Abu-al-Yazid of Al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan Admits 'Dire Need' for - DOC - DOC

							Terrorism: Abu-al-Yazid of Al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan Admits
'Dire Need'
for Mujahidin, Professionals

On 6 March, a forum participant posted to a jihadist
website a statement issued by the Al-Sahab Media Production
Organization, the media arm of Al-Qa'ida Organization,
announcing the release of a new video statement from
Mustafa Abu-al-Yazid, the Al-Qa'ida commander in
Afghanistan. The video statement, which is entitled "They
Lied, Now is the Time to Fight" is 46 minutes and 44
seconds long. Throughout the video, a still picture of Abu-
al-Yazid appears while an audio message from him is heard.

A translation of the audio statement follows:

"The Almighty, blessed and exalted He be said, 'And did not
Allah Check one set of people by means of another, the
earth would indeed be full of
mischief: But Allah is full of bounty to all the worlds'
[Koranic verse; Al-Baqarah 2:251]. The Almighty also said,
'Did not Allah check one set of people by means of another,
there would surely have been pulled down monasteries,
churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of
Allah is commemorated in abundant measure. Allah will
certainly aid those who aid his (cause), for verily Allah
is full of Strength, Exalted in Might' [Koranic verse; Al-
Hajj 22:40].

"The people of Tafsir [the interpreters of the Koran and
the Hadith]
said: if it were not for fighting the enemies, which God
had permitted, the polytheists would have seized and
stopped places of worship. But He checked one set of people
by means of another by making fighting a duty so that the
people of the faith will be able to devote themselves to
worship. Jihad was prescribed to the nations [from the
beginning], and by it, laws were reformed and places of
worship were preserved. If it were not for fighting and
jihad, righteousness would have been defeated in every
nation [nation here refers to Christianity, Judaism and
Islam].
Whoever from among the Christians and the Jews dislikes
jihad is simply contradicting his faith because if it were
not for fighting, the religion which they are fighting for
would have perished, and churches [meaning synagogues and
hermitages] would have been destroyed during the time of
Moses, peace be upon him, and hermitages and synagogues
[meaning churches] during the time of Issa [Jesus], peace
be upon him, and mosques during the time of Muhammad,
prayers and peace be upon him. The Almighty God is capable
of destroying the infidels by His command, but it has been
the practice of the Almighty, exalted He be, to afflict his
servants with it, to distinguish between the believer and
the hypocrite, and the truthful from the liar, as shown
with what the Almighty had said, 'Thus (are ye commanded):
but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have
exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you
fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those
who are slain in the way of Allah, He will never let their
deeds be lost.
Soon will He guide them and improve their condition, and
admit them to the Garden which He has announced for them'
[Koranic verse; Muhammad 47:6]. The Almighty also said, 'Do
men think that they will be left alone on saying: we
believe, and that they will not be tested? We did test
those before them, and Allah will certainly know those who
are true from those who are false' [Koranic verse; Al-
Ankabut 29:2].

"The Almighty also said, 'Did ye think that ye would enter
Heaven without Allah testing those of you who fought hard
(In His Cause) and remained steadfast?' [Koranic verse; Al
Imran 3:142]. Whoever perseveres and fights in the cause of
God is the true believers for whom God has prepared
gardens, beneath which rivers flow. Whoever stays behind
will not be excused and would have been afflicted with sin
and loss in this world and the hereafter. In these recent
times, the nation has been afflicted with many ailments of
former nations. It got divided and strife and disagreement
fell upon it. It grew distant from the religion with which
God had blessed it. It began to pride itself only in its
lineage and names instead of the truth, allowing for the
infidel enemy to control it, after it had left the jihad
for God's cause, out of love for this world and loathing
for death.

"The infidel enemy came to the Muslim land openly with
their hostile military forces. They corrupted the people
and the lands, erased the Islamic Shari'ah rulings, and
defeated the Muslims. After they [the enemy] settled and
they knew that the Muslims, who might be in a slumber, did
not accept the infidel enemy and would wake up and after
they found out that they [the Muslims] continue to have
sense of honor though it was numbed, will awaken soon; and
that they continue to have heroes who will not accept
injustice; when it found out all of this, it resorted to a
wicked trick and divided the lands of the Muslims, the way
a slaughtered ewe is cut, to waste their efforts and to
take away their strength. To achieve that, it drew borders
and imposed the harshest restrictions on the Muslims who
wished to move from one part to another.
It planted in the hearts of the Muslims pre-Islamic
nationalistic and patriotic bias to replace the religious
bond and the Islamic unity, until love and hatred became
for the sake of the country and the people instead of Islam
and away from loving the Almighty God. It [the enemy]
brought a group of our own people who carry our names and
claim to be Muslims and appointed them as rulers over these
parts which it created.
It removed the Islamic Shari'ah laws, which were the source
of all righteousness and forced them to implement the
infidel secular laws which are the source of all evil but
kept some of the Islamic rites to fool the Muslims and to
conceal their intentions

