Text of the speech "Re-evaluating Our Position on the Al-Aqsa Flood"

Peace be upon you. Brothers, this speech is only understood as a whole. Whoever watches it must watch it to the end, otherwise, they should not watch it at all. If you are not going to finish, my advice is to withdraw now.

-I say, brothers: Those who have followed me for the past forty days since the Al-Aqsa Flood began know that I was one of its strongest supporters, happiest with it, and defenders of it.

-Now, with the new information, after the destruction and killing that

-we have seen, will we remain in the same position? Or can a person change their position if they detach from the influence of emotion and listen to the language of reason and reality?

-Can what happened in the Al-Aqsa Flood be that a group of Muslims dragged a defenseless people into an unequal confrontation? Shouldn't we then think deeply and calmly about whether this action was a victory? Or does it destroy more than it builds, and waste more gains than it achieves?

-It is very important to know the answers to these questions to support or oppose the principle...the principle of jihad with modest means in this time, so that we know if this action is a model to be followed or if Muslims should refrain from it and be warned against doing so..

-I will re-evaluate our position on the Al-Aqsa Flood from several aspects:

1. The legitimacy of the action in the religion of Allah the Almighty. 2. The results of this action over the past forty days. 3. The loss of the relative stability that the people of Gaza enjoyed before the flood. 4. The objection of some people of Gaza to this action after its results appeared. 5. Previous positions related to the Iranian project. 6. Positions of some activists regarding the flood and what they indicated that such an action should not be undertaken without sufficient material force.

So we say, with the help of Allah:

First: Was the Al-Aqsa Flood a legitimate action?

-I do not think anyone disagrees that it was, in origin, a legitimate action. And perhaps I can say with confidence: All Muslims around the world were happy with it, even if some were happy with it mixed with its consequences. It is legitimate because, as one of the brothers described it: "A battle in which the best servants of Allah meet in the best land of Allah against the worst of Allah's creatures, in the most apparent battle between truth and falsehood, so that the word of the disbelievers is the lowest and the word of Allah is the highest."

-The Al-Aqsa Flood is a legitimate action because Allah the Almighty said: (Permission has been given to those who are being fought because they have been wronged, and indeed Allah is over them a Powerful Supporter).

-And because Allah the Almighty said: (And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of the ropes of horses to terrify thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy)..And I think no reasonable person can deny that the Mujahideen brothers have indeed prepared what they could.

-And it is legitimate because we are talking about an enemy who occupied Muslim land, shed their blood, and desecrated their sanctities. The hypothesis of jihad in this case is not a matter of ijtihad or discussion or expression of opinions in origin.

-And it is legitimate because our brothers who launched the Al-Aqsa Flood, and they are more truthful to us than all the disbelievers and hypocrites and the false media, informed us that the Zionists were preparing to invade Gaza, so the Mujahideen preempted them and invaded them in their own home and inflicted losses on them. So, in origin, it was protection from this impending danger.

Let us agree that the action in its origin is legitimate.

-But wait: To judge an action as legitimate or not, look at its results.

Ah.. this takes us to:

-The second point: Re-evaluating the Al-Aqsa Flood based on its results over the past forty days.

-Is it right for a group of Mujahideen to carry out an action whose result is the killing of thousands of Muslims, the destruction of homes, the displacement of their inhabitants, their slow death in hospitals, and their perishing from hunger and thirst?

-The question that arises strongly: Is this the inevitable result of the Al-Aqsa Flood? Or could things have gone differently and a massive uprising occur in the Muslim countries that would uproot the Zionist entity and shake the foundations of the international system and its lackeys in the Muslim countries?!

-"Mmmm.. no, it's not possible"

-Not possible?! If it's not possible, why did all the infidel countries come to the aid of the despicable entity and the international system's anger erupted hysterically and declared open war without any attempt to deceive the feelings of Muslims and threw all their treaties in the trash?

-If it's impossible, why does the entity act with this madness and sacrifice the lives of hundreds of prisoners despite the severe pressure from their families?

-Things could have gone differently from what happened, and the Al-Aqsa Flood could have swept away all the filth in the region.

-So what prevented that? It was prevented by guards who help the forces of infidelity to monopolize our people in Gaza, and peoples who were not prepared and did not prepare as their brothers in Gaza did. So do not blame those who did what they had to do for the guilt of those who did not do it.

-Do not judge the Al-Aqsa Flood by its non-inevitable results. The action is either legitimate or not. And if our Prophet (peace be upon him) was commanded to say: (If I had known the unseen, I would have multiplied the good and evil would not have touched me), how can our brothers know the unseen to carry out the Al-Aqsa Flood or not to carry it out. The Muslims were afflicted in the Battle of Uhud. Does this mean that their going out to the battle was a mistake? Of course not.

-When you discuss this topic, remember statistics from Statista and others showing that the military expenditures of seven Arab countries in 2021 amounted to 88 billion dollars.

- https://www.statista.com/statistics/676109/mena-military-spending-by-selected-country/

-And remember that this is the money of the nation..the money of the Muslim peoples that must be used to defend the nation without any consideration for the borders set by the occupier. The duty is to ask about the ruling of depriving Muslims of supporting their brothers with the weapons that were bought with their money, not to blame those who carried out the duty of jihad with the simple means available.

-Those who listen to us so far may think that we say: It is true that the Al-Aqsa Flood began with a victory, but then the victory was lost... Never, never..

-Never.. but if actions are measured by results, then the results of the Al-Aqsa Flood are among the greatest gains in the history of the Islamic nation, from reviving generations of lost youth, consolidating the creed of loyalty to the believers and disavowal of the disbelievers, angering the disbelievers and inflicting losses on them and they are still recording their heroism, exposing the hypocrites and enemies of the religion in their true nature (Let him perish who perishes, and let him live who lives), the entry of people into Islam, and the knowledge of many peoples of the truth of the usurping entity and the truth of their governments supporting it and their discovery that they are misguided in this matter and others, and the curiosity of millions to know what is in this great religion and how the people of Gaza endured what they are in..and it is the neglected duty and the mission that was entrusted: (You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind)..And I think all of this is in the good deeds of the patient people of Gaza and their Mujahideen by the permission of Allah.

-Those who were killed and are being killed from our brothers in Gaza are martyrs, inshallah, and those who are harmed in their families, bodies, and possessions and endure, Allah will compensate them with something better. They have not lost. Rather, the one who loses and the wrath of Allah befalls him is the one who is able to support them but does not. Worse than him is the one who prevents their support.

-"Okay, but in return for all this, look at the loss of the relative stability that the people of Gaza enjoyed before the flood."

-Ah!..this is the third point we mentioned at the beginning. The relative stability..meaning: people were living, yes in extreme hardship, and Gaza is a big prison, but they were living, eating, drinking, praying, fasting, Quran memorization competitions, and relatively safe.

-Those who followed the affairs of Gaza before the flood knew that it was on the verge of a great danger, a great danger to its religion, the nature of its children, their religion, and their morals.

-Food and aid were entering, but through the United Nations and its brood and NGOs affiliated with Western countries, which provided this "aid" poisoned with the poisons of Sidaw, gender, and working on the gradual stripping of the people of Gaza from their religion. On 20-9-2023, meaning about two weeks before the Al-Aqsa Flood, we had published a speech entitled "The Ethics of UNRWA and the People of Gaza" in which we explained that UNRWA had circulated a book to the teachers of Gaza whose summary in extreme brevity: "You people of Gaza, accept the spread of indecency and perversion and the fight against nature in your children, but teach it to them, you teachers of Gaza, against your will, and put your religion and the Quran aside, O teachers, and say we hear and obey the United Nations and its new religion"..And whoever thinks we are exaggerating should go listen to the speech and see the extent of their audacity.

-Gaza was the most place in Palestine exposed to attempts of blackmail and domestication by the institutions and associations we saw at the beginning of the war coming out like rats after they had exerted their efforts in religious and moral sabotage, so that their senders from the Western countries could complete urban sabotage, killing, and displacement.

