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CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHURITY METIER OF 1-8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP" BY fad Ee ta, “DATE 3 /ai/er AMERICAN EMBASSY, CONSTANTINOPLE. ‘The Honorable The Secretary of State, . NY Washington, Bir: Mith further reference to my despatch No. Oo ocd : 302: of/Way 11th, 1915, enclosing a Proclemation on = 2 the Holy War, published by the National society of WL 8 19 Defense, I have the honor to call the Department's attention more especially to page 9. wherein every Moslem is exhorted to kill" either secretly or openly. three or four of the ruling infidele* which in thie connection refers undoubtedly to British, French and Russian. The same proclamation, I am in- formed wae circulated here in Turkish, though copies proved extremely diffimlt to obtain. Altogether the purely religious feature of the Holy War especial~ ly at Constantinople may be said to have proved & failure hitherto so far at 1 yt ae the capital is fb CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY: LETTER OF 1-8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATEDEP'T. | BY, a 3/367 3 concerned where the Turks have as yet manifested practically no signs of personal animosity toward ‘the numerous French and English here resident. I am less abie to judge of the situation in Syria end - the more remote pats of the Empire where the latent tenaticimte-fer-greater and is often able to pro- * = fit by conditions of local disorder. In the event either of the present administrative machinery crumbling or of the military authority being weakened it im impossible to say that excesse® will not be committed which may not be confined to the subjects of belligerent powers, It is especially because of this future outlook that the circulation of inflan- matory pamphlets of this nature becomes so reprehensibie« I have no proof of the extent to which Germans may be implicated in this, other than the statements con- tained in Kr, Consul Jackson's despatch, a copy of which was enclosed to you, If I should later be in possession of more positive information I will not fail to bring the same at onee to your notice, I have the nonor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, +> CLABGIEIUALIUN CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER OF. 1-8+58. FROM W..H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY feat bebe DRTE "3/67 2 eae Vi ge co ¥ . x ag Published by the Wational Society of Defence The Seat of the Caliphate 1338. Printed in the Kutba'at’el Haireyet. OF 1:8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY fed eden PATE. sLailer In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to him who ordained brotherhood between all the believers by his saying (Thebelievers are brothers) and grace and pesoe™te upon our Tord ma our Beloved Hohamed who said GReTL He Laver iw brother” Se“he Loves” “pimoel£) -and—tiven—otr-ompany-of the-House-of ‘Feith end Oh Hoslenie from whatsoever people you may be and in whatsoever Language you spesk, God (iet Him be praised and exalted:} hes mode us and you brothers and hes revealed that to ue by His seying (Oh ye who have believed, fear God a true fear and do not die except as Moslems) and be bound together by the covensnt of Goa all of you and do not be separated, end remember the Gras between you and joined you together as brothers by Ris grece of Goa upon you when you were enemies and he made friendship wien you wore on the verge of the pit of fire and he delivered you from it; im like manner God reveals to you his vei thet ye may be converted. God enjoined upon you four things in these two honored verses and informed you of four things. He commanded you the fear of God, and the being bound by the covenant of God, end that ye avoid the causes of separation und difference, and that yo remenber Hie grace towards you. And he informed you of the hatred and enmity which existed among you before Islem, and that’ He after 1t had graciously bestowed upon you grace ent love and friendship, and thet He by His grace Joined you together as brothers. And there ig no doubt that we the Muslims believe this precious verse end give crétence to its contents, for without ULADOIEUALIYN CANUBLED AULHUKIDY LSTTER 58 FROM.W..B. ANDERSON; STATEDEP'T DATE: 3 /ay fer ama @oubt we ought to hold the doatrine that al) the Muslime from a1l peoples and nétions are brother, and as this brotherhood hes boon knitted between peoples eo alao between individuals of these peopl ~\ every. acai es exe eae eeeerey teens “errrretron or Bie bots 3 ¥ “fron Over nations a he suffers in the effilotion of his brother —--—~" from his own Botherand father, or from his own tribe which shelters — him, ~ + every one of whom 18 to be reckoned ee a true brother to It 4e the duty of every people of the peoples dignified by the religion of Islam that their sympathies towards others of the Ielamic peoples should be the same as their sympathies torards their own peoples and femilies, and it is incumbent upon their individuals end their conmunities to strive and put forgh every effort to deltver eny people of the peoples of Islan and sny nation of the nations which believe in the Unity of Goa if they have fallen into the grasp of the infifes who are idolatere, and of the oppressive enentes You, At 4m an important duty of all the MusLine that they should despise ell aifficulties and exert their utmost porer to help those of then who have fallen unter the rule of the infidels and to deliver then from oppression with all thelr power, and whoever violates this duty 1a guilty of a great iniquity end — whoever denies it 4 from God painful/ punishment in hell continually. And this is the case if the hostility fells upon @ people or & tribe of the Moslem communities, and how will it be if the oppressive infidels should, by their enmities, attack the center of the Caliphate} and if th py the Caliph the apostle oF God (May God be gracious to hin and give ereot enmity torard CunDOLE UAIIUN VARGELEL AUTHUIITY LETTER, OF 1-858 FROMM, H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T DATE. 3 La Lee him peace!), and if they spread from their moutha hatred toward him, although he is the great example to all Muslima spread abrosd on the face of the earth, and the one who descends from them: like the descent of the epirit from the flesh; "there oan be no daadt, that 1¢-49 en tnperative duty in this oese upon @11 the another in striving for-nie-viotory; ant for-tetenting-the-white- — - nee of Ielem with all the power thet they can put forth. Merefore every Kuslim without exception must be considered as a soldier, and therefore it is an imperative necessity that everyone who is able to bear arms should learn the militery duti + and be ready for the Holy Wer in onse of need. And these duties are Anoumbent upon individnele, and communities, and peoples; for they ere called to that and responsible for it in accordance with the saying of the Most High (And oppose to then #11 that you can command of force.). Por this speach inoludes all of then. And it 4s the duty of every Muslim whatsoever his rece and birthplace that he should be ready to rise up for this purpose and xpend the utmost effort to socomplish it, considering thet thie message is addressed to him personsily. For the Muslim world hes arrived at s condition in which it is not fitting that anyone should consider his personal atvantege or bodily repose or any private consideration, but it 18 the duty of every iuslin that he should leave his own amusement end part with hie own plessure and thet he shonld cast all worldly business behind his beok end that he should ocoupy himself completely with the deliverance of his religion and his nation from the wiles of the enemii it 19 the duty of the whole kuslim world to~dey to gather all ite (UuABBUICALIUN CANUBLED AUTHORITY LETTER OF 1-8:58. FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY jek Cf. DATE 3 /o//e = ae ony resources at one point and interrupt every work tenporarily exoept the work of the resone of the religion of God and the Holy War in the path of God. A very holy office ie pre: nted to-day ‘to every people of the peoples of Islam, the inspired Holy Wer. ‘Tha Stage oF -Deyranation ‘to whity-the Norbd-of- tetem-hes-errtved: “0 poopie. of: the Paith,-andO-beloved Muslims, and o true “prothers, consider; though It te-but for a little, te condition of the Islamlo world. For if you consider thie a little, you will weep long. You see before you an important matter. You see a bewildering condition which caus the tear to fall ‘end prolongs the thought and ceuses the fire of grief to blaze. You aee the great country of India whioh conteths hundreds of millions of Muslims nas fellen on account of the divisions and the weakness of religion into the grasp of the enemies of God, the infidel English. You see forty million of Mnslina of Java shackled in the fetters of captivity and of affliction under the rule of the Dutch, although these infidels ere much fewer than they in number and they are not much more elevated than they in their civilization and knowledge. You see Morocco and Algeria and Tunis and Egypt and the Sudan greening fron the extremity of suffering in the gresp of the enemies of God and of His Apostle. You see the vast Siberia end the great Turkesten end Khive and Bakhare and the Caugasus and the Crimea and Kosen and Esderhan and Kosskasten, their Muslim peoples who believe in the unity of God ground under the conquering power of the oppressors who are of the enemies of the religion. You behold the land of Dairan in preparation for @ivision and you even s the center of the Caliphate which hes Cuunpoie WU ALIUN CANUBLEY AUTBUNITY LETTER, OF 1-8-58 FROM 'W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY fk Clea 2 DATE" /x//er not ceased since long ages to combat the enemies of the religion bre t to bresst,has become the target for oppression and violence by means which its enemies rei ‘the enemies of the religion, and especielly the every day in new form, and, in drief, you English the Russians and the French have gone to great lengthe in the appranaoi SE -the Telants- Worle-und: the invesTon“or ite Fights, aK -M“injuring it to @ degree that cannot be” enumerated and that Pédses 611 Lintte, by which they desire to destroy Islam and the Muslims from the face of the earth. But let then beware! Tey wil] not be able to socomplish their purpose whatever tyranny end obstinsoy they may put forth and in whatever numbers ‘they may eppear, and with whatever implemente. The Kost High (may His name be praised!) will perfect His light and will manifest His religion and will cause a word to Islem which is the highest according ap the precious Koran has said in Hie saying. (They desire to extitguish the ligift of God with their mouths, but God is perfecting His light in spite of the abhorrence of the infidels. It 1s He who" sent His apostle with guidance and the religion of the truth that Ke might make it manifest over 411 religions in epite of the abhorrence of the idolaters.”) We hold perfectly to thie doctrine and we are determined that Ielem shall be elevated greatly whatever happens, but it 1e the duty of the Muslims that they should exert their utmost effort