Opposition to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Sheikh Abu Eisa al-Masri's Critique of Islamic State Media
20 June 2019By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
As noted in a previous post, the 'moderate dissident' trend that existed in
the Islamic State (IS) has increasingly moved towards opposition to the IS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the system he leads. The output of Mu'assasat
al-Turath al-'Ilmi ('Knowledge Heritage Foundation') is indicative of this
trend. Recently, the outlet reported on the kidnapping and killing of Sheikh
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Zarqawi al-Muhajir, one of the figures liked by the
'moderate dissident' trend and who fled IS. The outlet attributed Abu Abd al-Rahman's
kidnapping and killing to IS, which it described as the "criminal state of the
Khawarij falsely called the Islamic State." In describing Baghdadi's IS as
Khawarij (a term used for extremists), the outlet echoed a common line of
criticism of IS by its Sunni opponents.
Mu'assasat al-Turath al-'Ilmi has continued with the scathing attacks on
Baghdadi's IS, releasing a critique of IS media (Diwan al-'Ilam: Media
Department) by Sheikh Abu Eisa al-Masri, another 'moderate dissident' luminary
who has fled IS and has urged for those who have lived through the experience
of IS to come forth with their testimonies. Throughout, Masri derisively
refers to Baghdadi and his followers as 'Al Baghdad' (Baghdadi's people/ilk),
whom he likens to Al Far'oun (Pharaoh's people/ilk) in the Qur'an.
The essay can be summarized in the following points:
- The media department has been one of the main pillars for the extremist
Baghdadi-led system. The other has been the security department.
- The Diwan al-'Ilam has failed in its duty of da'wa (religious outreach/proselytization)
and has focused too much on producing and talking about scenes of slaughter
and burning. Where are the media department's productions of refutations of
the doctrines and claims of the Jews, Christians and various 'heretical'
sects?
- IS has an absurd policy of only allowing things to be published on matters
of 'Ilm (Islamic knowledge) etc. after consultation with the Diwan al-'Ilam.
As a result, the true scholars in the movement were silenced.
- IS media rely on stirring up zeal and emotion with releases and nasheeds:
e.g. inciting someone to be a suicide bomber for the mere sake of blowing
oneself up, without consideration as to the interest the 'martyrdom operation'
is supposed to realize.
- The IS media bewitch the perceptions and eyes of the masses with flashing
visuals, slogans and the like. They are similar to the sorcerers of Pharaoh.
Meanwhile, the security department instills fear and is on the lookout for
those on the inside with proper insight into the system. Thus, the media
department and security department constitute the pillars of a classic
tyrannical system.
- The media department has been a hub of extremism. Since IS insists that the
media department is its official voice, then extremism is regrettably the
official manhaj of IS which we must disavow.
- The media department is wholly lacking in credibility and resembles the
media apparatus of other states in numerous ways. In conclusion it is a
propaganda machine that has not fulfilled the obligation of da'wa. As an end
note of consolation, some brothers have woken up and speaking out, providing
openings for the IS fighters.
In my view, the most interesting point to be gleaned from this essay is what
it tells us about the influence of the 'moderate dissident' trend within IS.
The essay would suggest that this influence is actually rather limited and
that the trend needs to engage in more efforts to expand its influence. In
drawing on the story of Qaroun from the Qur'an, Masri draws a parallel with
the present situation in that the "masses" of people are dazzled by
superficial displays of splendor whereas a minority have proper insight and
understand the reality.
Now, Masri cannot mean here that the majority of the world's Muslims are duped
into supporting IS through its media apparatus. Indeed, IS has never appealed
to the majority of them, and Masri also makes the point that IS cannot be so
indignant about people falling into the doubts created by erroneous sects when
its media have failed in the duty of da'wa.
Rather, the people Masri is talking about in drawing on the story of Qaroun
are the "masses" of IS fighters and sympathizers with its cause. More than
ever, it is to these people that IS' propaganda is designed to appeal. In
Masri's telling, the media apparatus is doing a successful job of appealing to
them and misleading them about the true nature of Baghdadi's group. Note, for
instance, that Masri concedes that the flashy productions and nasheeds of IS
attract the interest of many of the IS fighters. In fact, IS propaganda tries
to showcase the fighters' interest in the media output, as when it has
released photos of fighters watching the al-Furqan media video in which
Baghdadi made his first video appearance since 2014.
In contrast, the people and students of 'Ilm have insight into the reality,
but they are in the minority. Only when God destroys the superficial edifice
do the masses realize the truth of these matters, whereas the people and
students of 'Ilm knew the truth beforehand. Masri reinforces his point with
the additional comparison of the duping of the "masses" by IS and its media to
the bewitchment of the masses by Pharaoh's sorcerers, against whom there
should be a Moses to cast down his stick and expose the falsehood behind this
bewitchment. The Moses in this case must be those who have known the reality
of IS and are endowed with the skill to speak and/or write about their
experiences and combat the Diwan al-'Ilam's output.
In short, Masri's essay suggests that the 'moderate dissident' trend needs to
catch up with IS media in the war of discourse. To be sure, IS media have not
felt entirely unthreatened by the words coming from the 'moderate dissident'
trend, and have felt a need to respond to the idea that Baghdadi was an
absent, ineffective leader and to refute the notion that the collapse of the
state project was due in part or primarily to internal oppression. But we
should not overstate the influence of the 'moderate dissident' trend within
the ranks of IS fighters and among sympathizers with IS' cause.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The media in the balance (the sorcerers of the Baghdadi ilk)
By Sheikh Abu Eisa al-Masri (may God protect him)
The Diwan al-'Ilam in the shade of the Baghdadi ilk has been one of the two
main pillars upon which their biting rule has arisen, the other pillar being
the Diwan al-Amn.
Such that Sheikh Abu Ya'qub al-Maqdisi-may God make good his soil- said: "This
is an 'ilami amni Dawla."
For the media are the flashing front of the Dawla that captivate perceptions
and blind all who do not live under the authority of Baghdadi's ilk, and do
not know anything about the painful bitter reality of them. And as for the
Diwan al-Amn, it is the tool by which Baghdadi's ilk have been ruling on the
ground.
Has the Diwan al-'Ilam been a da'wa to God?
The Diwan al-'Ilam has only been focusing in most of its circumstances on
slaughter, burning and annihilation in killing.
And we do not disavow jihad and inciting to it, but the media address must be
comprehensive for all aspects of religion, not only fighting. And likewise
inciting to fighting must be through legitimate methods.
Indeed even the media release in which there has been no slaughter and the
like, the speakers have spoken in the tone of the burning slaughterer.
Yes, the Diwan al-'Ilm has not practiced the role it is supposed to do, for it
is as the leadership says the front of the Dawla, so how can this front only
represent one aspect of the life of the Dawla, namely damage against the
enemies?
Indeed the students of 'Ilm with whom God Almighty entrusted conveying the
messages of God to the people, all of them were deluded in the shade of
Baghdadi's ilk. They had no pulpit upon the Earth from end to end. They only
had the Diwan al-'Ilam, and it is as you have known its state from clear
extremism.
Indeed Baghdadi's ilk announced the "Caliphate on the Prophetic Methodology,"
they announced the "greater Imamate," and it is a broad claim whose
implications they should have known before announcing it. They should have
known that this claim means paternity of this Ummah, and leading it
religiously and politically speaking. And they should have known that they had
to bear the burden of da'wa for all of the Ummah to the religion of God, and
bearing the concerns of the entire Ummah from end to end.
What have you offered to the Ummah oh Baghdadi's ilk? We cannot deny that you
raised the banner of jihad and implemented the ruling of Shari'a in whatever
matters there were that we can deny. But what we condemn you for is that you
asserted a claim that you did not fulfill in terms of God's right in it.
And if you deem me a liar oh dear reader, say to me by your Lord: where do you
find in the releases of the Dawla the response to the doubts of the Jews and
Christians, and refutation of their claims and demolition of the pillars of
their religion? Where do you find in the releases of the Dawla exposure of the
doubts of the Sufis, Rafidites, secularists, democrats, modernists, tablighis,
the Ikhwan, those who assert Salafism, Murj'ites and the Khawarij? And all of
these sects are present in the field, and they have media channels that call
to their manhajs and disseminate them. So has the Ummah found from the side of
the Imam in the tunnel the one who can respond to all that?
If one of the doubts of these people occurs upon the soul of one person from
the Ummah, how will he find the response to it? Tell me by your Lord dear
reader: will he find that amid the releases of slaughter and incineration?
