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New As Sahab tape from Al Qaeda Invitation to Islam Released
The anticipated tape from As Sahab featuring Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri and Azzam the American entitled "Invitation to Islam" has been released in the last few minutes on the various Arabic language message boards.
We will be forwarding updates shortly as we review the tape.
The tape is 48 minutes 1 second long, and begins with Azzam the American in English introducing Zawahiri. Zawahiri speaks for approximately 4 minutes, and then introduces Azzam the American.
The segments in Arabic have English subtitles. Much of Azzam the American's portion includes Arabic subtitles.
Zawahiri specifies that this speech is directed to the American people.
The tape makes reference to the war between Israel and Lebanon.
The tape can be downloaded here.
The transcript follows;
Narrator: In the name
of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate
Adam Gadahn aka Azzam the American:
00:14
Gadahn: We invite all
Americans and other unbelievers to Islam, wherever they are
And whatever their role and status in Bush and Blair’s world
order.
00:27
(Zawahiri introduces Gadahn in Arabic)
In the name of Allah, and all praise be to Allah, and may
peace and prayers be upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family,
companions, and allies.
00:50
To the Americans in particular, and all Western people in
general. Peace be upon those who follow the guidelines. Allah and the prophet Mohamed, peace and
prayers be upon him with guidance and the religion of truth to make it
victorious over all religions, and sent him, peace be upon him, as a bringer of
good news and a warner.
1:13
The truth, exalted is He, says ‘He is the one who sent his
Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it victorious over
all religions, even though the polytheists hate [it]” 9:33. And He, exalted is he, says “Oh Prophet! Truly we have sent you as a witness, a bearer
of glad tidings, and a warner, and as one who invites to Allah by His leave,
and as a lamp spreading light.’ 33:45-46.
1;33
And he ordered him to call to his Lord with wisdom and
beautiful preaching. He – exalted is He
– said ‘Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching and
argue with them in the best way. Verily
your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path and He knows best who is
guided.” 16:125
1:51
And the Master, exalted is He, has singled out the People of
the Book, with a special invitation to believe in His Prophet who believes in
all of Allah’s books and Messengers and who brought it a miraculous, preserved
book which has not been changed or corrupted like previous books were changed
or corrupted. Moreover, it is a
miraculous book which challenged mankind until the Day of Resurrection to
produce its like.
2:13
Allah, the Exalted, said to the Prophet, peace be upon him,
“Say, oh People of the Book, Come to common terms between us and you that we
worship none but Allah and that we associate no partners with him and that we
erect not from among ourselves Lords and patrons other than Allah. If they then turn back, say “Bear witness
that we are Muslims (bowing to Allah’s
will). “ 3;64
2;34
And he, Exalted is he, said “Oh People of the Book, Our
Messenger has come to you, revealing to you much of which you used to hide of
the Book and passing over much (that is
now unnecessary). There has come to you
from Allah a light and clarifying Book, with which Allah guides all who seek
his good pleasure to the ways of peace, and leads them out of darkness into the
light, by his will, and guide them to the straight path” 5:15-16
2:58
Among those who have responded to this noble,divine call is
our brother Azzam the American whom we ask Allah to count among those in whom
is realized the statement of the Truth, exalted is He, ‘And there are among the People of the Book those
who believe in Allah and in the revelation to you and the revelation to them
bowing in humility to Allah. They do not
sell the signs of Allah for a miserable gain! They have their reward with the
Lord and Allah is swift in accounting.’ 3;199
3:24
And as our Brother, Azzam the American, talks to you he
talks to you as one who is concerned about the fate which awaits his people and
as a perceptive person who wishes to lead his people out of the darkness into
the light. So listen to you because what
he is talking to you about is serious and significant. He is talking to you about the fate which
awaits every human, an extremely grave issue in which there is no joking,
procrastination, or backtracking.
3:56
I ask Allah to open your hearts to benefiting from his words
and experience, and Allah speaks the truth and guides to the path. And our final prayer is that all praise is
due to Allah and may Allah send prayers and peace on his Prophet Mohamed and
his family and companions.
At 4:14 Gadahn takes over and continues to the end of the
tape.
4:14 (Qu’ranic quote)
5:00
All praise is due to God who said in his glorious book “And
only argue with the People of the Book in the best way, including the
oppressors among them, and say we believe in the revelation that has come down
to us and in that which came down to you.
