"And Be Not Like Her Who Undoes the Thread which She Has Spun, After it Has Become Strong" ~ By Shaykh Abū Muhammad al-Maqdisī
12 October 2014
By Shaykh Abū Muhammad al-Maqdisī
A New Message By ISIS Jihādī idiologist Abū
Muhammad al-Maqdisī regarding the Islamic State /
Caliphate.
"And Be Not Like Her who Undoes the Thread which
She has Spun, After it has Become Strong" (An-Nahl,
92) – 13 Ramadan 1435H
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most
Merciful
All praise be to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon
the Messenger of Allah. And henceforth…
The Caliphate and the Imamate are among the important
positions and great matters for the people of Islam,
which the faithful of the people of Islam continue to
aspire to restore and establish, and their
anticipation of these affected them until a group rose
out of haste to establish the Caliphate and install a
Caliph. They made the Imam already established on the
people of Islam, a man with no authority nor dominion,
who sought refuge in London, and they called upon
people to pledge allegiance to him and made those who
did not pledge allegiance to him sinners… and others
narrowed the issue by claiming to be guides for
others. Without a doubt this depicts a search for a
rightly-guided Caliph whose leadership people would
accept.
These attempts and their like were and still come in
service of one person, and they have no place in
reality among the Muslims. Instead, he is named and
elected by his people and group, and he is not the
choice of the actual responsible people in the Ummah,
its divine scholars, who would always fade and recede
without the Muslims being hit with despair or
distortion of this great position in their chests…
But a group comes with predominantly extremist
rhetoric, and an exclusionary approach in dealing with
opposition, and has no consideration for the scholars
of the Ummah and its prominent figures, and for it to
claim its desire to implement the Shariah upon the
Ummah, while it does not accept to be judged by it in
disputes of blood and money of others! So it overcomes
some aspects of the lands of the Muslims, and before
it holds matters firmly, and people and the virtuous
scholars agree upon it even in those lands, it
declares the obligation to pledge to its Caliph that
it named upon the Muslims all over the world, and the
obligation upon the Muslims to emigrate to him, and it
considers those who do not sinners… until it was
necessary for fatwas such as that of Imam Malik about
the invalidity of compelled divorce and the pledge of
allegiance. I have received questions from women whose
husbands gave them the choice between pledging to this
Caliph or divorce. I said: Pledge if you hate divorce.
This the pledge to something hated and it is not
obligatory. The words of Imam Ahmed are known
regarding the coercion of a woman by her husband even
if it is correct if her husband threatens her with
divorce… I categorize such questions and fatwas for
the intransigence of the intransigent and their
restriction upon the Muslims and intimidating them
with the sword and branding them as sinners and
infidels, and they exceed this by threatening women
with divorce…
More serious than this divorce, and this is what
called me to write these words, is what they made as a
consequence of divorce among the members of the
Mujahideen and their groups and leaders, and what they
will spread of chaos in the ranks and destabilization
of their structure, when their official spokesman
said: "The message to the factions and groups all over
the face of the earth, the Mujahideen, and those who
work to support the religion of Allah, and raise the
slogans of Islam, and to the leaders and emirs, we
say: Fear Allah in yourselves, fear Allah in your
Jihad… By Allah, we find no Shariah excuse for you in
delaying to support this Dawla." And he said: "As for
you, the soldiers of the factions and organizations,
understand that after this empowerment and the
establishment of the caliphate, the legitimacy of your
groups and organizations is invalidated, and it is
impermissible for any of you who believes in Allah to
sleep and not have bear loyalty to the Caliph."
Therefore, reflect on how they invalidate the Jihad of
the Mujahideen and incite to follow the followed, and
put students over sheikhs… What is this conspiracy to
fragment the ranks of the Mujahideen and undermine and
weaken their structures…
We say to our brothers, the preachers and the
Mujahideen all over the world: Listen to the words of
Allah and His appeal, and strike against the wall that
which violates them…
Allah the Exalted said: "O ye who believe! Obey
Allah, and obey the messenger, and make not vain your
deeds!" (Muhammad, 33) And the Exalted said: "And be
not like her who undoes the thread which she has spun,
after it has become strong." (An-Nahl, 92)
So rally around your leaders, your heads, and your
senior figures, and do not be weakened by the calls of
those who fragment the ranks of the Muslims, those who
see that there is no truth today but with them, and
all who are not with them are the enemy…
They have even used and still used – I do not know if
it is deliberate or by mistake or nonsense – in
achieving the pillars of this heinous plot against
this blessed group in particular and against the
people of Islam in general… putting on the dress of a
genuine Islamic project! And thus a segment of the
children of this Ummah were deceived by them, and I do
not doubt the sincerity of many of them and their
fervor for Islam, but I question the wisdom of their
minds and the accuracy of their understanding and
knowledge… It is no secret to them that due to the
intransigence of the leaders of this organization and
their superficiality, haste, and short-sightedness,
and their refusal to be guided by the guidance of the
scholars, on whose writings they were raised and they
are still studying, probably because of their
penetration by deviants and extremists or others, that
this plot was carried out and is still carried out
against the people of this current in many ways,
including:
- Eliminating those who oppose them from the veterans
of the Mujahideen and those who are relied upon to
reap the fruits of Jihad in Syria so that all that
remains in the field is the stubborn and the ignorant,
or the foolish and the inane.
