Abu-Musa
16-07-2007, 07:20 PM
From the Pen of one of the Shaykhs...
Criticism Of The Critics And The Innocence Of The Mujahideen
In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
We hear these days’ strange words and bizarre thoughts coming from people who appear on the satellite channels and speak in the matters of the Ummah with obscurity claiming that they are those with apparent clarity in matters. It seems that people have no other occupation these days than to talk about those whose path is Jihad; accusation, suspicion, diversion, belittling, betrayal and frivolous claims come forth.
The chatter has increased and the speeches have doubled, dressed in the attire of constructive criticism and brotherly advice with words that appear loving but hide behind evil, malice, treachery and complicated ignorance…
One is amazed as to how those who have stayed behind (Khawalif) criticize the people of Jihad saying “you have wronged, you left, you and you!!” And who are you to speak on behalf of the Mujahideen?
They say, “this near us is not permissible”… and who are you to speak of what is “near you”? The Mujahideen do not have any care except Jihad!! The Mujahideen have abbreviated the religion as a whole in Jihad. They don’t know preaching and do not have the knowledge of even setting up an industry leave alone setting up a nation… all their care is Jihad!! The Mujahideen kill the innocent!! The Mujahideen are not conscious of the present!! The Mujahideen use violence!!
Who are you O who is sitting of those who have stayed behind? O you who have disobeyed Allah by leaving the Jihad that has been made obligatory on all of us. Really! “If you feel not shy, do what you like!”
A person feels ashamed to reply to the likes of these words while the bodies of the unbelievers are spread out in front of our eyes from what these men release from the recorded raids!! Is not the picture more informative than words!! If it wasn’t in our knowledge that there are innocents who have attained such a degree of innocence that they believe these empty-headed people, we wouldn’t have taken the pains to clarify, but:
If there wasn’t anything except the aged as a ride then what choice does one have except to ride it!
So let’s walk with these critics step by step, and express the condition of their silly talks, that do not work except on the brainless:
They Say The Mujahideen Are Not Good Enough To Build An Institution Let Alone A Country
And who told you that the Mujahideen have come out to build an institution!! They have come out to beat the throats and to shred the bodies of the unbelievers into bits. They did not come out to set up institutions or schools or cultural activities; these are the people of war and raids… do you know what war is? I don’t think so… for none of you must have fired even a shot on a mouse, leave alone firing at a cannon in the face of an unbeliever!! Did you forget the “Islamic Emirate ” that made the impossible possible in just a few years - peace among people concerning their blood and money, the drugs plantations stopped, the idols were destroyed and Allah was worshipped alone. All this in spite of the deficiency in the number of hands, the betrayal of friends and fighting the enemy!! So which country is better than it!! Or is the presence of interesting institutions necessary and the abodes of adultery and pubs and the morally-deprived media, and corrupt associations and the rulings of the unbelievers and authorities that steal so that there should be a state??
They Say The Mujahideen Do Not Understand Politics
Which politics is better than the politics of slashing the throats of the unbelievers, and cutting their heads and taking them and preparing for them every observatory, and expelling every one who they left behind them?? Does this politics not hold good today, like the politics of showing enmity to the unbelievers and migrating from their lands and taking their women and offspring as captives and killing their men, just as proper as it is for Muslim women to conceal themselves from those they are not related to and not mingle with the men? It is not proper for men to have long beards and wear thoabs above the ankle that does not suit the look of a modern Muslim??
They Say The Mujahideen Use Violence
As if these words have come out from the mouth of a virgin white as she is, nor the sun has seen her or the wind has hurt her beautiful cheeks! What else do you want the Mujahideen to do? Is this a defect in the Mujahideen?
Allah says in his book in Surah At Taubah Verse 123:
O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.
And Al-Ragheb said in “Mufradat Al-Faaz Al Quran” harshness means roughness… so is there a difference between violence and harshness? Oh Mr. ToTo!! Allah has given the badge of Taqwa (fearfulness) to the people of harshness, so what do you think He tagged the people of leniency and humility to the unbelievers and the hypocrites in His book with?? What is the ruling on the person who says, “I do not believe in violence” in Surah Al-Baqarah 85?
Yet ye it is who slay each other and drive out a party of your people from their homes, supporting one another against them by sin and transgression ? - and if they came to you as captives ye would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself unlawful for you - Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof ? And what is the reward of those who do so save ignominy in the life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to the most grievous doom. For Allah is not unaware of what ye do.
As I see it Mr. ToTo, if an American comes to violate the sanctity of his wife and he has sat between her legs and she is throwing on him scraps of papers and he is saying, “This is not right O American!” This is not right O Khwajah! This is violence!
Allah the Almighty commanded His Prophet and said in Surah At Tahreem 9
O Prophet! Strive against the rejecters of the Truth and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, and how pathetic a destination.
So do you believe?
The Prophet who was sent as a mercy to the worlds, who was sent with peace and Islam, and love for the mankind as a whole, His Lord orders him this! This is the understanding of the Mujahideen, and they do not understand anything except this order, and if we sit with them a hundred years and said to them, “Don’t use violence” then they won’t be convinced until Jibril comes down again with a book of the new “ToTo”. Well it has come down in Kuwait, and the American forces have spread it on their chosen ones of Kuwait, who are Mr. ToTo and his people…
They Say The Mujahideen Are Not Conscious Of The Present
This term of “being conscious of the present” was stated by some of the Ikhwaan and those belonging to a group of Salafis. When the dilemma of the different tags was resolved and the Mujahideen appeared, everyone made this charge at them!! As if the tag is a burden in their hearts, that they could not throw it from their minds until they threw it at someone else!! Praise be to Allah!! You who are in your houses and your beds and between your children and in the cuddles of your wives, know the reality better than those who live it!! The reality today is in the arenas of war arenas - where are you in this reality? And is the news like the viewed? The Mujahideen have left for you the reality of capsules and elevations and jambalayas and tastes and the Bashmels, so satiate yourselves with your reality, for the Mujahideen have indulged themselves with a different reality.
They Say The Mujahideen Kill The Innocents
Define for us your innocents then give us your evidence that the Mujahideen are the ones who kill these innocents. If you mean in the term innocents the friends of the Jews and Christians and the guards of their patrols, then May Allah not spare your innocents and then may not the Mujahideen spare them. As for the real innocents, then we ask “did the Mujahideen come out of their money, people and countries except to protect these innocents?” They could have put their hands in the hands of those you have put your hands in and they could have been people of status and assets and mobiles, on the satellite channels, but they preferred manhood to frivolity, and they came out to defend the sanctities of the Muslims.
All right then let’s come and make our minds work for a moment, and ask, are we not in a war? Isn’t our enemy cheating us? Is there not a simple assumption that the enemy is the one who kills the innocents and then attaches the accusation to the sincere Mujahideen? Do they not plant discord between the brothers so that the Muslims fight amongst each other and so that the wind of strength blows away? How many times have the Mujahideen arrested British and Americans and puppets who wanted to blow up public places and to kill the people in the cities exactly opposite of what they accuse the Mujahideen of? Instead even the so-called governments have caught the British who wanted to blow up areas and then blame the Mujahideen but they released them because they were not Mujahideen but Good Old British, who they are obsessed with!
When will these people understand that we are in a war and there exists something called deception in war. This cunning viciousness and separation disintegrates and wastes efforts. When will we learn from our Quran and from the Sunnah of our Prophet (peace be upon him) and his life story and the story of his righteous companions, May Allah have mercy on all of them!
