* Important Fatwa Regarding Fighting Americans Outside Iraq

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem

Important Fatwa Regarding Fighting Americans Outside Iraq

((Written by the noble Shaykh, Naasir al-Fahd on the 10th of April, 2003. – abu muQatil))

Question:

Assalamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, to proceed:
I have read the second part of your book, at-Tibyaan fi Kufri man a'aan al-Amreekaan, the title of which is: "The Crusade Campaign in its Second Phase: War on Iraq", and I benefited much from what you mentioned from rulings regarding this campaign, like the ruling on supporting America, and the ruling on supporting the Iraqi government, and the ruling on supporting the Muslim nation in Iraq.

Except, there was a matter that was not mentioned despite its importance, and it is:

What is the ruling upon doing Jihaad against the Americans, and fighting them outside Iraq, like attacking their interests and bases and hiting them in different places of the world, and this is regarded from Jihaad? And do they have a covenant with us, in those countries were they do not [openly] fight us in? And is the saying of the Messenger sallallahu 'alayhi wa salam, 'Whoever kills a person under covenant will never smell the fragnance of paradise"' And if we say that they are not under covenant, but fighting them would result in greater disadvantage, [would it then be] legislated to fight them?

Jazakumullah khayr.

Answer:

Wa 'alaykum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, to proceed:

Undoubtedly then, that the greatest of enemies of Islaam, and the Muslims in this era are those Americans, and if we wished to follow-up on their crimes against Islaam and its people in the recent times we would have spent ages on it; for they have killed nations of Muslims, in Iraq and Afghanistan alone almost two million, and have embargoed nations, and expelled nations, and brainwashed nations, and plundered the riches of the Muslims, and occupied much of their land, and placed tawagheet on the people, and they did in this ummah what no one did in ancient or recent history.

And today, we see them launching the thousands of rockets and tonnes of bombs on the heads of the Muslims everywhere, and they do not differentiate between a child, an old man, and a woman!

And why should they differentiate?!

For the Muslims, in thier eyes, are nothing but a collection of insects, whose extermination from this world is necessary.

So doing Jihaad against those cursed ones, and awaiting for them, and fighting them wherever they may be is: from the most important of obligations, and the greatest of things that can bring you close [to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala]; for they have corrupted the lands, and killed many of the servants, and fought the Muslims everywhere, so there is no doubt that they are the 'leaders of disbelef' in this era, without dispute, and Allah, the Most High has said, 'So fight the leaders of kufr, verily they have no protection', and if I had ten spears [only], I would have thrown it all at them, and no one else except them, and I swear by Allah: If my chance to do a martyrdom operation against them becomes easy, I will do it without any hesitance whatsoever...

And if Allah raises from amongst this ummah of one billion a thousand - only - from the 'martyrdomers' who quake their bases and interests everywhere, they would have defeated them and returned them humilated losers...

So what a shame:

Do those pharoah's enslave the Muslims, and taste them the severest of punishments everywhere, and then find no resistance, rather they find protection from the tawagheet and their slaves?

And know, my dear brother, that the doubt of the one who prohibits fighting them and killing them in other than the lands in which they fight in is one of two:

The first: The doubt of the covenant:

So they say: They have a covenant with us, and whoever kills a covenant-holder does not smell the smell of paradise as is clear in the hadeeth.

The second: The doubt of the advantages and disadvantages:

So they say: Fighting them causes tribulation upon this ummah that it cannot handle.

So we say in reply:

As for the covenant, then no wallah, there is no covenant between us and them, nay, they are harbiyoon wherever they reside and live, even if they became attached to the coverings of the Ka'bah, for the covenants that the governments did with those crusaders is not recognised in the sharee'ah, rather it is based upon the charters of the false-dietic United Nations, and was signed by individuals who have no conciousness of Allah in their actions, and nothing is more important to those individuals more than preserving their thrones and status, even if the covenant was recognised, they would be considered as having broken that covenant in the tens, nay hundreds even; like their declaring that this is a crusade and fighting us due to our religion, to expelling the Muslims from their lands, to supporting those who expelled them, to violating many of the treaties, to involving themselves [in corrupting] the Islaamic rulings, to supporing the enemies of Islaam everywhere, to following up and spying on the Mujahideen on earth, and killing them, and imprisoning them, to pludering the treasures of the Muslims, and other than this from the matters of which a tenth would be enough to invalidate their covenant had it been shar'ee.
If the covenant between the Messenger, sallallahu 'alayhi wa salam and Quraysh was nullified due to Qurayh's support for Bakr over Khazaa'ah secretly, and for once only, so what of the actions of America which cannot be counted or numbered in this day and age...