Meanwhile the Salafis bring forth 'ulama to the Ummah, the Ikhwan bring forth
'ulama to it, the Sufis bring forth 'ulama to it, the Murj'ites bring forth 'ulama
to it, the parliamentarians bring forth 'ulama to it and the regimes bring
forth 'ulama to it. In contrast, the Dawla that claims to impelement the rule
of Shari'a and establishing the Prophetic Methodology only offers this Ummah
scenes of slaughter and burning, and they are at the same time vanquishing the
Ahl al-'Ilm in it, and repressing them, imprisoning them, torturing them and
killing them. And after all this do not reproach the one who says: "Indeed you
are an erroneous sect." For you have no 'ulama to direct and guide you, and
whoso came out to you from the students of 'Ilm, you behaved towards them as
the Pharaoh did with Moses, then you reproach the people after that on the
basis of misleading doubts they have fallen into?!
It should be known that the media were not only put in place to bring forth
slaughter and burning and various kinds of harshness, and confronting the
Ummah with expressions of rebuke because it has refrained from its obligation
that has gone to loss. Rather we must extend our hands to the people through
this means that is the only way we can reach the people.
I say this with pain dear reader: we could not reach the Ummah through an
article, lesson, sermon or release except through that Diwan, for the Baghdadi
ilk absolutely forbid anything from that except through this means, and
whoever was merely suspected of publishing anything from that, his fate was to
the darkness of the Amn prisons, and the accusation was ready, and it was very
logical in the eyes of Baghdadi's ilk: "Contravening the policy of the Diwan
al-'Ilam, or publishing without recourse to the Diwan al-'Ilam."
And it is well known that among the greatest accusations directed at Sheikh
Abu Ya'qub (may God have mercy on him) is that he composed messages of 'Ilm,
wrote his name on them, gave them to whoso of the brothers asked him for them,
and thus they spread. And the brothers uploaded them on the Internet, and they
consider in that to be the reward of spreading 'Ilm in God's eyes, and they
are on guard against a great act of disobedience namely concealing of 'Ilm.
But Baghdadi's ilk- as we have known them- do not weigh matters on the balance
of the law but rather on the balance of stupid policies by which they
contradict the Shari'a in many of their evil dealings of authority.
And among our brothers is the one who was imprisoned because they discovered a
sermon by him on the Internet from three years ago. He did not publish it or
know anything about its publication, and the accusation: "You published, oh
Abu Abd al-Malek, without the permission of the Diwan al-'Ilam."
And Abu Abd al-Malek- may God protect him- told me about the story, and in it
was the fact that Abu Du'a the Amn official- may God deal with him as per His
justice- said to him: "I know that you are wronged, and there is nothing
against you, but I cannot get you out of prison, out of respect for the wali
of al-Sham who ordered for your arrest"!
So the criminal transgresses and he knows he transgresses, and he prefers
obedience to his master 'Hamid' over obedience to the high and great Lord-
blessed and exalted is He- and he transgresses against the taboos of God so he
knowingly violates them. And he does not dare to contravene the trustee of his
bounty.
And he prefers respecting his amir who sends him instructions over the
Internet from a distant place over glorifying God who is with him wherever he
is: "What is the matter with you that you do not give God due grandeur?" (Nuh
13).
Sorry of Ummah of Muhammad (SAWS), forgive us. We have long hesitated with
you. Yes by God, we have long hesitated with you. And excuse us, for the
Baghdadi ilk imposed a siege on us besides the siege of Nusayris, Rafidites
and atheists: they gagged our mouths so our voices could not reach you. They
broke our pens, for they did not want our words to reach you, and they strived
hard and launched a campaign of wide arrests of people they suspected, in the
hope that they might catch those operating the Nasiha Telegram channel.
The method of the Baghdadi ilk media
The Baghdadi ilk have relied in their media on fiery address, not address of
the law, mind and reality.
Al-Baghdadi, Abu Muhammad Furqan, Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Qahtani (may God have
mercy on him) came together in one of the meetings. So al-Qahtani said: "The
Diwan al-'Ilam has not fulfilled its role of da'wa of 'Ilm that it must
undertake." So the stubborn and haughty Abu Muhammad Furqan said: "Do you
think you can persuade me that the youth will mobilize to jihad by 'Ibn
Taymiyya said and Ibn al-Qayyim said'?! No, they will mobilize through the
zealous address that inflames feelings."
And upon this have the media of al-Baghdadi gone: for you find them heavily
interested in the aspect of zeal and emotion. Indeed in many instances the
disposition of tragedy and drama predominate over them.