As for who is killed by mistake in the operations of the Mujahideen, then such a mistake happens in all battles even from the most smartest of people and the cleverest of them in opinion. It is narrated in Bukhari from the Hadith of Aishah May Allah have mercy on her, she said:
“It was the day of Uhud, the unbelievers were defeated, then the Satan shouted- May Allah’s curse be on him- O servants of Allah, the other of you. So the first of them returned and clashed with the last portion of them. Huzaifa saw, and noticed that there was his father Yamaan, he said, ‘O servants of Allah, My father, My father!’ She said, ‘By Allah, they surrounded him and didn’t leave him until they had killed him’. Hudaifa said, May Allah forgive you!”
So these are the Companions who killed the father of the man of secrets with the Prophet peace be upon him, by mistake, they gathered on him and they killed him, and they are fighting with swords and spears then what about a war of bombs and rockets?
One Said The Mujahideen Do Not Have Legal (Shari’ah) Knowledge
And what have you done with your Legal knowledge O successful one? Did you not study in the university the sayings of Allah in Surah At-Taubah 38:39:
O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter.
Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For Allah hath power over all things.
You have been promised severe torment, and Allah has exchanged you, O holder of the degree, with the one who does not have a degree, to give him a degree and to hold you under His promise… and that degree is not like your degree…
Have you not read, O holder of degree, the saying of Allah in Surah Al Anbiya Verse 69:
We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Abraham!"
Saadi, may Allah have mercy on him said, “and those who did Jihad with us, they are the ones who migrated in the way of Allah, and fought against their enemies, and did what they could in following His commands. We will guide them to Our path” that is the way that leads to us, and that is because they are well-doers and Allah is with the well-doers with victory and aid.
Ibn Abbas said, “what is meant by the well-doers is the believers in His oneness while others said that it means the Mujahideen. Ibn Mubarak said, “when a matter gets difficult for someone, let him ask the people of war about them, for the saying of Allah is that “we will guide them to Our right path”.
So are you, O holder of the degree, more guided from those Allah has taken upon Himself to guide in His book to the straight path?
They Say The Mujahideen Have No Other Concerns Except Jihad; They Have Abbreviated The Whole Religion In Jihad
What should we say to people with this level of understanding? Let us take them according to the size of their brains. O you, what do the scholars speak about in the month of Ramadan? What do the scholars speak about in the season of Hajj? What do the scholars speak about when they are collecting charity? Every occasion has its sayings… now the time is the time of Jihad, then what do you want them to talk about? They are Mujahideen and this is the time of their Jihad, do you want them to talk about the direction of the (prayer) Qibla, in Planet Jupiter!! Do you want the carpenter to perform surgery? Or you want the plumber to make an airplane for you? These are people of a specialization and if they do not speak in their specialty they will be speaking in things they have no knowledge about, as you are doing by speaking about Jihad!! So let your concern be raising institutions and to setting up websites and teaching people the secrets of married life and leave Jihad for its people.
They Say The Mujahideen Have Made Mistakes
MashaAllah on this great analysis and this great understanding and discovery! And did anyone say that the Mujahideen are Angels!! Is not every son of Adam a mistaker!! We ask how many mistakes have the Mujahideen made? Then we say it is enough nobility for a person that his mistakes that5 can be counted. O miserable one! How do you account the Mujahideen for some of their mistakes in Jihad while your eating and drinking and standing and sitting and sleeping is all drowned in the ocean of your sins of staying back from Jihad!! The step of the Mujahid, his standing and sitting and laughing and crying, eating and sleeping and drinking in Jihad - all of it is included in good deeds. Then wont their mistakes be drowned in the sea of their good deeds as your saying is drowned in the sea of your staying back and sitting from Jihad? Or will Allah not hold you to account on your staying back from Jihad and account the Mujahideen only on the Day of Judgment in what they strived hard in!
They Say The Mujahideen Remove Muslims From The Boundaries Of Islam
Did the Mujahideen come out for any reason other than to defend the Muslims? How do they call Muslims non-Muslims for it is the Muslim they spent their lives on in order to guarantee their freedom and the freedom of their religion. Does any reasonable person believe this? Or do you mean by Muslims the friends of the Jews and Christians and the Unbelievers? The Mujahideen haven’t called them non-Muslims but Allah is the one who called them non-Muslims in His book. He the Almighty said in Surah Al-Maidah Verse 51:
O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends: They are but friends to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
So the Mujahideen said “These are not from us but from them” so if these are the ones you mean then we pray to Allah that all Muslims must be Takfeeri (those telling others as out of Islam), to call those who Allah has called non-Muslims in His book, as non Muslims. If the Mujahideen were calling Muslims as non-Muslims then why are they fighting, and for who are they fighting? Are they making their lives prone to dangers to protect the unbelievers!
They Say The Mujahideen Call The Rulers Unbelievers
Do you mean the rulers who have declared their stand under the banner of Bush in his Crusade against Islam? Do you mean the rulers who are ruling by the French constitution and the American and the British in the money and sanctities of the Muslims? Do you mean the rulers who are providing America with money, land, guards, airspace, oil, money, medicine and information to spare their time and effort, so that they are free to kill the Muslims without obstacles!! Do you mean the rulers who are killing the Mujahideen and imprisoning them and giving them to the Americans?
If you mean these rulers them we make Allah witness that they are unbelievers and that the one who does not call them unbelievers is from the most ignorant about the present condition of the Muslims and their beliefs. How would they not be unbelievers when all the conditions of disbelief are gathered in them and this has become clear? They are the ones who declare their disbelief in the morning and at night before the eyes and the ears of the creation!! These people, if they had ears, would have heard the disbelief of their rulers and if they had eyes, they would have seen the disbelief of their rulers and if they had brains they would have known the disbelief of their rulers, and if they had tongues they would have declared the disbelief of their rulers, but they are deaf, dumb and blind so they do not understand.
They Say The Mujahideen Talk About The Obligation To Come Out Against The Rulers
If one’s condition is like we have mentioned, then the ruling of coming out against them is obligatory and the opinions of the scholars. And as for the number then no one is excused because of it! This is the ruling of coming out against these rulers as is clear from the books of the Salaf. The Mujahideen have not said this they just made plain what the scholars of the Sultan hid. And the leaders of Jihad have not declared to come out against the rulers, but they have just made clear that there is no obedience obligatory on the Muslims to these rulers because of their disbelief from the religion. And the ruling of coming out against these is coming no doubt! And the people who have transgressed will know which abode they turn to.
They Say The Mujahideen Kill Citizens
We say where in our religion is the sanctity of the blood of the citizen? Didn’t the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his companions kill the Makkan citizens in the battles of Badr and Uhud and Khandaq? They even killed their Madeni citizens who aided the unbelievers and their leader Abu Amir, the hypocrite. Is the killing of the cousins of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the brothers of the Companions permissible while the killing of your citizens is unlawful!! Where in the Quran is the differentiation between a citizen and a non-citizen? The lesson in our religion is in the religion itself. So the one who is a Muslim is the respected, as for the others – no. The Shari’ah has divided people into 3 parts; the Muslim, the one who embraces Islam, those who have agreed to a truce as long as they are obedient to their terms with us, (in this comes the one with a right, the refugee and the truce) or those we fight against and his money and blood is lawful where ever we get him. We kill him with the nearest hand (this is the division near us) and we did not find a place for the citizen or a non citizen in this. So if Jibril, peace be upon him, has come down to you with a citizen verse, then is it right for you to hide this knowledge from us?
