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Meeting With Shaykh Abu Umar al-Baghdadi
May Allah Have Mercy on Him
Safar 30, 1432 A.H, Friday, February 04, 2011
By
Shafiq
One day, I was watching a program about the two
Martyr heroes, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hamza al-Muhajir,
may Allah accept them. The program discussed their biographies
and showed a picture of Abu Umar. I said to myself, “I have
seen this man”. The program also discussed his city, the
city Hadithah, where I had myself lived during my days of
Jihad in Iraq. When they mentioned the mosque in which Shaykh
Abu Umar used to preach, I said to those around me, “I
prayed in that mosque”. When they mentioned Abu Umar’s
first kunya and the name of his eldest son “Mahmud”, I was
surprised. The Amir of the Islamic State of Iraq was none
other than that Shaykh behind whom I used to pray in that
modest mosque in Hadithah.
My story with Shaykh Abu Mahmud (aka Abu Umar),
may Allah accept him, began when my Amir: Abu al-Afghan, asked
me to go with him to visit a worthy man in the city of
Hadithah to coordinate group activity with him. This was after
Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may Allah have mercy on him,
pledged allegiance to Shaykh Usama bin Laden, may Allah
protect him.
I and my Amir Abu al-Afghan went and met with
Shaykh Abu Mahmud. We greeted him and he invited us into his
house where he received us with great hospitality. I then felt
that they wanted to speak together alone so I stepped back.
Shaykh Abu Mahmud said to me, “Come over here, you are the
ones who taught us our Deen.”
It was a lovely meeting in which words were
selected like the choicest of fruit. Shaykh Abu Mahmud was
frank, generous and modest. Each time he spoke to Amir Abu
Afghan, he addressed him as “my Shaykh”. He spoke the truth
and accepted it from others, and he urged fighting the
Americans. A few days after our meeting, Shaykh Abu Mahmud
joined the Tanzeem al-Qaeda fi Bilad al-Rafidain (The
al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers).
Afterwards, I became preoccupied with events
and I forgot all about that meeting, until Shaykh Abu Umar
al-Baghdadi was killed and that (TV) channel showed his
picture and told his story. Only then did I recall that
meeting, and I recalled the words of the Messenger of Allah,
صلى الله عليه وسلم:
“Allah elevates those who are humble for Him”.
Shaykh Abu Mahmud began the Amir of the Islamic
State of Iraq and our Amir Abu al-Afghan became one of the
military commanders of the Islamic Army of Iraq, may Allah
accept them both among the martyrs.
Those two did not care who was the commander (Amir)
and who was the commanded (ma’mur),because they fought
and struggled for a great religion. They did not care about
the trivialities of this world. Wherever they could be of
service to the Deen, that was their goal and their place.
May Allah have mercy on our martyrs, console us
for them and give us goodness in exchange for them.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of all Creation
Source: Sada al-Malahem Magazine
Submitted by a Mujahid