For you find them showing you the old sheikh of the white beard, and the
disabled man, and the young boy, all of them competing to carry out a
martyrdom operation. This is with the choice of rousing words, emotional
nasheeds, and melodies that put you in another atmosphere that completely
contradicts the reality.
For you find the viewer wishing he were this person who sets forth to the
martyrdom operation. This is so regardless of the issue of the Shari'i
grounding for the martyrdom operations, and the bitter reality of the Baghdadi
ilk in exploiting this matter in the worst way possible, for the important
thing in their eyes is that you blow yourself up regardless of whether this
operation realizes an interest or not. Whether the martyrdom operation kills a
hundred, or one, or is only to destroy a cement wall, or is to blow up an
enemy tank, or is with some other result, the important thing is that you blow
yourself up, so that you may be a hero like these people you saw competing in
the Mawkab al-Nur, or so that you may be like the one about whom his father
said: "My son preceded me."
And this evil tree has brought forth its evil fruit with many of the soldiers
of the Dawla, for you do not find them more interested in anything than they
are interested in the releases and nasheeds, and God is the One whose help is
to be sought.
The Baghdadi ilk rely on visuals that captivate perceptions
Consider with me oh reader the story of Qarun at the end of Surat al-Qisas.
You will find this truth to be very obvious.
Most people are blinded by visuals and embellishment, while the Ahl al-'Ilm
see the facts.
"So he came out upon his people in his adornment and those who wanted the
worldly life said: 'If only we had the likes of what Qarun has been given:
indeed he is of great fortune.' And those who were given 'Ilm said: 'Woe upon
you. The reward of God is better for the one who believes and does just work
and only those who endure will come upon it.' So we caused the Earth to
swallow up him and his home and he had no one to aid him besides God, and he
was not among those who could defend themselves. And those who wished for his
place yesterday said: 'Oh, how God extends provision to whomsoever He wills
from His servants and restricts it. Were it not that God had granted favour on
us, He would have caused it to swallow us. Oh, how the disbelievers do not
succeed.'" (al-Qisas 79-82).
We have from these verses a prudent lesson of insight:
In general people who do not have deep insight into the law and experiences of
life are blinded by flashing visuals and resounding words and fine slogans and
claims of noble principles. But few of the people are of the Ahl al-'Ilm
regarding the law and experiences of life, looking deeply at what is behind
these visuals, words and slogans.
The masses say: "If only we had the likes of what Qarun has been given" (al-Qisas
79). And the best of the people say: "God's reward is better for the one who
believes and does just work" (al-Qisas 80).
And the masses are blinded and have their perceptions captivated by wealth,
adornment, words, streets, lightings, bridges and hospitals. And the Ahl al-'Ilm
weigh that and other things on the balance of the law that does no wrong and
is impartial: the balance of faith and just works.
And the masses realize the truths generally after God- Almighty and Exalted is
He- does away with these adornments, and destroys this embellishment and
brings down these edifices that were not based upon taqwa of God and radwan,
and the Ahl al-'Ilm knew beforehand that they could vanish, because they saw
that they are not based upon taqwa of God and radwan. And I do not absolve
myself.
Why have I called them the sorcerers of the Baghdadi ilk?
My brother the reader, stand with me here also for a prudent lesson of insight
regarding what happened between Moses (peace be upon him) and the sorcerers of
Pharaoh's people.
"So when they cast, they bewitched the eyes of the people and terrorized them
and brought great sorcery" (al-'Araf 116).
So there came together for Baghdadi's ilk what came together for Pharaoh's
people: bewitchment of the eye and tongue, with the fear of the whip and
authority, so two things have mixed together in a wondrous Satanic mix: "Al-'Ilam
and al-Amn." For the media are for those deceived by visuals, and duped by
flashing slogans. And as for those who have been cautious and understood what
the people are upon, and that they are like the hollow drum, and they were on
the inside: they had the amnis on the lookout for them. And if they were
outside, the media assumed responsibility for deeming them in error, declaring
takfir on them, charging them with innovation and assaulting them with their
horses and men.
Two things come together for every tyrant: sorcery and terror. God Almighty
said about the sorcerers of Pharaoh's people: "They bewitched the eyes of the
people and terrorized them" (al-'Araf 116). And likewise Baghdadi's ilk: they
have bewitched the eyes of the people with their Hollywood releases, and they
have terrorized them with killing the interest and rebuke, and long
imprisonment- without interrogation- and striking and hanging.
