16-04-2009
The Global Islamic Media Front
presents…
“No charity and No Jihad?”
Adil Al-Abbab
- may Allah protect him -
The Head of Religious Affairs of Al-Qaeda Organization in the Arabian Peninsula
1430 H.
No charity and No Jihad?
All praise is due to Allah, who addressed the best of His creation, saying,
«إِنَّمَا بَعَثْتُكَ لأَبْتَلِيَكَ وَأَبْتَلِىَ بِكَ وَأَنْزَلْتُ عَلَيْكَ كِتَابًا لاَ يَغْسِلُهُ الْمَاءُ تَقْرَؤُهُ نَائِمًا وَيَقْظَاناً وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنِى أَنْ أُحَرِّقَ قُرَيْشًا فَقُلْتُ رَبِّ إِذًا يَثْلَغُوا رَأْسِى فَيَدَعُوهُ خُبْزَةً قَالَ اسْتَخْرِجْهُمْ كَمَا اسْتَخْرَجُوكَ وَاغْزُهُمْ نُغْزِكَ وَأَنْفِقْ فَسَنُنْفِقَ عَلَيْكَ وَابْعَثْ جَيْشًا نَبْعَثْ خَمْسَةً مِثْلَهُ وَقَاتِلْ بِمَنْ أَطَاعَكَ مَنْ عَصَاكَ»
«”I have only raised you to test you, and to use you to test others, and I have revealed a Book to you which water does not wash; you read it while you are awake and while you sleep.” Indeed Allah has ordered me to burn the Qureish, so I said, “O my Lord! Then they will smash my head and leave it as a piece of bread!” He said, “Throw them out as they threw you out; invade them, we will invade them for you; spend, and we will spend on you; dispatch an army, we will dispatch five times its like; and fight with those who obey you against those who do not.’»
And may peace and blessings be upon the leader of the Mujahidoon, Muhammad bin Abdullah, the truthful, the trustworthy.
جاءهُ رجلٌ فقالَ يا رسولَ الله : ((أذالَ الناسُ الخيلَ ووضعوا السلاحَ وقالوا لا جهادَ قد وضعتِ الحربُ أوزارَها , فأقبلَ رسولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليهِ و سلم بوجهِهِ فقالَ كذبُوا الآنَ جاءَ القتالُ , ولا يزال من أمتي أمةٌ يقاتلونَ على الحقِ ويزيغُ اللهُ لهم قلوبَ أقوامٍ ويرزقهم منهُ حتى تقومَ الساعةُ أو حتى يأتيَ وعدُ اللهِ والخيلُ معقودٌ في نواصيها الخيرَ إلى يومِ القيامة)) رواه الإمام النسائي وسندُه صحيح .
A man came and said, “O Messenger of Allah! People have left tending to their horses and have laid down their weapons and said, ‘There is no more Jihad, the war has ended’.” So the Messenger of Allah (r) turned to him and said, “They have lied! The fighting has just begun! There will never cease to be a group from my Ummah fighting upon the truth. For them, Allah will misguide the hearts of people and make them a source of their sustenance until the striking of the Hour, until the promise of Allah is fulfilled. Goodness will remain in the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection.”
And [may peace and blessings be] upon his family and companions, those who knew that Jihad is the peak of this religion, and thus set out to various lands, calling others to join them. To proceed:
In a time when holy sites of the Muslims are being viciously attackes, in the ocean of this well-supplied and well-numbered Crusader onslaught on the Muslim people, and in a time when Muslim figures have become negligent of the path of Jihad and repelling of the enemies who have invaded the religion and the Muslims, I present this lecture to the notables, the youth and the masses.
To the thirsty youth, to the resistant and majestic, to the nation which is perplexed about which route to follow, to every Muslim who believes that they will become sovereign in this world and achieve eternal bliss in the final abode, I present this strong flaming message of the past to the confused present.
O youth! O you who long for aiding the religion of Allah! O you who present their souls to Allah! Here is the guidance and right way. Here is wisdom and correctness. Here is the ecstasy of struggle and the sweetness of Jihad. Hurry to the silent battalion and work under the banner of the Prophets – in order that there be no more disbelief, and all religion becomes for Allah Alone.