-Gaza was besieged, and it was a crime for Muslims to donate to it so that only crumbs would reach it through these evil associations with much blackmail so that institutions like Sidaw, "Reform" and "Suwasa" and aging figures in Sharia promoting perversion such as Zainab Al-Ghanimi could carry out evil activities promoting perversion, transformation, and Sidaw's corruption..as documented by Telegram channels with sound and pictures such as "Gaza Resists Shudhaz Al-Afaq" and "The Popular Movement to Overthrow Sidaw". This was one of the reasons for our conduct of the competition "Palestine Confronts the War on Nature" and the competition "You Are Important" which were primarily directed to Gaza.

-Gaza was not well off from the conspiracy against it, it was exposed to filthy blackmail..and its people, reformers, and Mujahideen were oppressed by this nonsense whose pace was increasing in the recent years and months.

-The Al-Aqsa Flood came and washed all this filth...brought out all the rats from Gaza and their gender filth and fighting against Sharia which Gaza's environment cannot tolerate and cannot swallow poison with this filth. And our children who were schemed against to be raised on disbelief and perversion are now heroes who redeem their religion with their souls.

-Therefore, when you see someone say: "What victory are you talking about? People were eating and drinking, and the children were going to school." Say to him: And what about the soundness of their nature, morals, and hereafter? Do not be one of those who (know only the outward appearance of the life of this world, while they are heedless of the Hereafter).

-Then what if the Al-Aqsa Flood did not happen? And what if the people of Gaza surrendered to attempts at corruption? Would they have been safe in their worldly affairs?

-The criminal Zionists who enjoy declaring safe passages to the people of Gaza, then if our people take them, they bomb them with extreme criminality..and we have seen clips that turn the hair white...the criminal Zionists who filmed one of their soldiers pretending to help the elderly Bashir Al-Hajji, 79 years old, while he was on his way to displacement, then executed him with bullets in his head and stomach...would they have left Gaza from their evil? Did we forget when their warship fired on the family of Huda Ghaliya who went out for a picnic on the beaches of Gaza and the picnic turned into a massacre in which her father and five brothers were killed and the wailing of that girl for her family on a day when there was no fighting or Al-Aqsa Flood?!

These are criminals..they do not leave anyone from their evil.

-"But wait! Even some people of Gaza objected to the Al-Aqsa Flood after the killing and destruction occurred, and we saw that on the screens of Al-Arabiya, for example."

-Yes, this is expected, and the people of Gaza are no better than the Prophet's community. The Prophet's community had Abu Bakr and Umar and the brave companions, and it had those who hated confrontation so that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) commanded them, they (argued with you about the truth after it had become clear, as if they were being driven to death while they were looking). And it had weak in faith and hypocrites who (said if we had any authority, we would not have been killed here). And I am not here to belittle those who showed distress and pain and wished that the matter had not happened. May Allah help them and help us to support them. But no reasonable person doubts that the people of Gaza as a whole set the most beautiful examples that amazed people and invited disbelievers to embrace Islam. But there are evil media that only fall on what they want to exploit to strike the principle of jihad.

-"Do you know, Yiad? We can agree with you with all this talk except for a lump in the throat..and that is the positions of the Hamas movement regarding the Iranian project and the Lat party and the systems that have afflicted the Muslims with the worst torment."

-Perfect, this brings us to the fifth and penultimate point. To inform you, I am one of the strongest people in rejecting these positions and clarifying their illegitimacy and the danger of their consequences. This was our position and it remains.

-But the battle now is not a battle of Hamas! It is a battle of Islam and disbelief, Muslims and disbelievers. When you see the Zionists targeting the "Reviving the Sunnah" mosque in the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza with a missile that killed more than fifty worshippers who were praying Maghrib and Isha together in fear of the raids the day before yesterday, this is a war that has nothing to do with Hamas. This is a war of Islam and disbelief.

-The fathers who bear the loss of their sons and wives, the children who challenge their enemies..the old woman who says "as long as the youth -meaning the Mujahideen- are fine, we are fine...all of them, are they sacrificing for the Rafidi project? Of course not, and praise be to Allah that this evil project has shown its true nature in these events when it abandoned the people of Gaza.

