Anwar Al Awlaki: A Danger to the Ummah

Q]: The praise is for Allaah, and may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon the Messenger of Allaah and upon his Family and his Companions and upon those who follow the guidance.  To proceed:

 

So these are some of the statements of one of the du’aat (callers), his name is Anwar al-Awlaki.  You will find these statements on his official website.  We present them to the noble Shaykh ‘Ubayd Ibn ‘Abdillaah al-Jaabiree – (may Allaah preserve him) – so that he may comment upon them so we can then spread the answers and the comments among the brothers here in America and in Britian and throughout the West in general.

 

The first statement: “The rulers in the Arabian Peninsula are playing a central role in the fight against Islam especially the al Saud family. The al Saud of today is the Abdullah bin Ubay of yesterday.”

 

And he says in the second statement: “May this be the beginning of the greatest Jihad, the Jihad of the Arabian Peninsula that would free the heart of the Islamic world from the tyrants who are deceiving the ummah and standing between us and victory.”  Should I – O Shaykh – mention the third statement as well or can I suffice with this?

 

 

[A]: Present the third statement.

 

[Q]: And the third is that this man says: “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 -and Sharif is the president who won the recent election – become legitimate targets.”

 

So what is your comment upon these statements, may Allaah bless you?

 

[A]: With the name of Allaah.  The praise is for Allaah and may peace and salutations be upon his servant and Messenger Muhammad and upon his Family and all of his Companions.

 

The summary of what has become apparent to me from these three statements that you have quoted from a specific forum or a specific website for Anwar al-Awlaki, and the name Awlaki (‘Awlaqee) proves that the origin of this man is Yemeni.  The essence of what is comprised within these statements – in that which is apparent to me – are two affairs:

 

The first affair: is his ignorance concerning the fiqh of Jihaad.  And that he does not know anything about the Jihaad, which is from the well-planned obligations that Allaah has established up until Allaah causes the earth and whosoever is upon it to perish.

 

And I suspect that this man has become polluted by the ideas of Sayyid Qutb al-Misree and similar to him are Aboo Qataad, Aboo Muhammad al-Maqdisee and many others besides them. All of these individuals and the same applies to this man have been influenced by the likes of Sayyid Qutb; and Sayyid Qutb, according to the people of research and experience with examining statements, is the flag bearer of takfeer in this time. His book, Ma’aalim fit-Tareeq (Milestones) proves this clearly as Sayyid erroneously and falsely declared the entire Ummah to be disbelievers, the rulers and their subjects.

 

And Jihaad according to Ahlis-Sunnah, who have inherited from Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) the correct understanding of the religion, the correct understanding of worship and the correct understanding of social dealings, this Jihaad is of two categories:

 

Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) and Jihaadud-Daf’ (the defensive Jihaad).  Jihaadut-Talab is to mobilize the troops and to dispatch the armies and to prepare sufficient equipment in order to fight whosoever is surrounding them from the disbelievers to make the word of Allaah uppermost.  And this is the responsibility and special role of the Muslim ruler.  He is the one who can call to such an act, he is the one who establishes this and he himself is the one who leads it or he appoints someone to lead a military detachment.

 

So whosoever calls to Jihaad in a general manner (without consideration of the legislated prerequisites or guidelines), then he is one of two men, either he is ignorant concerning the fiqh of Jihaad or he is a person of desires who is misguided and misguiding others, an innovator.  And regardless of whether he is the former or the latter, it is obligatory upon the Ummah to be cautious of him and to have hatred for him.  And it is obligatory upon the Scholars to refute him and to warn against him.

 

The second is Jihaadud-Daf’, and this is to defend against the assailant and the transgressor.  So when an assailant and a transgressor from the disbelievers attacks and transgresses against a Muslim country, then it is permissible for the people of that country to defend themselves and to resist the attack in order to stop its evil and to challenge its deception.  It is a required condition that they must have the ability and the strength to do this.  So if they have the ability and the strength, they can mobilize themselves to defend against the subjugation of the transgressing party and to defeat its endeavour and to reject its tyranny.