Our God and your God is one [holds up index finger of right hand] and if
is to him that we submit. And may peace and prayers he who has sent in mercy to
the worlds our beloved Master, Mohamed the trustworthy Prophet and upon his
family and companions and followers to the day of accounting
5:32
To what can we attribute the obvious ignorance of Western
peoples in general with the religion of the Muslims and its teachings? This ignorance which causes the people of the
west to rapturously applaud when Israel perpetrates wholesale slaughter of
Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine and leads them to give their assent to the
atrocities their governments commit in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the
Muslim world.
6::00
And makes them voice their approval when their armies
desecrate copies of the Qu’ran at Quantanamo and their yellow press and
televangelists insult our Prophet Mohamed, peace be upon him. These events, coupled with their reaction,
showcase a seething animosity combined with a definite ignorance of the
religion of Islam and of the nature of its followers.
6:27
I don’t mean ignorance in its fullest sense, for I am fairly
certain that there isn’t an adult American or European who hasn’t heard of
Mohamed, peace be upon him and the religion he taught us. But the fact is God describes the unbelievers
as ignorant thoughout the Qu’ran and tells us that they neither understand nor
think. Indeed, one of the most dedicated and severest enemies of the Muslims
was nicknamed Abu Jahel, father of ignorance,
What was true for the unbelievers of yesterday holds true for the
so-called enlightened unbelievers of our time.
I can’t forget the day, as I was praying a prescribed prayer with one of
the brothers in a shopping center parking lot in suburban America. A man sped by in his sports utility vehicle
shouting from his open window “Worship Jesus, your Lord”.
7:25
His gas guzzler, cell phone, and college diploma
nothwithstanding, one couldn’t help but be reminded of Abu Jahel in the seventh
century, abusing the Prophet while he prayed because he worshipped the God
alone, and rejected the other idols of the Arabs. And who cannot see in the desecration of the
copies of the Qu’ran, parodying of the prophet, and the torture and humiliation
of the Muslims echoes of the crimes and atrocities of Abu Jahel and his
followers.
7::55
Needless to say, this ignorance of theirs is for the most
part willful because the civilization that boasts it is the most knowledgable
in the history of the world cannot plausibly claim that it has been unable to
fully understand a religion whose followers number in the billions and which
commands its adherents to openly preach and propagate its doctrines and
tenets. This civilization that claims to
have uncovered the secrets of the heavens and earth cannot after making such
arrogant claims cannot justify the act of Islam as some esoteric religion with
arcane beliefs and rituals unknowable except by the initiated.
8:36
The civilization which perpetrate the Crusades, the Inquisition,
and countless other unholy bloodbaths.
The civilization which shamelessly brought us lynch laws, Jim Crowe, and a death row where only convicts of
certain races are sent. The Civilization
that introduced us to the Concentration Camp, extraordinary rendition, and Abu
Ghraib and her sisters. The Civilization
which enslaved Africa, slaughtered the Native Americans, firebombed Dresden, Tokyo, and
Fallujah, and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Civilization that shows more concern for
the Buddhas of Banyan and the walls of Babylon
than it shows for the people of Afghanistan
and Iraq. The Civilization that facilitated the
establishment of Israel
over the dead bodies of the Muslims and upholds and defends its tyranny to this
very day.
9:30
The Civilization whose theoretically Holy book contains
passages like Numbers Chapter 31, Verses 1 through 31, Deuteronomy chapters 20,
verses 10 through 16, and chapter 22,verses 13 through 24, and 1 Samuel Chapter
15 verse 3, all of which explain the Israeli rabbinal council’s recent
declaration that at times of war Jewish law recognizes no such thing as
innocents among the enemies people.
10:00
A Civilization such as this cannot honestly or credibly
accuse the Muslims of the Divine Book and Revealed Religion of barbarity and
brutality. The Civilization which
prosecutes or persecutes those who simply question or deny a mere historical
event. The Civilization in which
anti-semitism is an unforgivable sin and grounds for dismissal from public and
private office.
10:29
The civilization which continues flag burning to be at the
very least an issue for Congress and the courts, and perhaps even a crime
against the state. The Civilization
which commits the filing of lawsuits against those who slander and libel
celebrities, politicians, and other public figures of ill repute. The Civilization such as this cannot then
hide behind the exclusive freedom of expression after it desecrates copies of
the Qu’ran, or defames with unquestionably malicious intent the chief and
master of Adam’s children and the embodiment of high morals and good character,
our Prophet and Messenger Mohamed, may Allahs peace and prayers be upon him.
