Osama bin Laden

“ If you thoroughly consider your situation, you will know that the White House is occupied by pressure groups. You should have made efforts to liberate it rather than fight to liberate Iraq, as Bush claimed. The White House leader, under such circumstances, and regardless of who he is, is like a train driver who cannot but travel on the railways designed by these pressure groups. ”

“ Many of us understand Islam to mean performing some acts of worship, such as prayer and fasting. Despite the great importance of these rituals, the religion of Islam encompasses all the affairs of life, including the religious and the worldly, such as economic, military, and political affairs, as well as the scales by which we weigh the actions of men--rulers, ulema, and others--and how to deal with the ruler in line with the rules set by God for him and which the ruler should not violate. ”

“ Difference between Good and Bad Scholars Most of the readings talk about scholars, their benefits and positions, while warning against tarnishing their reputation. Allah has assigned them with speaking the truth loudly. Imam Shafi'i said that scholars in the religious sense are "active scholars".
As much as Allah has raised their status, he has lowered the status of bad scholars. The Quran has described a scholar whom Allah has blessed with knowledge. In order to speak the truth and raise the word of Allah, he preferred the material world and followed his own materialistic aspirations. ”

“ The calls by some reformers are strange. They say that the path to righteousness and to defend the country and people passes though the doors of those rulers. I tell those reformers: If you have an excuse for not pursing jihad, it does not give you the right to depend on the unjust ones, thus becoming responsible for your sins as well as the sins of those you misguide. Fear God for your sake and for your nation's sake. God does not need your flattery of dictators for the sake of God's religion.
The Gulf states proved their total inability to resist the Iraqi forces. ”

“ On the other hand, it does not make sense; who among these these experts said that more than a billion Muslims who own the largest natural resources in the world with strategic locations are unable to defeat five million Jews in Palestine? Today, the Muslims' ailment is not military weakness or financial poverty, but rather their leaders' betrayal, regimes' failures and scholars' acceptance of current situations and befriending bad leaders. The Islamic nation does not have a shortage money, manpower or equipment. ”

“ Religion disintegration stems from two types of people; scholars and rulers. Bin al-Mubarak, peace be upon his soul, said "Kings and Bishops have ruined religion". Disintegration of rulers is caused by scholars' dissolution, which is caused by love for money and material things. Abu Hamid described scholars during his time, "Nowadays, greed has kept scholars quiet; their words contradict their actions. If they had true intentions and aided the truth, they would succeed. Disintegration of citizens is caused by kings, which in turn is caused by scholars with their love of money and glory. ”

“ You will also know that those who make statements from inside the White House today and claim that your wars against us are necessary for your security are in fact working along the same line of Cheney and Bush, and propagating the former policies of intimidation to market the interests of the relevant major corporations, at the expense of your blood and economy. Those in fact are the ones who are imposing wars on you, not the mujahidin. We are just defending our right to liberate our land. ”

“ To the European people: Peace to those who follow the path of righteousness. You know that violations bring down their originators and that injustice has deadly consequences. And killing people is an enormous injustice. ”

“ Indeed, the rulers have practically started to sell out the sons of the land by pursuing and imprisoning them and by unjustly and wrongly accusing them of becoming like the Al-Khawarij sect who held Muslims to be infidels and by committing the excesses of killing them. We hold them to be martyrs and God will judge them. ”

“ Happy is whoever learns a lesson from the mistakes committed by others. Modest precautions are better than expensive follow-up care. Returning to truth is better than insisting on falsehood. And peace be upon those who follow the path of righteousness. ”

“ We are asking the Ummah to go back to Fatwas that have been approved by those who combined religious knowledge with current affairs, who believe in the word of Allah and who did the right thing and did not fear anyone by not speaking out. The regime became uncomfortable with them. It put them in jails, expelled them from their jobs and banned them from voicing their concerns.
We are calling on you to stay away from those corrupt leaders who used you for their own purposes, against preachers and reformists. ”

“ The classification of scholars is derived from the importance of their role and responsibilities assigned to them, according to what Allah says. For this reason, underestimating them or talking negatively about their knowledge is associated with danger. Talking negatively about scholars is the beginning of launching destruction of the credibility and creating a religious leadership void in the Ummah. This would lead ignorant leaders to take over and mislead the Ummah.
People of knowledge have warned against talking negatively about scholars. ”

“ Russian generals, who learned lessons from the battles in Afghanistan, had anticipated the result of the war before its start, but you do not like those who give you advice. This is a losing war, God willing, as it is funded by money that is borrowed based on exorbitant usury and is fought by soldiers whose morale is down and who commit suicide on a daily basis to escape from this war. ”

“ Those who believe in the principle of supporting the infidels over Muslims and leave the blood, honor, and property of their brothers to be free for their enemy in order to remain safe, claiming that they love their brothers but are being forced to take such a path -- of course this compulsion cannot be regarded as legitimate -- are in fact qualified to take the same course against one another in the Gulf states. ”

