AQ Central Heaps Praise on Palestinians Engaged in Conflict, Calls Muslims to Support and Branches to Wage Military Campaign
Al-Qaeda Central (AQ) issued a statement on the latest conflict in Israel, heaping praise on Palestinians engaged in the fighting and calling on Muslims everywhere to support them and instructing AQ branches in particular to wage attacks within the "Jerusalem Will Never be Judaized" campaign.
It issued the 4-page Arabic message through its as-Sahab Media Foundation, which published it on May 17, 2021. Throughout the writing, AQC stressed that Palestine and al-Aqsa Mosque are not regional issues, but a cause for all Muslims, and it is the "Jews and Crusaders" who wish to limit it to a single country, fearing the 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide. Therefore, it argued that every Muslim must offer support in any way they can and not dismiss something they might consider not useful. Here, AQC referenced the story of David slaying Goliath with a stone from a slingshot, and noting that while Palestinians do not possess the weaponry of Israeli security forces, they use what they have at their disposal, even if it is stones and shoes.
The group added:
O people of jihad and war for the sake of Allah in all regions! The path has become clear. Be forceful, fight and steady yourself, and immerse in the fortresses of the Jews with iron and fire, and preemptively plunge with strikes in their homeland, and destroy with utter destruction their military bases. Bring down the Crusaders from their fortresses and plant horror into their hearts. Wait for the Zionist in each and every ambush, attack them with steeds, riders, and commandos, to frighten them, so that you might kill a group of them, and capture another.
Following is a translation of the message:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Qaedat al-Jihad – General Command
A Statement of Love, Veneration, and Support for our People in Palestine
Praise be to Allah, who said in Qur’an: "(And We said): If you do good, you do good for your ownselves, and if you do evil (you do it) against yourselves. Then, when the second promise came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disgrace your faces and to enter the mosque (of Jerusalem) as they had entered it before, and to destroy with utter destruction all that fell in their hands" [Al-Isra', 7]. And peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Imam of the Mujahideen, and the Leader of the Glorious, who pursued the best jihad for the sake of Allah, and warned the Ummah from leaving it by saying "the people who leave jihad for the sake of Allah will be humiliated," and upon his pure family. And thereafter:
With the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan, in which our Muhammadiyah Ummah was honored with the conquest of Afghanistan, Somalia, the Islamic Maghreb, and the rest of the fighting fronts, and with the successive Islamic victories which were followed by the fall of the Crusader castles and fortresses in the hands of the soldiers of the Islamic Emirate, and at the time when Allah destined for the Americans to flee from Khorasan, after two decades in which they thought that the strength of their fortresses kept them safe them from Allah... the breezes of the ardent faith blew upon our dear Ummah through the uprising and jihad of our dear and courageous people in Jerusalem, proud Gaza, the West Bank, and the occupied territories of '48, against the brothers of the monkeys and pigs from among the Jews of the sons of Zion. This, so that our Islamic Ummah would be taught a lesson that the people of Islam in the Holy Land in which Allah had blessed the world, are the safety valve and protectors of al-Aqsa mosque, and that goodness in this Ummah is like rain, where we do not know which is better, its beginning or its end.
These great sacrifices ignited at the beginning of the month of fasting and jihad at the al-Amoud Gate, and were intensified in its last ten days at the sl-Aqsa Mosque, and from it to the Gaza of victory and the rest of the usurped parts of Palestine. They destroyed the Jews’ deceptive plans that they wanted to market to the Ummah in the name of peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians, wagering on the sons of the generation that arose after the '67 war to give them flesh, according to Jewish culture, and to Judaize their minds and traditions. However, their heroism came in this honorable month to prove that this brave generation is more forceful and has a stronger ardency, as it confronted the Jews in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood with unparalleled courage, and bravely fought them in the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque, and faced them with stones and shoes, screaming the glorification and exultation of Allah, on the nights the angels and the soul descended upon them with the permission of their Lord. Then, help and victory came from the proud Gaza bombardment with the rockets of its blessed mujahideen upon the fortresses of the sons of Zion, which is what the governments of shame and betrayal failed to do in the Islamic countries. Then, the descendants of Salahuddin joined in the rest of the lands of blessed Palestine, marking the start of the third al-Aqsa Intifada, which we hope to God will be the beginning of the end of the tyranny of the sons of Zion. Indeed, this generation is one of the amazing signs of the Allah in this era, and it is an argument for all nations. It is a generation that does not fear death or evil, a generation which desires martyrdom for the sake of Allah and is exposed to it with confidence and certainty, and generation that rises with its faith and determination over all the colors of Judaisc arrogance and barbarism. Truly, it might be the generation which Allah will honor by adding them to Himself in pursuing the jihad of the Jews, and who will enter the mosque as their ancestors entered it for the first time, to destroy with utter destruction all that falls in their hands.