11:00
The Civilization which embraces without hesitation every
obscure and foreign religion , philosophy, and ideology, including Buddism,
Shamanism, and a thousand other pagan and polytheistic belief systems cannot
simply dismiss Islam as the religion of
the Arabic, which has nothing to do with the people of the west, or nothing to
offer them and look askance at or disparage those who convert to it, and then
justify its stance by saying that the Prophet Mohamed, peace be upon him, was
an Arab who preached his message among the Arabs, and as such Islam is an
exclusively Arab religion.
11:50
Let me first point out that in making this claim they
disregard the fact that the qu’ran says and the Prophet said that he was sent
to both Arabs and Non-Arabs, and they disregard the fact he invited the Romans,
Persians, Abysinnians, and other nations to Islam. And they disregard the fact that among the
first followers of Mohamed, Peace be upon him, were Africans, Israelites, and
other non-Arabs. And furthermore, if we were to apply this excuse of theirs
fairly and in an unbiased manner, then we would be forced to ask the people of
Christiandom, by and large Anglo Saxons, Causasians, Slavs, Nordics, Black
Africans, East Asians, and the like how they justify following a prophet who
was not just an Israelite sent to the Children of Israel but indeed is recorded
to have said, in matthew, Chapter 15, verse 24, I am not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the House of Israel. And moreover is supposed to have forbade his
disciples, all of whom were Israelites, from preaching among the gentiles and
the Samaritans, as in Matthew, Chapter 10, verses 5 through 6.
13:02
As I see it, this ignorance of yours towards our religion,
and indeed your own religion, although primarily a willful choice on your part,
is also a result of the effort made by your western political and religious
authorities to blur the picture of Islam in the minds and eyes of their flocks,
in order to better facilitate their control and domination of you through scare
tactics and terrorizing you as to the bogey of Islam since they have discovered
that the fear of the unknown could be much greater and persuasive than fear of
the known.
13:37
And the leaders of the west also find it convenient to point
the finger of accusation at the other because it helps them to avoid having to
face difficult questions about the West’s dark and bloody past and its equally
dark and bloody present. So, because I
know that there are among you those who will respond positively upon hearing
the truth, and because I know that even the hearts of the most hardened of
enemies can be softened if God so wills, I would like to devote this talk to
making a heartfelt invitation to my religion, Islam.
14:14
Al Islam - the surrender or the submission - is the religion
chosen by God for all of mankind, the religion of all the prophets and
messengers from Adam to Abraham to Moses to Jesus to Mohamed and all in
between. The Qu’ran states firmly that
they and their followers were neither Jews nor Christians, but were in fact
Muslims – those who surrender themselves to God.
14:41
And indeed, one does not find the words Judiasm and Jew in
the extant Torah, nor the word Christianity and Christian in the four
Gospels. Islam is the only religion
acceptable to God and came with the revealed book The Qu’ran, which abrogates
all previous revelations, like the Torah and Evangel. The Qu’ran is the inimitable speech of God
and has been preserved by God as he sent it down over 1400 years ago by way of
the angel Gabriel through his final prophet and Messenger, Mohamed, the
unlettered Prophet, whose advent was prophesized in both the Torah and the
Evangel, prophecies which can even today can be found in the Old and New
Testaments, despite the alterations and enrichments which those once Holy
scriptures have undergone.
15:33
Islam, the final revealed religion, came to replace and
abrogate the previous laws or sharai, such as the Shariah of Moses, and the
Shariah of Jesus. As for the creed of
Islam, it is the same monotheistic belief in and worship of the creator of the
heavens and the earth, which all the prophets, from Adam, to Jesus to Mohamed
peace be upon them all practiced and taught.
And of the anthropomorphic deity and tribal religion concocted by the
priests and rabbis of Israel, or the pagan trinitarianism introduced into the
religion of the Messiah by the church fathers and imposed by the force of the
Roman state, nor any other version of pure monotheism, which some would like us
to believe was revealed by God.
16:22
One enter Islam by bearing witness that there is no God
other than the one true God, Allah in the qu’ran or an Arabic Bible and that
Mohamed, son of Abdullah, of the clan of Hashem of the tribe of Qu’raish is his
final prophet and messenger. The
statement of faith is not, however, an empty phrase without meaning, but rather
carries with it conditions and obligations.