I start with an invitation which is calm, but stronger than the fiercest of storms; a humble one, but mightier than the most majestic of mountains; one free of fabricated appearances, surrounded with the clarity of truth and the awesomeness of revelation; one which leads to the sovereignty of the believers in this life and the highest levels of Paradise in the Hereafter.
And in all this I say, Allah-willing, seeking blessings with “Come to Jihad! Come to Jihad! Come to Jihad!”
I start by saying:
Brother Muslim: If they ask you what Jihad is, give them the explicit response of the truthful, the one whom people believed [Muhammad] (r), when the honorable companion asked him,
«قال فأي الهجرةِ أفضل.
قال صلى اللهُ عليه وسلم : الجهاد.
قال : وما الجهاد ؟
قال صلى الله عليه وسلم : أن تقاتلَ الكفارَ إذا لقيتَهم.
قال : فأي الجهادِ أفضل ؟ قال صلى الله عليه وسلم : من عُقر جوادُه وأريقَ دَمُه»
“What is the best emigration?”
He answered, “Al-Jihad.”
He asked, “And what is Jihad?”
He (r) answered, “That you fight the infidels if you meet them.”
He asked, “What is the best Jihad?”
He answered, “He whose horse was slaughtered and his blood was shed.” (Narrated by Imam Ahmed)
The four Imams are in agreement to the fact that Jihad means to fight, and to help the fight to raise the Word of Allah supreme.
Brother Muslim: Encourage people to fight Jihad, for Allah, the Compeller, ordered his Prophet from above the seven heavens, saying:
﴿يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ حَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى الْقِتَالِ﴾
“O Prophet (Muhammad)! Urge the believers to fight.” Al-Anfal:65
And He said:
﴿ فَقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ لاَ تُكَلَّفُ إِلاَّ نَفْسَكَ وَحَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَسَى اللَّهُ أَنْ يَكُفَّ بَأْسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَاللَّهُ أَشَدُّ بَأْسًا وَأَشَدُّ تَنْكِيلاً﴾
“Then fight in the Cause of Allah, you are not tasked except for yourself, and incite the believers. It may be that Allah will restrain the evil might of the disbelievers. And Allah is Stronger in Might and Stronger in punishing.” Al-Nisaa:84
Allah has ordered us, saying:
﴿فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ﴾
“So, when you meet [in military engagement] those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks.” Muhammad:4
There are more than a hundred verses about Jihad in the Book of Allah. From them are those which state its obligation upon the Muslims, those which encourage it and state its excellence and the reward that Allah has prepared for the Mujahidoon in the Hereafter, and others which reprimand those who leave it, ascribing to them hypocrisy and diseased hearts.
Brother Muslim: Encourage people to fight Jihad, for the scholars, the jurists, the scholars of hadeeth, and the Quranic exegetes are in agreement that it has become an individual obligation. It is like the prayer, the fasting, and the Hajj. Moreover, Imam Al-Dasooqi quoted in his Hashiyah that it takes precedence over Hajj. Those who leave it are sinful and have committed one of the major sins, as Ibn Hajar Al-Haithami said in his book, Al-Zawajir.
Imam Al-Qarafi mentioned that if rights or obligations interfere with each other, those which are limited take precedence over those which are not – those about which it is feared that their time will pass are given preference over others, even if the other may be of greater status.
Allah says:
﴿انْفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالاً وَجَاهِدُوا بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنْفُسِكُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ﴾
“March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor), strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah. This is better for you, if you but knew.” Al-Tawbah:41
Imam Ibn Katheer said in his Tafseer:
Allah has ordered the believers to fight the infidels one after another, the nearest to the Islamic lands and then those further. For this reason, the Messenger of Allah, (r) first started by fighting the pagans in the Arabian Peninsula. When he was finished with them and Allah gave him victory over Makkah, Medinah, Taif, Yemen, Yamamah, Hajr, Khaibar, Hadhramout, and other areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and people from the other Arab tribes accepted Islam in waves, he took to fighting the People of the Book. Then Abu Bakr Al-Siddeeq (y) fulfilled this role after him, and he brought back those who had gone astray from Islam and those who became apostates until he passed away. This was completed by Umar Al-Farooq, the martyr of the Mihrab.
