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# The Boko Haram of Nigeria

August 5, 2009 - الأربعاء 15 شعبان 1430 by admin
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This item is from one of our readers (/edited/)

Ya Shaikh, i am delighted over your concern especially at this period when their are so little that have concern over the situation of the true Muslims.

These brothers are good brothers. The media have painted them so black with the help of the govt scholars so as not to draw the sympathy of Muslims. But the truth about them have started surfacing bi idhnillah. Ya Shaikh, they are not takfiri, nor are they murji.
By Allah the scholars of ahl sunnah betrayed him and practically handed him over to the govt. and they are still making horrible statements about him that makes you think that islamic knowledge has completely been changed. ie the disease in their hearts have come out clear. an example is like accusing him that he is being sponsored by christians, and from a scholar that was once teaching his students baraaa from the govt coming to say on the mimbar that fitna is khuruj against the hukam and he didn’t explain which kind of haakim so as to pass a silent message. Please ya shaikh advice me.

As regarding information of the present situation, the brothers have been dispersed and fear has been cast in the minds of a lot of sincere people.. but the field commander is still at safe and they have promised a come back.

The allegation that they started burning schools were all false.

The imam Has a book titled ‘this is our aqqeda and this is what we call towards’ i will try to scan and post it. if i have the time insha Allah. if you have any other questions you can ask to make the issue more clear to you.

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59 Responses to “The Boko Haram of Nigeria”

2. Abu Ateeq says:
   August 5, 2009 - الأربعاء 15 شعبان 1430 at 5:17 pm

   As a nigerian living in the capital i still havent heard from the so called “Boko haram” leader all i have heard is what the BBC hausa said about the group. i dont believe the news but unfortunately in nigeria the muslims believe what ever the media paints as truth. even if they have not heard the Aqeedah of this group from the group directly.

3. abdul jabbar says:
   August 5, 2009 - الأربعاء 15 شعبان 1430 at 5:21 pm

   asalam alai kum allah has told us he will raise up people who “fear not the blame of the blamers”

4. Abu Ateeq says:
   August 5, 2009 - الأربعاء 15 شعبان 1430 at 5:25 pm

   pls keep us informed about the situation perhaps our trip to paradise as matyrs is not in those distant icy lands that we are straining our eyes in front of the computer in search of a road map. perhaps it is in our own country.

5. Taimoor says:
   August 5, 2009 - الأربعاء 15 شعبان 1430 at 9:09 pm

   AoA,

   Can there be a Manazara (grand Manazara, debate) arranged between Ulema of both sides?

   Shouldn’t the Ulema pressure the Imaam of Al-Ka’aba to establish Khilaafah?

6. Um Umar traveller says:
   August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 12:43 am

   Asalamu Alakum WRWB , Masha’Allah may Allah accept all the sacrifices these muslims have made, protect and ease their situation ameen
   Why is everyone so afraid of pure white Haqq ? easy answer, corruption is in every community as the Prophet saws) warned us that towards the end of time the worst men will be in positions of power. These worst men are running the education systems everywhere , we are allowing our children to be cared for by these worthless fame seeking duniah loving harmony with People of the book ,warping the Deen of Allah types who’s intention is get what they want by any means possible.
   We have big business here in the west ” Islamic Schools” that sing the national anthem [ music is an excellent educational tool if you didn't know ]and paricipare in Harmony Day and influence our children to feel sorry for kafr hostages in Iraq , efforts are made to release these hostages all for humanitarian reasons ofcourse , not for [ media exposer ] sooooo the list goes on .
   Result, those sincere motivated useful muslims who want the Haqq , drop from these schools one by one from pure frustration of dealing with the Muslims Christains league which misguides our youth, the exact opposite of why an ” Islamic school ” is supposedly established .
   I can’t imagine whats it like for lovers of the Haqq living in muslim countries or maybe I can , maybe its just like living here. Except here we usually don’t get killed for our beliefs , this is another great shame on our ummah, May Allah purify our hearts and minds towards Him Azza Wa Jall ameen

7. AbuTamoor says:
   August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 3:07 am

   Asalamu alaikum,

   @ Comment No.6. The schools you speak of are everywhere. We must protect our children by educating them at home. There is no easy option, even in the so called muslim countries, you can’t put your kids into their schools.. they will re-educate them.. even if they do preach Islam in them.. they will confuse them and you or make you like them in the process. By elevating the scholars (take the good leave the bad), the leaders (with those great swords hanging over their necks) to show they are doing so much for the Ummah. In reality.. they are just like the Pharaohs of Egypt. They are the ones who have the baraa to the ummah, letting them be murdered and pillaged by their masters and their dogs. It’s time for seclusion for some.. its not easy to stay Muslim.. when they call everyone at the gates of hell. Enjoy the root of the tree. May Allah grant us His mercy.

8. muhammad says:
   August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 7:14 am

   Assalamu alaykum,

   It’s time to return to Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhiwasalam teaching, our victory is in Allah SWT religion not in the Ibilis supported man made law.

   We must provide Strict Islamic education to our children’s as well different regional languages, to make them stand and support to establish Sharia in Islamic lands and also in the world.

9. Zashkaser says:
   August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 8:00 am

   Thanks for post. Nice to see such good ideas.

10. umm nusaybah says:
    August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 10:54 am

    Assalamu alaikum
    SubhanAllah when i hear of all these uprisings of tawheed in the once muslim lands it makes me so excited!especially after listening to the sheikh’s lecture:the state of the ummah, VICTORY as Allah has promised is near!
    I pray Allah makes our brothers and sisters of nigeria strong upon iman and taqwa, and i pray they only fear Allah and not loose hope in the promise of Allah, ameen

    Allahum-mansurna mujahideen wal muslimeen fi kulli ma kaan!

11. abu ubaidah says:
    August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 6:53 pm

    the honest truth about the group boko haram are upon mis-guidance. Unfortunatly, they have gone extreme in their views and they make takfir upon the wrong people. Personally i have met their late leader and a good friend of mine joined them. This friend of mine once said to me that we should thank Allah that we did not end up marrying the mushrik women we proposed to in the past. By Allah i have NEVER proposed to a kafir, and even if a kafir woman from the people of the book cannot be called a mushrikah. This is from thier errors. I advise me ane everyone to do a just investigation into the aqeedah and manhaj. Alhamdulilaah a there leaders book is available. Please anyone that has it should scan and upload it here so everyone can see the truth from themselves. May Allah guide us to the right path and keep us gided and blessed. Ameen…

12. muhamaad ngr says:
    August 6, 2009 - الخميس 16 شعبان 1430 at 10:21 pm

    Indeed the govt.of nigeria has committed crimes against these muslims who were only asking that their lives be lived in accordance with their aspirations;they want to live to obtain the pleasure of their Lord and this can only be achieved if all facets of our lives are subjected to the Rule of Allah’s laws.This is exactly what is missing in nigeria generally and in the Muslim-dominated Northern part…No muslim would be pleased with such a situation if only he had an iota of eeman!
    So,let it be known that the government has again diplayed its anti-muslim coloration which is a bye-product of democratic orientation and subtle war against muslims in that country can only be exposed when groups of sincere muslims challenged this kufr of democracy in their society.
    Lastly,i know nothing evil about those Muslims nothwithstanding what some self-serving twisted s0-called clerics have declared against Boko Haram,I PRAY THAT ALLAH CURSE EVERY SINGLE PARTAKER IN THE KILLINGS OF MUSLIMS IN THE GROUP.
    When the muslims wake up to the reality of their situation in Nigeria,there’s no preventing a clash with the corrupt system of Democracy in place as backed by the military and thieving elites…

13. Um Umar traveller says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 12:00 pm

    @ abu ubaida , if this group was on misguidance then the corrupt misguided Government wouldn’t of bothered with them would they ?
    .
    as for your friends comment about kafir and mushrik women of the book , I can’t see anything wrong with that statement .

14. Mujaheed aldabbani says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 12:27 pm

    We the brothers in nigeria are all in the dark…on this issue…the police killed him immidiately he was captured, we were not even allowed to hear their side of the event….nigeria government is hiding the truth,

15. wenul says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 1:22 pm

    THE “BOKO HARAM” MASSACRE
    Boko haram to many people living in the north and especially in the north eastern part of Nigeria is not a new word, and if at all it is, the recent festival of killings by security forces in some northern states under the genocidal directive of our inert-turn-active president and C-in-C of the armed forces of Nigeria, Mr. Umaru Musa Yar’adua is branding enough.
    The word “Boko Haram” is coined from the combination of two words, Boko-a Hausa word for the type of education introduced by Europeans and Haram, an Arabic word meaning forbidden. By this literal definition, one does not need to be a historian to be able to mark out where the wind blows from.
    In order to have a clear understanding of the whole issue, there is the need to dig down in to the origin and concept of the doctrine of “Boko Haram”.
    In pursuance of the truth, and for the sake of posterity, common sense will need to assess the alleged crime(s) of the proponents of the ideology of Boko haram, and the action of Mr. President and his security forces, the media reaction to the event of the massacre, the role of other Islamic clerics, the northern leaders, politicians and the general public vis-à-vis Yar’adua’s concept of the rule of law.
    ORIGIN
    The word Boko Haram may be seen as new from a shallow perspective, but the concept started off from northern Nigeria when Europeans under the pretext of colonialism began to play double cards, by introducing their type of education along side Christianity in the Muslim dominated north that was already operating on sound Islamic jurisdiction, distinctive societal values and administration, as well as comprehensive Islamic educational system due to long time romance with the Arab world and the effects of the 19th century Islamic Jihad led by Sheik Usman bin fodio.
    As a result of what the Northerners perceived as a ploy by Europeans to rubbish their religious values and replace it with Christianity in the first instance, and the ample evidences of practical steps to mask-and-serve Christianity in western education by Christian missionaries, the northern Muslims began to declare that the education the Europeans claimed to be dispensing called Boko is Haram or forbidden.
    Owing to this clash of dissimilar ideologies between Christian imperialists and the Northern Muslim communities, many parents had to withdraw and hid their children in order to save their belief and moral values from being contaminated. In some instances, it was agreed that this event is one of the major reasons behind the north’s poor participation in “western education” today.
    After more than a century, those olden days local Muslim folks that resisted Boko (Western education) in the north, and without foot dragging declared it Haram, are today being vindicated by the attitude of our Boko trained workforce.

    Over the years, Nigerian graduates of Boko (Western education) in almost all works of life have proved beyond any doubt that they are self centered and irresponsible in their conducts. They are the looters of public treasury, tacticians of bribery and corruption, promoters of injustice, election riggers, liars and assassinators.
    The Boko products are always fond of shying-away from their responsibilities; as such when they make laws, they become the first to break them, and no one has the authority to challenge them. Trickery and prostitution were totally rejected by the society only before it received the impetus of the Boko people, now these taboos are well recognised as part of our white collar professionals.
    When they take public office, they take oath of office with Quran or Bible to protect and implement the provision of their own personal desires put together as “constitution”, and forgets about upholding to divine injunctions contained in those holy books for the good of all mankind.

    WHY SHEIK MUHAMMAD YUSUF ADVOCATED THAT BOKO IS HARAM
    Although both the Nineteenth century and today’s Muhammad Yusuf’s concept of Boko is Haram are essentially the same. The mechanisms of Yusuf’s argument are derived from the obvious anomalies stated in the three preceding paragraphs.
    Analysis of both ideologies indicates that Boko haram proponents appreciate the contribution of science and technology to human development (Muhammad Yusuf travel around the north in Car and not on Camel, he used mobile phones as well as microphone during preaching, he record his preaching in audio tapes e.t.c.) and the need for Muslims to acquire it through any means that does not compromise the injunctions of Almighty Allah upon mankind.
    However, both Yusuf and his ancestors of the 19th century strongly reject what is seen as social vices wrapped-and-served as “western education”. We need education that will enable us build aircrafts, wireless electricity if permitted by the will of Allah, and go beyond the moon to see and appreciate the wisdom of our creator, and NOT this one that teach us how to development WMDs, how to snatch power, how to give and take bribe, how to commit internet fraud, how to professionalize prostitution and propagate all sorts of social vices and injustice on the earth.

    To every right thinking mind, this has never been and cannot be tantamount to declaration of any agenda seeking to prohibit Muslims or other group of people from struggling to acquire the so called Western education. Boko haram is a simple protest over the perceived and apparent moral decay associated with Western educational system, and the need to indoctrinate the fear of Allah alone and de-emphasize the pursuance of evil principles and practices that tow the system and our life style in the negative direction.

    Pitifully, this is the simple justice that many people couldn’t do to Muhammad Yusuf’s profound argument on Western education system. Simply because the man does not agree to decorating a fraudulent empire!
    For instance, Allah has forbidden any gathering what so ever, where men and women mingle freely in the same environment except under transient abnormal circumstances that one doesn’t have any control over. If you are a Muslim, kindly ask your self, what do we have in our universities and who said it shall be like that? Allah has indeed commanded, and they also have commanded, but we intentionally decided on their scheme. Gentlemen, is it not right for us to be specific on who our Lord is? This and the absence of God in science and politics are exactly what Yusuf arguments on Boko are all about. Could he be wrong? Let us ask ourselves first!

