Out of fear that the opposites may merge into one (Part 2 of 2)

 Mujahid al-Suraymi — Sana’a

They are the spirit itself, for they brought the idea down from its abstract realm into the world of sense and experience. Thanks to them, people saw the movement as a living, active force in reality, and they felt the greatness of the ideal through its positive effects in every field led by some among these noble ones.

They are the true value standing behind every great transformation and every achievement that rose in quantity and quality. We would never have seen our nation among the foremost builders of hypersonic missiles without this complete group—those who fought with the spirit before the weapon, carrying faith, will, wisdom, and moral insight as foundations for building a mature, balanced jihadi personality, purified from psychological complexes, carnal impulses, self-inflation, and the submission to desire and greed.

They conquered themselves first; thus every victory God granted them was a natural fruit of their pure origin, sincerity of intention, immense patience, and deep attachment to God—a devotion that transcended passion and even love, reaching a higher degree: the forgetting of the self, the vanishing of the ego. In that self-annihilation, another self emerges—one with no share for Satan, untouched by the earthy matter that forms man’s clay. For when the clay dominates the soul, it drags it down into degeneration, cruelty, and corruption spreading across land and sea.

Their being, in contrast, is all light: spirit and body, meaning and form, motion and stillness, waking and sleeping, thought and action, word and deed—all testify to a human existence above the human level; a supra-angelic existence, the state of the Perfect Human, the Divine Ones (Rabbaniyyun)—a mirror reflecting that divine breath which gave life to the clay, the breath from the Spirit of God, the Most Merciful.

Therefore, after God, we place our trust in them—whether alive in the fields of resistance and struggle, or ascended as martyrs in God’s cause. Their martyrdom was a fuller life for them, and for those awaiting one of the two blessed ends after them. Here the two rivers meet: blood and sweat, word and deed, motive and stance, ideal and experience—until God’s command becomes manifest through the rise of His supporters. And no pretender who assumes their name can reach even the sole of one among them, for they left in every field a model that exposes the false and guides the sincere.

This exposition is merely an introduction—an entryway to acquiring the principles by which we may distinguish the true from the false in allegiance. The resurrection of pretenders has already come before the Final Resurrection: through the traces they left, God has built a wall separating the believer from the hypocrite. Though their tongues claim to belong to one school and one heart, reality unmasks them—their hesitation, their doubt, their deviation, their arrogance, and their submission to the devil become evident.

Finally, we must comprehend all these distinctions, born out of concern for this nation. And there is nothing I fear more than this:
that the pretender and the sincere, the true and the false, should become one and the same!