"Outwardly, the enemy then departed with its forces from
the lands of the Muslims after making sure that the rulers
were completely loyal to it and that they were ruling on
its behalf with it controlling them and directing them as
it pleases from a distance. It ensured that through them
[the rulers] it continued to rob the Muslims and thus
ensured its wealth and safety. These rulers were worse and
greater transgressors against Islam and the Muslims than
their masters, the Christians and the Jews. Their names
were Muslims, but their hearts were Christian and their
deeds were that of the non-believers, and their armies were
outwardly mobilized to defend the Muslims and the lands of
the Muslims, where in fact it is to protect non-belief and
transgressions and protect the thrones of these traitors.
Many Muslims could not see the non-belief of these rulers
because of the widespread ignorance, so they stayed behind
from jihad, which all the scholars had unanimously agreed
that it was obligatory. When they left them alone with
their non-belief and crimes, corruption spread and non-
belief and atheism spread. The concepts of allegiance and
enmity got mixed up, and the Muslim became a hateful enemy
and the infidel became a brother and a sincere friend. The
infidel sultan became a guardian to be obeyed. Those who
fought him were now considered misguided kharijites; there
is no strength and no power save in God [meaning what a
shame].

"Generations were raised under these tumultuous conditions.
They faced so much humiliation and degradation, and the
Islamic distinctiveness would have crumbled if it were not
for the Almighty, exalted He be, who as He always does in
preserving His religion, moved people who would revive the
religion for this nation, leading to the battlefields of
jihad and its battles, its schools and its camps in
Afghanistan and other places. Then the events of September
11th came to turn the page of history and change the
characteristics of events. The people of the cross, after
tasting some of the harm, sufferings, and wounding they had
inflicted on the Muslims, lost their dignity, they warned
of destruction and turned the coalition to fight the
Muslims. They came with their punishment and iron [weapons]
once again, angry, and entered the lands of the Muslims
with the help of the apostate traitors, the lowly and the
depraved, those who sold their religion and honor for the
sake of their lust and their positions. It was a
transgression that affected the earth and a great
affliction that tested the people. It was narrated that the
prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, said, 'A group of
my ummah [Muslim community] will fight for the truth until
near the day of judgment' [Hadith]. This strife and turmoil
divided people into three
categories: the victorious sect, which is fighting these
infidel people and those who are on the side of jihad and
the mujahidin as supporters and helpers who are giving
everything in their power in fighting the enemies of God.
Those who do right have no other path. The second set of
people is the opposing group, and these are the Crusaders,
the Jews, and the apostates, and all the fools from among
the Muslims who sided with them. Then there are the
deserters who stayed behind from fighting those enemies out
of love for life and hatred for death, or who abandoned
fighting in the name of wisdom, interest and politics, or
under the pretext of inability, which is in fact out of
laziness, spinelessness and love for safety, or other
illegitimate excuses, even if they coated these excuses
with sweet words or concealed them with some Hadiths,
[Koranic] verses, or quotes that in reality do not serve
their purpose.
The truth is too clear to conceal, praise be to God, to
those whom God had enlightened and had given devoutness.
The Almighty said, '(So also on such) as have made Koran
into shreds (as they please)' [Koranic verse; Al-Hijr
5:91], meaning they believed but followed some and left out
some as they pleased. Also, in accordance with what the
Almighty said in describing the Jews who altered God's
book: 'But ye make it into
(separate) sheets for show, while ye conceal much (of its
contents)'
[Koranic verse; Al-An'am 6:91], let the man look and see if
he belongs to the victorious sect or the deserter or the
enemy, for there is no fourth group?