They Say Mujahideen Fight Outside Their Lands
This you say to the Prophet, peace be upon him, ho did not fight in Makkah but in Medina, and you say it to the Companions who came out from Hijaz to fight in Syria and Iraq and Khurasan and the lands beyond the sea and Egypt and Algeria and Sudan? There is a funny statement that we hear these days often from some of them. They say “the Arab Mujahideen”. They say this to differentiate between the Mujahideen in Iraq, they say this is an Iraqi Mujahid and that is an Arab Mujahid. The reality is that whenever I hear this word I can not stop myself from laughing - s an Iraqi an Indian or is he not an Arab? May be the statement has a meaning in Afghanistan and in Chechnya and in Kashmir, Bosnia and Kosovo and Philippines and China and Burma and the other non Arab countries, as for Iraq, then how can it have any meaning, except that maybe the roots of the people of Iraq is from the islands of Waq Al Waq!! Everything is possible these days.
They Say The Mujahideen Make Mischief In Their Lands
We are not capable of understanding your minds! And where do you want the Mujahideen to do jihad! If they fight in their country then you say that they fight in their country and if they fight outside their country they say they fight outside their country! Open for them a front line on the moon so that they can fight there!
Let us make the idea in its simplest form so that these people understand it, and I hope that you open your minds a little to understand the tough reality that your great minds have not understood, inshaAllah. It is a reality that the likes of you great thinkers and philosophers rarely understand. Be careful about this sentence that explains very accurately where the area of fighting is, are you ready? The fighting will be… be careful, I am going to say a word so let it not escape you for it is a little difficult to understand, and it maybe that the clever be betrayed by his wit and doesn’t understand, be careful to what I say… I say: “fighting is where the enemy is”. I pray to Allah that you should understand… O the granter of wisdom to Sulaiman, make them understand …
They Say The Mujahideen Drag Themselves To Wars They Are No Match For
You said this in Afghanistan and the Mujahideen won against the Soviets, which was the largest military power in the world at that time, and they changed it to Russia. You said that in Somalia and the Mujahideen won against America, which was the largest military power in the world at that time. You said this in Bosnia and the Mujahideen won on the Serbs and the Croats who were aided by the European countries and Russia and Jews until America interfered and saved its Christian counterparts from amidst the claws of the Mujahideen. You said this in Iraq and there they are, the Mujahideen with victory after victory and the powers of unbelief have gathered on them in a joint cross worshipper attack, including all the Christian countries and the Arab governments and even Buddhist and Hindu governments.
We accept that the Mujahideen are very simple, for they believe in the saying of Allah the Almighty in Surah Al Baqarah Verse 249:
When Talut set forth with the armies, he said: "Allah will test you at the stream: if any drinks of its water, He goes not with my army: Only those who taste not of it go with me: A mere sip out of the hand is excused." but they all drank of it, except a few. When they crossed the river,- He and the faithful ones with him,- they said: "This day We cannot cope with Goliath and his forces." but those who were convinced that they must meet Allah, said: "How oft, by Allah's will, Hath a small force vanquished a big one? Allah is with those who steadfastly persevere."
They believe in these words with all the simplicity that Imaan carries in meaning. They believe that victory is from Allah and defeat is from Allah and that victory does not come except from Allah and the condition for victory is that they support the religion of Allah by coming our for Jihad in the way of Allah. This is the way the Mujahideen are. It may be that this simplicity of thinking will be innocent and a trivial carriage in the extent of knowledge and the political, social, technical, institutional and organizational understanding. But you shouldn’t blame them for they haven’t studied in your great universities and they haven’t got your certificates, and they did not praise their units in front of your media, or your thoughts and your respected Mufti. All they know is that Allah has said in Surah Muhammad Verse 7:
O ye who believe! If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly.
So they said, we believe in Allah and we support His religion and we rely on Allah to give us victory over our enemy!! Imagine, with this simplicity and innocence they defeated the Soviets, rocked America and shook the throne of Europe!!
We know that there are philosophers and politicians and analysts and people of great certificates and orators among you but we have failed to convince the Mujahideen against their view! What should we do with these simple and innocent individuals!! We have got tired of telling the Mujahideen you must read the books of these philosophers and orators and leave aside the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet and his life story, peace be upon him, but they do not understand this, and they do not agree with anything except by Quran and the Sunnah!! We pray to Allah to guide them…
One of those minds spilled a little on a wise thing and he said, “whoever carried a weapon then his pretext is vain.”
What do we say to such a person!! A man prays to Allah to hasten the days of the Ruwaibidah, so that such idiots do not speak up!! O crazy one, the Prophet, peace be upon him, carried weapons and Abu Bakr and Omar and Uthman and Ali and The Ten and the People of the Pledge and People of Badr and Uhud and Khandaq and most of the Companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, carried weapons, and Allah has ordered us to carry weapons in His book, are all these vain pretexts?
They Say The Mujahideen Do Not Accept Criticism Or Instruction!!
This is true and we do not oppose them in this, but you must know the reason. The reason is that they like to listen the criticism on the point, meaning face-to-face, and they do not like it through the satellite, so if you want them to listen to you then go to their frontlines and sit with the Mujahideen and hold for them classes on direction and instruction, and I guarantee you that they will listen to you. If you do that, and they will give you priority over others, but just you go to them and tell what you want.
The scholar and geniuses said, “the Mujahideen are young and haven’t grown up yet, and they haven’t gained knowledge, as they should due to their young age”.
We say to them if the scholars are assembled on the Day of Judgment, then who will precede them in distance? And how much was Omar, the man of distance when he passed away? Muadh Ibn Jabal, may Allah have mercy on him, when he died, was only 38 years old as is mentioned by Ibn Kathir in his translation of Al Bidayah wa Annihayah. Was not Muadh Ibn Jabal the most knowledgeable of the Ummah about the lawful and unlawful at the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and when he, peace be upon him, passed away, Muadh was only 30 years. He was the most knowledgeable of the Ummah and will precede the scholars on the Day of Judgment and he hasn’t reached even 30!
So knowledge is not by age - it is by understanding and work. How many old men are present who are not good at reading even the Fatihah (opening chapter of the Quran) and do not perform their prayer well and how many youngsters are by-hearters of the Quran and have perfected it and know the Sunnah and understand its meaning and work by it? The old men of Quraish did not believe when the greatest truth known to mankind and the greatest preacher on the face of the earth with the greatest evidence and greatest book revealed by Allah, and yet the youngsters believed. And most of these were young men between 20 and 30 when they accepted Islam. Some of them believed and they were not even 20, not even 10.
They Say The Mujahideen’s Aqeedah (Belief) Is Not Clear
This is said by those who call themselves Salafi’s! We have told of their ignorance a million times that the Aqeedah of the Mujahideen are of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, peace be upon him, but they have rebelled. The Mujahideen read “The book of Tawheed” and “The Three Basics” and “The Four Constants”. What do we say to such people?! Who passed them these books - the Mujahideen brothers and the followers of Imam Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahab! And was it not for their efforts you would still be doing tawaaf around trees and seeking help from the stones like the condition of your forefathers. By Jihad these books reached you and they will not remain with you except through Jihad. And what is strange is that they call themselves Salafis while Imam Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahab was not from the Salaf but from the Khalaf (those who came after) and he was almost from the modern generation!! Is it not enough that they call Muslims as our father Ibraheem, peace be upon him, called us, or is it opposition and sect creation only!