Furthermore, it is not from the shar'ee covenants to allow the Crusaders and give them protection so that they may hit the Muslims however they want...And praise be to Allah, I have detailed the proofs and statements to establish that there is no covenant between us and those crusaders, and that between us and them is nothing except the sword, aswell as refuting many of the doubts casted in this matter in the book Nashr al-Bunood and I will release it soon insha'Allahu ta'ala.

As for the issue of advantages and disadvantages, then it is correct; for the matter if its disadvantages is greater than its advantage then it does not become permissable at that moment, except I notify you of two matters:

First: The advantages and disadvantages here are the shar'ee advantages and disadvantages, not the ones imagined [by some people].

Second: The people who sould look at the benefits towards the Jihaad of such actions and their harms are the Mujahideen, not the sitting ones who don't even know how to use a gun!
This is what I have to say in this short reply, and I have lengthened the talk about these matters in two books, that I will release soon insha'Allah - if Allah protects me from his enemies -:
One of them is, Nashr al-Bunood, mentioned above.

The second is the third part of at-Tibyaan fi Kufri man a'aan al-Amreekaan.
I ask Allah subhanah, to grant victory to Islaam and its people, and to destroy America and its allies, and to cure our hearts from them, and to remove their envy towards us, and peace and blessings be upon our Messenger Muhammed.

* 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.

* "Why Is My Dad in Guantanamo"

"Why Is My Dad in Guantanamo"


LONDON — "Why is my dad in prison? Why is he far away in that place called Guantanamo Bay," a ten-year-old boy asked in a poignant letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday, January 11.

"No one knows what the meaning of four years without a dad," said Anas who walked to Blair's Number 10 Downing Street with his nine-year-old brother Mohammed seeking information about their father, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"No one knows how my life has changed after my dad was kidnapped from my life only because he didn't have British passport," wrote the ten-year-old child.

The father, Jamil, was arrested with a friend during a business trip to Gambia in 2002 on suspicion of links to terrorist groups.

They were handed over to US security officers and transferred to the notorious detention camp in Cuba.

The child's letter to Blair is part of worldwide protests to mark five years since Guantanamo was opened on January 11, 2002.

Washington has been holding hundreds of detainees at the notorious detention facility, mostly arrested in Afghanistan after the toppling of Taliban following the 9/11 attacks. Only ten of them have been indicted for charges.

Guantanamo's buildings hide behind multiple rows of 12-foot chain-link fences covered in green tarpaulins and topped with tight spirals of barbed wire.

Old wooden and newer steel watchtowers dot the perimeter.

Heartbreaking
Anas, in his fourth letter to Blair, one each year for the four his father has been held, asked the prime minister if he really cares for the fate of his father.

"Your children spend Christmas with you but me and my brothers and sisters have spent `Eid alone without our dad for three years," wrote the kid.

"What do you think about that? I hope you answer me this time."

Jamil, a Jordanian, and his friend, Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi, are not British citizens but have the right to reside in Britain.

He is one of eight British residents believed to be held at Guantanamo.

All British citizens were freed from the detention center by September 2004, but London insists it has no power to intervene on behalf of foreign nationals, even if they have long been resident in Britain.

"What are 350 people still doing there?" asked Asif Iqbal, a Briton of Pakistani descent who was released from the detention camp two years ago after being held for about three years.

"We believe they are innocent until proven guilty," said the 25-year-old man who used to consider the US "a beacon of hope" and now considers it "worse than any communist country."

Iqbal is one of hundreds of relatives and activists who traveled to Cuba with the hope of having a glimpse of their beloved held in the notorious camp.

"I'm very excited to be so close to my son," said a tearful Zohra Zewawi, standing by a monument to the revolution in the Cuban city of Guantanamo.

"My big wish is to release him, see him and hug him; and for all the others to be freed."

Day of Shame

Human rights groups said that the US practices at the Guantanamo Bay had weakened human rights and the rule of law around the world.

"January 11, 2007, is a national day of shame," Britain's Stop the War Coalition said in a statement.

"Guantanamo has come to symbolize the hollowness of the US government’s promise that respect for human dignity and the rule of law would lie at the heart of its response to the attacks of 11 September 2001," agreed Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

"Torture, humiliation, discrimination, bypassing of the courts and disregard for treaty obligations, with almost total impunity, are all now among the entries in the Guantanamo logbook."