in this path alsg,for the Pride of all oreatures (May God be grecious to Him and give Him peace!) along with God's bestowal on Him of dassling mireoles fought the greatest fight for the elevation of the dignity of the revealed religion, until His honored coupeniogs assisted in the digging of the ditch by His , CLASSLKICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER OF 1-8-58 FROM W, H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T 7 BY fuck Cpeabeargir DATES 's/s//er 5 eg noble self in the day of the confederates, and He-alone oleerly | manifested himself to the infidel world in the day when h 88 in Mecca. ‘Then he invited the 1dolaters to the true religion .when the word of the Most High descended upon. Him from heaven in the verse (Expound what you are commanded.), And after the coova itr Remtre he: tought ter ‘Severs yeare: more then fifty timeg, between ———— ™ gempeigns-end bands, end hie successors, the followers of the Right Way, adopted his noble example and they spent the days of their Caliphate to the utmost of their ability to 1ift up the word of truth, and in a word, the generation in which the word of Iolam was sanifest above 411 religions end the Muslina were rulers over the reat of the nations, thet“fe the generation in which the fighters of the Holy-War of the Muslims aseailed with ell viblence and fought in God a true fight for the elevation of Eis Word and the defence of His Law. And therefore God firmly established then in the lend and caused their word to ¥e the highest, and the words of those who denied the Faith to be the lowest. But when possessions and their own selves became dear to them, and they turned aside to rest, and were immersed in the temporary pleasur there settled upon them a malaria, and they began to sink down from the height of their glory, and misfortunes increased greatly among ‘them until they turned the edges of their arorda which they were ta of their using on the neoks of their enemies against the chi brothers in the religion as if there aid not remsin upon the fece of the earth an infidel to fight or an oppressor to be pushed away, until they gave up their weapons to the enemi the weakest of wonen do. And they forgot what God commanded i them in His holy bgok ,in Hie word: (and oppose to them all the e . CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY. LETTER * -. OF 1-8-58 FROM W.H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY fleck Beathpesgs.* DATES 3 /3//e/ Sa eae Se ee Were terrified. by the illusory power of the infide: When thie befell, the Muslims began to pass from misfortune to misfortune and the Islamic world began to tumble down in the pit of degradation end to go backward from one distress to anather until ite moon set and ite lighte were put out on every Some AM RHYLT the Mists hegame the: most “hamtlistes-sapti ves —— ~--4m-the-hendeof the blamed infiddis. “The Maslin labored end toiled wearily and bore herdness of life that they might gain sonething with whioh to eatiefy their { needs, and the oppressive conquerors of the Ghristiens subdued thom and robbed then of that which was in their hands of the means of living. And they apend this booty in the West upon the churches and upom the priests and places of sheme and Aniquity, 4n short, the Muslims work and the infidels eat, ‘the Muslims ere hungry and suffer, and the infidela are satiated nd live in luxury. The Islamic work sinks down and. goe: Ddeckward, end the Christian world progr os and is exalted; end the sum of it all is, that the Muslim is enslaved and the infidel is the grand roler. This is the eum of the humiliation i “and the bittern: on wndeh the Mustine ive wince they Left the plan of thelr great book and turned aside from the way of the Holy Mar which their honored prophet presoribed to then, end in which his auocessore followed in other tines end in other oLinates. . And now, 0 people of Islam, and 0 beloved brothers, is it ) not enough what has cone upon us of shane, rine up, avake, this woaine end this subjection has reached ite limit, and this humiliation end this belittising has arrived at ite énd. " CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER * OF 1-8-58 FROM |W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY, DATE_"'3 Lasler The bonds of the Islamic world have been out and iis word hes deen spread abroad. The Musing have awakened under the feet of shame. Their honor has deen reduced and their nobility hes deeri put to shane, and their mosques have been destroyed,and » their eohools and their places of worship are in ruins, and bells jo bean ploosd’ of their minareta. ~ Sen TRS WOLy WF bee, benowe 6 Gared DEty fox! Hvezy wustin. en ee ee BOS bosone & Spored Duty tor Brery wuslin- Arise, awake, and know that to-day the Holy War has become ored duty for all the people of the Feith. and it is enjoined upon all the peoples of Islan who are spread abroad upon the fade of the whole warth that they should unite anong themselves and hesten to run for the deltverance of their native lands from the hande of the-infidels, aid that they should eaten to use every means and every plan for this purpose. Me host of the Islenic Caliphate fe prepared to-dey for the Holy War, and thousands of wusline who surge to and fro on ‘the borders and the sides of it delight in preising and in Teoiting the Tekbir and they are expecting the raising of the fleg of the Koly War. Muon then that the Holy Wab hae to-day Deoome en especial duty for 211 Muslims and the tine has cone when every mone must be used for the deliverance of the native lend of Ielan from the power of the oppressive infidels. It 1s necessary to form