They Say The Mujahideen Are Khawarij
To this we ask who are the Khawarij and please tell us their belief and the belief of the Mujahideen? The Khawarij are those who go out of Islam like the arrow goes out of the bow and this is appropriate on those who act on the things that nullify Imaan, like siding the unbelievers and implementing laws other than Allah’s, and loving the backs of the unbelievers over the backs of the Muslims. They say: we are better than the Mujahideen!
I say, you have lied, by the one who has revealed the Quran. Has not Allah the Almighty said in Surah At-Taubah Verses 19:22:
Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious service of) those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and strive with might and main in the cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of Allah: and Allah guides not those who do wrong.
Those who believe, and suffer exile and strive with might and main, in Allah's cause, with their goods and their persons, have the highest rank in the sight of Allah: they are the people who will achieve (salvation).
Their Lord doth give them glad tidings of a Mercy from Himself, of His good pleasure, and of gardens for them, wherein are delights that endure:
They will dwell therein for ever. Verily in Allah's presence is a reward, the greatest (of all).
Muslim has related in his Sahih from the Hadith of Nomaan bin Baheer he said:
I was near the Minbar (minaret on which Prophet would give the sermon) of the Prophet (peace be upon him), when a man said: I do not care to do any work after Islam except to give drink to the pilgrims, and another said: I do not care to do any work after Islam except frequenting the Holy Mosque, and another said: Jihad in the way of Allah is better than what you say. So Omar stopped them and said: Don’t raise your voices near the Minbar of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and it is Friday, but after praying the Friday prayer I will enter upon the Prophet of Allah and ask him in what you have differed in. Then this verse was revealed”
Saadi, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “When some of the Muslims differed, or some Muslims and some unbelievers, in giving precedence to the frequenting of the Holy Mosque, by building and praying and worshipping in it and the giving of the drinks to the pilgrims, on believing in Allah and Jihad in His way, Allah the Almighty told about the difference in them. He said: “Have you made the giving of drinks to the pilgrims” that is: giving them the water of Zam Zam as is famous if this name is given, that it is the one meant here “and the frequenting of the Holy Mosque like the one who has believed in Allah and the Last Day and did Jihad in the way of Allah, they are not equal near Allah”
Jihad and believe in Allah are closer to Allah than the giving of drinks to the pilgrims and frequenting the Holy Mosque by many degrees, because the Imaan is the base of the religion and with it the deeds are accepted, and the qualities are favoured. As for Jihad in the way of Allah, then it is the crest of the hump of the religion, by which the Islamic religion is protected and with it, it expands, and the truth triumphs and falsehood is wiped out. Then He expanded the meaning and said: “those who believed and migrated and did Jihad in the way of Allah with their money by spending in Jihad and preparing the raiders and themselves are greater in status near Allah and they are the winners”. That is, they do not win the desired and are not safe from the fear except those who arm themselves with these qualities, and tame themselves with these manners.
And in the explanation of “Ma’alim Al-Tanzeel” of the Jawee An Nawawi, there is a sweet statement in the explanation of this verse where it comes; “When Allah described the believers with three qualities of Imaan, Hijrah (migration) and Jihad with money and self, He met that with glad tidings of the three. He started with mercy, that is the safety from Hell Fire as a reward for Imaan, the second with Ridwaan i.e. gratification and that is the limit of benevolence as a reward for leaving the countries and the third was Paradise that is the greatest benefit in return of Jihad in which is the spending of the self and money. And they have been given specialty of the great reward because their belief is the greatest belief .
And it came in the (agreed upon) Hadith of Abu Hurairah, May Allah have mercy on him, said, it was said:
O Prophet of Allah, what is it that equals the Jihad in the way of Allah? He said: You cannot do it. They repeated to him again twice or thrice all that, he said: You cannot do it, then he said: The example of a Mujahid in the way of Allah is like that of the one who fasts, and stands in humility with the verses of Allah, unfailing of the fast or the stand (prayer) until the Mujahid in the way of Allah, comes back.
And in the narration of Bukhari: That a man said:
O Prophet of Allah, guide me to an act that is equal to Jihad. He said, “I do not find it”, then he said, “Can you if the Mujahid goes out, enter the Masjid and stand (in prayer) without stopping and fast without stopping? He said: And who can do that”.
And we give glad tidings to this Companion that today there are people in the Ummah who can do more than that, and that is why they see themselves better than the Mujahideen and greater in ranking than them!
Do We Mean That The Mujahideen Are Above Criticism?
The answer is Yes, they are above criticism if it comes from those who Allah has promised with painful torment from those He has tagged as Khawalif, as for what comes from MEN, then no!
Then why is the part of the rulers to be instructed in secret and documents are written to stop instructing them out in open in spite of the fact that they have declared their aid to the unbelievers and implement laws other than Allah and spread amongst the people evil and eat the money of people unjustly out in the open, and then the part of the Mujahideen should be (not instruction) criticism in public.
How many times have we heard that “the meats of the scholars are poisoned”? But we still hold them in high esteem and respect them no matter what, but it is for us to wonder; if the meats of the scholars are poisoned, then are the meats of Mujahideen cakes, or are they more poisonous than the meats of the scholars? Do you think that the scholars would appear on the screens of the satellite TV screens, without this Jihad!! By Allah if it wasn’t for Jihad then it wouldn’t be heard from even a single scholar today and the rulers would have put them in the dunghills. Modern history is the best witness, for when does it make sense of those who respect the scholars and then stand in the lines of the Christians and fight the Mujahideen with their tongues? And some of those who claim to have knowledge cut their forearm without even knowing it.
Whoever wants to address the Mujahideen, let him address them with respect, and instruct them with respect and talk to them with respect, as for criticism (constructive or otherwise) that takes on refutation then it is not acceptable at all. The one who does not have manners then let him bind his tongue and close his mouth and sit at his house and not talk in the matters of the Muslims. If you want to know these people then see their condition when they are talking to the disbelieving rulers and officials and see their humility and manners and the accurate choosing of words, and then look at their condition with the people of Allah from the Mujahideen. Obviously, the one who doesn’t fear the consequence misbehaves.
Mujahideen are humans; they commit mistakes and do things right, but they are today the masters of the humans, and they are leading the Ummah in its war against disbelief, for they are the ones who are aiding on the fire, and they are the ones who are spending their souls in the arenas of war, and they are the ones who are protecting the sanctity of men and women, and spilling the blood on the war grounds. They have abandoned their countries and have left their friends to obey the call of the only One worshipped. So the one who doesn’t know their right and doesn’t know their favour on him, then he is the one who doesn’t deserve to be treated with any respect.
O Allah we make you witness over our love for the Mujahideen and the love of those who love them, and we seek acquittal of those who are the enemies of the Mujahideen and those who aided them… O Allah! Grant victory to the Mujahideen everywhere, and protect them with your protection, and don’t leave them to themselves even for the blink of an eye… Allah purify the hearts of the Mujahideen and make their rows one and firm their legs and aid their shots and bless them in their life and accept their martyrs O Most Merciful O Most Gracious… O Allah protect them from the plot of the plotters and the cunning of the cunning and the viciousness of the vicious…
And Allah knows best… and peace and blessings of Allah on our Prophet and his family and companions…
Shaykh Hussain Ibn Mahmood
10 Jamadi Al-Awal 1428
May 27, 2007
Criticism Of The Critics And The Innocence Of The Mujahideen
In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
We hear these days’ strange words and bizarre thoughts coming from people who appear on the satellite channels and speak in the matters of the Ummah with obscurity claiming that they are those with apparent clarity in matters. It seems that people have no other occupation these days than to talk about those whose path is Jihad; accusation, suspicion, diversion, belittling, betrayal and frivolous claims come forth.
