“The
Mask Fell”: A statement about King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology
Writers Articles And Opinions
9 November 2009
By
Shaykh Ibrahim al-Rubaysh
An English translation By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
Praise be to God, Lord of all creation. Peace and
prayers be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his household,
and his companions all together.
“On 4 Shawwal (corresponding to 23 September 2009),
Abdallah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz celebrated his long-awaited
dream, which has been realized. He called it the King
Abdallah University of Science and Technology. This
university came out with a new uniform that was
tailored by the secularists, as poet Hafiz Ibrahim
said:
"It came out with a cloth of 70 different-colored
patches"
“We just did not imagine that they would be that
daring until I read the words of the university`s vice
president when he was describing the freedom and free
gender-mixing in the university. He said that it is
similar to the American cities, as if this is the goal
of establishing this university. I do not need in the
first place to point out the rulings of gender-mixing
since it is so clear in our religion, to the extent
that the one who pays attention to the Shari`ah
evidence will find that the Shari`ah prevented mixing
even in the mosques. It imposes restrictions on the
relations between men and women. Yet, the prejudiced
persons deceived the ignorant people that the
prohibition of gender-mixing is not mentioned in the
Shari`ah texts, although they know that there are many
Shari`ah texts which came to approve that meaning,
even if it was not in letter.
“I was so sad for those who let their women in this
jungle. They forgot the order of God and failed to
preserve the trust that has been entrusted to them by
God. If they forgot the order of God, where is the
jealousy in the men`s heart? Where are magnanimity and
zeal? How would a man, brother, or husband accept
admission to this university for his daughter, sister,
or wife? It is a university that contradicted the
Shari`ah, custom, and even the system that the
government claims it implements.
“The nations of infidelity have discovered that
gender-mixing is backwardness and corruption. Thus,
many of them have become convinced of the importance
of separation between the two sexes, so much so that
one of them acknowledged, while speaking about the
indiscrimination between the two sexes, that this was
the ethical, social, and civilian collapse in the
United States. However, the stupid persons in our
countries who are fond of the West in all its forms
and shapes want us to go back to the point from which
the losers started.
“The observers of what happens know that methods of
corruption are available to the one who wants them
even if he is in the holy mosque of God. Nevertheless,
there is a difference between a corruption that is
prevented by the regime and a corruption which the
regime endorses. In spite of the fact that the
Shari`ah of God is superior, God prevents by the ruler
what he does not prevent by the Koran.
“This issue is a great catastrophe and severe
calamity, however, `it may be that ye dislike a thing,
and Allah brings about through it a great deal of
good` (Partial Koranic verse, Al-Nisa, 4:19). The
secularists, by opening this university, have achieved
a great victory, but we hope that this victory will be
just like the United States` victory in Iraq, which
was followed by its killing, defeat, and economic
collapse. We also hope that this university would be a
reason of the definite exposing and the major defeat
of the secularists, and that society would split them
like the meat of a dead animal.
“This university has revealed the goals of the
government and its intentions. It has been clear that
in its policy strategy it opts for secularism, but
today it becomes clearer, so that only the ignorant
people can not see it. Thus, the mask falls and the
veils are lifted. They took off the gown of hypocrisy
to reveal publicly their intention to transform and
alienate the people. This university, apart from being
a co-gender educational institution, which will result
in corrupting the society, will also eliminate
whatever is left of faith in the creed of al-wala wa
al-bara (loyalty and disavowal.) It attracted people
of different faiths and beliefs from all corners of
the world. Its students belong to 50 different
nationalities. The king (Abdallah) called for seeking
help from the bright minds from everywhere without
discrimination. It is needless to say that in other
universities, there are people from different
nationalities and faiths, however, in this university;
they wanted to highlight that there is no
discrimination on the basis of faith. What would be
the impression on a girl who studies side by side with
a Christian or a Jew and is supervised by an atheist
or a polytheist? I wonder, what type of generation
this girl will raise when she becomes a mother?
