The Afghan Student's Remarks on Abu Malik's Commentary

The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The professor's point, I think, is entirely in agreement with what His Eminence the Shaykh said. The aim is that there is a place for gathering information, and as you kindly mentioned, the calamities that the Pakistanis and Afghans have suffered from the Shi'ah are sufficient for them, multiplied many times over, compared to what we would say to them. Therefore, this is not...
Abu Malik: Excuse me, I just forgot a point. I say that you will find great difficulty and resistance in spreading this idea that is now clear to you. You will find strong resistance here, and it will never be accepted. Therefore, whoever wants to come must be qualified; his body must be protected by a shield against bullets or weapons. His body must be armored so that he does not perhaps meet killing or death at the hands of these people. I am telling you this frankly.

The questioner : The Shaykh is very optimistic.

The Shaykh : Quote from your speech.

The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The request of the honorable professor is entirely in agreement with what you kindly mentioned, according to my understanding, and with what the Shaykh mentioned. So, our concern is not focused on spreading it there, but our goal is to gather as much as possible there, and this magazine is for that. As I said, it has not been published much because its distribution was internal and narrow. It is in the Arabic language, but it is naturally monitored by Iran and by the Pakistani government, among others. As for the second point...

Another questioner : What is the name of the newspaper?

The questioner : Its name is al-Mujahideen.

Another questioner : What is al-Mujahid?

The questioner : May Allah send prayers upon the Prophet. Yes, its name is al-Mujahid. Al-Mujahideen is another magazine affiliated with the organization. Al-Mujahid, yes. As for the other point we want to pause on, it is the true word the professor mentioned regarding the wavering or unstable belief of the leaders—I do not remember the exact phrase. I pause at this point, the unstable one. Yes, their belief, as we have clarified personally and as others have clarified, is a firm, clear, and stable belief. But not everything that is said is published, and not everything that is known there is explained here. The media, as we know, publishes whatever pleases them and conceals what does not please them. So it is the same here, without denying the existing disagreement. Within the existing disagreement, it is a disagreement on secondary issues that do not touch the creed. I am not speaking out of flattery, and I will give you one example so you can understand the nature of the disagreement. For example, they were asked, for instance, why Professor Sayyaf and Professor Hakim Yar do not agree with Majeedi, for example. They said, how can we agree with Majeedi when Majeedi is willing to sit with Zahir Shah? And he recounted his disagreement with Majeedi regarding Zahir Shah. They do not say about him, they said, this person sat with Zahir Shah and is willing to do so. How can we agree with a person who sits with Zahir Shah, the apostate? That is, their position is that we can never agree with this person who might sell what we have gained and the blood of one and a half million martyrs inside Afghanistan.
Abu Malik: For that reason, they appointed a president...

The questioner : Majeedi, on the other hand, when they ask him, why do you not agree? He says, how can I sit with these people who have no mercy in their hearts? If these people had ruled Afghanistan, they would have burdened the Afghan people with their tyranny and harshness. And you know, our brothers, the nature of the people; without harshness and firmness, things can never be straightened out, and without the leader of the organization being harsh and firm. Knowing that, and Allah knows best, their direct contribution to these internal fitnahs has not been publicly and clearly documented. There are indeed fitnahs, as you have heard, but when I measure their size, they are negligible compared to the overall size. So why do I generalize? As we say, all the people of that village are liars, may Allah protect us. How can I generalize this fitnah to all of Afghanistan, when most of Afghanistan is filled with good and jihad, and these fitnahs are absent from it? So, the fitnah, my professor, I am speaking about the individual. I can name the specific areas where the fitnah is. And when you look at the causes of these fitnahs and infighting, as I mentioned at the beginning, we must not forget the nature and psychology of the Afghan people. You will find that these issues are fundamentally connected to suspicion or the tricks of the state, using espionage methods to make a certain commander believe that someone is cooperating with the Russians, and then declaring jihad against him. They make that commander believe that this person is cooperating with the Russians and send them forged messages on this matter. This is the general shape. Then, why do you fight that one? He tells you, this is a hypocrite, this one went to Kabul, this one was given a message from Najib sent to him, so we fight him. When you go to the other, he says the same thing. So, in defense of the religion, this fighting happens. Why did it happen? As a result of their tribalism, because they do not verify and do not wait, and they do not have wisdom. The point, my professor, is that we do not take the disagreement at face value, but if we want to truly understand, we must go a little deeper into this people to understand the causes of the disagreement, as I mentioned. The disagreement, I say, is on specific points, and I do not deny this in reality. And secondly, the leaders do not work to inflame this disagreement. Rather, the strongest disagreement you hear is between the organization and the party. Let us hear the opinion of the leader of the party and the leader of the organization on this matter, and you will find that they are indeed working to reduce this disagreement as much as possible, and Allah knows best.