02 January 2011 By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun In the Name of Allah, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The dead live by their words, and
what their fingertips have written. They live by the
truth of their words and the steadfastness of their
attitudes despite the demise of their bodies and the
ascension of their souls. The words written by their
white hands will endure and revive and awaken hope
after they have sacrificed themselves, their wealth,
their blood and their worldly life for the sake of
what they wrote, (which emanated) from their firm
values and deep seated principles in the cause of the
Deen. On that day, although they are dead, Islam and
the Muslims shall triumph through them. The people of
faith will be glorified and the people of shirk
and idolatry will be debased and life will be
honorable and dignified. Their blood and their
sacrifices are the fuel and the fire that will
eliminate injustice and take away sorrow and pain.
Justice will prevail and the oppressed will be
victorious. The prisons will be emptied and the
afflicted set free. Their will not be any loss of
rights, and neither tax nor toll. When the living are dead,
although their bodies are still walking on the earth,
they have no life. Their hearts are dead because they
exist only for their own whims, comforts and cravings.
They have collected the wages of their employment, the
wages given for their sermons and fatwas, for their
insolence against Islam and the defenders of the Deen.
They were abstemious and the price was cheap: a few
dirham or fame mixed with the blood of the noble and
the free. They fall before the Lord of all creation in
their councils and on their satellite networks while
they are drowning in error from the soles of their
feet to the crowns of the heads. They remove (people
from Islam), mislead them and make them jahili.
From their own mouths all who oppose them are
foolish-minded or young. They speak of the good
qualities of those who demolish the Deen, while
maintaining silence over their wicked deeds and the
tools used in their work of destruction. This is no
surprise when they themselves are the subversive tools
in the hands of those wreckers. Among them, the people
of truth and conviction are people of deviation and
clear error. When the cowardly has left the
land forsaken...only discredit and conflict will be
sought when they are the ones who speak of the
condition of the Ummah and the state of the Muslims.
Islam and the Muslims will be humiliated and life will
be one of ignominy and abuse. It will become nothing
but submission, subjection and servility. Countries will be occupied and
the Quran defiled. That which is sacred will be
sullied, the pure maidens will be raped and honor will
be ravaged in order to revive from death Laka' Ibn
Laka' upon the skulls of the innocent, the blood
of the noble and the deaths of the guiltless. At their
hands will come the day in which Islam will be washed
away as a garment is washed away and neither fasting
nor charity; nor piety will be understood. But they
(will) meet a poor fate and come to a bad end, with
the permission of the One, the Benefactor, as their
wages for what they have done to the Ummah, for the
blood they have spilled with their fatwas, for their
silence about the truth and for the assistance they
have rendered to falsehood. Yet, they will think that
they have done well: "Is he, then, to whom the evil
of his conduct is made alluring, so that he looks upon
it as good…" Ibn Abu Dawud (he of the fitna of the
creation of the Quran) lived on the blood of al-Bawayti
(a student of Imam al-Shafa'i, may Allah Almighty have
mercy on him) and although he was famed for his
learning, eloquence and munificence, he was
nonetheless of wicked intention and corrupt creed so
none of that benefited him and he came to a bad end
because of how he criticized, harmed and slandered the
people of truth and faith. Sayyid Qutb was one of whom it
was believed that his words would be killed and their
letters erased from hearts and minds. Yet, his words
have endured as if they were carved in rock and stone.
