Signs of ar-Rahman - Hoor al-Ayn
Signs of ar-Rahman - Hoor al-Ayn
Signs of ar-Rahman - Hoor al-Ayn
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The Soviet losses in Afghanistan <strong>ar</strong>e between 40 and 60 million US doll<strong>ar</strong>sa day.Other reports put it at seventy million doll<strong>ar</strong>s a day. Even to this day, theRussians <strong>ar</strong>e suffering the economic effects <strong>of</strong> the terrible blow the power<strong>of</strong> Imaan had inflicted upon them. Despite the credit that the West wishesto claim, it was this sm<strong>al</strong>l nation <strong>of</strong> sincere sons <strong>of</strong> Islam that brought themighty super-power crumbling to its feet.One <strong>of</strong> the youngsters who spent the Ramadhaan and Shawwa<strong>al</strong> <strong>of</strong> 1403H on the battlefront, said to me:“I have seen that most certainly the aid <strong>of</strong> Allaah Ta’<strong>al</strong>a is inAfghanistan”.He then added:I took p<strong>ar</strong>t in a campaign in which we attacked the Yakhdur camp incentr<strong>al</strong> Kabul. We were 120 Mujaahideen. A helicopter gunship attackedus and rained upon us a torrent <strong>of</strong> shells. We began reciting the Shahaadatsince we were certain <strong>of</strong> facing death. The outcome <strong>of</strong> the battle was:3 tanks destroyed18 Russian soldiers and <strong>of</strong>ficers killed.13 Afghani communists killed and 20 <strong>of</strong> them injured. No one fromamongst us was injuredThe Ministers <strong>of</strong> the Kabul government sent a communiqué toMuhammad Siddeeq Tashka<strong>ar</strong>i, requesting him to h<strong>al</strong>t <strong>al</strong>l attacks oncentr<strong>al</strong> Kabul. In exchange they were prep<strong>ar</strong>ed to hand over to himwhatever we<strong>al</strong>th, goods, etc. he desires. His reply to them was:“I will grant you whatever you wish, on condition that you abandon yourheresy and communism, and enter into Islam.Last month (Shawwa<strong>al</strong> 1403), the Afghani cabinet (i.e. the communists)65