Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

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Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism,

and says in His Book: “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay

the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for

them in every stratagem (of war)”; and peace be upon our Prophet, Muhammad Bin-

‘Abdallah, who said: I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that

no one but Allah is worshipped, Allah who put my livelihood under the shadow of my

spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders.

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.”