Among the most important of these conditions, without which the
testimony of faith is null and void, is that we disbelieve in and reject every
false god whether it be a rock or a human being or a government with its
polytheistic constitution, courts, and laws, or an international organization
like the United Nations, with its international laws, tribunals, and treaties
of unbelief, and its Security Council whose resolutions never fail to side with
the Zionist Crusader Fascists.
17:20
And equally as important is that we follow the messenger,
peace be upon him. Ibn Tamiya, a famous
scholar of Islam said in his fatawa the religion of Islam is built on two
fundamentals which are actualization of the testimony that there is no god
other than Allah, and that Mohamed is the messenger of Allah. The first part of that is that you don’t set
up alongside Allah any other god. The
second fundamental is that we worship him with what he legislated on the
tongues of his messenger. And Ibn Tamiya
also wrote “and to testify that Mohamed is the messenger of Allah implies 1)
believing in him and all about him, and 2) obeying him and all that he
ordered”.
18:10
So this testimony of faith is today the only way to
paradise, the paradise which Allah has described in his book saying “The
parable of the garden which the righteous are promised, beneath it flow rivers,
its fruits and shade are perpetual, such is the end of the righteous. And the end of the unbelievers is the
fire.” This testimony is the only way to
paradise, the only way to save oneself from eternal punishment in
hellfire. It is agreed upon by all
Muslims. But empty recitation of it
without action is not enough. One does
not become a Muslim simply by virtue of his name, or the clothes he wears or
his parentage or his birth certificate.
Nor does one become a Muslim simply by acknowledging the Prophet, peace
be upon him, as a Prophet. Or by claiming,
honestly or otherwise, to respect Islam as is the custom of many of the
unbelievers. Ibn Al Qayyim, another well
known scholar, said in his moyad, whoever reflects on what is in the prophetic
biography and confirmed reports about the testifying of many of the people of
the book and polytheists to his message and to his truthfulness and how this
testimony of theirs didn’t enter them into Islam will understand that Islam is
something beyond that.
19”40
And it is not only in knowing, or in knowing and
acknowledging, but rather is in knowing, acknowledging, and complying and obeying
him and abiding by his religion openly and secretly. After knowing this, we are able to appreciate
the true extent of the deadly error which has become widespread in this day and
age, mainly the belief held by some, that Jews, Christians, and even followers
of some blatantly polytheistic religions are true believers whose faith is
acceptable to God and who will be counted among the saved on the Day of
Judgement.
20:19
These misled and misleading people base their mistaken
belief on several verses of the Qu’ran which they have misunderstood, either
due to their unfamiliarity with the definitions of some Islamic terminology, or
due to their taking the verses out of context and/or interpreting them without
refernece to other qualifying verses like those who look for the 62nd
verse of Al Bakharra, and forget about, just as example, verses 150-152 of An
Nissa. The danger here is apparent and multifaceted. First and foremost, those who are guilty of
this misinterpretation are guilty of one of the negators and nullifiers of Islam,
namely denying or doubting the unbelief of the unbelievers.
21:10
Secondly by their
preaching this misconception, they are not only leading ignorant Muslims astray
but also giving false comfort or reassurance to the unbelievers of the
righteousness of their ways and of the ultimate salvation in the next life
whatever they believe or however they behave.
21:28
Third, this belief has paved the way for moden day
deceptions, like the concept of interfaith dialog, sometimes called dialog of
the Abrahamic faiths in which the Muslim participants do not invite to Islam
but merely talk about the points on which the three religions agree and avoid
discussion of their differences, since, or so they claim, the three religions
all came from Abraham, peace be upon him.
We answer them with the reply God gave the Jews and Christians when they
both claimed Abraham for themselves.
“Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian; but was a Muslim
haneeth, He was not a polytheist. Verily those among men, mankind who have the
best claim to Abraham are those who followed him, and this Prophet, and those
who believe in Allah as the guardian of the believers.
22;40
According to Al Kuttabi’s commentary on the Qu’ran, the
haneeth is the one who believes in, attests to, and worships the one God, makes
the sacrificial slaughter, practices circumcision, and faces in his prayers the
Qubla, which is the house of God, the Ka’aba, in Mekka. The way to paradise is not a multiline
highway, it is like a narrow steep mountain path full of obstacles and
surrounded by pitfalls and drops. The
way to paradise is to believe in God, his books, his Messengers, his angels,
the resurrection after death, and the last day, and God’s decree and
predestination, and to believe these things as described by God and his
prophets without addition or subtraction, to know that God is one, the creator
of the heavens and the earth, without partners, without sons or daughters, and
without mother or father. He begets none
nor was he begotten. And there was none
coequal or comparable to him. To know
that he is the only one worthy of worship.
