Statement By the Amir of Al-Qa'ida to the Leader of the Faithful: "On the Promise We Continue"
23 August 2016By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
This is the English translation of the audio statement by Sheikh Ayman
Az-Zawahiri, the Amir of Al-Qa'ida, to the Leader of the Faithful, Mawlawi
Haybatullah, the Amir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, may Allah protect
both of them.
As Sahab Media Institute
Presents
Statement by: Sheikh Ayman az Zawahiri
(May Allah protect him)
''On the Promise We Continue''
In the name of Allah, praise be to Allah and peace and blessings be upon the
messenger of Allah and his family and his companions and those who followed
him.
To the Leader of the Faithful Mawlawi Haybatullah, may Allah protect him, and
support him and guide him with the truth and give him victory of Allah's deen
and His book and Allah's righteous worshippers. May peace and mercy and
Allah's blessing be upon you. I pray to Allah to support you and your brothers
and soldiers and Ansar achieve what pleases Allah which is honour in this life
and salvation in the hereafter. I pray to Allah to stay away from all harm and
evil in this life and the hereafter. Thereafter:
We and the Muslim ummah and the mujahidin and the muhajirin and those who are
on the front lines learned with lots of sadness about the death of our Amir,
the Leader of the Faithful Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, may Allah's mercy be
upon him and may Allah join us with him in paradise, without any disgrace and
not changing. We are happy he stayed steadfast on the haqq as a mujahid and a
fighter at the frontlines and and leader and Amir of the mujahidin until he
met his Rabb as a martyr in a crusader strike. This is what we consider him to
be. Therefore, obtaining the highest level a mujahid seeks which is martyrdom
for the sake of Allah. He obtained this honourable level after a life of jihad
against the communist Russians and their allies and then again against the
American crusaders and their allies and followers. He spent his life in
promoting virtue and preventing vice with his Amir and our Amir Mullah
Muhammad Omar, may Allah have mercy on both of them and their righteous
friends. They waged jihad to cleanse Afghanistan from the oppression and
corruption and aggression against Muslims. He left for Allah after a life of
forming and carrying out the cornerstones of the Islamic Emirate in the face
of all its evil and enemies who were corrupt and those who sold themselves to
the West and the East. He spent his life protecting the mujahidin the people
who were oppressed when he stood by his Amir with pride, our Amir Mullah
Muhammad Omar, may Allah have mercy on both of them and their righteous
friends. He refused to hand over any of the Muslims to the kuffar and they
stayed steadfast like mountains in front of the violent crusade which tried to
get them to bow down. But they claimed they will only bow down to Allah and
even if they sacrificed their lives and family and wealth and their whole
life. They displayed and example which is honoured in Islamic history and even
more in the history of free men on this Earth. Mullah Akhtar Mansur, may Allah
have mercy on him, refused to recognise the government in Kabul which was an
agent and highlighted the fact that it was an agent created by the crusaders
who occupied the lands of Islam. He led his brothers in the Islamic Emirate
and looked after their matters and worked in their interest. Allah chose him
as a martyr as we consider him to be, after his long life of jihad and hijrah
and promoting what is good and forbidding what is evil and being steadfast in
front of ibtal and betrayal. I pray to Allah he is among those who Allah spoke
to when He said ''Do not lose heart or fall into despair because you must get
mastery if you are true in Imaan. If a wound touched you be sure a similar
wound touched the other ones. Days like this we give to men in turns so that
Allah may know those who believe, and that Allah may take Himself from your
ranks martyrs. Allah does not love those who do wrong. Allah's goal is to
cleanse those who are true in Imaan and to keep blessing away from those who
deny Imaan. Do you think you would enter paradise without Allah testing those
who fight hard and stayed steadfast?'' {al Imran 139-142} May Allah have mercy
on our martyred Amir as we consider him, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, who is
a mujahid and a muhajir and a person who promotes virtue and prevents evil,
who refuses oppression and corruption. Because we accept Allah the almighty's
judgement and because we submit to His will then we ask Allah to help us stick
to the truth and Allah's deen and the Sunnah of the prophet, may Allah's peace
and prayers be upon him, and to maintain on the path of jihad with Allah's
success and thanks. We will continue on the path of jihad and try to united
the word of the mujahidin to follow the example of our martyred leaders, may
Allah have mercy on all of them. Our Amir who was the lion of Islam, Sheikh
Usamah bin Ladin, and our brothers Abu Musa'ab al Zarqawi, Abu Hamzah al
Muhajir and Mustafa Abu al Yazidi and Abu Laith al Libi and Atiyatullah al
Libi and Abu Yahya al Libi and all the other faithful shuyukh of the jihad.