"God has given resolve to groups of His believers. 'Men
said to them: A great army is gathering against you, and
frightened them: But it (only) increased their Faith: They
said: For us Allah suffices, and He is the best disposer of
affairs' [Koranic verse; Al Imran, 3:173]. And the Almighty
God also said, 'When the Believers saw the Confederate
forces, they said: This is what Allah and his Messenger had
promised us, and Allah and His Messenger told us what was
true. And it only added to their faith and their zeal in
obedience' [Koranic verse, Al-Ahzab 33:22]. They preferred
the Hereafter over this life and dignity over humiliation.
They exposed their throats to death and said, 'here we
are.' They endured and persevered in the face of their
enemies, as the battle became more fierce and the war
continued, spilling their blood and subjecting them to
death and imprisonment until the people thought that they
got weaker and were completely destroyed and became
history.
But they lied; now is the time for battle, since the dust
cleared from matters regarded to be great in the eyes of
the world.

"That group of Muslims was revealed to have been paving the
way of nobility for the rest of the Muslims with the
remains of their bodies and was building the bridges of
conquest with their skulls and bones.
They were watering the tree of victory with their blood and
were following the path of freedom with their vestiges. So
God blessed their endeavors and their jihad and He blessed
their actions and their blood.
They revived the generations with their righteous
tribulations and they breathed hope into the souls of the
Muslims.

"Their hearts were strengthened and their energies were
focused and the hands of their enemies were abused, who
suffered the agonies of injuries and began to falter and
wait in terror for the knife of the butcher.
Blessed is he who smites with an arrow in this magnificent
conquest, he who spilled his blood for the cause of God and
he who was deprived who missed the opportunity to
participate in this epic. No one will leave jihad except he
who beleaguers his soul, disobeys his God, and concentrates
on the world. Jihad is the best of the world and the
afterlife and in leaving jihad, one gives up both the world
and the afterlife.

"God Almighty said in His precious Book: 'Say: 'Can you
expect for us any fate other than one of two glorious
things'' [Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 952], which means either
victory and triumph, or martyrdom and paradise. Therefore,
he who lives among the mujahidin lives nobly and has
garnered the rewards of the world and the righteous rewards
of the afterlife. He who dies or is killed goes directly to
paradise.

"The shaykh of Islam, Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy
upon him, said:
'The order of jihad and the mention of its benefits in the
Koran and in the Sunnah is too important to numerate, and
for this, it is the best of what a human being may
volunteer. This was with the agreement of the scholars that
it was better than conducting hajj or umrah and better than
the voluntary [additional] prayers and voluntary fasting.'
This was also indicated in the book and in the Sunnah, so
much so that the prophet, prayers and peace be upon him,
said: 'The head of all matters is Islam and its backbone is
prayer, and the pinnacle of its completion is jihad'
[Hadith]. The prophet, prayers and peace be upon him also
said: 'There are a hundred degrees in paradise and between
each degree and the next is the equivalent of the distance
between the sky and the land which God has prepared for the
mujahidin in His cause' [Hadith], agreed upon. He [the
prophet] also said: 'He whose feet have been made green in
the cause of God, God has protected him from Hades'
[Hadith], narrated by Al-Bukhari. He [the prophet], prayers
and peace be upon him, also said: 'Vigilance for a day and
a night for the cause of God is better than fasting the
days of a month and its voluntary prayer at night. If one
dies in vigilance, his regular righteous deeds that he
performed will be added to his account and he will receive
his provision, and will be saved from the trials of the
grave' [Hadith] narrated by Muslim.
"According to a canonical Hadith collection: 'One night of
vigil for the sake of God is better than one thousand
nights spent in praying and the same number dedicated to
fasting' [Hadith]. [The prophet], prayers and peace be upon
him, said: 'There are two eyes who will be saved from the
fire; one that has wept in fear from God, and an eye which
has remained vigilant for the sake of God' [Hadith]. In the
canons of Imam Ahmad, [it is written]: 'One night of vigil
for the sake of God is better than one thousand nights
spent in praying and the same number of days dedicated to
fasting.' In the two books [of Hadith] it is narrated: 'A
man said:
Oh prophet of God, tell me of something that equals jihad
in the cause of God. The prophet said: You cannot do so.
The man said: Tell me what it is, and the prophet said: Are
you able to fast and not break your fast the duration that
a mujahid is vigilant? Are you able to abstain from eating
breakfast after awakening from sleep? The man said: No. The
prophet said: That, then, is what equals jihad' [Hadith].
It is also recorded in the canonical Hadith collection that
he [the prophet] said:
'For each nation is tourism, and the tourism of my nation
is jihad for the cause of God' [Hadith].

