THE TEMPLES RUINED IN RUSSIA

Fourteen thousand large and small mosques in Turkestan, 8,000 in Caucasus and Crimea, and 4,000 in Tataristan and Main Kurdistan were destroyed. In Bukhara city alone, 360 mosques were destroyed. Only one madrasa (school) was left and it is now used as a museum of atheism. And in Semerkand city, the Ulugh Bey madrasa survives as a museum of atheism, and two churches are used for indoor basketball and volleyball.

MEN OF RELIGION MURDERED

More than 270,000 Muslim religious scholars were killed. Others were exiled to camps in Siberia, where a cold temperature of 65°C below zero reigns. As for religious people, more than three million people were martyred on account of their religious beliefs in Turkestan, alone. When they entered Afghanistan in December 1979, the Russians immediately attacked the villages. They confiscated all sorts of food, clothing, household utensils and jewellery. They killed the Muslims they came across, women or children alike. For example, when they entered the town of Kunday with tanks, they bombarded the great mosque with artillery and martyred hundreds of Muslims while they were praying.

The above-given figures on the communists’ terrible massacre or banishment to Siberian camps of those who opposed the

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revolution and paganism portray an alarming scene of savagery that should be a lesson for all humanity.

DESTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND MONUMENTS

In the cities of Bukhara, Semerkand, Kakant, Kazan, Khiva, Ufa, Baku, Tashkent, Bakhchisarai, Derbent, Timirhan, Kashgar, Almasta, Tirmi, etc., which had been ornamented with monuments by the Turks after their embracing Islam and had been turned into masterpieces of the East by Islamic architecture, the communists seized all religious works, mainly copies of Qur’ân al-kerîm and books of Hadîth-i-sherîf, and shamelessly and mercilessly tore, trampled, and burned them in the streets. Also, after ordering the people to give the religious, national and historical books they had been keeping to the State, they confiscated these books and likewise destroyed them. Meanwhile, some Muslims ran the risk of life and, instead of giving their books to this murderous and villainous gang, buried them in chests. In the process of these events, thousands of religious people who would not hand over their books were martyred.

OPPRESSION AND PROPAGANDA AGAINST RELIGION

The pagan communist State, established on the corpses of millions of innocent people after a heavy blow to religion and the massacre of men of religion, carried on mainly the following oppression and propaganda against religion:

1- Teaching religion in schools was prohibited.

2- Praying in mosques and in all kinds of temples was prohibited.

3- Men of religion were given no place in State affairs.

4- Religious or national education of youngsters in their homes was strictly prohibited.

5- Systematic propaganda against religion was carried on through newspapers, magazines, TV and radio broadcasts, and slanderous plays were performed.

6- It was constantly explained that Allâhu ta’âlâ – may He

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protect us from saying so! – did not exist and that holy books were superstitious fables.

7-Conferences were held in cities and villages by organizations called The Godless Society and The Association of the Young Godless. Religions, Allâhu ta’âlâ and Prophets (’alaihimu ’s-salâm) were mocked, and regular night courses were arranged for imbuing people with atheism.

8- At places of entertainment, such as theatres and cinemas, Allâhu ta’âlâ, Islam, Qur’ân al-kerîm, Prophets, men of religion and pious people were continuously made an object of derision; thus, young brains were being poisoned.

9- The main religious duties of Muslims, such as salât, fast, hajj and zakât were prohibited definitely; it was considered a crime even to utter the Kalimat ash-shahâda or to mention the name of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Pious people were under relentless prosecution from the secret police of the above-mentioned duties and, being accused especially of “propagating superstitions”, “opposition to the State,” and “opposing the regime and revolutions,” were driven to death camps.

DISRESPECT TOWARDS THE DEAD

1- Performing the namâz of janâza and washing corpses were thoroughly prohibited.

2- One who died was simply thrown into a ditch and covered first with lime and then with earth.

3- Human bones unearthed from cemeteries in the cities and rubble from monuments were used to fill depressed areas of the city.

4- Human bones unearthed from village cemeteries were used in manuring the fields.