In this context, we send the most sublime letters of honor, glory, and love to our righteous people in Jerusalem, who face Zionism courageously, while having nothing in their hands except their prayer carpets and the Qur’an. To the shrine of our dear people in the Gaza of pride, and its brave mujahideen and our people in usurped Palestine, whose Islamic fervor obligated them not to stand by and watch what is happening in Jerusalem, and thus they rose up to support their religion and their sanctities. We say to them with all honesty and sincerity: We know that you do not need from us the words of victory, support, and confirmation, for you are proceeding on your sacrifices with the evidence of Allah, and it is us who learn from your patience, perseverance, and jihad. But today, we stand before you, in a position of greatness, veneration, love, and respect for what we have seen from you of great sacrifices. Indeed, Allah bears witness that we stood in our trenches dazzled by the solidity of your determination and ardency, and how you nourish us with great nourishment with the sincerity of your actions. By Allah, how ardency and determination were aroused in us from the pure smiles that were painted on the trenches of the captives at the thresholds of al-Aqsa! By Allah, how did life revive in us with your glorification and your shouts with the oath of loyalty and your chants (Khaybar Khaybar O Jews – Muhammad’s army will return)! How much you cooled our chests with launching your jihadi missiles at the people of Zion, to make them taste what they made the Islamic Ummah and our people in Palestine taste. How we wished - and Allah is our witness - that we would redeem you by ourselves and win with you this great victory. Our solace is that we are facing the same enemy that confronts you in many arenas, and the war in it is between us and the Zionist and Crusader enemy, and it is open and has no limits. We beseech Allah the Almighty to use us and the Ummah to defend you and take revenge for you and disperse the enemy’s tyranny from you.
Our honorable Ummah: This jihad leap from our people and our brothers on the land of our beloved Messenger, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, is a clear indication that our people in Palestine of pride are qualified with a Lordly qualification to pursue jihad for the sake of Allah, and that they did not deserve the honor of entering and dwelling in the Holy Land except through the wisdom of Allah, as they are the army of Allah that He planted to be used for His obedience. We hope that they will be the first to defend the heart of Sham, which the Hadiths of the Prophet came to demonstrate its merit and status, and that these majestic sacrifices are to confirm the authenticity of what is proven by the news that the angels spread their wings over this blessed place and this struggling and proud people. Our Ummah! Be proud of this honorable people, and join them with all the strength and ability you have to defend them and their land and rights.
Let our Ummah know that one of the enemy’s goals is to limit this issue to our people in Palestine, so that the Jews and the Crusaders avoid their conflict with more than a billion and a half Muslims on the face of the earth. However, the wisdom of Allah the Almighty has dictated that al-Aqsa Mosque be the central issue of the entire Ummah, from one end to the other, so that every Muslim on the face of the earth may gain the honor of participating in the jihad and defense of al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy Land. Therefore, we always affirm with all our jihadi rhetoric, all bearing the meanings of strength and pride, that the issue of Islam in Jerusalem and Palestine is not only the issue of the Palestinians, but it is the issue of Muslims and the entire Ummah, as it is the path of the Ummah’s Messenger and his inheritance. The sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy Land did not come from the fact that its people and inhabitants are Palestinians. No, this sanctity came and was established in our hearts because we are the Ummah of Islam that believed in what was revealed in the Qur’an of our Lord the Almighty, and the traditions of its Prophet, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the status of al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy Land.
Our beloved and honorable Ummah, Allah the Almighty has entrusted you with the leadership of the world and its policies and to take care of His affairs. Indeed, He made you the best of the nations. So you are the Ummah that is definitely qualified to testify to the nations through the words of Allah, and this is unquestionable. You are the Ummah of the call and the Ummah of jihad for the sake of Allah, as Allah the Almighty said. Thus, it is not surprising that you are the Ummah who is entrusted to establish the religion of Allah on earth and reform the conditions of the world. Our Ummah! Be fully prepared in all ways to confront the emergency so that you are not taken by surprise, and this means that you take the initiative to prepare the ammunition which Allah has commanded you to do in the Qur’an: "And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery) to threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy" [Al-Anfal, 60].