"This is an extensive chapter which contains much more than
what is contained in the chapter on the rewards of deeds
and their consequences.
We will continue to talk of the words spoken by Shaykh Ibn
Taymiyyah, may God have mercy upon him. He said: 'This is
an extensive chapter, which contains much more than what is
contained in the chapter on the rewards of deeds and their
consequences. It is apparent when taken into consideration;
the rewards of jihad are all-encompassing to the one who
conducts jihad and to others who are members of the
religion and the world. It encompasses all forms of
worship, the known and unknown. It is free-flowing from the
love of God Almighty, loyalty to Him and the reliance upon
Him, giving up of souls and money for Him, patience,
asceticism, and the praising God, and all sorts of deeds.
Jihad is incomparable to any other form of deed or action.
The individual or the nation who conducts jihad can always
expect one of two glorious rewards--either victory and
triumph, or martyrdom and paradise. All creatures live and
die. They should use their life and death for the purpose
of their happiness in the world and in the afterlife, and
they should not be concerned with the degree of happiness
[of the world and afterlife] or the lack thereof, for there
are some people who desire strong deeds in religion or in
the world even though that lacks much benefit. Jihad is
much more beneficial to them than any extreme action or
deed. An individual might amuse himself until he meets his
death, but the death of a martyr is much more precious than
any other death, rather it is the best manner of death.'
His [Ibn Taymiyyah] words end here, may God have mercy upon
him.

"Jihad is one of the doorways to paradise. The prophet of
God, prayers and peace be upon him, said: 'He who spends
twice on something for the sake of God will be invited to
pass through the doorways of paradise, of which there are
many. He who prays will be invited through the doorway of
prayer; he who conducts jihad will be invited through the
doorway of jihad; he who performs charity will be invited
through the doorway of charity; and he who fasts will be
invited through the doorway of the well-watered' [Hadith].
He [the prophet], prayers and peace be upon him,
said: 'You must conduct jihad for the sake of God, the
Blessed and Almighty; for it is one of the doorways to
paradise through which God banishes trials and
tribulations' [Hadith]. He [the prophet], prayers and peace
be upon him, also said: 'Know that Paradise exists under
the shadow of the swords' [Hadith]. This was narrated by
Al-Bukhari.

"He [the prophet], prayers and peace be upon him, said:
'Conquests and raids for the cause of God is better than
the world and all earthly matters' [Hadith], agreed upon.
Those who are killed or die while on the path of jihad will
receive great rewards, which no eye has seen, no ear has
heard, and no hearts of men have ever imagined.

"God Almighty said: 'Think not of those who are slain in
Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their
sustenance in the presence of their Lord' [Koranic verse;
Al-Imran 3:169]. The Almighty also said: 'But those who are
slain in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be
lost. He will guide them in the hereafter as well, and will
set their hearts at rest and will admit them to the
paradise which He has promised them' [Koranic verse;
Muhammad 47:4]. The Almighty also said: 'Those who leave
their homes in the cause of Allah, and are then slain or
die, on them will Allah bestow verily a goodly Provision,
truly Allah is He who bestows the best provision' [Koranic
verse; Al-Hajj 22:58].

"The prophet of God, prayers and peace be upon him, said:
'God has attributed six rewards to the martyr: he will be
forgiven first and foremost and will see his seat in
Paradise and will be protected from the penalties of the
grave. He will be safe from the great terror and the crown
of equanimity will be placed upon his head, each ruby [of
the crown] is better than the world and all earthly
matters. He will be joined in marriage to 72 virgins and
will be allowed to intercede on behalf of 70 of his family
members' [Hadith]. He [the prophet], prayers and peace be
upon him, also said: 'The souls of the martyrs live in the
bodies of green birds who have their nests in chandeliers
hung from the throne of the Almighty' [Hadith]. The prophet
of God, prayers and peace be upon him, also said, 'They eat
the fruits of paradise from wherever they like and then
nestle in these chandeliers' [Hadith]. He, prayers and
peace be upon him, also said: 'No one who enters into
paradise would wish to come back to this world even if he
were given the whole world and whatever is in it except the
martyr, who on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would
like to come back to the world and be killed again for
God's cause 10 times, for all the grace he saw' [Hadith].
The death of a martyr is easier than any other death. The
prophet of God, prayers and peace be upon him, said: 'The
martyr does not feel the pain of murder except like that
pain that any of you feels from the bite of an ant'
[Hadith].