The chatter has increased and the speeches have doubled, dressed in the attire of constructive criticism and brotherly advice with words that appear loving but hide behind evil, malice, treachery and complicated ignorance…
One is amazed as to how those who have stayed behind (Khawalif) criticize the people of Jihad saying “you have wronged, you left, you and you!!” And who are you to speak on behalf of the Mujahideen?
They say, “this near us is not permissible”… and who are you to speak of what is “near you”? The Mujahideen do not have any care except Jihad!! The Mujahideen have abbreviated the religion as a whole in Jihad. They don’t know preaching and do not have the knowledge of even setting up an industry leave alone setting up a nation… all their care is Jihad!! The Mujahideen kill the innocent!! The Mujahideen are not conscious of the present!! The Mujahideen use violence!!
Who are you O who is sitting of those who have stayed behind? O you who have disobeyed Allah by leaving the Jihad that has been made obligatory on all of us. Really! “If you feel not shy, do what you like!”
A person feels ashamed to reply to the likes of these words while the bodies of the unbelievers are spread out in front of our eyes from what these men release from the recorded raids!! Is not the picture more informative than words!! If it wasn’t in our knowledge that there are innocents who have attained such a degree of innocence that they believe these empty-headed people, we wouldn’t have taken the pains to clarify, but:
If there wasn’t anything except the aged as a ride then what choice does one have except to ride it!
So let’s walk with these critics step by step, and express the condition of their silly talks, that do not work except on the brainless:
They Say The Mujahideen Are Not Good Enough To Build An Institution Let Alone A Country
And who told you that the Mujahideen have come out to build an institution!! They have come out to beat the throats and to shred the bodies of the unbelievers into bits. They did not come out to set up institutions or schools or cultural activities; these are the people of war and raids… do you know what war is? I don’t think so… for none of you must have fired even a shot on a mouse, leave alone firing at a cannon in the face of an unbeliever!! Did you forget the “Islamic Emirate ” that made the impossible possible in just a few years - peace among people concerning their blood and money, the drugs plantations stopped, the idols were destroyed and Allah was worshipped alone. All this in spite of the deficiency in the number of hands, the betrayal of friends and fighting the enemy!! So which country is better than it!! Or is the presence of interesting institutions necessary and the abodes of adultery and pubs and the morally-deprived media, and corrupt associations and the rulings of the unbelievers and authorities that steal so that there should be a state??
They Say The Mujahideen Do Not Understand Politics
Which politics is better than the politics of slashing the throats of the unbelievers, and cutting their heads and taking them and preparing for them every observatory, and expelling every one who they left behind them?? Does this politics not hold good today, like the politics of showing enmity to the unbelievers and migrating from their lands and taking their women and offspring as captives and killing their men, just as proper as it is for Muslim women to conceal themselves from those they are not related to and not mingle with the men? It is not proper for men to have long beards and wear thoabs above the ankle that does not suit the look of a modern Muslim??
They Say The Mujahideen Use Violence
As if these words have come out from the mouth of a virgin white as she is, nor the sun has seen her or the wind has hurt her beautiful cheeks! What else do you want the Mujahideen to do? Is this a defect in the Mujahideen?
Allah says in his book in Surah At Taubah Verse 123:
O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.
And Al-Ragheb said in “Mufradat Al-Faaz Al Quran” harshness means roughness… so is there a difference between violence and harshness? Oh Mr. ToTo!! Allah has given the badge of Taqwa (fearfulness) to the people of harshness, so what do you think He tagged the people of leniency and humility to the unbelievers and the hypocrites in His book with?? What is the ruling on the person who says, “I do not believe in violence” in Surah Al-Baqarah 85?
Yet ye it is who slay each other and drive out a party of your people from their homes, supporting one another against them by sin and transgression ? - and if they came to you as captives ye would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself unlawful for you - Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof ? And what is the reward of those who do so save ignominy in the life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to the most grievous doom. For Allah is not unaware of what ye do.
As I see it Mr. ToTo, if an American comes to violate the sanctity of his wife and he has sat between her legs and she is throwing on him scraps of papers and he is saying, “This is not right O American!” This is not right O Khwajah! This is violence!
Allah the Almighty commanded His Prophet and said in Surah At Tahreem 9
O Prophet! Strive against the rejecters of the Truth and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, and how pathetic a destination.
So do you believe?
The Prophet who was sent as a mercy to the worlds, who was sent with peace and Islam, and love for the mankind as a whole, His Lord orders him this! This is the understanding of the Mujahideen, and they do not understand anything except this order, and if we sit with them a hundred years and said to them, “Don’t use violence” then they won’t be convinced until Jibril comes down again with a book of the new “ToTo”. Well it has come down in Kuwait, and the American forces have spread it on their chosen ones of Kuwait, who are Mr. ToTo and his people…
They Say The Mujahideen Are Not Conscious Of The Present
This term of “being conscious of the present” was stated by some of the Ikhwaan and those belonging to a group of Salafis. When the dilemma of the different tags was resolved and the Mujahideen appeared, everyone made this charge at them!! As if the tag is a burden in their hearts, that they could not throw it from their minds until they threw it at someone else!! Praise be to Allah!! You who are in your houses and your beds and between your children and in the cuddles of your wives, know the reality better than those who live it!! The reality today is in the arenas of war arenas - where are you in this reality? And is the news like the viewed? The Mujahideen have left for you the reality of capsules and elevations and jambalayas and tastes and the Bashmels, so satiate yourselves with your reality, for the Mujahideen have indulged themselves with a different reality.
They Say The Mujahideen Kill The Innocents
Define for us your innocents then give us your evidence that the Mujahideen are the ones who kill these innocents. If you mean in the term innocents the friends of the Jews and Christians and the guards of their patrols, then May Allah not spare your innocents and then may not the Mujahideen spare them. As for the real innocents, then we ask “did the Mujahideen come out of their money, people and countries except to protect these innocents?” They could have put their hands in the hands of those you have put your hands in and they could have been people of status and assets and mobiles, on the satellite channels, but they preferred manhood to frivolity, and they came out to defend the sanctities of the Muslims.
All right then let’s come and make our minds work for a moment, and ask, are we not in a war? Isn’t our enemy cheating us? Is there not a simple assumption that the enemy is the one who kills the innocents and then attaches the accusation to the sincere Mujahideen? Do they not plant discord between the brothers so that the Muslims fight amongst each other and so that the wind of strength blows away? How many times have the Mujahideen arrested British and Americans and puppets who wanted to blow up public places and to kill the people in the cities exactly opposite of what they accuse the Mujahideen of? Instead even the so-called governments have caught the British who wanted to blow up areas and then blame the Mujahideen but they released them because they were not Mujahideen but Good Old British, who they are obsessed with!
When will these people understand that we are in a war and there exists something called deception in war. This cunning viciousness and separation disintegrates and wastes efforts. When will we learn from our Quran and from the Sunnah of our Prophet (peace be upon him) and his life story and the story of his righteous companions, May Allah have mercy on all of them!
