In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Great people,
Exalted men of our
valiant armed forces,
Glorious men and
women who have volunteered for Palestine and its crown, Al-Quds, to be free and
liberated from the filth of Zionism,
Arabs,
People, wherever you
are, you whose hearts are filled with faith, and who have made justice and
fairness the path towards what pleases Allah,
Peace be with you and
Allah’s Mercy and Blessings!
On a day like this
day in the year 1991, a marvel happened on both sides of an encounter. It was
the first encounter of its kind in the history of mankind until Allah decrees a
similar one, in a similar situation, on two sides, each on the basis of his
description and what he deserves.
At that time, on a day like this day ten years ago, Evil and all those who made Satan their protector lined up in one place, facing those who represented the will to defend right against falsehood and who had Allah as their Protector. They chose the sublime meanings and jihad, with hearts humble in prayer to Allah, glorified be His name, as their path towards His good pleasure, to win His forgiveness, pardon and satisfaction through faithful obedience.
Do you know,
brothers, who deserved the latter description? I do not think that you do not
know him who identified his name through the quality of his action on the path
of jihad and virtue and the path of every human meaning which is sought by all
those who seek it to achieve even a part of it.
On this side of the
encounter were the people of civilizations, the cradle of prophethood, the torch
of Allah’s messages and the anvil on which all hammers broke. Thus, through
the power of their endurance and the power of their fortitude to reject
injustice and oppression they became the cause for many a government to tumble
down, and for the sun to turn away from those who are so much disposed to evil
that they have become the representative type of Satan in their actions and in
their lack of character.
On this side of
sublime meanings and the true free stand were your people, you Arabs. It is your
valiant army, you faithful freedom fighters. It is Iraq, you good people in
humanity at large. It is the son of the immortal twin rivers, the bearer of the
greatest mark in honour, character, principles, faith, stand, sword and banner.
It is he whom you have known for the last ten years defending the principles of
faith and humanity and defending the principles of his glorious Arab nation.
Some of you may have
forgotten, and I do not think that many of you have forgotten who were on the
other side of the encounter. They were the debased, the enemies of Allah, and
those who had Satan as their protector for he had their character. They were
those who missed no chance to confirm their character with what stamped it with
the stamp of disgrace and shame whose marks will never disappear till Doomsday.
So, those with the highest attributes, the attributes of dignity, honour and
heroic stand, and with them the people of great Iraq had their chance to be at
the zenith while the debased and the treacherous had theirs at the nadir.
Don’t you know who
the debased and evil are?
Shall I reiterate in
their hearing and yours who they are? Or would you say that you know them by
their ugly and debased faces? Those ugly faces lined up dishonourably against
and in front of faces beaming in beauty and brightness while looking towards
their Lord with the marks of the People of Paradise, the faces of the pious
martyrs and the faces of the living who have never changed their determination.
To refresh your
memory, I will count on the side of the base act and the disgraceful stand those
who represented the U.S, those who represented Britain, France, Germany, Spain,
Holland, Argentina, Belgium and Australia… Shall I continue counting or do you
still remember the number: thirty-three states, twenty-eight armies, taking the
first place in the aggression upon Iraq, and more than forty states taking
charge of supporting the direct aggression in addition to world Zionism and its
freak and accursed entity?
As for the Arabs.. O
you Arabs, you who are our pride, our honour, our wound, our wound, alas! Shall
I count? How can I give names and count? How can I say and open the wounds? I
will say but not count. I will say that the Arab nation is our nation. We belong
to it and it belongs to us. It is our pride and our strength. It is our depth
and Iraq is its depth. In its name was our call of chivalry, and in the name of
its great ideals, our great ideals and its principles, we assaulted falsehood
and knocked out its brain and caused it to perish. It is the nation of prophets,
of martyrs and of holy men, it is our nation. Other than this I will not say.
Let every coward or censurer hear me. It is my nation. No individual, even
though he may say he belongs to it, can ever do evil to it or to its character.
Will a rivulet with stale or stagnant water change the properties of the
thundering sea?
No! The properties of
our thundering sea will never change. And those who represent it in the sublime
and principled stands are the true representatives of its properties. Everything
else is accidental and short-lived.
Long live every
stout-hearted and every faithful and generous individual in the Arab nation who
is ever enraged at falsehood, discontented with it.
But did you know what
happened in that continuous encounter then, and in this one which is going on
even now? Did you know what the injustice and the embargo did to the people of
Iraq? shall we engage and burden you with the details of what happened and what
was said, or is it enough that we describe part of what should be described?
On the side of Evil,
they showed on television part of what they did, boasting of the atrocities they
committed.
Do you know,
brothers, what they did? Have you seen (the doing) of a reckless, spoiled and
light-headed child who takes after his father who was one of the kings of old
times, but the like of him may exist even now too? Consider what this heedless
child can do when he feels jealous of a rich museum and finds that he has the
means to destroy it. None but this description fits those who waged and are
still waging aggression and inflicting destruction upon the museum of faith,
virtue, civilization, noble stand, the museum of the brave men and glorious
women, and the great tree of life in the Iraq of the Arabs and the Muslims and
the Iraq of faith. But what they destroyed, brothers, excepting human lives and
blood, was but a copy of the original. The museum of civilization has remained
radiating its meaning and keeping its original patterns safe, for they lie
latent in the deep faith and in the true viability inside the souls and inside
the giant tree of life, whose roots go deep down in human history, to the nation
and to people everywhere generations after generations.