 

If they do not have the ability and the strength for that, then they have two choices: they can either flee with their Religion and their honour to wherever they will be safe, or they can seek a treaty of peace with this tyrannical enemy and they can make contracts and agreements with him to preserve and safeguard the territory of the people of al-Islaam.

 

Therefore, it can be concluded from this that the required condition for Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) is the ruler, since it is from his special functions.  And the required condition for Jihaadud-Daf’ (the defensive Jihaad) is the strength and ability to carry it out.  And strength and ability are necessary for both of these acts in order to defeat the endeavour of the enemies of Allaah.

 

The second matter that has become apparent from the first two statements is that this man harbours resentment against the Arabian Peninsula and he harbours resentment against the rulers from al-Saud.  And due to this, he has described them with kufr (disbelief) or nifaaq (hypocrisy) or both of them.  The crime of al-Saud according to him and his likes from the people of desires, splitting and the Khawaarij is that their nation is a nation of Tawheed and the Sunnah – every person of Sunnah testifies to this.  And their nation has been the flag bearer of Tawheed and the Sunnah since its inception at the hand of al-Imaam Muhammad Ibn Sa’ood – may Allaah have mercy upon him; and verily it gives victory to Tawheed and the Sunnah.

 

Shaykh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhaab called to Tawheed and the Sunnah and the Imaam, the Ameer Muhammad Ibn Sa’ood used to aid him and defend him and he used to defend his call.  And the fruit of that effort was that Allaah made this righteous Imaam, al-Mujaahid strong and influential due to his raising the flag of Tawheed and the Sunnah- I deem him as such and Allaah is his Reckoner.  From the fruits of this da’wah was the establishment of a mighty nation.  It has taken on the burden of establishing the Religion.  And there is no person of Sunnah, except that his heart is with this nation. Likewise, it has taken on the political and economic burden.  So these are all fruits of aiding Tawheed and the Sunnah.

The Khawaarij in every time and place have always had enmity towards Ahlus-Sunnah, the rulers and their subjects, because Ahlus-Sunnah are the farthest of the people from takfeer (wrongfully labelling a Muslim a disbeliever), let alone tabdee’ (declaring someone an innovator) and tafseeq (declaring someone a disobedient sinner), except with a proof that obligates takfeer, or tabdee’ or tafseeq of the individual.  And this is known to those who are familiar with the history of Ahlus-Sunnah and their written works.  However, the one who has been overwhelmed by malice and desire has become deep-rooted within him, then he opposes Ahlus-Sunnah and displays enmity towards them.

 

So it is not strange that Awlaki should take this path, since he has a predecessor and he himself is from the later followers. Consequently, I warn the Muslims firstly against this man and I call upon them to boycott him and to severe ties with him and to refute him with a knowledge based refutation that will expose his call and reveal his true condition and show that he is an enemy to the people of Islaam and the Sunnah.  This individual and his likes are from those who have disfigured the image of Islaam and the image of the people of al-Islaam to the extent that they have driven those who do not possess intellect from the Jews and the Christians to attack the personality of the Messenger of Allaah and to degrade the Mushaf. This is because due to their lack of intellect and due to their lack of knowledge about Islaam and its people they think that him, his predecessors and his contemporaries represent the people of Islaam; and that this path of theirs is the true path of the people of Islaam and that transgressing against the honour, wealth and the lives of others, and that the nullifying of contracts and ratified treaties between our rulers and the rest of the non-Muslim nations of the world, such as those of Europe and America, then these feeble-minded fools and those who have been deprived of justice and fairness, they think that this is the Islaam that we practice.

 

So how astonishing it is that America let this man remain therein, yet it raises its voice to say that it opposes terrorism, and as for us then we say that they are Khawaarij. Indeed this man and his likes are the terrorists that the Europeans, Americans and the Western world in general refer to, and I think that even the non-Muslims from the people of the East like Russia have labelled them with this title.  So these individuals in reality are the instruments of terrorism and they are the river from which the Khawaarij draw out what they draw out to support their transgression against the people of Islaam and the Sunnah, and for their transgression against those whom we have contracts and treaties with (i.e. the non Muslim states), since they do not recognize any contract or treaty.  They only declare people disbelievers en masse.