And to act upon that knowledge.
So to him and him alone we pray.
And him we ask for aid, we ask for guidance. [quoting from Qu’ran again here]. Guide us to
the straight way. You alone we worship, and you alone we ask for help. Guide us to the straight way.
24:10
Upon him alone, we rely and depend and direct our worship
and adoration, not to men, nor rocks, nor trees, nor spirits, nor stars, nor graves,
nor the sun, nor the moon, nor the earth.
He is the provider and sustainer;
he is the generous and merciful;
he is the one who forgives and accepts repentance. And he is severe in punishment and swift in
retribution. He is the only legislator
and ruler, and he sent his final prophet and messenger, with the book and
guidance, and to guide us in all things
and to show us how to obey him as our creator and sustainer, who created us
only to worship him. God only accepts
from his servants the acts of worship which he legislated. So as Muslims we worship God according to the
way shown to us by the Prophet, peace be upon him, and not according to our
whims and desires or traditions, or church leaders.
25;00
God recognizes no separation between religion and state. And the concept of rendering unto Caesar that
which be Caesars and unto God that be God’s as understood and interpreted by
the proponents of secularism is an atheistic concept of which God and his
Prophets are innocent. And since the believer
in God and his Prophets believes and lives his life according to the book and
prophetic practice, he has no need for
the legislatures and parliaments which you in the west have, to put it mildly,
used to legislate yourselves into a prison of your own making.
25:36
Even if we are to assume that Allah hasn’t reserved for
himself the right of legislation in the affairs of men, who in his right mind
would want to legislate himself to death as you have done to yourselves. Those who think democracy is synonymous with
freedom are either people who haven't experienced life in America or
Americans who haven't lived abroad. To America and the rest of
Christiandom we say either repent of your misguided ways and enter into the
light of truth or keep your poison to yourself and suffer the consequences in
this world and the next.
26:11
But whatever you do don't attempt to spread your misery and
misguidance to our lands. Muslims don't
need democracy to rid themselves of their home grown despots and tyrants. What
they do need is their Islamic faith, the sprit of jihad and the lifting of
foreign troops and interference from their necks. And if Muslims don’t need democracy, then
they certainly have no need for what is known as Christianity, hollow shell of
a religion, whose followers cling to an empty faith and a false conviction of
their inevitable salvation, regardless of what they do or believe, as long as
they accept the core tenets and doctrine of Christianity, which also happen to
be its most unbelievable, untenable, and illogical like the belief that the
Bible that we have today with all its contradictions, errors, deletions, and
outright fabrications is the infallible revealed word of God like the doctrine
of the original sin which states that man is born in sin because of the lapse
and subsequent fall of his parents, even though we know from the Qu’ran that
God forgave our father Adam and mother Eve when they repented.
27:21
Like the incomprehensible, illogical non-Biblical doctrine
of trinity, like the belief that God sent his only begotten son who was also
God in human form to die on the cross for the sins of mankind which it is
implied he could otherwise not have forgiven. [Quran quote] Glory to him, He is high above all they say,
he is greatly exalted.
27:49
Isn’t it time for the unbelievers to discard these
incoherent, illogical beliefs, theories, and conjecture? Isn’t it time for every Christian, Jew, pagan
and atheist to cast off the cloak of the spiritual darkness which enshrouds
them and emerge into the light of Islam?
To live a life illuminated by faith, and die the death of a
believer? To return to his lord pleased
and pleasing to him, God willing, rather than living out his days in blindness
and die as an unbeliever and be resurrected as an unbeliever whose eternal
abode is the fire from which the fire of this world screams in fright.
28:27
Today, the televangelists, false prophets, and charlatans
who prey on the gullible and illiterate are glorying in Israel’s bloodlust and excessive appetite for destruction
in Lebanon and Palestine and harvesting
thousands of souls and millions of dollars with claims that the end times are
here and this world will soon come to a close.
But it’s appropriate for me to tell you that the time of the end of the
world is not something that is knowable to man and is about as predictable as
the time of one’s death. God says
“Verily the knowledge of the hour is with Allah alone, it is he who sends down
the rain, and it is he who knows what is in the wombs, nor does anyone know
what it is he will earn tomorrow nor does anyone know in what land she is to
die. Verily, it is Allah’s
foreknowledge, and he is acquainted with all things.