    THE YUSUF APPROACH
    Sheik Muhammad Yusuf looked around for remedy against the evils associated with our educational system, against the evil of election riggers, against the evils of corrupt judges, against the evils of our security organizations (who joyfully killed hundreds of Muslims in Jos and other parts of the country over the years), against the evils of treasury looters, against perversion by some Muslims and traditional rulers (who benefits from the 19th Century Jihad), against the architects of divide and rule, opportunism, nepotism and sectionalism, but found it no where within the sphere of the Westerly influenced system.
    This is because from the parliament to judiciary, to Executive and the securities, they are all products of the same rotten Boko system. What we sow is what we shall reap. The Western education is wrapped-and-served in a corrupt secular ethics and so it products shall operate.
    In this type of system, authorities cannot provide anything meaningful for their subjects; rather they will resort to playing with human psyche, organizing foot ball, music, beauty pageant, carnivals and many other types of diversionary events. If these authorities are responsible they couldn’t fly abroad just to check their BP, while other citizens are at the mercy of decayed infrastructures.
    Yusuf began to device and implement what he believes is the best solution to counter the mess of our own brand of westernization. First, he started by enjoining people to do only those things approved by Allah no matter how such may appear in the eyes of the custodians of corruption, and keep away from anything disapproved by Allah (including free mingling between men and women as is the case in our educational institutions) no matter the material benefits attached. He urged Muslims to stick to the Quran and the Hadith of the Prophet, reading it constantly, memorizing it, understanding it and putting it into practice. He admonished Muslims to shun all kinds of religious innovations (shirk). He called who ever care, to migrate (Hijra) away from the evils being perpetrated in the main stream of our society, at least to a sanctuary, where they can practice Islam as commanded by Allah SWT and exemplified by Prophet Muhammad peace and be upon Him.
    Certainly Prophet Muhammad SAW has enjoined Muslims on importance of military training and the need to keep arms at all times. Unlike other Muslims, Sheik Muhammad Yusuf did not ignore this particular command of the Prophet SAW.
    Muhammad Yusuf and his followers are armed and are trained just like the Niger Delta militants, like the OPC of the blessed memory, like the Bakasi Boys, the MOSSOP of the Ibo land and the mother of intelligence gathering (the CAN), who first announced in 2002 that some Muslim clerics were planning to attack military formations in Nigeria. All these groups are involved in confrontational business at one time or the other. Why the house-to-house massacre of Muhammad Yusuf and his followers in the era of the rule of law?
    Others may think that Yusuf and his followers were wrong for carrying arms against the state, and they could have remained within the system and fight for political and social reforms. Of course you may be right, but where is Nuhu Ribadu and Sheik Ja’afar Mahmud today? Both of them worked tirelessly from within the same system that eliminated them. During their times, they created all sorts of ripples in order to capsize the Ship of injustice but all in vain. Only the naives can tread this path again.
    THE MASSACRE THEATER
    The theater was widely publicized by both government controlled and private media, including some non-commissioned gossipers through phone calls, throughout the days of the game. I want to believe that people all over the world are fully awakened by the events, and therefore there is no need for repeat broadcast.
    However, many of us were so overwhelm by the Nigerian security forces apparent demonstration of cruelty, and the elaborate media coverage the event enjoyed, as if it was intended to showcase the practicability of some particular Nazi theories on Nigerian citizens. We just couldn’t remember to ask ourselves some simple but basic questions. These questions we must ask ourselves here Allah’s willing (Insha Allah) before we finally all meet our creator on the judgment day.
    Before the media could be briefed on the type of publicity they could give the event on that fateful day, 26th July, 2009, the information has already began to spread. Later in the afternoon, the trouble escalated, before the close of the day, over 100 people suspected to be sharing the ideology of Boko haram were killed by Police and the Army in less than fifteen hours, with some outrageous figures of mass arrests.
    The same incidence occurred in Maiduguri, in Potiskum and other northern towns and cities. When Yusuf and his lieutenants were over powered the subsequent days, the death toll was already on four digits. Unlike Government Tompolo or Tom Ateke, Muhammad Yusuf was not declared wanted death or alive. Eventually, he was caught alive by the Army and handed over to Police authorities alive. Shortly after, the Police remembered Yar’adua’s directive (“TAKE WHAT EVER MEASURE YOU FEEL IS NECESSARY”) and saw it was necessary to kill him right away without being tried. They gave him multiple shots at close range, and declared him death. What are they trying to cover?
    Initially, the news of the death toll seemed unreliable, later in the night, the largest TV network in the continent (NTA) used their largest camera to capture and displayed hundreds of dead bodies massacre by Nigerian security forces without editing. Other media outfits both local and international did same. Is the NTA now trying to play transparent journalism with the Muslims’ death? How many death bodies of the Niger Delta militants NTA or any other media outfit showed during the JTF May, 2009 cordon and search operation in Gbaramatu kingdom and its environs? Why this partiality? Even the US, the biggest foe of the Islamists, never advertises their military strength with the remains of the Taliban killed in their campaign in Helmand province.
    The courage of President Yar’adua in dealing with the BOKO HARAM proponents ruthlessly, by instructing his security forces to TAKE WHAT EVER MEASURE THEY FEEL IS NECESSARY to crush them was so unique and unusual. At the same time Mr. President has prepared a bed of roses for the notorious Niger Delta militants, who killed the police and the Army in their Hundreds over the years, caused multi billion Dollar havoc and lost of investment to Nigeria’s only means of survival, INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM IS HALAL (approved) and almost crippled the maritime industry. This is incomprehensible; this is hypocrisy, this is injustice and a total bridge of trust. Is this the road map to 2011 or one of the hurdles that must be crossed in order for Nigeria to host a world football competition?
    In Bauchi for example, only few out of the over one hundred killed where neutralized in active combat, over 60% of the killings was done on house-to-house meet and hit clearance operation under the orders of the President’s treacherous son in-law. Some were first arrested by security agents, and then later shot dead. Because the rule of engagement spelled “TAKE WHATEVER MEASURE YOU LIKE”, the security forces operated out of combat ethics and demonstrated a sort of marketplace discipline. It was just like a vengeful operation.
    Action and reaction showed that the entire senate and the national assembly were in full support of the massacre of Boko haram people, unlike the Niger Delta case, where some senators were ready to get physical in the interest of some broad daylight criminals. Obviously, the northern politicians know that they can’t hire Boko haram people to rig election, as was the case with the Niger Delta militants. You see the attitude of the products of contaminated social (Boko) system, SELF-CENTEREDNESS! Even in this case, those who said Boko is haram are already vindicated. Northern Senators and Reps’ (the custodians of Yan sara suka, Kalare, Yan daba & Area Boys) spurious comments on the issue was more disgracing, one could see a lot of Dan Giwa Umar amongst them, only that they don’t have Dan Giwa’s temerity to publicly declare that they regretted having been born Muslims. They seem proudly Democrats and timidly Muslims. SUB-HANALLAH!
    Action and reaction showed that the northern emirs, without apology to the Sultan are quite supportive of the action taken against their own subjects, who voiced out their desire for change. Your Royal Highnesses, nothing is permanent except change, and one day, change will surely come In-Sha Allah.
    Northern emirs are beneficiaries of the courageous efforts of Sheik Usman bin Fodio’s 19th century Islamic jihad. Bin Fodio fought against the well established governments of the corrupt Habe dynasties, and Allah assisted him with victory although his troop’s strength was far less than those of the ruling Habe. Bin Fodio rode on horse back, and spread Islam and Sharia from Begel to Ilorin, from Gwandu to Egbede in the Auchi land. Today Northern Emirs have selfishly squalor the virtue of the Jihad that founded those Islamic ruling houses they occupy over the years, and are reduced to mere flamboyant hose riders, riding behind naked women during Abuja carnival. They are surely enjoying the proceeds of corruption, born out of the ever corrupt secular system. They can’t support a movement that will get them properly seated. May Allah help us.
    In real sense, the Shehu of Borno and Suliemanu of Bauchi could have quickly interceded with the authorities to avert this ugly blood birth, and where the problem become mightier than their might, the Sultan of Sokoto can easily summon the entire northern Ulamas to water the activities of Muhammad Yusuf before the temperature shoot-up. But the treacherous Governors of Bauchi and Borno states are the prime movers of the massacre. Incidentally, these ruling houses of Shehu and Sule must bow to the might of their source of daily breads. Therefore, all these wisdoms of interceding, consultation, etc were dumped for carnage. Police and the Army where just watched, executing another version of the Yar’adua rule of law.
    With due respect to your Royal highnesses, since it is apparent that you have choosen a secular system instead of Allah’s Sharia that founded your thrones, we will In-sha Allah turn the table around. Democracy shall prevail in your palaces. Any body with money and thugs in any emirate in the north will soon be qualified to contest and win or rig the position of the Sultan, the Emirs, the district heads, and any other title declared vacant. We will show you Boko In-sha Allah.
    The Ulama’s were the most insincere this time around. Majority of them agreed with Muhammad Yusuf arguments on western education and the secular system for quite long, but are not courageous enough to tread his path. Instead of lending him some impetus at the time of need, they shy away out of jealousy and hypocrisy. When they were certain that Yusuf’s ship has wrecked, they began to chant a pro-government stigma against Muhammad Yusuf “that he doesn’t want the progress of mankind, he doesn’t want Muslims to acquire modern knowledge, his ideology is not Islamic” in order to sustain their daily bread. Is that Muhammad Yusuf argument? Let us be sincere and have some fear of Allah in our hearts please. Oh this world, where are you taking us to? We thought we have Muslim leaders, but they are more of sycophants.

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    All thanks be to Allah for Islam, all thanks be to Allah for knowledge, all thanks be to Allah for health, all thanks be to Allah for the sustenance.
    May Allah SWT forgive those Muslims who lost their lives, and give those left behind the fortitude to bear the hardship of living under imposed secularism.
    I pray someone will remind the government to take full responsibilities of bringing up the children of those killed, to give them the type of education they choose, so that the children are not made to bear the “sins” of their late parents.
    CHANGE CAN BE DEFERRED, BUT CANNOT BE STOPPED

16. salman says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 2:02 pm

    to abu ubaidah:

    I am afraid that what you call the honest truth is false. for you have not mentioned what the leader said to you that made you conclude he was a takfiri.

    your freinds takfiri idea cannont be married to the shayk’s. you have to bring a clear proof to show you claim. if not, kindly keep qiet and dont become a helper of the tawageet against the muwaheed.

    i have read his book and have listened to his lectures and in fact he made it a point of duty not to takfir since alot of ulama known by the masses are passing wrong fatwa about the situation o the muslims in nigeria. hence i belive he took this as apreventing factor of specific takfir.

    i hope someone will take the pain of making his book available to others in forums like these. till then pls hold your tongue and fear Allah.

17. salman says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 2:06 pm

    Transcript of Mohammed Yusuf (MY) interrogation by Nigerian security agents (NPF) that captured him– Translation from Hausa.

    NPF: Yesterday we went to your house; we saw a lot of animals,
    students and stuff you guys are putting together. What are you going
    to do with all these stuff?

    MY: To defend our self.

    NPF: Is there no authority to defend you?

    MY: I don’t know what I did for this arrest?

    NPF: You are a Muslim person.

    MY: I don’t know why you are disturbing us?

    NPF: You said Boko Haram (Western education is sin) who made the pants you are wearing?

    MY: My pants are cotton and cotton is made by God.

    NPF: God in the Quran’s chapter said ‘Ikra’ – or seek knowledge?

    MY: Is not same with Islamic knowledge. There are certain western knowledge that is bad.

    NPF: We saw Computer and many things in your house are they not made from knowledge?

    MY: These are technology different from Western schooling (which we condem).

    NPF: You are eating good food, driving a nice car, and wearing nice clothes.

    MY: Is not like that. People have different means and abilities. Some have in their hand while others don’t.

    NPF: Why did you leave your compound?

    MY: Because you came to attack me.

    NPF: You send others to fight and you left?

    MY: All my people have left too.

    NPF: What about the people that came to fighting?

    MY: My people have left.

    NPF: Where are your followers now?

    MY: Bauchi, Gombe. Adamawa, Taraba and police have already attacked them before Maiduguri.

    NPF: What happened to cut on your arms?

    MY: I fell.

    NPF: Where is your headquarters or branch offices.

    MY: You have attacked my headquarters; my branches are in Gwange ward, Bulumkutu, etc.

    NPF: Who is helping you, do you have soldiers, organizers and if you are not here who is second in command?

    MY: Abubakar Shekau.

    NPF: Where is your GSM Cell phone?

    MY: I don’t know.

    NPF: You run away with many people, where are they now?

    MY: I don’t know.

    NPF: Are you getting any help from Niger Republic?

    MY: No, no one is helping us – Insha Allahu Warahamatullah, Insha Allahu Warahamatullah.

    NPF: Do you have a farm in Benishiek?

    MY: Yes.

    NPF: You made many died fighting, who do not know what they are fighting for, what is your opinion on their death?

    MY: It is on the conscious of the killers of my people.

    NPF: What about you’re Children that were killed?

    MY: My children are killed? Again it is on the conscious of the killers.

    NPF: Where are you from?

    MY: From Yobe State.

    NPF: Where from Yobe?

    MY? From Jakusko.

    NPF: Where is your mom from?

    MY: From Gashua.

    NPF: Have you travelled overseas?

    MY: Yes. Only to Pilgrimage or Haji.

    NPF: When?

    MY: 2000 to 2003.

    Discussion in English follows…

    http://www.saharare porters.com/ index.php? option=com_ content&view= article&id= 3377:qboko- haramq-mohammed- yusuf-being- interrogated- before-his- execution- video&catid= 1:latest- news&Itemid= 18

18. salman says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 2:08 pm

    pls check his pic after he was shot. you cant mistake that smile!!

    http://www.saharare porters.com/ index.php? option=com_ content&view= article&id= 3377:qboko- haramq-mohammed- yusuf-being- interrogated- before-his- execution- video&catid= 1:latest- news&Itemid= 18

19. abu musab says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 8:02 pm

    crying while writing, Imam remember your lecture title Allah is prepering us for victory, thats what make me stainght me in joining the boko haram people,Allah said (54. O you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islam), Allah will bring a people whom He will love and they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, fighting in the way of Allah, and never fearing the blame of the blamers. That is the grace of Allah which He bestows on whom He wills. And Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures’ needs, All-Knower.) (55. Verily, your Protector is Allah, His Messenger, and the believers, those who perform the Salah, and give Zakah, and they bow down.) (56. And whosoever takes Allah, His Messenger, and those who have believed, as protectors, then the party of Allah will be the victorious.)

20. Mohammed Aamir says:
    August 7, 2009 - الجمعة 17 شعبان 1430 at 10:24 pm

    The link isn’t working bro….

21. Um Umar traveller says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 4:28 am

    @ Salamn the link is broken Khayr insha’Allah

22. Mujaheed aldabbani says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 1:24 pm

    The videos are already on youtube circulatin

23. Assad says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 1:59 pm

    salaam

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html

    Allah is the best planner

24. abu Ateeq says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 5:12 pm

    Indeed his corpse was smiling. search google images.”Boko haram, Muhammad Yusuf”

25. Mallam Sadiq says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 5:14 pm

    Boko Haram, I have much doubt that Muslim Leaders are representing Muslim interest, or they are working with teaching of Holy Quran and the Sunnah, Really, Boko is Haram, just read Iqbal poems on education:

    “It was hoped that education would bring leiseur and prosperity. No one know that it would also bring atheism with it. No doubt Shirk has come to grace.

    “When the scoll of time turned a new page, a voice came: recieve education and you wil reciieve honour . But this education has shaken men’s convictions. It brought the good things of the world but the bird of faith

    flew away. Since it was not watered but the springs of Millat( community) , the ne genereation is tending towards atheism.”

    ” This age is a bad teacher to the youth, while it is as a day to the night of iblis ( Satan). I move about restlessly like a.. on its skirts, because this age is without light and warmth.”

    May Allah be peace with both dead and the living one amongst us.

26. abu musab says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 8:22 pm

    This is for benefit of those who wants to know about the true aqeeda of the people called by the media boko haram, http://www.muqatila.com or http://www.mansoorah.com

27. Abu Ikrimah says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 8:35 pm

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
    Alhamdulilah rabil alamin wa salatu wa salam ala rasullulah
    Salamualaykum brothers and sisters.
    May Allah forgive me and millions of other Muslims in Nigeria who allowed emotions to overwhelm us to be indifferent to the plight of our brothers when they being brutalised by the kaffir and crusader government. I was indifferent due to my interaction with some of these brothers may Allah accept them as shuhadah, they were fighting for shareah just like you said in your mail the other scholars could not stand for them due to their hinging their call for shareeah on abandonment of education, this was wrong on our part as this does not give the Nigerian government any right to kill innocent in some places defenceless people, just like they murdered the leader.
    Actually these people made some mistakes, but which people or Islamic harakat is free from mistakes, there is no justification for our actions as rasul sala lahu alayi wa salam said hunsuru akhaka zalama aw mazlum. Some of this ahlul sunnah scholars I do not blame them as they were in a dilemma and though we were wrong.
    Just Friday, 7th the real taghut betray came when the so called head of Muslims in Nigeria completely maligned these brothers calling them devilish we know who the real devil is.
    My dear brother, may Allah reward you for your post/email but I believe in justice and fairness in whatever we do you were very categorical in denying they never burnt schools as you know this was completely wrong on their part, but I have full well confirmed and authenticated report that they indeed did burn down schools not one school, so please it is important we state this and say this was wrong.
    Please, as an advice to you my dear sheikh, not because people are on the front line we say all they do is good I believe Islam comes before Muslims so the issue is to support Islam, this attitude of burning, stopping and banning people from education should be given adequate concern. With all due respect I love the Taliban and shareeah but we faced the same problem in Afghanistan when they banned Muslim women from education this I still find hard to believe as I read a newsletter from Supporters of Shareah that they established schools for girls in Afghanistan, then again in SWAT this also cropped up, and we have been having the same problem in Nigeria, people go about to tell us school is haram but they enjoy the benefit of those who go to school this is hypocrisy. Please let us advice ourselves sincerely with fairness and justice and not in the name of jihad defend what is wrong. The school has its pack of evils and problems but for Allah’s sake is this the way to go about it burning schools and saying western education is haram and the stuff, please lets advice ourselves.
    Below is fatawa from sheikh Abu Baseer (May Allah preserve him) with my first mail even if the mail permeated hatred and dislike he spoke and wrote to me we were wrong. Please this is the mail and his reply.
    Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
    Alhamdullilah wa salatu wa salam ala rasullulah
    I pray that this mail meets you in eman, health and comfort.
    I write to you today due to the unfortunate mention of Nigerian in the news about the killings in Northern Nigeria.
    Firstly, the media are over blowing the issues beyond proportion and want it to seem as if Nigeria/Northern Nigeria is on fire, no this is not the situation.
    Secondly, the people involved in this fighting, may Allah guide us, from the information I collected are people who have consistently and vehemently kicked against Muslims going to schools, saying they are ‘western’. We do not have to wear trousers and shirts, in fact this mayhem was started as a result of not wearing helmet that rasulullah salalahu alayi wa salam did not wear helmets that he salalahu alayi wa salam only wore turbans, these are people that ride on cars, they say that those who go to school and work for government are kuffar. In a nutshell everything western is haram. Only Qur’an and Sunnah are to be referred to adjudication, no human reasoning.
    This people can speak Arabic, are huffaz, they read Hadiths but their understanding is strange from what we have learnt. They have only succeeded in increasing and making difficult the welfare of other Nigerian Muslim organisations and spoiling the name Jihad and Taliban. Nigeria is not a country you wake up and carry weapons and begin to fight and say is Jihad, no, no right thinking Muslim will do this there are lot of enemies here quite alright – Christians and Government who will not willingly change are obstacles to implementation to Allah’s rule but believe me we first have to start with simple education it will pay off more.
    Basically these people ‘s call is hinged on muslims abandoning schools even if they say they call for shariah. Am sending you this to dispel the fact that the Muslims in Nigeria are fighting, No. And that the fight is taking over the entire Nigeria as the media is making us believe too, this is also a lie.
    Your Student
    Abu Ikrimah
    Walaykom Alsalam wa rahmat Allah wa Brakatuh,
    I would like to thank you for the clarifications that you have made, which I needed. The people that you have mentioned have tried to do the right thing but were mistaken, does this give the Nigearean government and the crusades army an excuse to kill hundreds of them? I hope that they are Shohada’a inshallah. These people are your brothers, even if you differed in certian topics you and all the Muslims in Nigeria are obliged to protect them and their rights. The matters in which their were disagreements can be removed by seeking knowledge and dialouge, not by mass slaughter and killing the innocents and those whom Allah has forbiddened the killing of. You giving an excuse to the criminal government for the killings that they have infflected amongst the muslims -as apparent from your letter- could mean that you get similler sins, so beware.

