Category: al-Qā’idah

As-Saḥāb Media presents a new video message from Usāmah Bin Lāden: "To the Muslim Ummah"

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UPDATE 6/4: 5:57 PM: Here is an Urdu translation of the below Arabic audiovisual message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Usāmah Bin Lāden — “To the Muslim Ummah” (Urdu)
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UPDATE 5/27 8:34 AM: Here is a German translation of the below Arabic audiovisual message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Usāmah Bin Lāden — “To the Muslim Ummah” (German)
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UPDATE 5/19 5:31 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic video message:

All Praise is due to Alláh, We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and the consequences of our bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Alláh, he is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Alláh, the Only One without any partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad, sws, is His servant, and His messenger. To what proceeds, My muslim Ummah , we were observing with you these great historical events, and we share with you happiness and joy. We get happy with your happiness and sad with your sadness. Congratulation to you on these victories and may Allah have mercy upon your martyrdom and heal your wounded and free the prisoners. Days of Glory for Islam came, and the leader disappeared from Arab lands They lived upon thrones until we received the news heralding joy The Muslim ummah was always awaiting the victory to be rising from the eastern horizon, but the surprise was that the sun of the revolution rose from the Maghrib, the west. The light of the revolution sparked in Tunisia, and the nation felt the relief, the faces of the people got brightened, and the throats of the rulers got coarser, and the Jews got terrified because the coming of the promised day, With the overthrow of the tyrant, the definitions of fear, humiliation, and surrender have fallen as well. The new meanings of freedom, pride, audacity, and courage have risen. The winds of change came, in a will of liberation. And Tunisia took the first credit fast as like the strike of lightning. The knights of Kennana took the torch from the freemen of Tunisia to Tahrir Squares . So a great revolution started, and what a great revolution! A revolution that will change the whole of Egypt and the whole Ummah if it holds onto the rope of Allah. And this revolution, wasn’t a revolution of food or clothing but a revolution of pride and audacity, a revolution of take and give, a revolution that lighted the capital of the Nile and its towns from its lower to its higher so that the youth of Islam saw their gloriousness, and their soul craved the era of their forefathers. So they brought torches in the Tahrir square in Cairo to crush the corrupted system. They stood in front of the face of fraud and they raised their fists against it. And they didn’t fear its army. They made a commitment and full filled their promise. The high-minded are steadfast, the helpers are helping and the revolution is still continuous. “So, to these free revolutionaries in all the countries: hold fast to your initiative and beware of negotiations, because there is no middle road between the people of truth and the people of falsehood. There is no way,” And remember that Allah has granted you with days where the greatness is coming later. You are their knights and leaders and in your hand you have its bridles. The Ummah had saved you to this very gravely missed events. So continue the march and don’t fear the hardship. The marcher started his objective and in determination the freeman had crawled. And if a freeman starts his march, he doesn’t get tired nor stop. The freeman doesn’t stop until his chanted aims are satisfied biidni Allah Ta3alaa. Your revolution is a precious one and it is the only hope for the sorrowfull and the wounded. You have relieved the sorrow upon our ummah may Allah relieve yours. And you accomplished many great hopes , May Allah accomplish your hopes. Poetry… Oh children of this Muslim Ummah, There is a serious crossroads before you, and a great and rare historic opportunity to rise with the Ummah and to free yourselves from servitude to the desires of the rulers, man-made law, and Western dominance. It is from the greatest sin and the biggest igronance to lose this opportunity that our Ummah has waited for for decades. Take advantages of it and destroy the status and the idols. And establish justice and faith. And from this place remind the truthful that establishing council for opinion and advice to Muslim population in the major important dialogue is obligatory under Shari3a. and add to some jealouss of this deen who had mentioned how it is important to take off those oppressive system and they have great trust among the ummah, they need to start the projects as soon as possible and advertise it away from the dominance of the opprresive leaders and set up an operations room that follows up events and works in parallel so they can accomplish the ummah ‘s need with taking benefit of the proposals of Muslims thinkers and also using a qualified research center, and the people of knowledge to save the people that are struggling to bring down their tyrants where their children are killed, and to advise the population that falled the tyrant rulers and some of his pillars to follow the right steps to protect the revolution and accomplish their objectives and also in working with other nations who their revolution didn’t start yet to prepare for the zero hour and what to plan before it. Getting emotional feelings