“Sending students abroad for education has already
resulted in bad effects, so imagine how it will be if
we bring infidels to study and teach in our lands and
mingle with our society. No doubt the effects will be
worse. God`s messenger, prayers and peace be upon him,
commanded us to expel the infidels from the Arab
Peninsula. But here we are, where universities are
established to receive students and teachers from
different faiths in the Arab Peninsula; in Hijaz in
particular. This government wants to randomly follow
in the footsteps of the West without distinguishing
between what is good and what is bad. They can easily
ban the gender mixing, but when they saw that the
gender mixing is prevailing in the West, that it is as
a sign of civilization, and that banning it is a sign
of backwardness, they established this university.
“The way they dealt with the book Hirasat al-Fadilah
by Shaykh Bakr Abu-Zayd, may God grant him mercy, is a
clear proof of this. As it was weird for them that a
scholar who is a member of the Council of Senior Ulema
and a member of the permanent committee to publish a
book entitled Hirasat al-Fadilah, they banned the
book, which was lifted after deleting the parts that
talk about the demonstrations that call for allowing
women to drive cars. Is not that an indication that
the state fights virtues?
“Those who observe how they dealt with the Commission
for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and
how they stripped its members of their jurisdictions
are well aware of their keen interest in transforming
the society and alienating it. They will not rest
until they force the chaste women to go out in the
same way the women of Banu al-Asfar (Westerners) go
out. We pray to God to prevent them from doing what
they want to do.
“The door was wide open for the newspapers writers to
carry out a fierce attack against the Commission, but
none of them dares to attack an official in the way he
attacks the Commission.
“Then, after all that, and as the usual practice of
Saudi hypocrisy, Nayif Bin-Abd-al-Aziz gave a
statement in which he announced that the commission
was a government organ just like other organs. But
what happens is that the commission is stripped of
more jurisdictions, and the attacks against it are
getting more frequent without any punishment for any
writer. Now, no element of the commission can prevent
a vice or even follow a suspect if the suspect is in
his private car. He also can not carry out his duty
outside his jurisdiction area. If it happens that he
arrests a criminal, his role is confined to making the
arrest and handing over the criminal to the police,
who most often will not file a case.
“Some people attempt to find excuses for their king,
saying that he is not aware that there is gender
mixing and that it is implemented on the behest of
some officials. Those poor ones do not know that they
are defaming him without knowing. If he is aware of
the mixing of genders but without knowing the
religious ruling on this mixing, then he is so
ignorant that he is not fit to take care of the
affairs of Muslims. If he is not aware of it in the
first place, then this would be a great calamity, for
if he is not aware of what is going on inside a small
university, then he must be not aware of what is going
on inside his state. So, how could a man of these
characteristics be granted power to rule the heart of
Muhammad`s peninsula?
“Even if they find the influence of secularists as an
excuse for him, and if they put the blame on his
associates to whom he gave power and influence and
whom he would not have consulted if his inclinations
were in agreement with their inclinations, even with
all these excuses.
“He is the first to blame before anyone else. If he
lacks the ability to differentiate between
righteousness and falsehood and between what is useful
and what is harmful, how can he be entrusted with the
leadership of millions of people? I stress that his
sin is great, but his greater sin was when he called
for the rapprochement of religions, claiming that he
would combine the Muslims, Jews, and Christians in one
religion.
“Establishing this university has shown the position
of scholars in this state and that the government pays
them huge amounts of money to issue whatever fatwa the
government wants. If their fatwas meet the government
desires, it will take them into effect, but if not,
the government will care neither for them nor for what
they say. Even worse, it may muzzle their mouths and
unleash journalist pens against them. The nearest
example for this is what happened these days. A member
of the Commission of the Senior Ulema has come out to
praise his ruler, supplicate for him, and praise this
university, asking God to add that university to the
scale of his good deeds. Then, he bashfully
disapproves the mingling of the genders. He finds no
one to listen to him, and journalists start to write
prejudicially against him, describing him as if he is
seeking sedition. Then, the ruler deposes him, because
he did not do as he liked.