Imam Al-Qurtubi said in his Tafseer about the verse, “March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor),”
There may be times when all people must set out… and this is when Jihad becomes and obligation upon a certain area of the Muslim lands – it is an obligation upon those lands to set out light or heavy (prepared or unprepared), young or old.
Brother Muslim: We fight them because the Messenger (r) said:
« بُعِثْتُ بالسيفِ بينَ يدَي الساعةِ حتى يُعبدَ اللهُ وحدَهُ لاشريكَ لهُ وجُعلَ رِزقي تحَتَ ظِلِّ رمحي وجُعل الذُلُ والصَغارُ على من خَالفَ أَمري ومن تَشبهَ بقومٍ فهو منهم »
«I have been raised with the sword until the Final Hour until Allah is worshipped alone without partner. My provisions have been written from me under the shade of my spear, and disgrace and ignominy has been decreed for those who oppose my command. Whoever resembles a people is from amongst them.»
Brother Muslim: We fight the infidels so that Allah does not punish us. Allah says:
﴿إِلاَّ تَنْفِرُوا يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا وَيَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ وَلاَ تَضُرُّوهُ شَيْئًا وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ﴾
“If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people, and you cannot harm Him at all, and Allah is Able to do all things.” Al-Tawbah:39
The Messenger of Allah (r):
« ما تركَ قومٌ الجهادَ إلا عَمَّهُمْ اللهُ بعذاب »
«No people leave Jihad except that Allah will strike all of them with a punishment.» (Narrated by Al-Tabarani in Al-Awsat with a Hasan (sound) chain of narration)
Brother Muslim: Should we not fear that what the truthful, the one believed, informed us will strike us? Abu Umamah Al-Bahili (y) said that the Prophet (r) said:
« من لم يغزُوا أو يُجَهزْ غَازياً أو يُخلفُ غَازياً في أهلهِ بِخيرٍ أصابهُ اللهُ بقارعةٍ قَبلَ يومِ القيامة »
«Whoever does not fight nor does he prepare a fighter or provide for a fighter’s family, Allah will strike him with a disaster before the Day of Judgment.»
Brother Muslim: Where is our desire to make jihad, a true desire which results in responding to the call when the caller makes its call, “Mount your horses!”? Where is our accustoming ourselves and promising to rise to fight Jihad? What are we if we do not respond the call? The Messenger of Allah (r) said:
« وإذا استُنفرتم فانفِروا »
“If you are called upon to make Jihad, then respond.” (Al-Bukhari)
(Poetry)
Stories of battles and martyrdom stirs
my desire for the everlasting abode.
And the roars of the Lions of Allah in the battlefields
How much do they kindle my yearning for Jihad openly!
Brother Muslim: Do you know why we fight? We fight so that we do harbor the characteristics of the hypocrites. In a hadeeth narrated by Muslim, Abu Hurairah (y) said that that the Messenger of Allah (r) said:
« من ماتَ ولم يغزو ولم يحدثْ نفسَه بالغزو ماتَ على شعبةٍ من النفاق »
«Whoever dies and he has not fought, nor was he determined to fight, he has died upon an attribute of hypocrisy.»
Brother Muslim: We fight to fulfill the command of Allah to strike terror into the enemy and to be harsh with them, and to lift the humiliation which has befallen us, to recover our honor and might, and so the enemies once again feel awe for us in their hearts, that we may live a suitable life and shield the earth from the corruption which results from leaving Jihad. Allah (I) says:
﴿ إِلاَّ تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ فِي الأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ ﴾
“If you do not do so, there will be fitnah and oppression on earth, and a great mischief and corruption.” Al-Anfal:73
Allah (I) also says:
﴿ وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَمِنْ رِبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ ﴾
“And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy.” Al-Anfal: 60
Brother Muslim: Where is your response when Allah (U) says:
﴿ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ وَأَنَّهُ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ ﴾
“O you who believe! Answer Allah and the Messenger when he calls you to that which will give you life, and know that Allah comes in between a person and his heart. And verily to Him you shall (all) be gathered.” Al-Anfal:24
Are we not scared of being of those about whom Allah said:
﴿ قُلْ إِنْ كَانَ آَبَاؤُكُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ وَعَشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَالٌ اقْتَرَفْتُمُوهَا وَتِجَارَةٌ تَخْشَوْنَ كَسَادَهَا وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهَا أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَجِهَادٍ فِي سَبِيلِهِ فَتَرَبَّصُوا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ وَاللَّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ ﴾
“Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your kindred, the wealth that you have gained, the commerce in which you fear a decline, and the dwellings in which you delight, are dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger, and striving hard and fighting in His Cause, then wait until Allah brings about His Decision (torment). And Allah guides not the people who are rebellious.” Al-Tawbah:24
This is enough of a threat, warning and scare for those who have left Jihad willingly while they are able, clinging to the comfort of family and wealth. We complain to Allah Alone how all traces of Jihad have been wiped out until they are hardly seen, its lights have been extinguished amongst people. Its night has blackened after it was moonlit, and its daylight has darkened after it was bright.