The atmosphere is clear for you, so make it
white and yellow *** and destroy what you wish to
destroy
- Taking down the symbols of the jihadi current and
its scholars because they did not get caught up with
the choices of this organization and did not support
its intransigence, its transgressions, and its
deviations.
- Corrupting the compass of the current, dispersing
the circle of its conflict with the tyrants, and
moving the rifle from the chests of the enemies of the
Ummah to the chests of its children from the sincere
mujahideen or the Muslims in general, citing various
excuses and generalizations they are not allowed to
make.
- Distracting the people and diverting their attention
from the Islamic project and burning any potential
popular support and deterring any of the supporters
across the Ummah from this current due to their bad
practices and their application on the ground, and the
ill-dealings with the people in their various strata
and religions.
- Distorting the project of the Caliphate and the
Islamic State in the chests of the people with their
practices, their intransigence, and their extremism
and bloodshed. This could deter the people from this
project for a period a time after the failure of their
experiment that is replete with drawbacks,
transgressions, and violations.
- They exceeded all this with their aforementioned
declaration: They work to fragment the ranks of those
who strive for this religion, and the Mujahideen, and
sabotage their groups that strive for the religion of
Allah and pit their followers against their emirs, and
their students against their sheikhs!
Have you ever seen fruits more ominous than these for
this current and its children, than the call for
building the Caliphate?! Does building the caliphate
in a spot of the earth require taking down Da'wa and
Jihad in all the other areas by fragmenting and
scattering the jihadi groups and pitting them against
their Sheikhs in the various battlefields?!
It is another conspiracy against this blessed current
and its sincere groups. In summary: Either you are
with us or we sow division in your ranks and strive to
fragment them. It is the method used by the anarchists
in our country when they impose themselves upon
others, and during games you see them say, "either I
play or I will ruin your game," meaning, either they
impose themselves and accept a primary player, or they
will sabotage the game. These are morals apt for
children of the streets and are not worthy of those
who are part of Da'wa and Jihad… So What then if the
choice that these people impose, either to preside
over the game and directing it according to their
whims, ignorance, and intransigence, or they will
sabotage and corrupt it!?? Or in other words: Them or
the flood.
The face is that this is the most dangerous part of
their most recent declaration. As I said before, it
does not harm me if they declared the Caliphate in
Sham or in Iraq or in London!!
But the harmful matter is what have those people
arranged and what did they arrange in terms of effects
and acts based on this declaration??
We are not the enemies of the Caliphate, but we are
from among the best of its supporters and preachers
and those who strive to establish it and seek to
restore it. However, the Caliphate is legitimate to
preserve the essence of the Muslims and put their
fragments back together, and not fragment or split
their ranks. Thus is the Imam, as told by the Chosen
Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him:
"They fight behind him and they are protected by him."
(Narrated by Muslim) It is Paradise and protection of
the Muslims from all evil, not a call or invitation to
evil…
The Caliphate should be a haven and safe place for
every Muslim… not a threat and a matter that
intimidates and brings worry to the minds…
They abrogated their first pledge of allegiance to
their leaders and rebelled against their emirs, and
they transgressed against their senior figures when
they declared the first state, and when they declared
the second they shed protected blood and refused to be
judged by the Shariah. Therefore, it is our right to
ask: What will they do after the declaration of the
Caliphate??
The most dangerous thing they have done so far call to
fragment the Muslims and strive to split the ranks of
their Jihadi and Da'wai groups, after they had split
the Muslims in general betwen those who are with them
and those who are against them. They did not show
mercy to the weak among them, and did not excuse those
who aligned with other than them from the groups in
Syria. Instead, all who opposed them was either a
backstabber who contradicted the pledge to them, or a
Salooli, a Suroori, or Sahawati or supporter the
Sahawat or lover of the Sahawat, or is seen or walks
or goes with the Sahawat and so on… and they would
kill those who did not pledge, and they were blamed
for threatening to kidnap the wives of those who are
against them!! This has not yet been proven to us, but
if it were true then we would have with them quite an
issue, may Allah defend the Muslim women from the evil
of every aggressor and oppressor.