    Abu Baseer Altartousi

    May Allah pardon us,
    Please brother I would like you to contact me.
    abooikrimah@yahoo.com

28. attaajir says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 9:04 pm

    Alhamdulillah, wev seen in many fronts, martyrdom only increases d urge of ppl to do jihad, I pray Nigeria wil become d latest SOMALIA.
    aS FOr u abu Ubaida. what u regard as d ‘honest truth’ is infact d gravest lie dat u nd to produce proof for . Im a Nigerian and i know d movement to be rightly guided.
    May Allah strenghten the Muslims in Nigeria and d world at large, amen

29. Abdulmalik says:
    August 8, 2009 - السبت 18 شعبان 1430 at 10:12 pm

    asalamualykum, MALLAM whath we hear in nigeria media are false, ALLAH (SWT) know all. but they killed the leader of boko haram afther the soja said they capture him alive an giv him to police.sheik we should known dat dis is a wonin to alsuuna, we i think you should comment on.massallam

30. Ansarii says:
    August 10, 2009 - الاثنين 20 شعبان 1430 at 2:52 pm

    to Abu Ikrimah he said: “My dear brother, may Allah reward you for your post/email but I believe in justice and fairness in whatever we do you were very categorical in denying they never burnt schools as you know this was completely wrong on their part, but I have full well confirmed and authenticated report that they indeed did burn down schools not one school, so please it is important we state this and say this was wrong.”

    As at the time i wrote the letter. i confirmed whether the burning of schools was a true news. and based on what i got from my sources which i trust they told me it was false. Please kindly produce the evidences for me to confirm so that i will withdraw my earlier statement of falsifying the report.

    May Allah reward you.

31. Abu Siddiq says:
    August 12, 2009 - الأربعاء 22 شعبان 1430 at 8:04 pm

    I seek refuge in Allah from satan the accursed,
    In the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

    Indeed all praise is due to Allah. We praise Him, we seek His help and we seek forgiveness in Him. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and the evil effects of our actions. Whosoever Allah guides, there is none who can misguide him, and whosoever He misguides, none can guide him. I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger.

    My dear brothers and sisters, As-Salamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

    Shaykh Usama and his associates must have chosen the name AL-QAEDA for their little training base which subsequently became their name; the students in Afghanistan and Pakistan deemed it fit to call their selves the TALBAN. But who name these brothers BOKO HARAM? Was the name chosen by them? Why BOKO HARAM when DEMOCRACY is HARAM and KUFR BIT THAGUUT is what they first called for? Could this be because majority of Muslims are in the dark regarding this issue and even many others relating? Sure everyone has his answer. But the painful truth is this name was neither chosen by these brothers nor accepted by them. It was a psychological war by the government and some Muslims, including some clerics to use this name and other tactics such making it appear like these brothers were the first to attack the Nigerian security forces just to make them loose public sympathy.

    When our beloved prophet (SAW) declared that the hajj (which is one of the pillars of Islam) of a woman without her mahram is haram, unless those conditions that make it haram were taken care of, her hajj remain haram. Does this mean that our beloved prophet (SAW) means that HAJJ completely is HARAM and anyone who warns his sisters to avoid this prohibition should be called HAJJ HARAM. Then who on this earth will make it halal for a Muslim woman, matured, to travel for more than a month or up to a semester without her mahram just to study in an institution that was against the setting of islam and promote secularism, when for more than 4 decades, Muslims, both males and females have been studying in Nigeria but still couldn’t not raise Islamic schools. Who is this that dare allow that we study and believes those teachings that are clearly against the sayings and teachings of our beloved prophet, Muhammad (SAW). These and many others, as pointed out by brother wenul are few out of many things that make Imam Muhammad Yusuf (Rahimahullah) call for the withdrawal of our Muslim brothers and sisters from this system of education that history can bear witness only destroy the true aqeedah of Islam in us.

    What these brothers called for is the establishment of Khilafa and the rejection of democracy and all forms of shirk. There is no need of delving much into this point because every Muslim, Abu Ubaidah and Abu Ikirimah included, believes that democracy is Kufr, ruling with other than what Allah (SWT) in kufr, using constitution rule this country is shirk and in fact the government is considered a kufr government and the present massacre led by the Yar’adua and his governors is a clear proof of what this government and its armies is. What is happening is simple “are you for the establishment of shariah or are you for the defence of democracy and those who wage war against Islam”. Allah SWT) said in His Glorious Qur’an:

    Those who believe fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the Cause of Taghoot (false deities, ways, etc.). So fight the allies of Satan. Indeed the plot of Satan is indeed feeble.” (Al-Nisaa: 76)

    One of the clear lies and plot of this government is that these brothers (the so called book haram) start by attacking police station in Bauchi on Sunday and Maiduguri picked up on Monday. This was a clear lie as these brothers were first attacked in their places during the night, and the Nigerian media were keen helping the government in its propaganda, only for us to find out few days that Bauchi state under Isa Yuguda already had plans in place to raid this group since Saturday. The Daily Trust published in an article “BOKO HARAM: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS” in the fifth paragraph:

    “According to words going round, Governor Isa Yuguda phoned Sheriff five times on Saturday night to inform him of his plans to raid the stronghold in Bauchi, but got no response. His Excellency was said to be a sleep and nobody could wake him up even if the caller a governor like him! Not only that, even when Yuguda left a nerving shaking message, he never replied nor responded by organizing a similar pre-emptive strike! In this context, was it deliberate not to have answered Yuguda or call back? Why was the Borno state security Committee did nothing to forestall the mayhem? Definitely, if Bauchi and Borno state governors had coordinated their activities and struck at the same time, several lives could have been saved.” SOURCE: Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigeria.

    It is very disturbing how Muslims, like the writer of the article above were being totally ignorant in their comments and deeds, they wasted much of their time studying for the sake of this Dunya and care less about their deen. This writer finds the governor of Borno being very tolerant by allowing this group to reach this far, he said:

    “Let us now pause and examine the actions or inactions of the Borno state government, especially the role of its state chief security officer and governor, Ali Modu Sheriff. As the Chief Security Officer of the state, we will hold him responsible and liable for all the mayhem and loss of lives. For him to have tolerated the existence of such a heretic group in Maiduguri is most unfortunate and unacceptable and if you ask me, a very serious dereliction of duty”.

    Oh my dear brother, hundreds and thousands of incidence of killings like this will not stop Allah’s deen from triumphing, no matter how people don’t want, the rubbish and useless that we all are.

    ABU UBAIDAH
    You should be honest in your judgements, if i may remind you.

    What do you consider misguidance? Are you saying calling to rule by the Qur’an and Sunnah is misguidance or disbelieving in taghoot and shunning away from western education and system that are against Islam is misguidance. Glory be to Allah! (subhanallah). The claim that they make takfeer on the wrong people is wrong, you weren’t the only person that met Imam Muhammad Yusuf (rahimahullah) personally and there are more than enough of his lectures which prove contrary to what you claim.

    On the issue of your friend, you will have to tell us what kind of women you guys proposed to before we will conclude that they resemble mushriks or not. Are they the type that comes out in public with part of their bodies that Allah command they should cover open (i.e. are they coming out naked) or they wear full Hijan with all its seven conditions? Or are they the ones that feel there nothing wrong in westernisation, secularism and mixing freely with men. Do they consider Islam extreme in its treatment of women or are they happy with their status in Islam? Do they consider the shariah of Islam as subjugating and incompatible today and consider democracy and constitution as normal or do they want the shariah and follow the teachings of our Rasul (SAW)? Give yourself and answer. Perhaps your friend is wrong!!

    Please find below the link to download the book of Late Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf (rahimahullah). The book is in Arabic language though, but you might not be like me who doesn’t still even know how to read Arabic and knew little about his deen, who only dedicated his life studying at the primary, secondary and university level without even studying, memorising and practising even 1/6 of the Glorious Qur’an and the teachings of Muhammad (SAW).

    Here is the download link: the download section of the Arabic sites of http://www.muqatilah.com, and http://www.mansoorah.com,
    you can also download the book from MediaFire website i.e. http://www.mediafire.com/?bbhi10z2ndn,

    ABU IKRIMAH
    The answer given to your fatwa by Shaykh Abu Baseer (may Allah preserve him) was fair and everybody will understand this when we study carefully the twisted question you put through:

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
    Alhamdullilah wa salatu wa salam ala rasullulah
    I pray that this mail meets you in eman, health and comfort.
    I write to you today due to the unfortunate mention of Nigerian in the news about the killings in Northern Nigeria.
    Firstly, the media are over blowing the issues beyond proportion and want it to seem as if Nigeria/Northern Nigeria is on fire, no this is not the situation.
    Secondly, the people involved in this fighting, may Allah guide us, from the information I collected are people who have consistently and vehemently kicked against Muslims going to schools, saying they are ‘western’. We do not have to wear trousers and shirts, in fact this mayhem was started as a result of not wearing helmet that rasulullah salalahu alayi wa salam did not wear helmets that he salalahu alayi wa salam only wore turbans, these are people that ride on cars, they say that those who go to school and work for government are kuffar. In a nutshell everything western is haram. Only Qur’an and Sunnah are to be referred to adjudication, no human reasoning.
    This people can speak Arabic, are huffaz, they read Hadiths but their understanding is strange from what we have learnt. They have only succeeded in increasing and making difficult the welfare of other Nigerian Muslim organisations and spoiling the name Jihad and Taliban. Nigeria is not a country you wake up and carry weapons and begin to fight and say is Jihad, no, no right thinking Muslim will do this there are lot of enemies here quite alright – Christians and Government who will not willingly change are obstacles to implementation to Allah’s rule but believe me we first have to start with simple education it will pay off more.
    Basically these people‘s call is hinged on muslims abandoning schools even if they say they call for shariah. Am sending you this to dispel the fact that the Muslims in Nigeria are fighting, No. And that the fight is taking over the entire Nigeria as the media is making us believe too, this is also a lie.
    Your Student
    Abu Ikrimah

    Abu Ikrimah, what did you mean by consistently and vehemently kicking against Muslims going to schools? What is wrong in a cleric warning against practicing things that are against the teaching of Islam consistently, what is his fault in constantly calling people to come back to Islam and hold firmly to the Qur’an and Sunnah of our beloved prophet (SAW) instead of mimicking and following the ways of the westerners which is clearly against the teachings of Islam, What is his fault in calling people to shun taking the enemies of Allah as friends or help them as Allah said “waman yatawallahum minkum fa innahu minhum”. This is clear, anyone who thing there is nothing wrong in going to schools with such settings that are against Islam and see nothing wrong in following the westerners blindly could fall into this fitnah. You seem to be totally in the dark regarding this issue, perhaps you never bother being caring in the lawful and unlawful things you do. This issue of Boko Haram is not started by the Late Imam, take a look at the following Fatwa from Islam Q and A:

    FATWA TO QUESTION 8827:
    A mixed school is haraam according to sharee’ah
    I am a 16 yr old girl.I recently changed my school.
    Please could tou tell me how must i conduct myself in school.The girls to boys ratio is grossly unfair in this school.For eg in my chem class there are nearly 15 boys and only 3 girls!so sometimes when i need help with a ques or have an urgent doubt ihave to callup guys(vvvreluctantly).Moreover, since there are so few girls the guys are so frank with us. i spend about7hrs in school and i guess its not possible to not talk to anyone.Please let me know how should i behave in school .is it ok if i talk to guys or is it better that i not try be friendly with them?.
    Praise be to Allaah.
    Your attending a mixed school is haraam according to sharee’ah, because the mixing that you describe is exposing you to moral corruption and may be a means of causing you to commit sin.
    In many ahaadeeth, the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) warned men against the fitnah (temptation) of women, and he indicated that the matter is so serious that their fitnah is the worst of fitnahs and the most harmful thing.
    It was narrated from Usaamah ibn Zayd (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I am not leaving behind me any fitnah more harmful to men than women.”
    Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 4808; Muslim 2740
    It was narrated from ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Aamir that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Beware of entering upon women.” A man from among the Ansaar said, “O Messenger of Allaah, what about the in-law?’ He said, “The in-law is death.”
    Al-Bukhaari, 4934; Muslim, 2172
    Ibn Hajar said, commenting on the first hadeeth:
    This hadeeth indicates that the fitnah caused by women is greater than any other fitnah. This is supported by the verse in which Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
    “Beautified for men is the love of things they covet; women…”
    [Aal ‘Imraan 3:14]
    Allaah described them as being among the things that men covet, and He mentioned them first, before the other things, to indicate that they are the cause of the fitnah. We can see that a man is more inclined to love the children of a woman to whom he is still married than the children of a woman whom he has divorced.
    Fath al-Baari, 9/138
    Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
    Undoubtedly allowing women to mix freely with men is the basis of all evils. This is one of the greatest causes of punishment coming down upon everyone and of public and private affairs becoming corrupt. Free mixing of men and women is the cause of much immorality and adultery, and it is the cause of general doom and diseases.
    …
    One of the greatest causes of general doom is the prevalence of adultery because of allowing women to mix freely with men and to walk amongst them making a wanton display of their beauty. If the powers that be knew how much corruption it causes to worldly interests and to people, they would prevent it most vigorously.
    Al-Turuq al-Hakamiyyah, p. 408
    In the mixing that you describe, it is not possible to lower one’s gaze and it provokes women to desire men and vice versa. This is not permissible; rather this is the thing that leads to corruption. If the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade that for his own cousin (son of his paternal uncle) al-Fadl ibn al-‘Abbaas, when he was riding with him on his mount and they were performing one of the dearest acts of worship to Allaah, namely the Hajj, when Al-Fadl was in the company of the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and at the time of the Sahaabah who were the most pious of people, then how can we allow the women of our own times, when diseases of the heart are widespread and religious commitment is at such a low level, to sit in the same place as men without a mahram, for so many hours every day?
    Fear Allaah, my sister, and do not go to this school, no matter how difficult that may be. We will quote to you the hadeeth of al-Fadl referred to above:
    It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: Al-Fadl was the riding partner of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). A woman from (the tribe of) Kath’am came, and al-Fadl started looking at her and she started looking at him, so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) turned al-Fadl’s face to the other side. She said, “O Messenger of Allaah, the command of Allaah enjoining Hajj upon His slaves has come when my father is an old man and is not steady on his mount; can I do Hajj on his behalf?” He said, “Yes.” That was the Farewell pilgrimage.
    Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1442; Muslim, 1334.
    Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (may Allaah have mercy on him) said, commenting on this hadeeth:
    This hadeeth demonstrates the natural desire for women that is created in human beings, and what may be feared from looking at them. Al-Fadl ibn ‘Abbaas was one of the young men of Banu Haashim, and he was the most handsome man of his time, according to what they said.
    This also indicates that the ruler must prevent men and women from looking at one another. That includes preventing the women for whom there is no guarantee that they will not cause or be subject to temptation from walking in the streets and marketplaces and places where they can look at men. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I am not leaving behind me any fitnah more harmful to men than women.” And Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
    “Tell the believing men to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts)…”
    [al-Noor 24:31]
    This is sufficient for the one who ponders the meanings of the Book of Allaah and is guided to act upon it.
    Al-Tamheed, 9/123-124
    There is no need for mixing. Studying in this school is not essential; so long as a woman can read and write and knows the teachings of her religion, that is sufficient, because she was created for that, i.e., to worship Allaah. Anything beyond that is not essential.
    And Allaah knows best.
    Islam Q&A