“The story of Salih al-Luhaydan, former member of the
Supreme Judiciary Council, causes more wonder. He
spent a long period in his (Kind Abdallah) service,
during which he supervised the jailing, torture and
killing of many mujahidin and other people. When he
talked about some channels and called for suing some
of them, he had to face fiercer attacks. They did not
even try to defend him. Furthermore, media outlets
reported the king`s turning away when al-Luhaydan went
to greet and embrace him as a sign of rejection. They
rewarded him by deposing him from the chair of the
Supreme Judiciary Council, appointing Salih Bin-Humayd,
hoping that he would be more submissive to what they
wanted. This action tells us clearly that the policy
of Westernization and deformation of the society is as
important for those rulers as the stabilization of
their monarchy is. This state`s policy with the
scholars is that it lives upon them and stabilizes its
domination through them, but if they disagree with it,
they become worthless to it. With those scholars, it
gave legitimacy to half a million US soldiers during
the Gulf crisis. With the help of those scholars, they
denounced the memorandum of advisers warning the
government against actions of vice and infidelity.
That memorandum was written in a style of absolute
respect and appreciation, but signatories of that
memorandum were rewarded with deposing, prevention
from activity, and imprisonment. When some of the
ulema and preachers were taken to prison in 1415
Hegira (corresponding to 1994-1995), the traitor Fahd
Bin-Abd-al-Aziz said: `We sent them to prison
according to a fatwa by the Commission of the Senior
Ulema, and none of them gave an answer.` With the help
of those scholars, they killed the mujahidin, such as
what happened in the Al-Ulayya incident against the US
soldiers. Houses were destroyed and families were
terrified based upon fatwas from those scholars, who
issued fatwas to the investigation police saying that
they were in jihad, although they knew very well that
the investigation was purely an injustice for the
people and a war against jihad. After all such
consents by the scholars for the government`s likings,
when they disapproved of the extension of the Al-Mas`a
(part of the Holy Mosque in Mecca), the government did
not care about them, but went ahead in its plans. At
that time, the Mufti did not dare say his opinion. If
the people of knowledge (ulema) maintained it, it
would have maintained them. If they glorified it in
their souls, it would have gained glorification. They
offended it, and in return they were offended and
stained their faces with greed until it frowned at
them.
“The strange thing about these scholars, who denied
everything to the mujahidin and took part in attacking
them, is that they overlooked what the king did and
had given fatwas saying that the rapprochement of
religion is apostasy and is a call to combine
infidelity and faith. When their master called for it,
the best of them were those who remained silent. The
insane (King Abdallah) announced that he had taken the
fatwa advice from his scholars, and they did not dare
answer him. The greatest sinner among them was the one
who defended his master`s sin, claiming that it is not
a rapprochement of religions, but it is a dialogue of
religions. If he had not heard the speeches of that
insane (King Abdallah) in those conferences, how could
he recommend what he had not heard? If he heard, he
must know, as every listener does, that those speeches
included clear apostasy. The covenant, which God has
taken: `And remember Allah took a covenant from the
People of the Book, to make it known and clear to
mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away
behind their backs, and purchased with it some
miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they made` (Koranic
verse, Al Imran, 3:187). I would like to say to all
Muslims: Do not expect anyone who serves the sultans,
sat with them, and took their gifts, to announce the
right things. Some of them might, but the majority of
them subjugate themselves to the sultans. It is said
that he eats their food and obeys their orders. God`s
Messenger may God`s prayer and peace be upon him,
said: `He who lives in the desert becomes
cruel-hearted; he who pursues hunting, neglects; and
he who frequents a sultan, gets tempted` (narrated by
Abu-Dawud, from Ibn-Abbas, may God be pleased with
them both).