"The martyr is saved from the tribulations of the grave
because he lived through many tribulations during his
lifetime, whether in the flash of swords and bullets, the
roaring and thunder of bombs, or the growl and bombardment
of airplanes. A man said to the prophet: 'Oh prophet of
God, why are all believers put through tests and
tribulations when they are in their graves except for the
martyr?' [The prophet], prayers and peace be upon him,
replied: 'The testing and tribulation of seeing the
flashing of swords over his head was turmoil enough'
[Hadith].

"He who is of many sins; his medicine is to be killed for
the sake of God. The prophet of God, prayers and peace be
upon him, said: 'Those who are killed are three types: a
man who is a believer who conducted jihad physically and
monetarily for the sake of God so that if he meets his
enemy, he battles them until he himself is killed. That is
the tested martyr, meaning, the one whose chest is exposed
to God in paradise under God's throne, who the prophets do
not let down except for the degree of prophesy. Another man
who accrued upon himself sins and transgressions, conducted
jihad physically and monetarily for the sake of God, so
that if he meets his enemy, he battles them until he
himself is killed. That is an expunger which wipes away his
sins and transgressions. The sword is an obliterator of all
sins. That man entered paradise through whichever doorway
he chose, for paradise has eight doorways and Hell has
seven doorways, some of which are better than others. The
third is a hypocrite who conducts jihad physically and
monetarily, until he meets his enemy, he battles them for
the sake of God Almighty until he himself is killed. This
man is in Hell, for the sword does not obliterate
hypocrisy.' [The prophet], prayers and peace be upon him,
also said:
'The best of the shuhada are those who fight in the first
rank and do not turn their faces away until they are
killed. They will have the pleasure of occupying the
highest dwellings in paradise. Your Lord will smile at
them, and whenever your Lord smiles upon any of His slaves,
that person will not be brought to account' [Hadith].

"These are the abundant rewards for those who strive in the
path of God when jihad is a collective duty, then how it
will be when jihad is a personal duty in these recent
times, meaning since the collapse of Andalusia and other
Muslim countries in the hands of the infidel enemy?
The scholars said, 'jihad becomes a personal duty like the
five prayers and the fasting of Ramadan, meaning that jihad
becomes a duty on every person who fulfills the requirement
in four situations:

"1. The first situation is if the enemy attacks a Muslim
country, and this is happening and it is not a secret from
anyone in this era. There is no difference between an
original infidel and an apostate infidel who rules the
Muslim countries, whose apostasy became clear by evidence,
meaning with regard to the duty of eliminating and striving
against [him]. Until now the original infidel enemy
[Christian/Jew] or the apostate infidel [who was Muslim and
became an apostate because of his deeds] are not
eliminated, therefore jihad remains a personal duty until
the enemy is eliminated or there are sufficient Muslims to
eliminate it [enemy].

"2. The second situation is that jihad becomes a duty to
those who are available in the row, meaning to be present
at the battlefield when the Muslim army faces the infidel
army, as God Almighty said: 'O ye who believe! When ye meet
the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to
them' [Koranic verse; Al-Anfal 8:15]. This condition is
applicable to categories of Muslims in different places in
this era, especially in the countries attacked by the
infidel assailant enemy.

"3. The third situation is if the infidels captured a
Muslim, it becomes the duty of the Muslims to seek his
freedom by fighting or [supporting with] money or by
cunning. The prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, said,
'Set the war prisoners free' [Hadith]. The prisoner is the
prisoner of war. God Almighty said, 'But if they seek your
aid in religion, it is your duty to help them, except
against a people with whom you have a treaty of mutual
alliance' [Koranic verse; Al-Anfal 8:72]. The infidel
apostate prisons are crowded with thousands of Muslims. I
wish they were only men, but what is worse is that many
among the prisoners are women who are hostages in the
enemy's hand who tampers with their honor while they scream
for help from the zealous and jealous Muslims. How can the
Muslims sleep? How can jihad not be a personal duty when
the situation is like this? How can a person not tremble by
the calls of the weak that are being killed or captured?
Why are you not united in Islam oh God worshipping
brothers? Aren't there free souls who have resolution?
Aren't there supporters and helpers for good [deeds]?

"On this occasion, on this occasion [as heard], we say to
our captive brothers everywhere, by God, and there is no
God except Him, we did not and will not forget you in our
supplications and we will not forget you by continuing our
jihad until the last captured among you is set free.
My brothers be patient and steadfast on the truth and avoid
those who discharge and recant. Keep on supplicating and
continue on your religious duties, and God is with you.

