“Victory and Martyrdom”
By Khalid ba Tarfi
Abu al Miqdad al Kindi
May Allah protect him
“And how many a prophet has had to fight fi sabil Allah, followed by many men devoted to Allah. And they didn’t became light hearted because all they had to suffer fi sabil Allah, and they didn’t become weak, and they didn’t lower themselves before the enemy, since Allah loves those who are patient in adversity.” (al Imran 3: 146)
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the most noble of the prophets and messengers. Thereafter:
Allah azz wa jall says: “and how many a prophet has had to fight fi sabil Allah, followed by many men devoted to Allah. And they didn’t became light hearted because all they had to suffer fi sabil Allah, and they didn’t become weak, and they didn’t lower themselves before the enemy, since Allah loves those who are patient in adversity. And all they said was “Oh our Lord, forgive us our sins and lack of moderation in our matters, and make firm our steps and help us against the kuffar.” (al Imran 3: 146-147)
After a journey of jihad and struggle of more than two decades, we eulogize for the Muslim Ummah as a whole, and before the al Anisah tribe especially, the knowledgeable Mujahid Sheikh Abu Muhammad ibn Ali al Anisi, who was killed after an American strike which targeted him and his oldest son Muhammad and a number of his brothers. May al merciful Allah have mercy on all of them and accept them among the ranks of the shuhada.
Sheikh Nasr al Anisi moved on to his Rabb after a hard journey which lasted many long years, the knight has finally got off his horse. During this time, he moved between the different battlefields of jihad, from the East to the West, from the Philippines to Kashmir and from Afghanistan and Tajikistan to Yemen. He waged jihad with his sword and his tongue. He was intense in activity, devotion and sacrifice. He dedicated himself to the cause of Islam. You did not see him much, but he was involved in the work of moving between the battlefields of jihad and the circles of learning. He combined learning in deen, which he got from the best of ulama’, with the military learning, which he got from the most senior military trainers from the mujahidin.
Allah the Almighty blessed him and he was one of the elite imams of the time, like the father and revivalist sheikh Usama bin Ladin, may Allah have mercy on him. From him, al Anisi learned silence and wisdom, the fiqh of jihad, operations, and the call to Islam. He drank from the well of the senior leaders, like the father Sheikh Ayman az Zawahiri, may Allah protect him, and Sheikh Abu Hafs al Misri, may Allah have mercy on him, and Sheikh Mustafa ibn Yazid, may Allah have mercy on him, and Sheikh Sayf al Adil and Sheikh Abu Muhammad al Misri and Sheikh Abu Khair. The first generation, the old elite, and the founders of the modern jihad. Sheikh Nasr, may Allah have mercy on him, was a school with many doors, with many locations to drink, making good food and ripe fruits, educated by experience, refined by events, he grew strong and sturdy, his mind sharp and not dimmed. He dedicated all his efforts and thought about his Ummah. He devoted his entire life to Allah, that he might become an example to all the righteous men of learning. Their tears cry out to them today. Catch up to the caravan and join it! The Sheikh spent nearly a decade completely busy with religious studies and mastering Islamic fiqh. Despite this, he would gather military training meetings, write complete military manuals, and train the mujahidin. He would send them to Iraq and Afghanistan, and to other different fronts, to prove that religious studies and mastery of Islamic fiqh can’t act as an obstacle to waging jihad, and to make the point that they are in fact not able to be separated from each other. There is not jihad without knowledge and ulama’. It is not right for a man of learning, at a time when jihad is necessary and obligatory, to do anything other than fight jihad. This revealed in the biography of our righteous predecessors, may Allah have mercy on all of them, who joined learning and jihad. Men like them are truly a knight of two worlds, and the model for the educated mujahid.