can make you lose the opportunity and starting before time is ready can cause a lot of casualties. I think that the winds of change will blow over the entire Muslim world, with permission from Allah. It is important for the youth to prepare of this matter what it needs, and that they shouldn’t take in decision before they take advice from the people of sincerity who are away from halfway resolutions and who aren’t kissing the behinds of the oppressors. Poetry “ It was said” the opinion before the courage of the bravery is first and then second.” My muslim Ummah, you have witnessed throughout the decades many revolutions that people were happy with but sooner they tasted its sourness. So the path to reserve the Ummah today from misguidance and oppressions , is to start a revolution of awareness and to correct the understanding in many fields without forgetting the major ones. And the most important one is the pillar of Islam, and from the best books that was written is a book of understanding that need to be corrected to sheikh Muhammad Qutb . Because of the weakened awareness of our youth today which is the result of a wrong culture that the rulers have preached for centuries is the biggest disaster but other catastrophes that afflict the ummah is but a poisonous fruit from other sour fruits. It is the culture of oppression, tyranny and forced silence and spending all the obedience simply to satisfy the rulers and that is worship for them apart from Allah and it is forfeiture to them all the rights of the religion for the life of this world and a sacrifice of the Hereafter to them. And they make values and principles and persons spin in an orbit which makes humans lose their humanity and makes humans run behind the ruler and his desires without any realization or insight. So he became a robot, if people did good, he will, and if people did bad he will. So he became like merchandise that was fallen from the belongings, where ruler can do with it whatever he wishes. And those who are the victims in our lands, who the leaders made them to go out and chant his name .and the leaders have worked hard to make sure people lost the most important thing that Allah has given them so they delayed the Ummah’s brain and they marginalized the general imported affairs by merging government institutes religion with media so they look as they applied shara’3, so they took people’s sight intellect and will. Under falsehood and lies. They portrayed the sacred leaders under the Islamic establishment and also under the name of the nation so that people will be respected and that they would plant in peoples souls so that the older would worship and obey. And even the children were affected by this ideology. It is our duty to protect them, they are born with natural instincts (fitrah) and their natural instinct has been assassinated without any sympathy or mercy. The elders continued this ideology , but the young were raised upon this ideology too, the tyranny got more tyranical and the weak got weaker. So what are you waiting for? Save yourselves and your children the opportunity is a given, especially when the youth have faced the burden of the revolution and its troubles, and the bullets of the tyrants and its suffering. So they made the path smoother by sacrificing themselves and they established the bridge of freedom with their bold youth at the age rose, and divorced this life of humiliation and hardship, and they chose either pride and dignity or the grave. Don’t the rulers understand that the nation went ahead and won’t go back until the promise is satisfied iidni Allah ta3ala. To Conclude, the great oppression in our land has reached and lasted for a long term. And we delayed so long for rejecting it and changing it. So who ever started should finish it Biidni Allah, and to the others who didn’t start yet they should get in the boat and start too and understand the authenticHadith from the prophet Muhammed ( PBUH): Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, “Never a Prophet had been sent before me by Allah to his people but he had, among his people, (his) disciples and companions, who followed his ways and obeyed his command. Then there came after them their successors who proclaimed what they did not practise, and practised what they were not commanded to do. And (he) who strove against them with his hand is a believer; he who strove against them with his heart is a believer; and he who strove against them with his tongue is a believer and beyond that there is no grain of Faith”. [Muslim] And also the best of marthys is Hamza ibn Abdoulmutalib and the one that speaks the truth on the face of the tyrant oppressive, and he is killed because of this. Congratulations to whoever had this great intention, if he dies he is the best of shuhadaa and if he lives he lives with pride and glory. Stand by truth and don’t worry. Saying truth to a tyrant is the pride and good tidings. It is the path in this dunya and it is path to the hereafter. Whether you want to die as a slave, or if you want to die as a freeman. O Allah make a way for the people who are seeking victory for the deen and grant then patience, clear focus and sincerity. O Allah plan for this Ummah great guidance , where your worshipper can have their pride and the people of sin can be humiliated , and commanding the good and forbidding the evil , oh Allah grant us the good of this life and the hereafter and protect us from the fire. O Allah make our weakness strong, and heal our wounded and make our footsteps firm. O Allah punish the people of oppression local and the international and grant us victory upon the people people of kufr. And our last prayers is al Hamdollillah rabi 3alamine.

