Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem


The Arrogance of Infidels




Foreign Devils, Infidels, and Al-Islam:


If we consider the actions of the kuffar of the West over the last three hundred or so years it is quite obvious that they possess the pride (kibr), the arrogance, the attitude, the character, of ash-Shaitaan. For hundreds of years the kuffar of the West have ravaged the world, invading lands, occupying them, installing puppet-regimes, and claiming for themselves the wealth and resources of those lands, all the while regarding themselves, and their "European" or Western culture, as superior.

In the course of these colonial conquests and rampages, these kuffar have slaughtered millions upon millions of people and, in addition - in their own territories such as Europe, or in their new annexed colonies such as America - they have fought wars among themselves during which at least a hundred million people have been killed. In fact, the slaughter which the kuffar of the West have brought to the world is unparalleled in human history - from the ravages of Alexander the Greek, to the Empire of Rome, to the wars of Napoleon, to the genocide of the native Americans, to the so-called First and Second World Wars, to the hundreds of colonial wars in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, on to the more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This slaughter includes some of the most barbaric killings in history - such as the slaughter, in two days, of over 200,000 people in Japan by the dropping of atomic bombs.

During all these conflicts - during all this slaughter - the kuffar of the West, the "European" or the "White man", has saught to change the way of life of the peoples of the world, believing, in their kaffir arrogance, that the ways of the "white man", that the culture of "Europe", that Western values, were and are superior to each and every other way of life, and these kuffar have used every means at their disposal - from war, invasion, occupation, economic blackmail, propaganda, lies, deceit, flattery, and bribery to torture and imprisonment - to get their own way.

No wonder, then, that the peoples of other cultures often considered people from the West to be "foreign devils" who could not be trusted: people who, like ash-Shaitaan, were clever, cunning, unprincipled, manipulative and ruthless.


Of course, now with more people aware of the true nature of these "foreign devils"and their true intent to dominate and impose their ways on others, some of the methods of the kuffar have changed, and they have attempted to shift their claims of being superior from themselves to their culture, their values and their way of life. Thus, they mostly no longer openly claim to be superior as a "race" (although many still hold this view) but instead claim and insist that their Western culture, their Western way of life, are superior and that their Western values are "universal" and should and must be embraced by all the peoples of the world. In addition, they have often adopted a more sophisticated and underhand approach, such as persuading people, often through their vast and now world-wide Media propaganda machine, that they, the kuffar of the West, represent all that is "civilized and good" and that their opponents - those who fight them, their values, and their schemes and their plan for domination and control - are extremists and "uncivilized terrorists". But, as always, if these kuffar fail to get their own way, they will resort to force - as in Afghanistan and Iraq - and to torture and murder (as in Iraq and Afghanistan) and to the tactics of the bully, all the while lying about what they have done and are doing and intend to do.


However, the truth is that these kuffar, in their ignorance, pride, disobedience and arrogance, have set themselves up to compete with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and they have manufactured many idols (Tawagheet) which they worship and bow down to, or which they expect those that they dominate to bow down to and worship. For these kuffar - like all kuffar - have lost their true nature, as human beings; a nature evident in tawadu and in our gift of 'aql (see Note 1). As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:


"The very change from Night to Day, the nourishment that Allah sends down to bring forth life from dry soil, the movement and changes of the wind, are Signs, for those who have Aql." 45: 5  Interpretation of Meaning

"You who believe [in Allah and The Last Day]: do not befriend nor rely upon those outside [your Deen] for they will lead you astray desiring as they do to harm you: and although hatred issues forth from their mouths what they conceal in their hearts is far worse. Here are Signs, for those who have Aql." 3: 118  Interpretation of Meaning


The kuffar of the West in their ignorant disobedience commit, and have committed, the error of hubris: of insolence; the error of Fir'aan. In fact, the kuffar of the West are now so arrogant, so full of pride and insolence - so lacking in Aql, in awareness of the numinous - that they demand that we Muslims abandon the purity, the perfection, the numinosity, of Deen Al-Islam for the Tawagheet that they, in their Iblis-like arrogance and cleverness, have manufactured, all the while preaching, in their hypocrisy, about "civilization" and morality while, in their own private lives, living decadent, corrupt, lives - just as, for example, the British did in India during the time of the Raj when, outwardly, they appeared to be very moral, "civilized" people, while their own private lives were often immoral, decadent or corrupt. One has only to contrast, for example, the life, the manner, the personality, of Bush the infidel with the life, the manner, the personality, of Mullah Umar (hafidhahullah) to see the difference: Bush, addicted to lies, to posturing and speaking like some tyrant, to a life of luxury and pleasure, arrogantly smiling, and Mullah Umar (hafidhahullah), who has spent most of his adult life living simply, among the Mujahideen, a devout and humble man, much given to remembering Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, to undertaking his obligation of As-Salaat.