They know today when they call to disband the groups
in order to pledge to them and to them, that there are
superficial people in most of the groups, and most of
those who listen to them are from this rank and from
the ranks of the extremists, as well… and those whose
enthusiasm and extremism dominates their wisdom,
thought, and insight, their ignorance exceeds their
knowledge. They build their hopes and manage the fuel
of their battles upon those due to the separation from
them of the scholars, the sages, and the people of
understanding…
And then there is the fact of their call to abrogate
the pledge of allegiance of the groups to break the
jihadi current fragment their groups, and split their
ranks. This makes us look to what is behind the masks
and not take their path with the naïveté and
superficiality of the masses… If the situation before
declaring the Caliphate was: either you are with us or
against us, how will they be after…?
The Caliphate should be a haven for the Muslims and
their lost paradise that they seek, so do not make it
hellfire upon them and increase their frustration…
It is the dream of the Muslims that they are trying to
achieve, so do not maim this beautiful dream with your
bullets that split open the heads of those who oppose
you, and spill what is inside!! Instead, achieve it,
if you wish, while having mercy for the Muslims and
supporting the oppressed. You are mortal as others are
mortal, so keep the good thought and not the
mutilation, and contribution to the construction,
which will be the pillars of the rightly-guided
Islamic Caliphate, and not the intransigent,
transgressing, and unjust one. Contribute to reuniting
the people of Islam and their groups, and not
fragmenting them. Contribute to supporting the
oppressed and removing from them the hardships and not
increase them. Contribute to preserving the blood of
the Muslims, not spilling it…
Imams Ahmed, Muslims, and al-Nisa'i reported that Abu
Huraira said: "Whoso attacks my Ummah killing the
righteous and the wicked of them, sparing not even
those staunch in faith and fulfilling not his promise
made with those who have been given a pledge of
security – he has nothing to do with me and I have
nothing to do with him."
The Caliph Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik said to the
Follower Salamah bin Dinar al-Madani, the ascetic: O
Abu Hazim, what do you say in what we are in? [Salamah]
said: Would you pardon me [from this question], O Emir
al-Mu'mineen? [The Caliph] said: But as an advice,
give it to me.
[Salamah] said: Your fathers established rule over the
people in this matter, taking it by force of the sword
without consulting nor meeting with the people, and
killing in a heinous fasion, then they departed. So if
you were feeling what they said and what was said to
them. So a man among the sitting ones said: How
regretful is what you said!
Abu Hazim said: You lied. Allah the Exalted had the
covenant upon the scholars to set it forth.
Yes, by Allah: They departed, so if you were feeling
what they said and what was said to them…
And if thy Lord created for ants *** Their wings
they would have retreated
Every person has limits *** And the end of him is when
he crosses it
In the Hadith of Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased
him, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him, said: "An Imam is a shield for
them. They fight behind him and they are protected by
him."
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was and
remains to be the Imam of not only the Muslims, but
the world, and his Imamate was not to separate the
Muslims and fragment them, but to unify them; and it
was not to fill the heads of the protected with
bullets or to split them with swords to empty what is
inside them, but to preserve those heads and what is
in them, and develop them, and elevate them to the
highest of stations and raise them above their meager
options. Even the fighting factions that were unable
to give allegiance to the Prophet, peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him, or to enter under his political
territory, like the gathering of Abu Baseer at the
time of the Treaty of Hudaybah, and also those working
against al-Aswad al-Ansi after his revolt against the
Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in
Yemen, he did not call any of their jihad void or
their Hijrah mandatory while leaving the lands of work
and jihad. They were not declared as sinners or
threatened or exiled or their group dissolved; instead
they were left alone and working until they were able
to emerge victorious and catch up to Dar al-Islam.
This is the case in the time of the Caliphate. The
Caliphate was never a position that works to
invalidate the Jihad of the Mujahideen or to fragment
them or call upon them to turn against their seniors,
leaders, and scholars in the lands that were outside
of or left the fold of the Caliphate. Instead, the
likes of those scholars would call to remain steadfast
on their method and support them from the Caliphate.
They were sponsored and not asked to leave the fields
of Jihad and dissolve their groups, and those who did
not do so were not called sinners. History has
glorified and recorded the steadfastness of such
groups from the people of Islam with the leaders and
scholars in lands who left the fold of the Caliphate
and its rule and pledge, and entered under the rule of
the Ubayyads, Tatars, or Crusaders…
Therefore, we warn the Muslim public and particular
ones among them from responding to the call of
fragmenting the ranks, destabilizing the structure,
and scattering the Mujahideen. We call upon them to
remain unaffected by this psychological, moral, and
physical terror that is being spread by the advocates
of fragmentation and to remain steadfast on their
promise, and around their leaders, gathered and
prevalent on the truth, unharmed by those who oppose
them and from those who disappointed them, until the
order of Allah arrives.
I conclude with these warnings:
- The Imam of Haramayn said in his book Ghiyaath al-Umam
fi al-Tiyath al-Zulm):
"If the era is void of an Imam, and lacks the
presence of a wise, intelligent and able Sultan, the
matters turn over to the hands of scholars, and it is
mandatory upon the creation in spite of the
differences in their status, to return to their
scholars and take all their matters and concerns to
them. If they do this, they have been rightly-guided.
The scholars will then turn into caretakers of people.
If they cannot agree upon one, every area should
follow their scholars, and if there are many scholars
in one area, the most knowledgeable among them should
be followed".
This is the weakest point of those who declared the
Caliphate today. Not even one scholar from the divine
scholars supported them or trusted them or aligned
with them, from the scholars attributed to them in
creed, thought, and method… Let the people think of
this, and let the reasonable person think of it well:
Why did those people lose the trust of the scholars
from whose letters and ooks they studied and learned,
until they abandoned them and no one supported them?!!
They are scholars who do not fear the blame of anyone
other than Allah… there must be an answer.
- The Caliphate cannot achieved by Da'wa and the name,
nor by intentions or want, but by the actual
application on the ground. When Omar named Abu Bakr
the Caliph, he did not become the Caliph just because
of this announcement; he did not become the actual
Caliph until the Sahaba pledged allegiance to him and
he firmed up his position unchallenged… Every Emir who
is not given loyalty by the Muslims and the best of
the people of knowledge from the divine scholars is
the emir of his group or his emirate, but not Emir al-Mu'mineen
in general or the Caliph of the Muslims, and it is not
right to call sinners those who do not pledge
allegiance or travel to him. The fact that the
outstanding scholars who are trustworthy have not
flocked to give their allegiance shows that the one
named and his group are not their point of trust with
regards to religion and the world.
- It is necessary to state that if there was no other
group on the fronts, then the knowledge of these
scholars would have forced them to support the emir of
this group because they are required to put the most
ideal emir at the lead. So there is no doubt that
these are better than the tyrants and the apostate
rulers. However, as the front is filled with fighting
factions and groups who rival and are on equal footing
with this group in power and strength, and better in
methodology and leadership, then the worse should not
put about the better…
- Lastly, we do not accept for ourselves to be from
those who do not engage in anything except words with
Jama'at al-Dawla, and we do not like our enemies to
feel pleased when we speak, or that they think that we
are on their side, that is in truth not against
Jama'at al-Dawla, but against the project of the
Islamic State and the Islamic Caliphate. We do not
like these people to be pleased with what we write,
for it is not for them that we write, and we seek
refuge in Allah that there must be any connection or
understanding between us. What we are writing and
saying is due to the trust of knowledge and Da'wa, and
telling the statement of truth and supporting the
truth and its people. Other than that we do not care
who is pleased with our saying or who is angered, and
who is happy or whose throat narrows on it. If we
sought the approval of the people and put fame and
glory in what we write and say, we would have ridden
the wave of the Dawla and they would have raised us
above their heads or even above the clouds, but we
have decided to ride the wave of truth no matter how
difficult it is. We shall not step back from it or
leave it, even if they put us below the earth, or fill
our heads with bullets and empty their contents.
However, the dilemma is that Jama'at al-Dawla and its
chiefs and spokesmen attack us every day, which
obliges us to respond to them; otherwise we would have
left ourselves to statements and their confirmation,
as the war is not declared on Jama'at al-Dawla, from
my side at least. Instead, it is truth that I support
and speak of when there is need, and it is not
permissible to delay the statement when it is needed.
They are the ones who compel us to this and we can no
longer remain silent.
O Allah, we ask You for guidance, rightness,
determination, and a good conclusion. May Allah pray
on and have peace on our Prophet Muhammad, and upon
his family and his companions, all of them.
Written by Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
13 Ramadan 1435H
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