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NOTE: Below is Usāmah Bin Lāden’s last ever words to the world. The video deals with the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Click here to see how jihādīs have reacted to his death.
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al-Katāi'b Media presents a new statement from Ḥarakat al-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn: "Lamentations of the Imām Shaykh Usāmah Bin Lāden"

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UPDATE 5/28 1:39 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic statement:

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ḥarakat al-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn — “Lamentations of the Imām Shaykh Usāmah Bin Lāden” (En)
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الحمد لله القائل في محكم تنزيله:﴿مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا﴾، وصلى الله على نبيه المجاهد القائل: “وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي أَغْزُو فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَأُقْتَلُ ثُمَّ أَغْزُو فَأُقْتَلُ ثُمَّ أَغْزُو فَأُقْتَلُ“ ، وعلى آله وصحبه ومن والاه أما بعد:فقد بلغنا بقلوب صابرة محتسبة وموقنة بوعد الله، خبر استشهاد الشيخ القائد البطل المهاجر أبي عبد الله أسامة بن محمد بن لادن، بعد أن أمضى عمره في هجرة وجهاد، ونصرة للمستضعفين في كل مكان، وتضحية بالنفس والنفيس قل لها نظير، حتى ارتبط اسمه بقضية أمة الإسلام وأصبح الأمل الذي ينتظره الكثير من المسلمين في كل مكان لاسترجاع الأرض المغتصبة في بيت المقدس على يد اليهود المغضوب عليهم.إننا اليوم نقف وقفة إجلال وتقدير لرجل بأمة، لنتذكر فضله على الجيل المجاهد في عصرنا الحاضر، بعد أن رسم الطريق و وضع حجر الأساس،فأصبحت جحافل المجاهدين تتخرج من كل مكان وتحول لفظ الجهاد الذي كان لا يكاد يتعدى حلما بعيد المنال إلى واقع معاش في كل ربوع البلاد الإسلامية. نعم بفضل جهود الشيخ البطل مؤسس قاعدة الجهاد، انطلقت أول الغزوات لأرض أمريكا لتدك صروحهم وتزلزلهم في سابقة لم يشهد لها التاريخ مثيلا من قبل، وأصبح اليوم العدو الصهيوصليبي يحسب لنا ألف حساب، كما أصبح خبر استشهاد رجل من رجالاتنا يصيبهم بحالة من الهلوسة يأملون من بعدها لو ينعمون بطعم النوم ولو قليلا. ولكن هيهات هيهات، فما كان لمن عكف يتلو كتاب الله بالليل والنهار وترك خلفه الدنيا وودع الأهل والأحباب في سبيل أن يشري نفسه ابتغاء مرضاة الله إلا أن يكون محبا للموت كما يحب أعداء الله ورسوله الحياة. فيا أيها المسلمون لا تهنوا ولا تحزنوا على فراق إمام المجاهدين في هذا الزمان إذ لا بد للإنسان من محيا وممات، ويبقى الجهاد في سبيل الله أفضل الطرق لبلوغ المراتب العليا والارتقاء، وموت الشهيد أيسر من كل ميتة و هي أفضل الميتات، لطالما تمناها الشيخ القائد البطل ولطالما سلك أوعر الدروب لنيلها، وقد فاز ورب الكعبة إذ نحسبه ﴿ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقًا٦٩﴾[ النساء ]. وما علينا إلا أن نستبشر بقوله تعالى: ﴿ وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّـهِ أَمْوَاتًا ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ ١٦٩ فَرِحِينَ بِمَا آتَاهُمُ اللَّـهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِالَّذِينَ لَمْ يَلْحَقُوا بِهِم مِّنْ خَلْفِهِمْ أَلَّا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ ١٧٠ ﴾[ آل عمران ]. ونقول لأمريكا ومن حالفها، قال تعالى: ﴿ قُلْ هَلْ تَرَبَّصُونَ بِنَا إِلَّا إِحْدَى الْحُسْنَيَيْنِ ۖ وَنَحْنُ نَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمْ أَن يُصِيبَكُمُ اللَّـهُ بِعَذَابٍ مِّنْ عِندِهِ أَوْ بِأَيْدِينَا ۖ فَتَرَبَّصُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّتَرَبِّصُونَ ﴿٥٢﴾[ التوبة ] وليعلم أعداء الله و رسوله أننا في جهاد ماض إلى يوم القيامة فإما النصر والظفر وإما الشهادة والجنة. فليفرحوا قليلا وليبكوا من بعدها كثيرا فإن الأسد أسامة ترك خلفه جيوشا جرارة من المجاهدين الذين لا يقبلون إلا عيش الأحرار. والحمد لله الذي جعل قادتنا وأئمتنا يموتون في ساحات النزال، وقادتهم وساساتهم يموتون على أسرة الذل والهوان وكفى بالتاريخ شاهدا لمن خلدت أسماؤهم بالدم على مر الأجيال، ولا نامت أعين الجبناء. هنيئا لك شيخنا الشهادة، نم قرير العين فقد آن لك أن ترتاح وتلتحق بأحبابك وإخوانك من قبل بجوار الرحمن، أمثال الشيخ مصطفى أبي اليزيد وأبي مصعب الزرقاوي وأبي عمر البغدادي وأبي حمزة المهاجر وأبي الليث الليبي وغيرهم الكثير تقبلهم الله جميعا، بعد أن سطرت أروع البطولات والملاحم وبعد أن أديت الأمانة كاملة وإنا لنشهد لك بها. فتى لا يريد العـز إلا من التقى ** ولا المال إلا من قنـاً وسيوف ولا الذخر إلا من كل جرداء صلد ** مٍوكل رقيـق الشفرتين حليف فقدناه فـقـدان الربيــع فليــتـنا ** فدينــاه مـن سـادتنـا بألـــوف خفيفٌ على ظهر الجواد إذا عدا ** و ليس على أعـدائه بخفـيف عليك سـلام الله وقفـاً فإننـي ** أرى الموت وقاعـاً بكل شريف أمتنا الحبيبة،إنه لحري بنا أن نحيي هذه المناسبة الغالية المباركة و نبرز قصة حياة شيخنا القدوة للأجيال القادمة،فإننا في أمس الحاجة إلى أن نتنسم عبير شيخ عاش سنين حياته في خدمة الإسلام والجهاد. فحيَّ على جنات عدن فإنها ** منـازلنا الأولى وفيها المخيم و لكننا سبي العدو فهل ترى ** نعـود إلـى أوطاننا ونسلم وقد زعموا أن الغريب إذا نأى** وشطت به أوطانه فهو مغرم وأي اغتراب فوق غربتنا التي** لها أضحت الأعداء فينا تحكم رحمك الله يا أسامة، طبت حيا وميتا، فقد عشت عيشة الأحرار ولاقيت المنية حرا أبيا، كم ودعت من شهيد حبيب في قوافل الشهداء، وها قد آن الأوان أن نودعك نحن بقلوب محتسبة صابرة فإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون وإنا على فراقك لمحزونون، تقبلك الله ومن معك في فردوسه الأعلى. كما أننا نؤكد أنا على العهد ماضون ومازال قسمك المشهور في رقابنا إلى أن ننتصر أو نذوق ما ذاقه حمزة بن عبد المطلب رضي الله عنه.

