Request for the Shaykh to speak on the end of these trials.

The questioner : I would like to know if you have any addition to the topic of what is called the Gulf Crisis, meaning after the matters ended and some things became clear, do you have any other comment besides the twenty tapes we heard on the subject?

The Shaykh : Do you mean a comment on what passed, or on what happened after it passed?

The questioner : I wanted to know if there is anything new.

The Shaykh : No, we have nothing new except confirming the old.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Do you have anything new?

The questioner : No, by Allah, may Allah reward you with good. Do you remember when you came to us and we asked you questions, and you insisted, or said among other things, that the Americans would not withdraw from the region and would remain there forever? Have you changed your opinion on this now?

The Shaykh : We say this as a conclusion, not as guessing the unseen. We may be right and we may be wrong. So let us see when the Americans will leave? And it does not matter to you if you think, like my story, that the earth is inhabited now; it does not matter to you, because the word of truth must be said.

The questioner : No, of course there is no doubt.

The Shaykh : Is that not so, Shahin?

Another questioner : The Muslim Arabs are being expelled.

The Shaykh : Among the strange and wonderful things, and this is truly a good example for the previous research, meaning, may Allah bless you, you moved us from a secondary topic, as they say in some jurisprudential terminology, a form of the forms of prayer, this position, to a very important issue, which at the same time serves as an example for what I told you just now: that it is not permissible to rely on texts that the righteous Salaf did not apply as we, the Khalaf, hope to be a righteous Khalaf, do.