“ I swear by my Lord, it is certainly Khilāfah, as certain as your ability to speak, see, and hear.”
of truth, to suppress their falsehood and restrain their tongues.
Yes, Allah has opened the lands for His awliyā’, so they entered and dispersed within the lands, killing the fighters of the kuffār, capturing their women, and enslaving their children.
I write this while the letters drip of pride. Yes, O religions of kufr altogether, we have indeed raided and captured the kāfirah women, and drove them like sheep by the edge of the sword. And glory belongs to Allah, to His Messenger, and the believers, but the hypocrites do not know!
Or did you and your supporters think we were joking on the day we announced the Khilāfah upon the prophetic methodology? I swear by my Lord, it is certainly Khilāfah, as certain as your ability to speak, see, and hear. It is Khilāfah with everything it contains of honor and pride for the Muslim and humiliation and degradation for the kāfir. Our Prophet( sallallāhu‘ alayhi wa sallam) said, as narrated by Ibn‘ Umar( radiyallāhu‘ anhumā),“ I was sent with the sword before the Hour so that
Allah alone is worshipped without partners. And my provision was placed beneath the shade of my spear. And humiliation and degradation was made for those who oppose my command” [ Reported by Imām Ahmad ].
Therefore, we did not humiliate them, but it was Allah who did so at the hands of His truthful slaves who did not wish for anything except for Allah’ s word to be supreme and the kuffār’ s words to be lowest. For that sake, they have exerted their souls and hearts. Their aim is sublimity for the religion and humiliation of whoever desires a religion other than Islam!
‘ Abdur-Rahmān Ibn Jubayr Ibn Nufayr reported that his father said,“ When the lands of Cyprus were conquered, the people began to divide the captives. They separated between them as the captives were weeping for each other. So Abud- Dardā’ went aside. He then sat down upon the ground and wept. Thereupon Jubayr Ibn Nufayr came to him and said,‘ What makes you cry, O Abud-Dardā’? Do you cry on a day in which Allah has honored Islam and its people and humiliated
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