The Afghan Jihad: The Hopes of the Muslim Ummah . . . ; What is your opinion?

The questioner : The Afghan Jihad: The Hopes ... of the Muslim Ummah, and through the media; so what is your opinion ...?

The Shaykh : Yes, my opinion is that we should proceed to the end, so that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) concludes the matter either with success and the final expulsion of the disbeliever, and then the matter remains in the hands of those people to prove to the people, to all Muslims, that they truly were calling and fighting in order to establish the Muslim state. But I do not see, in any way, that we should leave them alone at the end of the road, and months have passed for them—regrettably—before Jalalabad, as they call it, or Kabul, without advancing, and they are standing in their place, neither advancing nor retreating, and we know nothing. In my belief, it is the obligation of the Muslims, which was and still remains standing, until they bring them to the end. As for leaving them standing like this, it entails a loss of nearly ten years of the victory that the disbelievers spoke of, let alone the Muslims. And the disagreements that occurred—regrettably—among their factions and parties, even though it is a bad thing and does not bode well, this does not justify for us or permit us to leave them to their own devices.
And you must have read in what is published in some newspapers and magazines—such as the magazine al-Jihad, which 'Abdullah 'Uzaym used to publish and distribute—that he was striving to reconcile the forces of these parties, and that he—as he mentioned, and Allah knows best—ultimately succeeded in reconciling the leaders of these forces. This is undoubtedly a very important work. The lack of ... for this bad reality, and the lack of attention to supplying them, whether with thought and opinion and an attempt to reform between these parties, or supplying them with weapons and strength and the like; this is undoubtedly, in my belief, that those who are able to do that and then do not do it will be held accountable by Allah (Mighty and Majestic); because they did not support their Muslim brothers, whatever their status, their distance from the Sunnah, their rigidity in following a scholar without knowing his evidence, and some of the superstitions as is reported about them. In any case, they are Muslims who have not exited the circle of Islam. And this confirms upon us—we Arabs—who Allah has blessed with the correct understanding of Islam on one hand, and with abundant wealth on the other hand, that we should supply them with our knowledge and our wealth if we are not able to supply them with our selves; as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .