The people of Somalia request that the Shaykh provide a legal ruling and advice by which the Salafi callers to Allah can act in confronting this problem that has befallen the country.
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The Shaykh : Here is the written message. What does the questioner say? Is this questioner the one you meant, Abu 'Abd al-Rahman?
The student : Through him, our Shaykh, meaning this is... meaning Yusuf signed it. Yusuf is a colleague, it seems he is the brother of that one.
The Shaykh : May Allah do you good. Here he presents, after he speaks, the tragedy that our Somali brothers are living and experiencing today, generally, and these Salafis in particular. The truth is, we now, or at least I, do not know anything about their Salafism. Do you know about them?
The student : Our Shaykh, I do not know about those in Somalia, but those in Dubai, meaning from our brothers...
The Shaykh : So this is the question we wanted him to attend so we could understand directly from him, yes.
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace. Yes, so I wanted to ask you: are you assured that these are Salafis? He is calling them Salafis, the Salafi brothers in Somalia.
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Providing a legal ruling and providing advice by which the callers and the Salafi youth can act in confronting this problem that has befallen the country, along with the evidence that will convince them. If they so will, by the permission of Allah, they will act according to your opinion, otherwise we fear disagreement or haste in the matter. This is page three, the fourth. Knowing that the expected solutions from the youth in the camps are as follows: First: repelling the aggression and confronting the invading disbelievers. Glory be to Allah, today, before this fax reached me, we heard on the radio that the Security Council or the United Nations will send forces from various countries, including French. I said to my wife, while I was talking, that this means the occupation of Somalia, just as Iraq was occupied. And perhaps they will withdraw as they withdrew from Iraq, but Iraq has now become a colony, albeit indirectly, but in the most wicked way possible, to the extent that the Christian Undersecretary of State is going to the Council to tell them, and he is speaking while looking at his situation here in Jordan, saying, "We have implemented your decisions, so allow us to sell our oil." What is more humiliating than this? So these people, in the name of relief, will enter Somalia to occupy it, enslave it, and make it a slave. The Arab countries are included in this, our country. I also heard on the radio that they are ready to send an army there if they wish. What? The Security Council or the United Nations. Here it says how many thousands?
The student : Three thousand.
The Shaykh : He said: How many?
The student : Three thousand.
Another student: Three thousand and five hundred.
The Shaykh : No, no, the ones they want to send.
The student : One hundred thousand, my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes, one hundred thousand.
The student : One hundred thousand.
The Shaykh : One hundred thousand from the United Nations army. So here, my intention from the introduction, what do I want to say? Repelling the aggression and confronting the disbelievers. These are one hundred thousand, and there are five thousand, and then he gives details here, yes.
The student : Three thousand and five hundred, my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Three thousand and five hundred, okay. I do not care about the numbers now, because whatever is said about them has no value for that one, and then he gives the details, some of them are armed, some are not armed.
The student : Light weapons, light weapons.
The Shaykh : Light. He said the proposed solutions: repelling the aggression and confronting the invading disbelievers. From where? Hiding the weapons and dispersing among the people. This might be reasonable. No, there is no way other than this.
The student : So that they know how to take care of themselves.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : So that they know how to take care of themselves.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is second: hiding the weapons and dispersing among the people. Third: surrendering the weapons to the invading forces. What does surrendering the weapons mean? He might want that if they are imposed on them, as here, without blame, now the matter is okay, but the phrase is insufficient: surrendering the weapons to the invading forces and dispersing among the people. There is a difference between solution number three and number two regarding the weapons.
The student : Hiding them.
The Shaykh : Or surrendering them. Do you see here? So my intention was that it is necessary that a person comes from there and we ask him: my brother, these youth you are talking about, some are trained and have weapons, even if light, and some do not have weapons. Are you sure that these are Salafis? And who is responsible for these Salafis? And who guides them? Because we fear that the situation will fall like Afghanistan, seven parties, as you know. Yes, this is possible. We, by fax or telephone, and I was forced at that hour to speak with him on the telephone. I cut off the conversation and said to him, this is not possible, and I said to him that he or someone else should come. He said this is also not possible. So he left me under a fait accompli and sent a fax. Now, how can we answer them? He says the matter is pending your answer, and they will act according to your opinion, otherwise we fear disagreement and haste in the matter. Yes, what do we do? That wise woman said: "I was not going to decide anything until you bear witness."
The student :[An-Naml 27:32] .
