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In The Name Of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu
Martyrs: The Building Blocks of
Nations
Sent By Hashir
Tasleem Rehmani
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Universe and Peace and Blessings be upon the Leader of the
Prophets and the Commander of the Mujahideen: Muhammad (SAWS) and upon His Family, His
Companions and whoever pursues their method, follows their way and wages Jihad until the Day
of Judgement.
Indeed nations are only brought to life by their beliefs and their concepts and they die
only with their desires and their lusts. The extent to which righteous convictions and
correct beliefs spread within a nation, is the extent to which it plants its roots in the
depths of the Earth and sends forth orchards of trunks with their flourishing leaves so that
Man can take shade by it from the troubles of life, its financial fever and from the flame
of hatred, envy and competition for cheap thrills and temporary enjoyment. As for the Muslim
Ummah, it does continue to exist in the course of history of humankind, except by a divine
idology and the blood which flows as a result of spreading this divine ideology and
implanting it into the real World.
The life of the Muslim Ummah is solely dependent on the ink of its scholars and the blood of
its martyrs. What is more beautiful than the writing of the Ummah's history with both the
ink of a scholar and his blood, such that the map of Islamic history becomes coloured with
two lines: one of them black, and that is what the scholar wrote with the ink of his pen;
and the other one red, and that is what the martyr wrote with his blood. And something more
beautiful than this is when the blood is one and the pen is one, so that the hand of the
scholar which expends the ink and moves the pen, is the same as the hand which expends its
blood and moves the Ummah. The extent to which the number of martyred scholars increases is
the extent to which nations are delivered from their slumber, rescued from their decline and
awoken from their sleep.
History
does not write its lines except with blood. Glory does not build its loft edifice except
with skulls, Honour and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and
corpses. Empires, distinguished peoples, states and societies cannot be established except
with examples. Indeed those who think that they can change reality, or change societies,
without blood, sacrifices and invalids, without pure, innocent souls, then they do not
understand the essence of this Deen2 and they do not know the method of the best of the
Messengers (may Allah bless him and grant him peace).
As for those who build nations, they are few in number. Sometimes the Ummah can be built by
a single individual who makes a stand by means of which Allah rescues this Deen, just like
Abu Bakr (RA) made a stand of the Day of Apostasy3; and the day when Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal4
made a stand when the entire World was speechless at the innovation that the Quran had been
created, so Allah saved the Ummah with him.
A small group: they are the ones who carry convictions and ambitions. And an even smaller
group from this small group, are the ones who flee from the worldly life in order to spread
and act upon these ambitions. And an even smaller group from this elite group, are the ones
who sacrifice their souls and their blood in order to bring victory to these ambitions and
principles. So, they are the cream of the cream of the cream. It is not possible to reach
glory except by traversing this Path. It is not possible for the structures of this Deen to
be established, nor for its banner to be raised, nor for its vessel to be launched, except
by traversing this Path. This Path is one. In fact, there is no Paradise without this Path:
"Do you really think that you will enter Paradise, before Allah has decided from amongst
you, those who fight in His Way and those who are patient?" [Quran 3:142]
Thus the founders of nations and the
architects of glories are few. As for the one who wants to architecture glory, then he must
be prepared to ascend to the price of glory upon seas of his blood and his sweat, and the
blood of those around him and upon the disabilities of those under his authority, until he
reaches the price of glory. And glory cannot be architectured except by traversing this
Path: the Path of the Blessed Jihad.
The Jihad on the land of Afghanistan set its foundations with a small group: 14 youths from
the youths of the Taqwa Islamic Movement inside Kabul5 University. The decisive, conclusive,
solidification of its foundations was the necessity of using Jihad to combat the leader of
the tyrants, Daud6, who had resolved to wipe out the sons of the Islamic Movement. Until
finally, they arrived in Peshawar7, about 30 youths, who decided to enter Afghanistan and
start the Jihad there.
The Jihad initially began as a few drops, until Allah decided to ignite the sparks within
this blessed people and explode the Jihad, blessing with it the land of Afghanistan and the
rest of the Muslims until its good encompassed the whole World. Some thought that the Earth
had become devastated and that this Ummah had been drained of the thirst for martyrdom.
Therefore, Allah exploded the Jihad on the land of Afghanistan and groups of youths from the
Islamic World marched forth to Afghanistan in search of Jihad and martyrdom.
