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So Follow Their Guidance Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir April 22, 2018 So Follow Their Guidance Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir April 22, 2018 [Please note: Images may have been removed from this document. Page numbers have been added.] All praise is due to Allah, the one who honors Islam with His support of it, disgraces shirk with His subjugation of it, administers all affairs with His command, and lures the disbelievers with His plotting. He is the one who decreed – through His justice – for the days [of victory] to alternate [between the believers and the disbelievers], and – through His grace – made the final outcome for the believers. May blessings and peace be upon him through whose sword Allah elevated the beacon of Islam. As for what follows: At the point when the battle is most intense and the echo of the disbelievers’ hopes of wiping out the Islamic State is reverberating, the carriers of the banner and guardians of the creed draw their strength from their Creator, the Exalted and Sublime. He is the one on whom they depend and rely, because the matter is in His Hands. They donned the armor of faith and righteous deeds, and therefore, were not weakened by the defeated collapse of the rumormongers, the fainthearted, and those upon falsehood. Truly, they became noble and honorable dignitaries. They read the statement of Allah, “If you do not march forth,”1 and pounced, and their ears harkened to the call, “If you do not aid him,”2 and they sacrificed [what they had] whether they were in ease or in hardship and whether they were old or young. They did not cling to comfort and bliss or incline to the materialistic heaps of the transient world. They dedicated themselves to the truth and worked to plant it firmly, so it developed and produced ripe, good fruit. The jihad then entered into the neighboring lands, and its reach continued to expand, scorching the nations of the Cross and the treacherous governments of apostasy with its flames, in a jihad with noble aims that was being waged against the enemies of Allah, and in battles of truth being waged by those who were patient and had certainty in that which Allah had promised them. They read the statement of their Lord, “Allah would not leave the believers in that [condition] you are in [presently] until He separates the evil from the good” (Al ‘Imran 179), and they recognized the enormity of the matter as the days went by, and that the coming of tribulations and the sifting and purification of the ranks was something inevitable. It was the prevailing Sunnah (way) of Allah, “And you will not find in the Sunnah of Allah any change” (Al-Ahzab 62). With every event and phenomenon, they return and quench their thirst from the spring of guidance that doesn’t dry up. So doubt never made its way into their hearts, and neither adversity nor the multitude of enemies proved burdensome for them. {Poetry} Noble leaders whose minds are like mountains To them, the towering mountains are just mounds When they become angry for the sake of Allah, their carnage will please you And the time you see lions most destructive is when they are angry And if they dedicate their lives to war, they employ 1 Their limbs against armored fighters like spears And beneath their armor and spears, you would consider them To be fierce lions who destroyed a mirage in their lair They bewildered and terrorized the nations of kufr. They robbed them of their comfort and safety, and left them scattered, to the point that these nations wished for but could no longer find a peaceful life, and did not know from which direction they would be attacked. The muwahhid mujahid who had been oppressed in the land now saw the disbelieving Crusader – European and American alike – being run over, stabbed, and killed on the streets of Paris, London, and Manhattan – eye for eye and tooth for tooth, a just reward. So just as they kill us, they too will be killed, and just as they bomb us, they too will be bombed, and they will be gathered unto Hell. {Poetry} We killed them like dogs and did not leave Anything for them to boast about among the people, O friend But the deluded leaders of kufr have not yet learned their lesson, and the foolish among them continue to delude them and give them false hope, so they remain persistent in their criminality without giving consideration to what the coming days will reveal for them due to their stupidity and their oppression of the Muslims without compassion or mercy. So what is there to be surprised at? This is their habit, just as the All-Knowing and All-Aware informed us when He stated in His Noble Book, “And they will not cease fighting you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able. And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever – for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally” (Al-Baqarah 217). Thus, our Lord, the Wise and All-Knowing, revealed in His Book the reality of these disbelieving criminals and commanded us to fight them and kill them until the religion is entirely for Allah. So either they embrace Islam, or submit to the command and rule of Allah in lowliness and humiliation. He made it obligatory on us to cleanse the earth of the stench of their shirk, their jahiliyyah, their buffoonery, and their tyranny in the land, and our Lord – the Blessed and Exalted – commanded us to fight the mushrikin collectively just as they fight us collectively. So there is no difference between us fighting the apostate taghut, Salman, and his foolish son, or Sisi and his army, and there is no difference between us fighting the Rafidi-Safawi, Khamenei, or the secularist Abbas and Hamas. There is no difference between us fighting them or their Crusader American, Russian, and European allies, other than the fact that the former are from the sons of Ya’rub, and are harsher towards Islam, and will reside in a lower level [of Hell]. Our Lord said, “And fight against the mushrikin collectively as they fight against you collectively. And know that Allah is with the righteous [who fear Him]” (At-Tawbah 36). He also said, “Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah (i.e. shirk) and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah. But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors” (Al-Baqarah 193). And He warned, saying, “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as 2 allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people” (Al-Maidah 51). So fighting the disbelieving mushrikin is an aspect of the religion through which we worship Allah and through which we seek nearness to Him – may He be glorified – so that He becomes pleased with us. He, the Exalted, said, “Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not” (Al-Baqarah 216). He also reminded His slaves and incited them towards the tremendous reward given to those who strive in His path to fight His enemies, saying, “That is because they are not afflicted by thirst or fatigue or hunger in the cause of Allah, nor do they tread on any ground that enrages the disbelievers, nor do they inflict upon an enemy any infliction but that is registered for them as a righteous deed. Indeed, Allah does not allow to be lost the reward of the doers of good” (At-Tawbah 120). Allah – may He be glorified – also said, “Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly” (As-Saff 4). And indeed, fighting for the cause of Allah is a profitable form of trade which Allah – the Sublime – has guided His slaves to, saying, “O you who have believed, shall I guide you to a transaction that will save you from a painful punishment? [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is best for you, if you should know” (As-Saff 10-11). Thus, He made the reward tremendous, and clarified this in His statement, “He will forgive for you your sins and admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence. That is the great attainment. And [you will obtain] another [favor] that you love – victory from Allah and an imminent conquest; and give good tidings to the believers” (As-Saff 12-13). Ibnul-Qayyim states in Madarij as-Salikin, “The worship of jihad is from the most beloved forms of worship to Allah – the Glorified – and if all the people were to be believers, this form of worship would have come to an end, and likewise what is related to it, including having allegiance for the sake of Allah, having enmity for His sake, loving for His sake, hating for His sake, and exerting oneself for Him in waging war against His enemy…And from among them is the worship of differentiating oneself from His enemy, humiliates him for the sake of Allah, and enraging him for the sake of Allah, and these are from the most beloved forms of worship to Him, for He – the Glorified – loves that His ally enrages His enemy, humiliates him, and harms him.
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