ceoret and public unions in the land of Ielan. ‘The time has come when every people of the peoples of Telam shoult form sesret ant“publio unions and etend up in “Holy War had beooke a BY fuck peal DATE 3 By /cr ‘the face of the enemies who rule over them, proclaiming the rve their native lends Holy War againat th from the extremity of extermination and that they may obtein ‘that they may pri the grace of independence, and they should know that afterwards there will not come to then an opportunity in which it will be pamebhe tee thte Tt 4 neosrsary: that: they should know Fed Guty and that the blood of the om tonay that th infidele in the Zelamio lends may be’ shed with impunity (except ‘thoae who enjoy the protection of the Muslim power end those to whom 1t hes given seourity and those who are confederate with it). They must know thet the killing of the infidels who rule Decome a sacred duty, whether it be t Koren declares in its word: oved ‘the Telamio lenda, h seoretiy or openly, as the er (Teke them and ill them whenever you come across them, and we have given you # manifest power over them by revelation.) To whoever kills even one single infidel of those who rule over the Islamic lands, either secretly or openly, there of the 18 @ reward like a reward from all the living on Ielemic world: And let every individual of the iiuslina in Whatever place they may be, take upon him en oath to kill at least three or four of the ruling infidels, enemies of God, end enemies of the religion. He must take upon him this oath before God Most High, expecting his reward from God alone, and let the yuslim be deed than this, bet he will prosper in the dey of Judgment and we ask the Host High to extend the People of the Faith by the confident if there be to hi no other good favor of their Lord. CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER < OF 1-8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY _ OF 1-8-58 FROM W: H.ANDERSON, TATE DEPT 1 fh laces PATE Sails Se ak ali Cc & lo z S 0 people of the Faith, and 0 brothers, we are suffering greatly | Deceuse of your afflictions, we the company of Islem in the woartlot the Caliphate, Der ul Khelafat, are greatly grieved becouse of your subjection to a small. number of the-infidele snd your obedience to them enemy ie powerful, but thet does not men, and the {aTiaeIe-eppeeret-greater-then-the power-ofthose fighting the Holy Wer, but the Prophet (May God be gracious to Him and give Him peace!) and his honored companions did not attech eny importance to that apperent strength and did not consider it, but they ected in sccordance who believe, fight in the with’ the word of the Most High. (Thos wey of God,and those who are infidels fight in the way of the denon. men fight the friends of the devil, for the force of the devil is weakness.” And they were reoiting this verse with perféot faith. You know that the Muelime who live in the boundaries of the world of the celipnate heve fought the Holy War egainst the enemies in the lest years at another tire, and that they still ere bearing srns expecting the Bihed, 011 of then from the youth who does not show his beard to the old man whéae head ie orowned with white hair, You know that our brothers the Sinnoussiya in Africa are fighting the Bined ageinst @ netion of the strong nations of Burope, thet they have deen pushing then back from their native land for years, that these are the tines of the erieing of Ielan. Yes, this generation is the generation of the Bihad. This 1 the day of the exaltation of the word of God. . in trutn, 1£ you do not rightly eatebm all this, and 4f yon do not awake from the state of carelessness, ond if fear and timidity caus you to draw bask from srising to deliver your native lends, CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY-LETTER, OF a FROM W-'H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T = . feck falas” DATES 3 /ni/er = a -n- end you remain given over to the infidela who rule over your nafive lends, dread lest the wrath of God should light upon you and God should teke away what remains of the light of faith in your hearts. Dread lest God (Let His name be praised and exalted) should cause you to be of those concerning whom he het //e/ ~17- pos - , ike opportunity. Therefore it is the duty of those who ‘truly profess Islam in those countries that they should proclein the war immediately, and that they should drive out those weak ones, of those who are corrupt, rho have sucked the life of ures and dispersed ‘the Ielemio world, and have expended ita tre all ite good things. And let every one of us be confident that —<$re power Of the Ielanto people in-tte- Holy War ts watHiotent ——tor~driving-out-alt-the tntidete and vesting tiven-out of ett And let us be firmly confident that if the Islanic its lands. Peoples unite in taking up weapons in the fece of those enemies who have no connection with the countries of Islan, except by the most brittle of causes, you shall scatter thon without deley hither end thither and disperse them completely. And let us de confident thet if the united war 18 proclaimed, the Islamic Peoples are enough to drive out these infidele who have seized the rule in ther countries end to take the trenches and entials of war which they pos. and weapons 6nd Then will they be driven ont by their countra own power end killed by their own weapons without necessity of any other expense. Believe, 0 Muslims, and if you do not believe, then the great Lord who i ell-ponerfal has sworn to you that the situation of the English in India and Egypt end the situation of the Dutoh in Java end the situation of the Italians in Tripoli