Year: 2011

One of the Caucasus Mujahideen who was martyred, Insha’Allah, during the large-scale operation carried out by the infidels and the apostates – using aircraft and artillery – in the river Fortanga gorge, at approximately 20 kilometers from Upper Alkun (TsIecha Akhka) in the Sunzha district of Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia), is Amir Ilman (Ilman Estamirov). Ilman Estamirov was born on August 24, 1977 in the village of Kirov-Yurt, in the Vedeno district of the Chechen-Ingush Republic ASSR USSR (now the village of Tevzana – Vedeno district of the Wilayah Nokhchicho – Caucasus Emirate). There, he graduated from high school. Amir Ilman Tevzaninsky (from Tevzana) was one of the most experienced and talented Chechen commanders of middle rank, who left to Jihad in the summer of 1999 when fighting broke out in the territory of Dagestan and was proclaimed the Islamic call, throughout the Caucasus. Since then, he had to his credit dozens of fierce battles and daring operations in various regions of the north Caucasus (now the Caucasus Emirate). Ilman fought under the leadership of renowned Amirs – Adam Umalatov (1), Supyan Abdullayev and Hussein Gakayev. In Autumn 2006, he was appointed Amir of the Tevzana Jamaat, in the Vedeno district, within the structure of the Shali Sector of the Eastern Front of the ChRI Armed Forces. After the proclamation – in the fall of 2007 – of the Caucasus Emirate, he became the deputy commander of the mountainous Shali sector of the Eastern Front of the W. Nokhchicho, CE.

Amir Ilman Estamirov (ra)

The Mujahid and Amir Ilman was fierce and implacable with the enemies of Islam, gentle and kind whith his brothers in arms. In his frequent speeches and appeals from the front, some of which were displayed on the Internet (see here for example – .WMV – 75 MB), he always spoke frankly and openly, without hiding his face behind a mask. Therefore Ilman was feared by the infidels and the apostates and loved and respected  by the Mujahideen. He was a fearless soldier of Allah, who had a strong Iman and a high reputation among the Mujahideen. The confirmation of the above, is a post-mortem photo of Amir Ilman took by the infidels, in which he’s immortalized with a raised forefinger, testifying the Monotheism (see here). And in another post-mortem photo of the Mujahideen from the Alkun base, [you can see] a smile fixed on the face of Amir Supyan Khattuninsky (1). Is this not a proof that our brothers have succeeded in this life? And is this not a sign of Allah? A distinctive feature of the current stage of the Jihad in the Caucasus is that young Muslims join the ranks of the Mujahideen with their families. And this, in particular, brothers and sisters such as the Avdorhanov, Akhmadov, Barayev, Basayev, Vagabov, Dzhappuev, Yevloyev, Zakaryaev, Gakayev, Muskiev, Tsagaraev, Shakhbievy and others, many of whom were martyred in the way of Allah and became shining examples to follow for the younger generation of the Ummah, in the Caucasus.

Rizvan Estamirov (ra) – the younger brother of Ilman (ra)

In this regard, the Estamirov family – from the foothill Chechen village of Tevzana (whose glory increased in the last two wars, because of its glorious and courageous sons and daughters, who joined the ranks of the Army of Allah), on the right bank of the river Bass, in the Vedeno district – was no exception. So, during the two days of fierce fighting which took place on July 14-15, 2009, between the villages of Tevzana and Makhkety, the younger brother of Ilman Estamirov – Rizvan, 21-year-old aka ‘Mu’min’, who joined the Jihad in Spring 2006, when he was 18 years old – became Shaheed, Insha’Allah … At the basis of the Chechen name ‘Ilman’, there is the Arabic word “Ilm”, which translated into english means “the science and knowledge.” In the worldly life, Ilman was not destined to study in prestigious universities and other educational establishments, in the walls of which are acquired expertise on various specialties. He simply did not have time for this, because he spent more than a third of his life (12 years!) in the harsh conditions of Jihad. However, during these 12 years, Ilman diligently studied at an university of another profile – the University of the Islamic Jihad, where he learned the science of defeating the enemies of Allah and establishing the Sharia law in the land, and the reward for the acquisition of this knowledge and for putting it in practice, is paradise, Insha’Allah. In this field, Amir Ilman was recognized as an expert, so to speak, “a professor of Jihad.” We ask Allah that He accept the Shahada of our brothers – the Amirs Supyan,  Ilman and the other Mujahideen of the Alkun base – and grant them the highest degree of Jannah – al-Firdaws. Allahu Akbar! Muslim Kavkasky 18.04.2011 Translation, with adpatations, from ImamTV by the Kavkaz-Jihad blog. Additional pictures and links are provided by the Kavkaz-Jihad blog. _____ 1. For those who don’t know him, here is his official biography, he became Shaheed Insha’Allah on Nov. 4, 2001, he was one of the renowed commander of the 1st war. See a picture of him here. His son is also Shaheed Insha’Allah. 2. Sheikh Supyan (ra) lived in Khattuni before joining the Jihad in 1994. _____