Downloaded from: justpaste.it/council_statement_nr_08 Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al- Sham Council Statement number: 08 Statement concerning cooperation and coordination with the Turks in repelling Daesh and the PKK from the Islam and the Muslims In the Name of Allah the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful All the praises and thanks be to Allah alone, and may peace and blessings be upon the final Prophet, and his family, companions and those who follow him, as to what follows: We bring the people of al-sham in particular and the people of Islam in general, the good tiding that a large group from the students of knowledge in al-sham joined and formed a Shura Council, to study calamities that befell the area of al-sham. The Council will issue Fatwas and decisions that take the maslahah of the Ummah into account. With a plain effort from the virtuous ones from the scholars and students of knowledge we respond to doubts of the people of disbelief, deviation and whims. And the Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham aimed with it at accuracy of Fatwas, elimination of chaos that is present in some Fatwas, and for it to be a reference for the factions and brigades from the people of Jihad, sincerity and piety. The topic of our Fatwa : A calamity befell us the community of Ahl al-sham after two years of Jihad against the Nusayris. It is the emergence of suspicious deviant sects that speak in the name of Islam and distort texts, mislead the minds, does takfir on the Muslims, kills the righteous and wicked of them, the pious of them and their dhimmis, with various crimes and sins. They corrupt in the land and transgress against the wealth, person and honour. Before, the likes of them spoiled the Jihad of the Muslims in all the fields. And they were a riding animal for every enemy that is scheming against the people of Islam. They caused a great evil in al-sham and they split
the ranks of the Mujahidin with a horrendous separation. The Mujahid factions avoided them and the disaster with them became enormous. It added fuel to the fire against the people of al-sham in their fight against the Nusayris, Rawafid, the evil Daesh and the atheist PKK party of the Kurds, an extension of communism and the defunct Marxism. They narrowed the ways of the sincere steadfast Mujahidin. All the people of justice from the people of Islam in Syria suffered tribulation due to them. The nations and people deserted them except for a few of them, and all friends and companions deserted them except the Turks, government and people may Allah reward them. They received displaced persons and honoured them. They opened the Turkish hospitals for the wounded, gave the needy and vulnerable food, drink, clothing and furniture. So Allah thanked their efforts, and provided for their donations, and made their country safe. Whereas the trouble on al-sham was severe, conspiracies contrived against them non-stop and there was no way for them to salvation except through reliance on Allah the Glorified and Exalted, their private and open supplications and their invocations to remove the calamity, send down mercy and relieve the agony. The Messenger of Allah may peace and blessings be upon him said: "You gain no victory or livelihood except through (the blessings and invocations of) the weak amongst you." Narrated by al-bukhari. So Allah responded to them. While the people of Syria were experiencing this great disaster and dread, all of the sudden Allah let something occur and he changed for them some circumstances, at which the evil Daesh and traitorous party of the PKK became a dangerous exporter and a dread for the Turks. They exploited and occupied Turkey with some matter, so they became a threat to its security and stability. They frightened its people, fought and bombed, so the Turkish government acted to repulse their tyranny and aggression. It took the decision to wage war, decided to fight and hit these two shady groups and that was for the people of justice in al-sham a relief and way out, provided that they excel in the usage of Shar i politics and the exploiting of the present circumstances. So as a fulfilment from us we the Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham for protection of the word, and commitment from us to support the vulnerable from among the people of al-sham, it declares the following: 1. The government of Turkey is from the best existing governments in the Islamic and Arab world, without reference to its hukm, and considers the closest the interest of the worshippers and country compared to some other governments and has many standpoints concordant with correct general denotations of the Islamic religion and the Sunnah like helping the oppressed and aiding the distressed. 2. The Turkish Justice and Development Party is a Muslim party generally, even if it failed to establish the ahkam of Islam, because they don t possess their decision with a possession that enables them to decide what they want and desire. And there are powerful obstacles preventing them from the announcement of Shari ah arbitration in the country and we don t find an offense with resorting to Muslims similar to these to eliminate this criminal misguided sect that claims Islam and kills Muslims (Daesh). And the government of Turkey in a general form is reliable of the side, reliable of the dangers most probably and there is no force worried about the success of the revolution of al-sham like the Turkish government. And it is capable to stop the danger of this evil surrounding the Muslims in Syria, represented by the criminal Daesh and the party of the atheist PKK. And the present leader of Turkey inherited an immense inheritance from his predecessors of Shar i contradictions in the laws and agreements that contradict