    FATWA TO QUESTION 70223:
    There are no schools in his city that are not mixed and he only has a few months left in school
    I’m a young brother living in Canada and raised here. I currently attend a mixed kafir school(currently im my final year 12).Although I have read in your web-site that mixed schools are haram (and I personally don’t doubt that my self). the only Islamic school in my area is also a mixed school. I was not aware until recently that mixed schools are Haram in Islamic shar’eeah.Also my mom would be greatly heart broken if I left this kafir school. my qouestion is; am I allowed to complete my high school education in this kafir school? which I will have to stay in for the next 5 month.
    Praise be to Allaah.
    Firstly:
    The basic principle is that it is not permissible for anyone to study in mixed schools, because of the evils and haraam things that result from mixing, as is obvious to everyone.
    Secondly:
    If there is an urgent or genuine need to study, and there is no option other than mixed schools, then there is nothing wrong with you completing your studies, but you must lower your gaze and avoid the causes of fitnah (temptation), and remember that Allaah is always watching you, in secret and in the open.
    Shaykh Ibn Jibreen (may Allaah preserve him) said concerning the one who is faced with this problem of mixed schools: They have to try hard to lower their gaze, protect themselves and keep away from temptation which could lead them into haraam actions. If he notices that he is starting to slip towards something haraam, he should stop attending. End quote from the answer to question no. 6118.
    We ask Allaah to make you steadfast in word and deed.
    And Allaah knows best.
    Islam Q&A

    FATWA TO QUESTION 45883:
    He is studying in a mixed university; how should he deal with female teachers and students?
    I am a young man who is religiously committed. I am studying in a mixed university and I would like to develop my specialty further, but that requires me to interact in class, which will open channels of communication between me and other students. In addition to that there are female teachers who teach us very important subjects. How should I interact with the female students and teachers?.
    Praise be to Allaah.
    Studying in mixed schools, institutes and universities is not permitted. The evils that exist in these institutions because of that mixing are no secret, let alone the fact that people do not learn much, if anything, in these institutions. Wise people even in kaafir countries have called for segregation between the sexes in educational institutions because of the moral damage they have noticed and the weakening of educational standards. Trustworthy have scholars have issued fatwas stating that this kind of education is not permissible.
    The scholars of the Standing Committee said:
    It is haraam for male and female students and teachers to mix in educational institutions, because of the fitnah and provocation of desires and immoral conduct that results from that. The gravity of the sin is compounded if the female teachers and students uncover any part of their ‘awrahs or wear see-through or tight clothing, or if the students or teachers flirt or joke together, which may lead to transgression of limits and violation of honour.
    Fataawa Islamiyyah, 3/102, 103
    Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
    Is it permissible for a man to study in a mixed university where men and women mix in one classroom, knowing that the student has a role to play in calling people to Allaah?
    He replied:
    What I think is that it is not permissible for anyone, man or woman, to study in a mixed school, because of the grave danger that it poses to his chastity, integrity and morals. No matter how great a person’s integrity, morals and innocence, if a woman is sitting beside him on the seat – especially if she is beautiful and unveiled – he can hardly avoid fitnah and evil. Everything that leads to fitnah and evil is also haraam and is not permitted. We ask Allaah to keep our Muslim brothers safe from such things which will only bring evil, fitnah and corruption to their youth. If there is no other university apart from this one, he should go and study in another city or country where this mixing does not happen. I do not think that this is permissible but others may have a different opinion.
    Fataawa Islamiyyah, 3/103
    We have already discussed the ruling on mixing in detail in the answer to question no. 1200.
    See also the answers to questions no. 8827, 22397 and 6666.
    This is easy those who do not have the problem of mixed schools in their country or who have access to colleges and universities that are not mixed, so they have no need to study in mixed colleges. But there remains the question of those who are faced with the problem of mixed schools in their countries. What should they do, especially if that will affect their chances of earning a living or of getting married in the future, since if they do not study in these colleges they will not be able to find a job or get married.
    In this case, there is no option, and the need is great, and when the need is great, the matter may come under the heading of necessity. This necessity may be taken into consideration, provided that the following conditions are met:
    1- That there be no other place where he can study, even if it is in another country
    2- That he cannot obtain this certificate by means of distance learning or studying via the internet, for example
    3- That he goes to study in these mixed places seeking the help of Allaah to confront fitnah.
    He should take care to lower his gaze as much as he can and not touch or shake hands with non-mahram women or be alone with them, and he should not sit right next to them.
    He should advise the girls to sit away from the boys and adhere to other Islamic guidelines as well.
    4- If he notices himself slipping towards haraam things and being tempted by those of the opposite sex who are with him, then the soundness of his religious commitment is more important than any worldly aims, so he has to leave the place immediately and Allaah will make him independent of means by His bounty. And Allaah is the One Whose help we seek.
    And Allaah knows best.
    There follows a list of colleges and universities that are not mixed:
    1- The Medical College in Dubai
    2- Al-Azhar University in Egypt
    3- The Imam Muhammad ibn Sa’ood Islamic University in Saudi
    4- Umm al-Qura University in Makkah al-Mukarramah
    5- The Islamic University in Madeenah al-Munawwarah
    6- The King Sa’ood University in Saudi.
    Islam Q&A

    LETS BE FAIR!

    Please give me a reference where these brothers said wearing shirts and trousers is haram, because this i’ve never heard from them.

    Regarding helmet Abu Ikrimah, we need to be fair in our words as we will account for every single letter we said. Did these brothers just reject wearing helmet just because our prophet (SAW) did not wear helmet. NO. This is because it has something to do with our aqeedah. Every Muslim agrees that certain things in our cultures and daily routines which are not against the Islamic Shariah can be practiced as long as it does not contradict or go against Islam. Now the Nigerian government introduced this helmet as a remedy to deaths caused by accidents with motorcycles. This would have been enough for the government to advice every citizens to wear helmet, but it made it compulsory and even arresting, beating and collecting fines from those who do not wear helmet, forcing us to believe that this helmet protects. This clearly violates the Islamic teaching of qadr.

    As Muslims we all believe in qadr, good and bad, and we believe that when Allah (SWT) destined something to happen no matter how many helmets you put on, it will definitely happen. And Muhammad (SAW) has given us so many duas to recite when mounting on any means of transport, for protections, and adhkars for morning and evening which guarantees Allah’s protection. Abu Ikrimah who among these two do we follow? Do we following the teachings and the saying of Muhammad (SAW) who speak not for himself except which was revealed to him, or do we follow these tawageet that only spend their life during training and after in mamis drinking wine and alcohols. Do you still consider the Muslims in the army and other security agencies who fight and kill our Muslim brothers as Muslims? Do you have doubt in the saying of Allah “Those who believe fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the Cause of Taghoot (false deities, ways, etc.). So fight the allies of Satan. Indeed the plot of Satan is indeed feeble.” (Al-Nisaa: 76)? Do you still have doubt that those who protect and serve the constitution are working against Islam? Allah said: No, by your Lord, they will never believe until they make you judge in what they dispute, finding no grief in their hearts for what you have judged, submitting to it totally.” (Al-Nisaa: 65).

    Abu Ikrimah and his folks seems to be more afraid of the government and people than Allah, they think the government is more powerful than Allah and there will be no victory without education and support of people. The Taliban should have leave every women to go school that will only spoil her aqeedah and would have been still ruling Afghanistan. Education, technology, are there only means of victory. Amazing! Muslims weren’t even thinking of giving a hand to their brothers and sisters in Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Instead, they are blaming them and giving their enemies more encouragement to continue their assault. Well tell us your plans.

    ABU IKRIMAH YOU ARE SO BLIND that you did not even notice what Shaykh told you in his reply, a very good advice:

    You giving an excuse to the criminal government for the killings that they have infflected amongst the muslims -AS APPARENT FROM YOUR LETTER- could mean that YOU GET SIMILLER SINS, SO BEWARE.

    LET US ALL BEWARE, find the little mistakes made by these brothers and forge ahead as our brother pointed out: CHANGE CAN BE DEFERRED BUT CANNOT BE STOPED.

    Victory is only in the hands of ALLAH as Imam Abdulkadir Ibn AbdulAziz writes in his book, Allah said:

    And there is no victory except from Allah! (Al-imraan, 126 and Anfaal 10)

    If Allah helps you, none can overcome you, and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you. (Al-imraan, 160)

    And when this meaning was absent from some of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them, in the Battle of Hunayn, and they were impressed by their great numbers, the defeat took place so they would know that the numbers and materials do not benefit anything except by the permission of Allah. He, Ta’ala said:

    Truly, Allah has given you victory on many battle fields, and on the day of Hunayn, when you rejoiced at your great number, but it availed you naught and the Earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you, then you turned back in flight. Then Allah did send down His Sakinah (calmness, tranquillity and reassurance, etc.) on the messenger and on the Believers, and sent down forces (Angels) which you saw not, and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the recompense of disbelievers. (At-taubah 25-26).

    HASBUNALLAHU WA NI’IMAL WAKEEL.

    DOWNLOAD
    Here is the download link: the download section of the Arabic sites of http://www.muqatilah.com, and http://www.mansoorah.com,
    you can also download the book from MediaFire website i.e. http://www.mediafire.com/?bbhi10z2ndn,

    DO NOT FORGET YOUR BROTHERS IN YOUR SINCERE DUAS

32. Um Umar traveller says:
    August 13, 2009 - الخميس 23 شعبان 1430 at 12:48 am

    Asalamu Alaikum WRWB @ Abu Saddiq , Jazakillah Khayr for the noble read , you spoke the Haqq , may Allah protect you and all like minded brothers and sisters and may Gracious Allah protect our children from the shatanee influences that creep slowly into their lives from the corrupt forces that surround us ameen
    Jihad , Shariah , Khalifah is the only way , Allahu Akbar

33. abu yusuf says:
    August 13, 2009 - الخميس 23 شعبان 1430 at 11:28 pm

    http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090806-proof-islamic-leader-mohammed-yusuf-nigeria-custody-police-islam-extremism

34. sTrAnGeR says:
    August 17, 2009 - الاثنين 27 شعبان 1430 at 2:09 am

    Can someone confirm the below:

    Boko Haram ressurects, declares total Jihad
    Headlines Aug 14, 2009

    The Islamic sect Boko Haram has declared total Jihad in Nigeria, threatening to Islamise the entire nation by force of war.

    In a statement dated August 9, 2009 and made available to Vanguard, the sect whose activities led to the lost of hundreds of lives in northern Nigeria recently declared that their leader Yusuf who was killed in controversial circumstances during the crisis, lives forever.

    In what looked like a declaration of war on the rest of the nation, the Boko Haram sect said it will unleash terror in Southern Nigeria this August, beginning with the bombing of Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu to make good its words.
    Vanguard reproduces the statement below as issued by Boko Haram.

    WE SPEAK AS BOKO HARAM
    For the first time since the Killing of Mallam Mohammed Yusuf, our leader, we hereby make the following statements.

    1) First of all that Boko Haram does not in any way mean ‘Western Education is A sin’ as the infidel media continue to portray us. Boko Haram actually means ‘Western Civilisation’ is forbidden. The difference is that while the first gives the impression that we are opposed to formal education coming from the West, that is Europe, which is not true, the second affirms our believe in the supremacy of Islamic culture (not Education), for culture is broader, it includes education but not determined by Western Education.
    Boko Haram memebers and their late leader, Mohammed Yusuf

    Boko Haram members and their late leader, Mohammed Yusuf

    In this case we are talking of Western Ways of life which include: constitutional provision as if relates to, for instance the rights and privileges of Women, the idea of homosexualism, lesbianism, sanctions in cases of terrible crimes like drug trafficking, rape of infants, multi-party democracy in an overwhelmingly Islamic country like Nigeria, blue films, prostitution, drinking beer and alcohol and many others that are opposed to Islamic civilisation.

    2) That the Boko Haram is an Islamic Revolution which impact is not limited to Northern Nigeria, in fact, we are spread across all the 36 states in Nigeria, and Boko Haram is just a version of the Al Qaeda which we align with and respect. We support Osama bin Laden, we shall carry out his command in Nigeria until the country is totally Islamised which is according to the wish of Allah.

    3) That Mallam Yusuf has not died in vain and he is a martyr. His ideas will live for ever.

    4) That Boko Haram lost over 1000 of our Marty members killed by the wicked Nigerian army and police mostly of Southern Nigeria extraction. That the Southern states, especially the infidel Yoruba, Igbon and Ijaw infidels will be our immediate target.

    5) That the killing of our leaders in a callous, wicked and malicious manner will not in any way deter us. They have lost their lives in the struggle for Allah.

    Having made the following statement we hereby reinstate our demands:
    1) That we have started a Jihad in Nigeria which no force on earth can stop. The aim is to Islamise Nigeria and ensure the rule of the majority Muslims in the country. We will teach Nigeria a lesson, a very bitter one.

    2) That from the Month of August, we shall carry out series of bombing in Southern and Northern Nigerian cities, beginning with Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Port Harcourt. The bombing will not stop until Sharia and Western Civilisation is wiped off from Nigeria. We will not stop until these evil cities are tuned into ashes.

    3) That we shall make the country ungovernable, kill and eliminate irresponsible political leaders of all leanings, hunt and gun down those who oppose the rule of Sharia in Nigeria and ensure that the infidel does not go unpunished.

    4) We promise the West and Southern Nigeria, a horrible pastime. We shall focus on these areas which is the devil empire and has been the one encouraging and sponsoring Western Civilisation into the shores of Nigeria.

    5) We call on all Northerners in the Islamic States to quit the follower ship of the wicked political parties leading the country, the corrupt, irresponsible, criminal, murderous political leadership, and join the struggle for Islamic Society that will be corruption free, Sodom free, where security will be guaranteed and there will be peace under Islam.

    6) That very soon, we shall stir Lagos, the evil city and Nigeria’s South West and South East, in a way no one has ever done before. Al Hakubarah

    ITS EITHER YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US

    Mallam Sanni Umaru

    Acting Leader Boko Haram
    Signed: August 09, 2009

    http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/14/boko-haram-ressurects-declares-total-jihad/

35. Soelayman says:
    August 17, 2009 - الاثنين 27 شعبان 1430 at 1:32 pm

    http://www.alqimmah.net/showthread.php?t=9006

    Boko Haram ressurects, declares TOTAL JIHAD

    WE SPEAK AS BOKO HARAM

    For the first time since the Killing of Mallam Mohammed Yusuf, our leader, we hereby make the following statements.

    1) First of all that Boko Haram does not in any way mean ‘Western Education is A sin’ as the infidel media continue to portray us. Boko Haram actually means ‘Western Civilisation’ is forbidden. The difference is that while the first gives the impression that we are opposed to formal education coming from the West, that is Europe, which is not true, the second affirms our believe in the supremacy of Islamic culture (not Education), for culture is broader, it includes education but not determined by Western Education.
    Boko Haram memebers and their late leader, Mohammed Yusuf

    Boko Haram members and their late leader, Mohammed Yusuf

    In this case we are talking of Western Ways of life which include: constitutional provision as if relates to, for instance the rights and privileges of Women, the idea of homosexualism, lesbianism, sanctions in cases of terrible crimes like drug trafficking, rape of infants, multi-party democracy in an overwhelmingly Islamic country like Nigeria, blue films, prostitution, drinking beer and alcohol and many others that are opposed to Islamic civilisation.

    2) That the Boko Haram is an Islamic Revolution which impact is not limited to Northern Nigeria, in fact, we are spread across all the 36 states in Nigeria, and Boko Haram is just a version of the Al Qaeda which we align with and respect. We support Osama bin Laden, we shall carry out his command in Nigeria until the country is totally Islamised which is according to the wish of Allah.

    3) That Mallam Yusuf has not died in vain and he is a martyr. His ideas will live for ever.

    4) That Boko Haram lost over 1000 of our Marty members killed by the wicked Nigerian army and police mostly of Southern Nigeria extraction. That the Southern states, especially the infidel Yoruba, Igbon and Ijaw infidels will be our immediate target.

    5) That the killing of our leaders in a callous, wicked and malicious manner will not in any way deter us. They have lost their lives in the struggle for Allah.

    Having made the following statement we hereby reinstate our demands:
    1) That we have started a Jihad in Nigeria which no force on earth can stop. The aim is to Islamise Nigeria and ensure the rule of the majority Muslims in the country. We will teach Nigeria a lesson, a very bitter one.