Thus are mixed the sorcery of the eye and tongue and their statements for
distribution, nasheeds, releases and sound and word effects through the attack
of the authority and its terror and soldiery and prisons and retinue. So the
truth must have men who cast the stick of Moses against this falsehood.
That stick must be powerful, quick and eloquent, in which the light of
inspiration comes together with the activity of the servant who works for the
religion of his Lord, and therefore I call on all who have known the error of
the people and their culpability, and have been provided with an eloquent
tongue by God or a streaming pen or knowledge by which they can expose doubt,
or admonition by which they can remove craving: I call on such people to cast
down their stick, to catch up with what the sorcerers of Baghdadi's ilk have
crafted, for they- by God- have misled many of the youth of the Ummah.
Extremism and the media
The one who considers and tracks the course of the Diwan al-'Ilam in that
short time period in which Baghdadi's ilk have ruled, will find they only gave
command of the Diwan to those belonging to the extremist movement in the Dawla.
If you do not believe me, dear reader, there is this Abu Muhammad al-'Ialmi- 'Furqan'-
who was the amir of the media, became well-known among the students of 'Ilm in
the Dawla for his extremism in takfir, did not leave a student of 'Ilm more or
less without testing him in his religion, brought near the extremists to him
and was the oppressive hand for them against the Ahl al-Sunna. And the people
could scarcely gather around a man from the Ahl al-Sunna without his trying to
repress his star, extinguish his light and disperse the people around him.
And there is this Abu Hakeem al-Urduni who bore the legacy of extremism from
his master Furqan, in a group of extremists who exploited their authority in
disseminating extremism and presenting it to the mujahideen and Ummah on the
basis that it is something official in the Dawla. And it is something we must
admit: I mean that extremism is the official manhaj of the Dawla. And forgive
me, oh dear reader, for this is what their words necessitate. For they say:
"The media are the front of the Dawla, and the sole official part for
publishing and expressing what the Dawla adopts." And the brothers refer
reports upon reports to them, and complaints upon complaints against the
criminal group of extremism established over the Dawla, and they do not lift a
finger, and take no radical measure against them.
And worse than that is that the extremists of the media openly proclaim before
them with all honesty that they hate the cancellation of the statement of
innovation and the establishment of the series, and that they declare takfir
on a group of the 'ulama of Islam like al-Nawawi and Ibn Hajer al-Asqalani-
may God have mercy on them both.
Then they insist that these people should remain at the head of this Diwan:
i.e. the front of the Dawla, so we must admit this bitter truth and it is that
extremism is the official manhaj of Baghdadi's ilk. And the leadership,
despite all this, insists that learning about the Dawla is to be confined to
this Diwan, and it does not allow anyone to express on its tongue a letter
except after consulting the Diwan al-'Ilam.
And therefore we have issued this firm decision:
We are not responsible for anything brought out or being brought out by this
Diwan of extremism- the Diwan al-'Ilam: it does not represent us, and only
represents the Baghdadi ilk. As for us, we disavow the extremism of the media
and those established upon them, and the extremism of those who support them,
and those who permit and allow it.
How can this Diwan al-'Ilam represent us when it contravenes the Sunna?! How
can it represent us when a large number of the best of youth have left it in
opposition to its extremism?!
We say this- oh Ummah of Muhammad (SAWS)- so that you may know that we disavow
every release in which they attack you in general, for the extremists of the
media tried to bring out a release in which there is an expression entailing
the takfir of the peoples, so we are content with takfir of you, oh Ummah of
Muhammad (SAWS). This is not our manhaj even if it comes from the official
foundation of Baghdadi's ilk.
The media and credibility
I counsel all the Muslims in the world not to be deceived by the Dawla's media
for their manhaj is not far from the manhajs of the global media, and that is
so in the following aspects:
1. The al-Baghdadi media only issue to the people the flashing good face, and
convey the picture that is not actually the reality, for the results of the
battle may be against us, and behold the sorcerers of Baghdadi's ilk issue a
release in which they make the people imagine that matters are good, and as
though the battle is decisive or almost decisive for us, and this is not only
on the military level. But also the media portray fine scenes as though they
are the entire Dawla, and they are in truth overlooking many matters that are
actually present in reality, for you find them for instance wonderful happy
scenes in some places while there are at the same time many places filled with
garbage. And likewise the good phenomenon of the courts is made prominent, and
how the people enter these courts in groups, and how they restore to them
their missing rights, so the people in the outside world think that the Dawla
has been successful in the judiciary, and this is dubious, for the reality of
the courts has been very painful, on account of the weakness of the judiciary
cadres, and God is the One whose help is to be sought.