The words of those who attempted to destroy his honor
and his writings, however, have died, even though they
were seduced by his writings and his books. They stole
from them and pretended that they came from their own
thoughts. Allah has exposed them, disgraced them and
sullied their houses. They are dead even though they
are still alive, while Sayyid Qutb lives even though
he is dead. Sayyid Qutb paid the price of his
words with his own blood. As for those who received
their wages for their speeches, books and articles
criticizing Sayyid, and those who stole his words and
collected their salaries from the publishing houses,
or promoted themselves and earned a reputation on the
satellite networks by criticizing him: Sayyid Qutb is
living even though he is dead and they have died even
though some of them are still living. Many of the sons of this Da'wa
lived, and their words lived with them, when they
revived among people the glory of the Deen, and it was
accepted and resonated. The righteous and the truthful
gathered about them and on that day purity was not
mingled with the defects of this world and it was not
polluted with disturbances caused by whims or fancies
or patchwork fatwas of favoritism. The Word of Truth
and sincerity in counsel were the intent of the
faithful. They lived and their words lived as beacons
of light and guidance, and the people of piety and
faith followed in their footsteps. Other followers of this Da'wa
lived, and they were held with affection and esteem in
people's hearts. When suddenly (this affection) it
declined and receded and was taken by death and they
suffered and sighed the moans of death. Perhaps
someone will rescue or pay attention to it. Suddenly
it becomes nothing more than a memory killed by its
masters after they chose the life of their bodies over
the life of their words and after they chose to live
by principles and ideas of the West, the logic of the
mind and the pretext of rationalism. They claim, to
show favoritism for and to flatter the people of
innovation and error, that they had changed their
paths and turned their ideologies and ideas upside
down. They shed their values and principles; and the
secularists gathered around them. They became the boon
companions of the secularists and the liberals and, by
their words, became secularists themselves. Their
pulpits were the MBC and IBC networks and they became
jurists of beggary (fuqaha' al-tasawwul) so
that the righteous and true abandoned them. None
remain in their life except some of the duped, the
seduced; the secularists, the liberals and the
democrats. So they have died while they are still
alive. Their fatwas are circulated by the soldiers of
the marines, by the vulgar; the men of surrender and
treachery, and the people of defeat. They meet on the
satellite networks and criticize those whose field is
the arena of Jihad and martyrdom. Birds of a feather
flock together. Ahmed Ibn Hanbal (Imam of the
Ahlus Sunnah) has died and the head of fitna Ibn Abu
Dawud (of the fitnah of the creation of the Quran) has
died and Bishr Mirisi (a Mu'tazalite sheikh) have
died. Yet, what Ahmed bin Hanbal wrote lives and is
redeemed by the truth of what his fingertips wrote and
his tongue spoke. His words have been redeemed by his
body when he was flogged, imprisoned and tortured by
the executioners and his memory lives. Ibn Abu Dawud and those with him
died after they spent their lives in the palace of the
sultan living on the screams and pain of Ibn Hanbal
while they themselves dwelt in comfort. Their ideas
and beliefs died with them and they have no worth
except begging, injustice, subjugation to slavery and
love of passions. How can such a worth bear any
remnant of the truth? Ibn Abu Dawud died imprisoned
inside his own paralyzed body which for four years did
not possess the power to move. As for Ibn Taymiyya, his memory
is immortal, Allah permitting, until Allah inherits
the earth and those upon it. He composed his message
of astightaha, but the people of innovation and
whim were not impressed, as is indeed the case with
them always and everywhere. So Ali bin Yaqub al-Bakari
attacked him; Ibn Taymiyya, declared him kaffir
and demanded his death. But the rulers joined forces
and incited the people, stirring them against (al-Bakari).
He was reviled, cursed and imprisoned. They went to
great lengths to harm him until they gathered with the
mob against him. They struck him and did him harm
until he was exposed and fled. When the earth pressed
around him he could find none but Ibn Taymiyya, in
whose house he hid. Allah has exalted the memory of
Ibn Taymiyya and his message lives. His enemies have
died and their ideas have died with them. Those ones sacrificed for the
sake of their words and their writings. They did not
eat by them and they did not beg through the ink of
their books. They avoided uncertain (shibh) and
forbidden (muharramat) areas. They did not find
their nourishment in the efforts of others or from
reviling harming or slandering them. They did not
accept a price from the depravity and pleasures of
this world. They threw all of that behind them, as
opposed to their opponents who – because they cursed,
reviled and criticized the people of truth, faith and
Jihad and because they favored the people of
falsehood, error and deviation – are consigned to
oblivion. Translated From The Islamic
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