Brainwashing gullible Muslim youth to join the ‘Jihad’ to establish a world Wahhabi Caliphate: Concocted stories of miracles from the ‘Jihad’ in Afghanistan - Part 1
Many wonder how have the radical Wahhabi ideologues been able to create an army of suicide bombers in their war against the world to create a global Wahhabi Khilafat. The traditional wisdom is that it is the lure of the hoor in the hereafter that leads young men to find a way of leaving this world in a hurry. This is no doubt true. You just have to read the writings of Maulana Masood Azhar, the terrorist who was freed from an Indian jail in exchange for passengers on the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC814) and went on to found Jaishe-e-Mohammad, the most successful in creating suicide bombers. He describes what goes through the minds of these young men who are on the way to their suicide mission – fantasies of incredible sex with young virgin hooris in Heaven, 72 of them, where they will soon be as they have been told by the likes of Maulana Masood Azhar or Hafiz Saeed of Lashkar-eTayyeba.
But there is more to it than the lure of hoor. One important influence is exerted by incredible stories of miraculous help from God that is awaitiing them at every step in this so-called Jihad. In the following write-up Osama Bin Laden’s mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, recounts concocted stories of the karamaat (miracles) of the auliya in the so-called Jihad of Afghanistan to motivate young men in this and other theatres of war. These stories are interspersed with the stories of miracles from the time of the Prophet. The irony of the matter is that the main criticism of Wahhabi ideologues against the mainstream Muslims, many of whom revere Sufi saints is that they recount so many stories of miracles performed by Sufi masters. But I suppose Wahhabi ideologues believe that everything is fair in war, including contravening the Wahhabi ideology itself in order to win a war for the establishment of a Wahhabi khilafat in the world. – Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam
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The Signs of Allah, the Most Merciful, in the Jihad of Afghanistan
By Osama Bin Laden’s mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam
THE KARAAMAAT OF THE AULIYA ARE IN FACT A MU’JIZAH OF THE RASOOL
Sallaliahu Alayhi Wa Sallam.
Examples Of The Mu’iizaat Of Rasulullah Sallaliahu Alayhi Wa
Sallam
OTHER MIRACLES
MORE EXAMPLES
THE ANGELS DESCEND UPON THE MU’MINEEN.
The Crying of the Date Palm
The Debt of Jaabir’s Father
A Bunch of Dates Responds to Rasululiah sallAllaahu alayhi wasallam
The Provision-bag of Abu Huraira (ra)
Addressing the People of the Well
The Light
Rasullah sallAllaahu alayhi Wa sallam gives Abu Oataadah (ra) a Date branch
The Chamber of the Enemy collapses with Tahleel (La ilaaha
Illaha IllAllaah and Takbeer (Allaahu Akbar Abu Kurfusah
The Janaazah of Ihn Abbaas (ra) and the Bird
Jinns Inform about Rasulullah sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam.
Umar (ra) Vanquishes a Jinn
A Cow Informs of Rasulullah sallaliahu alayhi wa saliam
Speaking after Death
The Martyrs of Uhud
The Blessed Bodies of the Ambiyaa alayhimusalaam remain Unspoiled
Graves like Musk
Wasps Protect the Body of Aasin
Safeenah -the Freed Slave of Rasulullah sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam
A Wolf Informs about the Advent of Rasululiah sallAllaahu alayhi wa salaam
The Water Subservient
Crossing the Tigris
Sustenance From an Inconceivable Source.
The Army of Abu Obadiah
Curing Sickness
Khalid bin Waleed (ra) Drinks Poison
Immunity from Heat and Cold
Effacing the Effects of Old Age
A Miracle of Khalid bin Waleed (ra)
A Miracle of Husain (ra)
Miracles a source of Blessing
Conclusion
MIRACLES IN THE AFGHAN JIHAAD
Most of the Bodies of the Shuhadaa do not Change or Rot
The Martyrs of Afghanistan
A Shaheed Shakes Hands with his Father
The Shaheed Umar Yauoob and his Ammunition
A Cloak on Sayyed Shah.
The Dua of the Mujaahideen
Birds with the Mujaahideen
Fire from All Sides
The Horses
Provisions that do not Deplete
A Tank Rides Over Him, but He Remains Alive
Scorpions with the Mujaahideen
Children on the Battlefield
The Adders do not Bite the Mujaahideen
Shells do not Explode
Bullets do not Pierce Their Bodies
Light Ascends from the Body of a Shaheed
All the Tents Were Hit Except the Armoury Tent
How many a Small Group Overcame a Large Group
The Battle of Northern Kabul
A Second Battle a Month after the First
Maya Jal and the Bunch of Flowers
Slumber
Slumber Overcomes Arsalaan
THE PROTECTION OF ALLAAH OVER THE MUJAAHIDEEN
A tank runs over Akhtar Muhammad.