So we say this frankly: the media of the Baghdadi ilk do not express the
reality.
2. As the media apparatuses work in all states by glorifying their ruler, and
making people worship him, and composing panegyrics of poetry and prose for
him, so the Baghdadi media are very much interested in making the ruler shine,
and issuing nasheeds that praise the determined Caliph.
3. The media of every state are interested in drugging their people by showing
the accomplishments of their government, while exaggerating praise of the
state apparatuses even if that leads them to blatant lying, and from that is
their words:
"And there is no oppression or tyranny, as though its judges are Omar."[1]
And you find them speaking about the sectors of the Dawla and as though they
are successful sectors that have fulfilled for the Muslims what they have been
entrusted with from the aspect of law and then authority, and we all in our
capacity were living through these sectors, knowing full well known that they
were competing in failure, for some of them failed more than others, except
what my Lord had mercy on.
And the point is that the media of the Dawla have been and still offer to the
people resounding broad names, and happy scenes, regardless of the truth of
these matters in the bitter reality of Baghdadi's ilk.
4. The media of every state try to portray their state as the invincible
legend, and that its army is the strongest of armies, and its enemies have
been very weak. And thus the Baghdadi media exaggerate in displaying this, and
count the states that wage war on the Dawla, and make it out as though the
determined Caliph vanquished them all, and they cannot get hold of him, and in
that one of their liars says in one of the nasheeds: "My Dawla is
invincible"![2]
5. The media of every state are employed by the ruling regime to engage in
media attacks on adversaries and take them down whoever is in the right. For
example: you find the media of the Sa'ud family attacking Qatar, and Qatar's
media attacking the Sa'ud family. And if matters between the two sides are
fine, you find the media of each side praise the other as the brother country,
and likewise Baghdadi's media. For it has not left an adversary of the
adversaries of the Dawla without defaming them, and attacking them with the
most hideous descriptions, for their job has been to take down all who
contravene the Dawla even if they are in the right or partially so in their
contravening it. Even the dead whom the people have glorified but were not on
the manhaj of Baghdadi's ilk in its entirety, you find the Baghdadi media
portraying them in very hideous ways.
So they call those who disagree from the living and dead idols, Jews, agents,
apostates and 'ulama of evil. This is without providing considered responses
of knowledge that can be weighed on the balance of the Shari'a, but rather
most of them are media take down attacks. And even if you find things of
knowledge among them, you only find them superficially covered with 'Ilm and
not of it in essence in any way, and you find them very much broken when you
weigh them on the balance of 'Ilm. My objective here is not to make clear who
is in the right. Rather my objective is to make that manhaj of the Baghdadi
media, and how its manhaj resembles the global media, most of which are not
eager for credibility and clarifying the truth.
Then you find the Baghdadi media adopting the path of cursing, vituperation,
and atrocious wording. This is because they lack evidence, argument and proof,
so they resort to this vile method of responses.
In summary, I tell you that the Baghdadi are propagandistic media and not
media of da'wa: I mean that their mission is confined to spreading propaganda
for the Dawla and promoting it more than da'wa to truth and the Shari'a and
the Sunna and promoting them, and God knows best.
And what consoles us is that some of the brothers have awoken from their
slumber, and have broken the bond, so there has arisen for the soldiers of the
Dawla openings to express their true reality, far removed from the camouflage,
deception, embellishment and sugarcoating that the sorcerers of Baghdadi's ilk
engage in. So we thank our brothers for their efforts, and we hope for more
from them and development, and we urge them to be cautious.
"So you will mention what I say to you and I entrust my matter to God. Indeed
God is well aware of His servants" (Ghafir 44).
Written by Abu Eisa al-Masri
Friday 28 Sha'aban 1440 AH
1440 AH/2019 CE
al-Turath al-'Ilmi
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[1] Nasheed 'We are commanded by God's command' issued by Ajnad Foundation for
Media Production
[2] Issued by Ajnad Foundation for Media Production in 1439 AH
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