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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."
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