29:34
The fact is, the end of the world should be a secondary
issue for you and me. What we should
really be concerned about is our inevitable death and whether we meet God as a
believer in him alone, or as one who worshipped others in addition to him or
instead of him. Because while we may or
may not be around when the end of the world eventually comes, death is
something every soul must taste and it may be closer than you or I think. Maybe no more than a few heartbeats
away. And when it comes, regret or
repentance will be of no benefit. Now is the time for reflection and decision.
30;09
Now is the time to
decide where you want to spend eternity in gardens of paradise, or in the pits
of hell. So decide today because today
could be your last day, God says “Every
soul shall taste death and only on the day of resurrection shall you be paid
your full rate of recompense. And he who
is distanced from the fire and admitted to the garden will have won, and the
life of this world is but deceptive goods.
And God said “not equal are the companions of the fire and the
companions of the garden. It is the
companions of the garden who are the winners.
31;08
Islam, the religion of justice and charity, is for everyone,
regardless of race, gender, or nationality.
Islam rejects the Judeo-Christian doctrines concerning Eve and Ham,
which the West has used to justify all manner of abuse and ill treatment of
women, and blacks. Islam is for
everyone. And God accepts the repentance
of anyone, regardless of his past sins or historical antagonism to Islam. Anyone who has read anything of the history
of Islam is familiar with the story of Omar Ibn al Khattab with whom God was
pleased, the second successor to the Prophet, peace be upon him, and someone
who was so fierce in his animosity to the message of Islam that when he came to
declare his Islam the Muslims were beset by fear, assuming that he had come to
attack them or do them harm.
31:59
But in fact God in answer to the Prophet’s prayer had chosen
Islam for him and chosen him for Islam.
And he was to become one of Islam’s greatest champions, whose name and
life story continue to command the respect and honor of the world to this very
day. And similar stories abound in the
history of Islam, including that of Wahshi, the killer of Hamza, beloved uncle
of the Prophet and Champion of Islam. Of
Wahshi it is said that 12 verses of the Qu’ran emphasizing God’s mercy and
forgiveness were revealed to convince him that his repentance and entrance into
Islam and performance of good deeds would be sufficient to atone for his past
sins and hostility to Islam and killing of its hero Hamza.
32;41
And as we know, it was Wahshi who was later personally
called to slay the enemy and false prophet of God Wasadena. It has come to us, in an authenticated saying
of the Prophet, peace be upon him, that God laughs with pleasure at two men.
One of them kills the other but both of them enter the garden. One of them fights in the path of God and is
martyred. Then God pardons the killer
and he embraces Islam, fights in the path of God, and he is himself
martyred. In other words, if the Zionist
Crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes,
Robert Spencer, Michael Schuur, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the
Crusader-in-Chief, George W. Bush, were to abandon their unbelief, and repent,
and enter into the light of Islam, and turn their swords against the enemies of
God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam.
33;41
For them, what is for us, and upon them, what is upon
us. And even repentance of high ranking
enemies of Islam is acceptable, so it needn’t be said that the same goes for
the foot soldiers of the Crusade and those who have no active part to play in
the war against Islam other than paying the taxes that fund the Crusader war
machine, and like preprogrammed machines or laboratory animals, living the
lifestyle laid out for them and believing the myths imparted to them by the
schoolteachers, pastors, and politicians.
They are the real victims, the tranquilized inhabitants of the human
farms these con men and women control.
As our brother Matthew Stewart, may God protect him, aptly described
them.
34:26
It’s no surprise then that over the past few years we have
seen some high ranking Crusaders among them the FBI chief, Mueller, expressing
their anxiety at the tsunami of conversions to the truth of Islam that is
sweeping across America which constitutes a fearsome challenge to the identity,
security, and survival of the Crusader state and to the authority of these con
men and women.
34:55
I believe that it is this phenomenon, more than anyone or
anything else, which poses the real secret threat that prevents the Crusaders
from sleeping at night and I don’t think a freedom struggle could wish for a
better endorsement to have its cause taken up by a courageous group from within
the oppressor nation itself. We
shouldn’t be surprised because after
all, it is the duty of every Muslim to fight evil and oppression wherever he
finds it and no matter who the evildoers might be.