"4. The fourth situation is when jihad becomes a personal
duty, as the scholars said, 'If the imam calls on people
for jihad, it becomes a personal duty; if there is no amir
for the believers or a general leader that most of the
Muslims agree upon, then the legitimate leaders take their
place [in guiding people]. Among them are the leaders of
jihad who are their guardians and in charge. The truthful
leaders of jihad called on Muslims to conduct jihad against
the infidels in the appropriate places to support the
fronts and complete victory in the details that will be
mentioned in the right place, and then jihad becomes a
personal duty on those who are capable of joining jihad
according to their ability.

"[God] Almighty said: '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'
[Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:38].

"In return for the great rewards awaiting the mujahidin,
God has threatened those who do not conduct the obligatory
jihad with painful punishment in the world and the
hereafter.

"[God] Almighty said: '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'
[Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:38-39].

"The prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, said: 'He who
neither takes part in fighting nor equips a warrior nor
looks after his (the
warrior's) family will be afflicted by severe calamities
before the Day of Resurrection' [Hadith], narrated by Abu
Dawud.

"It is not permissible for the believer except to be one of
three: to fight for the sake of God or to take care of the
family of a person who is fighting or to prepare the person
who is going to fight. If he [the believer] is not one of
the three [mentioned above] he should anticipate a severe
calamity, and no one knows what and how severe it is before
Judgment Day except for God. Today, the jihad arena is
missing its men and is calling upon its heroes. Don't God
and Islam have a right to be defended by the young and the
old? Say to those who have dignity, wherever they are;
respond to God; you will despair if you do not respond. The
infidel people have come from far away to fight you for the
sake of their false religion and they are killed and
wounded for the sake of Hell. It is more appropriate for
Muslims to fight and be patient because they fight for the
sake of God and they are killed for the sake of paradise.
[God Almighty said:] 'Those who believe fight in the cause
of Allah, and those who reject Faith Fight in the cause of
Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble
indeed is the cunning of Satan' [Koranic verse; Al-Nisa
4:76].

"We direct a special call to the scholars and students
seeking knowledge; to them we say, 'Oh brothers, you learn
to teach and the benefit of knowledge is by applying it;
the knowledge remains in the mind of the knowledgeable
person without knowing its truth and sweetness until he
applies it. Some of the ancestors, God's mercy be upon
them,
said: 'Knowledge calls for its application and if it is not
applied, it is gone' [poem]. The prophet, prayers and peace
be upon him, the master of the mujahidin, conducted jihad
by himself--his money and his tongue [words]--he diligently
strove in God's path until the certainty arrived [he died].

"You, God bless you, are the heirs of the prophets by your
knowledge and deeds and you are the honorable and the role
models, so do as the prophets did and conduct jihad for the
sake of God in the best manner.
Look at our previous scholars like Ibn al-Mubarak, Ibn-
Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Nahhas, and many others who have
conducted jihad by themselves, thus God elevated their
status. The jihad arenas are in dire need of your knowledge
and the doors are open before you to bring about the virtue
of teaching and jihad, may God elevate your status in life
and in the hereafter.

"We direct a special call to the specialized people like
doctors and electronic engineers, due to their urgent need
by the mujahidin. The battle needs collaboration of
experiences and efforts. We call on the fathers and mothers
not to become a barrier between their children and paradise
and to present their children for the sake of God. Our
religion is more precious than ourselves, and encouraging
children [to fight] and sacrificing them for the sake of
God is a clear sign of piety and righteousness. God
Almighty said: 'No means shall ye attain righteousness
unless ye give freely of that which ye love; and whatever
ye give, of a truth Allah knoweth it well' [Koranic verse;
Al-Imran 3:92]. How then, when the situation requires that
the father himself conducts jihad to become a role model
for his children? As God Almighty
said: 'Go ye forth, whether equipped lightly or heavily,
and strive and struggle, with your goods and your persons,
in the cause of Allah. That is best for you, if ye but
knew' [Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:41].

