
Reality itself.
In respect of my Islam, it should be understood that I took an oath of loyalty,
on my honour, to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and this is a binding, life-long oath which has
consequences both in this life, and the next. I have never renounced my loyalty
to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi
wa sallam) - that is, I never ceased to be a Muslim, Alhamdulillah.
Q: But isn't it correct to say that since your conversion to Islam you have
continued to develop what you call The Numinous way, have continued to propagate
National Socialism, and have tried to bring National Socialists, and others,
into an alliance with Muslims?
A: Certainly - until late last year - I continued to write about
National-Socialism and The Numinous Way, with a view to changing the attitude,
of those who adhere to them, toward Islam and the Muslims, with a view to
co-operation between various anti-Zionist factions, and with a view to making
both of those Ways into ethical, honourable, systems so that such co-operation
might occur. Also, for the first two years after my reversion I did continue to
directly support a few groups which I regarded as honourable, in much the same
way, I understand, that the Grand Mufti Muhammed Amin al-Husseini supported
Hitler. Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, as a Muslim, was seeking allies in the fight
against Zionism, but he never ceased to be a Muslim.
I did such things because I sincerely believed that it was important - and
indeed vital - for as many people and groups as possible to fight in any way
whatsoever the Zionist-Crusader alliance, and the so-called "New World
Order" which this alliance is creating, and that this fight should be taken
to the homelands of the West. I did this because I believed - and believe - that
this alliance, and its lackeys and supporters, are dishonourable, and arrogant,
and represent a profane, imperialist, materialistic, way of life which must be
fought, since the adherents and supporters of this profane way of life trample
upon and desecrate and are seeking to destroy, the numinous, represented as I
know the numinous is by Al-Islam, and made real as I know the numinous is by
Muslims who submit only to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
I did all this work openly, as a Muslim, and this led some of those who adhered
to National-Socialism, and even The Numinous Way, to call me a
"traitor" for being a Muslim. It also led to some misunderstandings,
among some other people, regarding whether or not I was a Muslim, whether or not
I had renounced Islam, and whether I still supported the racial beliefs, and the
nationalism, of National-Socialism. In respect of such support, the answer was
no, I did not support such racial beliefs, or nationalism, as I explained in my
essay Nationalism, Race, Culture and Islam.
Perhaps I was rather naive, and perhaps I did mis-understand some things
regarding Islam and such co-operation: because of this, for several months last
year I had many discussions with Muslims, who were far more knowledgeable than
me in certain matters, and I came to the conclusion, which I stated in an
earlier interview, that we Muslims do not need the help or the support of such
groups, and that if such people really wanted to fight Zionism, and live in an
honourable way, then they should convert to Islam, which a few of them did,
Alhamdulillah.
Q: There has been some discussion on some Internet forums regarding whether
some articles attributed to you were in fact written by you, or whether the
dates given on some of those articles were genuine. Have you any comment?
A: There is some confusion here, many accusations, and some outright lies. In
the past fifteen years, I have written an enormous amount of articles, essays,
dialogues and pamphlets. Even eight years ago, when I was arrested and
questioned by Detectives from SO12 Scotland Yard, these writings were voluminous
- for they showed me the thick lever-arch ffiles containing some of my published
writings which they had collected during the course of their investigation,
wanting me to comment on some items which they had singled out, which I refused
to do, politely pointing out that my articles were not copyright and that many
of the items available, for instance, on the Internet might have been altered in
some way, by a person or persons unknown, for a reason or reasons unknown. Since
then, I have written an equal amount again, if not twice the amount available
then, although the majority of these more recent writings have been about Islam.
Furthermore, before my reversion to Islam, I sent copies of various unpublished
writings to various individuals around the world, and some of these have
subsequently been published, via the printed medium, or distributed on the
Internet.