The London-based human rights group, which has planned global vigils to mark the anniversary in many world countries, called for shutting down the notorious US detention camp.

"The US government must end this travesty of justice," said Khan.

"With every passing day, the cruelty of this indefinite detention regime ratchets up another notch."

Amnesty insists Guantanamo has become a "symbol of abuse and represents a system of detention that is betraying the best US values and undermines international standards."
The international rights watchdog once likened it to gulag prisons, the Soviet detention centers notorious for torturing political prisoners and suspects.

* Which Jihad is Considered “True” in Saudi Arabia?

Which Jihad is Considered “True” in Saudi Arabia?

- Sheikh Nasar bin Hamad AL Fahd

Hypocrisy of the governors of Saudi Arabia is well-known. In this brief material I wish to result only one comparison of a position of this country in days of Jihad in Afghanistan (the Soviet invasion) and today's Jihad in Iraq and in the same Afghanistan.


Russians have invaded per 1979 in Afghanistan, and have established board which submitted to them. And Saudi Arabia has not recognized this occupational government. Americans have grasped not only Afghanistan, but also Iraq, and in each of these two countries the government has obeyed to their will. Saudi Arabia has recognized both American occupational boards.


The Saudi government supported the Afghani Mujahideen morally to battle to the Soviet armies while today it perceives Mujahideen in Afghanistan and especially in Iraq as criminals, threatens those who tries to help them and declares any help to Mujahideen a crime.


The Saudi state has allowed sheikhs and scientists during the Soviet invasion to approve Jihad in Afghanistan, to publish fetwas in this occasion, and today all fetwas concerning Iraq and Afghanistan are considered as an offence. Worse that, they everywhere push forward so-called scientists who publish fetwas, forbidding Jihad in Afghanistan and in Iraq and forbidding in it to participate.


The Saudi state helped young men, which wished to take part in Jihad (against advice) in Afghanistan. It has given them the right to different discounts and the privileges reached 70 %, and now desire to go in Iraq or Afghanistan are declared criminal and young men arrest and throw in prisons.


The Saudi governors accepted in the past of leaders of Jihad of Afghanistan and allowed to organize it conferences on the ground, and now they have joined enemies of the Islam, and pursue leaders of Jihad in Iraq.


Thus, when Jihad in Afghanistan did not infringe on interests of America and weakened enemies of the USA, Saudi Arabia was the supporter of Jihad on a way of the Allah. Sheikhs had the right to give фетвы in their direct sense, and to give to mojaheds support as in material, and the spiritual plan, and all the young men, wishing to accept in participation in Jihad, had the right to privileges and referred to as mojaheds.


However since that moment, as Jihad has infringed on interests of America (in Afghanistan and Iraq) it became terrorism and extremism. Those who takes part in Jihad, search and kill, and those who helps by means of the fetwas or money, put in prisons. Sheikhs have no right to state the Islamic legal point of view in this occasion, opposite official scientists publish fetwas, forbidding participation in Jihad, and Jihad declare terrorism.


The same has occurred and in relation to Chechnya . America has approved capture of Chechnya by Russia, and Saudi Arabia has acted also though Chechnya was grasped with the same Russian which grasped also Afghanistan.


Thus, clearly, that governors of Saudi Arabia do not recognize Jihad on the way of Allah. For them jihad on the way of America is lawful.


Everything, that kafirs allow, they (governors of Saudi Arabia) resolve and support, and everything, that they forbids, becomes forbidden.

* A message from JUS

Eid Mubarak!

On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, 1427, we would like to take a moment to send our sincere greetings to you and your family on this blessed occasion and to share the good news of the Islamic awakening that is upon us.

As the end of the year approaches, we would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Muslims on the progress we have made during this past year. Many more of you now see that the Ummah is a nation at war against an aggressive American foreign policy that will not stop until our lands are decimated, our resources are pilfered and our religion has been subdued. Many more of you now see that the events of 911 were not the beginning of this war but were a response to a decade of abuse beginning with the occupation of the land of the two holy mosques, the brutal embargo that killed over 1 million of our children in Iraq, and the indiscriminate bombings of Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq and the continuing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that has gone on for half a decade.

It is no longer hidden from any of us, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, that America’s agenda has nothing to do with “terrorists” and has everything to do with controlling Muslim land, resources and minds. Five years on in this so-called war on terror the Mujahideen have proven once again that Allah is capable of all things.