وصلى الله على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم.

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Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn English Forum presents an English translation of the As-Saḥāb release: "The Expedition of the [2] Martyred Shaykhs: Abū Ḥamzah al-Muhājir and Abū 'Umar al-Bagdādī"

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NOTE: Abū Ḥamzah al-Muhājir was the Minister of War for the Islamic State of Iraq (AQI) while Abū ‘Umar al-Bagdādī was the amīr of the Islamic State of Iraq. Both died April 18, 2010.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: As-Saḥāb — “The Expedition of the [2] Martyred Shaykhs- Abū Ḥamzah al-Muhājir and Abū ‘Umar al-Bagdādī”
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New statement from the Islamic State of Iraq [al-Qā’idah in Iraq]: "Details Regarding the Prison Raid Against the so-called "Terrorism" Department in Baghdad"

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم


يقول تعالى: { مِنَ المُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا} [الأحزاب:23].

الحمد لله ربّ العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين.. وبعد:

فهذه بعضُ تفاصيل الملحمة التي وقعت بين جُند الله وأولياء الرحمن وبين جند الطاغوت وأولياء الشيطان في مقرّ ما يسمّى بمديريّة مكافحة “الإرهاب” بولاية بغداد، والتي جهد الرّافضة وآلتهم الإعلاميّة في تشويه حقائقها والتّغطية على حجم الهزيمة التي مُني بها رأس النّظام الأمنيّ لحكومة المنطقة الخضراء في هذه العمليّة الفريدة المُباركة..