and the aituation of the French in Morcoco fend Algerie and the eituation of the Rucsiene in Iren and Bokhara end Caucasia; the situation of all these governnenta in these lends 19 greatly weakened. It 19 necessary thet we know this truly and beliefe 1t, for the evidences which point te Atvare more than van be mentioned, and there 1s nothing back (abeue it}. [ CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER ““| OF 14-68 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T a favler . a Se eter of it in the establishment of the true knowledge except in- spiration. And it hes been decreed, as you know, and you must believe and resolve and unite and determine, for in every kingdom of the Ielenio kingdoms thereare five hundred thousand or six hundred thousand at least of native Muslizs, and it is not 8 ¢ thing that God Moat High should prosper then to purity their lands from thege infidels. Indeed there 1s no doubt if praised will they-are-Peaoivedand_patient, that He whose nam extend to them an unchangeable good fortune, and it is sufficient for this bleased movenent that there should lead in it @ compeny of those whose faith is egrong and whose resolves are sound end whose command ie intelligent and who have taken the proteotion of God ss their support. ~~~ Me Rights of the Muslims. —~— From-this time on it must be the purpose of the Islamic peonles end their target at which they aim, to release the Telemic kingdoms and the native lands of Islam from the infidels who have usurped the rule over then. There cen be absolutely no partnership in the native lends of Islem, for the rule of infidele over Muslims is not lawful, and it ie not allowable thet the Muslims siould be judged by @ non-Muslim at any time whatever, and he cannot be patient under the rule of infidels, and the honor of the Muslims ie that they should not be subjects to others, and it is their glory that they should have the lordehip, and that they should always be followed by others. This ie what Islam requires. And Islan will be completed and perfedted in the Muslim if he knows jt and praétices it. Since we are in 8 day when wer hee risen with ae = CLASSIFICATION €ANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER OF Lae FROM W.'H, ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T DATE 4 Le -19-, the infidels who have usurped the rule over the Islanio Kingdons fand who do not eease to put to eheme Islan in enmity end who wioh evil ageinat 4t, it de the duty of Muslims that they should not comply with the comands isened by them, that they should buy nothing of their.goods, since eompliance with their comands is sonplogense.nith these.rule,and.me-have before shown the. ateiosnes of the prohibition of this and théabhorrence.of it. And since the buying of any of their goods, though it be but = little, 4s reckoned as assistance to infidelity end en assistance to the viotory of infidelity, and God (May His glory be exalted!) seye (Give no help to iniquity and enmity. And in gunmary, deelings with theae people in any respect whatever, even giving taxes to them, and oustona, is considered as a help to infidelity and nt to, contributing to its victory, and this no Muslim wil}, e end no Muslim will do it. And although thie tex have no other ity that weaning except the land-tex, it 18 an important neo Musling should not be bound ty it, for they cannot endure thie lend-tax which implies 8 meaning of humilation and shane; for the Muslim who accepts the land-tax imposed upon bin on the Part of the infidels is impious, orasy, snd degrades the honor of Telam,-- ignorant of the height of the Feith. So he mat dread the deores of evil against him and the loss of the protection Of God woet High. The saored lam, which 48 the attachrent of Yoharnedans, hes deoreed that they should lay aside a portion Of the alms which sre due for the looel necessities and the locs2 war, and they should send the rest to the center of the Caliphate to be placed in the treanury and to be expended by the Caliph for the elevation of the wokd of God. Thorefore we have seen fit CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER ~! = OF J-8-58 FROM-W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY fe Glin. DATE 373/67 “el ¢ ar Be prosianetions concerning the fotlorine matters: 1. That the buying of anything although it be « trifle from the infidels who have usurped the rule over the Islamic kingdoms - tanta coe 2, Gomplianoe with the comandn ipeust by te tnftéele who dave 7 usurped the ruleover the Ialania kingdoms ‘and who are openly iS hostile to the Muslims, is absolutely interdictea. 3. That the giving of the taxea to the infidels who heve usurped ‘the rule over the Islamic countries and who are hostile to the assembly of the Muslims, is absolutely interdicted. 4. The duty of sending the lawful amount of pious gifts to the center of the Caliphate is enjoined. . Otherwise the condition of the Muslins which hes been epoken of above does not harmonize in any wey whatefer with the spirit of Islen. And in truth the question of the Islamic kinedoms, for which the infidels employ the nane of colonies 18 exceedingly 4iftioult. For it is not correct to describe these kingdoms as the Der-ul-Islam (Wor2dof Islan), since the designation Dar-ul- Tolan does not fit 4t deceuse of ite lack of any bond ith the | seat of the Celiphate, ond deoause of ite being under the rule of the infidels. Neither is it correct to desoribe it as Der-ul-harb (The world of War), for all its inhebitents are Muslims. Therefore the prayers of the assenbly are not prue Preyer in it, according to the traditions which have been de. livered concerning