In Afghanistan, Commander of the Faithful Mullah Omar has waged an unprecendeted defense after US forces claimed to be “moping up” in 2002. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been formed, Shariah law has been implemented in the that lands it controls and Afghans are flocking to support the Mujahideen.

Moreover, in Iraq, three years on in the illegal occupation of the country, our second Islamic Emirate has been formed, the new Islamic State of Iraq, and our Mujahideen have put up an impressive and relentless resistance against the worlds largest superpower proving that all the military hardware in the world can not defeat the hand made weapons of the Mujahideen if Allah wills it. The Islamic awakening is indeed occurring among the youth and the sincere ones and Allah has honored their efforts. The US is now entrenched in a war it can not win and both Muslims and non-Muslims are awakening to the real agenda behind this current assault on Islam.

While the media battle remains front and center in this conflict, like all the others, it is also a difficult battle. With mainstream news reporting having digressed to merely party-line propaganda, now more than the Muslim voices must speak. At JUS, over the past year, we have brought back the popular Jihad Unspun as a free daily news source in order to counter the sea of misinformation. We have repositioned JUSone to a news magazine with indpeth articles that relect the thoughts and views of Muslims and we are working on a variety of initiatives to better our reach and effectiveness.

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* Jihad against Jews and Crusaders

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

World Islamic Front Statement


Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin
Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt
Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group
Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan
Fazlur Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh


Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)"; and peace be upon our Prophet, Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah, who said: I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but Allah is worshipped, Allah who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders.

The Arabian Peninsula has never -- since Allah made it flat, created its desert, and encircled it with seas -- been stormed by any forces like the crusader armies spreading in it like locusts, eating its riches and wiping out its plantations. All this is happening at a time in which nations are attacking Muslims like people fighting over a plate of food. In the light of the grave situation and the lack of support, we and you are obliged to discuss current events, and we should all agree on how to settle the matter.

No one argues today about three facts that are known to everyone; we will list them, in order to remind everyone:
First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.

Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.

Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there. The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state, and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weakness to guarantee Israel's survival and the continuation of the brutal crusade occupation of the Peninsula.

All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on Allah, his messenger, and Muslims. And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.

This was revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in "Al- Mughni," Imam al-Kisa'i in "Al-Bada'i," al-Qurtubi in his interpretation, and the shaykh of al-Islam in his books, where he said: "As for the fighting to repulse [an enemy], it is aimed at defending sanctity and religion, and it is a duty as agreed [by the ulema]. Nothing is more sacred than belief except repulsing an enemy who is attacking religion and life."

On that basis, and in compliance with Allah's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah."
This is in addition to the words of Almighty Allah: "And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? -- women and children, whose cry is: 'Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will help!'"

We -- with Allah's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.

Almighty Allah said: "O ye who believe, give your response to Allah and His Apostle, when He calleth you to that which will give you life. And know that Allah cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to whom ye shall all be gathered."

Almighty Allah also says: "O ye who believe, what is the matter with you, that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling so heavily to the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For Allah hath power over all things."

Almighty Allah also says: "So lose no heart, nor fall into despair. For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in faith."

* Fatwa Regarding the Saudi Ibleesi Regime

Fatwa Regarding the Saudi Regime

by Shaykh Abu Baseer Mustafa Haleemah

Question:

I think it is not hidden from the likes of you what has happened and is now happening in the Arabian Peninsula under the Saudi rule... If you would - may Allah preserve you - direct the youths to what is obligatory for them to do, especially since the government has begun to target the people of Iman and Jihad, either by imprisoning them or killing them, and what happened to Shaykh Yusuf al-'Uyayri is not far from us... So groups of the youths have now decided to take revenge for what the Saudi government has done or will do. So some of them have begun to buy weapons. And other groups of the youths fear that there will be a repeat in the Arabian Peninsula of that which occurred in Algeria, but at the same time they see that a great Fitnah and killing is about to take place, especially if the Saudi government continues to restrict the people of knowledge and Jihad. So they view that it is necessary for them to buy weapons, from handguns to explosives, and to train with them in order to defend themselves and their families in the event of a civil war or revolution or the like.

These youths have - among those who answer their questions and share their concerns - 'Ulama' whom they trust in terms of their knowledge, and who live in the Peninsula and witness the situation there and see it around them. However, as you know - may Allah bless you - the houses of these 'Ulama' have been besieged, and they have been led away to prison, to remain there for an indefinite period. This is if they are convicted of rebellion.