Which is what we consider them to be but we don't judge anyone before Allah.
So, being the Amir of al Qa'ida, I am here with you with our pledge of
allegiance to renew the path of Sheikh Usamah, may Allah have mercy on him, in
calling the Muslim ummah to support the Islamic Emirate and pledging
allegiance to it.
We pledge allegiance to you on the Book of Allah and on the Sunnah of the
Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and on the
Sunnah of the rightly guided Caliphs, may Allah be pleased with them. We
pledge to you that we will establish Shariah until it is in all Muslim lands,
lands ruled and not yet ruled and leading and not leading, with no higher or
conflicting authority or power. We pledge to you that we are innocent of every
rule and regime and the laws that are made by man and the pledges and treaty
that conflicts with Shariah law. Whether it is a regime in Muslims lands or
regimes or organisations outside Muslim lands that conflict with Shariah law
like the United Nations and so forth.
We pledge to you we will wage jihad to free every inch of Muslims' lands which
have been raped and stolen from, from Kashgar to Andalusia and Caucasus to as
Somal and Central Africa. And from Kashmir to al Quds and the Filipines to
Kabul and Bukhara and Samarqand. We pledge to you we will wage jihad against
rulers who provide alternatives to Shariah law and who implement on the Muslim
people the rules of the kuffar and who spread corruption and who make Muslims
slaves to murtad regimes and collaborate with them. Also those who lower
Shariah law and promote the philosophies of the kuffar and who surrendered the
wealth of Muslims to the enemies. We pledge to you we will support the poor
believers wherever they are and we will promote what is good and prevent what
is evil to the best of our capabilities. We pledge we will protect the Islamic
Emirate and its leadership as long as it leads by Allah's Book and the Sunnah
of Allah's messenger, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him. We pledge
to you we will establish a caliphate on the manhaj of the prophet which is
based on the choice and what is satisfactory to Muslims. A caliphate which
spreads justice and promotes consulting one another and obtains security and
stops oppression and brings back the rights and raises the flag of jihad.
We pledge all of this to you and we shall hear and obey in bad and good times,
and difficult times and easy times, to the best of our capability. We ask
Allah to aid us in fulfilling our pledge and to help you with your burdens.
Our master the Leader of the Faithful Mawlawi Haybatullah, may Allah protect
and guide him. Allah Azz wa Jall honoured you and the two which came before
you, the Leader of the Faithful Mullah Muhammad Omar and the Leader of the
Faithful Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, may Allah have mercy on all of them.
And the Islamic Emirate and the jihad against the Russian invaders and their
communist allies. Allah provided you established the first legitimate emirate
after the Ottoman caliphate fell. There has been no legitimate emirate in this
world other than that. It waged jihad for the sake of promoting what is good
and forbidding what is evil and to establish Shariah law. Mujahidin and the
muhajirin knew of its legitimacy and it being sincere and therefore they
pledged allegiance to it. The Imam Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin, may Allah have
mercy on him, pledged allegiance to it and called for Muslims to do the same
thing. He proclaimed his pledge was an overarching pledge and that all those
who pledged allegiance to Usamah bin Ladin, may Allah have mercy on him, and
al Qa'ida fell under it. Allah Azz wa Jall honoured you with standing in front
of the campaign of the crusaders and honoured you with protecting your
mujahidin brothers and sacrificing your wealth and power and lives and money
for their protection. This is a grace given by Allah to whoever he wills.
Today your Muslims brothers and sons stand in front of a global fight which
seeks to destroy Islam and Muslims from Kashgar to Tangier and the mountain
peaks of Caucasus to Central Africa. In the middle of these disasters and wars
being poured out onto them, they see the Islamic Emirate as a fortress of
Islam and safe place for Muslims. Seek the aid of the most capable and
majestic Allah, and they will keep you in high regard. In conclusion, I ask
Allah the exalted to raise your ability and be obedient to Allah, and
establish Allah's law and support Allah's followers and wage jihad against
Allah's enemies. We are your soldiers and Ansar and are one of your batallions.
Allah almighty said ''Whoever keeps his duty to Allah then Allah will grant a
way out for him. And Allah will provide that person where he has no
expectation. And whoever puts his trust in Allah, Allah will grant him
strength.''
Your brother Ayman Az-Zawahiri
Amir of Al-Qa'ida
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