 

This is what I liked to make note of and I ask Allaah, the Glorified and Most High to keep the people of al-Islaam away from every evil and detestable thing and to withhold from them the evil of the Khawaarij, whether they are the Khawaarij who sit and incite others or whether they are the ones who physically participate themselves; and that He keeps the misery of the Khawaarij among their own selves and that He allows the Muslims to see a lesson in them; and that He seizes the Khawaarij with a mighty and strong seizure and that He makes them a lesson for those who take heed.

 

And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions.  This was dictated by one in need of Allaah: ‘Ubayd Ibn ‘Abdullaah Ibn Sulaymaan al-Jaabiree, a former professor at the Islamic University of al-Madeenah.  And the date of this discussion was Wednesday night, the 23rd of Dhul-Qa’dah, in the year 1430H, corresponding to the 11th of November in the year 2009.  And success is with Allaah.  And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions.

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Notes:

This man called Anwar Al Awlaki is indeed a great danger to this Ummah. Particularly to our english speaking brothers and sisters. People like him put poison and mixed it honey until everyone who drinks it perishes. He started with soft topics such as the stories of the Prophets and when the people grew to trust him he started to introduce these matters of Jihaad.

And there are three people you do not trust in this religion as the Imams of the past said: A storyteller, An innovator who refutes an innovator and a Sufi. As for the storyteller he may either relate weak Ahadeeth or call the people to his way using these stories.

Also, I happened to go in a site that has many of his lectures like: “Can the people trust the scholars of the Ummah.” Subhan Allah, the Ulama who follow the Manhaj of the Salaf are those who Allah has made the inheritors of the Prophets. So who is Anwar Al Awlaki to question the trustworthiness of the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah?

And then he speaks about Jihaad and the youths are fooled by his speech. And what does he speak about? He speaks about dethroning Muslim monarchies. That is not called Jihaad, rather it is called rebellion and the person who does so is a rebel and is treated as such. And the youths, even those in Trinidad and Tobago who listen to his tapes speak about armed revolution!!

Why don’t they make Jihaad in seeking knowledge? Why don’t they make Jihaad in acting upon it? Why don’t they beat up their pillows to pray Qiyaamul Lail? Why don’t they make Jihaad against the people who are making Shirk, who seek intercession from the Messenger (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) without asking Allah’s permission, who go to magicians and sorcerers and even read the horoscopes? But no they would not and it is because they do not understand the Kalimah of Tawheed which is the base and the head of this Islam.

They do not even understand La Ilaha Ill Allah. Instead of saying that Ilah is Ma’buud (the one who is worshipped) they say that Ilah is Haakim (the one who governs)! I ask them the following questions:

If it is that La Ilaha Ill Allah means no governance except Allah why did the Quraish understand from the Messenger (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) that it meant not to worship Laat and Uzza? Because if it was that La Ilaha Ill Allah was no governance except Allah the Huduud (punishments) would have been implemented from the first day of Islam.

Secondly I ask them what is the reason that the Ayah: “And the one who does not govern by what Allah rules by is a Kaafir?” The answer is that there were two parties of Jews who went to the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) and when the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) gave a ruling they still disputed. And to this Allah sent that verse, and it shows that the verse refers to the ruler and also the ruled since the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) was the ruler in Madinah.

Thirdly where does the word Ilah mean ruler in the Arabic language? I remember I was in Ittikaaf and an arrogant one from them said: “I am going to proove to you that Abu Lahab knew that he knew the meaning of La Ilaha Ill Allah better than the Saudi Salafis.”  So I said wait a minute are you saying that Ilah means ruler? Where you get that from in the Arabic language? And I told him to leave my presence and go and learn the Kalimah. Why was I so harsh? Because many of them are arrogant and speak about politics and this one is Kaafir and that one is Kaafir and they do not even know the meaning of the Kalimah that takes one out of Kufr. And to end I will just translate a poem I saw in a book:

A wise donkey said once

If time was good to me I would have been riding

For my ignorance is small

And my companion his ignorance is compunded.

