09 December 2001

Usama Bin Laden's Message for the Youth of the Muslim Ummah

KANDAHAR (Islam News): What follows is the message which Usama Bin Laden conveyed to the youth of the Muslim Ummah.

"My beloved brothers in Islam,

Assalamu-alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhi

We have been struggling right from our youth; we sacrificed our homes, families and all the luxuries of this worldly life in the path of Allah (we ask Allah to accept our efforts). In our youth, we fought with and defeated the (former) USSR (with the help of Allah), a world super power at the time, and now we are fighting the USA. We have never let the Muslim Ummah down.

We should realise that this life is temporary and eventually we have to return to Allah (SWT), the lord of the Heavens and the earth.

"Truly To Allah we belong and truly, to Allah we shall return."

Muslims are being humiliated, tortured and ruthlessly killed all over the world and it is time to fight these satanic forces with the utmost strength and power. Today, the whole of the Muslim Ummah is dependening (after Allah) upon the Muslim youth, hoping that they would never let them down.

The Jihad (fighting in the way of Allah) has become Fard-Ain (obligatory) upon each and every Muslim. We advise the Muslim youth not to fall victim to the words of some scholars who are misleading the Ummah by stating that Jihad is still Fard-Kifayah. The time has come when all the Muslims of the world, especially the youth, should unite and soar against Kufr and continue Jihad till these forces are crushed to nought, all the anti-Islamic forces are wiped off from the face of this Earth and Islam takes over the whole world and all the other false religions."

"And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship)will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do." Surah Al-Anfal]

We ask Allah (SWT) to rank us amongst His Truthful slaves.

Wassalamu-alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhi,