All Praise and All Thanks are for Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) to whom we shall all return to be judged on The Last Day.




Resistance to Evil:

As Muslims, we are commanded by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to uphold what is honourable, and good (Al-Maruf) and to restrain from, and forbid and fight, what is dishonourable, and bad (Al-Munkar) defined as such things are by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. We know what is good, and what is wrong, because we have been given the guidelines we need in the Quran and Sunnah.

Furthermore, as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"To counter them, use whatever force [quwah] you can, including steeds of combat, that you might strike great fear into the enemies of Allah who are your enemies."  8:60 Interpretation of Meaning

That is, to use a colloquial English phrase, we give our enemies, who are the enemies of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, "a taste of their own medicine" - so we fight them, we are stern toward them, and do not take them as friends, allies, protectors or advisors, for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"They long for you to disbelieve even as they disbelieve, so that you may be the same (as them). Therefore, do not choose them as friends, or allies, until they turn (to follow) the way of Allah." 4:89 Interpretation of Meaning

The Dishonour and Evil of the Kuffar:

One result, one lesson, of the Jumaada Al-Thaani attacks - of the Washington and New York expeditions - is that they have revealed to more and more Muslims the true nature of the kuffar, the true nature of Amerika and its allies. This nature is that of a cowardly, arrogant, swaggering, lying, deceitful bully. Of men (and women) like those Amerikans who tortured our brothers and sisters at Abu Gharib; like those Amerikans who stripped naked our injured brother Hamza Walker Lindh after his capture and brutal interrogation, blindfolded him, strapped him so tightly to a stretcher that he could not move, and who in an act typical of bullies wrote an offensive obscene word on his blindfold and laughed and took photographs of him in his distress and pain, which photographs they circulated among themselves, just as the torturers at Abu Gharib did. These are the people who forced our brothers, held in cages in Guantanamo Bay, to kneel with their hands tied behind their backs and hoods over their head, and who paraded them to be photographed like that in the hope it would serve as "a warning" to other Muslims.

These are the people who, in just the first three months after their invasion of Afghanistan, killed thousands of women and children - our brothers and sisters - by dropping bombs and firing missiles at them. These are the people who, since then, have killed tens upon tens of thousands more of our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who have tortured and humiliated and imprisoned thousands upon thousands of our brothers and sisters. These are the people who have special secret interrogation centres around the world where - for over five years - they have ruthlessly tried to break and brainwash those thousands of our brothers and sisters whom they have singled out for "special treatment", for special torture, because these Muslims refuse to co-operate with these bullies, with these dishonourable cowards, these torturers.

These are the people who bombarded Fallujah for days, killing thousands of Muslims, and who now, in imitation of the Nazis, force every resident of that city to wear or carry a badge and who regularly "round-up" Muslim men - young and old - for interrogation, some of whom are taken away and never heard from again. These are the people who, in Haditha, massacred over a dozen Muslims and who then stormed into a house killing women and children and raping our sister who they then killed and whose body they burnt in the hope of avoiding detection. These are the people - with a character imitating Shaitan (see Note 1) - who in the last hundred years or so have killed well over one hundred million people, who have committed atrocity after atrocity all over the world, and whose societies, which they demand we admire and imitate, are full of violence, crime, addiction, inequality, vice, and corruption at every level.


These are the people who lied about Haditha, Fallujah, Abu Gharib and the killing of women and children by bombs and missiles in Afghanistan - who lied about the massacre at My Lai - until caught out, and who deceive and who lie by nature, even to themselves. 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!"
Although it is they who bring disorder
While so deceiving themselves."
(2: 10-12   Interpretation of Meaning)

These are the people - the bullies, the tyrants, the barbarians - who, in their arrogance, will continue to spread their lies, who will continue to spread their evil, who will continue to commit atrocities and do dishonourable deeds until they are stopped by a formidable foe. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:





Lessons of the Intifada:


One important lesson of the Jihadi Intifada is that despite the military and economic superiority of the kuffar - despite their lies, their torture, their massive propaganda campaign, their imprisonment of captured Mujahideen, their campaign of terror against Muslims who resist their demands - they have not defeated the Mujahideen, Alhamdulillah. Thus, even when the Mujahideen are vastly outnumbered and subject to massive bombardment, even when they are low on ammunition and have only limited weapons, the kuffar do not achieve their objectives, as was the case, for example, in Fallujah (MashaAllah) during the operation the kuffar called Vigilant Resolve when their highly trained and well-equipped forces could not defeat the boys, and the young and elderly men, of the Muslim resistance. It was the case at Jenin (MashaAllah) when for nine days and nights a small group of Mujahideen armed only with hand held automatic weapons took on the might of the American supplied and financed Zionist occupation army, and held them back until the Mujahideen ran out of ammunition, resisting the Zionist onslaught for three days longer than the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan resisted during the misnamed "Six Day War" over three decades before. It was the case (MashaAllah) at Tora Bora, as described by Sheikh Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin (hafidhahullah):

"I have mentioned this battle of Tora Bora, last year, in a previous statement. This great battle was one where the power of belief triumphed over the materialistic forces of the people of evil: where we adhered to our [honourable] principles, thanks to Almighty Allah. Thus, I will narrate for you part of that great battle to reveal just how cowardly our enemies are and how effective trenches are in a war of attrition.