My brothers and sisters. Do not listen to such people who have no knowledge whatsoever of these matters. The matters of Jihaad are left to the scholars and the rulers as the scholars are the ones who know its issues and the rulers are the ones who enforce it. Allah said: “And if a matter of safety or fear comes they announce it. And if they return it to the Messenger and the people in authority they would know who would have the ability to extrapolate the matter.”

Musa Millington

Mis clases en Espanol

Assalamu alaikum hermanos y hermanas.

En los martes comienzo los clases sobre el tawheed a las diez de la noche, hore Nueva York. La primera letra sera el significo de la ilaha ill allah del Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab.

Las clases seran en Paltalk en el cuadro “La comprehension del Islam”

Assalamu Alaikum

To go to Dammaj or not to go?

Assalamu Alaikum,

For months I have read articles and listened to different tapes on the Fitnah between Shaikh Yahya and  Shaikh Ubaid Al Jaabiri to the point where Shaikh Ubaid warned from studying in Dammaj. Now let us get some points straight before we move on:

(1) Shaikh Yahya Al Haajuri was selected by Shaikh Muqbil to be the head teacher of Dar Ul Hadeeth and no one knows his student better than his teacher. He said: “And to not try to descend him from the chair.”

(2) This is not something new. These attacks have been happening since the time of Abu Hasan Al Ma’ribi and are continuing to this day. Therefore, without doubt anyone who warns from Dar Ul Hadeeth indeed is either an innovator, one who has in his heart a sickness or one who has been hoodwinked. Why I say this? It is because that it is quite possible that Dammaj has the most memorisers of Qur’an and the Saheehain per capita more than anywhere else in the world and no one sees evil of this except that he is one of three men.

When you see students of knowledge at 33 and 37 years of age having so much knowledge, speaking about Shaikh Abu Amr and Shaikh Abdul Hameed respectively, then what can you say afterward?

By Allah, I went to the University of Madinah and the University is more deserved of being warned against than Dar-Ul-Hadeeth with the mere fact that the University has Hizbees teaching in it and additionally they have teachers whose beards are shaven in the Arabic Language program from what I heard from some students there right now.

I am not warning from the University of Madinah however I am putting forward the scenario if it were that one had to be warned against over the other.

(3) That the da’wah in Dar Ul Hadeeth is far from Hizbeeyah, far from elections and politics, Tamyee’ and Ghuluw etc. Therefore, how can we say that there is no good there and that it is a must to warn against it and stay away from it?

(4) That Dar-Ul-Hadeeth is about knowledge day and night. As brothers who were there told me it is very intense and it is a must to memorise many Ahadeeth. They have no vacations, and no certificates to obtain but rather they do it for Allah in order to call to his way.

Hence, seeing these 4 distinguishing matters how can anyone with the least bit of common sense, from the West, say that it is not allowed to go to Dammaj? The only one who does this is a man of desires without doubt, a man who seeks to hide his Hizbeeyah, a man who without doubt has a disease in his heart.

As for our Shaikh and father Shaikh Ubaid. I met him in Madinah twice. Once in his house and once in a debate for a Master’s degree. I also went to some of his classes on Sharh Us Sunnah in Masjid Thuu Nurain. Alhamdu Lillah he is a lovely man, a man of Zuhd, a man who loves the Sunnah and its people and hates innovation. But without doubt our Shaikh Yahya Al Haajuri has been backstabbed by some pretending Salafeeyah  and for this reason we see what we see.

Think my dear brothers, it is the same thing that happened with Ash Shaikh Wasiyullah and Spubs. Shaikh Wasiyullah may Allah preserve him was told a plethora of lies. Abu Khadeejah gives Fatwa, they deliver Khula’ to find out that none of it has an ounce of truth.