35:26
And to those among the non-Muslims whose hearts are calling
them to join our battle against tyranny and oppression, and our struggle for
the liberty of one and one half billion Muslims, and the right to a better
future, I ask you to listen to that story of that unbeliever who came to the Prophet,
peace be upon him, during a battle and asked “Should I fight first or become
Muslim?” To which the Prophet replied
“Become Muslim, then fight”.
35:56
And after embracing Islam by saying “Ashadu en lah illaha
ilallah wa ana mohamedan rasoul allah” I testify that there is no God other
than Allah and that Mohamed is the messenger of Allah the new Muslim entered
the fray and was then martyred without having prayed so much as one prescribed
prayer. Upon which the Prophet, peace be
upon him, commented “he did a little but was rewarded a lot”.
36:25
The good deeds of the unbeliever will be of no benefit
whatsoever to him in the next life even if they be equal to the number of stars
in the sky. While God has promised in
his mercy that the believer of the oneness of God and the Prophethood of
Mohamed will eventually enter paradise even if he is punished first for his
sins and he has promised the martyr in his path the reward over and above the
reward of the believer. He has promised
them honors and delights too numerous to go into here.
36:56
So if you want to be
on the winning side in this life and the next, and if you want your resistance
to Crusader tyranny to truly count, then take the simple step I have just
outlined. For your own sake, we invite
all Americans and other unbelievers to Islam, wherever they are, and whatever
their role and status in Bush and Blair’s world order. And we send a special invitation to all of you fighting Bush's crusader
pipedream in Afghanistan, Iraq and
wherever else 'W' has sent you to die. You know the war can't be won and that
the condition of America’s
war machine is going from bad to worse.
You know you're considered by Bush and his bunch of warmongers as
nothing more than expendible cannon fodder – a means to an end as evidenced by
their mass mailing of rubber stamped form letters of condolence after your
buddies died for them, and by their callous recall of the meager compensation
they paid those of you crippled in the wars.
37:55
You know they couldn’t care less about your safety and well
being and that the only thing that upsets your leaders when American forces
suffer casualties is the damage these casualties do to their popularity and the
popularity of the wars they started which is why they cover up these casualties
as much as they can. And here we challenge investigative journalists like
Seymour Hearst to reveal the extent of this coverup and let Americans and the
rest of the world see for themselves the extent of the cowardice of the current
regime.
38:25
And see what you American soldiers already know too
well. And you also know that brave Mr.
Bush safely esconsed in the comfort of his
air conditioned oval office will happily keep you in the trenches for
the rest of his term and that he doesn’t care one bit about what the military
thinks as evidence by his rejection of recent and retired serving officers
demands for Rumsfeld to go and his blithe dismissal of concerns about the way
America’s Crusade is going.
38:54
And you know that whoever takes over for Bush probably won’t have the guts
to bring the troops home for several years at least. You know you’ve already killed enough
innocents to make Ghengis Khan recoil in horror and revulsion and that the
atrocities you committed at Haditha and Mahmoudia and your brutal suppression
of the demonstrations in Kabul, and mass casualty carpet bombing of Nowzad,
Panjwai, and other towns in southern Afghanistan, represent only a small part
of the larger bloodier picture. You know that if you die as an unbeliever in
battle against the Muslims you're going straight to Hell without passing 'Go’
and you know that your military and religious leaders will be of no use to you
and will disown and abandon you on the day when you meet your Creator.
39;39
So instead of killing yourself for Bush, or killing yourself out of despair and
depression or guilt or remorse, why not surrender to the truth? Escape from the unbelieving army. And join the winning side. Time is running out so make the right choice,
before its too late and you meet the dismal fate of thousands before you.
40:02
And in this regard, I can’t tell you how delighted I was to receive good
news of the embracing of Islam by a number of US soldiers at the hands of the
Muslim mujahideen in prison in some of the American concentration camps which
blacken the globe. And I ask God to
benefit Islam and Muslims with them and that he make them role models for their
comrades. And I advise them to take
every precaution and practicing their faith and making good their escape from
the oppressor army, lest they suffer the persecution meted out to those
soldiers who openly proclaim the rejection of American terrorism and Crusader
values while still within the reaches of military authorities. May Allah free them.
40:45
As for those who have expressed their respect and admiration for Islam, and
acknowledged that it is the truth, and demonstrated their support and sympathy
for the Muslims and their causes, like George Galloway, Robert Fisk, and
countless others, I say to them “Isn’t it time you stopped sitting on the fence
and came over to the side of truth?”