And the government has even fabricated lies about these 'Ulama', for when they arrested Shaykh 'Ali al-Khudhayr, Shaykh Nasir al-Fahd and Shaykh Ahmad al-Khalidi, they broadcast that they found along with these Mashayikh weapons and explosives! And before that, they accused them of founding a group called "The Muwahhideen for the overthrow of the Saudi government", and that they had a hand in the explosions that occurred in Riyadh, even though the Mashayikh - may Allah preserve them - had denied both accusations!

O Shaykh, the youths are confused and afraid at the same time. For they fear for themselves to even ask about what is obligatory upon them to do. And if they ask someone, the one who is asked will usually shy away from the question, and will summarise and not give details. The integrity of the Committee of Major Scholars (Hay'at Kibaril-'Ulama') has fallen in the eyes of many of the youths, and they look at any statement from the Committee of Major Scholars as if it is a statement from the Interior Ministry or another Ministry... for this reason, we hope that you will give us an explanation and advice.

Answer:

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all that exists.

This is a big question... I wished that the Saudi regime would not push the youths to the extent that they would be forced to send the like of this question... and I have received many questions similar to it. I wished from the Saudi regime - in observance of the sacredness of the two noble Haramayn, and its peaceful worshippers - that it would not put itself in this position, and that it would leave us alone as we have left it alone, but it has insisted on brandishing the stick, and on mistreating us, and being an open enemy, and being a helper to the Tawagheet of the infidels in the world against the Muslim Muwahhideen from the people of the Peninsula and outside of it, in the name of "fighting terrorism"... even though they themselves are the masters of terrorism and criminality.

In order to answer this question, it is necessary to mention the following facts:
[1] The Saudi regime is a mixture of Haqq (truth) and Batil (falsehood). The Haqq aspect of it tends to be restricted to verbal claims, such as the outward symbols of Tawhid on their flag, and their claim that they are an Islamic, Salafi state, and that they implement the Islamic Shari'ah, and other than that from the great claims that we wish they were truthful in... and these continue to deceive many of the people!
As for their Batil, then it tends to manifest itself physically, in the real world... and it is clearer proof of the reality of their regime than what they claim with the tongue. And examples of this falsehood may be found in the following:

[a] It is a regime that does not rule by what Allah has revealed in every aspect of life, particular and general, rather it is a regime that rules by what Allah revealed in certain cases to the exclusion of other cases... it believes in part of the Book and disbelieves in part... and this may be noticed easily by anyone who would like to observe the Saudi legal system... and this contradicts many of the Shar'i texts that obligate referring the judgement back to the Book and the Sunnah in every aspects, as in the Saying of Allah (ta'ala) [meaning]:
"So if you differ in anything, then refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, in you really believe in Allah and in the Last Day. That is better, and more suitable for a final explanation."

So His Saying (ta'ala): "...in anything..." is a general term that indicates anything and everything in which people might differ.

It is an immature regime, convinced - as it has been for a long time - that it is not capable of relying on itself or its people for support,... So in the past, Al Sa'ud stretched out their hands to the British in order to help them strengthen their kingdom and authority against the Ikhwan movement, the followers of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abdil-Wahhab (rahimahullah) and others... to the extent that the founder of the Saudi state used to receive a salary from the British, as one of his own grandsons clearly stated.

And today - at the hands of the sons of 'Abdul-'Aziz - the regime throws itself completely into the lap of America, going along with its policies, responding to its every desire in exchange that it (America) will protect and defend it (the Saudi regime), and not abandon it or work to change it... even though the Saudi regime - if it was sincere in its claim to Islam, and that it is the protector of its territory - would be able, with the aid of its religious population, and with the aid of the tremendous material resources it possesses, to organise one of the mightiest armies in the world, able to strike fear into the heart of America, an army possessing power and a firm 'Aqidah... however unfortunately they have not done any of that.

Its position is that of any other Arab regime... it does no more than to prepare an army to defend the ruling regime from its own people in the event of any attempt to change or oppose it... upon the principle "a lion against me, but an ostrich in war"!

[b][c] It is a racist, nationalist regime that allies or opposes on the basis of relation with the nation. It divides rights and obligations among the slaves of Allah on the basis of relation with the Saudi nation and its borders, and not on the basis of relation with the 'Aqidah and the religion... in the same manner as any other Arab regime.

And this is clear Kufr (Kufr Bawah) as the Saudi Permanent Committee (al-Lajnah ad-Da'imah) for Ifta' have themselves said in one of their Fatawa: "Whoever does not distinguish between the Jews and the Christians and the other infidels and between the Muslims except by nationality, and makes all of their rulings equal, then he is a Kafir."

