To Our
People in Libya: Then Fight In God's Cause - By Sheikh /
Abu Yahya al-Libi
05 May 2011By Ahmed Abdullah
{Then fight in God's cause - Thou
art held responsible only for thyself - and rouse the
believers. It may be that God will restrain the fury
of the Unbelievers; for God is the strongest in might
and in punishment.}
In the Name of Allah, the
Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise Allah, and prayer and peace upon the messenger
of Allah and on his family and companions and
followers.
To the Islamic Umma; peace, mercy and blessings of
Allah be upon you,
All perfect things have their flaws,
So no man should boast his affluence,
Life is unpredictable as you can see,
One day you are happy, and other days you are not,
And this home is no guaranteed shelter for anyone,
And nothing of value remains intact…
Therefore, it is proven to be true about the haughty
tyrant regimes that wage war against the religion and
drive away its people. These are the regimes, whose
thrones began to collapse, one at a time.
The saying of the exalted Allah is true, {But when
they forgot the warning they had received, We opened
to them the gates of all (good) things, until, in the
midst of their enjoyment of Our gifts, on a sudden, We
called them to account, when lo! they were plunged in
despair Of the wrong-doers the last remnant was cut
off. Praise be to God, the Cherisher of the worlds.}
For too long, these regimes have been showing off
their stability, glorying in their power,
strengthening their grip and dressing up their tyranny
in colorful titles, arrogance, superiority and
approbation. They have extended their dominion to all
parts of the countries. They have assumed that they
have control of it. The tongues of each one of them
call out to the people on every occasion, {O my
people! Does not the dominion of Egypt belong to me,
(witness) these streams flowing underneath my
(palace)? What! see ye not then?}
By their black tyranny, unveiled oppression and by
their dividing their Muslim peoples into factions and
parties, they seek to weaken, humiliate and manipulate
however they please. With a brazen face of rudeness,
they claim that they brought about its prosperity,
gave them their freedom, their glory and their honor
and that if it weren't for them, those peoples would
be in complete lowliness, humiliation and unenviable
backwardness.
Pharaoh, their forbearer in tyranny and their guide in
insanity, said, {"I but point out to you that which I
see (myself); Nor do I guide you but to the Path of
Right!"}
However, the obfuscation, deceit and deception – no
matter how long and how perfectly spun – are not able
to rise above the facts or fully erase them and cause
them to completely go away. These regimes have an
enormous media and are surrounded with the dregs of
the clergy who lavish them with praise day and night
and cause their gloomy face shine in order to dazzle
the onlookers. Yet the command of Allah, when it comes
down and settles, cannot be avoided or disregarded. He
has fierce power and not empty falsehoods, {But when
(once) God willeth a people's punishment, there can be
no turning it back, nor will they find, besides Him,
any to protect.}
This is what it was.
Now, where are those who have been taught to take a
lesson? Where are those who have been warned to take
warning? Where are those who look on in the days of
Allah to be kept back and suppressed? {Do they not
travel through the land, so that their hearts (and
minds) may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus
learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are
blind, but their hearts which are in their breasts.}
The spark and it its point of departure came from
green Tunisia where that uncivilized fierce regime was
more atrocious in bold hostility against the Creator
and in reckless disregard for the creature than one
can imagine. They wouldn't let them breathe and
deprived them of the least of their rights. They
devised the most debased means of afflicting them.
This regime is still ruffling its feathers, acting
superior, feeling stability and elation even while it
is in its debauchery and drunkenness. (The Sovereign
Lord is dictating to it and luring it.)
It has depended upon the hypocritical crusader
countries, which are helping it in its transgression
and giving it all kinds of praise and commendation.
They consider it a dazzling miracle of economic growth
while completely ignoring the slogans that have been
raised and its principles, which they alleged were
founded in its democracy. Behold the downtrodden
oppressed people that have risen up in an uprising
that will by no means quit. It has had enough toil. It
has tasted all kinds of oppression, maltreatment,
cruelty and manipulation to spoil its religion and its
world. It no longer has anything to fear or to bargain
about. The tyrant's situation has been overturned in
one night. His many options have run out. His crowds,
authority, prominent personalities, riches and wealth
are of no use to him. Rather they have repudiated his
sovereignty and the protection of his favor. The mangy
dog has been banished. {[T]hus do they behave.}
He has no refuge anywhere on earth except from his
Saudi tyrant associates in treason and villainy. They
don't rend their hearts or show their humanity unless
it is for tyrants like themselves. These Saudis have
for too long chased away Allah's supporters and
persecuted them with fatwas from perverse and
licentious people on the pretext that, "May whoever
harbors and upstart receive the curse of Allah, the
angels and all the people. Neither righteousness nor
payment will be accepted from him on the day of
judgment." Here is the greatest tyrant of tyrants of
whom the Muslim and infidel worlds agree regarding his
criminality, abominations and shameful acts. Your
guardians have given him refuge, protected him and
received him. Will you now be broken with the word of
truth to your faces, just as you have given good
people headaches by currying their favor and
manipulating their texts to please them?