Dear Readers! With all their persecutions, massacres, banishments and oppressions, communists have not been able to expunge the divine love that exists in human beings; they have not been able to break that sacred bond. Of the present 140 million Muslim brothers under communist regime, the number of those whom they have managed to bring to their side and make irreligious does not exceed 5 per cent, despite all their systematic efforts and tortures. Then no material power will be able to annihilate the religion or îmân, which are innate. They can be prohibited, but not annihilated. A Muslim will rather give his life

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away than sacrifice his religion and chastity. This was very well understood by the Russians in the Afghan tragedy of 1986; hundreds of thousands of red troops attacked with rockets and aircraft and killed villagers, including women. Muslim children were taken to Moscow to be made irreligious. Mosques, schools, houses and foodstuffs were burnt. The number of Muslims killed from 1979 through 1986 was over one million. But the Muslim warriors, though thousands of them fell martyrs, did not surrender to the irreligious. In order to conceal this vulgarity of theirs from Muslim nations, Russians have prepared and distributed, in Muslim countries freely, books explaining that there is freedom of religion, Islamic sciences and rituals in Russia. Muslims in Russia are unaware of these books since they are only distributed outside Russia. Their distribution in Russia is prohibited; otherwise, it would be treachery against communism. Some of these books, distributed among the people of Algeria in 1986, were sent to us. High quality paper and gilded bindings were used in these offset-processed Arabic books on which “1400 A.H., Tashkent” is written. In them, some communists wearing a Muslim turban and robe are portrayed in pictures as if they were muftîs, imâms or heads of a religious office. This communist propaganda contradicts the cruelty done to Muslims by Russians in Afghanistan. It was prepared so cunningly that one who does not know of the Islamic religion and the inner aspects of communism will get deceived by these tricks and lies easily and, thinking that this excessive enemy of Islam is a friend, will fall into endless calamity.

Whether it be called socialism, republic, democracy or even guised in the furcoat of a kingdom, or however sweet and deceitful its propaganda is, communism is a regime that proves itself to be the opposite of freedom at all times and everywhere. It is a dictatorship of an irreligious, merciless and cruel minority. That is why it is the merciless enemy of Islam. In fact, the name of Russia was “The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” which did not contain the word ‘communism.’ The name of communist East Germany was “The German Democratic Republic,” and that of Yugoslavia was “The Federal Republic.” Poland and all other communist countries carry some sort of republic in their names. Communism conjures up a dangerous meaning to the world’s humanity and those who have fallen into its trap hate it so much that even communists themselves abstain from using this name and consider it necessary to camouflage the title of their own

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states by attaching the titles of free states to them.

Whatever fur communism puts on itself, the red and cruel regime reveals itself as soon as the guise opens a little. What is the mark that represents communism at first sight? Despite its various titles, namely Democratic, Republic, People’s or Kingdom, how is it that communism is recognized at first sight? Let us explain: The single distinctive characteristic of communism is its policy of centralized state control and enmity towards religion. A country wherein everything is controlled by the State, where Muslims are called retrogressive and fanatical, and where non-communists are marked as “faschists” is a communist country whatever its name is. The further away from the policy of state control and the more respectful a country is to Allâhu ta’âlâ and the Prophet (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), the further away will it be from communism. State control with enmity towards religion is the real name of communism.

The purpose of those who support the excessive policy of state control and who try to remove religious lessons from schools is to establish communism. The technical definition of communism is to “bring everything under state control, by means of collectivization and enmity towards religion.” Once everything has been brought under state control, the Godless Society is established within hours.

To the comrades bought by communism beforehand, the World Communism Organization gives 18 directives with the purpose of introducing and settling communism in free contries. Ten of them are as follows:

1. “Try to encourage the establishment of communist or socialist parties in your countries. If they are already present, cooperate with them.”

2. “Divide your nation into as many classes and communities as possible.”

3. “Always try to establish disagreements between the employee and the employer.”

4. “Fight and endeavour until the communist regime is established. Make everybody believe that there is no such a threat in your country by the time the communist regime becomes deep rooted. Accuse those who notice your intention and objectives and those who attempt to reveal the facts, of being illusive and provocative.”

5. “Instigate madhhab and tarîqa conflicts. Practise enmity

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towards religion, openly and secretly.”

6. “Make banners for yourselves of the heroes who are loved much by the people. Show them to be on your side.”

7. “Through novels, poetry, articles, and cartoons write systematically using exaggerations that the laborers and villagers are in poverty.”

8. “Maintain an antagonistic attitude towards free countries and promulgate enmity against the West.”

9. “Get control over labour unions, youth organizations, and art establishments.”

10. “Search for reasons for discomfort and find them; try to popularize them.”

