Brainwashing Gullible Muslim Youth to Join the ‘Jihad’ To Establish a World Wahhabi Caliphate: Concocted Stories of Miracles from the ‘Jihad’ In Afghanistan - Part 7
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 Jaish-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 sex with young virgin hooris in Heaven 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 awaiting 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 caliphate in the world. – Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam
The Afghani Affair in A Few Lines
By Osama Bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam
Despite the bleak circumstances that seem to face the Mujahideen, they are at the pinnacle of hope. This confidence is so much that their children have begun addressing the jets flying over them with a Persian
Verse meaning: Talking is over
This is an excellent opportunity to establish a true Islamic State, so that the Name of Allah Ta’ala may be raised, and the Law of Allah Ta’ala may reign on earth. I posed this question to many injured brothers, lying in hospital, from ages 11 and 12 to men of 104. Their reply was one ie. The hope of establishing a true Islamic State!
I repeat: ‘The opportunity is a golden one, to establish the Law of Allah Ta’ala on Earth.’ Anybody with any knowledge of Jihad will understand well the difficulty of amassing an army ready to take up the Jihad. Man’s cowardliness is attested to by the Qur’an.
Did you not see those to whom it was said ‘Restrain your hands, and establish Salah and fulfil the Zakah’? And thereafter when fighting was made compulsory upon them, a group of them began fearing the people [I.e. their enemies] just as they fear Allah or rather a greater fear than their fear of Allah. And they said: “O our Rabb, why have You made fighting compulsory upon us? If only you had given us some respite.
The Aayah refers to the Makkan era when the Muslims were commanded to involve themselves in Salah and Zakah. Due to certain expediencies, they were commanded to restrain themselves and not wage Jihad. During this period, a group of Muslims expressed their ardent desire to fight the Mushrekeen. However, when Jihad was made compulsory in Madina, the same party began fearing the enemy.
They dispute with you regarding the truth after it the truth] has become apparent, as if they are being dragged towards death whilst they are looking on.
Where will you find a million young men ready for death, whose hearts are kindled with a passion for Jihad? Where will you find a complete army of volunteers, not taking a single rupee, whilst their condition is such that even the affluent amongst them do not even have a meager subsidence? Only in Afghanistan I used to read about the abstentious life of our predecessors, but in fact, I have seen it. I witnessed the house of Shaik Sayyaaf where he was residing. It was of mud, and the floor was of bare sand.
Adjoined to it was a tent for entertaining guests. His stipend was one and a half riyals. I used to hear the stories of the generosity and free spending of the previous generations, but I witnessed an Afghan selling his goat and sheep to buy a single round of ammunition. At the beginning of the Jihad the price of a single round was 3 dollars. One Mujahid sold 600 sheep to buy a single infantry weapon, since the price of such a weapon was 600 Kuwaiti dinars on the black market.
I felt ashamed in front of a driver of one of the leaders in the Jihad. He would survive on 600 rupees, from which would come out his rent, the food and medical expenses of his family despite the fact that he owned two large transport vehicles which he donated to the service of the Mujahideen and Jihad effort. Although he was offered 2 300 000 Afghani rupees for just one of them, he refused.
A few youngsters from the petroleum states Arab states said to me in surprise: “The dogs in Pakistan eat bread”. They added: “The dogs in our country eat neither bread nor rice since they have become accustomed to eating only meat.” You would be astonished if you had to see the heaps of rice and meat that is dumped on the desert sand every Thursday.
I said to them:
Here” Humans too cannot find any bread, and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan sometimes, do not even find any vegetation, nor any fruit on the trees in the mountains. So much so that a group consisting of 8000 men survived two full months on what could be found on the trees. When the trees of this area became bare they were forced to leave this area.
We present to the Muslims the following grim realities so that [as the Qur’an mentions]:
Those who are destroyed may be destroyed after a clear sign has come to them. And those who live may live after a clear sign has come to them.
The following conditions prevailed at the time this book was written.
> No Muslim doctor is present on the battlefield, except for about ten Afghani doctors. There are about a thousand battlefronts. This is so even though the battlefront is swarming with missionary delegations and a few portable hospitals from America, France, Germany and Britain. Not a single Muslim reporter can be found whereas many Western reporters and News Agency correspondents can be seen.
Many Mujahideen share shoes. Those who go to the battlefront wear the shoes and those who remain behind, do so barefoot.