    2) That from the Month of August, we shall carry out series of bombing in Southern and Northern Nigerian cities, beginning with Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Port Harcourt. The bombing will not stop until Sharia and Western Civilisation is wiped off from Nigeria. We will not stop until these evil cities are tuned into ashes.

    3) That we shall make the country ungovernable, kill and eliminate irresponsible political leaders of all leanings, hunt and gun down those who oppose the rule of Sharia in Nigeria and ensure that the infidel does not go unpunished.

    4) We promise the West and Southern Nigeria, a horrible pastime. We shall focus on these areas which is the devil empire and has been the one encouraging and sponsoring Western Civilisation into the shores of Nigeria.

    5) We call on all Northerners in the Islamic States to quit the follower ship of the wicked political parties leading the country, the corrupt, irresponsible, criminal, murderous political leadership, and join the struggle for Islamic Society that will be corruption free, Sodom free, where security will be guaranteed and there will be peace under Islam.

    6) That very soon, we shall stir Lagos, the evil city and Nigeria’s South West and South East, in a way no one has ever done before. Allahu akbar

    ITS EITHER YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US

    Mallam Sanni Umaru

    Acting Leader Boko Haram
    Signed: August 09, 2009 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/1…s-total-jihad/

36. Ansaarii says:
    August 17, 2009 - الاثنين 27 شعبان 1430 at 2:04 pm

    Assalam alaikum

    Bro Abu Saddiq may Allah reward you for your contribution. the link to the book is working but its like the file is corrupted. pls kindly upload a new one or give us another link. as for Abu Ikrimah, may Allah guide him to stop supporting the tawageet. And, i am still expecting him to give me his so called “documented facts” that show that the brothers started burning schools.

37. rz says:
    August 19, 2009 - الأربعاء 29 شعبان 1430 at 2:32 pm

    @ Brother Abu Siddiq
    JazakAllah Khair for the post

38. Ansaarii says:
    August 19, 2009 - الأربعاء 29 شعبان 1430 at 4:35 pm

    To Soelayman, pls kindly post a working link to the work of the imam muhammad yusuf.

39. Ansaarii says:
    August 19, 2009 - الأربعاء 29 شعبان 1430 at 5:39 pm

    I have these to say about the post of Soelayman:

    1. if this group that released these statement are truly a group of Jihad, why didn’t they take care of this statement by observing the sunnah of beginning with the name of Allah.

    2. They were making heavy statements and in most cases didn’t include the statement of inshaAllah.

    3. Although it can be read between the lines that the group wish to implement sharia across Nigeria and to abolish democracy, they didn’t care to make this very important point very clear.

    4. They have not assured the Muslims safety and amnesty to the common Muslims. their statements are rather scary to the common awwam Muslims. I believe they should specifically mention clearly this aspect to the Muslims for they could easily be blackmailed by the scholars as being khawaarij and hence the masses will be totally against them. I believe that the jihad of these brothers is expected to be for the benefit of the awwam Muslims so they have a right to be clearly told that. i stand to be corrected.

    5. They mention that so and so is a shaheed without insha Allah.

    6. They didn’t end this statement in the usual way the mujahiddon end.

    Based on the following I strongly doubt if this statement is coming from the students of Imam Muhammad Yusuf.

40. saidu ibn abdullah says:
    August 19, 2009 - الأربعاء 29 شعبان 1430 at 9:09 pm

    Alhamdulil lah wassalatu was salamu ala rasulullah.
    We are the people the called ”Boko haram in Nigeria”
    So i will insha Allah explain a little concerning our stands.
    1. We will insha Allah never join any shubuha that the tawageet want. not only western education, but any thing that is not clear to us we will never join. Innal halala baiyinun wa…. wala taqrabul fawahisha ma zahara….
    And western education is full with practical harams and shirk! But knowledge is strongly incoraging ,so we have our oun sylabus of many fields and we learn, Medicine of the prophet, i m an architech , but i learn it not in their school.
    2. We consider muslims as muslims. Provided they do not commit clear shirk. And we follow stages of takfeer b4 we pronouce them kuffar.
    so simply we are not murjia nor khawarij.
    3. The dawgeets delibrately wage war on us after they know that our daawah is getting followers.
    And finally now we are under the leadership of our new amir Shaikh Abubakar Shekau.
    We sick the help of Allah, and we are calling all our muslim Brother worldwide to come and join us in this jihad against the enemies of Allah.

41. Jihadfeesabililah says:
    August 21, 2009 - الجمعة 02 رمضان 1430 at 7:30 am

    The Brigades of Tawhid
    ————————————————————–

    Sha’aban 28, 1430 A.H, August 20, 2009
    ………………………………………………………………

    “All praise and thanks are due to Allah, the One who does not forgive shirk, yet forgives anything less than that for whomsoever He wills. And whosoever commits shirk, then he has indeed invented a tremendous sin and whosoever commits shirk, then he has indeed strayed far away.

    Peace and blessings be upon Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the imam of the muwahhidin, the one who was ordered in the Quran to follow the path of Ibrahim and the Da’awah of all the mursalin in calling to the Tawhid of Rabb al-Alamin.

    The Holy prophet (saw) taught us pride and dignity. He taught us to challenge the enemy and take the path of the honest people. May Allah accept him and his powerful followers who abjured anybody who contradicted, the good hanafi, no matter how close he was to them. They went around the world and faced danger in the desert and risked their lives as proof of this. They took over lands and countries to get them to worship the only deity worthy of the heavens and earth. And for what follows;

    Every conscious Muslim in this era of neo-jahiliyyah will definitely become perplexed as a result of events and happenings that are unfolding themselves. He will never seize to wonder about the pillars of kafir that has its tentacles and branches all over the nooks and crannies of the world. Most at times, he might feel overburdened as a result of the vibrancy of kufur and its strong agents that controls everything at his fingertips but anyway he must finally result to a conclusion that kufur will never be extinguish except with the brigades of Tawhid. Those who are ready to sell this world for the hereafter scattered all over the world but with a unified goal of establishing the Tawhid of Allah on the surface of the earth such were the brigades of tawhid in Nigeria.

    Prior to the advent of western subjugation in the area that later became known as Nigeria, their existed the Sokoto caliphate, a caliphate that was established upon the Islamic Shariah through the jihad and unrelented efforts of Shaykh Uthman bin Fodio in 1804. Many cities, villages as well as provinces were liberated from the worship of kings to the worship of Allah (swt). They were liberated from obeying and following the orders of the kings to that of Allah (swt).

    These existed for a long period of time and it covered most parts of the northern Nigeria. Islamic laws were highly implemented; the Shariah of Islam was strictly adhered to as well as Islamic education, principles and practices. All of these were flourishing in northern Nigeria before the emergence of western warlords who embarked on massive subjugation of the territory. They finally invaded and conquered this caliphate just like what was carried out to other lands of the Muslims in 1903 at the event of the battle of Burmi where the brigades of Tawhid under the leadership of Shaykh Attahiru Muhammad got their martyrdom without compromising their stances on the Tawhid of Allah at a fierce battle with the white dogs.

    After this events, the western monkeys embarked on their mission geared towards re-socialization of the caliphate as the land that was known for rejecting any law that contradict Islamic Shariah soon became a land that house alien laws even when they contradict Islam with the help of their stooges and puppets who forcefully impose these laws in the caliphate. Alien laws that contradict Islam became the order of the day as Islamic laws gradually became a history of the past. However, they begin a gradual process of transformation in this caliphate through the suspension of Islamic laws, silencing the callers of Tawhid as well as suppression of Islamic education and introduction western education which became an instrument of coercion. To further frustrate this caliphate, they amalgamated it with that of the southern territory that has already been drowned into western colonization for the purpose of strict supervision and domination.

    Western education became the yardstick for the control of resources, revenue, appointments as well as supervision of the administrative structure of the caliphate. However, it should be understood that the impact of this system of education was highly detrimental to the religion of Islam and its practices in the caliphate as virtually all that was introduced by this education contradict the already established principles of Islam. At this point in time, the already subdued caliphate and its people became drown into confusion as to whether or not to partake in this new phenomenon. Majority of the emirs, scholars and even the masses who prefer to maintain their fitrah rejected the western law and their system of education and in most cases they were killed, persecuted or imprisoned.

    The aftermath of the amalgamation witnessed total subjugation of the northern territory by its southern counterpart who at this time was very vast in western education which was the dictator of affairs. At this juncture, as a result of the apparent reality, most of the Islamic scholars gave verdicts for the permissibility of Muslims to partake in the western education but with the intention of Islamizing it so as to lift up the domination from their southern counterparts, other scholars never supported these ideas because they referred to it as submission to kufur which they say can nullify one’s Islam.

    However, it should be understood that those who designed this education hated Islam and were ready to extinguish its growth and development as those who partake in this education were restricted in their observance of Islamic practices. They were exposed to Christianity, western ideologies and within a short period of time some were converted to Christianity and were taken to Europe to further their study. Islamic practices were strictly not adhered to and this became a problem as those with high Islamic spirit for reformation who took part in this education gradually became sheep’s who submitted wholly to the system and its practices even when they contradict Islam as Allah (swt) said

    “fain would they extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow but that his light should be perfected, even though the unbelievers may detest it” [at-tawbah v 32].

    The northern territory that was known for its strict observance of Islam gradually became loose as western ideas became the dominant ideas in this territory. Several people who hated this domination started to make vibrant preparation to conquer the white dogs which led to the formation of several Islamic resistance movements most of which could not live up to limelight.

    At this juncture, the territory has lost its foothold on Islam as majority of the emirs, scholars as well as the masses became the followers and lovers of the white dogs and its system of operation. It became so surprising that the inheritors of Islam and those who claim to be following the manhaj of the Salaf could call to the submission to kufur and its laws and practices all in the name of maslaha and necessity up to the extent that it became an inherited custom in this territory that lost martyrs and great heroes who fought tirelessly to sustain the dignity of Islam in it. As Shaykh Abdullah Azzam once said “indeed Islamic history is not written except with the blood of the Shuhadaa, except with the stories of the Shuhadaa and except with the examples of the Shuhadaa” such examples were the great heroes of the sokoto jihad.

    In the course of time, this inherited custom became the order of the day as no scholar or emir could speak publicly against kufur and its practices but rather they all submitted to maslaha and necessity which will never bring back the glories of the Deen. This is so because the Deen of Allah can never be victorious by culture and teaching only or by political information and analysis or by speeches on the pulpit but rather by undergoing esteem efforts and hardship in the cause of Allah. This was the situation of the territory before the emergence of the brigades of Tawhid.

    The lovers of Allah and his rasul (saw) the one who was never pleased to be ruled with laws that contradict the Shariah of Islam; the one who have engaged in serious hardships geared towards raising the banner of Islam once again in this territory. The one who brings back the fresh memories of the people of the ditch, the people of the cave, the rasul (saw) and his companions such were the brigades of Tawhid under the leadership of Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf (may Allah accept his martyrdom) and all those who died in the cause of establishing Allah’s Tawhid.

    They made their first public appearance around 1995 with a stern Da’awah of remembering the people of Tawhid and the history of their fatherland bringing back the fresh memories of the leaders of the sokoto jihad men of resolve, honour, steadfastness, determination those who the Akhira was their goal and Dunya was their hate. Those who submitted the whole of their affairs in pursuance of the jihad. For a long period of time, this was among the first attempt to make clear bara’ah from kufur publicly in this territory. Wallahi, the land of the caliphate have produced little or no example of these brigades of Tawhid ever since it’s collapse. Those who are harsh on anything that contradict Islam and were never built on compromise. Their Da’awah was a clear bara’ah from the shirk which the people have beautified and have submitted to.

    They are the people who are ready to pay the price of striving upon the millat Ibrahim and this could be understood from their Da’awah as well as their publication such as “this is our Aqeedah”. Nobody except a person who has nifaq in him would not be touched from their Da’awah. They are sincere people who don’t only speak but also acted upon their speeches after the Ummah has been drowned into loss as a result of the incapability of the scholars to stand upon the truth and the ignorance of their followers.

    However, it was something to expect ever since their emergence and the nature of their Da’awah that was straight to the point and their call to the millat Ibrahim that they will be the greatest enemy of the people of falsehood and authority and this is what differentiate them from other groups in the country that claim to be calling to the likes of what the prophet (saw) used to call to and his methodology. It is so clear that the people of desires and authority will never be pleased with their Da’awah because it is a direct clash against their current positions.

    Their Da’awah is a clear bara’ah from their deities and their manifestation of shirk. These are brothers who are so devoted and have submitted their affairs to Allah (swt). All other groups that claim to be calling to Tawhid are highly enjoying luxurious and have inclined towards this Dunya. You will never see traces of trials upon them and they are not regarded as threat by this authority rather they are been pleased with them and even sponsoring their programmes and we will begin to wonder when kufur will become please not to talk of sponsoring the muwahhidin. Many sincere brothers who were ready to work and establish their lost caliphate joined these callers of Tawhid.

    It should however be understood that these brothers were not only preaching the Tawhid of Allah but they are also grooming the people towards crushing the tawaghit in the country and all their allies. It is to this reason that any brother with this mindset will often be harassed and molested. Even the leader was in most cases imprisoned and interrogated by the intelligence agencies who are so inquisitive about his mission which have never been done to any of those who claim to be following the manhaj of the rasul (saw) but rather the tawaghit is pleased with them. Most of the brothers suffered seriously from the government when they began a campaign of blackmailing and tarnishing the image of the brothers alongside their puppets scholars.

    Although, the approach of the jama’a seems very traditional in the sense that their approach to estimates kufur as that of the old times. The kufur in our own time is different from the one Shaykh Uthman bin fodio faced in his time. Our own kufur has everything in its disposal from technology, media, viable military army and allot of agents which therefore requires a lot of strategy in planning for its collapse.

    In 2004, there emerged a misunderstanding among the brothers. Some felt it was time to launch a jihad on the tawaghit but others went against the idea but suggested more preparation against crushing the tawaghit. As a result of this misunderstanding, there emerged a split among the brothers and those who felt it was time to launch the jihad actually launched the jihad in yobe state but they were all crushed by the government. These incidents increase the security consciousness of the country as it became apparent that the tawaghit were about to face their doom just like their counterparts in Somalia and the middle east.

    However, the brothers continued their Da’awah despite the opposition from the scholars of the tawaghit those whom can even shed tears for the destruction of the taghut. The brothers did not fear the blame of the blamers and were never ready to retract from their call to tawhid even if the taghut detest it. The scholars of the government embarked on their massive blackmail, opposition as well as tarnishing the image of the brothers. They were proudly supported by the tawaghit who felt threatened by the brothers so as never to make the people to ponder upon their religion but rather to continue to regard the Islamic texts as book of history.

    Since the 2004 incident, the activities of the brothers have been closely monitored by the intelligence agencies. Many traitors, betrayals and even infiltrators camouflaged and joined the ranks of these brothers. The military agencies were always alerted about the activities of these brothers before the emergence of the final showdown on these brothers that was tagged by most kufur-oriented media as “the Boko Haram in Nigeria”.

    Before this incident, on a fateful day some of the brothers were coming back from a jana’iz before the security operatives confronted them on their refusal to put on an helmet which is a new law established by the tawaghit for all motorcycle riders. The brothers refused to put on the helmet and it provoked the security operatives before they launch an attack on the brothers killing 18 of them. It was this scenario coupled with series of incidents of harassment that the brothers do encounter that provoked their actions, they decided to confront the security operatives so as to revenge for their lost ones. This was the attack that lasted for almost one week and which revealed the hidden agenda of the tawaghit and their kafir paymasters.

    At this juncture, I will like to give a vivid explanation about the structure, composition and organization of Nigerian army which is similar to other army of the colonized states. In Nigeria, the military artillery, arsenal as well as weapon storage of the Nigerian army are all concentrated in northern Nigeria. Likewise, majority of the military and para-military training school are also situated in the north. The reason to this can be derived from the fact that it is only this territory the white dogs fear that an uprising that might dismantle their imaginary boundary may arise from.

    So therefore they have made an adequate strategy and preparation to curtail such uprising in case it occur. The Nigerian army is an army that prevent the observance of Islamic practices for its recruits and ranks but this is not surprising since it is an army of kufur. Most sincere Muslims will never wish to partake in this army that fight against Islam but always wants to promote tawaghit laws as well as nationalism. Even if the Muslims participate in this army, their nature of training is enough to instil the hatred of Islam in one’s heart. As a result of this, the army is mostly composed of the unbelievers those who hate Islam, those who wish to extinguish the flame of Islam; the enemies of Tawhid and the troops of shirk.