فقد قدّر الله لمجموعة من أبطال الإسلام الأسرى الاستقرارَ في المحبس الانفراديّ لهذا المقرّ المحصّن التابع لوزارة الدّاخليّة المرتدّة في رصافة بغداد، وكان على رأس هذه المجموعة الأخ المجاهد الغيور البطل أبو حُسين حُذيفة البطّاوي، والذي أنِفَت نفسُه الموحّدة الأبيّة ذلّ الأسر ومَهانة السجن فسعى أكثر من مرّة لكسر قيده، لكن يقدّر الله بحكمته أمراً عظيماً آخر..

فقد يسّر الله للمفارز الأمنيّة بولاية بغداد اختراقَ المنظومة الأمنيّة للبناية على مدى أسابيع والاتّصال بالمجموعة الأسيرة للاطّلاع على خطّتهم في الهروب، وتمكّنوا بفضل الله وتوفيقه من إدخال ثلاث مسدّسات لمحاجر الإخوة في السجن الانفرادي، واكتملت جميع أركان العمليّة في الدّاخل والخارج لتأتي لحظة التّنفيذ، وذلك حين قرّر المرتدّون نقل هذه المجموعة لمكان آخر واستعراضها في وسائل الإعلام على أنها من انتصاراتهم في مكافحة “الإرهاب” تغطيةً لفشلهم الذّريع في وقف نزيف القيادات الأمنيّة التي تُدحرجُ رؤوسها في شوارع بغداد يوميّاً، واستغلالاً للحملة الإعلاميّة لأسيادهم الأمريكان ضدّ المُجاهدين بعد حادثة مقتل الشّيخ المجاهد أسامة بن لادن رحمه الله..

وبدأت العملية بعد العاشرة ليلاً بوجود المُجرم مدير مكافحة الإرهاب ومعاونيه، فما أن فُتح باب المحجر على البطل حذيفة حتى انقضّ على الحارس وقتله على الفور، ونجح في تحرير باقي المجموعة التي تحركت فوراً لتصفية القيادة الأمنيّة للمديريّة، وتمكّنوا بفضل الله من تصفيتهم جميعاً بضمنهم مدير المكتب المجرم العميد مؤيّد صالح وسبعة من كبار الضبّاط وعتاة المجرمين من أعوانه، إضافة لمقتلة عظيمة بالحرس المكلّف بأمن المقرّ من الداخل بحسب رواية الأسد حذيفة البطّاوي الذي تمكّن من الاتصال بالإخوة في خارج السجن بعد أن تحرّر هو وإخوته..

تسارعت الأحداث بعد ذلك، وكانت الخطّة تقضي الاستيلاءَ على عجلة عسكرية والخروج من المبنى باقتحام نقاط التفتيش مستغلّين عنصر المفاجئة، ولكن قدّر الله أمراً آخر حيث لم يتمكّن الإخوة من الخروج بالعجلة بسبب كثافة النيران الموجّهة إليهم، وعادوا مرة أخرى للبناية التي فرّ كلّ من بقي حيّاً فيها بعد أن ملأ الرعب قلوبهم وظنّوا أنّها عمليّة اقتحامٍ للمقرّ من الخارج.. فتمكّن الإخوة من السيطرة على مبنى المديريّة بالكامل وبدأ الاشتباك مع القوات التي وصلت للموقع بعد الاستيلاء على بعض الأسلحة الموجودة في المبنى، واستمرّت الملحمة والاشتباك إلى نهار ذلك اليوم، لم يجرؤ فيها أحدٌ على دخول مقرّهم، وكان آخر اتّصال للأخ حذيفة قال فيها أنّهم قرّروا القِتال حتى القتْل في سبيل الله واختاروا المنيّة على دنيّة الاستسلام وذلّ الأسر، وهذا ما نالوه بفضلِ الله بعد أنْ نفد عتادهم وقد أنكَوا في قوات المرتدّين ما شاء الله لهم أن يفعلوا.. فرحمهم الله رحمةً واسعة وحشرهم مع النبيّين والصدّيقين وتقبّلهم عنده في الشهداء إنّه وليّ ذلك والقادرُ عليه…

سترتقب الجنان بكلّ فجرٍ*** عروجَ الباذلين الى جناها وتشتاق الحواري في حبورٍ *** لمن ركب المنيّة واشتراها نذرنا للرّزايا كلّ يومٍ *** نفوساً قتلها أغلى مُناها