Two bullets hit Nasrullah and fall into his pocket
A bullet hits Shah in the eye but does not harm him
Fourteen Napalm bombs
Bullets do not pierce their bodies
A Tent Burns, but the Occupants are Unharmed:
My clothes were burnt
A car passes over a mine
KARAAMAAT OF THE SHUHADAA
The fragrance of the Shuhadaa
The Fragrance of Shaheed Ali jaan at a distance of two and a half kilometers
Khiyaal Muhammad locates a shaheed from the Fragrance
The Itr on the hands of a Shaheed’s mother endures for more than 3 months
THE SHUHADAA REFUSE TO HAND OVER THEIR WEAPONS
Shaheed Meer Aagha refuses to hand over his revolver at Laukar
Shaheed Sultan Muhammad refuses to hand over his Kalashnikov at Lankar
SHUHADAA SMILING
THE SHUHADAA DO NOT CHANGE (I.E. THEIR BODIES DO NOT DECOMPOSE)
A BABY (WHO WAS MARTYRED) HOLDS ON TO HER MOTHER’S BREAST WHO
WAS ALSO A MARTYRED AND REFUSES TO LET GO
THE DU’A OF THE MUJAAHIDEEN AND ALLAAH TAMALE’S AID FOR THEM
Their supplies were exhausted and Allaah Ta’ala assisted them
OTHER KARAAMAAT OF THE MUJAAHIDEEN
Those Mujaahideen whose families were in the interior were not martyred
Birds with the Mujaahideen
A Cloud Protects the Mujaahideen
Tanks shattered without any anti-tank weapons
CONCLUSION
THE HUKM (LEGAL STATUS) OF JIHAAD
The Afghani affair in a few lines
THE OPINION OF THE ULAMA
An Important Point
Another commonly overlooked aspect
Extracts from the Foreword by Ustaad Sayyaaf
Alhamdulillah wa kafaa ‘ala ‘ebaadihis-tafaa
The prophet Muhammad did not divide the Muslim community into two classes, the merchant and farmer class like Abu Bakr, Abdur Rahmaan bin auf and Sa’d bin Mu’aaz, and say, these will equip and support the armies, and a class of the poor fighters, like Bilaal, Ammaar and Suhaib radiAllaahuanhu ajma’in. [Rather, all the Sahaaba personally took part in Jihaad.]
As far as those who have doubts regarding these miracles, I do not blame them since they are immersed in their materialistic convictions, far from the realities of Jihaad. Only he realises the yearning who has sustained it, and he who has tasted it, recognises it. He who has seen it is not the same as one who has heard about it. I invite all those who deny [these miracles] to visit the lands of Jihaad, so that they may see with their own eyes that it is Allaah Ta’ala who is steering the battle.
As far as those Muslim writers who exert their imagination to conjure baseless, fictitious stories, to while away valuable time, I invite them also to write such events that are beyond their imagination, stranger than fiction, making history from new, and being written in blood. As far as the Afghani affair is concerned, it has emerged from a regional affair to an Islamic affair. I wish to draw the attention of the Muslims to the fact that we started this Jihaad with revolvers, and we did not have a single rifle. At the beginning, the Afghani nation faced the Russian tanks with stones and boulders.
Note: Ustaad Sayyaf was the Ameer of the Joint Council of the Mujaahideen
The Afghani nation is convinced of the self evident Imaani realities that:
• Allaah Ta’ala is Mightier than Russia.
• Allaah Ta’ala is never defeated or overcome.
• We will soon, by the permission of Allaah Ta’ala, overcome and defeat Russia.
We wish to remind those who traverse the corners of the earth for amusement and sight-seeing of the Hadith “The tourism of my Ummah is Jihaad,” and we wish to caution them of the warning for abandoning Jihaad, by citing the Hadith “He who has neither fought [in Jihaad] nor equipped a fighter, nor has he substituted a fighter [by remaining behind and] seeing to the affairs of the fighters family with goodness, then Allaah Ta’ala will impose upon him a calamity before the day of Qiyaamah I also wish to remind the Muslimeen of the statement of the prophet Muhammad :
“The standing of one of you in the Path of Allaah Ta’ala is more virtuous than him performing Salaah in his home for seventy years.”
I make du’a unto Allaah that He makes the author’s effort solely for His
Pleasure, and that He accepts it from him. We glorify You O Allaah.
Together with your praise, and we bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but You, and we seek Your forgiveness, and we turn to You.
Abdu Rabbir-Rasool As- Sayyaaf.
Miracles NOTES REGARDING KARAAMAAT AND MUJIZAAT
1. Karaamaat and Mujizaat are supernatural feats.
2. Supernatural feats occurred at the hands of the prophet and sometimes at the hands of the Auliya (those close to Allaah) and Sulahaa (pious), and it can also occur at the hands of a kaafir or faajir (open and flagrant sinner).
3. That which occurs at the hands of a prophet is called Mujizah, and that which occurs at the hands of Auliya is called Karaamah. If a supernatural feat occurs at the hands of a kaafir or a fàajir, then this is an act of Shaitaan.