At the Warsak camp, three months of winter passed over 4000 Mujahideen in which not a single Mujahid had a blanket or a tent.
When Shaik Naasir-ur-Rasheed, the treasurer of the Saudi Red Crescent saw their plight, he purchased for them, from his personal funds, a thousand tents with blankets. May Allah Ta’ala reward him a thousand fold. Similarly, the major portion of winter passed over 2500 mujahedeen at the Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq camp without any tent or covering. They did not even have a single blanket amongst them. This was their condition until Shaik Naasir-ur-Deen stumbled upon them, and purchased their needs from his own pocket.
The toes of many Mujahideen have fallen off due to the snow and ice [i.e. frostbite]. This was so since their shoes were frail and tattered, unable to protect them from the effects of the snow. The price of a pair of shoes is at least a hundred Pakistani rupees, and there are a million Mujahideen. They will thus require at least a hundred million rupees for their shoes alone. Generally, a pair of shoes only lasts for one battle.
Muhammad Siddeeq, the leader of the Kabul district, reported to me: I saw a woman abandoning one of her sons in the snow since she could not carry him, nor could she afford to hire an animal on which to carry her children.
Besides an insignificant number, not worth mentioning, no non- Afghanis have entered the battlefield. Those Muslims who have accompanied the Mujahideen on the field can be counted on one’s fingers. On the other hand we find on the communist side many East Germans, Cubans and South Yemenites [i.e. from the Marxist influenced Republic of South Yemen]
This was at the time of writing the book. However, thereafter Muslims from different countries took active part in the Jihad. Of particular mention is the contribution of the individual (nongovernmental) brothers from the Arab states.
Some of the requests made by the author to the Muslim public
• Every Muslim family should set aside one day in a month, to be spent towards the Afghani Jihad.
• Excursions should be arranged to Peshawar so that one may personally witness the Afghani Jihad, thereby increasing one’s enthusiasm and courage, and the [dead] souls may be enlived by looking at the living [i.e. the Mujahideen].
• An appeal to the doctors to spend a month annually amongst the Mujahideen. These requests, although relevant to the time of writing the book, are being mentioned since they are equally applicable today in Kashmir, Bosnia, Chechnya, Burma, Tajikistan, etc.
As Allah Ta’ala says in the Qur’an:
Verily in this is a reminder for those who have a heart, or lend an ear while present (conscious)
The Soviet losses in Afghanistan are between 40 and 60 million US dollars a day.
Other reports put it at seventy million dollars a day. Even to this day, the Russians are suffering the economic effects of the terrible blow the power of Imaan had inflicted upon them. Despite the credit that the West wishes to claim, it was this small nation of sincere sons of Islam that brought the mighty super-power crumbling to its feet.
One of the youngsters who spent the Ramadan and Shawwaal of 1403 H on the battlefront, said to me:
“I have seen that most certainly the aid of Allah Ta’ala is in Afghanistan”.
He then added:
I took part in a campaign in which we attacked the Yakhdur camp in central Kabul. We were 120 Mujahideen. A helicopter gunship attacked us and rained upon us a torrent of shells. We began reciting the Shahadat since we were certain of facing death. The outcome of the battle was:
3 Tanks Destroyed
18 Russian Soldiers And Officers Killed.
13 Afghani communists killed and 20 of them injured. No one from amongst us was injured The Ministers of the Kabul government sent a communiqué to Muhammad Siddeeq Tashkaari, requesting him to halt all attacks on central Kabul. In exchange they were prepared to hand over to him whatever wealth, goods, etc. he desires. His reply to them was:
“I will grant you whatever you wish, on condition that you abandon your heresy and communism, and enter into Islam.
Last month (Shawwaal 1403), the Afghani cabinet (i.e. the communists) sent a memorandum to Al-Haj Muhammad Umar, the leader of the Baghmaan tribe, situated at a place 80 km from Kabul. It read:
“We plead to you in the name of Allah, that we should meet so that the blood of the Muslims may be spared.”
Ya-Allah, communists pleading in the name of Allah. This is true awe and terror.
Al-Haj Muhammad Umar replied:
“The pledge that we gave to the Ameer of the Mujahideen (Ustaad Sayyaaf) is that we shall not lay down our arms until an Islamic State is established. There will be no meetings or negotiations before its establishment.”
Two days after receiving his reply, the Russians attacked with their squadrons of planes and troops, and a battle ensued between them and the Mujahideen. The outcome was the destruction of 40 tanks, three jets were downed and 500 communists killed. In contrast, only 20 Mujahideen fell...