“ What we have mentioned should be enough to build a foundation to obey scholars. A majority of people believe that obeying scholars has no limits. It is a mistake to think so; it is an exorbirant mistake. ”

“ When Obama assumed power and kept the men of Cheney and Bush — namely, the senior officials in the Defense Department, like Gates, Mullen, and Petraeus — sane people knew that Obama is a weak person who will not be able to stop the war as he had promised and that he would procrastinate as much as possible. ”

“ We are making you fear with what Allah has frightened his most preferred creatures and his last messenger when he said "And their purpose was to tempt thee away from that which he has revealed unto thee, to substitute in our name something quite different in that case, behold! ”

“ It has become clear that the rulers are not qualified to apply the religion and defend the Muslims. In fact, they have provided evidence that they are implementing the schemes of the enemies of the nation and religion and that they are qualified to abandon the countries and peoples. Now, after we have known the situation of the rulers, we should examine the policy they have been pursuing. Anyone who examines the policy of those rulers will easily see that they follow their whims and desires and their personal interests and Crusade loyalties. ”

“ Scholars are successors of the Prophet and the defenders of religion. They are the ones who do not deviate from the truth, embracing lairs and ignorant interpretations. They play a major role in the Ummah. ”

“ The entire American people should follow suit, as the delay in knowing those reasons has cost you a lot without any noteworthy benefit.
If the White House administration, which is one of the two parties to the dispute, has made it clear to you in the past years that war was necessary to maintain your security, then wise persons should be eager to listen to the two parties to the dispute to know the truth, so listen to what I am going to say. ”

“ Jews never dreamed of invading the Islamic nation nor exploiting its resources more than what you have provided them by giving religious consent to establish embassies, Islamic commercial centres in front of their embassies, espionage centres and launching immorality and ideologies. ”

“ Scholars' obedience is tied to their commitment of defending the truth. The more they move away from speaking the truth, the more animosity is geared towards them. This is the religious true scale that confirmed in writing and by the actions of previous generations. Because scholars are prone to making mistakes, a religious style was adopted to clarify these mistakes, which is subject of our fourth example. ”

“ Therefore, think about this very thoroughly, because a sensible person does not waste his children and his property in the interest of a gang in Washington. It is a disgrace for a person to be a member of an alliance, whose greatest leader does not care about the blood of the people and deliberately bombs villagers from the air. ”

“ Therefore, it becomes clear to us that the solution lies in adhering to the religion of God, by which God granted us pride in the past centuries, and installing a strong and faithful leadership that applies the Koran among us and raises the true banner of jihad. ”

“ Evidences you provided in your first and second fatwas are the ultimate proof to permit a truce with the enemy based upon the availability of necessary conditions. Religiously speaking, scholars showed that what is currently going on in Palestine is not a truce because conditions have not been met, except for what the enemy wants. The second part of the deal came from a group of Apostate secular Arab leaders. The agreement was made on Palestinian territory, an Islamic land, where the Prophet ascended to Heaven. ”

“ Praise be to God, we are carrying our weapon on our shoulders and have been fighting the two poles of evil in the East and the West for 30 years. Throughout this period, we have not seen any cases of suicide among us despite the international pursuit against us. ”

“ Responding to this category of scholars does not correspond to addressing mistakes made by true scholars because bad scholars are those who are against Islam and are not fully integrated within what is called "People of Knowledge" within its religious context. True scholars are known for speaking the truth and not being afraid of an unjust king or infidel ruler. ”

“ They kill children, women, and the elderly, because Bush was angry with them. Even though you know that they were in no way aggressive against Europe nor had any connections with the events in the United States. So why do you violate values that you consider sacred, such as justice and human rights? ”

“ The honest people who are concerned about this situation, such as the ulema, leaders who are obeyed among their people, dignitaries, notables, and merchants should get together and meet in a safe place away from the shadow of these suppressive regimes and form a council for Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd [literally those who loose and Bind; reference to honest, wise, and righteous people who can appoint or remove a ruler in Islamic tradition] to fill the vacuum caused by the religious invalidation of these regimes and their mental deficiency. ”

“ In a nutshell, it is time to free yourselves from fear and intellectual terrorism being practiced against you by the neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby. You should put the file of your alliance with the Israelis on the table of discussion. ”

“ Scholars are not prevented from making mistakes. Al-Imam Malik said "Every judgment can sway back and forth, except those made by a person in his grave", meaning the Prophet, peace be upon him. If scholars are forgiven for making mistakes after they rectify them, people are not forgiven for following these mistakes without rectifying them as soon as possible. Bin Mas'ud said "No one should imitate anybody, if he believes, he believes, and if he disbelieves, he disbelieves". Imam Ahmad said "You can tell tha tsomeone is not knowledgeable when he imitates someone else". ”

“ This Fatwa's claim of Muslims' weakness and inability to fight Jews is invalid, because on the one hand subject experts did not issue it. Whoever is not knowledgeable in these matters does not have the right to arbitrate, even if he is correct. ”