The student's speech on the problems facing the Afghan jihad and the necessity of scholars going there to resolve the disputes.

The student: Please allow me to speak, just a very small word, if you permit me?

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The student: Since you have presented the Islamic position on the Afghan jihad, we consider you, if Allah wills, knowledgeable about this matter. Now, as you know, the Afghan jihad lacks the shaykhs and scholars who rule by the law of Allah and proceed according to the law of Allah. First, if an Afghan scholar is found, he is Hanafi, and if he is found, he is from a tribe, and this does not even exist. The leaders have complained about this, saying: We do not have scholars. The second matter: I saw that the presence of even one student of knowledge with an Afghan leader, whether a field commander or a political leader, has a great impact on the psychology of the Afghans and positively affects the matter of da'wah there. And I say something to judge this jihad and to be fair to this jihad, from your presence, to whoever among you is able: If you are called to this jihad, you want it to be victorious and not for these years to be wasted, and for the two million martyrs to be lost like this, then the one who has knowledge should go there, sit with the leaders, know their problems, and know why they have adopted the Hanafi school, and how to correct it. And if something happens there, for example, the state is established, why? What is the alternative for the Afghan people? Will the alternative succeed? Discuss it with them, resolve the legal problems, show them what they lack? They lack something very fundamental, which is knowledge. They are scattered; Hekmatyar himself represents how many thousand people? Just one man, and he is not a scholar, nor a wise man, he is only a military leader, and he is one of the rebels who rebelled at the beginning. Sayyaf has some knowledge but stopped acquiring knowledge. They need councils of shura, they need circles of knowledge, specifically for the leaders. So that I may clear my conscience before Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), so that I may ask: What have I offered for this jihad? It is not enough for me to sit in my country and sit and speak this, and I am the young poor one, for your knowledge and your presence. But I say something: It is not enough for me to sit here, and for whoever is able to go, and speak about the jihad with doubts, and the incorrect path, and the existing disagreement, and what is similar to that, and not offer even a simple, practical service there, so that he knows. I do not mention an example except Abdullah Azzam, and I am not attached to him, nor did I know him, nor did I see him, but I say something: His presence was the greatest reason for the unity of the leaders in most cases. They separated during his life, but not like this separation. He would reconcile between Jamil and Sayyaf and Hekmatyar, and he was one person, and his scholarship is not like your scholarship. He was a da'i, that is all, and a mujahid, but he was able to reconcile them. He understood them, knew their school, and knew how they did not even apply the Hanafi school. I wish they applied the Hanafi school, they do not apply it. If every one of them came and saw that he has a white beard, what would he say to them? They obey, they imitate people who imitate, originally it is obligatory upon them to imitate, as I know, it is obligatory upon the layperson to imitate. So how can I accuse them?!

The Shaykh: It might be good...
The student : Yes?

The Shaykh: It might be good?!
The student: It might be good, so I say this thing: That is, for the one who has knowledge, and is able to go, let him go and see the problems that are there, and if he is able to solve them, and if he exerts his utmost and cannot, let him come here and speak. This is what is in my heart, and I say: If I have erred, forgive me for that.

The Shaykh: No one will err on your account!
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh: Unless you do not convey the trust!
The student: I will convey it, by the permission of Allah. I will answer you, by the permission of Allah, after three weeks or two weeks, by the permission of Allah the Exalted. I will come here and give you a handwritten letter from Hekmatyar.

The Shaykh: Allow me, no, I want them to publish this! I told you in the Islamic world!
The student: They publish it widely.

The Shaykh: It is not my intention that I convince me or others.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh: The Islamic world must know that this Islamic jihad is not for the victory of the Hanafi school, but rather for the victory of Islam as a whole!
The student: They announce this openly.

The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: Cursed is this, meaning they announce it openly to everyone!

The Shaykh: No.
The student: We want...

The Shaykh: No, it is not announced openly to everyone, my brother, may Allah bless you, I hope you are precise in expressing what I tasked you to convey to them as a scholarly trust.
The student: I understood the speech.

The Shaykh: So what are you saying they announced?! They did not announce it, they announce the establishment of the Islamic state.
The student: But they do not say Hanafi, they do not say the Hanafis.

The Shaykh: May Allah forgive you.