Don’t take as your role model Abu Taleb, the uncle of the Prophet who
stood by his nephew and the Muslims in thick and thin, and protected and aided
them and testified to the truthfulness of Mohamed, peace be upon him, and to
the truth of his message, yet died an unbeliever, and entered the hellfire,
because he didn’t want it to be said that Abu Taleb abandoned the religion of
his forefathers.
41:31
God tells us in his book “Oh mankind, hear your Lord, and fear the coming of
the day when no father can take the place of his son, nor can a son take the
place of his father. Verily the promise
of Allah is true; let not then this
present life deceive you nor let the
deceiver deceive you about Allah. In
this verse, Allah warns the parents, siblings, offspring, and relatives of the
Muslim that their relation to him will be of no use to them on the day of
judgement, if they have not themselves died as true believers.
42:28
So don’t be complacent or let the devil deceive you into thinking that your
connections will intercede for you on that terrible day. Because to believe and do good deeds is the
only way to salvation.
42:42
Finally some will ask how we expect to attract converts to Islam after
having spilt so much non-Muslim blood, albeit in defense of our religion,
liberty, and lives. We might ask the
same questions of those who kill Muslims by the millions, for the crime of
being Muslim, and then foolishly hope to win their hearts and minds. But we will suffice by pointing to the sharp
spike in conversions to Islam after September 11 which is as we mentioned is giving
the enemy many a sleepless night.
43:
Meanwhile, there will alleged by others that this message represents an
unusual and suspect change in tone. It
will be said they used to say they want to slit the throats of the infidels,
now they say they want to invite them to Islam.
Our reply is that our message has not changed and that the mujahideen
have always been the first to call to Islam and that even though the defense of
Islam and Muslims from the merciless relentless Crusader onslaught is our first
priority, anyone who pays any attention to the messages of the leaders of the
jihad, like sheikh Osama bin Laden, and Sheikh Ayman al Zawahiri, may God
protect them, will know that they have
been consistent in inviting the Americans and other unbelievers to Islam, and
in pressing upon them that they want the best for them. And making it clear to all that we have no
choice but to fight those who fight us and that were the matters in hour hands
we would prefer that all Americans and other unbelievers end their aggression,
abandon their unbelief, and accept the truth, and Islam encourages us to invite
even the most obstinate enemies, and give them a chance to repent and save
themselves from humiliation in this life, and painful punishment in the next.
44:29
But what really is surprising is that some among us want to suffice with
invitation alone without resorting to self-defense, where the enemy insists
upon aggression and destruction. I have
tasted both the darkness and ignorance of unbelief and disobedience to my
Creator as well as the light and perception afforded by true faith in God and
obedience to him, and I assure you that there is no comparison. And that despite, or rather because of, the
atmosphere of battle in which we live, and the continuing conflict with the
forces of the Crusaders and their hired hands, I thank God every day for
guiding me to Islam, and guiding me to join its victorious army, inshallah, for
were it not for his grace, I could very easily have been one of those
unfortunate souls fighting the losing battle for the other side. Or blindly leading the life of debt,
debauchery, and doubt they call the American Dream.
45:34
All praise is due to God, who guided us to this, and were it not for God we
would not have been guided. I have
discovered that true happiness is to be found in obedience to God’s orders and
prohibitions, and in the following of his prophet,may peace be upon him, and not in western style hedonism,
immorality, or amorality, in eastern style monasticism, or cultist style
withdrawal from the world. And I can
state with a confidence born out of experience and observation that as long as
a person persists in unbelief and atheism his or her pursuit of happiness will
be exactly that – a pursuit. A never
ending search which is guaranteed to bring heavy misery if not in this life,
then in the next.
46:28
By that I need to say that even if he does happen upon some degree of
happiness today, it is guaranteed to be
short-lived and ending at his death. And
you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that eternal happiness is
better than the fleeting delights of this world. To conclude, I ask you ro remember this. God doesn’t need you or me but rather it is
we who are in need of him. God says Oh
mankind, it is you who need Allah, and Allah is the one free of our lives,,
worthy of our praise, and if God is with us we shall be victorious God
willing,whether Bush likes it or not.
47:25
He is the one who sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it
victorious over all religions even though the polytheists hate it. And Allah
has full power and control over his affairs but most among mankind do not know
that.
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