“The good Salafis, may God`s mercy be upon them,
recommended avoiding the ruler`s place due to the
seditions that existed there. But in the period of
Harun al-Rashid, Bin-al-Mubarak, may God have mercy
upon him, who defended the Shari`ah, imposed the
jizyah (tax on non-Muslims in Islamic states) on the
Christians, and sent messages to Nicephorus the dog
(leader) of the Romans, said: `Do not enter visit the
house of the amir. Avoid it, for it is an evil that
insults the religion.`
“It also insults the rulers of our era, who compete to
earn the Crusader`s affection. I wonder what would
Bin-Mubarak and Ibn-Iyadh, and others, may God`s mercy
be upon them, say if they saw how the scholars of our
era spring upon the doors of the rulers, wish to be
favored by them, and praise them in a much exaggerated
way.
“O Muslims, our duty toward this corrupted and
corrupting university is to deny it and deny it in
public, each in his own way. The preacher on his
platform and the imam in his mosque must deny it, and
even the judges and the university teachers must
severally condemn it, even though this condemnation
will cause their termination, asking forgiveness from
God, for perhaps they fear Him.
“I deny the statements of the media agencies regarding
the condemners, which say that the condemners are
enemies of development. This was said about the
Prophet, may God`s prayers and salutations be upon
him, even greater and harsher. You are not better than
him, may peace and prayers be upon him.
“Let the father condemn it in his house, and the woman
in her family. Let us condemn it among our parents and
relatives. Let us pressure those who join this
university. If they do not respond, it is necessary to
leave them, because the corruption to which they will
be subject will be transmitted to those who associate
with them.
“In a few years, imagine how society will be. This is
what the Muslims` ambushers want. We ask God to
separate them from what they want.
“I call every Muslim to renounce this apostate agent
government, which has obviously shown a preference for
infidelity over faith, and which only wants from Islam
worship that does not influence its secularist method.
It is apparent from its behavior with the scholars as
mentioned above that it does not accept advice. This
proves the failure of the peaceful initiatives and
that the language of power through jihad for the sake
of God and the victory of the mujahidin is necessary
in confronting the oppressors.
“I also call every Muslim not to work in any
establishment related to the power of this government
and which strengthens its bases, in particular the
different military sectors, for it is the power that
protects and strengthens the government. If it had not
been for the soldiers who protect this government, it
would not have dared do what it did. I know and I am
sure that many of the soldiers only stay there for the
job and the daily bread. They would insist on
disobeying the orders if they were against the
mujahidin. However, I tell you (soldiers) that staying
in those sectors is reinforcement for the power of
this sinful government, and if the soldiers scatter,
the oppressors would run away, though God mentions
some people who were among the polytheist army: `When
angels take the souls of those who die in sin against
their souls, they say: In what (plight) Were ye? They
reply: Weak and oppressed Were we in the earth. They
say: Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for
you to move yourselves away (From evil)? Such men will
find their abode in Hell, What an evil refuge!` (Koranic
verse, Al-Nisa, 4:97). Thus, what if one of you dies
in these ranks? What if you die while working?
“At the time you are asked to support the mujahidin,
we find you standing in the ranks of their enemies.
Run away to God, for the mujahidin do not want to
fight you as long as you do not stand in their way.
Therefore, leave where you are now and be God`s
supporter.
“As for those who stay for the reason of reform, know
that you are not reforming. If you are reforming, the
corruption you cause is bigger than the reform you
achieve. Know also that few are the days before each
one reaps what he sows. Will you be happy to meet God
when you have been serving His enemies?
“O God, kill the hypocrites, reveal them, and revenge
their craftiness by slaughtering them. O God, keep
their evil away from Muslims. O God, hide our defects
and make our splendor prosper. O God, protect us from
ourselves and others and protect our faith and good
features. We seek refuge with your greatness in order
not to be assassinated.
“O God, kill the idols of the Arabian Peninsula who
support Your enemies and fight Your allies. O God, Who
revealed the Holy Koran, Who exalted the clouds, Who
defeated the parties, defeat them, shake them, and
grant us victory over them. Our last request is praise
be to God, the Lord of the worlds.
“To conclude my brothers, accept our greetings from
the Al-Malahim Establishment for Media Production.”
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