"If they disagree who should first join jihad to go to
paradise, let them compete, meaning the fathers and the
children, and how come they will not compete? It is
Paradise, the highest ranks and the everlasting comfort.
Also we say to the Muslim wives do not be a barrier between
your husbands and paradise; the righteous woman who loves
her husband is the one that desires for him to get into
paradise and to be saved from Hell, but she is the one who
says to him when she knows that Islam is calling him: Take
my gold and money and conduct jihad for the sake of God and
we will meet in paradise, God willing. If those children
and husbands conduct jihad and get killed, they are only
conducting jihad for your sake and to elevate your status
in paradise. God Almighty said:
'Gardens of perpetual bliss: they shall enter there, as
well as the righteous among their fathers, their spouses,
and their offspring: and angels shall enter unto them from
every gate with the salutation Peace unto you for that ye
persevered in patience! Now how excellent is the final
home!' [Koranic verse; Al-Ra'd 13: 23, 24]

"Let every tribe and every family offer the best of its men
and its bravest heroes as the Banu-Hasan tribe did when it
gave the brave hero and the fearless lion, the amir Abu-
Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, may God have mercy on him. A poet said
about them:

[Beginning of poem]

"'Banu-Hasan [tribe] has much to be proud of,

"'An ornament that adorned time [REFERENCE to Abu-Mus'ab
al-Zarqawi].
"'They reject humiliation and never allow injustice against
them,

"'And they are surely capable of taking revenge on the
traitors.'

[End of poem]

"Many tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, Iraq,
Algeria, Libya, and others offered pious heroes and
martyrs. This is a time to strive for both this life and
the hereafter; it is a time to defend Islam. 'Then let all
such aspire as are willing to aspire to things of high
account'
[Koranic verse; Al-Mutaffifin 83:26].

"Oh people of Islam, come to the glory of this life and the
hereafter.
Attack for the sake of God and in His name. Fight those
that do not believe in God until God alone is worshipped.
God Almighty said: 'And fight against those who, despite
having been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, do not truly
believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider
forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden,
and do not follow the religion of truth which God has
enjoined upon them till they agree to pay the exemption tax
with a willing hand, after having been humbled in war'
[Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:29].

"Oh youth of Islam, join the caravan, and be with those who
are truthful as God has commanded you. 'O you who have
attained the faith, remain conscious of God, and be among
those who are true to their word'
[Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:119]. The sign of truthfulness
is jihad for the sake of God with life and material
possessions. God Almighty said:
'[Know that true] believers are only those who have
attained to faith in God and His Apostle and have left all
doubt behind, and who strive hard in God's cause with their
possessions and their lives; it is they who are true to
their word' [Koranic verse; Al-Hujurat 49:15]. Be with the
fighting sect whom the messenger of God, prayers and peace
be upon him, promised victory and which he described as
being on the path of truth.
Umran Ibn-Husayn, may God be pleased with him, said: 'The
messenger of God, prayers and peace be upon him, said: 'A
group from my Ummah [Muslim nation] will still be
victorious on the path of truth. It will triumph over its
enemies until their last man fights the false messiah, the
Dajjal [Islamic equivalent to the anti-Christ]'' [End of
narration].

"These are words from the light of revelation and from the
spring of the [prophetic] message clearly showing the
course of this chosen sect and determining the nature of
its path and creed, and at the same time refuting the
claims of the defeatist [and derelict] scholars [clerics]
of the humiliation and disgrace, and those advocating
resignation to reality and its pressures, and those who
like the Israelites said: 'No strength have we today (to
stand up) against Goliath and his forces'
[Koranic verse; Al-Baqarah 2:249]. They [The Israelites]
forgot the might of God, the only one able to give support
and bestow victory; they deviated from the words of the
victorious sect of that time: 'How often has a small host
overcome a great host by God's leave. For God is with those
who are patient in adversity' [Koranic verse; Al-Baqarah
2:249].

"Oh youth of Islam, rise up to a paradise the size of
heavens and earth.
Do not listen to the defeatists who turned away from the
truth; [do not listen to] those who weakened in the middle
of the road and abased themselves [before the enemy] for
they are leading you astray from paradise and discourage
you from upholding the banner of Islamic law and the Koran.
Those that dare to challenge jihad today at a time when the
banners have become clear, the ranks distinguished, the
efforts united, and the dawn of victory has loomed in the
horizon should revisit his religion and reexamine his soul.
It has become evident to all what the mujahidin have been
able to do in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the grace of God.
They rubbed the noses of the infidels in the ground and
killed and injured large numbers of them, and intimidated
them, and prevented them from achieving their objectives.
Had they listened to those defeatists, the enemy would have
been able to triumph and achieve his objectives.