They are lacking in every worldly means, and everything is against them, except that they possess something that is more valuable than everything is, and that is: Imaan in Allah, being pleased with the Divine decree and patience in calamity and adversity...
Some brothers asked me: “Is the Afghan Jihad in need of men?” My reply was similar to Ustaad Sayyaafs: “The Jihad is in need of money, and men are in need of Jihad.”
He, the Almighty, Who has created human nature, has made it such that it is more affected and moved by realities and actions than words and speeches. An environment wherein one sacrifices and suppresses the impositions of personal pride is the most virtuous environment in which the soul may reside. In it the carnal self is nurtured, the soul refined and elevated. It is for this reason that seeing a living example is more beneficial then spending many years buried in books.
Those who spend their annual holidays in Europe or Turkey should be more cognizant of the Hadith:
“The tourism of my Ummah is Jihad “
One of my Ustaads once said to me: “I will soon be travelling to Turkey to visit the capital of the previous Khilafat.” I said: “Why don’t you travel to Peshawar and see those who are reviving the Khilafat.”
But alas, the Muslims do not live the life demanded by Islam, and fail to feel such pain over the plight of the Muslimeen that ought to keep them awake at night. How many have the desire in their hearts to witness the most important living event on earth. It is not even regarded as important in the eyes of Muslims, even some of those involved in Da’wah [propagation], are lost in the oblivion of indifference. I asked some of my brothers in Pakistan how many Ustaads from the Arab World have come to Peshawar, even though only once, in demonstration of their concern over the plight of the Muslims The answer was depressing.
I addressed the delegates at the Second International Conference on Islamic Economics, at Islamabad, saying: “Don’t you all want to visit Peshawar “. Some of them gave an excuse of time being limited. I said:
“I regard your returning from Islamabad without visiting Peshawar as a Shar’ee breach. “This statement was elicited since their hearts did not possess a spark of concern over the most important Muslim event on earth.
Some of them said: “A tour has already been arranged for us to visit the Tarbellaa Dam” I said, “It would have been more appropriate for you all to have arranged a tour of; not the barricading of sand and stone, but of a human barricade i.e. the Afghanis standing firm in the face of the Russian Bear. If it had not been for this barricade, tens of millions of Muslims would have been trampled under the feet of these vicious and violent animals.
How is it that the Hadith:
“A moment in the morning or the evening spent in the Path of Allah is better than the world and whatever it contains”
Has vanished from the minds of the Islamic Economists and Deeni Ustaads. Another Hadith has it,
“Guard-duty of a day in the Path of Allah is better that a thousand days in some other act.”
And yet another Hadith,
“Jannah lies under the Shadow of the Swords.”
One visit to the lands of Jihad, by the help of Allah Ta’ala, will be sufficient to transform any Muslim into a mountain of enthusiasm and courage, so much so that he will keep Shahadat and Jihad in mind -- in his sleep and wakefulness.
The Hadith says:
“One who sincerely asks Allah Ta’ala for Shahadat [martyrdom], Allah Ta’ala will grant him the position of the Shuhadaa, even though he may pass away on his bed”
Allah Ta’ala proclaims in the Qur’an:
If you do not come out in Jihad then he will inflict upon you a painful punishment, and He will substitute you with another nation besides you, and you will not be able to harm Him Allah Ta’ala, by abstaining from Jihad in the least bit And Allah Ta’ala is Most Powerful over everything.
Those who abandon Jihad await a misfortune in this world even before the Aakhirah. The Hadith states:
“One who has neither fought nor has he equipped a fighter, nor substituted a fighter by remaining behind and seeing to the affairs of the fighters’ families with goodness, then Allah Ta’ala will impose upon him a calamity before the day of Qiyaamah.”
Will the Muslims wake up? Will they take heed?
Do they not see that they are put into trials every year, once or twice, then too they do not make Taubah turn unto Allah Ta ‘ala and they do not take a lesson.
Let all those who have the means and strength know that Jihad is binding upon them, and each Muslim should do his share in this field, according to his ability. And Allah Ta’ala has not made anyone responsible except for that which is within his ability.
Discussing Afghanistan will not obscure the Palestinian issue, rather it will give the sons of Palestine a splendid example that, all affairs, by the Will of Allah, are easy, once a link with Allah Ta’ala is established, and our eyes are fixed on seeking His Aid.
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