Suffice it to say that I cannot remember everything I have ever written, or
which has been printed or distributed via mediums such as the Internet. However,
I do know that some of my writings have been changed in some way, or had dates
added, not of their date of writing, but more often than not of the date of
their publication or the date of their first distribution. Some of the changes
amount to a few words; some to a few sentences, and some seem to have been done
for the best of intentions, perhaps to, in the mind of the publisher or
distributor, to clarify what I wrote or what they believed I meant, or to fit in
with what they themselves believe. I remember years ago, when I wrote some
articles for John Tyndall's Spearhead magazine how he sometimes changed a few
words, or added a sentence or two, or deleted something, to clarify things or
make some point. I never objected; he was the Editor, and it was a condition of
publication.
However, there are a few forgeries in circulation - the one that annoyed me the
most, at the time, was an article about Einstein. I did write an article about
Einstein, once (it may even have appeared in Spearhead) but someone added my
name to another such article. Some alterations done to some articles by some
people may have had a more sinister intent, such a trying to get me convicted of
some criminal offence, according to the unjust laws of the kuffar.
So, in conclusion, all I can honestly say is that, yes, there have been some
articles changed in various ways. But I am not concerned about the matter - it
is, essentially, a question of honour. People can ask me, about a specific item,
if I can recall it, and either believe my word, or choose not to believe it. In
addition, as I said, I did continue to write, for some time after my reversion,
various articles which attempted to clarify the nature of National-Socialism and
the nature of The Numinous Way so that the adherents of these ways could
understand Islam and the Muslims better as a beginning to the co-operation that
I, as a Muslim, then believed was a good tactic in our war against the
Zionist-Crusader alliance led by Amerika. I do not regret writings such
articles, as a Muslim - for I considered them, at the time, to be necessary
propaganda in this war we are engaged in, and they did change, for the better,
the attitude of some people toward Islam and the Muslims, Alhamdulillah.
Q: Have you never doubted your commitment to Islam - or Islam itself?
A: Fundamentally - and to be pedantically correct - being a Muslim means
submission to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; it means obeying Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). It means
doing the duty we have sworn, on our honour, to do - our duty to Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). Part of
this duty is caring about - and striving to aid - fellow Muslims, our brothers
and sisters, wherever in the world they live. Another part of this duty is Dawah;
yet another is Jihad.
So, it is wrong, a fundamental mistake, to consider Islam as a "thing"
- as some kind of entity, as something we aadhere to; or are loyal to. Our
loyalty, our duty, our submission is not to some "thing", not to some
abstraction, but to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). This is a quite important distinction, which many in
the West do not seem to understand.
But, to return to your question - yes, I have had doubts; questions; moments of
weakness, over the years: many moments of weakness. Sometimes, it has been quite
hard, as it was for some months following the death of someone I loved when I
found myself questioning "why?" and when I found myself feeling the
answers, rather than just believing them in some intellectual way. But I have
always strived to remember, during such times, two things. First - my honourable
duty; second - the perspective of Jannah, the finite nature of our brief mortal
life. My honourable duty - since my reversion to submission to Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala - is to strive to live as a Muslim. To place this duty before my own
desires, my own happiness, my own dreams. In the end, it always is a simple
question of trusting in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; always a question of the
heart and the mind coming together in a way profoundly beyond words. Doubts, I
have discovered, can be rather like a bereavement - we hold fast to something,
often not quite sure what, and endure, for days, weeks, or months, and then
somehow in some way we emerge from the grief, the struggle, to carry on with
life; to resume our duty, to feel beauty again, MashaAllah.
In my case, I understand part of my duty as supporting the Mujahideen who are
fighting for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu
'alayhi wa sallam) - leaving Islam, breaking the oath I swore on my honour,
would be a dishonourable betrayal of them. Supporting them, upholding my oath to
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) - doing my duty as a Muslim, being seen to do my duty as a Muslim - is
more important than my own desires, my own comfort, my own happiness. That
really is the beginning and the end of the matter.
Q: Did you have any problems as a result of the article about you, earlier
this year, in the The Times of London newspaper?
