What is the good way to call the Afghan people to the correct creed? And how do we support them in jihad?

The questioner : Likewise, regarding the Afghan people, it is incumbent upon us to seek out the practical method by which we can call the Afghan people to turn toward the correct path, which is the Salafi path. It is not permissible for us to blame the leaders. The leaders are unable to spread the da'wah by themselves or with the very small number of preachers around them, because at this time they face an important matter, which is jihad. So they have two matters: first, jihad, and second, da'wah. Jihad is urgent, and they cannot let it drag on for many long years; they must settle this matter. However, correct da'wah among an ignorant people, as the Ikhwan described them, requires many long years. So we have two matters: the first is to support the Afghan jihad in one way or another, and the second is to spread the correct da'wah.

Another questioner : That is, there is a follow-up to Professor Abu Yusuf. He said that the Salafi leaders of jihad, these people, O Shaykh Sa'id, the leaders of the Afghan jihad, moved along these two lines. They established the Shari'ah universities that teach the creed... meaning the Faculty of Jihad and Da'wah in Paboo, which they established. I saw how they graduate young men at a level of Shari'ah knowledge, or all the Shari'ah sciences, on the correct line, the Salafi line. Also, there are institutes for training teachers; more than one institute exists in Peshawar. This teaching was even transferred to the interior. There was Dr. Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him), who headed a department called the Department of Education, which focused on spreading the thought, or as you say, the Salafi creed, among the people. And there are groups inside Afghanistan and outside it in Peshawar that have a semi-organized structure or sessions where some of them sit and teach the Qur'an, tafsir, and hadith. I saw the work of Shaykh Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him), who established educational and Shari'ah camps to gather Afghans from all the parties. He placed two men in each tent; yes, the tent held eight men. I saw how the Islamic Party, which included Jamil al-Rahman, was represented, along with two from Hekmat Yar, two from Rabbani, and two from Sayyaf. Most of them were front commanders. They gathered about five hundred people. Each camp held five hundred men. I saw how all of them were, for the most part, front commanders, sitting together so that they would love one another, cooperate with one another, and understand one another. While we were sitting there in the camp, some people came—may Allah will it—and said, "My brother, explain to us. You want to explain to the people that the Shirk and corrupt beliefs of the Afghans must be clarified to the people." We said, "My brother, through learning Islam and the Qur'an and studying the hadith, all of this clarifies it. But you stop at positions, meaning a difficult style, and you stand and say the Afghans are such and such." And this is what happened in the fronts: some of the Salafi Saudi brothers came and placed flags on the graves. They respected the martyr greatly, and this is not correct according to the Shari'ah. They put a flag on the grave. One of our Saudi brothers took the flag. The man had not learned or anything like that; he grabbed the machine gun and sprayed it, emptying the magazine, considering it against his religion. My brother, this matter, as our brother Professor Abu Yusuf mentioned, the fault is not with the Afghans; the fault is with the scholars who are sitting outside. I saw how, and as Shaykh Abdullah... Shaykh Abdullah was a consultant. There was no one who would leave his place to call his son Hudhayfa in the Muslim world. Where are the scholars to fill the gap or void that my father left? He was in charge of all the fronts (may Allah have mercy on him). I saw how he taught...

The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. We do not differ that da'wah must be in the good manner, but it is also necessary to speak about reality as Professor Jamal spoke about it here regarding the Shi'ah and their position and their severe hostility toward the people of the Sunnah. Likewise, we must speak about the reality of the creed in this land. When you kindly say that these preachers have called to the creed of tawhid for twenty years, there should not be such Shirk resulting from that, when that Salafi went to extremes in his style, as you indicate, and went with the machine gun and did his deed. Twenty years in da'wah! We hope that this report is true, but what we know is that there are no people who care about da'wah as Abu Yusuf said, caring about da'wah as they care about jihad itself.