New release from Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī: "Did They Suggest It To Them? Rather, They [Themselves] Are A Transgressing People"

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The title of this release is Qur’anic verse 51:53.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī — Did They Suggest It To Them? Rather, They [Themselves] Are A Transgressing People
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New video message from The Islamic State: "Disperse By [Means Of] Them – Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah"

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The title of this release is in reference to Qur’anic verse 8:57. Here it is in full: “So if you, [Oh Muhammad], gain dominance over them in war, disperse by [means of] them those behind them that perhaps they will be reminded.”
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Articles of the Week – 9/1-9/7

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Saturday September 1:
Islamic State Ruling On Assassination Of Abu Hashim al-Idlibi: A Revised Account – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2wQ5jcE
A Military Anthropologist Looks at Islamic Insurgency in Aceh – MontgomeryMcFate, Orbis:
Wednesday September 5:
The Demographics of Southeast Asian Jihadism – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Vivian Hagerty, and Madeline Dement, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2CxaLqe
Ethics is Method, Method is Ethics: What Terrorism Researchers Should Know – Carol Winkler, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2oOpqDy
Man Haron Monis and the Sydney Lindt Caf’e Siege – Not a Terrorist Attack – Russ Scott and Rodger Shanahan, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law: https://bit.ly/2NpVsnu
Thursday September 6:
Suicide Squads: The Logic of Linked Suicide Bombings – Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin, and Hilary Matfess, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2wSaPuF
Out of the desert: ISIS’s strategy for a long war – Hassan Hassan, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2QcRTiX
Friday September 7:
Mali’s elections saw some jihadist violence. Here’s what these patterns suggest. – Alexander Thurston, The Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2wQfyO8
New Confusion About ISKP: A case study from Sar-e Pul – Obaid Ali, Afghanistan Analysts Network:
Nine Bullets for the Traitors, One for the Enemy: The Slogans and Strategy behind the Islamic State’s Campaign to Defeat the Sunni Awakening (2006 – 2017) – Craig Whiteside, ICCT: https://bit.ly/2Nb3mSd
The Disillusioned Muhajir: Interview – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2NZponp

New video message from The Islamic State: "Merciful Among Themselves"

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The title of this release is in reference to Qur’anic verse 48:29. Here it is in full: “Muhammad is the Messenger of God; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from God and [His] pleasure. Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. That is their description in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is as a plant which produces its offshoots and strengthens them so they grow firm and stand upon their stalks, delighting the sowers – so that God may enrage by them the disbelievers. God has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward.”
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New statement from Ḥurās al-Dīn: "Condolences on the Death of the Mujāhid Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Haqqānī"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ḥurās al-Dīn — Condolences on the Death of the Mujāhid Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Haqqānī
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New statement from the Teḥrīk-ī-Ṭālibān Pākistān: "A Great Personality Who Forced Two Superpowers To Bend Their Knees: The Commander Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Haqqānī"

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نحمدہ و نصلی علی رسولہ الکریم اما بعد
فاعوذ باللہ من الشیطن الرجیم
بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم
اذا جاءاجلھم فلا یستاخرون ساعة ولا یستقدمون۔۔۔الخ۔۔
وقال النبی ﷺ ان للہ مااخذ ولہ ما اعطی و کل شٸ ٕ عندہ باجل مسمی فلتصبر ولتحتسب۔۔۔۔رواہ البخاری۔۔۔۔
The wound of separation of the great personality of Jihad Pakistan, Maulana Fazlullah Khorasani, was just fresh that we received the news of the departing of Jihad Afghanistan’s supreme commander, The Grand Teacher, Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani.
انا للہ و انا الیہ راجعون۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
Shaykh-ul-jihad Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani (may Allah have mercy on him) was definitely a great jihadist leader of the present. If you are called Khalid bin Valeed of the time, it will not be wrong because Shaykh was the person with the forty fabulous years of jihadist characters who had encountered every infidel invasion with great humility, dignity and bravery during this period.
Trials and temptations are part of the jihadist path and Shaykh got fair share of these two blessings.
Victory of such magnitude as seeing the Soviet Union scattered with their hands and tests also come to mind that four of his sons, including other family members, were sacrificed in this sacred way.
But everything could not make this righteous man bend or tire and he became as described in verse of Quran:
فماوھنوالمااصابھم فی سبیل اللہ وماضعفواومااستکانوا
Finally, he lived like a victorious person in time and departed like same from this mortal world
This world is a testing place and the test is done only for specific time, after tests comes reward and return. Also, Sheikh Haqqani after enjoying a successful jihadist life, taking a lot of fatigue in the way of Allah, has now gone to get those rewards of fatigues.
We, on this occasion of sadness, offer our condolences to all Mujahidin Islam, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and especially relatives of Hazrat Maulana Sirajuddin Haqqani and call for patience and control while offering blessed words of Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
ان للہ مااخذ ولہ ما اعطی و کل شٸ ٕ عندہ باجل مسمی فلتصبر ولتحتسب۔۔
Whatever Allah takes away or gives, belongs to Him, and everything with Him has a limited fixed term (in this world), and so one should be patient and anticipate Allah’s reward.
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New issue of The Islamic State’s newsletter: "al-Nabā’ #146"

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For prior parts see: #145, #144, #143, #142, #141, #140, #139, #138, #137, #136, #135, #134, #133, #132, #131, #130, #129, #128, #127, #126, #125, #124, #123, #122, #121, #120, #119, #118, #117, #116, #115, #114, #113, #112, #111, #110, #109, #108, #107, #106, #105, #104, #103, #102, #101, #100, #99, #98, #97, #96, #95, #94, #93, #92, #91, #90, #89, #88, #87, #86, #85, #84, #83, #82, #81, #80, #79, #78, #77, #76, #75, #74, #73, #72, #71, #70, #69, #68, #67, #66, #65, #64, #63, #62, #61, #60, #59, #58, #57, #56, #55, #54, #53, #52, #51, #50, #49, #48, #47, #46, #45, #44, #43, #42, #41, #40, #39, #38, #37, #36, #35, #34, #33, #32, #31, #30, #29, #28, #27, #26, #25, #24, #23, #22, #21, #20, #19, #18, #17, #16, #15, #14, #13, #12, #11, #10, #9, #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, and #1.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: The Islamic State — al-Nabā’ Newsletter #146
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