    Also during the showdown, most of the armies that were deployed to attack these brothers were from the neighbouring plateau state that has the largest composition of unbelievers in its ranks those who are drowned in the hatred of Muslim and who are mostly Christian association of Nigeria (can) members.

    The media also played a more sinister role during the showdown. They all engaged in massive campaign along with the government with an already prepared label of “Boko Haram sect”. It is true that the brothers went against western education but they never went against knowledge as most media houses portrayed it. They only oppose the way the western education was practiced and the ills it has brought to the land of the caliphate as less priority is now been given to Islamic education, laws and practices.

    This was the event that took place in the northern Nigeria and at the end of the showdown the president of the tawaghit gave an open speech before his departure to brazil for vacation. He said “do not pity the Boko Haram sect they are violent people who want to threatened the security of our nation, don’t pity them.”. It is expected that this will come out from him since these brigades of Tawhid are a threat to his leadership. He ordered that any Boko Haram member caught should be killed at sight and also a house to house search was conducted in maiduguri leading to the death of over 700 people (may Allah accept them as shuhadaa).

    However, what worsened the situation of this incident was the role the custodian of the Deen played during the showdown. They came out in mass to protect the fall of the tawaghit. They gave speeches and sermons to further blackmail and also instigate hatred for the brigades of Tawhid. And as usual just like their counterparts all over the world those who are more attached to the taghut, they labelled the brigades of Tawhid with deviant names such as khawarij, jamatul takfir wa hijra etc. Some of them even advice the Muslims to submit these brothers to the troops of Shaytan for persecution. They appeared in various media ranging from newspapers, TV, and radio to proclaim their condemnation of these brothers. However, it was also not surprising since majority of them are been fed and sponsored by the government.

    They have sold the dignity of this Deen for a cheap price and are even pleased to be silenced over kufur for the sake of maslaha. They have misguided this Ummah and you will wonder whether they even understand this religion as a result of their strong alliance to kufur. They scared many people away from these brothers with their sweet tongue and as usual many were carried away.

    O brothers of Islam! What a shame for this Ummah when even those who are to light the path for the Ummah are themselves obstacles for the Ummah. As a result of misguidance from the scholars majority of the Muslims most of whom are blind imitators also hated these brothers. They spoke brutally without facts and even attacked these brothers with false accusations. The situation was too complex as majority of the scholars, the Muslims as well as the unbelievers began to jubilate and celebrate after the showdown between these brothers and the armies of shirk and kufur.

    O brothers of Islam! This scenario can never take place within the unbelievers. Never will the unbelievers be happy not to talk of jubilating over the death of their fellow unbelievers despite the fact that they are all on falsehood. Even if these brigades of Tawhid have made mistake it is not our right to condemn them, they are not kafirs but rather the best of the believers.

    O brothers of Islam! Where are the muwahhidin, where are the true Salaf, where are those people striving upon the millat Ibrahim they are all scattered all over the world but with a unified goal such are the vibrant brothers of Chechnya, the unrelented gladiators of Afghanistan, the fierce brothers of iraq, the troops of muwahhidin in somalia and the brigades of Tawhid in Nigeria. At the end of the showdown, the government concluded a resolution that henceforth religious preaching will be regulated and monitored so that the colonial creation of lugard will be maintained.

    One surprising thing about Nigeria is that a region in the country known as Niger Delta have been in a long fierce battle with the government and even causing drastic loss to the Nigerian economy but never was Nigerian troops deployed all over the country to extinguish them rather they were even granted amnesty together with large sums of money to lay off their arms but it should be understood that they were fighting for their worldly benefits but such was never the case of the brigades of Tawhid who were martyred upon striving to establish Allah’s laws. The situation of the Muslims in Nigeria is so pathetic but this malady stem up from the misguidance of the scholars. They have preferred to engage in shortcut activities to attain Jannah and have always preferred to be silenced over kufur.

    O brothers of Tawhid! Know and may Allah assist us that we will never relent in our efforts, we will never be silenced over kufur and we are going to make esteem preparation and strict strategies to dismantle the tawaghit. We are happy with our stance and we believe our abode is paradise. We will always reject your taghut and your parliament which you worship along with Allah and remember there has emerged between us and you hostility and hatred forever until you return to the Tawhid of Allah.

    O my Muslim brothers and sisters! This is our situation and the vibrancy of the pillars of kufur. Be prepared and be ready so you will not be caught unaware, strive upon the millat Ibrahim, strive upon the establishment of Allah’s Tawhid that is the best for you. Do not be carried away by our scholars who call to democracy, who beautify it and who are even preferred to be ruled by it.

    Disbelieve in democracy for it is the way of Shaytan and know that revival will come through the methodology of knowledge, military preparation and jihad. Beware of the scholars who are friends to the gates of the tawaghit and who prefer to accommodate kufur and be silenced over it. Rather, I advice you to listen to the scholars who do not fear the blame of the blamers nor the sword of the oppressors.

    O brothers of Islam! The truth is within the texts i.e Quran and the Sunnah search for it, tell people about it even if the scholars refuse to preach it. Be harsh against all those who have replaced the Shariah with evil manmade laws and have spread corruption on our land. Be watchful and do not be beguiled by the activities of the Dunya. Know the truth and you will know those on the truth. Remember Islamic texts are not book of history rather they are to be implemented above any alien laws.

    As for the government, why have you decided not to learn from examples, even if you decide to regulate all religious activities these can never stop the activities of the muwahhidin. They will never cease to criticise your shirk. Greater nations have tried all this method but it accorded them failure rather than success. This is an Islamic rage that does not recognise threat from the tawaghit.

    Your days of destruction is so close you should better be prepared and in case you don’t know Nigeria will soon become another Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq etc if Allah wishes.

    The brigades of Tawhid are out for you except you return to the Tawhid of Allah and you abandon that which contradicts Islam. We love our religion and we are ready to die for its sake. Be prepared, train your armies of shirk because they will soon be extinguish and their bones will be sent to your villa. Keep your best armies and stop sending them to Somalia because their assignment will soon commence here in Nigeria if Allah wishes.

    Be aware of the fact that the best of the brigades of Tawhid are yet to be unveiled, the best of the radicals and fundamentalist will never be extinguish even if you spend all your resources on security for superior nations, world powers who are well equipped than you have learnt their lessons and others are still learning theirs. Remember this is just the beginning ………………………….the worst is still to happen.

    As for the scholars, what a shame how can you also support the regulation of preaching so that submission to kufur will become the order of the day and the message of the Tawhid of Allah will become blocked but you should know that this methodology will fail. Don’t forget you are going to be questioned about your knowledge and how you worked with it. Remember the amanah on your head, be a shining example of the Salaf who died defending Allah’s Tawhid and remember the Tawhid of Allah is more superior to our lives learn it, speaks about it and be ready to defend it.

    As for the media “o you agents of kufur, you have eaten the flesh of our mujaddid. You should better beware and remain silence rather than speaking of what you have little or no knowledge of even if you are forced to do so.

    And to our martyrs, those who sold this world for the hereafter will believed that you are not dead as Allah (swt) said; “think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their lord and they have provision. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them of his bounty, rejoicing for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind that on them no fear shall come nor shall they grieve”. O martyrs you have fulfilled your covenants but we are on the path of fulfilling it as Allah (swt) said “from amongst the believers are men who have been true to their covenant that they made with Allah and amongst them are those that are still waiting but they have never changed in their determination in the least”.

    O martyrs! You have watered the tree of Islam that had been long forgotten in Nigeria. O brigades of Tawhid! You have put courage in our hearts and have lifted fear from our minds and we will live to remember your blood which you shed as a sacrifice for the cause of Allah. We love you but you are more beloved to Allah.

    May the peace and blessings of Allah continue to reign upon the muwahhidin, mujahhidin all over the world and their shuyukh and all those who support the cause of Allah (Amin).

    Jazakallahu Khairan.
    Abu Umayr,

    on behalf of the brothers at
    The Brigades of Tawhid
    Nigeria”

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42. Um Umar traveller says:
    August 22, 2009 - السبت 03 رمضان 1430 at 1:20 am

    Asalamu Alaikum WRWB @ Jihadfeesabililah Jazakillah Khayr , Abu Umayr masha’Allah for that powerful read on the first morning of Ramadan Alhumduillah , this is such Bushra, ameen , what is there of any value in this life except to strive upon the Millat of Ibraheem As )
    .
    May Allah swt) support these brothers of Tauhid in Jihad feesabililah and make their words uppermost and all their enermies lowermost as is the Sunnah Of Allah swt) Alhumduillah Rabil Alaimeen

43. rz says:
    August 22, 2009 - السبت 03 رمضان 1430 at 8:41 am

    These kuffars were so concerned about the brothers wearing helmets that they didn’t even mind to kill them if they refused to put on the helmets. So are these kuffars concerned abt our safety, obviously NOT. All they want is that we submit to their demands at all times. And who are these kuffar, media and the government trying to fool. Anyone with an atom weight of eeman will know who is on the haqq and who is against it. The next obligation would be to assist our brothers fighting for Islam in whatever way we can.
    @ Brother Jihadfeesabililah JazakAllah Khair

44. The Death Squads says:
    August 22, 2009 - السبت 03 رمضان 1430 at 12:12 pm

    The Death Squads
    http://realitymediapk.com/shiadeathsquads/shiadeathsquadsnormal.wmv

45. Enemy Of Jews says:
    August 22, 2009 - السبت 03 رمضان 1430 at 3:39 pm

    Bismillah

    Abu Umair have said almost everything but check out the official site of these brothers to read more about their tenets @

    http://www.mansoorah.com
    http://www.mujahidah.com
    http://www.muqatilah.com

46. sTrAnGeR says:
    August 24, 2009 - الاثنين 05 رمضان 1430 at 7:54 am

    ALERT!

    Assalamu Alaykum wa rahmatullah,

    I suspect that the ‘declaration’ from Boko Haram posted earlier by me (see post 35) is a fabrication as observed by Ansaarii(post #39). The source is a non Muslim website so this is entirely possible.

    Wassalam

47. Jihadfeesabililah says:
    August 25, 2009 - الثلاثاء 06 رمضان 1430 at 12:31 am

    Al Qaida in the Land of Islamic Maghrib
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    Condolence, support and comfort for our brothers and people in Nigeria ‎
    …………………………………………………………………..

    Ramadan 2, 1430 A.H, August 24, 2009

    In the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

    Praise is to Allah, and peace and blessings of Allah on our Prophet Muhammad and his family ‎‎and companions and those who allied him,‎

    To proceed

    We followed with bleeding hearts the happenings of the massacre that was committed against ‎our ‎people and brothers in Nigeria in the last few days. That monstrous crime and ugly revenge ‎that ‎was committed against nearly 800 Muslims by demolishing their Masjid and bombing their ‎‎hospital and storming their houses and tampering of the envious Christian Nigerian army with ‎‎their corpses in front of the eyes and ears of the world that boasts about human rights and the ‎values of freedom and false justice.‎

    ‎“And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the ‎Mighty, the Praised,” (Al Burooj- Verse 8)‎

    And the Christian minority, that is dominating the largely Muslim Nigeria, tried to justify its crime ‎by ‎spreading lies and misrepresenting our Salafi brothers and their allies and supporters from ‎the ‎common people. However, the pictures of the innocent dead Muslims who carried no ‎weapons ‎and the sick, paralyzed and women and children, and the scene of the martyred preacher Shaikh ‎Yusuf (May Allah have mercy on him) with the apparent marks of inhuman torture on his ‎pure ‎body after his arrest, all of it are evidences pointing to the imminent fact that this is an ‎oppressive ‎crusade led by the Christian minority in Nigeria against the majority of nearly 80 million ‎Muslims ‎under the banner of ‘Destroy Islam and eradicate its people’‎

    But what deadens the heart from regret is that this great slaughter should pass in front of the ‎‎Ummah of Millions from the west to the east, without our witnessing even protests or renounces!‎

    In front of this atrocity that has befallen our Muslims brothers in general and our Salafi ‎Mujahideen ‎brothers there specially, at their head the martyred Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf (May ‎Allah have ‎mercy on him), we can not but only declare our condolence and support and our ‎standing beside ‎our brothers as a single hand, and we express our greatest condolence to the ‎families of the ‎martyrs and the injured and we ask Allah the Almighty to support them in their ‎calamity and grant ‎them what’s better in lieu of it, and to grant the families of the detained and the ‎martyred with good patience ‎and solace

    And we remind them that trial and tribulation is from the Sunnah of Allah in preaching

    ‎“Alif Lam Mim. (1) Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be ‎tried? (2) And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are ‎true and He will certainly know the liars. (3)” (Al Ankaboot)‎

    It must also not escape us to instruct our brothers and beloveds there, to let aside separation ‎and ‎opposition and with the necessity of uniting their ranks and the oneness of their word to ‎stand in a ‎single row in the face of the unbelievers as if they are strong firm holds

    And we give them glad tidings that the blood of the martyrs is light and fire, so the blood of the ‎martyred Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf (May Allah have ‎mercy on him) and his martyred brothers will ‎not go waste by the will of Allah, instead it will light the way for the ‎Muslims in Nigeria and it will ‎burn the worshipers of the Cross and it will water the tree of Islam ‎in Nigeria even if the ‎unbelievers hate it

    O Allah, grant our brothers patience and solace and aid them and grant them what’s better ‎
    O Allah grant victory to your Muslim servants in Nigeria against their enemies and be with them ‎‎and not against them
    O Allah accept their martyrs and cure their injured and release their prisoners and secure their ‎‎scared
    Praise is to Allah and we bear witness that there is no God but He and seek His forgiveness.‎

    Al Qaida in the Land of Islamic Maghrib

    Monday, 26 Shaban, 1430H corresponding to 17/08/2009‎

    Source – Al Fajr Media publications
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48. Um Umar traveller says:
    August 26, 2009 - الأربعاء 07 رمضان 1430 at 1:55 am

    @ Jihadfeesabilah , Jazakillah Khayr as always and Ameen, this is what Allah expects of us ONE BODY ONE HEART ALLAHU AKBAR

49. Abu amina says:
    August 30, 2009 - الأحد 11 رمضان 1430 at 5:24 pm

    Assalamu’alaikum
    I think concerned muslims should not be deceived about the situation in nigeria,the fact is that the goverment is against any islamic uprising,but the boko haram sect are really deviant,they have taken the line of the khawarij by making takfeer on most of the muslims and also on the scholars and also attempting to kill some of them,among which are those who are really bad and some are good.For example they attempted to kill the late Sh. Ja’far who every one knows was very knowledgeable and known of preaching the truth and also jihad.so i advice muslims to investigate the issue b’4 concluding.

50. muhammad ngr says:
    August 31, 2009 - الاثنين 12 رمضان 1430 at 1:15 pm

    Abu amina,
    I’m sure you’d make the same comment above about the mujahids,for we’ve heard these righteous souls being labelled with such terms as Khawaarij,takfeeri…
    Can you please come up with a verifiable and specific case of what and who they’ve called kufr and kaafir respectively?And from there,we’d know if the takfir was correct or not.(and if you cannot come up with any,then fear Allah in your comments)
    It seems your are o.k with the house-to-house massacre conducted by the kufr-infested nigerian army.When does a muslim become pleased to see kafirs kill his fellow muslims?Or do you consider those killed kafirs?Grave indeed are your allegations against those muslims you call ‘boko haram’.
    Of course i assume from ur ‘name’ that you should be a muslim,but I’d not be surprised if that tactic is meant to create a false impression.

51. Monsur says:
    September 2, 2009 - الأربعاء 13 رمضان 1430 at 4:47 pm

    Assalaamu alaykum,
    Some brothers have been arrested in lagos and detained since sunday(30/08/2009). As at the time of posting this comment, the police have already taken them to Panti police station in Lagos before they are been taken to Abuja. Their offence was because the went to print a magazine which has an atticle supporting the ideology of the Boko Haram brothers.Pls pray for us and them i’ld have attached a copy of the article for you to see but i ca’t see the option here. WA INNA JUNDANA LAHUMUL GHALIBUUN.

52. sTrAnGeR says:
    September 3, 2009 - الخميس 14 رمضان 1430 at 2:37 pm

    Wa alaykumusalam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh,

    Monsur perhaps you can upload a copy of the article unto a filesharing website (like http://www.rapidshare.com) and then give us the link.

    Wassalam

53. spreading islam says:
    September 4, 2009 - الجمعة 15 رمضان 1430 at 6:13 am

    Assalaamu alaykum,

    The jewish media degrade islam to a larger extend.The fact is that most of the muslims are decieved by the fake news regarding islam and mujahideens.

