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Assalamu alaykum dear brothers and sisters,
Please accept my apologies for being absent for a while. I will be away for some time but will be receiving your emails. However, I would not be able to respond back to them for the time being.
I pray the best for all of you.
Anwar Awlaki
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The Somali parliament has voted unanimously for the implementation of Sharia which is seen as good news by many in the Muslim world - and it is - as it reflects the desire of the Somali people to live by the laws of Allah.
However there are some issues that need to be highlighted. First, there is a fundamental problem with the procedure in which the decision was made. The law of Allah should not be voted over. To give the people the choice whether to apply Sharia or not reflects a fundamental problem in the understanding of Tawhid.
Allah says: But no, by your Lord, they will not believe until they make you, [O Muhammad] judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full] submission. [al Nisa 65]
So people cannot be believers until they submit to the law of Allah and accept it without any reservations. The Islamic government exists to impose Sharia rather than submit it to a vote. Therefore a government that declares that it will accept the results of a vote for Sharia, even if the results are not to implement it, is by necessity a non-Islamic government.
Second, the Sharif government is using its application of Sharia to convince the other resistance groups to lay down their arms and join the government. But from a Sharia point of view the objectives of the Jihad in Somalia have not been achieved yet and therefore the Jihad of these groups needs to carry on. Yes, the implementation of Sharia is the most important of these objectives, however, the Sharif government cannot be seen as a valid government for three main reasons. The first: Just as it applied Sharia by a vote it could dismantle Sharia by a vote. They have not implemented Sharia as a matter of principle but because it is the will of the people and therefore the Sharif government is closer to being a democratic government than it being an Islamic one. Second: The Sharif government is still allowing the existence of a foreign invading force represented in the forces of the African Union. The Jihad in Somalia should carry on until the last AU soldier leaves the country and any forces that side with the AU -including the Sharif government- become legitimate targets. And third: The Sharif government is basing its foreign relations with the outside world on a nationalistic basis rather that an Islamic one. The support it receives from the US, the EU and the UN is a reflection of it being a tool to advance the imperialistic interests of the West and to eradicate the strong Jihad movement in the country.
Therefore, even though it is good news for the ummah that Sharia will be implemented again in Somalia but we should not see this as an end to the struggle to establish an Islamic state and community and to free the country from foreign intervention and corruption.
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Asalama alaikoum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu
Jazakum Allah khairan for your comments, advice and support of this website.
All praise be to Allah. May he render your knowledge and associated actions
a barrier from the fire and admit you all to dwell in the gardens of Eden,
beneath which rivers flow.
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When the Sahaba under the leadership of Rasulullah started their journey of sacrifice and struggle in the path of Allah they would make mistakes but would be corrected, they would fall down only to stand up again and they were on a continues path of improvement by learning from their past experiences. The mistakes that were committed during the battle of Uhud and then Hunain were valuable lessons that carried the Sahaba up to new levels. Thus, Ibn al Qayyim considers Uhud to be a victory, not a defeat, because of the tremendous amount of lessons we learned from this defeat in the verses that were revealed in sura aal Imran.
Allah says: And those who strive for Us - We will surely guide them to Our ways. And indeed Allah is with the doers of good. [al Ankaboot 69]
This ayah is telling us that those who are struggling in the path of Allah will be guided.
Ibn Taymiyyah says that both al Imam Ahmad and Ibn al Mubarak used to say if you differ on an issue seek the answer from the mujahideen in the front lines.
Bellow is an interview with one of the leaders of the mujahideen in the Caucasus. Even though he is speaking in the context of events in the Caucasus he touches upon important concepts that are relevant to all of us. His words are full of wisdom, and are an example of the guidance Allah is granting to the people of struggle. Mistakes are made, battles are lost, lessons are learned, and our experience, patience and resolove develop as an ummah until Allah bestows His victory on us.
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“And what is the matter with you, that you fight not in the cause of Allaah…” In the lecture Anwar Al-Awlaki gives the audience a much needed reminder, using the Qur’aan and Hadeeth, to give a solution to the humiliated Ummah. Reminding us that “our honour is in our religion” and so we should return to it, if we wish to see the return of al Islaam. Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki delivered this lecture entitled “State of the Ummah” on 1st March 2009 via Teleconference to our brothers and sisters in Pakistan.
“State of the Ummah” - Lecture Download
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This is a comment posted on my blog from a reader in India. He uses the words abbu, ammi, and aapa which mean father, mother and sister respectively. I leave his comment without comment and leave it to you, the reader, to draw from it what you may:
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As of yet I haven’t received any response that could be classified as scholarly that refutes what I said or that presents sharia proof for the article of Sh Tawfique. All what I am getting is some people complaining that I should have brought the matter with him first and that publically refuting his article is not the way of shuyukh and lacks adab. Do these people have any idea that the scholars of ahl As-Sunnah have a 1400 year history of refuting bida and heresy in public? Do they know that there are volumes and volumes of books written in this category?
Sh Tawfique has told the Western terrorists he met with that he is proposing a natural alliance with them to fight against terrorism. But now he is telling us, the Muslims, that he didn’t mean that. He is clarifying and re-clarifying again and again a flimsy article that just cannot hold water. Why not just retract this whole statement and bring an end to this confusion?
I did not write this specifically for Tawfique. I was responding to a trend. This lecture just happened to be a classical example of this trend and that is why I picked on it. However if Sh Tawfique does publically retract his statement once and for all, and does clarify to the people the true meaning of walaa’ and baraa’, I would be happy to apologize to him publically for what I have written. I am not seeking disunity among Muslims but rather seeking unity and therefore any attempt to side with the enemy is an act of disunity among the Muslims. We should be offering an alliance with Muslims not the other way around. Lets work towards that goal and unite as an ummah.
I extend my hand to Sh Tawfique and say: Let us all unite, the shuyukh and the masses, and form a natural alliance against the scourge of the greatest terrorists of all, the West.
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A few months ago I was approached by students of Shaykh Tawfique Chowdhury to teach some courses at al Kauthar institute. Since this was the first time I have heard of the institute or Shaykh Chowdhury I did some research on both. Yesterday someone posted on my blog an accusation that Shaykh Tawfique was a hypocrite which I promptly deleted. I then read the article that was linked to the post and was amazed by what I have read. Not knowing Shaykh Chowdhury personally, I find it shocking to hear such a statement coming from a person who is considered to be a man of knowledge. Because Shaykh Chowdhury is considered as such and is running an institute that is imparting knowledge to hundreds of students I deem it necessary to respond to his article as an advise to him and a warning to all those who consider themselves to be his students. There is also another reason. Since 9-11 and the active involvement of the US in defining what Islam means today there has been a gradual decline in the standard of walaa’ and baraa’, with many scholars and daees in the West lowering the bar further and further. But this letter represents one of the most blatant manifestations of this phenomenon. I will comment on parts of the article but you can read it in its entirety here:
Muslim Scholars-West’s Natural Allies in Fighting Scourge of Terrorism
This is a preview of Tawfique Chowdhury’s Alliance with the West . Read the full post (3272 words, estimated 13:05 mins reading time)
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Asalamu alaikum, insh’Allah our aim is to provide a comprehensive list of Sh Anwar’s lectures for our brothers and sister in Islam to download.
2008 Lectures
Allah is Preparing us for Vicory
Popular Lectures
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The Washington Post reports that the CIA’s top official in Algeria has been recalled to Washington for an investigation that he has raped two Algerian women by drugging them at his residence in Algiers.
The article goes on to say:
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