then. But whoever of their peoples 1s satisfied with this condition, he te absolutely impious, as my this politiosl orime of which we «CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY: LETTER ~ Of 1-0:88 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T Pi fact denne DAME sLiles be understood from the verses mextioned abov And it 1s more fitting that these countries should be called the World of Impiety (Der-ui-Fessk) than that it should be called Dar-ul-Islen or Der-ul-Harb. But let the Muslims woke up. Is it not neo sary that they from the slumber of carelessness, must we not repent to God and return to Him seeking forgiveness for me guilty And we should hasten to the deliverance of all the Islamic kingdoms from the hands of the infidels. . ¥ the tine for thet hes come, and it te inoumbent upon ue, the company of-the Ielentc peoples, thet we should rise up ee the rising up of one. min, in one of hia hands the sword and in the other the gun, and in his pooket belle of fire and annihilating missiles and in his heart the light of the Faith, and that we lift our voices to the utmost, saying-—- Indie for the Muslim Indians, Java forthe Mulin Javanese, Algeria for the Algerians emémg the Muslims, Morocco for the Morocosans, Tunis for the Muslim Tunisans, Egypt for the Muslim Rgyptisns, Iran for the Muslim Iranians, Turan for the Muslim Turek . Bokhere for the Bokharians, Caucasus for the Caucasians, and the Ottoman kingdoms for the Muslir Turke and drabs. Such must be the aim of al] Muslirs fror nowon, and they must strive for this end and fight with their goods and their efor this end, seeing that the Holy War is a‘duty lata down for this object. And we hope that the native tani of Ielan mill be saved after this from being called the World of Impiety, and that it may be closely beund,to the seat éf the Caliphate, and 1t may rightly bo oalled the Dar-ul-felem in all CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER . OF 1-8-58 FROM.W. H.-ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T 3Laler of that name; and that we likewise may be of those are white in the Last dey between the hande of the 411-Knowing nd A11-Wiee, and that we my escepe from the reproach of the honored Prophet (Mey God be gracious to Him and give Him peace!). Sunn othe Kinds.of..the-Hely Far, ~ o- brother: ta-that ‘the Holy-Wer ip a it haw before beens auty enjoined upon us and thet the hosts of the Caliph are in universal oonfliot; and know thet the Holy War like the pronivition ynowld be of three kinds against denial” 1, The heart-war--— and that is the lowest form of the war. And it is that the Muslim should believe in his heert thet the infidels are enemies to him and to hia religion, and that he ehould desire their aiseppearence and the destruction of their power, And no Muslim can be ihegined who ie not under obliga~ tions to this degree of the war. Verily all the people of the Faith are under obligation to this enount without any question whatever, in whatewer place they may be and in whateoever condition they may be found. And that these concerning whom the exception made in the verse presented in the seying of the Most High holds good (You should abstain from them conpletely) to th 1 18 permitted that they should be sstisfied with this degree of the heart-war. Otherwise it 1s not lawful to-day for any of the Muslire to content himself vith the heartwar while we remain in this condition. the eontentment of the people of the Faith to-day with the heart-war, has no other meaning than that of impiety, as hae been eatablished, and therefore let no one deceive himsel? with falne interpretation. ‘CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER" OF 1-8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T _ BY feck Hi focoe= DATE 3 Joi/er_ law Simon tS Sn = € an . . q =88- . e 2, tha war win apesch, and that may be with the tongue Kingdoms before thie date. “(In times 1ike those of the Muslims of Cascesie which were before in @ condition which aid not admit of their being under obligations to do more than the war of speeoh, because their condition did not aid them to do ¢ do not exist an excuse which more than this. ana 1¢ tni _Permite contentment with the heart-war, the war of epecoh is ristiy enjoine¢-upon ell Muslims, and it ie the duty of the tere of the pen to dissipate the darkness of the infidels, and of infidelity with their pens, end the people of and the war of speech to-day eloquence with their tongue 49 a duty decreed on the Islamic world in its entirety. Not one 18 excepted from 4t, not even the Muslins who dwell 4m She interior of the land of Russia. But this kind of war 10 strictly enjoined upon all of then. 3. The true war---and it ie fighting end killing in very deed as it is known to every Muslin. (a) The little Jined is the looal Jihad which some of the Telamio peoples are compelled to proviain aceinst their enemies of the infidels without needing to call to their @ssistance any other Islamic peoples. For example the war of the Sennousiya against the governnent of Italy. But a1] Muslims ought to aia their brothers in the little Jihed materially or spiritually as mich es they are able, and if tt is permitted to any people of the Muslims that ‘they should not take part materially in the little Jihad for any hindrsnoe whatever, it is not lawful to then to refrain entirely from helping, but they must certainly help CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER “ OF 1-8-88 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATEDEP'T BY ‘DATE BLetler ~Be although it be only spiritually. dnd since this is 60, the proolenation of the Egyptian government