Umar Bin Khattab's war advice

[Fabregas]

When Muslim army clashed with the army of the Persians,Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas(r.a), the Muslim commanderasked Umar Bin Khattab(r.a) for some advice. Umar Bin Khattab(r.a) wrote the following famous letter:

 

quote:“… Then after, I order you and all troops that are along with you to be obedient to Allah in all circumstances, as this is better than the weapons against the enemy and a strong stratagem in the war. I order you and the soldiers who are with you to be more cautious and afraid of your own crimes and sins than your enemy, as the crimes and sins of the soldiers are more dangerous to them than the enemy.

 

The Muslims are victorious only because their enemies are disobedient to Allah, and had it not been so, we have no power over them, because neither our number is equal to their number, nor are our weapons like theirs. IF we commit crimes and sins as they do, then they (our enemies) will have superiority over us in power and we will not gain victory over them. WE DO NOT OVERPOWER THEM WITH OUR STRENGTH.

 

And you should also know that in this marching of yours, there are guards upon you from Allah and they all know what you do. So be shy from them and do not commit Allah’s disobedience while you are going in Allah’s Cause and do not say: ‘ Our enemy is worse than us, so they will not overpower us.’ Perhaps some people who are worse than the others may overpower the others as the (disbelievers) Magians overpowered the Children of Israel when they (the latter) involved themselves with Allah’s disobedience. So they (disbelievers) entered the very innermost parts of their homes and it was a promise fulfilled.

 

And ask Allah the assistance over your own selves, just as you ask Allah for the victory over your enemies. I ask Allah for that, both for you and for us.”

[N.O.R.F]

^Interesting and timely ya Brof.

[Nur]

In wars, soldiers commit crimes of excessive killing of non combatatnts and civilians. In Iraq, a peaceful country besieged by the Americans for 20 years with embargoes, lived harmoniously without any civil distubances and endured hardships between a rock and a hard place, between American greed of their wealth and oil, and a tyrant Dictator, under which they were kept together in peace. As soon as the Amercians invaded Iraq, with the false pretext of Weapons of Mass Distruction, WMD, the first thing the Americans have done was to create a civil war, inflaming dormant sectarian and ethnic animosities which have costed Iraq over a Million deaths and the collapse of their country.

 

The Ethiopians ( Clients Representing the Americans) have done the same to Somalia, although they have started the inflaming of the clan hostilities as far back as in 1990, by first inflaming clan hatred, to trigger a civil war, and then, arming all sides, watching the distruction of a country by its own people from the safety of Addis Ababa.

 

Economically speaking, to assist your enemy to kill each other is far more cheaper and safer than risking your own troops on harms way, which Ethiopia has done lately after the Islamic Courts appeared from nowhere after the party bells for the end-of-Somalia-as-a-nation and its incorporation into Ethiopia with a UN mandate was supposed to be announced in Addis Ababa.

 

The Islamic Courts suddenly became party spoilers, they were an emergent property in the project of the planned destruction of Somalia. Consequently, Ethiopia got nod from her Superpower Masters signalling the green light to invade Somalia and to protect the Transplanted Foreign Conceived Government. ( TFG) skillfully named by Ethiopia, Transitional Federal Government ( Federal with Ethipian Empire of Course)!

 

The Propblem with invaders throughout history has been that they recruited local traitors to spy on their own peoples, however, most traitors have low IQ, because any person with sound intelligence will never cheat his own people, so what amazes me is how the Ethiopians and their Masters trust our clowns? No matter how you train a clown, a clown will remain a clown. If they are not good enough for their people, they can not be trusted, as a matter of fact, its better to trust a wise enemy than a clown friend.

 

 

Morally speaking, death of civilians and non combatants is universally unacceptable, but, Ethiopia and its western allies have come to the conclusion that Somalis are not covered by western moral sympathy, which includes animals, so wasting them is Kosher. That's why the whole world is trying to save the Congo people from an impending Civil war and why BANK KEY MOON, of the corrupt UN( who literally holds the KEY for the project approvals in the UN affiliated Banks, IMF and World Bank for helping the poor once in a blue MOON), is finding a mission in Africa.

 

 

Attrocities committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan is called " Collateral Damage", which in layman's language means people who should be sacrificed for a higher purpose, like catching or killing an enemy. ( Amercian pretext of Arming Ethiopian Invasion was to capture three ALLEDGED "terrorists" hiding in Somalia) In other words, when the CIA was Zeroing in on Ayro, the Somali leader alledgedly with ties to the crazy bearded cave men in Afghanistan, he was targeted by a tomahawk missile from the Indian Ocean along with 13 civilians including women and children, who were instantly burried on site, which saved the locals the costs of burial they couldn't afford. Was that attack morally justifiable?.

 

Its precisely the same logic by those opposing the American forces are using, killing civilians as collaterals when they are in the way of high value enemy. Both justifications for the killing of the innocent are fundementally flawed logic, because every life is sanctified by its creator, Allah and should never be wasted without a sound due process that justifies their denial of their inseparable right to life, given to them by their maker, like the ruling of an impartial court to execute a murderer after clear proofs have been presented against him in a transparent court of law.

 

Another crime soldiers commit in wars is rape. Soldiers in battle without a religious principle to restrain them can get horny, with power of guns in their hands, they can easily rape any woman of their choice. That is what happened in Somalia when Ethiopian soldiers occupied Mogadishu, and the Jubba region, as well as what they have done traditionally in the Occupied Western Somalia region, I've even heard that Ethiopian soldiers raped the wife of Member of The fake TFG Parliament in Baidoa by mistake, as they have later apologised, which means that they are very active in raping young girls in Somalia to this writing.

 

So, its this criminal conduct, the likes of Abu Ghureib and Guantanamo that deprives invading nations the victory to rape weak nations. And Since victory represents the prevalence of Justice, how can one become a victor when the very pretext of the war is supported by lies, bribes of allies, blackmail, and all other types of unethical leverages which creates moral decay from within. That is the logic of Caliph Omar's sermon when he told Muslim fighters that they are their worst enemies if they disobey Allah and commit sins or attrocities against innocent civilians.

 

 

The real battle in this world of ours is the moral battle, the battle for justice , honesty, fairness, etc. Justice has two folds, Justice with our maker, and Justice with fellow man, Anyone who genuinely cares about the plight and welfare of the public, and their safety will win any confrontation, eventhough at times their opponenets will poison the well ( using the media propoganda to confuse the poeple ) and frame the innocent as evil or plant false evidence to discredit them in the eye of the public.

 

At the end, the good guys will prevail, and it may not always be the Muslims.

 

Because, a Just non Muslim force may prevail against an unjust Muslim force according to Allah's laws ( sunan).

 

 

Moral of Caliph Omar Ibn Khattab' s Sermon: You are as strong as your morals.

 

Nur

[Fabregas]

Umar Bin Khattab's letter shows how the sahaba understood the importance of taqwa and the precautions they took to refrain from the shins.Allah swt prescribed Ramadan so that we may become mutaqeen or people of taqwa, those that fear Allah, are constantly concious of the lord of the worlds and submissive in awe. After a third of Ramadan, I think all of us should measure our Taqwa levels, and if it is the same as 10 days ago, we are not fulfilling the purpose of Ramadan.

 

Fabregas