And they were correct in that, however our question to these esteemed ones is this: Is not the Saudi regime like this? Is it other than what you have described? Is it not that the Kafir, Zindeeq (heretic) Saudi - because of his nationality and his connection with the Saudi state - enjoys certain rights, favours, and privileges that "Shaykhul-Islam" from outside Sa'udiyyah does not?

The problem of single unmarried women has reached its peak, yet along with that - according to the law - the Saudi woman is not allowed to be married to a man with whose religion and character she is pleased if he does not belong to the borders of the Saudi nation... and likewise, the Saudi man is not allowed to marry outside Sa'udiyyah until he has reached a certain advanced age, along with fulfilling certain conditions, and after receiving special royal permission, for which Allah has not sent down any authority... the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa-sallam) spoke truly when he said: "If you do not (marry), there will be Fitnah and widespread evil in the earth."

[d] It is a regime which along with its army has not shown any support - whether real or pretended - towards any of the important issues facing the Muslims today... Show me a single Islamic Jihadi movement that wished to establish an Islamic life in their countries and lift the oppression of the Tawagheet, that the Saudi regime or its army - not the Muslim Saudi population - provided help or support?

Hundreds of massacres of the Muslims have occurred in their countries... the lands usurped and the rights of the inhabitants violated... so what was the stance of the Saudi regime and its army? Nothing! The most they could do is to allow the Mashayikh to make Du'a' for the Muslims... or to collect a few monetary donations to pacify the anger of the people, and send them to the representative body of the state that is slaughtering the Muslims, as occurred when they sent the donations of the Saudi people to the Muslims in Chechnya via the murderous Russian state, so that it used this money to increase the atrocities and massacres that it was inflicting on the Muslims!

Tell me - if only once - that the Saudi regime and its army have ever shown anger for the sake of Allah and the 'Aqidah... just once!

The Hindus have been slaughtering the Muslims in India and Kashmir for years... yet along with that, the Saudi regime maintains perfect diplomatic and non-diplomatic ties with India!
The Muslims in Chechnya have been slaughtered at the hands of the Russian crusaders for years... yet along with that, the Saudi regime maintains perfect diplomatic ties with Russia!

The Muslims in the Philippines have been slaughtered for years at the hands of the Philippine crusaders... yet along with that, the Saudi regime maintains perfect diplomatic ties with the Philippines! And it seeks a helping hand from them, as if there was nothing wrong!

America invaded Afghanistan, and lately they invaded Iraq, and it is behind every massacre that is perpetrated at the hands of the Zionist Jews in Palestine... yet along with that, the Saudi regime maintains perfect diplomatic, economic, military and brotherly ties with America! And it gives away its petrol to America and to other countries, all of whom supply the Zionist occupation of Palestine... and today the Saudi regime is leading the Arabs - with all its pomp and arrogance - in a process of total surrender to the Zionist state of the Jews!

Even communist China... the Saudi regime has good diplomatic ties and friendship with it!
The list is extensive... Bring me a single state that wages war against Islam and the Muslims - and how many of them there are - from which the Saudi regime ever cut relations with because of its waging war against Islam and the Muslims... you will not find a single one!

A regime that shows no anger for the sake of Allah, not even once... and does not show alliance and enmity for Allah's sake, not even once... how can it be called Islamic? How?
How is it possible to harmonise between these facts and their claim that they rule by the Book and the Sunnah?

[e] It is a regime that does not hide its clear allegiance to the enemies of the Ummah in any battle that the enemy wages against the Ummah, and against Islam and the Muslims... Here is America, waging a vicious war against Islam and the Muslims, claiming that it is fighting "terrorism"... invading and occupying the Muslim lands... yet along with that it receives nothing from the Saudi regime except for concessions, and all types of support and aid... until it has even prevented the Muslims from even making Du'a' against America in their Masajid! And the news of the American military bases in the Arabian Peninsula is not far off from us!

[f] It is a regime that has abolished Jihad in the Way of Allah, indeed erased it from its vocabulary and thinking, it has waged war against its people and hunted them down, imprisoned their 'Ulama', and put together an army that has no other purpose but to protect the Saudi throne and the Saudi regime!

[g] The Saudi regime has entered into treaties, alliances, constitutions and organisations stemming from the United Nations and others... all of which oppose and contradict the Shari'ah of Allah (ta'ala).