And it is the same in this country to the point that one wanted to carry me to the Grand Mufti of the Mamlakah because I refuted what he was upon from Tamyee’ (softening the Manhaj). Now if one of the scholars refuted me without looking at what I call toward,  but everyone worldwide knows without doubt that I, Musa Millington call to Tawheed, Salafeeyah and unity and speak against Shirk, Hizbeeyah etc, will everyone come and say well Musa not upon Salafeeyah when his writings and speech show that he is? No, that would not be the case, however it would be obvious that a backstabber went to one of the Shaikhs or scholars, poisoned his mind and got what he wanted from them.

And this happens in every place and time. There are backstabbers lurking in the bushes looking for any oppurtunity to cripple you and drive that knife through your spine because of their jealousy and hatred for the purity of Aqeedah and Manhaj you call toward.

To all these backstabbers Allah ta’ala is watching you and aware of your plans. The Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) said: “And it is possible that I make a judgement for the one who is more eloquent. And whomsoever I do that for let him know I am cutting a piece of the fire for him.”

So if any of you want to cut a piece of the fire for yourselves with international dimensions then knock yourselves out. Allah will be witness of what you did.

So let us beware of our tongues and respect our both scholars despite what they say of each other. Without doubt, from what I have written we have no doubt of who the party in error is however this does not mean that he is outside of Ahlus Sunnah. Rather we say that he has one blessing if he wanted truth.

Long time no blog

Assalamu Alaikum Long time I haven’t blogged because of the policy in my workplace. However, I am just writing this to wish my Muslim brothers and sisters a sucessful Ramadan.

Also I have gotten many questions about Dammaj. Now to clarify, right now I am not there, but however I have a few contacts who have told me about the experience and also I have translated much from Shaikh Yahya’s website about it.

But in terms of them I can just say what Shaikh Zu’kari told me and that is that when you come there you come to seek knowledge. And that it is wise if one can memorize the whole Qur’an and one of the Saheehain (Bukhari or Muslim) before he arrives although Saheeh Muslim to him is preferable because of how it is ordered.

Additionally, he told me that in Trinidad and I would add in the west in general it has no Tulaab Ul Ilm so there is a need for a person who is strong so the Salafis would gather around him.

And I add that you should get a contact in Dammaj preferably if one of the Mashayikh has visited your country.

And in terms of housing and children the cost of living is cheap so one does not have to worry. However, the conviniences is not like that of what we have in the west. So one has to bear with the conditions inshallah ta’ala.  If you want a “comfortable” lifestyle then prepare to not stay there for more than 7 or 8 months.

That is all I can write on the matter inshallah ta’ala. Otherwise make your plans, save your money, get your contacts, make du’a and rely upon Allah as I am doing right now.

Musa Millington

Nuff props to the translators

I have to write this post since I feel like a child who is afraid to swim. However, being flung into the ocean he had to learn.

Last week Shaikh Abdul Hameed Al Haajuri came to our shores. And I got my first experience of translating. And I had to do it twice more since then in public lectures. I had to drink a Lucozade before both of them.

And for those who like to speak ill of translators and think that they are just translating then I would like to give them news of the requirements of a translator translating for the Mashayikh:

(1) Arabic langauge and he has to be good at it.

(2) Speed, speed, speed. You have to be able to write like a speeding bullet.

(3) Knowledge of Qurán and Hadeeth and Aathar of the Salaf.

(4) And after that the ability to deliver it as if you are a lecturer.

So a translator he is like the student in the lecture and the lecturer at the same time.

And this is why, after being flung in the ocean I am saying Nuff Props to my brothers who translate for the Mashayikh especially Abu Muhammad Al Maghribi. And I hope next time he would know in advance about the Shaikh’s visit and come in time.

P.S the Shaikh will be having a seminar in Trinidad inshallah on Saturday and Sunday. So those who can get out of the U.S and come into Trinidad do so inshallah. Check the site www.trinimuslims.com for more details about the Shaikh’s visit.