Isn’t this the
proper comparison on the side of evil with those who believe that they are
destroying man while they merely destroy what is material in his surroundings?
The missiles and
bombs of aggression hit everything material and suitable as target for their
weapons. Much dear blood of the dear ones was shed. But they have become the
flagstaff of Allah-is-the-Greatest Banner. They have become the candles that
dispel darkness before the march of great Iraq, generations after generations,
and whenever darkness tries to veil the luminous light before the great march of
the Iraqis who have sworn by Allah, by the blood of the martyrs and by every
great name to make their crossing unquestionable.
Thus, Iraq has
remained, the people have remained, the army has remained.
Long live the people!
Long live the Army!
Long live the
Comrades!
Now then, one may
ask: who was lining on the side of Iraq? shall I describe and tell you, and this
is my belief, how Allah, the Omnipotent, was watching over Iraq with His
attention? And how He turned their fire cool and a means of safety for the
Iraqis? And how the conscienceof the Arab nation with its splendid history, its
great faithful ideals, its meanings and its sublime symbols stood by the side of
Iraq? And how Iraq was fighting and moving freely in the battlefield?
Have you seen a
mountain in a state of furious rage and eruption?
Have you seen the
waves of a huge, roaring and thundering ocean in a state of a great flow?
Have you seen the
Tigris and how it floods in April every year?
Have you seen how the
believers love Allah? And how people love people when they love deeply and with
sublimity?
Have you seen how a
lion in its den defends its cubs when in danger?
He who has seen and
known this knows how Iraq was and how it is now. Iraq faced hate with love,
weakness with strength, despair with hope, cowardice with courage, dishonour and
treachery with honour and loyalty and truth of the honourable stand. The Iraqis
loved their people, their civilization and their glorious history. They loved
their nation and its great principles a love surpassed by none before. And
because they were born free, they loved the right of every nation in humanity to
be free, unyielding to the might of tyranny and exploitation of greed. That is
how they came to be what they are, and to be what you know them for.
From these
significant examples and meanings you can understand how an Iraqi loved his
nation and loved Iraq, how he forbore, fought and held his ground, how he built
towering buildings, how and why he plants trees and flowers even while the
blazing flames of fire were and still are scorching his face in the continuous
aggression of the evildoers and the injustice of their followers, how and why he
sows the seeds of life and smiles to them and how and why he builds and elevates
the building after removing the debris of destruction.
Iraq has triumphed
over the enemies of the nation and over its enemies. It will triumph in all the
remaining rounds with the help of Allah because it has achieved its triumph
inside its soul, its conscience, its heart and its mind.
As for you, striving
and struggling Arabs, this is known, too, by anyone of you who envisages,
remembers and never forgets the maturity of the bills of the great principles of
faith as a debt becoming due and as an assignment entrusted to him by Allah and
by anyone of you who remembers that his ancestors were the pioneers of faith and
the principles of human civilization and the lofty banners to the whole mankind.
Anyone who can recall the image of how the Companions of the Messenger of Allah
used to fight, preceded by the sword and banner bearers: Al-Hamza, Abu Bakr
As-Siddiq, Abu Al-Hassanain Ali, with his sword, Dhul-Fiqar, Omar Al-Farouq and
Khalid bin Al-Waleed, and how they used to hear the voice, the call and the
prayer of the Prophet (Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) for their
victory-- anyone who can recall this, knows how the Iraqis fought led by each
brave hero who has been true to his Covenant with Allah. He also knows how he
should strive, struggle and fight too in defence of his identity, the principles
of his nation and the meanings of the True Religion. Thus, he fortifies
patriotism and the homeland, uplifts, with right, the position of the nation,
the people, the nationalism and faith. He defeats evil and weakness, and strikes
down degradation and falsehood and every foreigner encroaching on the right of
the Arabs, on the meanings of their faith and on their right to sovereignty,
security, life and the protection of the principles of honour and dignity.
Moreover, and after
the Immortal Mother of All Battles, and after the children, youth and the aged
of Palestine, men and women, have faced the weapons of the U.S and Zionism with
stones, is there any Arab who may ask: How? After this and for a thousand or
thousands of years to come, can fear find its way to the heart of any Arab in a
position of responsibility unless he is a fear-ridden coward or hopelessly
unpatriotic and lacking the virtue of faith in his soul? Can anyone who is
faithful and zealous for his people and nation be excused when he does not rise
against the injustice of the foreigner and the injustice of the unjust, and does
not force and help himself to get rid of the weakness inside his soul?
Long
live our glorious Arab nation!
Long
live Palestine, free and proud from the River to the Sea!
Long
live Iraq!
Long
live Iraq!
Long
live the people!
Long
live the army!
Long
live the comrades!
Allah
is the Greatest!
Allah
is the Greatest!
Allah
is the Greatest!