Signs of ar Rahman (The Signs of Allah)

Extracts from the Foreword by Ustaad
Sayyaaf
Alhamdulillah wa kafaa ‘ala ‘ebaadihis-tafaa
The prophet Muhammad did not divide the Muslim community into two
classes, the merchant and farmer class like Abu Bakr, Abdur Rahmaan bin
auf and Sa’d bin Mu’aaz, and say, these will equip and support the armies,
and a class of the poor fighters, like Bilaal, Ammaar and Suhaib
radiAllaahuanhu ajma’in. [Rather, all the Sahaaba personally took part in
Jihaad.]
As far as those who have doubts regarding these miracles, I do not
blame them since they are immersed in their materialistic convictions, far
from the realities of Jihaad.
Only he realises the yearning who has sustained it, and he who has
tasted it, recognises it. He who has seen it is not the same as one who has
heard about it. I invite all those who deny [these miracles] to visit the lands
of Jihaad, so that they may see with their own eyes that it is Allaah Ta’ala
who is steering the battle.
As far as those Muslim writers who exert their imagination to
conjure baseless, fictitious stories, to while away valuable time, I invite
them also to write such events that are beyond their imagination, stranger
than fiction, making history from new, and being written in blood.
As far as the Afghani affair is concerned, it has emerged from a
regional affair to an Islamic affair. I wish to draw the attention of the
Muslims to the fact that we started this Jihaad with revolvers, and we did
not have a single rifle. At the beginning, the Afghani nation faced the
Russian tanks with stones and boulders.
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