In order not to be caught up in the calamity of communism, even the slightest opportunity must be made use of in rendering these seeds of communism harmless.

It is necessary to cooperate, to get organized and to be on the alert against communist instigation. Greeting communists, smiling at them, buying, exhibiting in shop windows or selling their books, newspapers and magazines, or supporting their magazines and newspapers thru advertisements, will sharpen the knife of communism.

The Czar used to invite insidious Russian communists to his palace, compliment them, admit them to dinner, and listen to their ideas. But when the revolution took place, it was those same friends who butchered the Czar, the Czarina, their children and grandchildren, including the infants.

Communism does not have understanding, fidelity, human values, mercy, faith or reason.

Air raids on Afghan villages carried by Russians in 1980 are a new and terrible proof of communist atrocities and barbarism.

The communist is hostile to those who believe in Allâhu ta’âlâ, conscience and morals. He considers these humane feelings as an illness, idiocy and treachery against his regime and principles. His password is “Divide and rule!”

There is a single formula for defending ourselves against the evils of communism:

To counter-attack it with the same method it uses, that is, by force, to spit in its face, to maintain severe control over it, to keep it away from honest people, and to leave it alone with its red-stained face.

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The Russian revolution slaughtered 52 million people, 40 million of whom were agricultural and industrial workers. It came forth with the promise that it would “give peasants land and make workers shareholders in businesses”, but it even grabbed the few acres of land belonging to poor peasants and the cottages owned by penniless workers and killed those who had faith and belief or who said Allah.

The red revolution is a greedy monster that eats workers under the guise of workers’ power! It produces such massacre and plunder that even those who practise this massacre and plunder cannot escape its massacre and plunder.

With communism, the grudge which was at the outset held against life, property, chastity, religion and faith, turned into a sadism borne against humanity and began to work for the plans of a handful of cruel chiefs. At that point it was realized how great a lie it was, yet it was too late.

The following is the fourth paragraph of the constitution of the secret communist party:

“The Communist Party is the irreconcilable enemy of the native servants of imperialism, of the owners of land, factories and buildings of the bourgeois artisans and tradesmen, of all pious people and their priests and scholars, of all working and retired military officers, policemen and civil servants, and, in short, of those who are outside the lines of the revolution.”

Lenin’s password for the revolution was: “Kill the active personnel as soon and in as great a number as possible so that there will be little work left for us to do.”

As it can be concluded, excluding those who were to be butchered, only the red leaders themselves remained in one hundred per cent safety.

According to Lenin, “Maintenance of Red dominance is dependent upon the continuation of the Red revolution.” This is the reason for the unending massacre of workers by the regime. In Red China, with the order of communist dictator Mao, 300,000 labourers were shot dead during each liquidation movement. These murders were committed by a minority hostile to religion and belief in the next world.

What level has Russia reached today? To what degree are the people happy? Without clarifying these things, it will be narrow-mindedness to evade the question by simply saying, “They are travelling in space,” or to admire the luxurious, excellent,

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delightful and pleasing life of a cruel minority. The Pyramids in Egypt, too, were masterpieces at one time. Can we point out signs of social welfare in the factories and rockets, which were built on the blood and corpses of millions of people and with the money grabbed from hungry, wretched workers and labourers with the view of satisfying the desires of a despotic minority? Displaying the means as the aim of life is treacherous to life itself.

We wonder if some writers or others could even utter one per cent of what they write or say now, were they in a communist country?

O, Youth! Your pure hearts and green souls are quite susceptible to the enchantment of such illusive promises. But you will repent for it later.

The only remedy for protecting humanity against the calamity of communism is not to fall for its sweet poisons and varnished filth. And this, in turn, requires people to have a firm faith, an unbending trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ, a peaceful heart, and to live in justice and freedom. But this can come about only by following a divine, unyielding and unchangeable book, and by purifying the morals and intentions. This purity can be provided by Islam, which is free from all sorts of prejudices and oppression. Islam supplies perfect social justice, a strong shield to protect people against the claws of the dragon of communism. Destruction of communism can be achieved by serving Islam. Islam and communism cannot stay together. It is a known fact that some dictators, who have appropriated power and preside over Muslim nations, have given their states such names as “The Socialist Islamic Republic.” The word “Socialism,” used as such, is a term not for Muslims, but for communists. Their putting this word and Islam side by side is one of the traps devised for deceiving Muslims, for Islam and socialism cannot stay together. A Muslim cannot be a socialist. It is for this reason that communist barbarians, in order to make the people of the Muslim countries they capture communists, first attack Islam, laying much stress on it. The same reason lies nder communists’ enmity towards the religion.