"Undertake As-Salaat, for As-Salaat diverts you away from all kinds of dishonourable deeds." 29:45 Interpretation of Meaning

The important distinction is between the arrogance of the kuffar - manifest in the foreign devils of the West - and the submission which is Al-Islam: between the concealment, the ignorance, that is kufr, and the knowing, the acceptance, which is ubudiyyah (see Note 2). The great, the serious, error of the kuffar is their forgetting of, their turning away from, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and - in place of ubudiyyah - they have their Tawagheet (see Note 3), such as the nation-State, and democracy, and the materialism, pride, and the decadence of selfish indulgence, which forms the basis for their own materialistic way of life.

This acceptance of ubudiyyah by Muslims is a return to our true nature - our fitrah - and thus a living of our life in accord with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. In contrast, the kuffar have arrogantly, disobediently, or out of ignorance, turned away from ubudiyyah - and thus away from tawadu - to ash-Shaitaan. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"The 'Ibaad of Ar-Rahman [Allah] are those who walk on earth in humility."     25:63 Interpretation of Meaning (See Note 4)

"Therefore be honourable: let (this) Deen be your aim, the fitrah given by Allah. What Allah creates, nothing, and no-one, can change. And this is the correct, the perfect, Deen, although many remain in ignorance of this." 30:30 Interpretation of Meaning

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has given us 'Aql so that we might know His Signs, such as Al-Quran, and, so knowing - so discovering these Signs - we replace the Tawagheet of Jahiliyyah with Tawheed. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"This present life is only like water which We send down from the clouds so that the luxuriant herbage sustaining man and beast may grow; until when the Earth puts on its lovely garment and becomes adorned, and its people believe that they are its masters - down then comes Our scourge upon it by night or in broad day, laying it waste as though it had not blossomed yesterday. Thus We provide clear Signs to those who are thoughtful." 10: 24-25 Interpretation of Meaning.


The fundamental battle - the war - is between the Muslim and the kaffir: between the truth of Deen Al-Islam and the Tawagheet which the arrogant, prideful, kuffar have manufactured.

As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"The kuffar are your declared enemy." 4: 101  Interpretation of Meaning

"Allah is the Wali of those who believe: from darkness, He leads them into the light, while those do not believe have, as their Wali, their Taghut so that they are led from light into darkness. For them, there is the Fire, where they shall dwell forever." 2: 257 Interpretation of Meaning

Thus, as Sheikh Az-Zarqawi (Shaheed InshaAllah) said:

"We are not fighting for a handful of dirt, nor for some imaginary borders... just as we are not fighting here to replace a Western Taghut, with an Arab Taghut. Rather, our Jihad is noble and honourable and sacred. For we fight to make the Word of Allah, Tabarak wa'tala, supreme and to make the Way of Life entirely for Allah... Anyone who opposes this aim, or stands in the way of this goal is an enemy of ours."



The Taghut of the United Nations and the Taghut of the Nation-State:


We need to understand that the United Nations is itself a Taghut - manufactured by the arrogant kuffar, and maintained by the kuffar, for the sole purpose of propagating the Tawagheet of the West (such as the nation-State) and for the maintaining and expanding the cultural, military and economic domination of the West. It is an organization dedicated to the Tawagheet of the West, such as the nation-State and the enforcement of democracy: in the past sixty years, Amerika and its taghut the United Nations have interfered in the internal affairs of dozens upon dozens of peoples, using force, occupation and economic and financial sanctions - and the bribery of, or the withdrawal of, aid - in order to get their own kaffir way. From Japan to Egypt to Haiti to Somalia to South America to Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq the policy has been to manufacture and maintain a nation-State along the lines of those of the West (see Note 5). In many places, Amerika and its allies have installed puppet governments or supported puppet regimes where men in Western suits and ties do the bidding of their Amerikan and United Nations masters, and where there is either a pretence of democracy or some kind of implementation of the Western Taghut of democracy. The so-called "peace" that the United Nations, Amerika and its allies talk about having achieved in such places - or which they desire to achieve in such places, such as Iraq - is the "peace" of surrender to them and their Tawagheet, and their so-called "peace process" is basically a process of disarming and pacifying any and all resistance to their Taghut and to their political, cultural and economic domination, while allowing for them and their lackeys to be fully armed and able to put down any future resistance.

