When will the message of blood and gunpowder be fulfilled? Part Two of Two

 Mujahid al-Suraymi — Sana’a

The Quranic culture upon which the Yemen of 21 September is founded is a culture of dignified and noble life; for it builds the souls of its people in a comprehensive manner — a structure that leaves no room for half-hearted faith or counterfeit religiosity. Its firm principles are rooted deep in existence and in the free conscience, preserving it from tremor, fissure or collapse. It stands on truth, justice, honesty, trustworthiness, benevolence, mercy, cooperation, selflessness, love, humility, restraining anger, pardon when one has the power, closeness to the people, bearing their burdens and sorrows, and working to strengthen their capacity, unity and heartfelt harmony — so that if one among them feels pain, all share in that pain. Such intense solidarity transforms dispersed, distant and diverse bodies — across races, lineages, regions and doctrines — into a single body in which there is no ruler above subjects, no acceptance of a superior over a subordinate, no domination of an immigrant over an indigenous, no power of the wealthy over the poor, nor the sway of influence, might and prestige over a helpless citizen who has no means to defend his rights, preserve his dignity, or secure himself from humiliation and crushing before tyrants and arrogant deviants — the pharaohs — who betray God in His servants and in His lands.

This is the Quranic culture; this is the program of the march; this is the project founded and imbued into the afflicted bodies by the martyr of the Quran, the martyred leader (may he rest in peace), and safeguarded and carried by the Master of the Revolution (may God preserve him). It became a spirit within those bodies, an entity upon which their existence stood, and a principle upon which their movement was built: the resistant, jihadi movement that rejects whatever renders honor, land or life permissible to the arrogant — great or small — and strives to establish a nation founded on justice, asserting fairness, supporting truth, defending every oppressed person, enjoining the good and refusing the evil.

Indeed — all this and more — for which I shall be questioned on the Day of Reckoning before God. If you find that practical reality speaks otherwise, know that the fault lies with the bearers and followers, not with the culture or the project.

Thus we said yesterday: the juridical (fiqh-based) culture that found itself outside time and place — having no present to support it and no past testifying to its great effect — is the one that claimed affiliation to this project; and when it came to bear the project’s name, it preserved its shell, killed its concepts, and altered and replaced its ideas and visions.

And to be fair: the juristic culture could not have accomplished all this alone without the presence of the ignorant and the extremists who declare people unbelievers on conjecture, exclude and marginalize any free mujahid who moves with ethics, insight and faith, measures everything by the scale of truth, accounts for God’s promise and threat, seeks God’s pleasure and acts out of piety.

Imagine if this project had been allowed to touch every aspect of our reality — how would the result appear today?

Strength on the outside, integration, growth and solidarity within; severity toward the enemy and mercy and compassion toward the supportive people and the society which, once won, would secure for us perpetual victory and everlasting honor.

For with your masses, with your people — O bearer of the banner of resistance and jihad — the message of blood and gunpowder is completed; return to the project so that you may be the heart within the people, and thus become their hand, their eye and their tongue.