[h] It is a regime that funds and hosts many TV channels that propagate immorality and Kufr, and likewise it funds and hosts many newspapers and magazines - national, international, and local - that propagate Kufr, atheism and secularism, and their names are well-known among the people... and it follows that it is responsible for them all, and everything that is propagated and broadcast therein!

It is a regime that when the king is insulted, or his high status called into question, the one who did so will be identified and dragged out from his hiding place, and subjected to the severest kinds of torture and imprisonment and penalties, and may even be killed... yet when Allah is insulted openly in broad daylight - as in the worthless story "al-Karadeeb" written by the Saudi Zindeeq, Turki al-Hamd, in which he said: "So Allah and the Shaytan are two faces of a single invention"!! - he is left without any objection or account, free to roam throughout the land as he wishes... and indeed, his books and stories full of Kufr and heresy are allowed to be printed by the Saudi state with complete freedom!!

Do you not see that if it was said: "Fahd or the crown prince and the Shaytan are two faces of a single invention" that the writer would be able to sleep a single night in his home? Or that his books would be allowed to be printed and distributed?!!

Is this how the "State of Tawhid" - as they claim - should be? The ruling king is greater and higher in status than Allah (ta'ala) - may He be Exalted and Glorified?!!
And if it is said: Maybe the king or the crown prince does not know all of this?
I say: So how is it then that they know about everyone who speaks about their king and their ruler, or one of their princes, even if his speech is in secret on the telephone... yet they are unaware of what is written, printed, and distributed among the people?!!

Allah (ta'ala) spoke the truth about them when He said [meaning]:
[i]"And from the people are those who take rivals besides Allah, loving them as they love Allah. And those who believe have more love for Allah. And if the oppressors could see when they witness the torment, that all power belongs to Allah, and that Allah is Severe in torment."

And He (ta'ala) said [meaning]:
"What is wrong with you, that you give no reverence to Allah, when He has created you in stages?"

[j] The Saudi regime, represented by its rulers and princes, is instrumental in usurping the wealth and resources of the Ummah. So a part of it is poured into the pockets and the bellies of the rulers and princes, so that they can spend it on satisfying their desires and lusts as they pleases... and they are above being questioned or brought to account, no matter how much one of them might spend... and they are above being asked: "Where did you get that?"...

And a bigger part of that is poured into the pockets and the interests of the enemies of the Ummah... As for the helpless and oppressed people who cannot do anything, they are left to feed of the scraps that fall from the tables of these wasteful, oppressive Tawagheet!
So all of these faces together - and there are many more that we have not mentioned - bring us to the certain conclusion that the Saudi regime is an un-Islamic, Kafir regime... Islam is in one valley, and the regime of Al Sa'ud is in another valley. Likewise, everyone who supports, protects, and defends this regime from among the kings, princes and other than them from their associates who carry out their will, they are all Kuffar and apostates. And it is not befitting for anyone who knows the religion of Allah and who knows the reality of this regime and its supporters to doubt this fact.

And what we say regarding the Saudi regime, we likewise say the same regarding its oppressive army, for it is an army just like any of the other Arab armies, put together for the sole purpose of aiding the Tawagheet and defending their thrones and their interests. So it is an army that turns along with the desires of the ruling Taghut, with its allegiance and enmity based on that... making peace with whoever the Taghut makes peace, even if he is a Kafir at war against Islam and the Muslims, and making war with whoever the Taghut makes war, even if he is one of the best people on the earth.

It is unknown that it has ever waged a single battle in the Way of Allah, despite the abundance of battlefields... So it is impossible that an army of this description can be considered an Islamic army, even if most of its troops and commanders establish the Prayer, for this might save an individual among them, however it is impossible for us to describe or the army as a whole, with its organisation and purposes, as Islamic or to rule it as Islamic, or that it is the army that wages Jihad in the Way of Allah to make the Word of Allah superior!
[2] The foregoing ruling on the regime is a general one, and it does not imply by necessity the Kufr of everyone who argues on behalf of the regime or enters into its supporters; and this is due to the many misconceptions and illusions that people have regarding this regime, which are propagated by the Mashayikh and agents of the Sultan... Therefore, in order to apply this ruling to individuals it is necessary for the conditions of Takfeer to be fulfilled, along with the absence of any nullifying factors.

For many of those who argue of behalf of this regime are unaware of the realities that we have previously mentioned... and many of those who are aware of them do not believe them... and many of those who do believe them are unaware that they are Mukaffirah (i.e. take a person out of Islam and make him a Kafir)... and many of those who know that they are Mukaffirah will say to you: "I follow our great Mashayikh, they know more than me or you, and they have given me a Fatwa different to what you have given and explained"... and all of this needs to be taken into account when applying a ruling to individuals from among the people who argue on behalf of this regime and on behalf of the Tawagheet ruling this regime!