As for who is killed by mistake in the operations of the Mujahideen, then such a mistake happens in all battles even from the most smartest of people and the cleverest of them in opinion. It is narrated in Bukhari from the Hadith of Aishah May Allah have mercy on her, she said:
“It was the day of Uhud, the unbelievers were defeated, then the Satan shouted- May Allah’s curse be on him- O servants of Allah, the other of you. So the first of them returned and clashed with the last portion of them. Huzaifa saw, and noticed that there was his father Yamaan, he said, ‘O servants of Allah, My father, My father!’ She said, ‘By Allah, they surrounded him and didn’t leave him until they had killed him’. Hudaifa said, May Allah forgive you!”
So these are the Companions who killed the father of the man of secrets with the Prophet peace be upon him, by mistake, they gathered on him and they killed him, and they are fighting with swords and spears then what about a war of bombs and rockets?
One Said The Mujahideen Do Not Have Legal (Shari’ah) Knowledge
And what have you done with your Legal knowledge O successful one? Did you not study in the university the sayings of Allah in Surah At-Taubah 38:39:
O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter.
Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For Allah hath power over all things.
You have been promised severe torment, and Allah has exchanged you, O holder of the degree, with the one who does not have a degree, to give him a degree and to hold you under His promise… and that degree is not like your degree…
Have you not read, O holder of degree, the saying of Allah in Surah Al Anbiya Verse 69:
We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Abraham!"
Saadi, may Allah have mercy on him said, “and those who did Jihad with us, they are the ones who migrated in the way of Allah, and fought against their enemies, and did what they could in following His commands. We will guide them to Our path” that is the way that leads to us, and that is because they are well-doers and Allah is with the well-doers with victory and aid.
Ibn Abbas said, “what is meant by the well-doers is the believers in His oneness while others said that it means the Mujahideen. Ibn Mubarak said, “when a matter gets difficult for someone, let him ask the people of war about them, for the saying of Allah is that “we will guide them to Our right path”.
So are you, O holder of the degree, more guided from those Allah has taken upon Himself to guide in His book to the straight path?
They Say The Mujahideen Have No Other Concerns Except Jihad; They Have Abbreviated The Whole Religion In Jihad
What should we say to people with this level of understanding? Let us take them according to the size of their brains. O you, what do the scholars speak about in the month of Ramadan? What do the scholars speak about in the season of Hajj? What do the scholars speak about when they are collecting charity? Every occasion has its sayings… now the time is the time of Jihad, then what do you want them to talk about? They are Mujahideen and this is the time of their Jihad, do you want them to talk about the direction of the (prayer) Qibla, in Planet Jupiter!! Do you want the carpenter to perform surgery? Or you want the plumber to make an airplane for you? These are people of a specialization and if they do not speak in their specialty they will be speaking in things they have no knowledge about, as you are doing by speaking about Jihad!! So let your concern be raising institutions and to setting up websites and teaching people the secrets of married life and leave Jihad for its people.
They Say The Mujahideen Have Made Mistakes
MashaAllah on this great analysis and this great understanding and discovery! And did anyone say that the Mujahideen are Angels!! Is not every son of Adam a mistaker!! We ask how many mistakes have the Mujahideen made? Then we say it is enough nobility for a person that his mistakes that5 can be counted. O miserable one! How do you account the Mujahideen for some of their mistakes in Jihad while your eating and drinking and standing and sitting and sleeping is all drowned in the ocean of your sins of staying back from Jihad!! The step of the Mujahid, his standing and sitting and laughing and crying, eating and sleeping and drinking in Jihad - all of it is included in good deeds. Then wont their mistakes be drowned in the sea of their good deeds as your saying is drowned in the sea of your staying back and sitting from Jihad? Or will Allah not hold you to account on your staying back from Jihad and account the Mujahideen only on the Day of Judgment in what they strived hard in!
They Say The Mujahideen Remove Muslims From The Boundaries Of Islam
Did the Mujahideen come out for any reason other than to defend the Muslims? How do they call Muslims non-Muslims for it is the Muslim they spent their lives on in order to guarantee their freedom and the freedom of their religion. Does any reasonable person believe this? Or do you mean by Muslims the friends of the Jews and Christians and the Unbelievers? The Mujahideen haven’t called them non-Muslims but Allah is the one who called them non-Muslims in His book. He the Almighty said in Surah Al-Maidah Verse 51:
O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends: They are but friends to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
So the Mujahideen said “These are not from us but from them” so if these are the ones you mean then we pray to Allah that all Muslims must be Takfeeri (those telling others as out of Islam), to call those who Allah has called non-Muslims in His book, as non Muslims. If the Mujahideen were calling Muslims as non-Muslims then why are they fighting, and for who are they fighting? Are they making their lives prone to dangers to protect the unbelievers!
They Say The Mujahideen Call The Rulers Unbelievers
Do you mean the rulers who have declared their stand under the banner of Bush in his Crusade against Islam? Do you mean the rulers who are ruling by the French constitution and the American and the British in the money and sanctities of the Muslims? Do you mean the rulers who are providing America with money, land, guards, airspace, oil, money, medicine and information to spare their time and effort, so that they are free to kill the Muslims without obstacles!! Do you mean the rulers who are killing the Mujahideen and imprisoning them and giving them to the Americans?
If you mean these rulers them we make Allah witness that they are unbelievers and that the one who does not call them unbelievers is from the most ignorant about the present condition of the Muslims and their beliefs. How would they not be unbelievers when all the conditions of disbelief are gathered in them and this has become clear? They are the ones who declare their disbelief in the morning and at night before the eyes and the ears of the creation!! These people, if they had ears, would have heard the disbelief of their rulers and if they had eyes, they would have seen the disbelief of their rulers and if they had brains they would have known the disbelief of their rulers, and if they had tongues they would have declared the disbelief of their rulers, but they are deaf, dumb and blind so they do not understand.
They Say The Mujahideen Talk About The Obligation To Come Out Against The Rulers
If one’s condition is like we have mentioned, then the ruling of coming out against them is obligatory and the opinions of the scholars. And as for the number then no one is excused because of it! This is the ruling of coming out against these rulers as is clear from the books of the Salaf. The Mujahideen have not said this they just made plain what the scholars of the Sultan hid. And the leaders of Jihad have not declared to come out against the rulers, but they have just made clear that there is no obedience obligatory on the Muslims to these rulers because of their disbelief from the religion. And the ruling of coming out against these is coming no doubt! And the people who have transgressed will know which abode they turn to.
They Say The Mujahideen Kill Citizens
We say where in our religion is the sanctity of the blood of the citizen? Didn’t the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his companions kill the Makkan citizens in the battles of Badr and Uhud and Khandaq? They even killed their Madeni citizens who aided the unbelievers and their leader Abu Amir, the hypocrite. Is the killing of the cousins of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the brothers of the Companions permissible while the killing of your citizens is unlawful!! Where in the Quran is the differentiation between a citizen and a non-citizen? The lesson in our religion is in the religion itself. So the one who is a Muslim is the respected, as for the others – no. The Shari’ah has divided people into 3 parts; the Muslim, the one who embraces Islam, those who have agreed to a truce as long as they are obedient to their terms with us, (in this comes the one with a right, the refugee and the truce) or those we fight against and his money and blood is lawful where ever we get him. We kill him with the nearest hand (this is the division near us) and we did not find a place for the citizen or a non citizen in this. So if Jibril, peace be upon him, has come down to you with a citizen verse, then is it right for you to hide this knowledge from us?