Every enemy of Allah, including the Jews, is an enemy to us. The great capabilities you possess and the enormous abilities you have do not require but to use them well. If they are used well, they would effectively contribute in changing the Ummah’s reality from weakness and humiliation to strength and sovereignty. Here are our children, our youth, and our mujahideen in Palestine, despite the disappointment and betrayal of the countries and the regimes and the failure of the governments and organizations to support them. In spite of this, they did not neglect any means to deter the Zionist enemy from assaulting their pride, even if it is by using shoes and stones, which are not useful relative to the deadly weapons used by the Jews. In this they have the example of the son of Allah Dawud, peace be upon him, when he stood in front the enemy of Allah Goliath, and struck him from a sling in his hand, hitting him in his head and killing him. Thus, the most determined of the believers will not neglect any means of fighting the enemies, no matter how weak and useless those means in the eyes of others. What is intended is they defeat their enemies and make them feel that they are always threatened, as the Almighty said: "That is because they suffer neither thirst nor fatigue, nor hunger in the Cause of Allah, nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness. Surely, Allah wastes not the reward of the doers of good" [At-Tawbah, 120].
Our Muslim Ummah, to allow the brothers of monkeys and pigs to ally with the forces of disbelief and Arab Zionists to tear apart the bodies of our children and our women in Palestine, and destroy houses over their heads, burn their mosques, and defile their Holy Book, and not seek to support [the aggrieved] with souls and money, is a shame and a betrayal that warrants the curse of the Almighty. Therefore, beware that you are from among those about whom Allah said: "If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people; and you cannot harm Him at all" [At-Tawbah, 39].
O Muslims everywhere, this is a permission from your brothers in Qaedat al-Jihad Organization to wage the greater jihad to support the cause of Islam in Palestine, and to support the causes of the whole Ummah. Our first cause in Jerusalem is nothing but an important part of your most important Islamic duties, and its liberation is linked to that of the Ummah and its emancipation from American domination, whose criminal president has declared that the killing of children and women in Gaza is not an exaggerated response, and the tyranny of whose agents is like the executioner to the victim, and even supported them in their brutal attacks. The sincere believer is he who stands with the whole Ummah and supports the blood of all its people without distinguishing between one or another. Therefore, be the worshipers of Allah, with severe force, as you are more fearful in their hearts than Allah. In this respect, we call upon all the mujahideen of Qaedat al-Jihad in all the trenches, to observe the necessity of continuing the series of jihadi operations "Jerusalem Will Never be Judaized," so that Allah may cool with your invasions the chests or our brothers in Palestine from the criminal Zionists and their American supporters and the humiliated Arab Zionists.
Let it be in your jihadi agenda to expose the plans of the traitors on the path of the beloved Messenger, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, and stand firmly against them, foremost among whom are the Zionist traitorous of the Arabs, Al Saud, al-Zayed, Khalifa, al-Sisi, and Muhammad VI, for they are more disbelieving and hypocritical and they do not deserve to know the limits of what Allah has revealed. They deceived the Ummah with the lie of normalization and peace with the hated ones, in the hope of reviving the Jews of Banu Qurayza again and redefine their authority from Bani al-Nadir and Bani Qaynuqa to the region. These Jews have never been at peace and did not normalize their relations with the Lord of the Worlds, the Most Glorious. The Almighty said: "The Jews say: 'Allah's Hand is tied up'" [Al-Ma'idah, 64]. And they are the ones who said: "The statement of those (Jews) who say: 'Truly, Allah is poor and we are rich!'" [Al-Imran, 181].
How can peace come from a people who did not accept the prophets and even killed them and cut them with saws, accused them of immorality and great sin, and incited against them the forces of disbelief and supported those? So do you expect them after all this, to be at peace with the people of Islam?
O people of jihad and war for the sake of Allah in all regions! The path has become clear. Be forceful, fight and steady yourself, and immerse in the fortresses of the Jews with iron and fire, and preemptively plunge with strikes in their homeland, and destroy with utter destruction their military bases. Bring down the Crusaders from their fortresses and plant horror into their hearts. Wait for the Zionist in each and every ambush, attack them with steeds, riders, and commandos, to frighten them, so that you might kill a group of them, and capture another.
In conclusion, we extend not our condolences, but rather our congratulations to our people in Palestine for their righteous martyrs, and on top of them, the heroic leader Bassem Issa “Abu Emad,” whom we think that the Lord has chosen on these blessed days to be among the elite of creation, those who defend the religion and the sanctities, and give of themselves for this all that is precious and priceless.
O Allah! Accept them in your Paradise, and raise their status in the worlds, and bring goodness into their families.
Allahu Akbar! "Glory is to Allah, to His Messenger, and to the believers, but most people do not know" [Al-Munafiqun, 8].
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
Shawwal 1442 H
May 2021 M