In every nation, there exist ignoble, irreligious, immoral, and base people who may be tempted, deceived and cajoled into becoming communists. Through the tricks prepared by red and yellow centers, they may plot a communist revolution. Protection of the nation against the bursting and spreading of such a dark and bloody revolution can be accomplished by instructing the

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youth with religious knowledge and with Islamic ethics. Every father must teach his children how to read Qur’ân al-kerîm; send them to religious courses; teach them how to perform wudu’, ghusl and salât; how to fast; what is halâl and what is harâm; and have them practise them. Communists cannot mislead a person who is brought up to be such a Muslim. Apparent examples of this are the millions of Muslims moaning under Russian and Chinese persecution and savagery. They endure all kinds of oppression, torture and even death, but do not become communists. They either die or escape.

Seeing that they will never be able to deceive Muslims or bring revolution to Islamic countries, cruel communists try to improve heavy industry and means of war to use it for invading Islamic countries. They make preparations to attack with weapons, rockets, fusion bombs, new jet-fighters and chemicals to destroy all Muslims on the earth. Therefore, Muslims all over the world must cooperate, do away with sectarian differences, and become united under the Ahl as-Sunna, the only way to salvation. They must use all their energy to make new weapons in order to surpass communists.

When unity in faith, unity in morals, and unity in justice are established and sophisticated weapons are made, communist raid will no longer be a threat.

Through the gate opened in 1982 by Roger Garaudy, a famous man of letters in Europe, Cousteau, Captain of the Oceans, turned the course of his ship towards Islam. Bejart,one of the well-known figures of the ballet world, stepped into Muslim community. The great scholar and writer RogerGaraudy said in a Conference Hall of Garyunes University in Benghazi on April 8, 1983:

“It is true that I have embraced Islam. You ask why I chose Islam; by choosing Islam, I chose the modern age.”

This was the same Roger Garaudy, aged 70, who had fervently defended the communist system for France for decades. At universities and political platforms, he had repeatedly explained Marxism to Frenchmen and to the West, thinking that salvation of men lay in that unique system. He had been known as the ‘Spiritual Architect’ of modern French communism. Where there was a meeting, conference or seminar organized by communists, there was Garaudy. He carried on a serious struggle against Catholicism and Christianity with his ideas, pen and rhetoric.

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One day a bomb exploded in the midst of the West’s world of arts, letters and politics: “Roger Garaudy embraces Islam!”With the spread of this news to the whole world through telexes of news agencies, the Kremlin was terribly shocked, since the Kremlin was losing its greatest master of French communists; Garaudy was a well-known scholar, with whose pen Marxism had been disseminated for years.

This great man was now telling the truth: “Islam is the religion that drags the ages behind itself. Other religions,however, were dragged behind the ages. That is, all religions except Islam were altered according to the time and reformed, and their holy books were distorted to conform to the conditions of the time. However, Qur’ân al-kerîm has dominated over the ages ever since its descent. Not Qur’ân al-kerîm, but time followed behind. As time gotolder, it became younger. This is an event that occurs beyond the ages. This is an event much greater than all the terrible social, political and economic disasters that followed so many wars in history. Islam prevails against not only materialism or positivism, but also existentialism. However, none of them prevailed over Islam.

“The Great Prophet of Islam (’alaihi ’s-salâm) explainedeverything by saying, ‘Work for the next world as if youwere to die tomorrow, and work for this world as if you would never die!’ Islam has control over not only the material but also the spiritual. Therefore, these two cannotbe separated from each other. How can they be separated since Islam states: ‘Learn knowledge even if it is in China,’ and ‘Scientific knowledge is the lost property of the Believer; he should get it wherever he finds it!’ Knowledgeand working are not limited in Islam. Possessing no limits concerning these two facts, which bewilder the world, Islam has bewildered the world.

“By defining man to be ‘the superior and the most honourable creature,’ Islam means that he should not be exploited. It is a conglomerate of systems that disapproves xtravagance, ostentation and luxury, defines income as earnings obtained thru the sweat of one’s brow, transfers growing capital to the poor by means of a well-balancedand moral rule, prohibits interest, a cause of laziness, andthereby destroys unlawful wealth. Islam has made it obligatory that the Caliph and the slave shall share the same rights. There was the case of the ‘camel’ which is areality sharper than a king’s sword: Hadrat ’Umar and hisslave rode a camel by taking turns as they travelled from ne

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town to another, the halter being held by the Caliph and by the slave alternately... Here is the revolution of Islam in the field of justice and law.