By Allah, how can people hate it, while Allah, the Compeller (U) has said,
﴿ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِتَالُ وَهُوَ كُرْهٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَنْ تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَنْ تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾
“Jihad is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.”
How have people abstained from Jihad, while Allah enjoined it upon the believers in His saying:
﴿ قَاتِلُوا الَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَلاَ بِالْيَوْمِ الآَخِرِ وَلاَ يُحَرِّمُونَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَلاَ يَدِينُونَ دِينَ الْحَقِّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حَتَّى يُعْطُوا الْجِزْيَةَ عَنْ يَدٍ وَهُمْ صَاغِرُونَ ﴾
“Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the People of the Scripture, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Al-Tawbah:29
How, when through it Allah repels the disbelievers? Allah says:
﴿وَلَوْلاَ دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لَهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَصَلَوَاتٌ وَمَسَاجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا اسْمُ اللَّهِ كَثِيرًا وَلَيَنْصُرَنَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَنْصُرُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ﴾
“For had it not been that Allah checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of Allah is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down. Verily, Allah will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allah is All-Strong, All-Mighty.” Al-Hajj:40
Brother Muslim: The Companions of the Messenger of Allah (r) carried their souls in their hands, seeking the places they could meet death to raise the Word of Allah, to the extent that those who Allah excused from fighting Jihad were the first and foremost in its cause! Imam Ibn Al-Mubarak in Kitab Al-Jihad (The Book of Jihad) narrated from Attieh ibn Abi Attieh that he saw Abdullah ibn Umm Maktoom (y), a blind man, one day after the Battle of Qadisiyyah dragging a plated shield in the battle-lines of Jihad.
We also have the example of Amr ibn Al-Jamooh (y), a lame and elderly man who did not fight in Badr due to his deficiency. In the battle of Uhud, he told his children to take him out with them. They sought excuses for him, and so he remarked, “How wrong you are! You prevented me from Paradise in Badr, and now you are preventing me in Uhud?!”
It was said to Miqdad ibn Al-Aswad (y) when he was preparing to set out for Jihad, “Allah has excused you.” He said, “Al-Bahooth ( Surah Al-Tawbah) forced us to do this, because it seeks out the hypocrites and exposes them. This was mentioned by Imam Al-Qurtubi.
May Allah be pleased with the Companions and those who followed them in goodness. How quick was their response and how strong was their determination to fight Jihad!
Allah (I) said:
﴿ فَلْيُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ يَشْرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا بِالآخِرَةِ وَمَنْ يُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَيُقْتَلْ أَوْ يَغْلِبْ فَسَوْفَ نُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا ﴾
“Let those (believers) who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allah, and whoso fights in the Cause of Allah, and is killed or gets victory, We shall bestow on him a great reward.” Al-Nisaa: 74
On the authority of Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari (y):
« سألت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أيُ العملِ أفضل قال (إيمانٌ باللهِ وجهادٌ في سبيله) »
I asked the Messenger of Allah (r) which deed was the best, to which he replied, “Belief in Allah, and Jihad in the Cause of Allah.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Brother in Tawheed (Islamic monotheism): We fight in the Cause of Allah so the infidelity does not reign supreme. What should be done now that it has? Allah (I) said:
﴿ وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لاَ تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلَّهِ ﴾
“And fight them until there is no more fitnah (kufr and shirk), and all religion will all be for Allah Alone.” Al-Anfal: 39
And Fitnah here is Shirk (polytheism).