    Mashaallah,jihad is strengthening allover the world.Taliban is gaining extreme strength.May allah bless us.

    view ma site:

    http://www.thesoldierofallah.page.tl

54. spreading islam says:
    September 4, 2009 - الجمعة 15 رمضان 1430 at 6:15 am

    Assalaamu alaykum brothers..view my site and telll the opinion regarding its pages:

    http://www.thesoldierofallah.page.tl

55. Abu Ikrimah says:
    September 4, 2009 - الجمعة 15 رمضان 1430 at 4:43 pm

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

    Alhamdullilah wa salatu wa salam ala rasullulah
    Salamualaykum honourable brothers and sisters may Allah bless you all and accept our fasts.

    Please sorry for the delay in reply. And am more sorry for this reply as my thoughts and writings are scattered, I hope Allah will make them clear enough not to elicit doubt.

    Before I begin to write on the issue at hand I think its pertinent I make some clarification and advise to one and all on some issues that are equally important.

    Our deeen is a religion of the middle path, a religion of advise, as clearly shown from Hadiths. Let us mind our manners, I wrote a very clear and unambiguous post only for me to receive a mail telling me I sounded hypocritical almost as the opening salutation, whereas the accuser and the accused were saying the same thing, another brother called me BLIND (in capital letters) after reading my post that was clear even if am quite sure he misunderstood it before that he even paired me up with Abu Ubauidah’s post of comment # 11 even when I could not find any similarities whatsoever in both post. Brothers and sisters, I do not think this is how to go about things. I pray the sheikh finds enough time to spare an at least write an article on Islamic Netiquttes, Ethics of ‘Arguments’ and Debate.

    May Allah pardon us all.

    Secondly, before I answer to those accusations or doubts I believe I should state clearly the following:

    1. This is my Aqeedah, what I belive in, call to, and Insha Allah hope to die on: http://abubaseer.bizland.com/books/read/b%2027.doc

    2. For the skae of emphasis; I do believe democracy is a religion, shirk and a taghut that has to be dismantled like all other tawagheets.

    3. I believe the entire govt. of Nigeria is a kaffir group for not ruling by the book of Allah but not all the individuals in the govt for the sake of some impediments, same with the police, military and others, this has clearly been explained in the books of sheikh Abu Hamza almasri (Fikullah usrah) and SOS (may Allah easy their condition). I do not have a problem if they are/were attacked first or not provided all the necessary conditions are/were met.
    4. I do not support the tawagheet and salibiyeen (crusaders) in the any genocide of any oppressed person Muslim or not and especially that which occurred in North Eastern Nigeria, never, and what I say instead is that their death should and must be avenged, bi ithnillah.
    5. I pray may Allah accept Sheikh Abu Yusuf, Muhammed ibn Yusuf and the other brothers, known and unknown as shohadah.
    6. I do not believe victory comes with population and weapons but I state that victory comes from Allah through whatever means in His infinite wisdom deems fit, it may through weapons and advancement in technology (military tactics) as in battle of khandaq, it could also be through the fear of population as in the strategy used by Khalid ibn Walid against the Romans (mutah), it could even be through good manners and trade as in the people of Malaysia and Indonesia.
    7. I also state categorically that Muslims MUST acquire DUNIYA sciences, skills, arts, and education that will equip them in their worldly affairs and there is no such thing as western education but western culture and civilisation which we take what is good and not only reject that which is unislamic but we must condemn it absolutely.
    Am quite sure these words of mine are clear and cannot be misconstrued.
    2 WENUL @ COMMENT # 15
    Quite very funny you accused me of hypocrisy or in your own words sounding hypocritical, but after reading your post and mail I agree with everything you have said so I would need a clarification on where I actually became a munafiq as you said, please. Thanks for the mail and post it was very educating. But I want you to read this:
    Analysis of both ideologies indicates that Boko haram proponents appreciate the contribution of science and technology to human development (Muhammad Yusuf travel around the north in Car and not on Camel, he used mobile phones as well as microphone during preaching, he record his preaching in audio tapes e.t.c.) and the need for Muslims to acquire it through any means that does not compromise the injunctions of Almighty Allah upon mankind.
    However, both Yusuf and his ancestors of the 19th century strongly reject what is seen as social vices wrapped-and-served as “western education”. We need education that will enable us build aircrafts, wireless electricity if permitted by the will of Allah, and go beyond the moon to see and appreciate the wisdom of our creator, and NOT this one that teach us how to development WMDs, how to snatch power, how to give and take bribe, how to commit internet fraud, how to professionalize prostitution and propagate all sorts of social vices and injustice on the earth.
    This is your own writing stressing my point that we need to learn somethings and by Allah am sure the same way 1 + 1 = 2, that the skill of making cars, computers and other technology advancement is not western at all. Though I disagree with you that we do not need WMD that is the first thing we need after the knowledge of the deen, so we can keep terrorising the kuffars all over, whether in America or Nigeria.
    So, you can see what am saying I have never supported the killing of any Muslims nor am I a lover of democracy, I do not vote and I do not hold back while condemning it as shirk, I pray Allah accept Yusuf and his likes as shohada. I believe the shareah needs to govern man, in fact try and get this book and in it is my solid aqeedah though I do slip just like all humans, we pray Allah forgive one and all.
    http://abubaseer.bizland.com/books/read/b%2027.doc
    Get the book, its free and in English.
    Again, I have to state it sincerely that this man I have never met him nor heard from him, since I do not understand Hausa. But may Allah forgive me I judged them based on what the brothers in my place ‘Auchi’ have said also about school being haram, declaring MSSN as a sect and other funny stuff. This was INITIALLY as I stated but when I got more details there is a big difference between Sheikh Yusuf rahmatullah alayi and my guys at Auchi.
    School na haram, English wey you dey use write I think na farm you learn am. And from your mail and post you are well read.
    Hope to hear from you soonest.
    Ramadan kareem.
    2 ANSARII @ COMMENT # 30 & #36.
    Once again for the sake of Allah, am not a supporter of the tawaghet, and as I said earlier I have been able to visit this blog that contributed to the delay in my reply to you.
    Here are names of the schools that were burnt down by our brothers, these names were given to me by a brother who lives in Maiduguri and I do trust his information.
    Abbaganaram Primary & Junior secondary School
    Galadima Primary & Junior Secondary School
    Yerwa Central Primary & Junior Secondary School
    Then, he said one at state locust and he promised to send others.
    May Allah accept your kind words in your second post to the question, and it seems my post to you was not too good though I was just applying the same rule you applied in post #39.
    But again, I wonder why you labelled me a supporter of the tawagheet.
    TO ABU SIDDIQ, COMMENT #31.
    As for your question in regards to the issue of turban I kindly refer you and all to the book CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VICTORIOUS PARTY IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF THE BELIEVERS BY SHAKYH ABU QATADA (Fikullah usrah) page 15 the footnote # 20 this issue is clearly explained. Here are the download links, Insha Allah
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/19425394/CHARACTERISTICS-OF-THE-VICTORIOUS-PARTY-IN-THE-FOUNDATION-OF-THE-STATE-OF-THE-BELIEVERS-BY-SHAKYH-ABU-QATADA
    As for the other issues let me try and Insha Allah iron them out one by one the one am able to clear wa lila liamdu, if not present your questions properly and we pray Allah the all know gives us ability to respond appropriately.
    With all fairness, I do not claim or say I didn’t make a mistake or I was unbiased in my mail to the sheikh its very clear when I said the mail was permeated with hate and dislike, not for the brothers, never, neither was it about their burning or killing of police, but for the sole issue of calling for the abandonment of schools that was my only beef, and I pray Allah accepts my repentance.
    Secondly, no right thinking person (not Muslim, person) will ever say our schools are safe, but the impression we keep getting when we hear our brothers saying western school is haram is that they do not expound or expatiate (not sheikh Muhammad). So that was never intended by me.
    Then, I saw all your fatwa posts, they were very very very (intended) brilliant. Let me ask you a very simple question but I have to warn you not to think am making case for evil so your next post won’t even call me taghut himself. Have you ever tried enrolling in any Saudi school, my brother admission there is hell. Then again if you attend market is there no freemixing there, why have you not made the marketplace haram, am aware of an Hadiths that says that is the worst place…though, then have you not seen brothers who got reformed and became jihad oriented in Universities, just like we have the few who never knew their deen that fell apart.
    And I have authenticated my report THERE WERE GIRLS SCHOOLS IN AFGHANISTAN DURING THE SUSPENDED REIGN OF THE TALIBAN, am sure of two schools know I listened to an interview of a Muslim woman from Australia who lived there as at that period and she said Sheikh Osama built the first girls school, note the word first, and I mentioned SOS built one also, so you see that even the kuffar know that education is so important that if they lie and keep lying that the mujahideen will lose sympathy for denying women right to education which is entrenched in our deen.
    Then I would like you to read again the fatwa of Sheikh Uthaymeen, you might benefit a lot from it. Am late that is why am making this post shorter than I planned.
    We have all complained about the complexity of the media in this whole brouhaha, but do you know the power of a truthful media, if you do not know let me show you a simple illustration, I again hope another person will not say am a mushrik by putting my tawakul on the media.
    After September 11, the mujahideen (may Allah give them victory) in Afghanistan, where sending their films or documentary to western news media, the US govt. banned their media from broadcasting such informational video saying that BinLaden (may Allah preserve him) was giving instructions to the mujahideen (very myopic thinking you would say), the mujahideen shifted their base to Alarabiya and Aljazeera (which most Nigerians, really on reliable) again the mujahideen got facts that they were compromised. Now they are using the internet, so now you see what ‘western’ education has brought for the mujahideen try and search internet archive for these videos and you will begin to see the truth unblurred. If you say western education is haram, we should abandon school and again how funny you do not provide a VIABLE alternative then where do you think you have placed us.
    Again as you stated this media called them and gave them boko haram ‘sect’ they never named themselves that, a perfect saying when you want to kill a dog give it a bad name.
    You mentioned my correspondence with Abu Baseer, yes I made a mistake and I pray Allah forgive me, again let me state it in caps this time I NEVER SUPPORTED THEIR KILLINGS BUT I WAS INDIFFERENT though there is no difference between the two, all I do is pray Allah forgive me and I get an appropriate time to avenge their killings, faqit.
    I posted the mails here so that nobody who was in that same precarious situation would also seek repentance.
    LASTLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I WAS COMPLETED WRONG ABOUT THE BROTHERS INITIALLY, AND I HAVE NEVER MET THEM OR ANY INTERACTION WITH THEM.
    The information about the issue of wearing trousers never came from/was never about them but some brothers who I have actually met and interacted with and were on the same abandonment of school thing. They were guys that were saying jeans trousers were haram, THIS IS HIGHLY REGRETED ON MY PART AND I HAVE MADE THE SHEIKH AWARE OF THIS.
    Please just in case anywhere is not clear let me know but I believe in kind words will be better.
    Again, show me who is short of mistakes, then I will show you a liar.
    Salamualaykum.