which it ieaued in the Ottomen-Balkan war, end in the war of Itely, in subjection to the comandment of the English infidels mst be reckoned as a gross crime sgainst Islam, and therefore of our Eeyption brothers 414 not give heed to this deo their government, and aid not a ghey it, but. they helped the World of.the Caliphate with materiel and spiritual eseistence through both of these two eider thenselves bound to wars. The little Jihad may be procleimed alone from the Presence of the locel Muslix chiefs, but it is in accordance ith the Islemio political code of morsis thet it should aleo be presented to the center of the Caliphate, as the late Shetkh Waday presented to the deat of the Caliphate hie Proclamation of the war agsinst the French. (>) The Greet Jihad. It 4s the War which the Ielemio world unitedly wages egeinst the lords of infidelity fron the enemies of Isler. And sinoe the proolametion of thie Jihed te che of the rights of the Caliph, it 1s strictly enjoined upon every one of all the poople of the Faith who are scattered over the face of the earth to whom this invitaticn comes, that he should take part in it by deed. And en exemple of thie is the Jihad which the Caliph hee prooMaimed to-day. And thie te #180 named the Holy Jihad. - Martyrdom. — To those who participate by deed in the Jihad, whether it be the little or the great, there is a great reward. and if they die they are without doubt martyrs. And re ask you, “4 "CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER ~ SOF 1-8-58 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY. DATE "37 >//c7 = oe ae = ~25~ © God, the All-Powerful, that the nation ef Mohammed (May God be gracious to Him end give him peace!) may know by Thy power the greatness of the reward of martyrdom and that their hearts mey be inspired with the degree of ite merit and of ite greatness, 0 God! Amen. SEE Forms of the dihaa, The Jihed ney be of three forme inaividuar Jihad, and it consite of the individual personel deed, and it ney vo by the use of outting, killing instruments 11ke the Jihad of the late Wardanee who killed with-hie "musdiet Peter caly ? the slaying of the chief of the English Police in India by one of our brothers there, and lice the killing of one of 18 the infidelp,the English governor, and like the officials arriving from Mecca by Abi Busir (May God be Pleased with him) in the ege of the Prophet (May God be gracious to Him and give Hin peace!), and in 11ke manner @ similar thing took place rhen the Prophet (May God be gracious to Hin snd give Him peace!) commanded Abdulleh the son of Atik thet he and four of his companions should go to kill Abi Rafi, the chief of the Jews of Khaiber, well-known for his enmity to in Islam, and they went against him by night in the fortre whioh he had teken refuge, and killed him, nd the killing of Asir the son of Rasim, one of the chiefs of the Jews, by Abdullah the son of Ruahet and his companions was of this kind. 0 Lord, what 48 inoumbent upon the iuslize to-day also, Af there be found in the Islamic world those who fight like thie fight? What wil} be the event if there shall go out ~ CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER ‘ANDERS from them some of the deliverers, and kill one of those who belong to the Triple mtente ofthe infidele who are known by their hostility. to Islam, end so purify the face of the earth from his existena © God, O.our Lord, bé @ helper tous and Sees RS BRT ore otto toro Ee Vikas oy MAS Te eye Aeori bed eee Thee ty hans own En our time by-tne_ tans ‘of Brigende and 1t-to-lnown——— inown end that the formetion of benés or brigands wes wel notorious im Islam and tho benefit of these bands was magnified in ocneideration of the feot thet the power of Ielem wes weak and the power of its enenies great. and it is enough for you thet the Prophet (Nay God Most High be gracious to Hir and give Him peace!) began the Jihad by bands when permission Fas given to him for k1lling,in the word of the Most High (Fight in the path of God with thgse who fight against you), and He (ey Goa be grecious to Hin and give Him peace!) was sending bende, when it vas necessary, composed of private soldiers of ‘those who were fighting the Jihed under the guidance of the leaders of good repute to combat soe of the enemy. And He took great pains to choose the leaders of @ band from those who were distinguished by their militery endowments And those whom He sent (Hey God be gracious to Him and give Hin peace!) increased in thie way to more than fifty bands. And among the first of them was the band of Tenzah the son of Avdowl Nutlid, and the bend of Obeidan the son of Herith, and the band of Sa'ed abi Wakes, and arong the most distinguished . and the bend of Zeid of then wee Abdullah the son of Haj) the on of Haritha and the band of abi Muslima, and the band of Aim the son of Thabit, and the band of ihindhir the son of Omir, CLASSIFICATION ‘CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER OF 155-58 FROM W..H, ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T DATE, shales Lege ag ~27- and the bend of Abdurrahman the son of ‘Auf, and the band of Ali the son of Abi Talib. And then it wae the duty of the Muslims to teke sdvantege of the formetion of bands when it was ery; and the greatest benefit is:to be expeoted from then now, end especially in the lands of Oeucasix and Turkestan and SW Have Git Tinawstan “aTeHoigh the conti annibtiation ot thre“coniner the-eneny-is-more-profitabiethen-the—formebt of these bands. Tho formation of bends in oar tine ie of different kinds, and the most profitable of then fe thet which makes uae of secret formations, end it {9 hoped thet the Ielamte world of to-day will profit very greatly from seoret bands, and therefore It 19 in the degree of duty to hin who. wishes to participate 1n the Jthed that, he ghould take counct) with people of experienes 4n the formation of seorst bands and gain profitedle inforeation of this kind. And these formutione may teke the oath of excess in which the Prophet (May God be gracious to Hir: and give participated vefore sending thon out originelly. 