Brother in Faith: There is no righteous deed equal to Jihad. Abu Hurairah said,
«يا رسولَ الله ما يعدلُ الجهادَ في سبيلِ الله قال صلى اللهُ عليه وسلمَ لا تستطِيعُونه فعادَ عليهِ مرتين أو ثلاثاً , كذلك يقولُ لا تستطيعُونه , ثم قال مَثلُ المجاهدِ في سبيلِ اللهِ كمثلِ الصائمِ القائمِ القانتِ بآياتِ الله , لا يفترُ من صلاةٍ ولا صيامٍ حتى يرجعْ المجاهدُ في سبيلِ الله»
«O Messenger of Allah, what is equal to Jihad in the Cause of Allah? He (r) replied: “You cannot do it.” He asked him twice or thrice more, to which he answered, “You cannot do it.” Then he said, “The example of a Mujahid in the Cause of Allah is like one who continually fasts and prays, reciting the verses of Allah, and he is upon this state until the Mujahid in the Cause of Allah returns.”» (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Understand, may Allah grant us success, that even the sleep of the Mujahid is better than praying by night and fasting by day. Ibn Al-Mubarak said, narrated with his own chain of narration: Abu Hurairah (y) said:
«(أيستطيعُ أحدُكم أن يقومَ فلا يفترْ , ويصومَ فلا يُفطرْ ما كان حيا ؟) قيل ومن يطق ذلك يا أبا هريرة؟ قال ( والذي نفسي بيده أن نومَ المجاهدِ أفضل)»
«“Can one of you continually pray and fast as long as he is alive?” Someone said, “And who can do that O Abu Hurairah?” He said, “By Him in whose Hand is my soul, indeed the sleep of the Mujahid is better.”»
Brother Muslim: How are we able to sit back while we live under governments which have rejected and thrown away the rule of the Shariah and have replaced them with secularism and democracy, acknowledging the freedom of expression, even if it were to oppose the Shariah or defame our Noble Prophet (r)?
Brother Muslim: How can you sit while Muslim lands are in the hands of the occupiers? Do you sit why the honor of our Muslim sisters are in the hands of the jail-keepers? My brother, do you sit while we are still being ruled by manmade laws, sometimes nationalistic and other times secular?
Do you sit while we live under puppet regimes, proxies of the Crusader Alliance against Islam, the reality of which we see in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, the Western regions of the Islamic world, the Arabian Peninsula and other areas of the Muslim world?
Muslim brother: How can we sit while our leader, Sheikh Osama bin Laden and others, the leaders of our armies have called upon us. Tell me by Allah, how can we change this bitter state of affairs without Jihad?
Brother Muslim: Here you are today being called upon by your sincere brothers upon the beliefs of Ahl-us-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah, not the extremist Khawarij who deem Muslims as infidels nor the surrendered and defeatist Murji’ah, but rather those who march upon the wishes of Allah and His Messenger. Here is this small band of believers who have raised the flag of pure Tawheed (Islamic monotheism), upon the belief of “To you be your religion, and to me be mine”: to you be your legislations, methodologies and ideas which oppose the call of the leader the messengers and the commander of the Mujahidoon, and to us is the religion of Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the truthful, the trustworthy. Upon this we will fight until the Day of Resurrection. So why are do you refrain and stay behind? Do we still imprison our minds under the motto of “weighing the benefits and harms” without knowing its conditions or the statements of the scholars in its regard? Do you imprison us, even if it be by not acting according to the texts of the Quran and Sunnah, the consensus of the Ummah (ijma’), changing definitions and meanings, nullifying and interpolating the what Allah and His Messenger intend [in the text] in the name of “weighing the benefits and harms” on an intellectual and not religious basis? Where are we compared to the actions of the Noble Companions?
Imam Al-Qurtubi mentioned in his Tafseer:
Abu Talhah (r) recited the verse, “March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor),” and said, “My sons, prepare me.” His sons replied, “May Allah have mercy upon you, you have fought Jihad with the Prophet (r) until he died, and then with Abu Bakr until he died, and then with Umar until he died. We will go out and fight in your place.” He demanded, “No, prepare me!” And so he set out to the sea to fight until he died there. They did not find any land to bury him for seven days, and in his body did not change the least, may Allah be pleased with him.”