The Shaykh :[An-Naml 27:32] And the problem is a very difficult problem, because the witness sees what the absent one does not see, as we always say about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). And by Allah, we do not know. The tragedy in Somalia, as in this statement, we read something of it, a terrible tragedy. And before, I used to think, without knowing these details, these news on the television, the pictures of the children and women, not clean, nothing but bones. This is a planned scheme by these disbelievers to starve the people so that they become what? A mouthful for them. No one to confront them, no one to fight them. We used to think this, and unfortunately the news confirms this opinion that we were deriving by inference. Now we have three thousand Salafi youth, if Allah wills, let them be non-Salafi, let us assume they are Muslims. What must we advise them? To confront the aggression as came in the first solution? By Allah, I do not think so.
The student : Through him, our Shaykh, meaning this is... meaning Yusuf signed it. Yusuf is a colleague, it seems he is the brother of that one.
The Shaykh : May Allah do you good. Here he presents, after he speaks, the tragedy that our Somali brothers are living and experiencing today, generally, and these Salafis in particular. The truth is, we now, or at least I, do not know anything about their Salafism. Do you know about them?
The student : Our Shaykh, I do not know about those in Somalia, but those in Dubai, meaning from our brothers...
The Shaykh : So this is the question we wanted him to attend so we could understand directly from him, yes.
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace. Yes, so I wanted to ask you: are you assured that these are Salafis? He is calling them Salafis, the Salafi brothers in Somalia.
The student: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Providing a legal ruling and providing advice by which the callers and the Salafi youth can act in confronting this problem that has befallen the country, along with the evidence that will convince them. If they so will, by the permission of Allah, they will act according to your opinion, otherwise we fear disagreement or haste in the matter. This is page three, the fourth. Knowing that the expected solutions from the youth in the camps are as follows: First: repelling the aggression and confronting the invading disbelievers. Glory be to Allah, today, before this fax reached me, we heard on the radio that the Security Council or the United Nations will send forces from various countries, including French. I said to my wife, while I was talking, that this means the occupation of Somalia, just as Iraq was occupied. And perhaps they will withdraw as they withdrew from Iraq, but Iraq has now become a colony, albeit indirectly, but in the most wicked way possible, to the extent that the Christian Undersecretary of State is going to the Council to tell them, and he is speaking while looking at his situation here in Jordan, saying, "We have implemented your decisions, so allow us to sell our oil." What is more humiliating than this? So these people, in the name of relief, will enter Somalia to occupy it, enslave it, and make it a slave. The Arab countries are included in this, our country. I also heard on the radio that they are ready to send an army there if they wish. What? The Security Council or the United Nations. Here it says how many thousands?
The student : Three thousand.
The Shaykh : He said: How many?
The student : Three thousand.
Another student: Three thousand and five hundred.
The Shaykh : No, no, the ones they want to send.
The student : One hundred thousand, my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes, one hundred thousand.
The student : One hundred thousand.
The Shaykh : One hundred thousand from the United Nations army. So here, my intention from the introduction, what do I want to say? Repelling the aggression and confronting the disbelievers. These are one hundred thousand, and there are five thousand, and then he gives details here, yes.
The student : Three thousand and five hundred, my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Three thousand and five hundred, okay. I do not care about the numbers now, because whatever is said about them has no value for that one, and then he gives the details, some of them are armed, some are not armed.
The student : Light weapons, light weapons.
The Shaykh : Light. He said the proposed solutions: repelling the aggression and confronting the invading disbelievers. From where? Hiding the weapons and dispersing among the people. This might be reasonable. No, there is no way other than this.
The student : So that they know how to take care of themselves.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : So that they know how to take care of themselves.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is second: hiding the weapons and dispersing among the people. Third: surrendering the weapons to the invading forces. What does surrendering the weapons mean? He might want that if they are imposed on them, as here, without blame, now the matter is okay, but the phrase is insufficient: surrendering the weapons to the invading forces and dispersing among the people. There is a difference between solution number three and number two regarding the weapons.
The student : Hiding them.
The Shaykh : Or surrendering them. Do you see here? So my intention was that it is necessary that a person comes from there and we ask him: my brother, these youth you are talking about, some are trained and have weapons, even if light, and some do not have weapons. Are you sure that these are Salafis? And who is responsible for these Salafis? And who guides them? Because we fear that the situation will fall like Afghanistan, seven parties, as you know. Yes, this is possible. We, by fax or telephone, and I was forced at that hour to speak with him on the telephone. I cut off the conversation and said to him, this is not possible, and I said to him that he or someone else should come. He said this is also not possible. So he left me under a fait accompli and sent a fax. Now, how can we answer them? He says the matter is pending your answer, and they will act according to your opinion, otherwise we fear disagreement and haste in the matter. Yes, what do we do? That wise woman said: "I was not going to decide anything until you bear witness."
The student :
I would not decide a matter
مَا كُنْتُ قَاطِعَةًThe Shaykh :
I would not decide a matter until you witness [for] me."
مَا كُنْتُ قَاطِعَةً أَمْرًا حَتَّى تَشْهَدُونِ
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