DOCUMENT
DEFENCE
OF THE MUSLIM LANDS
The
First Obligation After Iman
Final
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Finally
we say, the case is not settled by long lists of quotations
or the bringing forward of witnesses. Rather, the matter is
referred to the heart. If Allah gives it light it will see the
truth, in which everything is apparent. Otherwise, if the hearts
are darkened they will not see.
"...
Verily, it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the
hearts which are in the breasts that grow blind." (Surah al Hajj :Verse 46).
The
vision of the heart is for evidences, and the signs of Allah
are for cultivating Taqwa, obedience and enthusiasm for acts
of worship.
"
Verily, proofs have come to you from your Lord, so whoever
sees, will do so for (the good of) his own selj; and whosoever
blinds himselj; will do so to his own harm, and I (Mohammed
s.a. w.) am not a watcher over you." (Surah
al Anam:Verse 104).
This
vision opens forth in the heart the springs of perception. A
perception not earned by studying. Verily, it is an understanding
given by Allah to His servant for His Book and His religion
according to the capacity of the heart's vision. This vision
grows in the field of the heart, that he may discern truth from
falsehood, the honest from the liar. The Exalted said: "Surely!
Therein is indeed a sign for the believers. " (Surah al Hijr:Verse 77).
Mujahid
said: "In at Tirmidhi, Abi Said al Khudri (ra) reported
that the Prophet (saw) said: "Fear the perception of the
believer for he sees with the light of Allah the Almighty the
Majestic." Then he read: "Surely! Therein is indeed
a sign for the believers." (Surah al Hijr:Verse 77). Everyone who prefers the life of this world
from among the scholars, he must lie concerning Allah in his
Fatwa and rulings, in his lectures and his commands, because
many of the Rules of Allah conflict with the desires of the
people, especially those endowed with authority.
Those
who serve their lusts, their desires will not be satisfied except
by contradicting the truth or rejecting a great part of it.
If the scholars and those who govern love, power and pursue
their desires, they will not find fulfilment unless they oppose
the truth. Especially when the doubtful coincides with their
lusts, thus tempting his lower nature. What is right becomes
hidden and the face of truth is covered.
If the truth is evident and without doubt, he chooses the controversial
and excuses himself by saying that he will find an exit in repentance.About
those, and those like them the Exalted said:
"Then, there has succeeded a posterity who have given up prayers
(i. e. made their prayers to be lost, either by not offering
them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them
in their proper fixed times. etc.) and have followed lusts..."
(Surah Maryam:Verse 59).
The Exalted also said about them:
"Then
after them succeeded them an (evil) generation, which inherited
the Book, but they chose (for themselves) the good of this low
life (evil pleasures of this world) saying (as an excuse): (Everything)
will be forgiven to us. And if (again) the offer of the like
(evil pleasures of this world) came their way, they would (again)
seize them (would commit those sins). Was not the covenant of
the Book taken from them that they would not say about Allah
anything but the truth? And they studied what is in it (the
Book). And the home of the hereafter is better for those who
are AI Muttaqun. Do not you then understand?" (Surah
al A'araf:Verse 169).
To follow vain desires blinds the eye of the heart, until it can no longer
differentiate between Sunnah and Bid'ah, or it inevitably reverses
them, that it perceives the Bid'ah as Sunnah. This is the plague
the scholars suffer when they prefer the life of this world
and pursue lusts and follow after leaders. The following verses
refer to them:
"And
recite (0 Mohammed) to them the story of him to whom We gave
Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)
but he threw them away, so Satan followed him up, and he became
of those who went astray. And had We willea: We would surely
have elevated him therewith but he clung to the earth and followed
his own vain desire. So his description is the description of
a dog: If you drive him away, he lolls his tongue out, or if
you leave alone he (still) lolls his tongue out... " (Surah al A'araf:Verse 175-176).
Quotations will not suffice, because the perception of the truth relies
on the enlightenment of the heart. When the heart has a strong
attachment to the life of this world, and the bearer of this
heart is immersed in sin, Ran (black covering) overcomes the
heart. Because, every sin is a black stain on the heart. These
black stains accumulate until the Ran is total and prevents
the penetration of light to the heart.
When the heart is darkened, things no longer appear as they truly are,
for truth is confused and its face no longer apparent. The heart
is inverted and sees truth as falsehood and falsehood as truth.
There must be Taqwa that the capacity for discernment is developed, the
heart cleansed, that it may accord things their proper order:
"O
you who believe! If you obey and fear Allah, He will grant you
Furqan a criterion (to judge between right and wrong of Makhraj,
i. e. making a way for you to get out from every difficulty),
and will expiate for you your sins, and forgive you, and Allah
is the owner of the great bounty. " (Surah al Anfal:Verse
29).
When
they were in confusion over difficult questions they would say,
" Ask the people of the battle fronts because they are
nearest to Allah".
They
asked Ahrnad Bin Hanbal: "Who do we ask after you?"
He said, "Ask Aba Bakr al Waraq for he possesses Taqwa
as it ought to be, and I hope he will be successful in answering.
"
In
Bukhari and Muslim a hadith Marfu: "In the past among the
nations before you there were inspired men and if there was
one in my nation it would be Umar Bin Khattab." And Umar
was true to this.
Muslim
narrates in his sahih from Aisha (r.a), who said: "The
Messenger of Allah (saw) would open his prayer when he stood
at night with: Our Lord of Jibraeel and Mikaeel, Originator
of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen,
You judge between Your slaves in that which they are at difference.
Guide me from that in which they differ to the truth by Your
leave. You guide whom You will to the straight path. "
Finally
we supplicate by the blessed verse:
"...O
Lord! Judge between us and our people in truth, for You are
the best of those who givejudgement. " (Surah al A'araf:Verse 89).
We
repeat the supplication of the Messenger of Allah (saw) as reported
in sahih Muslim:
"O
Allah guide us from that in which they differ to the truth by
Your permission. You guide whom You will to the straight path.
Our Lord forgive us and our brethren who preceded us in faith
and put not in our hearts any hatred towards those who have
believed. Our Lord You are indeed full of Kindness, Most Merciful.
O Allah make us live in contentment and die as Shaheed and gather
us among the group of Mustafa (saw). Glory be to You O Allah
and Praise, I bear witness that there is no God but You. I seek
Your forgiveness and to You I repent."
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Table
of contents
Biography
of Abdullah Azzam and Introduction
Chapter
1
Defence of the Muslims Lands
Chapter
2
The Ruling of Fighting in Palestine and Afghanistan
Chapter
3
Fard Ayn and Fard Kifaya
Chapter
4
Important questions
Final
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Letters
of Acknowledgement and Translators Note