I say to those who have joined Islamic organizations as a means to aid the religion, to those with good intentions: if what you hope for is not being achieved, search for a group which raises the motto of Islam upon the methodology of Ahl-us-Sunnah, both in knowledge and practice, a group which makes the footsteps and biography of the Prophet (r) a methodology and example, a group whose principles are from Islam and according to what was meant by Allah and His Messenger, as understood by the Prophet (r) and the Noble Sahabah, a group which works in all fields - knowledge, propagation and Jihad – without nullifying any of them or interpolating their meanings, but rather work according to the path of Prophet (r) and his Companions without nullification or interpolation.
O youth of the Islamic Awakening: Count on those leaders whose blood is split, along with yours, as fuel for the spread of Tawheed and sparks for the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, not on leaders who take your skulls as ladders to ascend, undoing their principles as they ascend, exposing their fabrications and faults.
To the youth of the Awakening, to those who we came to know in the circles of knowledge and remembrance, to those who we knew in the circles of Dawah and the field of teaching, to those who stood on the pulpits free from [the shackles of the tyrants]: I call you to what the Leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Abu Baseer Nasir Al-Wuhaishi, may Allah protect him, called you to, the exact same call of the Prophet (r). I call you to call people to give rule to the Shariah in your villages, and your dwellings. I call you to set out for Jihad in the Cause of Allah with your lives and your wealth, and to enlighten people of the way of our father, Ibrahim, the call of our trustworthy Prophet.
O youth of the awakening: Teach the coming generation the lives of the heroes of Islam and the meaning of allegiance and disavowal.
O youth of the Awakening: It is not something unknown to you that Zakaah is the third pillar of Islam, and it has been coupled with prayer in many verses. Allah says:
﴿ وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلاَةَ وَآتُوا الزَّكَاةَ ﴾
“…and establish the prayer and offer the Zakaah.” Al-Baqarah:43
Establishment of the religion depends upon it. Fulfill your responsibility of raising funds from charity and Zakaah for your brother Mujahidoon.
As for you, O truthful scholars, you must clarify to the Ummah the topics of Belief and Disbelief, names and rulings, Tawheed and Shirk, the way of our father, Ibrahim, the Islamic ruling concerning secularism and other ideologies, and the Islamic ruling concerning governments which ally with the Jews and the Christians and the proper way of dealing with them in light of Tawheed.
Explain to the Ummah the rulings concerning a group who refuses to implement even one outward sign of Islam and enjoining good and forbidding evil. Explain to them the ruling concerning trading and profiting from Muslim catastrophes and giving verdict in favor of the apostates. Explain to the Ummah the ruling concerning deserting the Muslims in their times of need and abrogating Jihad. Explain to the Ummah the ruling concerning shaping the Islamic curriculum to accord with the beliefs of the governments. Explain to them the rulings concerning apostasy and the proper way of dealing with them.
O Scholars of the Ummah: Study the life of Abu Bakr Al-Siddeeq (y) closely, as well as others who followed his way from the truthful.
O Scholar of the Ummah: You have remained silent long enough in this time in which the Ummah has been torn up to bits and those unfit are doing the talking.
