Letter To Mullā Muhammad ‘Umar From The Scholars

In the name of Allāh, the Beneficent the Merciful

Commander of the Believers (Amīr Al-Mu’minīn) Al-Mujāhid (the Mujāhid) Al-Mulla Muhammad ‘Umar, may Allāh preserve him and protect him and conceal his errors with the truth:

As-Salāmu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullāhi Wa Barakātuh. We ask Allāh, the Most High, that this letter of ours reaches you while you are in the fullest of health and wellbeing.

Commander of the believers (Amīr Al-Mu’minīn): We – the collective scholars– are honoured to have the likes of you attributed to our nation (Ummah), because you have affirmed, in reality, the supremacy and honour of the believers. You were not satisfied with declaring that you are the dominant, rather you confirmed this great meaning through your noble deeds, as the dominance in the land is not merely the material dominance, rather its most important and its greatest, is the dominance of religion and moral values. As Allāh, the Most High, said:

وَلاَ تَهِنُوا وَلاَ تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

“And do not become weak (against your enemy), nor grieve, and you will be superior (in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers. [Āl ‘Imrān: 139]

So this Verse descended upon the Messenger of Allāh,صلى الله عليه وسلم, and his Companions, may Allāh be pleased with them, on the day they were defeated at Uhud. So the real supremacy is the supremacy of moral values and religion. Ibn Abbās, may Allāh be pleased with them, said, “Islām is dominant and is not dominated.” Al-Bukhāri narrated this in his Sahīh as a dangling narration (Mu’allaq), and At-Tahāwī narrated it with an authentic chain. So Islām and the People of Islām are dominant, even if they are defeated in battle. And Allāh, the Most High, said:

وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

…But honour, power and glory belong to Allāh, His Messenger and to the believers. [Al-Munāfiqūn: 8]

So the supremacy is directly connected to Allāh and His Messenger and to every believer who truly adheres to his Religion. So he is supreme with the supremacy (bestowed) by Allāh and with his faith (Īmān). So whoever adheres to the morals of truth, then he is supreme according to the clear text of the Qur’ān and the Sunnah.

Amīr Al-Mu’minīn: Verily, the ignorance of many of the Muslims, concerning your right, does not decrease anything from your stature, as you have become a symbol from the symbols of this nation (Ummah) and we will write with our hands, the history of this era and affirm for the future generations, that you were the leaders of this worldly life. Even if you are killed prior to that, then your biographies will be written in ink of gold and we will all bear witness for you, before Allāh, the Most High, that you are from the most sincere and truthful slaves to this nation (Ummah). We assume this about you and do not approve anyone except with Allāh’s (approval). And we will bear witness that you alone were the ones who raised your heads, in a time when many of the Muslims lowered their heads to the country of kufr and the cross; America. So the Muslims were not honored by a single man who would say, “No! and again, No!” to what America sought in this time, except with you. So congratulations to the Muslims due to the likes of you.

Amīr Al-Mu’minīn: In your actions, the meanings of justice, equity, supremacy, nobility, victory, security, allegiance and disavowal have become apparent. You have given the nation (Ummah) a lesson, through actions, in these meanings when you began your blessed journey to Afghanistan and you harvested for the nation (Ummah), the fruits of Jihād against the Soviets. Then, at the time when Afghanistan was on the verge of crumbling into the hands of the secularists and the Communist and the Rāfidhah (i.e. Shī’ah) – and just when our hope for the fruits of Jihād was about to cease, you revived the hope of the Ummah, with Afghanistan and it has become, today, the focus of the eyes of all the Muslims and they all seek the supremacy and the victory for your land. And then you took control of Afghanistan and implemented the Sharī’ah, so we said: “Al-Hamdulillāh”. Allāh has given victory to the Jihād through you on the day that you built upon the ruins of a destroyed, torn and mutilated country, an Islāmic state, in statements and actions. So justice and correct religion became the leadership and you waged war against Shirk and the graves and you divided (the wealth) according to equality and were just in matters, to the point where, if someone were to say that the wolf is being herded with the sheep under your emirate, this would not be inconceivable. Next, you challenged the entire world by destroying the statues (Bamiyan Buddhas), acting upon the Sharī’ah of Muhammad, صلى الله عليه وسلم, which was sent for this purpose. So we said, “Allāh has provided to the Ummah, someone to revive, within it, the legacy of Ibrāhīm (AS); the destroyer of statues and the rejecter of idolatry!” And we were pleased with your actions when you revived the meanings of Tawhīd, which were absent from the Ummah for centuries, as statues in all their various shapes, types and sizes fill the countries of the Muslims. However, Amīr Al-Mu’minīn was not satisfied to live in a country in which, beside him, there were gods who were worshipped besides Allāh the Most High. Then you destroyed those objects of worship and humbled its worshippers and our hearts were on the verge of flying out of happiness due to the revival of Tawhīd, in this matter. Then you enforced upon the People of Thimmah [i.e. those disbelievers who live in Islāmic states, who pay the Jizyah (tax) to the Muslim authority], subjugation and humiliation, acting upon the Book of Allāh, the Glorious, Most High, and upon the Sunnah of His Messenger, صلى الله عليه وسلم, just as they were in the origins of Islām, humiliated; paying the Jizyah willingly, while feeling themselves subdued. So we said, “The ‘Umar of his time is in Afghanistan, enforcing humiliation and subjugation upon the disbelievers (Kuffār) in his land!”

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