A speech on the results of the course held in Bosnia.

The questioner : In any case, we return to speaking about the course. The course received a good response, praise be to Allah. The financial incentives given to each imam were approximately one hundred francs. Of course, a franc is two and a half riyals, which is about half a dinar or more in your currency. It was an incentive, and praise be to Allah, they learn, their insight becomes clear, and they return to their people to convey the message to them. The course ended in ten days, praise be to Allah. Those in charge of it are proceeding on a good methodology, praise be to Allah, in creed and establishing the foundations, the importance of following the Sunnah and abandoning superstitions, and teaching the Qur'an and tajwid, praise be to Allah. These courses and the aid will be repeated, and praise be to Allah, people are beginning to get used to seeing Arab Muslims and hoping for good from them. When you come, O Shaykh, to see the situation, you do not know whether to catch up with the children before they leave or with the women, and may Allah protect us from that. The matters are very heartbreaking. The Christians go to the camps, or rather, they go to the refugees whom the church has taken, and they choose the most beautiful Muslim girl and stay with her for a month, then they expel her and ruin her! It is a very deplorable situation. So this is the problem, O Shaykh, meaning the women and children; a person does not know. The men, their children, their sons, and their women went to become Christian, simply. It is a state that cannot be described. Finally, from the Serbian prisoners, they were forced to dig the graves where it was known that there were mass graves, or where many Muslims were found. Many bodies were found with their skulls beaten with axes. This naive person said, "The United Nations announced that if any of those beaten with axes were women or children, the Serbs will be beaten." Poor us, this is a Muslim speaking with burning passion! So the conditions, the conditions, O Shaykh, a person can hardly look at these people and know how to treat them and where to start, and the banner is as you see.

The Shaykh : Well, how did you communicate with them?

The questioner : The Bosnian with us spoke Arabic fluently and clarified the intended meaning.

The Shaykh : Do you mean that when you delivered your speech, he translated it sentence by sentence, or after you finished?

The questioner : I would take a phrase, approximately six or seven words, for him to convey it to them, because I noticed in this man a lack of sufficient religious knowledge that would allow him to enter into their understanding. Without a doubt, word by word, the general meaning might be lost, but he was clear in his explanation and clarification, praise be to Allah. He was pleased with what he heard and said that he knows these hadiths about the rights of a Muslim over another Muslim. If he met you like this and you remembered it well, meaning the people were happy with that.