And to you, my brother Mujahid, to you whose feet has become dusty in the Cause of Allah, to those who have experienced the battlefields and garrisons, to those who had a hand in repelling the enemy who invade our religion and honor. To those whose feet set foot on the land of Afghanistan, Chechnya or Iraq. To all these I say: Allah says:
﴿وَأَوْفُوا بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ إِذَا عَاهَدْتُمْ وَلاَ تَنْقُضُوا الأَيْمَانَ بَعْدَ تَوْكِيدِهَا وَقَدْ جَعَلْتُمُ اللَّهَ عَلَيْكُمْ كَفِيلاً إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ (91) وَلاَ تَكُونُوا كَالَّتِي نَقَضَتْ غَزْلَهَا مِنْ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ أَنْكَاثًا تَتَّخِذُونَ أَيْمَانَكُمْ دَخَلاً بَيْنَكُمْ أَنْ تَكُونَ أُمَّةٌ هِيَ أَرْبَى مِنْ أُمَّةٍ إِنَّمَا يَبْلُوكُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَلَيُبَيِّنَنَّ لَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ﴾
“And fulfill the Covenant of Allah (Bay’ah: pledge for Islam) when you have covenanted, and break not the oaths after you have confirmed them, and indeed you have appointed Allah your surety. Verily! Allah knows what you do. * And be not like her who undoes the thread which she has spun after it has become strong, by taking your oaths a means of deception among yourselves, lest a nation may be more numerous than another nation. Allah only tests you by this [i.e who obeys Allah and fulfills Allah's Covenant and who disobeys Allah and breaks Allah's Covenant]. And on the Day of Resurrection, He will certainly make clear to you that wherein you used to diff” Al-Nahl:91
Brother Mujahid: Imam Mak’hool, a scholar from the Tabi’een (Students of the Companions), would face the Qiblah and supplicate, and then swear by Allah ten times, “Jihad is an obligation upon you, O Muslims!” Then he would say, “If you wish I will swear more.” (Narrated by Abdur-Razzaq in Al-Musanaf) Sa’eed ibn Musayyab, the Imam of the Tabi’een, may Allah have mercy on him, from the Jurists of Medinah, went off to Jihad while he had only one eye. It was said to him, “You have a deficiency,” to which he replied, “Allah called upon the light and the heavy. If I am not able to fight, I can at least increase the number and protect the equipment.” (Narrated by Imam Al-Qurtubi)
Brother Mujahid: I remind you strongly of your pact. You have the responsibility to help the cause and continue on this path, until the religion achieves victory, or you die as those before you on the same path. Continue on this path so you can succeed in the heavenly test, for what counts it the last of one’s deeds. Allah says:
﴿ وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ حَتَّى نَعْلَمَ الْمُجَاهِدِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَالصَّابِرِينَ وَنَبْلُوَ أَخْبَارَكُمْ ﴾
“And surely, We shall try you till We see who fights Jihad and has patience from among you, and We shall test your facts (i.e. the one who is a liar, and the one who is truthful).” Muhammad:31
O Muslims: It is enough that you lost Al-Andalus and the Ottoman Caliphate, Palestine and the Islamic Emirate of Taliban. Set out! Set out to the lands of Jihad!
Imam Al-Shawkani said in Sail Al-Jarrar:
Invading the infidels and fighting them, and forcing them with either accepting Islam, paying the Jizyah or death is something well-known in the religion by necessity [and thus no one is excused for being ignorant of this nor can they argue this]. It was for this reason that Allah sent messengers and revealed books. This was from the greatest of the Messenger of Allah’s (r) goals and most important of his affairs, from the time Allah made him a Prophet until Allah took his soul. The Muslims are in agreement (ijma) to the fact that whatever texts we see which indicate being soft with them and leaving them if they do not wage war [wit us] have been abrogated.
Think about this statement my brother, which deals with the type of Jihad which is a communal obligation. How would it be if Jihad becomes an individual obligation, as it is today?!
To all those who have let their tongues loose, degrading or mocking the Mujahidoon, spreading rumors about them or demoralizing people from Jihad. I say: Allah has said:
﴿ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌ وَزِينَةٌ وَتَفَاخُرٌ بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌ فِي الأَمْوَالِ وَالأَولادِ كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَاهُ مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ يَكُونُ حُطَامًا وَفِي الآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانٌ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ ﴾
“Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children, as the likeness of vegetation after rain, thereof the growth is pleasing to the tiller; afterwards it dries up and you see it turning yellow; then it becomes straw. But in the Hereafter there is a severe torment, and Forgiveness from Allah and Good Pleasure, whereas the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment.” Al-Hadeed:29
(Poetry)
O you who have censured our youth from making Jihad
Stop your rebuking and your exposing
Is he who is in love with Paradise and its scent to be blamed
Following the course of the Companions forever?
Is he who has left this life and its folly to be blamed
And with free determination has answered when he was called upon?
Is he who sold himself cheaply to Allah to be blamed
In order to achieve Firdaws, the best of abodes?
So save Jihad and its people from your blame
And be careful that you do not have a characteristic of the hypocrites
Whoever does not have form determination to fight, or has not fought
He has died the death of the evil.
Indeed Jihad is the path to our honor and glory
And by leaving it is a disgraceful life and vileness.