They Say Mujahideen Fight Outside Their Lands
This you say to the Prophet, peace be upon him, ho did not fight in Makkah but in Medina, and you say it to the Companions who came out from Hijaz to fight in Syria and Iraq and Khurasan and the lands beyond the sea and Egypt and Algeria and Sudan? There is a funny statement that we hear these days often from some of them. They say “the Arab Mujahideen”. They say this to differentiate between the Mujahideen in Iraq, they say this is an Iraqi Mujahid and that is an Arab Mujahid. The reality is that whenever I hear this word I can not stop myself from laughing - s an Iraqi an Indian or is he not an Arab? May be the statement has a meaning in Afghanistan and in Chechnya and in Kashmir, Bosnia and Kosovo and Philippines and China and Burma and the other non Arab countries, as for Iraq, then how can it have any meaning, except that maybe the roots of the people of Iraq is from the islands of Waq Al Waq!! Everything is possible these days.
They Say The Mujahideen Make Mischief In Their Lands
We are not capable of understanding your minds! And where do you want the Mujahideen to do jihad! If they fight in their country then you say that they fight in their country and if they fight outside their country they say they fight outside their country! Open for them a front line on the moon so that they can fight there!
Let us make the idea in its simplest form so that these people understand it, and I hope that you open your minds a little to understand the tough reality that your great minds have not understood, inshaAllah. It is a reality that the likes of you great thinkers and philosophers rarely understand. Be careful about this sentence that explains very accurately where the area of fighting is, are you ready? The fighting will be… be careful, I am going to say a word so let it not escape you for it is a little difficult to understand, and it maybe that the clever be betrayed by his wit and doesn’t understand, be careful to what I say… I say: “fighting is where the enemy is”. I pray to Allah that you should understand… O the granter of wisdom to Sulaiman, make them understand …
They Say The Mujahideen Drag Themselves To Wars They Are No Match For
You said this in Afghanistan and the Mujahideen won against the Soviets, which was the largest military power in the world at that time, and they changed it to Russia. You said that in Somalia and the Mujahideen won against America, which was the largest military power in the world at that time. You said this in Bosnia and the Mujahideen won on the Serbs and the Croats who were aided by the European countries and Russia and Jews until America interfered and saved its Christian counterparts from amidst the claws of the Mujahideen. You said this in Iraq and there they are, the Mujahideen with victory after victory and the powers of unbelief have gathered on them in a joint cross worshipper attack, including all the Christian countries and the Arab governments and even Buddhist and Hindu governments.
We accept that the Mujahideen are very simple, for they believe in the saying of Allah the Almighty in Surah Al Baqarah Verse 249:
When Talut set forth with the armies, he said: "Allah will test you at the stream: if any drinks of its water, He goes not with my army: Only those who taste not of it go with me: A mere sip out of the hand is excused." but they all drank of it, except a few. When they crossed the river,- He and the faithful ones with him,- they said: "This day We cannot cope with Goliath and his forces." but those who were convinced that they must meet Allah, said: "How oft, by Allah's will, Hath a small force vanquished a big one? Allah is with those who steadfastly persevere."
They believe in these words with all the simplicity that Imaan carries in meaning. They believe that victory is from Allah and defeat is from Allah and that victory does not come except from Allah and the condition for victory is that they support the religion of Allah by coming our for Jihad in the way of Allah. This is the way the Mujahideen are. It may be that this simplicity of thinking will be innocent and a trivial carriage in the extent of knowledge and the political, social, technical, institutional and organizational understanding. But you shouldn’t blame them for they haven’t studied in your great universities and they haven’t got your certificates, and they did not praise their units in front of your media, or your thoughts and your respected Mufti. All they know is that Allah has said in Surah Muhammad Verse 7:
O ye who believe! If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly.
So they said, we believe in Allah and we support His religion and we rely on Allah to give us victory over our enemy!! Imagine, with this simplicity and innocence they defeated the Soviets, rocked America and shook the throne of Europe!!
We know that there are philosophers and politicians and analysts and people of great certificates and orators among you but we have failed to convince the Mujahideen against their view! What should we do with these simple and innocent individuals!! We have got tired of telling the Mujahideen you must read the books of these philosophers and orators and leave aside the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet and his life story, peace be upon him, but they do not understand this, and they do not agree with anything except by Quran and the Sunnah!! We pray to Allah to guide them…
One of those minds spilled a little on a wise thing and he said, “whoever carried a weapon then his pretext is vain.”
What do we say to such a person!! A man prays to Allah to hasten the days of the Ruwaibidah, so that such idiots do not speak up!! O crazy one, the Prophet, peace be upon him, carried weapons and Abu Bakr and Omar and Uthman and Ali and The Ten and the People of the Pledge and People of Badr and Uhud and Khandaq and most of the Companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, carried weapons, and Allah has ordered us to carry weapons in His book, are all these vain pretexts?
They Say The Mujahideen Do Not Accept Criticism Or Instruction!!
This is true and we do not oppose them in this, but you must know the reason. The reason is that they like to listen the criticism on the point, meaning face-to-face, and they do not like it through the satellite, so if you want them to listen to you then go to their frontlines and sit with the Mujahideen and hold for them classes on direction and instruction, and I guarantee you that they will listen to you. If you do that, and they will give you priority over others, but just you go to them and tell what you want.
The scholar and geniuses said, “the Mujahideen are young and haven’t grown up yet, and they haven’t gained knowledge, as they should due to their young age”.
We say to them if the scholars are assembled on the Day of Judgment, then who will precede them in distance? And how much was Omar, the man of distance when he passed away? Muadh Ibn Jabal, may Allah have mercy on him, when he died, was only 38 years old as is mentioned by Ibn Kathir in his translation of Al Bidayah wa Annihayah. Was not Muadh Ibn Jabal the most knowledgeable of the Ummah about the lawful and unlawful at the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and when he, peace be upon him, passed away, Muadh was only 30 years. He was the most knowledgeable of the Ummah and will precede the scholars on the Day of Judgment and he hasn’t reached even 30!
So knowledge is not by age - it is by understanding and work. How many old men are present who are not good at reading even the Fatihah (opening chapter of the Quran) and do not perform their prayer well and how many youngsters are by-hearters of the Quran and have perfected it and know the Sunnah and understand its meaning and work by it? The old men of Quraish did not believe when the greatest truth known to mankind and the greatest preacher on the face of the earth with the greatest evidence and greatest book revealed by Allah, and yet the youngsters believed. And most of these were young men between 20 and 30 when they accepted Islam. Some of them believed and they were not even 20, not even 10.
They Say The Mujahideen’s Aqeedah (Belief) Is Not Clear
This is said by those who call themselves Salafi’s! We have told of their ignorance a million times that the Aqeedah of the Mujahideen are of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, peace be upon him, but they have rebelled. The Mujahideen read “The book of Tawheed” and “The Three Basics” and “The Four Constants”. What do we say to such people?! Who passed them these books - the Mujahideen brothers and the followers of Imam Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahab! And was it not for their efforts you would still be doing tawaaf around trees and seeking help from the stones like the condition of your forefathers. By Jihad these books reached you and they will not remain with you except through Jihad. And what is strange is that they call themselves Salafis while Imam Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahab was not from the Salaf but from the Khalaf (those who came after) and he was almost from the modern generation!! Is it not enough that they call Muslims as our father Ibraheem, peace be upon him, called us, or is it opposition and sect creation only!