Oh Muslim Ummah, this is one of your knights, one of your heroes, one of your pillars, marching toward Allah, tall in Iman and steadfast in his aqidah, his finger on the trigger, and refuses to be anywhere but in the field with his mujahidin brothers and sons, advising, directing, and training. He saved the path against deviation, protecting jihad against enemy hands who would change it. He and the martyred leaders who came before him, were eager never to leave a new arrival, and not to leave from the field, based on the increase of dangers and the lurking of the enemy. They were the best examples to their soldiers, the best teachers to their students, leading large groups of mujahidin with love, companionship, affection, mercy and patience. Their model for this was the messenger, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, his family and his companions. He would lead the sufuf from the front, leading soldiers in the field, until he was wounded. His tooth was broken and his head was struck, and his followers were expelled from him. He fought with the best of his companions, in the deadly combat of the battles of Uhud and Hunayn. On his path and his footsteps our mujahidin leaders also follow. So much they will not be killed until they cheated death many times. And so they take fighting lightly, knowing for sure that audacity will not bring the reward of martyrdom sooner, and putting it off will not delay it. At every point, he repeats the saying of the commander, the messenger of Allah, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him and his family. By the One whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, I wish I could fight fi sabil Allah and be killed, then fight and be killed (again), and then fight and be killed (again). Oh mujahidin, Allah chose for you and made you steadfast in a battle which was one of the fiercest and most violent battles in Islam. The most recent chapter which has lasted for about 15 years. You are fighting the Hubal of the current time, America, and the murtadin who help America. You have tired them with your jihad and tired them with your strikes. You were more patient than them in history and the hard sacrifices which were made. The banner didn’t fall even with the intensity of the disasters and the chains of the enemies. Today, after these sacrifices and this journey filled with thousands of prisoners and martys, and the thousands of widows and orphans, the hearts of the Muslims all over the world are open to you, their sufuf are closing around you and their ears are open to you. This is the best type of victory and conquest.
It is no wonder that Allah is taking martyrs from you as a tax for victory and conquest. Allah ta’ala says “when comes the help of Allah, and victory, and you don’t see the people enter Allah’s religion in crowds, celebrate the praises of your Lord, and pray for His forgiveness. He is the giver of mercy and grace (al Nasr 110: 1-3) During each phase of jihad and each chapter of the story, Allah takes martyrs from the mujahidin. After the Russians were kicked out of Afghanistan, the sheikh of the mujahidin Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to Allah, may Allah have mercy on his soul. After the start of the Muslim awakening during the blessed Arab Spring revolutions, Allah selected the imam who renewed the Iman, Sheikh Usama bin Ladin, may Allah have mercy on his soul. Today, after the mujahidin’s victories in multiple areas, Allah is taking a group of the leaders from all parts of the earth as martyrs. They filled the trust, they advised the Ummah and they waged a true jihad fi sabil Allah. We consider them as such, and Allah is their final judge. We don’t praise anyone’s qualities in light of Allah’s true knowledge. May Allah reward Islam and the Muslims for them. We ask Allah to protect them with His mercy and favor. We give the good news to the generous Ummah that the line of jihad and the mujahidin will not be cut off by the killing of a commander or the loss of a mujahid. This Ummah is like a lot of rain. We don’t know if the beginning is better or the end is better, as the messenger of Allah, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him and his family, reported. This jihad is as big as the spread of Islam. Islam will not be stopped by a strong power or a weak servant, but will stay and spread, even if the kuffar and murtadin hate it.
We are held together by our hopes, and our friendship is stronger
Our flags fly high, connecting the East with the West
As for you enemies, wa Allah we give you the news of what will come over you. Allah has saved for you a fertile Ummah. The children of the Ummah have promised to fight you and its men have moved toward war. When one man falls, his flag will be held up by another in a continuing series of giving, sacrifice and jihad. It will not end as long as there are Muslims on earth.
O crusaders, you fought against us for many centuries. Did you not see our determination to fight? Our steadfastness on our principles? Hardship and trials of war have hit us both. But which one of us will go away from the fight? Who withdraws from the battlefield? Who is being dragged to defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan and Somalia? You killed thousands of our martyrs, but have you been able to stop our expansion or change our path? You waged war against our deen, but the Muslims only grew more open to the call to jihad and battle. You have tried over the decades to isolate the jihadist from its Muslim Ummah, but you have not succeeded. See how today they all rally around its faithful mujahidin sons? Who between us has won this round? Who between us is winning? And our war with you remains. We are still lying in wait for you even more than you are waiting for us. We hope from Allah that which you can’t hope for, because we are an Ummah that will not allow injustice remain. It bows to no one but Allah and His sharia. We have made our path and strengthened our determination. Either Islam’s glory and grandor will be restored, and Allah’s law will rule, sharia will be established, and justice will preside, or we will taste with Hamza al Muttalib, may Allah be pleased with him, tasted.
We are an Ummah on this earth which can’t be stopped by a criminal. Verily, it is the humiliation of criminals. Don’t say it was stopped, who believes that a mouse stops a lion?
And the last of our du’a is praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds.
Oh Aqsa, we are coming
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“Al Qaeda: Nasser bin ali Ansi, another AQAP commander killed by US drone strike in Yemen”
Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad. She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.
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