At any rate, the trial of this downtrodden oppressed
people is a pattern for the rest of the peoples, whose
situation does not differ from them, except for the
names of those in dominion over them. The browbeaten
people of Egypt have stood as a people, shaking the
earth from East to West. They have stood to the face
of the Pharaoh of this era, Hosni Mubarak. He has
committed various types of crimes, with which he has
torn this good people from limb to limb. The way he
treated them is like what brought the judgment of the
praiseworthy Allah upon his predecessor, who ruled
Egypt: {Truly
Pharaoh elated himself in the land and broke up its
people into sections, depressing a small group among
them: their sons he slew, but he kept alive their
females: for he was indeed a maker of mischief.}
He filled the prisons. He persecuted and killed
the best people. He fought the religion. He took an
unambiguous open stand with the enemies of the Umma,
including the Jews and Americans. He made Egypt fair
game to them from which its goods poured into them,
and they poured into it to corrupt it. This poor
people toils night and day to produce a morsel, with
which to get some strength and to barely eke out an
existence. The tyrant has no sympathy for the weak, no
mercy for the poor, no regard for the needy and no
sorrow for the destitute. Rather, he has increased the
hunger of his people by making his neighbor hungry. He
blockaded Gaza and closed the gates to its people from
above and beneath the earth. All this was seeking to
please the Jews and protect their criminal existence.
When things came to a head, the knife cut to the bone
and Allah willed to execute His command that cannot be
resisted, the people stood up like the mighty lion
with mutual support and aid to remove the oppression
and obtain some of the plundered liberty with
patience, long suffering, steadfastness and resolve.
The countries of the West, especially the United
States, are perplexed and disturbed as they see their
loyal puppet and their thuggish servant losing his
ascendance and his dominion being dissipated. He did
not continue in the face of the people's
steadfastness, sacrifice, resolve and challenge. He
fell as his predecessor fell and was thrown onto the
trash heap of history.
{And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes? (All) these
transgressed beyond bounds in the lands, And heaped
therein mischief (on mischief). Therefore did thy Lord
pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements: For
thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower.}
After this, came the turn of the greatest liar of this
era, who defamed the noble prophet, prayer and peace
of Allah be upon him. He fell between the jaws of the
grinder with Tunisia to the West and Egypt to the
East. This has come after the people of Libya have
tasted all types of torture, displacement and slavery
at his hand for more than 42 years, which scarcely has
seen with any people on the earth. He has made them a
field for testing his rotten ideas, his putrid
fabrications, his frivolous policies and his graceless
foolish opinions.
If Allah had decreed that this maniac tyrant were to
continue safely empowered until he dies in his bed
without the people rising up against him, it would
have been a disgrace from one generation to the next
until the end of time, but Allah granted salvation.
All is well that ends well.
There is no end to his folly, and his experiments
never cease. Nothing stops his stupidity, and his
oppressions pile up one upon the other. Moreover, one
day doesn't pass without him becoming more insolent
and more tyrannical.
He put his sons in charge of overseeing the people and
the country's wealth. He has spread corruption. They
have put forth their hands to use it as if it were
their own and the people were their slaves. They don't
question what they are doing. They incite their
criminal gangs to wreck havoc in the land. They are
arresting, killing, burglarizing, plundering,
afflicting and terrorizing without any accountability
or oversight. Therefore, the Libyan people have stood
up in the face of oppression, tyranny, humiliation and
disgrace to follow the example of their heroic
neighbors and revive the memory of their brave
ancestors.
Shauqy's observation is true, which he said in the
eulogy of the Sheikh of martyrs Omar Almukhtar:
They have affixed your ashes in the dirt as a banner,
Awakening the valley every day and night, Woe unto
them for erecting a beacon of blood… As an inspiration
of hate to the generation of tomorrow, This black
regime began to tumble and join its brothers in
oppression. Yet, it is trying to cling to the worn out
vestiges of power with all its might and with its
molars sunk into it. No way. No way, since the time
has come to settle the account. The idol of fear that
it was sown in the hearts of the people for decades
has been smashed. It must stand before the solid rock
of opposition, bravery and sacrifice. This people have
registered their stances on the battlefields of
Benghazi, Beida, Darnah, Ajdabia, Tripoli, Mistratah,
Alzawiya and other cities, which have paid no
attention to the threat, took no notice of the
intimidation, gave no heed to the entreaty and neither
did that pay attention to the nonsense.