They Say The Mujahideen Are Khawarij
To this we ask who are the Khawarij and please tell us their belief and the belief of the Mujahideen? The Khawarij are those who go out of Islam like the arrow goes out of the bow and this is appropriate on those who act on the things that nullify Imaan, like siding the unbelievers and implementing laws other than Allah’s, and loving the backs of the unbelievers over the backs of the Muslims. They say: we are better than the Mujahideen!
I say, you have lied, by the one who has revealed the Quran. Has not Allah the Almighty said in Surah At-Taubah Verses 19:22:
Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious service of) those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and strive with might and main in the cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of Allah: and Allah guides not those who do wrong.
Those who believe, and suffer exile and strive with might and main, in Allah's cause, with their goods and their persons, have the highest rank in the sight of Allah: they are the people who will achieve (salvation).
Their Lord doth give them glad tidings of a Mercy from Himself, of His good pleasure, and of gardens for them, wherein are delights that endure:
They will dwell therein for ever. Verily in Allah's presence is a reward, the greatest (of all).
Muslim has related in his Sahih from the Hadith of Nomaan bin Baheer he said:
I was near the Minbar (minaret on which Prophet would give the sermon) of the Prophet (peace be upon him), when a man said: I do not care to do any work after Islam except to give drink to the pilgrims, and another said: I do not care to do any work after Islam except frequenting the Holy Mosque, and another said: Jihad in the way of Allah is better than what you say. So Omar stopped them and said: Don’t raise your voices near the Minbar of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and it is Friday, but after praying the Friday prayer I will enter upon the Prophet of Allah and ask him in what you have differed in. Then this verse was revealed”
Saadi, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “When some of the Muslims differed, or some Muslims and some unbelievers, in giving precedence to the frequenting of the Holy Mosque, by building and praying and worshipping in it and the giving of the drinks to the pilgrims, on believing in Allah and Jihad in His way, Allah the Almighty told about the difference in them. He said: “Have you made the giving of drinks to the pilgrims” that is: giving them the water of Zam Zam as is famous if this name is given, that it is the one meant here “and the frequenting of the Holy Mosque like the one who has believed in Allah and the Last Day and did Jihad in the way of Allah, they are not equal near Allah”
Jihad and believe in Allah are closer to Allah than the giving of drinks to the pilgrims and frequenting the Holy Mosque by many degrees, because the Imaan is the base of the religion and with it the deeds are accepted, and the qualities are favoured. As for Jihad in the way of Allah, then it is the crest of the hump of the religion, by which the Islamic religion is protected and with it, it expands, and the truth triumphs and falsehood is wiped out. Then He expanded the meaning and said: “those who believed and migrated and did Jihad in the way of Allah with their money by spending in Jihad and preparing the raiders and themselves are greater in status near Allah and they are the winners”. That is, they do not win the desired and are not safe from the fear except those who arm themselves with these qualities, and tame themselves with these manners.
And in the explanation of “Ma’alim Al-Tanzeel” of the Jawee An Nawawi, there is a sweet statement in the explanation of this verse where it comes; “When Allah described the believers with three qualities of Imaan, Hijrah (migration) and Jihad with money and self, He met that with glad tidings of the three. He started with mercy, that is the safety from Hell Fire as a reward for Imaan, the second with Ridwaan i.e. gratification and that is the limit of benevolence as a reward for leaving the countries and the third was Paradise that is the greatest benefit in return of Jihad in which is the spending of the self and money. And they have been given specialty of the great reward because their belief is the greatest belief .
And it came in the (agreed upon) Hadith of Abu Hurairah, May Allah have mercy on him, said, it was said:
O Prophet of Allah, what is it that equals the Jihad in the way of Allah? He said: You cannot do it. They repeated to him again twice or thrice all that, he said: You cannot do it, then he said: The example of a Mujahid in the way of Allah is like that of the one who fasts, and stands in humility with the verses of Allah, unfailing of the fast or the stand (prayer) until the Mujahid in the way of Allah, comes back.
And in the narration of Bukhari: That a man said:
O Prophet of Allah, guide me to an act that is equal to Jihad. He said, “I do not find it”, then he said, “Can you if the Mujahid goes out, enter the Masjid and stand (in prayer) without stopping and fast without stopping? He said: And who can do that”.
And we give glad tidings to this Companion that today there are people in the Ummah who can do more than that, and that is why they see themselves better than the Mujahideen and greater in ranking than them!
Do We Mean That The Mujahideen Are Above Criticism?
The answer is Yes, they are above criticism if it comes from those who Allah has promised with painful torment from those He has tagged as Khawalif, as for what comes from MEN, then no!
Then why is the part of the rulers to be instructed in secret and documents are written to stop instructing them out in open in spite of the fact that they have declared their aid to the unbelievers and implement laws other than Allah and spread amongst the people evil and eat the money of people unjustly out in the open, and then the part of the Mujahideen should be (not instruction) criticism in public.
How many times have we heard that “the meats of the scholars are poisoned”? But we still hold them in high esteem and respect them no matter what, but it is for us to wonder; if the meats of the scholars are poisoned, then are the meats of Mujahideen cakes, or are they more poisonous than the meats of the scholars? Do you think that the scholars would appear on the screens of the satellite TV screens, without this Jihad!! By Allah if it wasn’t for Jihad then it wouldn’t be heard from even a single scholar today and the rulers would have put them in the dunghills. Modern history is the best witness, for when does it make sense of those who respect the scholars and then stand in the lines of the Christians and fight the Mujahideen with their tongues? And some of those who claim to have knowledge cut their forearm without even knowing it.
Whoever wants to address the Mujahideen, let him address them with respect, and instruct them with respect and talk to them with respect, as for criticism (constructive or otherwise) that takes on refutation then it is not acceptable at all. The one who does not have manners then let him bind his tongue and close his mouth and sit at his house and not talk in the matters of the Muslims. If you want to know these people then see their condition when they are talking to the disbelieving rulers and officials and see their humility and manners and the accurate choosing of words, and then look at their condition with the people of Allah from the Mujahideen. Obviously, the one who doesn’t fear the consequence misbehaves.
Mujahideen are humans; they commit mistakes and do things right, but they are today the masters of the humans, and they are leading the Ummah in its war against disbelief, for they are the ones who are aiding on the fire, and they are the ones who are spending their souls in the arenas of war, and they are the ones who are protecting the sanctity of men and women, and spilling the blood on the war grounds. They have abandoned their countries and have left their friends to obey the call of the only One worshipped. So the one who doesn’t know their right and doesn’t know their favour on him, then he is the one who doesn’t deserve to be treated with any respect.
O Allah we make you witness over our love for the Mujahideen and the love of those who love them, and we seek acquittal of those who are the enemies of the Mujahideen and those who aided them… O Allah! Grant victory to the Mujahideen everywhere, and protect them with your protection, and don’t leave them to themselves even for the blink of an eye… Allah purify the hearts of the Mujahideen and make their rows one and firm their legs and aid their shots and bless them in their life and accept their martyrs O Most Merciful O Most Gracious… O Allah protect them from the plot of the plotters and the cunning of the cunning and the viciousness of the vicious…
And Allah knows best… and peace and blessings of Allah on our Prophet and his family and companions…
Shaykh Hussain Ibn Mahmood
10 Jamadi Al-Awal 1428
May 27, 2007