[3] It is not allowed to take the foregoing ruling on the regime and apply it to the whole Saudi society or its organisations, for the Saudi society is a Muslim society, and its people are predominantly religious and they establish the Prayer, and to Allah belongs all praise.

[4] Some of the mistakes of the people of knowledge regarding this regime are due to a number of matters:

[a] One of them is that many of the Mashayikh and Du'at see only the good side of the regime, and they do not want to see from it other than this side, neither to hear from it except from this side... Therefore, you see one of them when he speaks, saying: "The Waliyyul-Amr - may Allah preserve him! - ordered the building of the Masajid... and printing the Masahif... and building schools for memorising the Qur'an... and he ordered the printing of such-and-such book at his own personal expense..." And he will say more than once: "We rule by the Book and the Sunnah... and all praise is due to Allah that He has granted us an Imam and a king like this!"
And it has escaped these unaware ones, who have strayed and caused others to stray, that the regime is incapable of doing more than the aforementioned things... and what they have mentioned about their regime is also done and claimed by many of the secularist, infidel Arab regimes, maybe moreso!

Another of them is that many of the Saudi Mashayikh and Du'at compare the situation of the other Arab regimes, and how their people suffer from religious persecution, with the Saudi regime... and one of them comes to the conclusion that the Saudi regime is a thousand times better than those regimes... and from there he begins to be happy with the regime, and maybe he might increase in his attachment to it, so he goes astray and leads others astray!

And we admit that the Saudi regime, despite its faults that we mentioned before, is better than many of the other Arab regimes... but this does not allow us to attach ourselves to or be happy with a Kafir regime, even if it the least in Kufr compared to the other regimes... So the issue in truth is a comparison between Kufr and a greater Kufr, or between greater Kufr and a Kufr even greater that it... and the issue does not go beyond this.

[b][c] Another of them is that there are those from among the Mashayikh and Du'at who live outside Sa'udiyyah, due to their need to perform the obligation of Hajj, and their affection for visiting the noble Haramayn, so you see them preferring to keep silent regarding the crimes of the regime and its acts of Kufr... and maybe they will compromise and exaggerate... so they go astray and lead others astray... and there is no strength or power except with Allah.

[5] So if it is said: Does the Kufr of the regime necessitate going out (Khuruj) against it? (i.e. fighting it and overthrowing it)

I say: Yes, from the Shar'i perspective it is Wajib (obligatory) to go out against it, however from the practical perspective, this has certain conditions, stages, and necessary preparations, and I do not see that it should be done before the fulfillment of these conditions, stages and necessary preparations. And one of them is that the idea of going out against the Kufr regimes should be the dominant idea among the majority of the Muslims.
And until the time that these are fulfilled, there is no objection according to the Shari'ah - if you find the ability and are safe from a greater evil occurring - to acting on this, by eliminating - on an individual basis - those whose Fitnah is threatening the lands and the people, from among the ruling Tawagheet of Kufr and injustice, and putting the people and the land to rest from them... for eliminating one of the ruling Tawagheet of Kufr and injustice and removing him from the path of the people is easier than effecting a rebellion and overthrowing the entire regime along with all of its special organisations!

[6] So if it is said: What about the Mabahith (the intelligence services), the security services, the Mukhabarat, the agents of the regime... what is the stance towards them?

I say: The Mabahith and the agents of the Mukhabarat are the guard dogs of the Taghut who stay up to protect the Taghut and his rule and his oppression... I do not advise dealing with them - nor with other than them from the guard dogs of the rulers, except one whose Fitnah has grievously afflicted the land and the people - especially in lands such as the Arabian Peninsula, for fear of widening the circle of the conflict, falling into what is forbidden, frightening the peaceful people - except in the case of self-defence... So if they catch up with you, O brother Mujahid, and seek to kill you or imprison you and persecute you away from your religion, then by all means deal with them... fight them with a clear heart, facing them and not retreating, and if they kill you - while you are defending yourself and your religion and your honour - then you will be from the people of Paradise... and if you kill them - while they are implementing the orders of the Taghut by killing you or arresting you or persecuting you away from your religion - then they are in the Hell-fire, as is mentioned in the authentic Hadeeth.

With this I answer your question and the question of all of the other brothers who asked questions similar to yours...

And all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all that exists.