The Ultimate Conquest

By Ahmad Thomson

 

There are many ways of looking at a storm. There has to be thunder and lightning before the gentle rain that sustains everything can fall. The real purpose behind the storm that led to the Afghan invasion has been to secure the rich oil fields in the Caucasus and Southern states of the former USSR. Just as the USA armed Saddam Hussein and his men to fight Iran and then used him as a pretext to precipitate the Gulf War so that they could establish military control over the oil fields in the Middle East, so they armed Osama Bin Laden and his men to fight Russia and used him as a pretext to precipitate the Afghan War.

The purpose was to establish military control over the oil fields in the Caucasus and former southern states of the USSR -and also limit the nuclear capability of Pakistan and India in the process. The next anticipated phase of occupation and control of oil wealth would most probably be Somalia and Sudan, followed by Malaysia and Indonesia, all of Course in the name of the 'War against Terrorism'.

It should be remembered that it was America that precipitated the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the first place. After the takeover by Khomeini in Iran, the Americans moved their military listening posts from Iran to Turkey – so, as a Counter-move Russia moved down into Afghanistan, and within a week the CIA were arming and training the mujahideen in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden. So all the terror that has resulted in Afghanistan from, firstly, the Russian invasion and then, secondly, the American invasion, traces directly back to American foreign policy.

America's economy is not only dependent on cheap oil, but also on producing and selling expensive armaments, -hence the need for foreign theatres of war in which such armaments can be tested and sold. In the process many innocent people have been murdered, of whom many were believers. To those who have this blood on their hands, -whether as a result of blowing up people in the World Trade Centre, or as a result of blowing up people in Afghanistan, or for that matter, as a result of blowing up people in Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechenia, Kashmir, or anywhere else in the world, -I would draw their attention to the following:

" As for anyone who kills a Mu’min deliberately, his repayment is Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. Allah is angry with him and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a terrible punishment." (Quran,4:92)

‘Amr ibn al-' As said, "I came to the Prophet [sws] and said, 'Stretch out your right hand so that I may pledge my allegiance to you. He stretched out his right hand, but I withdrew my hand. He said, 'What is the matter with you O 'Amr?' I replied, 'I want to make a condition.' He asked, 'What condition do you want to make?' I replied, 'That I should be granted forgiveness.' He said, 'Do you not know, Amr, that entering Islam wipes out all previous (wrong actions), that making Hijra wipes out all previous (wrong actions) and that doing the Hajj wipes out all previous (wrong actions)?"' {Sahih Muslim, 1.55.220)

My prayer for those who have this blood on their hands, -and this includes the ones who gave the orders as well as those who carried them out, whether from 20,000 feet or 20,000 miles -is that they turn to Allah for forgiveness. Although in the midst of the storm this might seem unimaginable, we know that Allah is capable of such miracles.

I am reminded of the Mongol invasions, when Ghengis Khan described himself as the 'Wrath of God' and his forces swept all before them. As they approached the Muslim world, people asked, "How can we stop such people?" The wisest of the 'ulama replied, "Open your doors to them, welcome them and feed them. " Within three generations, the Mongols had accepted Islam.

Only Allah knows the future, and Allah is the best of planners. Our faith and hope should remain so strong that we should not be at all surprised if the forces of the oil Moghuls who have tried to overcome the Muslims end up being overcome by Islam. Although they may refuse to accept such a possibility, we know what they don't: La ghalib il'Allah -that “there is no conqueror except Allah.

 

This article first appeared in Q-News, Issue 339-40, Jan-Feb 2002. Reproduced with the kind permission of Ahmad Thomson. For further information visit www.q-news.com   

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