...And
So That The Way Of The Sinners May Become Manifest
8 February 2010
By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
In the
Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
From the fruits of Jihad
Four: “And so that the way of the sinners may become
manifest”
It is not befitting for the one who confronts the
enemies of the religion and strives to demolish their
falsehood, to disregard knowledge of the rulings of
Allah about them, (lest) he looks at them in a
dim-sighted manner and thinks well of them or thinks
they are within the folds of the religion.
I know some youths who were propelled by their
enthusiasm, to head for the Jihad lands and acquire
weapons, but when they were caught, I was shocked to
find out that they dealt with their captors as though
they were Muslims – they would believe their promises
and avoid lying to them or betraying them in the
interrogation; they truthfully confessed to them the
most minute details, thinking that in doing so they
were being compassionate and merciful to the
Believers. These confessors then receive unjust,
oppressive, lengthy sentences in prison for their
actions. They are led to trust their interrogators due
to their ignorance about Allah’s ruling concerning the
evildoers coupled with their blindness to the loyalty
of their captors to their disbelieving allies; they
did not realize that such people do not respect the
ties of kinship or covenant with regards the
Believers, and they were ignorant with regards to
their plots and treachery towards the Mujahidin, and
that their basic foundation is one of treachery, lying
and betrayal.
I know of one person who had memorized the Qur’an and
was patient and forbearing, who was harmed, beaten,
and tortured cruelly so that he would confess to
things that would land him a very long sentence in
prison, but he remained steadfast and refused to
confess despite the harm and torture that was imposed
upon him. His captors then had to resort to using
trickery and treachery with him; before the brother
was captured he was an Imam of a mosque, so they
turned him over to an interrogator who used to pray
behind him in his mosque. The man introduced himself
and reminded him that he would pray with him, and
swore binding oaths that he would help the brother if
he confessed and that he would not take him to court.
So the brother confessed to this interrogator based on
his promises without even receiving a single beating
from him, despite having been steadfast and not
confessing under (such) extremes of torture which only
a few could endure. So by using trickery, cunningness,
promises, and false oaths - they were able to get what
they couldn't through beatings and torture. The
brother’s recompense for trusting and believing their
promises, was that he was given a life sentence in
prison…
Of course, this brother did not previously consider
these evildoers as disbelievers and that is perhaps
because he was not clear about the reality of the
evildoers, and the prayer of that interrogator meant a
lot to him. But this is a huge mistake that has cost
him ten years to date, may Allah free him from
captivity.
I also know a young man who found a bomb in a forest,
so he took it to his house. Then, in a moment of
lethal foolishness he decided to be a righteous
citizen (as they say!!) and went to the police – whom
he did naturally did not consider to be disbelievers –
and told them that he stumbled across a bomb in a
forest so he took it home, and he wanted them to come
to his house to remove the bomb. The police asked him
to wait for them in his house, and said they would be
there in an hour to collect it – they actually got
there quicker than that!! But they came with a large
number of policemen, special forces, intelligence
forces, and armoured vehicles. They surrounded the
house, stormed it, search it and then arrested him and
took him away, along with his bomb.
They recorded a case of illegal possession of bombs
and explosives, but did not mention in the particulars
of the case that he was the one who told them about
the bomb and asked them to come to his house to remove
it; rather they wrote that the intelligence agents and
police - with their experience, sophistication and
observations – discovered that he was in possession of
a bomb, and they then protected society from an
imminent danger, based on which he was given a seven
year sentence.
I also know another brother who used to live in the
Arabian Peninsula, where the government scholars would
always prevent people from learning the rulings of
takfir, scare people away from it and warn against it.
They would consider the takfir of governments and
their supporters a type of extremism in the religion,
a path of the
Takfiris, and the creed of the Khawari, so this
brother never put himself out to learn about Allah’s
ruling concerning the rulers and their soldiers. So
what would he think of them if he saw them praying??
Or if he saw – oh, what horror! – a prostration mark
on their foreheads?!
The enthusiasm drove our friend to think about
performing Jihad in the Way of Allah by fighting the
Jews in Palestine, and he was able to smuggle his
automatic weapon and miraculously sneak through a
river without any of the Jordanian soldiers on the
Jewish borders noticing or feeling his presence. He
obviously did not know that they were guards and spies
against the Jews at that time of night, otherwise he
would not have depended on them or trusted them with
his endeavour. After crossing the river, he felt very
thirsty but he remembered that he had not brought
water with him, so he went back and with his innocence
and naivety went to ask one of these soldiers for some
water. His heart felt more at ease when, upon reaching
the post, he found the soldier praying. After the
solider had completed his prayer and saw our friend
with gun in hand, he asked what he was doing. Due to
the innocence of our friend, it was not long before he
told the solider of his intent and asked him for
water. So the soldier gave him water then asked him to
show his gun – and here I will stop for a moment to
compare and remember Abu Basir (may Allah be pleased
with him) and the cleverness of the Believer, and how
he cunningly asked his captors to show him their
swords, after which he killed one of them and ensured
his safety – but as for our friend, then with his
innocence and naivety he is the one who gave his gun
to the soldier and trusted him!! This caused him much
harm, for the soldier immediately began to fire the
gun claiming that he was testing it, but he was really
alerting his leaders, who heard the signal and hurried
to his location. They then arrested the brother, took
him to the security courts of the state, and he was
given a seven year prison sentence.
O my brothers, I swear by Allah that these cases are
true, and are present in the prisons of my land. They
are not figments of my imagination, but rather there
are many such instances. The tragedies that resulted
from them were largely caused by having good thoughts
about the enemies of the religion, and not making
clear the path of the criminals, and not knowing their
evil reality and deception of this Jihad, their plots
against its people, and their alliance to the enemies
of the religion.
To them, the end justifies the means, and there is no
blame for following any path whether it is honourable
or dishonourable, to thwart the Jihad of the Mujahidin
and protect the thrones of the oppressors. Their basis
is one of lying, and their path is one of treachery
and deceit...
They do not respect the ties of kinship or covenant
with regards the believer...[1]
They wish that you should reject faith as they reject
faith, to be on the same footing…[2]
They are the enemies, so beware of them. May Allah’s
curse be on them, how they are deluded…[3]
Whoever is not aware of these matters, does not know
them and does not clearly know the path of the
evildoers, then the Jihad has no need for his naivety
and foolishness…
Just as it has no need for more failure and defeat.
[1] See al-Tawbah, verse 10
[2] See al-Nisa’, verse 89
[3] See al-Munafiqun, verse 4
From the forthcoming Tibyan Publication, From the
Fruits of Jihad.
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