56. Abu Ikrimah says:
    September 5, 2009 - السبت 16 رمضان 1430 at 3:45 pm

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
    Alhamdullilah wa salatu wa salam ala rasullulah
    Salamualaykum honourable brothers and sisters may Allah bless you all and accept our fasts.
    A SLIGHT ADDITION TO MY EARLIER POST PLEASE
    Please sorry for the delay in reply. And am more sorry for this reply as my thoughts and writings are scattered, I hope Allah will make them clear enough not to elicit doubt.
    Before I begin to write on the issue at hand I think its pertinent I make some clarification and advise to one and all on some issues that are equally important.
    Our deeen is a religion of the middle path, a religion of advise, as clearly shown from Hadiths. Let us mind our manners, I wrote a very clear and unambiguous post only for me to receive a mail telling me I sounded hypocritical almost as the opening salutation, whereas the accuser and the accused were saying the same thing, another brother called me BLIND (in capital letters) after reading my post that was clear even if am quite sure he misunderstood it before that he even paired me up with Abu Ubauidah’s post of comment # 11 even when I could not find any similarities whatsoever in both post. Brothers and sisters, I do not think this is how to go about things. I pray the sheikh finds enough time to spare an at least write an article on Islamic Netiquttes, Ethics of ‘Arguments’ and Debate.
    May Allah pardon us all.
    Secondly, before I answer to those accusations or doubts I believe I should state clearly the following:
    1. This is my Aqeedah, what I belive in, call to, and Insha Allah hope to die on: http://abubaseer.bizland.com/books/read/b%2027.doc
    2. For the skae of emphasis; I do believe democracy is a religion, shirk and a taghut that has to be dismantled like all other tawagheets.
    3. I believe the entire govt. of Nigeria is a kaffir group for not ruling by the book of Allah but not all the individuals in the govt for the sake of some impediments, same with the police, military and others, this has clearly been explained in the books of sheikh Abu Hamza almasri (Fikullah usrah) and SOS (may Allah easy their condition). I do not have a problem if they are/were attacked first or not provided all the necessary conditions are/were met.
    4. I do not support the tawagheet and salibiyeen (crusaders) in the any genocide of any oppressed person Muslim or not and especially that which occurred in North Eastern Nigeria, never, and what I say instead is that their death should and must be avenged, bi ithnillah.
    5. I pray may Allah accept Sheikh Abu Yusuf, Muhammed ibn Yusuf and the other brothers, known and unknown as shohadah.
    6. I do not believe victory comes with population and weapons but I state that victory comes from Allah through whatever means in His infinite wisdom deems fit, it may through weapons and advancement in technology (military tactics) as in battle of khandaq, it could also be through the fear of population as in the strategy used by Khalid ibn Walid against the Romans (mutah), it could even be through good manners and trade as in the people of Malaysia and Indonesia.
    7. I also state categorically that Muslims MUST acquire DUNIYA sciences, skills, arts, and education that will equip them in their worldly affairs and there is no such thing as western education but western culture and civilisation which we take what is good and not only reject that which is unislamic but we must condemn it absolutely.
    Am quite sure these words of mine are clear and cannot be misconstrued.
    2 WENUL @ COMMENT # 15
    Quite very funny you accused me of hypocrisy or in your own words sounding hypocritical, but after reading your post and mail I agree with everything you have said so I would need a clarification on where I actually became a munafiq as you said, please. Thanks for the mail and post it was very educating. But I want you to read this:
    Analysis of both ideologies indicates that Boko haram proponents appreciate the contribution of science and technology to human development (Muhammad Yusuf travel around the north in Car and not on Camel, he used mobile phones as well as microphone during preaching, he record his preaching in audio tapes e.t.c.) and the need for Muslims to acquire it through any means that does not compromise the injunctions of Almighty Allah upon mankind.
    However, both Yusuf and his ancestors of the 19th century strongly reject what is seen as social vices wrapped-and-served as “western education”. We need education that will enable us build aircrafts, wireless electricity if permitted by the will of Allah, and go beyond the moon to see and appreciate the wisdom of our creator, and NOT this one that teach us how to development WMDs, how to snatch power, how to give and take bribe, how to commit internet fraud, how to professionalize prostitution and propagate all sorts of social vices and injustice on the earth.
    This is your own writing stressing my point that we need to learn somethings and by Allah am sure the same way 1 + 1 = 2, that the skill of making cars, computers and other technology advancement is not western at all. Though I disagree with you that we do not need WMD that is the first thing we need after the knowledge of the deen, so we can keep terrorising the kuffars all over, whether in America or Nigeria.
    So, you can see what am saying I have never supported the killing of any Muslims nor am I a lover of democracy, I do not vote and I do not hold back while condemning it as shirk, I pray Allah accept Yusuf and his likes as shohada. I believe the shareah needs to govern man, in fact try and get this book and in it is my solid aqeedah though I do slip just like all humans, we pray Allah forgive one and all.
    http://abubaseer.bizland.com/books/read/b%2027.doc
    Get the book, its free and in English.
    Again, I have to state it sincerely that this man I have never met him nor heard from him, since I do not understand Hausa. But may Allah forgive me I judged them based on what the brothers in my place ‘Auchi’ have said also about school being haram, declaring MSSN as a sect and other funny stuff. This was INITIALLY as I stated but when I got more details there is a big difference between Sheikh Yusuf rahmatullah alayi and my guys at Auchi.
    School na haram, English wey you dey use write I think na farm you learn am. And from your mail and post you are well read.
    Hope to hear from you soonest.
    Ramadan kareem.
    2 ANSARII @ COMMENT # 30 & #36.
    Once again for the sake of Allah, am not a supporter of the tawaghet, and as I said earlier I have been able to visit this blog that contributed to the delay in my reply to you.
    Here are names of the schools that were burnt down by our brothers, these names were given to me by a brother who lives in Maiduguri and I do trust his information.
    Abbaganaram Primary & Junior secondary School
    Galadima Primary & Junior Secondary School
    Yerwa Central Primary & Junior Secondary School
    Then, he said one at state locust and he promised to send others.
    May Allah accept your kind words in your second post to the question, and it seems my post to you was not too good though I was just applying the same rule you applied in post #39.
    But again, I wonder why you labelled me a supporter of the tawagheet.
    TO ABU SIDDIQ, COMMENT #31.
    As for your question in regards to the issue of turban I kindly refer you and all to the book CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VICTORIOUS PARTY IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE OF THE BELIEVERS BY SHAKYH ABU QATADA (Fikullah usrah) page 15 the footnote # 20 this issue is clearly explained. Here are the download links, Insha Allah
    I have tried uploading it but to no avail am sure you can find it in archive.org search with the term ‘abu qatada’ or ‘tibyan’.
    As for the other issues let me try and Insha Allah iron them out one by one the one am able to clear wa lila liamdu, if not present your questions properly and we pray Allah the all know gives us ability to respond appropriately.
    With all fairness, I do not claim or say I didn’t make a mistake or I was unbiased in my mail to the sheikh its very clear when I said the mail was permeated with hate and dislike, not for the brothers, never, neither was it about their burning or killing of police, but for the sole issue of calling for the abandonment of schools that was my only beef, and I pray Allah accepts my repentance.
    Secondly, no right thinking person (not Muslim, person) will ever say our schools are safe, but the impression we keep getting when we hear our brothers saying western school is haram is that they do not expound or expatiate (not sheikh Muhammad). So that was never intended by me.
    Then, I saw all your fatwa posts, they were very very very (intended) brilliant. Let me ask you a very simple question but I have to warn you not to think am making case for evil so your next post won’t even call me taghut himself. Have you ever tried enrolling in any Saudi school, my brother admission there is hell. Then again if you attend market is there no freemixing there, why have you not made the marketplace haram, am aware of an Hadiths that says that is the worst place…though, then have you not seen brothers who got reformed and became jihad oriented in Universities, just like we have the few who never knew their deen that fell apart. The buses we enter am sure you will soon tell me they are haram since there is freemixing or will be kind for now and tell me that its is darurah or you will say haram and make life difficult for the common Muslims in Nigeria who can hardly feed hence making it fard on them to buy cars, bikes and bicycles. I do not know.
    As for the issue of mahram, of a woman indeed as you said her hajj is not haram, its a sin Insha Allah her hajj is still valid, now if you her using hajj as evidence to make school haram in the name of western education, then take a cue from the hajj.
    And I have authenticated my report THERE WERE GIRLS SCHOOLS IN AFGHANISTAN DURING THE SUSPENDED REIGN OF THE TALIBAN, am sure of two schools know I listened to an interview of a Muslim woman from Australia who lived there as at that period and she said Sheikh Osama built the first girls school, note the word first, and I mentioned SOS built one also, so you see that even the kuffar know that education is so important that if they lie and keep lying that the mujahideen will lose sympathy for denying women right to education which is entrenched in our deen.
    Then I would like you to read again the fatwa of Sheikh Uthaymeen, you might benefit a lot from it. Am late that is why am making this post shorter than I planned.
    We have all complained about the complexity of the media in this whole brouhaha, but do you know the power of a truthful media, if you do not know let me show you a simple illustration, I again hope another person will not say am a mushrik by putting my tawakul on the media.
    After September 11, the mujahideen (may Allah give them victory) in Afghanistan, where sending their films or documentary to western news media, the US govt. banned their media from broadcasting such informational video saying that BinLaden (may Allah preserve him) was giving instructions to the mujahideen (very myopic thinking you would say), the mujahideen shifted their base to Alarabiya and Aljazeera (which most Nigerians, really on reliable) again the mujahideen got facts that they were compromised. Now they are using the internet, so now you see what ‘western’ education has brought for the mujahideen try and search internet archive for these videos and you will begin to see the truth unblurred. If you say western education is haram, we should abandon school and again how funny you do not provide a VIABLE alternative then where do you think you have placed us.
    Again as you stated this media called them and gave them boko haram ‘sect’ they never named themselves that, a perfect saying when you want to kill a dog give it a bad name.
    You mentioned my correspondence with Abu Baseer, yes I made a mistake and I pray Allah forgive me, again let me state it in caps this time I NEVER SUPPORTED THEIR KILLINGS BUT I WAS INDIFFERENT though there is no difference between the two, all I do is pray Allah forgive me and I get an appropriate time to avenge their killings, faqit.
    I posted the mails here so that nobody who was in that same precarious situation would also seek repentance.
    LASTLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I WAS COMPLETED WRONG ABOUT THE BROTHERS INITIALLY, AND I HAVE NEVER MET THEM OR ANY INTERACTION WITH THEM.
    The information about the issue of wearing trousers never came from/was never about them but some brothers who I have actually met and interacted with and were on the same abandonment of school thing. They were guys that were saying jeans trousers were haram, THIS IS HIGHLY REGRETED ON MY PART AND I HAVE MADE THE SHEIKH AWARE OF THIS.
    Please just in case anywhere is not clear let me know but I believe in kind words will be better. Please let me make it clear to one and all, I am not against what the brothers did if anything at all I praise them from for the proper planning and organisation as it was unlike the evil killings that have always occurred in the north, where they kill anyhow in the name of jihad whereas they were actually doing ethnic cleansing of the southerners in some cases killing and burning the properties of Muslims just because they came from the south. My only grouse which I still maintain till now is that nobody should wakeup and tell Muslims to abandon school yes nobody is disputing it that they are some evils in it. Or at best make it clear what you are talking about.
    The part of the mail I sent that was talking evil of the brothers I completely retract it if anything, and I have since written to all in my mailist stating the complete fact and that I was mistaken.
    Lastly, show me who is short of mistakes, then I will show you a liar.
    Salamualaykum.

57. Abu Amina says:
    September 7, 2009 - الاثنين 18 رمضان 1430 at 2:25 pm

    Assalamu’alaikum,
    As i have said before,many concerned muslims around the world have not made enough investigation about the boko haram issue.It is now clear to every body that the government have been waiting for something like this to crush down many organizations.The government personnels have killed many inoscent people b’cos of this.
    But i want these concerned nigerian muslims to spread the right information to the rest of the muslims arronnd the world.I have been amazed by some of the things i have read on the internet.I am sure most of these people dont even know the boko haram ideology,i believe they only listen to the news and peoples’ here-says and then try to believe the opposite of what they heard about them if it is bad.the media have really painted them darker than they are,but what some people fail to understand is that not every body claiming to fight jihad is really doing so.
    Though i have not met the boko haram people and spoken to them before,but i have teachers who have met them,among which is one who went once to debate them,he told us that before they started the debate proper, the boko haram people have already made takfeer on all the muslims in nigeria except themselves.
    I have also been amazed when i read on the net and find people calling Muhammad yousuf Shaykh.Most of these people dont even know who he is,his background and how he embraced this ideology.It is clear that most of his folllowers followed him b’cos of ignorance,but for Muhammad Yusuf ,irrefutable proofs have come to us that he knew what he was doing was wrong,may be b’cos of the love of wealth which he was getting from his supporters in nigeria and algeria or b’cos of popularity Allahu A’alam he turned his back on the truth.
    I was talking to a scholar the day before yesterday,and he was telling me about the millitaary commander of the boko haram,he said the commander is very good in fighting,then i said what a wastage of talent,then he(the scholar) said it could have been better if he(the boko haram commander)have used his talent during the Jos crisis when muslims were been massacred months ago.
    The boko haram have succeeded in doing more harm than good.one of the good is that muslims have understood the government doesn’t like any religious resistance.In recent years there have been religious awareness and many muslims train and gather weapons secretely.But now b’cos of the mistake of these brothers the government is on it’s toes to crack down any thing like that.
    Assalamu’alaikum.

58. servant of allah says:
    September 10, 2009 - الخميس 21 رمضان 1430 at 12:29 pm

    AAWW,my prayer is for Allah to grant the brothers shahada.reacting to u abu aminah dont come and tell us your sheikh says this ot that without mentioning the name of the sheikh and the year or month which the debate took place.it is only the munafiqs that will here the massacre of muslims and only find excuses to justify their killings.for those ulama who called themslves salafis and all they do is romance with the govt either the saudi or nigerian govt cos we know some of them still collect money from the saudi govt and when they see any muslim that holds a weapon they automatically call him khawarij and give the kufar justification to crucify them.if any group of muslim calls themselves ahlsunah and know prove to say otherwise then it is our duty to defend their honour,live and property and to be concerned.i dont know if the resaons abu amina mentioned above is a justification for not defending militarily of for the govt to kill them.i have met some of his students while in potiskum yobe state,among the memebers are aalim in their own right and i dont here of them making takfir on all muslims.what they want is to establish the sharia by qital.as for u saying the commander shld have defended muslims in jos i want to ask if defending the brothers in jos is not part of ur own duty as a muslim but for your info defending them is part of what the grp have done by planning to bring down the govt that did injustice them.whatever error they have commited i pray Allah forgive them cos they have made a great sacrifice within their capability and if u like it or not it is waajib on us to avenge thier death continue to raise the banner of sharia and take care of their dispalced families. ‘those who belive fight in the cause of Allah and the kafirs fight in the cause ot the tauguth’ so we need to keep fighting the awliyah of shaitan and the enemy of Allah.
    thanks

59. abusumayyah says:
    September 17, 2009 - الخميس 28 رمضان 1430 at 4:44 pm

    Assalamu alaikum warahmatuLLAh. I am posting this for special attention of Salman, Saidu Ibn Abdullahi and Abu Umayr.

    Let me start by commending Salman for his effort at translating the 5-minutes interview granted to the martyred sheiekh (RahimahuLLAH). However, as you are aware that the vedio recording was of very poor quality, your translation is not quite apt. Having listened to the recorded interview, I consider the following translation by a news correspondent as a better translation than yours. Brothers and sisters could therefore use your version to fill in the missing gaps in the correspondent’s report.

    The interogration was in the Hausa language, and the translation as provided by Kadaria Ahmed is given below:

    Q: Yesterday, we visited your house, we saw lots of animals, livestock, injections and (whisper from another person, bomb making material). Some material, what exactly do you need all these things for
    MY: All these things are for my protection.

    Q: Your protection, but we have law enforcement agencies why do you need to protect yourself?
    MY: But it is the law enforcement agencies that are fighting me.

    Q: So why do you think the law enforcement agencies are fighting you.
    MY: I don’t know, but it may be to do with my belief in Islam.

    Q: But I am also a Muslim
    MY: That is why I don’t know why you are fighting me.

    Q: Is it true that you believe western education is a sin
    MY: Of course it is a sin .

    Q: How can you say it is a sin, the trousers you are wearing….interrupts the question
    MY: These are made from cotton, which is one of Allah’s materials.

    Q: But Allah said we should seek knowledge, it is in the Koran, even the surah Iqra- interrupts
    MY: Yes but not the sort of knowledge that goes contrary to the teachings of Islam, any knowledge that contradicts the Islam is not allowed by Allah…. *unintelligible*. Astronomy is a kind of knowledge but Allah has forbidden it .

    Q: But when we went to your house we found several things including computers and some medical equipment, are these not all fruits of education?
    MY: What your saw are materials used by blacksmiths, not western education, which is a different thing entirely.

    Q: So how come you eat good food, look at you looking very healthy, drive a decent car, dress well, you eat well but you do not allow your followers to do the same, instead you encourage them to sell all their things and survive on dates and water ,well?
    MY: It is not true. Everybody lives according to their means. Even amongst all of you, things are not the same among you. If you see someone in a nice car, he can afford it. Others can’t afford it.

    Q: This wound where did he get it? This is during the escape…..(*lots of noise*) (Keep quiet , keep quiet)

    Q: Why did you leave your Mosque?
    MY: Because you people came to harass us?

    Q: But you sent your followers into what was effectively hell ,shouldn’t you have stayed with them?
    MY: All my followers have also left

    Q: They left to go where?
    MY: They left….

    Q: What of those who came out to fight?
    MY: Which ones?

    Q: So now where and where do you have followers?
    MY: They have all been scattered by low enforcement officers?

    Q: Where and where exactly do you have followers? Apart from those in this town, where else do you have followers?
    MY: I have followers in Bauchi, the police attacked them and scattered them, they are in Gombe, the police raided their homes and scattered them, some were in Adamawa, Yola, they were also attacked by the police. I have followers in Taraba, they were also attacked by the police, it was only after all this was done that we reacted.

    Q: Where happened to your arm?
    MY: I fell down.

    Q: In this town itself, how many headquarters do you have?
    MY: We only have one, the one you know

    Q: What about branches?
    MY: We have branches in Gwange, *unintelligible*.

    Q: How about your deputy, we understand you are well organized with Lieutenants and all, who is your deputy?
    Q: You do have a deputy, right
    MY: Yes

    Q: Who is he?
    MY: Mallam Abubakar Shakauw.

    Q: Where is he?
    MY: I don’t know.

    Q: Where is your mobile phone, why didn’t you call him?
    MY: *unintelligible*.

    Q: We understand that you tried to escape along with a few other of your deputies, who are they and where are they?
    MY: *unintelligle*

    Q: Do you have people helping you wage this Jihad, either within or outside Nigeria?
    MY: No, nobody, nobody at all.

    Q: Tell the truth
    MY: Nobody, nobody, INSHA ALLah…*unintelligible*.

    Q: I understand you have a farm, somewhere in …… *unintelligible*
    MY: Yes.

    Q: Now you have caused the death of some innocent people…unintelligible
    MY: Those who killed innocent people have blood on their hands, that is not my problem.

    Q: What about your followers that killed people?
    MY: My people did not kill anyone.

    Q: So who did they kill…*unintelligible*
    MY: Those who killed my followers….*unintelligible*

    Q: Where are you from?
    MY: I am from Yobe

    Q: Where in Yobe?
    MY: *unintelligible*

    Q: What of your Mother where is she from?
    MY: Gashuwa.

    Q: Have you ever travelled out of the country?
    MY: Just to Saudia Arabia for Hajj.

    Q: When was this?
    MY: 2000, 2003,2004

    Military spokesperson: Gentlemen, it is ok, can you please leave, can we have some breathing space, everybody out.

    For brother Saidu Ibn Abdullah, you will do a lot of good to the ummah by making the various Tafsirs, lectures and khuthbahs of Sheikh Muhammad Yusuf available for sale to all, especially in CDs and DVDs.

    For Abu Umayr, I would like to request for your permission to print out and distribute your write-up on ‘The Brigades of Tawheed’ for the benefit of the Ummah.Awaiting your response.

60. muhammad ngr says:
    September 17, 2009 - الخميس 28 رمضان 1430 at 8:16 pm

    Abu Amina,
    What is your grudge?It seemed that since your scholar,yourself and others like you did not see him as a shaykh,then he was not one…And EVERYONE of those who deem him a shaykh has to be ignorant,according to your logic!And who are/is the scholar you have referred to whom we do not know or hear of,even as kufr and its people have continue to permeate every aspect of our existence.Don’t you know we are tired of biscuit-eating pseudo-scholars who are negligent in the field of action and deficient even in clarifying theoretical matters of this Deen,Tawheed,al-Walaa wal-Bara,Jihad,Hisbah and others such matters that should be clarified,emphasized and re-emphasized in order to lift this ummah from its slumber,nay from its coma?
    If I may ask:what is the truth he turned his back on?The truth of being satisfied with the kufr of democracy,or the truth of phlegmatism when religion is being assaulted,or the truth of spinless sultanate,or the truth of having some aspect of the Deen being for Allah and others for Infidelty,or the truth of being subjugated to American/Western hegemony or the truth of secularism or the truth of relegating the religion to having horse parades,marrying four wives,niqab/hijab arguementation or what?
    By Allah,we’ve heard of their sincerity,sacrifice among other acts towards purifying the Deen for Allah and of course we’ve heard (from people of your ilk) of their mistakes,heresy,extremism…but we’re are satisfied with what good things we’ve heard of them and I say: we are more comfortable with beseeching Allah to accept them as matyrs!So go with what you have against them and we leave Allah to judge you as you deserve.

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