-We have been and will remain and will continue to condemn any position that praises an oppressor or an enemy of the Sunnah and any position that settles the issues of the Muslims. For the Palestinian issue is not separate from the Syrian or Iraqi issue...one nation and the borders between us are of no value...because we believe in the saying of our Prophet (peace be upon him): (The blood of the believers is equal, and they are a hand against those who are not of them). And we ask Allah to purify this flood of the actions and pages of those who erred in this matter, and that we do not see such positions from them after today. The same applies to our position regarding democracy, nationalism, the "two-state solution," and international legitimacy. These are not the meanings that move men on the ground and do not represent their positions.

-Are our people in Gaza fighting, sacrificing, and enduring for nationalism or for democracy? Rather, we believe that the majority of them do so for the word of Allah to be the highest, and that they know that the sovereignty of the word of Allah and the Sharia of Allah includes their rights, dignity, honor, and the restoration of their land.

-Some of them may have confusion between these national and legitimate meanings. Our role is to remind them and remind ourselves to examine the intention for Allah and the will to support the Sharia of Allah and the establishment of His rule on earth, not to abandon them by justifying the existence of mistakes and saying the saying of the first hypocrite "Perhaps Allah has bestowed a favor upon me in that I was not with them."

-What if things go in the future in a non-auspicious direction by exploiting the Al-Aqsa Flood for concessions that I do not say are a reduction for our people, but rather the legitimization of entering an unlawful tunnel that will not benefit them in this world or the hereafter? -For every occasion, there is a speech. The duty of the time is to support them, not to abandon them and justify to ourselves that this may happen.

6. Finally: What about the positions of some regarding the flood and what they indicated that such an action should not be undertaken without sufficient material force?

As for those who are of noble character and understanding and share commonalities with us in the correct religious discourse, perhaps what has been presented is sufficient and convincing to them... And we say to him: When did the battle between Islam and disbelief begin to stop the analysis and assessment of the usefulness because this is from cowardice, discouragement, and discouragement, and the scattering of efforts. All effort should be directed towards supporting your brothers and averting harm from them. All blame, criticism, and even treachery should be directed at those who are able to support them but in reality help their enemies against them. Any distraction now is a lifeline for hypocrites and conspirators, diverting attention from them and taking it as an excuse to besiege and perhaps even criminalize the support of the Mujahideen, under the pretext that there is "popular rejection" of what they did! So fear Allah in what you say.

On the other hand, there is a class of people who insult those who carried out the Al-Aqsa Flood and invoke curses upon them. At the same time, they praise their masters who conspire against the Muslims and are polite to them and call the people to obey them. And you may see him with a beard and a keffiyeh and claim that he bases his positions on Sharia.

This class of people resembles the hypocrites in everything:

- They abandoned the Messenger of Allah and the believers in Uhud after (it was said to them, "Come, fight in the cause of Allah or defend yourselves").

- And they legalized the actions of those who conspired against the Muslims and allied with their enemies against them: (So you see those in whose hearts is a disease hastening to them).

- Then when the Muslims were afflicted with a calamity, they said: (If they had obeyed us, they would not have been killed).

- And they attributed the calamities to the Messenger of Allah and those with him: (And when a calamity befalls them, they say, "We were indeed wrongdoers").

Of course, this is not a comparison of any movement or group with the Prophet of Allah and those with him. Rather, it is an explanation of the enmity of the hypocrites towards the spirit of Islam and jihad-abandonment, conspiracy, cowardice, and blaming the Mujahideen.

Finally, dear people:

Re-evaluating the Al-Aqsa Flood requires us to say: Stand firm on your first view, stand firm on the truth in supporting your brothers..and know that the enemies of Allah have seen the creed of jihad and Islamic dignity being built in the hearts of Muslim peoples, so every bombing on the ground they want to simultaneously bomb this creed and destroy its structure in your hearts..so that it does not become a model to be followed because it is dangerous to all the criminals who turn humanity away from the path of Allah and make it deviate..so stand firm and do not listen to the cowards, hypocrites, and weak in faith who have no certainty of all the meanings of faith. (So be patient. Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth. And let not those who have no certainty weaken you).

And peace be upon you.