Imam Al-Hakim reported a hadeeth in Al-Mustadrak with a “good” chain of narration which can be used as evidence, one which Al-Dhahabi graded as authentic and also reported by Al-Tabarani and Al-Bayhaqi: On the authority of Basheer ibn Al-Khasasia (y), who said:
« أتيتُ رسولَ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لأبايعَه على الإسلامِ , فاشترطَ عليَ تشهدُ أن لا اله إلا الله وأنَ محمداً عبدهُ ورسولُه وتُصلي الخمس, وتصومُ رمضانَ وتؤدي الزكاةَ وتحجُّ البيتَ وتجاهدُ في سبيلِ الله قال : قلتُ يا رسولَ اللهِ أما اثنتانِ فلا أُطِيقُهما ، الزكاةُ لأنهُ ليسَ ليَ إلا عشرُ ذَودٍ هم رُسلُ أَهْلي وحُمولَتهم , و أما الجهادُ فإنهم يزعُمون أن من ولى فقد باء بغضبٍ من اللهِ فأخافُ إن حضرني قتالٌ كرهتُ الموتَ وجَشَعت نفسي ، فقبض رسولُ اللهِ يدهُ ثم حَركها ثم قال : ( لا صدقةَ ولا جهادَ فبم تدخلِ الجَنة فقبض رسول الله يده ثم حركها ثم قال لا صدقه ولا جهاد فبم تدخل الجنة ) »
I came the Messenger of Allah (r) to pledge allegiance to him upon Islam, and he made the condition that I bear witness that none is to be worshipped but Allah, that Muhammad is his slave and messenger, to pray the five prayers, to fast Ramadan, to offer the Zakaah, to perform Hajj, and to fight Jihad in the Cause of Allah. I said, “O Messenger of Allah, I am not able to do two of these things: Zakaah, because I only have 10 she-camels which are my family’s carriers and their beasts of burden, and Jihad, because they believe that whoever turns their backs, they will be from those who Allah is angered with, and I fear that when the battle starts, I will hate death and fear for my life.”
The Messenger of Allah took hold of his hand and shook it, saying, “No charity and no Jihad? Then what will get you into Paradise?” The Messenger of Allah took hold of his hand and shook it, saying, “No charity and no Jihad? Then what will get you into Paradise?”
Think, my noble brother, about this statement of the chosen one (r), “No charity and no Jihad? Then what will get you into Paradise?” What will get you into Paradise?
O you who have deserted Jihad and the Mujahidoon! Here is the Messenger of Allah (r) saying “No charity and no Jihad? Then what will get you into Paradise?”
﴿أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا حَتَّى يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَى نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَلاََ إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ﴾
“Or do you think that you will enter Paradise without such (trials) as came to those who passed away before you? They met suffering and adversity and were so shaken that even the Messenger and those who believed along with him said, “When (will come) the Help of Allah?” Yes! Certainly, the Help of Allah is near.” Al-Baqarah: 214
O slaves of Allah! No charity and no Jihad? Then what will get you into Paradise? Each one of us must prepare an answer for this question before the Day of Resurrection, as Allah (I) said:
﴿ يَوْمَ لاَ يَنْفَعُ مَالٌ وَلاَ بَنُونَ * إِلاَّ مَنْ أَتَى اللَّهَ بِقَلْبٍ سَلِيمٍ ﴾
“The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail.* Except him who brings to Allah a healthy heart.” Al-Shu’ara:88-89
In closing, I pray:
O Allah! Revealer of the Books! Swift in Judgment! Defeat the parties! O Allah! Defeat them and shake them! Give us victory over them! O Allah give victory to the Mujahidoon in the land of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, the Islamic West, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia, and everywhere else!
O Allah! Give them victory over their enemies! Guide their aim! Heal their wounded!
O Allah! Free our prisoners and the prisoners of the Muslims!
O Allah! Free Shiekh Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman! Sheikh Rifa’i Taha, Sheikh Sulaiman Al-Ulwan, Sheikh Waleed Al-Sinani, Sheikh Saeed Aal Al-Za’eer, Sheikh Faris Aal Shuwayyil, Sheikh Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Sheikh Abu Hafs Al-Mauritani.
O Allah! Free Sheikh Muhammad Al-Fizazi, Sheikh Abu Qatadah Al-Filistini, Sheikh Nasar Al-Marsad, and all the other Muslims.
O Allah! Accept our martyrs!
And the last of our prayers is that all praise be to Allah, the lord of all that exists.
Submitted by a Mujahid