Their arrows were guided to uproot your regime, which
has dishonored the country. It has disgraced the
country. You, your sons, your companions, your
mercenaries and your book are being thrown on to the
filthiest trash heap of history since the saying of
the exalted Allah has become true of you,
{Leave Me alone, (to
deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and)
alone! - To whom I granted resources in abundance, And
sons to be by his side!- To whom I made (life) smooth
and comfortable! Yet is he greedy-that I should add
(yet more);- By no means! For to Our Signs he has been
refractory!}
Moamar, you have spent these forty years in evil. You
have had resources in abundance. Your sons have been
at your side. Your rule has been smooth, and you added
nothing to it but tremendous arrogance. Today, you are
calling, and dominion has been decisively removed from
you. {"Of no profit to me has been my wealth! My power
has perished from me!"...}
So woe be to you. Woe be to you. Get out. No one will
regret your departure.
{How many were the gardens and springs they left
behind, And corn-fields and noble buildings, And
wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had
taken such delight! Thus (was their end)! And We made
other people inherit (those things)! And neither
heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they
given a respite (again).}
Oh oppressed people with their faithful tribes, follow
your course trusting in your God, defining your
target, renewing your covenant, aiming for your
objective, without hesitation and without timidity.
Throw Qadhafi into the pit of suffering. If you
retreat or give up for more decades, it will be more
severe, troublesome, hard and oppressive than what you
have seen and suffered.
There is no middle of the road solution. Death occurs
once. Great schemes are the measure of resolute and
gallant men.
If you follow your honorable desires…Do not be tempted
by anything other than the stars, The taste of death
in a trivial cause,Is the same as that of a great
cause.
Now this invitation is to whoever are left of true
Libyan scholars, its honest preachers, sincere
intellectuals and zealous youth to harvest the best
fruit from this revolution. After all this violence,
toil, sacrifice and patience, don't let it fall in to
the hand of these frivolous puppets, who only know
their own interests. They only follow their own
desires. They only desire to follow their own lusts.
Another crazy person will climb over your dismembered
bodies, exploit your blood and reap your efforts. He
will make you taste the worst suffering. Therefore,
take your weapons in yours hands, gather them and
stockpile as much as you can. Be careful, and be more
careful to not waste them or give them up. Don't view
having the weapons as a detestable crime. Wallah, the
tyrants did not afflict their people until after they
took their weapons away from them, perfected the
domestication of them and made them like sheep, whom
they pick and slaughter without any defense or
opposition. Why would you that think the weapons are
more secure in the hands of Qhadafi and his gang? Are
they better than you in the use of them? Are they more
careful about the lives of people? Who is the one to
allow you to have or forbid you from having them?
Let these weapons help you achieve the truth, obtain
justice for the oppressed and prohibit vice. Refrain
from using these weapons in spilling protected blood,
taking an inviolable life, destroying people's homes,
shops or their finances. Neither should they be used
for ignorant tribal or racial fighting. The prophet,
pray and peace of Allah be upon him, said that your
blood, finances, honor are untouchable. Yes, this is
the way rights are restored, oppression is removed,
tyranny is suppressed and the despots are rooted out.
For Allah has a decree for everything. Therefore, the
universe has ordinances, and whoever follows them will
arrive; whoever deviates from them, will be
disappointed and fail.
There is no glory without a cost. There is no honor
without sacrifice. The coward will not succeed, no
matter how long his spear is or how sharp his sword
is, if he doesn't have a courageous heart in his
breast and neither has a proud soul.
When you put a luminous heart, and a sword, With
obstinate haughtiness, injustice will spare you. And
those that seek forbidden glory with the sword, Will
live in glory or will be taken by death.
What Allah said is true, {Verily never will God change
the condition of a people until they change it
themselves.}
We have learned that these regimes rule over the necks
of people, strengthened with the force of iron and
fire, and depend on its soldiers and force to bring
about its desires and policies. It is impossible for
these to give up on that and step down from their
dominion, except by a force that can repel them and
sacrifices that challenge them without begging and
subservience. Otherwise, the cost of remaining under
them will be multiplied many fold of what it will take
to bring them and change them. The matter is in
Allah's hand from the beginning to the end.