فنم قريرَ العين يا أسامة الإسلام وشيخ المجاهدين، ” فلسْنا من يذرف الدّموع, ويبكي قاعداً مثل النّساء, فما كانَ ولنْ يكونَ هذا سبيلُنا“…

والله أكبر {وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ} وزارة الإعلام / دولة العراق الإسلاميةالمصدر: (مركز الفجر للإعلام)

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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new statement from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: "Lamentations for the Shaykh of the Mujāhidīn Usāmah Bin Lāden"

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UPDATE 5/19 8:53 AM: Click here for a English translation of the below Arabic statement.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “Lamentations for the Shaykh of the Mujāhidīn Usāmah Bin Lāden”
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English translation of 'Abd al-Raḥman al-Farraj’s “Where Are Those Who Roll Up Their Sleeves?” from Issue #16 of al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s Ṣadā al-Malāḥim Magazine

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NOTE: You can read the entire sixteenth issue here.
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Greatness does not approach anyone. If greatness were like that, any humble person would have soared and inferior persons would become comparable to people of high rank and glory. 
He who gives preference to this world, betrays the cries of his brothers, and sleeps through the advance of the rapacious armies is not the equal of he who in whom the spirit of sacrifice and redemption has manifested itself and who has gone forth to renew for Islam the fearless deeds of its knights that are almost forgotten.
That one is he who refused to kneel to those who would enslave mankind. He would not yield or submit and chose to be slain honorably than to live in degradation. With his pure blood he begins to quench the spirits of those who almost died of thirst. 
“Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons that to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good: but those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-“ (Al-Nisa’: 95).
Would you not prefer to be of the party that has been commended by Allah on High and the elite of his messengers in the hearing of those Allah has chose to be His companions. Would you not like to be one of those free men holding the pebbles? Your Lord laughs when one of them plunges into hosts of kufr and apostasy and makes them taste the fortitude of the free and zealous muhajir to Allah.
By Allah, it is the best life and the best death. It is a life that will make Allah pleased with you, so he will reward you for your sleep and for your wakefulness. You will reap the reward of he who fasts and never breaks his fasts, of he who prays constantly; a mighty one feared by the enemies of Allah, an impregnable fortress the tyrants dread to approach. You meet Allah drenched in your own blood for the sake of pleasing Him, so you win his forgiveness and munificence. He elevates you to a high rank and you, by the mercy of Allah, are placed in the company of the prophets, the righteous and the martyrs, and you associate with them in Allah’s paradise. 
Roll up your sleeves, slave of Allah, for you must answer the best of calls, and divorce this world thrice. Proceed with this Strange group to taste the sweetness of Faith and the sweetness of ghurbah that will prevail over its bitterness. By Allah, the deluded does bad deeds because of his delusions and they (bad deeds) turn him away from the correct path. I beseech Allah not to make me and you among those who think that by their idleness they do good. How sad is the day when the idle one perceives his sins and sees the harsh reckoning. 
“As to these, they love the fleeting life, and put away behind them a day (that will be) hard,” (Al-Insan: 27). 
How joyful is the martyr on the day when he meets Allah and his sins are forgiven with the first drop of his blood. 
“They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah. And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve.” (Al-iImran: 170) . 
Today is the time of deeds, tomorrow is the day of reckoning. 
Upon the martyr Allah has bestowed these qualities:
– He is forgiven with the shedding of the first drop of his blood.
– He will see his place in Paradise
– He will be adorned by the ornament of faith.
– He will be married to 72 wives from among the hour al-ayn
– He will be spared the torments of the grave
– He is safe from the great terror
– A precious crown of reverence will be placed upon his head, the worth of which is greater than the world and everything in it.
– Intercession will be made for 70 members of his household
All of this are the reward of those who answer the call of Allah and His messenger, Allah’s blessing and peace be upon him.
So resolve with the determination of one who has put his trust in Allah to be among them and to follow in their footsteps and proceed on their path. Keep in your sights only the gratification of Allah. Do not be distracted by those who seek to discourage you. The promised place, if we are true, is Paradise.
In the name of Allah, latch your heart to creed of trusting in Allah, who never abandons his servants. Make for this caravan. It is the caravan of salvation and the caravan of those who are marching to Allah. Hurry and do not delay. Answer the call of Allah, and rejoice in Allah’s promise. 
“All who obey Allah and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the grace of Allah, of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the Witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): ah! What a beautiful fellowship!” (Al-Nisa:’ 69). 
Translated From Sada al-Malahim Magazine Issue #16
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