“Both Marxism and capitalism are systems that exploit man. In contrast to them, Islam is a heavenly religion that restores human prestige to humanity.”

HÜSEYN HiLMi IŢIK

'Rahmat-allahi alaih’

Hüseyn Hilmi Iţýk, 'Rahmat-allahi alaih’, publisher of the Waqf Ikhlas Publications, was born in Eyyub Sultan, Istanbul in 1329 (A.D. 1911).

Of the one hundred and forty-four books he published, sixty are Arabic, twenty-five Persian, fourteen Turkish, and the remaining translated books consist of French, German, English, Russian and other languages.

Hüseyn Hilmi Iţýk, 'Rahmat-allahi alaih' (guided by Sayyid Abdulhakim Arvasi, ‘Rahmat-allahi alaih’, a profound scholar of the religion and was perfect in virtues of tasawwuf and capable to direct disciples in a fully mature manner; possessor of glories and wisdom), was a competent, great Islamic scholar able to pave the way for attaining happiness, passed away during the night between October 25, 2001 (8 Shaban 1422) and October 26, 2001 (9 Shaban 1422). He was buried at Eyyub Sultan, where he was born.

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A’űdhu billah-imin-esh-shaytân-ir-rajîm

Bi-s-mi-llâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm

Rasűlullah ‘sallallâhu alaihi wasallam’ stated, “When mischief becomes widespread among my Ummat (Muslims), aperson who abides by my Sunnat will acquire blessings equal to the amount deserved by a hundred martyrs.” At a time when concocted tafsîrs (explanations of the Qur’an al-kerîm) and heretical religious books written by irreligious people are on the increase, and when Muslims are misguided, people who follow the true religious books written by scholars of the right path called Ahl as-Sunnat will be given the same blessings as those which would be given to a hundred martyrs. The scholars of any of the four madhhabs are called Scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat. The leader of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat is Imâm-i-A’zâm Abű Hanîfa. These scholars recorded what they had heard from the As-hâb-i-kirâm, who, in their turn, had told them whatever they had heard from the Messenger of Allah.

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1 - Our Prophet 'sall-Allâhu 'alaihi wa sallam' stated: "A person whom Allâhu ta'âlâ loves very much is one who learns his religion and teaches it to others. Learn your religion from the mouths of Islamic scholars!"

A person who cannot find a true scholar must learn by reading books written by the scholars of Ahl as-sunna, and try hard to spread these books. A Müslim who has 'ilm (knowledge), 'amal (practising what one knows; obeying Islam's commandments and prohibitions), and ikhlâs (doing everything only to please Allâhu ta'âlâ) is called an Islamic scholar. A person who represents himself as an Islamic scholar though he lacks any one of these qualifications is called an 'evil religious scholar', or an 'impostor'. The Islamic scholar will guide you to causes which in turn will open the gates to happiness; he is the protector of faith. The impostor will mislead you into such causes as will make you end up in perdition; he is the Satan's accomplice.[1] (There is a certain) prayer (called) Istighfâr (which), whenever you say, (recite or read) it, will make you attain causes which will shield you against afflictions and troubles.

2 - The Nejât-ul-musallî was written in Turkish in the year 1217 (A.H.) by Ahmed Ţevki Efendi, and was printed in Ýstanbul in 1305. Ýt consists of a hundred and ninety-seven (197) pages. Ýt is stated as follows on its final page: Ibni Jezerî, (751 [1350 A.D.], Damascus - 833 [1429], Shîrâz,) states as follows in his book Hisn ul-hasîn: A hadîth-i-sherîf reads as follows: "If an invalid person says Lâ ilâha illâ anta subhânaka innî kuntu min-az-zâlimîn,' forty times, he will die as a martyr (if his predetermined life-span is over). If he recovers, all his sins will be pardoned." This prayer is the eighty-seventh âyat-i- kerîma of Anbiyâ sűra. Please see the final parts of the thirteenth and the fifteenth chapters of the current book!

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[1] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366th and 367th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40th and the 59 th letters in the first volume of Maktűbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 25th and the 28th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).