The Praiseworthy One said, {Say: "O God. Lord of Power
(And Rule), Thou givest power to whom Thou pleasest,
and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest:
Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou
bringest low whom Thou pleasest: In Thy hand is all
good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power.}
Let our Muslim people, who have lived through all
kinds of coercion, oppression, degradation and fear,
know that their true happiness, prosperity and pure
freedom come from a true and serious return to the law
of the God of the people – that is the just law, the
law that does good, the merciful law, the glorious
law, the upright law and the sincere law.
{We have sent down to thee the Book explaining all
things, a Guide, a Mercy, and Glad Tidings to Muslims.
God commands justice, the doing of good, and
liberality to kith and kin, and He forbids all
shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: He
instructs you, that ye may receive admonition.}
Indeed all of humankind, however they have sought to
obtain their comfort in other things, they will only
find misery, trials, desolation, hardship,
embitterment and oppression even if there is a level
of disparity between an oppressor and a more
oppressive one, between a tyrant and a more tyrannical
one, between an embittered person and a more
embittered person because evil is evil no matter how
much the level of disparity.
The exalted One said, {Whoever works righteousness,
man or woman, and has Faith, verily, to him will We
give a new Life, a life that is good and pure and We
will bestow on such their reward according to the best
of their actions.}
And the Praiseworthy One said, {[W]hosoever follows My
Guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery.
"But whosoever turns away from My Message, verily for
him is a life narrowed down, and We shall raise him up
blind on the Day of Judgment."}
Therefore, bringing down these corrupt regimes is not
the end of the true change of course that we must
strive for. It is one step along the way and one of
many efforts for us all to reach the goal, which every
true Muslim aspires to. That is that the word of Allah
would be supreme, that justice would be spread, that
security would prevail, that rights would be
protected, and that the honor of man would be
preserved. This will not happen without the law of
Islam, and everything else is {like a mirage in sandy
deserts, which the man parched with thirst mistakes
for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it
to be nothing:}
The person standing in the middle of the road will
never arrive. The preachers, Mujahedeen and Islamic
groups should not be overtaken in a flood of
enthusiasm, thereby forgetting their first objective
and their goal, which will not be relinquished. They
should not be ashamed of making it public or
propagating it. They must exert efforts to reach it
and to turn what has been realized today into fuel to
help continue on the path without fatigue, boredom or
fear and with no retreat or deviation.
The greatest thing these successive uprisings have
accomplished is destroying the barrier of fear, terror
and trepidation, with which these autocratic regimes
have ruled the people and made them feel that they are
all around them – behind them, to their right and to
their left – watching them breathe, monitoring their
movements and listening to their conversations.
After they have been victimizing their peoples and
using them as an experimental field for their
pleasures, they now stand on the defense – a weak,
beggarly defense. This means that the people have
learned the means of change and completely understand
that the time of fear has gone. The regimes are weak
in the face of the will of their peoples if they unite
and make a challenge.
Tenacity must be met with tenacity. The only defense
against resolve is greater resolve. Therefore, a
similar picture is etched in the mind of every tyrant
of his predecessors, who were stronger and more solid
than himself. He, therefore, knows that his rule is
the pawn of a serious uprising, which could send him
towards the same fate and make him join their thugs.
These peoples (who have made all these sacrifices with
the accumulation of disappearances and fright, which
the tyrants have practiced against them with their
methods, antics, institutions and agencies) never hold
back from doing what they are able to do to elevate
the word of truth if a way to do so appears to them,
the facts are clear to them and they are convinced of
the correctness of their path. There is still a lot of
good hidden in their hearts and flowing through their
instincts. Though they had been weak at a point in
time, yet they didn't die. Rather, they still
maintained their strength, solidarity, courage and
boldness. Accepting injustice is not in their
character.
Therefore, the Mujahedeen have been earnest for a long
time to stir up the Umma, arouse its secrets, call it
to Jihad and awaken it to the duty conferred upon it
against these tyrants to oust them and surround them.
The Mujahedeen who are sacrificing themselves today on
all the battle fields to meet death are only a part of
this Umma. They have gone out from its womb. They have
defended its honor. They have stood up and advanced to
remove all types of oppression from it. They have
risen up to help their weak.
The saying of the exalted Allah has moved them, {And
why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of
those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and
oppressed)?- Men, women, and children, whose cry is:
"Our Lord! Rescue us from this town, whose people are
oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will
protect; and raise for us from thee one who will
help!"}
Therefore, every invitation or idea that is designed
to create a rift between the Islamic Umma and its sons
the Mujahedeen is a failed and unsuccessful invitation
and a rejected and discarded idea. We never doubt, and
we don't claim that which is not given. Some of the
greatest reasons for destroying the barrier of fear in
the hearts of the rebellious people, who made
tolerating the difficulties and sacrifices look easy
are the stances of their citizens, their rare heroics
and their extraordinary standing up in the face of the
tyrant of this age – America, the source of terrorism
and the spring of destruction so that even its dignity
(thanks to the blessing of Allah on the Mujahedeen)
has become chaff, driven by the wind. This fact
requires us to know that Jihad for the sake of Allah
is the way to save the Umma, and pump life-giving
blood through its veins, to build castles of glory for
it, to vanquish the forebodings of fear that had
settled in the hearts and to bring it up in courage,
boldness and defiance as well as to save it from the
slough of domestication that is desired for it.
