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This country of high mountains, vast fields, singing brooks,
narrow passes, dangerous gorges; of swaying spruce, oak, pine,
and willows; a country full of diamonds, valuable gems, copper,
and iron; of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and sulphur; a
country of powerful, honourable men; this same country has
seen hundreds of revolutions and thousands of great men. It
has heard the footsteps of sahabah-e-kiram who came from the
deserts of Arabia to the pastures of ‘Ajam to eradicate
tyranny, rehabilitate just Islamic laws and root out anti
human systems. They came to the doors of Afghanistan in the
era of the great personality about whom even strangers said,
“If the world had another ‘Umar in it, infidelity
and idolatry would have been eliminated.”
It was certainly the result and effect of the immense sacrifices
given by the sahabah and the blessings of martyrs that this
soil saw such great persons as Hazrat Ahnaf bin Qays, the
icon of knowledge and wisdom Ibrahim bin Adham; the leading
scholar of his time, Shafiq Balkhi; memorizer of hadith, Imaam
Abu Dawood; leader of the Islamic ummah, Ghazi Sultan Mahmood
Ghaznavi; the impeccable Sayyed ‘Ali Hajveri; the author
of the first poetic book on Tasawwuf, the great poet, Hakim
Sinai, the sight of whose grave had brought tears to the Poet
of the East; the ocean of knowledge, Imaam Fakhruddin Razi;
reformer of the ummah, Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti; the carrier
of wisdom and learning, Maulana Jalaluddin Roomi; the mentor
Khwaja Abdullah Ahrar; the true adorer, author, Allamah Abdur
Rahman Jami; the gracious intellectual Shaykh Abul Hasan Mulla
‘Ali Qadri ; the champion of freedom Ahmad Shah Abdali;
and other god knows how many unnamed mujahid’s, Sufis,
poets, authors, and servers of Qur’an and Sunnah.
Afghanistan has seen Iranian artistry and literature, the
pomp of the Ghaznis, the barbarism of Genghis Khan, the rule
of Taimoor and Babur; it was ruled by the Pushtuns and the
Safaris, the Abdalis and the Durranis, Zahir Shah too had
his chance and so did Dawood Khan.
The greed for wealth and power weakened Afghanistan to such
an extent that the British from the East and the Russians
from the North started dreaming of conquering it. Observing
the extending influence of the Russians in Central Asia, Britain
tried three times to capture Afghanistan. It soon realized
however, that the mullas and citizens of the country could
not be vanquished but the tribal commanders could be bought.
They started bribing them; Russia was not to be left behind
so it too delivered sacks full of currency to their pets.
Russia did not stop at that but also started brainwashing
the military and the beaurocracy. In 1978 the pro Marxist
factions of the army carried out a bloody revolution. Sardar
Dawood Khan and his family along with the guards of the Presidential
Palace were murdered and the communists were divided in two
sections. After Sardar Dawood, the communist President Noor
Muhammad Turkai and Hafizullah Ameen were also killed. In
December 1979 the Soviet army attacked Afghanistan. The country
saw a new era of terrorism. Innocent women, children, and
elderly were subjected to severe torture and agony and the
distressing tales became a part of history. The Soviet gunship
helicopters would land in a village, gather all men, women,
old, and young, select some of the women and take them away
in their choppers. Then after a few hours they would fling
out the dead, mutilated, naked bodies of those poor women.
These shameful torments made every honourable Muslim a caged
tiger.
It is also notable that Russia had come not only to conquer
a piece of land but to bring about a “cultural revolution”,
that would radically change the Afghan beliefs, ideologies,
traditions, and customs. Accordingly one of the steps taken
was lobbying on an official level against the Islamic hijab.
In a national event the sheet of a covered woman was torn
off and stepped on and it was announced, “Darkness will
now be banished forever.”
The Russian agenda included the point that the mullas be flung
out of the vales and mountains of Afghanistan. They could
not fling out the mullah but they themselves were tossed out
in ignominy. The red storm of communism whipped into the harsh
mountains and expired. To bring it to its natural end 1.5
million mujahideen had to give the gift of their lives, hundreds
of thousands were the victims of civil war, and 5 million
died of hunger.
After the Russian exodus the heavens saw a bizarre scene;
the friends of yesterday became sworn of today and the bullets
that plunged in Russian breasts were now piercing the hearts
of their own brothers. Every commander became a king and applied
his own set of rules in his territory. Honour was once again
trodden on and naked dead bodies once again received. The
seven-member Alliance instead of enforcing the Islamic laws
lost itself in worldly pleasures.
Then, out of the blue, a few student of deen got up and in
a short span of time they had 90% of Afghanistan under their
control and had eradicated lawlessness and chaos in their
country. They had not dropped from the sky. They were the
same people who had spent their boyhoods and youth among fire
and iron. Some had sacrificed their legs, some their eyes,
there were none who did not have a medal of war on their bodies.
They were simple people who sat on bare ground, wore patched
clothes and ate the simplest of food. They were unacquainted
with the intricacies of politics, unaware of cunning games,
and far away from romantic dreams. They were true lovers of
Islam and hated infidelity. The modern world was not accustomed
to the vision of full beards and heavy turbans. They implemented
the rules of the Sharaih that had been stored in closed books.
Gangs, terrorism, thefts, murders, all died a natural death.
The ministers wore what was available to the common man, they
ate what was Northern Alliance had not engaged them in senseless
battles they would have changed the course of history and
stabilized the Islamic Emirate to an unshakable degree. The
foreign powers had their eye on the Emirate. How could they
bear an Islamic state on the face of the earth that promised
to be the harbinger of Muslim unity and strength? Then the
Mongols of the present shaped up the excuse of “Al-Qaeeda”
and their bombers filled the skies of the poorest country
of the world destroying every living or non -living thing
under them.
It
will be recorded in history that these aircraft passed through
the air of Pakistan to Kandhar, Kabul, Jalalabad, and Mazar
Sharif where they rained fire on innocent people. This bombing
was done in the name of peace and justice. This justice was
handed to the Afghans and now it is being meted out in abundance
to the Iraqis.
The land of the Afghans has also seen the pleasant time when
there was not one drug trafficker under the Taliban controlled
country, ministers and citizens used to sit and pray in the
same row, justice was the easiest thing to have, mosques were
filled to capacity, the name of Allah and His Messenger (sallallahu
‘alaihe wasallam) was alive practically. The honour
of daughters was safe, all forms of prostitution were shut
down. Now the land of the Taliban is seeing this era. Every
official has been bought and is nothing more than a slave
of the west. Immorality is rampant, the cable has made each
home a cinema hall, clubs are doing business, lawlessness
is everywhere, and people are looted in the light of day.
The campaign started in the name of Al-Qaeeda has stretched
like chewing gum. Those with a living conscience and who have
seen the Taliban era remember the lost past and weep in solitude…….those
who do not value time and do not value the gifts of Allah
only get sobs for their share.
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