A: What I found quite interesting was how many of the kuffar reacted to it - for
example, as evident in various comments made on Blogs and websites. With one
exception, every comment demonstrated the inability of those who made comments
to be rational - to use judgement, for they viewed me, and my Islam, through
their own, their kuffar, stereotyped, cliched, propagandistic, prejudices, and
so obviously did not even bother to read beyond the article itself. Thus,
perhaps a majority of the responses made some comment along the lines of how
similar "neo-nazism" was to "radical Islam", thus
demonstrating their almost complete indoctrination by the propagandists of the
Zionist-Crusade alliance, with quite a few of these commentators (if you can
dignify them with such a term) actually using the new trendy utterly meaningless
kaffir term "Islamo-fascist".
This - and many, many other similar incidents - confirmed what I have known for
a long time, which is that while the kuffar are proud of what they regard as the
"culture", the "civilization", of the West - with its
so-called "freedoms" - they demonstrate their ignorance, prejudice and
their subservience to abstract, often propagandistic, ideas and stereotypes,
unable, it seems, to think rationally, unable to respect anything remotely
sacred, remotely connected with the numinous, and unable to put aside their own
prejudices and stereotypes.
The article appeared on a day when I was travelling on a long train journey - I
myself did not know about the article until the next day - and I noticed that I
did seem to be the object of a more than usual staring curiosity from some of
the passengers!
But no, I did not have any problems as a result of that article, Alhamdulillah,
although I was invited to give an interview with an Arabic Television station,
which I declined.
Q: Do you support terrorism?
A: The very term is meaningless for me, and for Muslims who adhere to the purity
of Quran and Sunnah, and who thus seek to obey only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
It is meaningless because it is a kaffir term, based on abstract, kaffir, ideas,
and kaffir values. These kaffir values are not our values, just as we regard
their ideas as a manifestation of Ignorance, of Jahiliyyah - a distortion, or
covering-up, of the The Unity, of Tawheed. Thus, such kaffir values and ideas
are kufr. Most kaffir ideas derive from their casual reductionism - from their
attempt to understand the world, the Cosmos, and people, by means of categories
and "-isms" and "-ologies" which they project onto things,
and which projection artificially divides The Unity, and undermines or profanes
the numinous.
Our values are given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and our understanding
is based upon Tawheed, upon the apprehension of Unity which is submission to
only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala: that is, upon Islam.
The West, the kuffar, arrogantly claim that their values are
"universal" and that their abstractions are "morally right".
In this, they strive to usurp Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - they set these things,
or themselves, or both, to compete with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; they revere
these things, obey them, give their loyalty to these abstract things and these
human-derived values which they have created.
When we Muslims act - when we undertake such things as Jihad - we look to Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
for guidance. We do not, should not, look to kaffir laws, or concern ourselves
with kaffir "ethics" and kaffir values. If what we do is in accord
with Quran and Sunnah, then it is right; good; necessary; honourable, whatever
the kuffar and their apostate lackeys say or write about it.
Honour derives from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone - and if we submit to only
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, if we strive to obey only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
and if we act, according to Quran and Sunnah, out of a love for Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala and His Messenger (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) then we are being
honourable.
If in doing these things the kuffar call us "terrorists" then it is
irrelevant. It is the judgement of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala which matters - not
the judgement of the kuffar; not the judgement of their so-called "Courts
of Law".
Q: I know from your article Are Martyrdom Operations Lawful According to the
Quran and Sunnah - which was once on the Hamas website - that you support such
martyrdom operations as you call them. Does this mean you support the killing of
women and children?
As a Muslim, I support whatever Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) command me to do. If it is lawful, according to the
Quran and Sunnah, to take retribution upon the kuffar for the killings of
Muslims that they have committed, for decades, for the deeds they have committed
against Muslims, for decades, for the hundreds of thousands of Muslims they have
starved to death, through sanctions, then I support that just retribution. There
is some dispute, among the Muslims, as to the exact nature of the just
retribution that is commanded, and also as to those among the kuffar who may, or
who may not, be targeted in such a just retribution.
According to Sheikh Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin (hafidhahullah) and according
to some Ulaama - such as those quoted in "At-Tibyan Fi Istihdaf An-Nisa'i
Was-Sibyan" - there are exceptions which do make it permissible to target
such people as you mention.
Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
20 Rajab 1427