"Oh youth of Islam, rise up to a paradise the size of the
heavens and earth. Do no listen to the defeatists for they
are only discouraging you from seeking paradise and turning
you away from the path of freedom and honor. They are the
most despicable kind of people. Do not wait for anyone's
permission and do not seek authorization from the
governments whose authority is already invalid because of
their departure from Islam and their lack of legitimacy.
How can we ask permission from those we are obligated to
fight? Do not let yourselves be deceived by the fraudulent
claim that no jihad is permitted without the sanction of an
imam, for that would mean Islam will fade away and
disbelief and crime will rule the world. The mujahid Shaykh
Abu-al-Walid al-Ansari, may God protect him, spared us the
effort of countering this argument in his valuable book
'Drawing the Spear to Silence the Claim 'No Jihad Without
an Imam'.' I advise you to read it. You should know, may
God guide you, that one of the best blessings God could
have bestowed on those He loves is to allow them to live in
these times in which God is reinvigorating the religion [of
Islam] and reviving the spirit of Muslims and the
conditions of the faithful mujahidin making them similar to
those who came before them among the muhajirin [first
community of Muslims who migrated from Mecca] and Ansar
[local supporters]. Anyone who does that [join jihad] at
these times shall be one of 'those who follow them in [the
way of] righteous, God is well pleased with them and well
pleased are they with Him. And for them has He readied
gardens through which running waters flow, therein to abide
beyond the count of time; this is the triumph supreme'
[Koranic verse; Al-Tawbah 9:100].

"The faithful must thank God for this trial which is in
truth a gift from God; it is a tribulation that carries
inside it a great blessing.
Strive for a paradise adorned with hurs [maidens of
paradise] who are adorned for their grooms. 'Behold, God
has bought of the believers their lives and their
possessions, promising them paradise in return, [and so]
they fight in God's cause, and slay, and are slain: a
promise which in truth He has willed upon Himself in [the
words of] the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran. And who
could be more faithful to his covenant than God? Rejoice,
then, in the bargain which you have made with Him:
for this, this is the triumph supreme' [Koranic verse; Al-
Tawbah 9:111].
The road is in front of you, cleared and paved; it was
cleared with your brothers' blood and body parts. These
fruits of victory and primacy have now ripened, and, God
willing, very little remains to be done. Your brothers have
inflicted major wounds on the non-believing enemy and dealt
him blows in every vital part, and he is now on the verge
of death.
"Help your brothers to slaughter him and if the fruits
ripen, then feast upon them and feed the Muslims so that
they may satisfy themselves after their hunger and so that
they may become wealthy after their deprivation and so that
they may become strong after their weakness and so that
they may rejoice after their sadness.

"He who suffers the missed opportunity of this great epic,
this epic in which all who participate will be accorded
great rewards due to its severity and vehemence, is truly
bereaved. Strike with your arrow now, my Muslim brother,
before you miss the opportunity. Conquest is forthcoming
and imminent, with God's permission. 'It is the promise of
Allah. Never does Allah depart from His promise: but most
men understand not' [Koranic verse; Al-Rum 30:6].

"God Almighty said: 'Not equal among you are those who
spent freely and fought, before the victory, with those who
did so later. Those are higher in rank than those who spent
freely and fought afterwards. But to all has Allah promised
a goodly reward. And Allah is well acquainted with all that
ye do' [Koranic verse; Al-Hadith 57:10].

"We and your brothers in Afghanistan await you and look
forward to seeing you. Oh Lord, grant that the Muslim youth
are victorious in their jihad for Your cause, and in
upholding the banner of Your religion. God grant that their
paths of jihad are free of trials. Ease their paths, oh
Lord of the world. Oh Lord, blind the eyes of their enemies
and protect them from the hypocrisy of the hypocrites, from
the abandonment of the deserters, and from the trembling of
the weak. Oh Lord, grant the mujahidin in Your cause
victory wherever they may be. Oh Lord, grant them victory
in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya, Algeria,
Somalia, and Pakistan, and everywhere in the world. Oh God,
accept the martyrs of the mujahidin. Heal their injured and
their sick, ease their tribulations, and bless them, for
You are most generous giver. Oh God, release our brothers
who are imprisoned all over the world and grant them
steadfastness in truth. Grant them patience and bless them
with that which You deem right, oh God of the world. Our
ending praise is to praise God Almighty, prayers of God be
upon Muhammad and upon all his family and companions."