3. The Jihad by Campaigns, and the nesning of it is Wer upon well known prinoiples, but the leadership is either for the Caliph slone, or for a Muslim Emir who he shail appoint from before him. The Pride of all creatures (ay God be grecious to Him end give Him peace!) was lesding the host in rany of the campaigns Hirself, as took place in the carpaign of Badri and in the campaign of Abdul-Ahed and others; or the lesdership may be Br means of on appointe: deputy as defell in the ottoxen- Balkan war, where the deputy of the Caliph was the leader of the host. 0 brothers of the religion! The tine hus come when CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER “” OF 1-8-58 FROM.W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY, DATE 3 7>//e/ -28- you should know that the great Holy War has become « most imperative duty, and you ought to begin it and not to lose a single moment of the time, for the tine 1s very short, end the life of Ielen 1s on the verge of being swept emey as by & flood. And let every one of you choose one of these Kinds of WEY, ROH OHS Bosortiny tots cumastion “end the manner of his 14 fe-and—the-geogrephiealand—intellectual condition of hia — country. ow the time has cone for sotion indeed, and you know that the center of the Caliphate cannot sent ont hosts in every Aireotion, for that 40 imposaible, and therefore it te imposed upon you that you should perfect the necessary forma tions even though it may be. by the introdustion of sone foreign elements when it is necessary. End you should begin the matter of the Jihad by yourselves on the condition ofthe observance ~- of the Isleric war oustons continually, and you may refer to the center of the Celiphete elso when it 1 necessery, for ton counsel in oertein politicel a and enong the things + to wntoh you must give heed ie thet 1t 18 absolutely unlawful to oppone any of the peorles of omer religions between whor and the Muslirs there 19 covenant, or those rho have not manifested hostility to the seat of the Caliphate or those who have entered under the proteotion of the Musline and their guerenty, For the high precepts of Islan decree the prevention of hostility ageinet theve olasses of those tho differ from ua in religion, and deoaume 1t is not the rurpose of the oly Wer in which we are engaged to fight ell the netions &f infidelity. But it purnoges the aunty of fighting these who have upurped the rule over the Islamic kingdoms without any CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER "| “OF 1-858 FROM W. H. ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T BY DATE 3 /2//e_ fone = & se So Tight, and who have shown hostility to the Caliphate; therefore we repeat the saying in thie respect, and we sey, "It is necessary to-consider well, differentiating and distinguishing Detween the eneny fron these peoples, and the one who is not decrees of the Telamte lew in this respect an eneny, and ti -aecctiuateche the: guide-for-zou-to follow, to be placed before you ss a direction, and it is the saying (hey wished you to become infidels as they ‘ené-thie-honored verse te- ~~ ofthe Host. Hig) sre infidels end that ye should be like ther. ‘Therefore, take no friends from among them until they fly their country in the path of God. And if they turn beck, take them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take from them any friend or helper exoept those who are allied with one of your peoples by covenant between you and them, or,who come to you,. their hearts forbidding them either to fight you or to ficht their own People; 1f God pleased, he would have made them to rule over you, and they would have fought you; but if they depert from you, and do not fight egeinst you and offer you peace, God doth not allow you any path ugainst them. Ye shall find othemswho desire to enter into confidence with you, and to preserve the confidence of their people, as often as they return to sedition they shell be subverted therein, and if they do not depart fron you end offer you peace and restrain their hands, texe ther and kill then wheresoever ye find them. Over these we have granted you e manifest power. )" And let us conclude this adaress of ours by citing the following verse; ond it is the saying of Hin (ict Him be praised nd exalted! CLASSIFICATION CANCELED AUTHORITY LETTER ~ 38 FROM W. HL ANDERSON, STATE DEP'T 0 ANDERS ~80- \ (0 you whe have believed, if there be among you those who deny their religion, God will bring a people whom He loves and who loves Him, humble toward the believers, proud toward the infidels. They fight in.the path of God, and they fear no blame from anyone. This is ‘the favor Of God. ““GO-whow-He ‘wild ; end God te generons-toward-them.} ‘God-end His _Apostle sre your frients; end those tho believe, who offer Prayer, and who present pious gifts, and who prostrate themselves in devotion, and who are friends of God snd His spostle, and who believe; for the party of God ere the victorious ones! Praised be your Lord, the Lord of Glory above e121 thet cen be desoribed, end peace be to His messengers, eni praise be to Goa, the Lora of o12 creatures. FIuIs

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