* A Commanders Message To His Son

((This is a transcript off an audio recording, in Arabic, of Khattab's [Ibn-Khattab, Former Commander in Chechnya] will to his son Saaleh. Written when he was only three months old, and dictated by a brother, not Khattab himself. - abu muQatil))

A Commanders Message To His Son

An advice to you O Saleh, from the land of War, Chechnya. The Islamic history has not recorded in its pages other than the deeds of those who were truthful to Allah; they implemented what they spoke, and advanced to the front line. Believe me, the Dirham (money) has occupied the worshipers, worshiping this world and worshiping the west, with work, and salary and whatsoever is with Allah is better. So the generations after generations have passed into a dead life of routine that is not far from the life of an animal, they rise in the morning to breakfast then to work, then lunch then home then dinner then sleep, the life has no goal. Believe me O Saleh, with all their might as humans, their aim in life, is to gain wealth and flourish and the troubles will never stop, ever, trouble with work, with the wife, with the children, with accommodation, and whenever one trouble is solved, another appears, they solve 10, and 20 appear, life ends and the trouble never ends.

And the Islamic nation today has all types in its communities, the scholars, the students, the tradesmen, engineers, thieves, and little are the soldiers of tawheed and jihaad. Now is It the time for Jihaad, the nation of Kufr is cautious, and needs only a final dagger's stabbing to finish it off, and Allah would have bestowed his grace upon the Islamic nation in this age, and I do not say the time of the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) and his companions and those who followed them, so how can the poorest nation of the world, demolish the soviet's and smallest nation demolish the heart of Russia, from within Russia, if it weren’t for me living with these people, I would not believe it. Believe me O Saleh, the way of death can be chosen in a way (by trying to attain shahaadah going for jihaad), but its full knowledge is with Allah, where and when, go for death and life will come to you, have confidence in Allah, and trust Allah, for today we (people) believe in Allah, but we have doubts that Allah will give us victory, we are always suspicious, the airplanes and tanks of the enemies of Allah have installed fear in us from the gulf war
The Gulf war dissolved the faith of winning in the Muslims after regaining their faith from the victory of Afghanistan against the soviets, the military powers from east to west were disgraced against the power of those who believe in Allah, so the west came to the lands of Islam, the Arabian gulf acting a play to scare the Ummah of Muhammad, Saddam did not die or his soldiers, and the west became a beast, scaring the Muslims, and milking the Muslims wealth and the resources became a debt for a war of 18 years, and it continues.

Saleh, you will die alone, and will dwell alone, and remain alone, and the way is a long path, and the food is little, so increase your god fearing and Jihaad in the path of Allah, it is glory in this life and the hereafter, my dear you are now little, but insha'allah we have opened the way for you and your likes, and prepare and teach you that which your grandparents failed to teach us, so your generation holds the hope for the nation, and we age our faith will be in Allah, then in you.And sorry to say my dear one, the youth of today have become slaves to the devil, the T.V, the Dish, Soccer, and cars, fear dying in a useless way, and ask Allah for a good ending, martyrdom gathers you with the pure prophet peace and blessings be upon him and his companions, the martyrs are with the prophets and righteous.

My dearest thing to me praise Allah that you came in the land of jihaad, the tribe of your mothers people was destroyed, yet they fought for their religion and honour till the end, half went with your father to fight and the other half in prison and in graves, martyrs insha'allah. They were those who first claimed shari’ah in Daghistan, I will never forget when the enemy surrounded them from the four sides, and their towns were demolished so we joined the soldiers of tawheed seeking victory, and we saw battles that I have never witnessed before, and we brought the enemy to its knees.

While in your mother, the planes would burn the lands and whoever was on it in Chechnya, So praise Allah that you heard the sound of bullets and explosions whilst you were in your mother’s stomach, while your mother would escape from place to place. My precious, do not dream of living a luxurious, happy, peaceful life for the world of kufr will chase you, follow your father and choose a life of honour and dignity before you are thrown in the prisons of kufr, and your fathers friends and those with them were caught, and you are not far from nor better than your fathers friends. Make a serious decision in your life, and stick to it, and believe in Allahs victory and don’t listen to "this and that" and ask too much. So seek knowledge and memorise the book of Allah while you are young, then prepare and wage jihaad in the path of Allah.

My son I don’t know if we will be together in the battlefield, you my commander and me a soldier under you, watering the thirsty and nursing wounds, then you alone and me in the grave, this is a soldiers advice to his commander, be for me a continuous charity and a righteous son O Saleh, making supplications for me, for that is all that is left for a slave after his death, as the prophet peace be upon him said.

And I ask my lord to protect you to help this religion in every place and to provide you from his great bounties, and not allow the enemies of Allah to gain an upper hand over you and not let them give you while they humiliate you, and grant you martyrdom purely for the sake of Allah the generous, and to intercede for your poor father and mother, may Allah increase your honour and strength over the disbelievers, and Allahu akbar, your father, Khattab.