All those acts which can occur as a mujizah of a prophet, those same acts can also occur as a karaamat at the hands of auliya. Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi rahmatullah alaihi explains: “Certain acts that occurred as Mujizaat, for example, miraculous appearance of food, can also be displayed by the Auliya. The difference is that the Auliya do not claim Nubuwwat, rather they claim obedience to the Nabi. However, certain acts that are specific with the Ambiya cannot occur to the Auliya. For example, the Qur’aan is a Mu’jizah of Rasulullah sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam. It has not and will never occur to any other creation of Allaah Ta’ala.”]
lmaam Nawawi rahmatullah ‘alayhi has mentioned: “We acknowledge the karaamaat of the Auliya as opposed to (a group called) mu’tazilah.” Also, the karaamaat of the Auliya do not occur by their own desire and volition. Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi rahmatullah alaihi explains Karaamaat and Mu’jizah do not occur by a person’s design –that whenever the Nabi or Wali wishes he can execute such an act. Such acts only occur when Allaah Ta’ala in His Infinite Wisdom wishes to exhibit the act. It then occurs whether a person desires it or not.]
4. A karaamah does not indicate that the person performing such an act is better than others. In fact, sometimes the karaamah decreases his status in the sight of Allaah, due to fame and vanity entering his heart. It was for this reason that many of the pious personalities used to make istighfaar (seek forgiveness) when a karaamah would manifest itself at their hands, just as they would make istighfaar when sins are committed 5. Allaah Ta’ala makes the karaamaat for his Auliya a way out of difficulty, and for his enemies, a sign of the truthfulness of His Deen.
6. The Auliya are Those who bring Imaan and adopt Taqwa, whether or not they receive kashf (divine inspiration), experience ahwaal (spiritual states) or display karaamaat.
7. Ilm (Islamic knowledge) and Aml (righteous deeds) are the criterion of distinguishing between the Auliya (friends) of Allaah and the friends of shaitaan. The supernatural feats of those who obey the Quraan and Sunah are karamaat, while that of those who disobey are acts of shaitaan.
Abu Yazeed Bistami (rahmatullah ‘alayhi) said:
If you see a man flying in the air or walking on the surface of the water, do not be deceived by him until you do not see what his stand is as far as the commands and prohibitions of the Shariah are concerned.” Yunus bin Abdul A’ala (rahmatullah ‘alayhi) said to Imam Shafee (rahmatullah ‘alayhi):
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Do you know what our friend Laith bin Sad has said? He said that if you had to see a person who follows his desires walking on the surface of the water then do not believe him]’ Imaam Shafee (rahmatullah ‘alayhi) replied:
Laith has understated the point. If you see a man who follows his desires flying in the air; then do not be deceived by him” Hadhrat Junaid (rahnmatullah ‘alayhi) said:
Our (special) knowledge is confined to the Quraan and the Sunnah. That person who does not recite the Quraan and does not narrate the Hadith, it is not correct for him to speak concerning our (special) knowledge.”
8. More karamaat had occurred in the later eras than in the age of the Sahaabah radiyAllaahu unhum, and this is so because the purpose of karaamaat is to strengthen the people’s Imaan and to strengthen their relationship with Allaah Ta’ala.
Nevertheless, for every karaamah of the later times there is a better karaamah to be found in the people of the former times. lmaam Ahmad rahmatullah ‘alayhi was once asked: Why is it that not as many karaamaat are narrated from the Sahaabah as that from those after them.”
He replied: Because of the strength of their Imaan.”
Supernatural acts of the Ummah of Rasulullahi sallalahu alayhi wa sallam ie, those who follow him both spiritually and physically, in all aspects of life occur either as a proof or for a specific need. If it occurs as a proof then it serves to establish the Deen of Allaah, and if it occurs for a specific need, e.g. granting of provisions, then it serves to assist the Deen.
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The Sahaabah radiyAllaahu unhum had gained from the companionship of Rasulullah sallalahu alayhi wa sallam such knowledge of the Deen and such Ma’rifat (recognition) of Allaah Ta’ala, which made them independent of karaamaat, whereas those after them were in need of such signs. Thus, many individuals after the Sahaabah had displayed such feats, which were not to be found amongst the Sahaabah radiyAllaahu, unhum Thus if we had to claim that the miracles of the Afghanis in their Jihaad are more than those of the Sahaabah, then such a claim would not be surprising since it is within the principle established by our pious predecessors.
9. Karaamaat occur more at the hands of the general masses than at the hands of the Ulama. When Imaam Nawawi rahmatullah ‘alayhi was asked the reason for this, he replied: Because of the loftiness of the Ikhlaas (sincerity) found in the Ulama as opposed to that of the general masses.”
10. The only difference between karaamaat and mujizah is that a mujizah is accompanied by a claim of Nubuwwat (prophet hood). Every karaamat of a Wali is in fact a mujizab of his Nabi, since the veracity of the follower, ie. the Wali is a sure sign of the veracity of the one he follows, i.e. the Nabi
11. It is impossible for a false claimant of prophet hood to display miracles. However, miracles are sometimes confused with sihr (magic), since sihr too is extraordinary. The only difference between karaamaat and sihr is that the Wali displaying karaamaat follows and obeys the Rasool sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam; and the saahir (magician) does not do so.
One miracle in which no confusion can occur is steadfastness (being steadfast on the Shariah).