We were about 300 Mujahideen and we dug about 100 trenches, spread over an area less than one square mile,  with one trench for every three brothers, thus avoiding any great human losses that might result from bombardment.

From the very the first hour of the US campaign on 20 Rajab 1422, that is 7 October 2001, our sites were subject to a concerted, massive, bombardment with this bombardment continuing until the middle of Ramadan. On 17 Ramadan, an intense bombardment began, since the US leadership was certain that some of Al-Qaeda leaders were still in Tora Bora, including this humble servant of Allah and our brother Mujahid, Dr Aymin al-Zawahiri. This bombardment was continuous with the warplanes flying over us both day and night. The US Pentagon, together with its allies, worked without a break to blow up and destroy this one small area. War-planes poured their fire down upon us, intent on accomplishing their main mission in Afghanistan.

The US forces attacked us with smart bombs, with bombs that weighed thousands of pounds, with cluster bombs, with bunker-busting bombs. Bombers, such as the B-52,  flew above us for more than two hours at a time, dropping 20 to 30 bombs each. Modified C-130 aircraft carpet-bombed us at night, using sophisticated bombs.

But the US forces dared not attack our positions, despite this massive bombing and despite an ignoble unprecedented propaganda campaign directed against us, and even though we were besieged in a such a small area. And this is without even mentioning the forces of hypocrites, whom they [the US] demanded must fight us continuously for 15 days. Every single time these forces attacked us, we forced them out of our area, carrying their dead and wounded.

Is there any clearer proof of their cowardice, their fear, their lies concerning how their own power is superior?

In conclusion, that battle was a complete, total, failure for the international alliance of evil, for all its forces could not overcome a small number of Mujahideen - 300 Mujahideen, secreted in trenches spread over an area of less than one square mile when the temperature was 10 degrees below zero. The battle resulted in the deaths of only about six percent of our people - may Allah accept them as martyrs - and damaged only about two percent of the trenches, All Thanks and All Praise are for Allah.

If all the international forces of evil could not achieve their goals in an area less than one square mile, against a small number of Mujahideen who possessed only limited weapons, how can these evil forces triumph over the entire Muslim world?"

Thus have we been given many Signs, Alhamdulillah, for as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:



Hence, there has been, and thus there is, a Muslim revival - a return to being Muslim; a return to Quran and Sunnah, a rejection of the Tawagheet of the kuffar, and a re-affirmation of what being Muslim means. For the truth is that we Muslims have something special which the kuffar lack: a simple belief and trust in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala Who has offered us the eternal life of Jannah in return for our obedience to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone.

Thus, we do not measure our success by the material, by the causal, by the abstract and fallible standards of the kuffar - by the Tawagheet which they obey and worship and which they judge by. Our success is not measured by some victory in some battle, nor by the admiration we might receive from other people for our deeds in combat or in life. Neither is our success measured by our material wealth, by our property, by satisfying our desires, or by gaining power and influence over others.

Rather, our success is measured by how well we please our Rabb, how well we obey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - how well we do our duty, as Muslims. And this duty means fighting the kuffar who have invaded and occupied our lands and who have killed, humiliated and tortured hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters. It means us refusing to cooperate with the kuffar and their apostate lackeys in any way whatsoever until they leave our lands, cease interfering in our affairs, free all Muslim captives, and cease to support in any way the tyrants, lackeys and apostates who now rule and govern every land where Muslims are the majority. This duty - this Muslim measure, this Muslim standard of success - means that we are not bothered nor concerned about our own death, in battle or elsewhere, for we place our trust solely in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, knowing that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will reward His trusting and obedient servants with Jannah, which reward is the goal of this brief mortal life of ours.

Thus, if we live as Muslims - stern, and fierce, toward the kuffar but honourable and gentle toward our brothers and sisters - and are prepared to die, as Muslims, fighting for what is right, what is honourable, what is Muslim, then we are a formidable foe: the most formidable foe the dishonourable kuffar face, have faced or ever will face: a determined foe, guided by a simple beautiful purity of sacred purpose which they, the allies of Shaitan, both fear and detest, which is why, of course, they, like the dishonourable cowards they are, take great delight in humiliating us, in torturing us, in trying to "break us" and have us embrace their own decadent, profane, dysfunctional way of life, and why they want, and demand, that we bow down in submission to their Tawagheet, to the idols that they in their arrogance and ignorance have manufactured.

But we say to them what our Rabb has said to us:


Thus the Jihadi Intifada - the Muslim resistance to the profane dishonourable arrogant kuffar - will continue, for as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:




Thus do we know that our aim is not the manufactured worldly "peace" beloved by the kuffar, although in truth when they speak of "peace" what they mean is surrender to them. Rather, our aim, our victory, as Muslims, is the eternal, perfect and Muslim peace which is Jannah.





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. Wa Allahu Allam.



Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
27 Shaban 1428


Notes:

(1) Refer to Sheikh ul-Islam Ibn Taimiyyah (Rahimullah): al-Firqan Bayna Awliya al-Rahman wa Awliya ash-Shaitan (The Criterion Between the Awliya of al-Rahman and the Awliya of Shaitan).

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