The kuffar of the West believe that they have been quite clever and cunning in creating and maintaining the United Nations in order to achieve their aim of global domination through the subservience of people to their idols, their Tawagheet, of the nation-State and democracy, and to the decadent, profane, materialistic Western way of life. But we Muslims who strive only to obey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala have not been fooled, for as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

There is a sickness within which ails them and Allah has increased this sickness because they lie even to themselves: For this, they will grievously suffer. And when someone says to them: "Do not be so ignoble on this earth," They reply: "We are only bringing peace!"  2:10-11  Interpretation of Meaning


Thus do we strive to do as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala commands:

"Fight against those who do not believe in Allah, or in The Last Day, and who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, as well as those among the people of the book who do not acknowledge the Deen of Truth, and fight them until they pay the Jizya with willing submission." 9:29  Interpretation of Meaning


The Beauty of Deen Al-Islam:


Deen Al-Islam is the Way of Life given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala: revealed in the Quran and Sunnah, and thus in Shariah. It is the way, the means, for us to know, to dis-cover, our fitrah - our natural nature and character as human beings. Knowing this nature, discovering this nature - living thus in accord with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - we fulfil the meaning, the purpose, of our existence as human beings, which is simply to be as the other creations of our Creator are. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"Do you not see how all beings that are in the heavens and on the Earth obey Allah - the sun, the moon, the stars; the hills, the trees, the animals, and even a great number of human beings?" 22:18 Interpretation of Meaning

"And to Him belongs everything that is both in the Heavens and upon the Earth, and even those who are near to Him have humility enough to obey. Thus do they, remembering, never cease to give their praise and thanks during both the night and the day." 21: 19-20  Interpretation of Meaning


If we are and remain Muslim, obeying only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, we have the opportunity of Jannah: of achieving the true and perfect and eternal peace of Paradise; a peace far, far beyond any "paradise" we may find on Earth; a reward far, far greater than any material reward we may find on Earth; and a far, far greater pleasure than any pleasure we can attain or even imagine in this our brief mortal life. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"Thus should you humbly give thanks to your Creator - the Giver of Life to those before you - Who sustains you so that you might do your duty: for He made this Earth a resting place for you and placed the sky upon it so that from this sky water might rain down and bring forth fruits to feed you." 2:21-22  Interpretation of Meaning


The beauty of Deen Al-Islam is its purity, its simplicity: to know, to feel, Tawheed, the Oneness of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, is to know, to feel al-ubudiyyah. It is to know, and love, the Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) - to know, to feel, that he is the best example to follow: The Messenger of that message which contains the greatest wisdom of all, which is the simple but profound truth concerning our being, our fitrah. As it has been authentically narrated by Anas b. Malil, the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:

"Jannah is surrounded by hardships but Hell-Fire is surrounded by temptations."  (Muslim Book 40, Number 6778)




Whatever good that may have been written is from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and whatever mistakes or errors have been made are from me. May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala protect us from all forms of Al-asabiyyah Al-Jahiliyyah, forgive us for our mistakes, and guide us to and keep us on the Right Path.


Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
14 Jumaada al-Thaani 1428

Notes:

(1) 'Aql is often best left untranslated - it is gift, to us, from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, the basis for our humanity, and it implies both reason and intelligence, although not as these words are commonly understood in the West, according to the materialistic philosophy of the West. One possible interpretation of the meaning of al-'aql is "awareness of the numinous" where by numinous is meant "the sacred", the divine. An awareness of the numinous can dispose us toward what is good, and distance us from what is bad. Thus, a Sign of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is numinous - reminding us of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; reminding us of the beauty, the purity, of Emaan; reminding us of the truth of Islam itself.

(2) Refer to Al-Ubudiyyah by Sheikh ul-Islam Ibn Taimiyyah (Rahimullah) and to the Ayah:

"You only do we obey and to You only do we turn for help." 1:5  Interpretation of Meaning

(3) A Taghut (plural Tawagheet) is anything or anyone which or who is followed, obeyed or worshipped beside or in place of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. The word itself also suggests going beyond the due bounds, the proper limits (set by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala). Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"Observe the limits which Allah has set." 9:112  Interpretation of Meaning

"In truth We have sent Messengers to every people with a warning for them to submit only to Allah and so reject Tawagheet." 16:36 Interpretation of Meaning


(4) The 'Ibaad are those who strive to live in accord with what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has revealed: those who obey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and who thus consider themselves as slaves of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

(5) See, for example, the RAND reports America's Role in Nation-Building (2003 CE) and The UN's Role in Nation-Building (2005 CE). It should be noted that these reports are sponsored by the Amerikan Secretary of Defense, the CIA, and other Amerikan government agencies.