Indeed this small band of Arabs, whose number did not exceed a few hundred individuals,
changed the tide of the battle, from an Islamic battle of one country, to an Islamic World
Jihad movement, in which all races participated and all colours, languages and cultures met;
yet they were one, their direction was one, their ranks were one and the goal was one: that
the Word of Allah is raised the highest and that this Deen is made victorious on the Earth.
Indeed the involvement of the
Muslims in the battle, from a variety of races, woke up those that were asleep and
enlightened those who were absent-minded. Furthermore, it shook the oppressors, for indeed
the enemies of Islam were watching the arena and counting the lives. The involvement of
non-Afghans in the battle was a great source of alarm and dismay to them, because this
stimulation of numerous nations and the revival of the people had reached the brink of
desperation, until these desperations set root in the depths of their souls, such that they
realised that they themselves were on the verge of their own destruction.
Furthermore, the enemies were also aware of the volatile risks associated with the burial of
a foreign volunteer fighter in the soils of Afghanistan, as if to announce to the World:
that this Deen requires millions of such sacrifices in order to change its situation, and
that these sacrifices must meet with this fighter, here in his resting place, so that the
bullet alone is considered to be the honour of this Deen, the resistance of the Muslims and
the pride of the believers. And
some deceived modernist intellectuals thought that these sacrifices which had fallen on this
Path had gone to waste and been rendered futile. However, it should be known that the blood
of gutless martyrs is weighty in the Scale of the Most Gracious. It is sufficient for us to
remember one hadith (and the ahadith are many), narrated by Imam Ahmad and Tirmidhi with an
authentic chain of narration that the Messenger of Allah (SAWS) said:
"Indeed the martyr has seven special favours from Allah: all his sins are forgiven at the
first spurt of his blood, he sees his place in Paradise as his blood is shed (before his
soul leaves the body), he tastes the sweetness of Iman, he is married to 72 of the Beautiful
Maidens of Paradise, he is protected from the Punishment of the Grave, he is saved from the
Great Terror (on The Day of Judgement), there is placed upon his head a crown of honour a
jewel of which is better than the whole world and everything in it and he is granted
permission to intercede for 70 members of his household (to bring them into Paradise and
save them from the Hell Fire)."
Indeed, the manuscripts of history are not scribed except with the blood of these martyrs,
except with the stories of these martyrs, except with the examples of these martyrs. By the
likes of these martyrs, nations are established, convictions are brought to life and
ideologies are made victorious. For this reason, we have compiled a section about the lives
of martyrs: Arab martyrs who fell on the land of Afghanistan, and present this very
collection which is infront of you.
And it might seem to the short-sighted eye and narrow mind,
and to the individual besieged within the bounds of era and location, that it is a story
that happened and finished. The mouth of death opened its mouth, swallowed these martyrs and
passed them with its wheel that saves neither old nor young.
However, the clear-sighted eye and the enlightened heart knows that these sacrifices are the
provisions of future generations for distant civilizations to come. These stories, these
sacrifices and these examples will remain as supercilious signposts upon the entire journey
of this Deen, for he who wishes to make this journey from those wayfarers, or follow in the
footsteps of this righteous elite.
"All these are the ones whom Allah has guided, so follow their guidance" [Quran 6:90]
Indeed these exemplary individuals from the martyrs broke free from the shackles and fetters
of this matter to reach opulence and bliss, and they came to the land of Afghanistan, living
in the mountains of Afghanistan, until Allah (SWT) honoured them with martyrdom.
We ask Allah (SWT) to join us with them in the Highest Part of Paradise, with the Prophets,
the Truthful, the Martyrs and the Righteous, and that he blesses us with martyrdom in His
Way, and that he seals us with the Seal of Happiness, O Noble One.
So, O' people of ambitions and O' carriers of dawah, do not be miserly with your blood as
regards this Deen. If you really are serious and sincere, then place your blood and souls
before the Lord of the Worlds who granted them to you in the first place and then purchased
them from you:
"Indeed Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their possessions in return
for Paradise. They fight in the Way of Allah, they kill and are killed" [Quran 9:111]
O' youths! O' sons of Islam! What will cleanse
our sins? What will purify our mistakes? And what will clean our dirt? It will not be washed
except with the blood of martyrdom, and know that there is no path except this Path. If not,
then the Accountability8 will be difficult, the Scale9 awaits, the Bridge10 is ready and
your time is running out, so consider it
And Peace and Blessings be upon our master, Muhammad, and upon his family and Companions
altogether.
Extracts from the lectures of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam titled: 'Will of the Shaheed' and 'A
Message from the Shaheed Sheikh to the Scholars'
Allah knows best
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