the religion. And they cannot remove it except with gradualness and a lengthy effort and a quick effort, and this is required from the Shari ah and the intellect, and we don t endorse for them a continuity of these evils, but we excuse them and we interpret them for them, and our evidence in that is that since they came to control and power Islam with them is at an ascending elevation and disbelief in at a descending low. Hence, the Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham issues a Fatwa to the Mujahid factions, declaring lawful coordination and cooperation with Turkey led by the Justice and Development party against Daesh and the PKK in what serves the Muslims and pushes the harm and destruction and extermination away from them, without harm by anyone from them nor damage, and that is what we hope from the Turkey s government and assume from it. 3. PKK is a group that apostatized outspokenly from the religion, and they are a natural extension for the worldwide leftist communism, in addition to its historic aggression towards Islam and the Muslims, and
they have a damaging influence on the Islam in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. 4. Daesh is a faction of shady Khawarij. It has corrupted a lot, damaged the great goals of the people of justice and Islam in al-sham, and carried out aggression against them.. And it contradicts in the summary of its creed the creed of Ahl al-sunnah wal-jama ah, and the west and the Majus use it to fight us; to thwart the emerging Islamic project, like it did before in Iraq and wants to in al-sham. That s why fighting them with pushing back and initiating is required, and tracking their supervisors, killing their captives and seizing their funds for the benefit of the Jihad. Because they have a group aligning with it, and it has been established that they were returning each time to fight the Muslims and Mujahidin. Benignity and kindness towards them didn t avail with them and the sanctity of the blood of those deviated misguided ones is not greater than that of the blood of the Mujahidin. Allah the Most High said: And indeed whosoever takes revenge after he has suffered wrong, for such there is no way (of blame) against them (41) The way is only against those who oppress men and rebel in the earth without justification; for such there will be a painful torment (42) al-shura. Ibn Jarir al-tabarani said, may Allah have mercy on him: If it would be obligatory in every disagreement between two groups to flee from it and the need of the ranks, when I substantiate a proof and I don t abolish the falsehood, the people of hypocrisy and immorality would find a way to make everything that Allah made forbidden for them halal and keep the hands of the Muslims from them. And that opposes the authentic hadith: So, if the people in the upper part left the others do what they had suggested, all the people of the ship would be destroyed, but if they prevented them, both parties would be safe. " Narrated by Al- Bukhari.. 5. We the Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham looked into the events of the offensives the PKK and Daesh carried out against Turkish soil and Turkish Muslim nationals and that were a direct cause for the setting up of the Turkish campaign to keep her borders and people of her country safe. That s why we the Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham see a necessity to support the Turkish government by the Syrian Mujahid factions in its operation; to break the spine of these two misguided groups, and since it returns with a great impact for the support of the Mujahidin in Bilad al- Sham, and to elevate the word of Islam, a realization of the words of Him the Most High: Help you one another in righteousness and piety; but do not help one another in sin and transgression Al-Maidah:2. And since the Turkish government included varied parties besides the Party of Justice and Development, the alliance with them is from the category of his words, may peace and blessings be upon him: I witnessed a treaty in the house of Abdullah Ibn Jud an, I do not like to violate it even if I was given red camels, and if I was invited to take part in it in Islam, I would accept it Narrated by Ibn Hashim in the sira and others with a hasan sanad.... 6. It is allowed for the people of justice from the people of Islam to resort to disbelievers to fighting the Khawarij and especially in necessity. And some scholars allowed resorting to Ahl-dhimmah against fighting the Khawarij and their likes from the tyrannic Muslims. Al-Sarakhsi said in Al-Mabsut: And it is no harm if the people of justice ask for help from a group from the people of injustice and Ahl al-dhimmah against the Khawarij, if the verdict of the people of justice is manifest; because they fight for the sake of the religion. And the Mujahidin of al-sham are as such and their characteristics can be found in the hadiths: The people of the West will continue to triumphantly follow the truth until the Hour is established narrated by Muslim. And the people of the West are as Imam Ahmad said: They are the people of al-sham, and they are the people of justice, and they fight for the sake of the Religion. And our last call is that all the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Mohammad and on his family and all his companions. Shura Council of the People of Knowledge in al-sham (Majlis Shura Ahl al-ilm fil-sham)
Day: Tuesday Date: 19 Shawwal 1436 h. Corresponding to 4 August /2015 m. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- English Translation recent Statement: Council Statement number: 65 https://justpaste.it/council_statement_nr_65 PNN @GIIMedia Note: In order to fill the gap in translated information that matters for the Ummah, PNN provides a rough interpretation of the meaning