Allah the most high said, {O ye who believe! give your
response to God and His Apostle, when He calleth you
to that which will give you life;}
So let our Muslim Umma take an honorable stand side by
side with your staunch sons, who are defending your
religion, your honor, your land and your holy places
by supporting, helping, backing and strengthening
them. Their strength is your strength. Their victory
is your victory. Their deaths will spare you from
dying.
These uprisings have shown that the infidel
governments of the West only know their own interests
and the interests of their people. They don't utter a
word, unless they see that they are in danger. If they
do talk, it amounts to shame, procrastination,
distortion and hollow empty statements. So when they
see that the winds of change have blown and that their
lackeys have departed, they ride its waves and they
say to these people who have been oppressed through
decades of crime; "We were with you."
For example: When the demonstrations broke out in the
Shiite state, it didn't take long for that evil old
woman - the U.S. secretary of state - to talk,
criticize and denounce even though only two people
were killed. Obama called on the people of Iran to be
brave as if a fierce massacre had occurred and its
heroes fought on the battlefields. Meanwhile,
Qadhafi's groups are taking thousands of lives with
their artillery, aircraft and automatic weapons in
carnage, witnessed by the entire world. The tyrant and
his son went out warning and threatening. In spite of
that, their statements throughout the days of the
massacre have not gone beyond a request for self
control, for avoiding violence and for resorting to
dialogue. This is only out of greed for Libyan oil,
which their people have enjoyed, and its owners have
been deprived of it for more than forty years.
This is like what happened in Egypt with their
staggering, blundering and turbulent statements until
they were sure that the regime was falling without a
doubt. Only then, did they pour out a flood of support
for the people and congratulate them on their victory
and for obtaining their freedom, which has been
withheld from them by their loyal puppet.
We say this in order for our Muslim peoples to know
that they will not achieve the freedom and dignity
they want and the prosperity they seek unless they
realize their own self-strength, stop their
subordination to the disingenuous West and become free
of self-defeat in the face of it. This will never
happen as long as they are ruled by those who are
infatuated with the civilization of the West, fond of
its policies and dazzled by its deception.
The Western governments, which act as if they are
crying about you and they care for your interests, are
those who enabled these tyrants, who made you taste
the torment for all these decades and imposed upon
them to steal your fortune and plunder your wealth in
order to fill their safes. They enjoy the bread of
their people, and all you get from this are only the
crumbs, which they believe are too much for you. They
are the ones, who supported and support the criminal
Jewish entity that tortures your Palestinian brothers.
Isn't America, the one who supported the regime of
Hosni Mubarak, the Pharaoh of Egypt? So why are they
singing the praises of freedom of the Egyptian people?
Are not America and the governments of the West, those
who supported and support the regime of despotic Ali
Abdullah Saleh? Are not America and France the ones
who stood in absolute support for the tyrant regime of
Zain al-Abedin, who deprived his people of the least
of their rights? How is it now congratulating the
people for gaining their freedom? Who plundered it or
enabled the one who plundered it? How many despotic,
tyrannical, oppressive and repressive regimes are
there on the earth today? Who supports them, helps
them and highhandedly deals with their peoples? Are
they not these hypocritical and two-faced countries,
who have a double standard?
Therefore, if we have been serious about obtaining our
rights and living in true honor without any whitewash,
then we need to be rid of the decades of feeling
inferior, which the West implanted in our psyches so
that many thought that there was no glory, honor,
freedom or prosperity without imitating them, walking
behind their horsemen and without being the tail for
their wretched caravan.
The exalted Allah said, {If any do seek for glory and
power,- to God belong all glory and power.}
We ask Allah to confirm a righteous command for the
Islamic Umma, through which He strengthens the
obedient people and weakens the disobedient people,
and by which virtue will be promoted and vice will be
prohibited.
We also ask the Praiseworthy One to have mercy on the
dead, heal the wounded, treat the sick and unshackle
the prisoners.
Allah's prayer upon the prophet Muhammad, and his
wrath be on the disgraceful tyrant Moamar.
The prayer of Allah be upon our master Mohamed and on
his family. Praise be to Allah first and foremost.
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