FROM: Imam Bukhari's Sahih Bukhari

Volume 9, Book 89, Number 259:
Narrated 'Ali:

The Prophet sent an army unit (for some campaign) and appointed a man from the Ansar as its commander and ordered them (the soldiers) to obey him. (During the campaign) he became angry with them and said, "Didn't the Prophet order you to obey me?" They said, "Yes." He said, "I order you to collect wood and make a fire and then throw yourselves into it." So they collected wood and made a fire, but when they were about to throw themselves into, it they started looking at each other, and some of them said, "We followed the Prophet to escape from the fire. How should we enter it now?" So while they were in that state, the fire extinguished and their commander's anger abated. The event was mentioned to the Prophet and he said, "If they had entered it (the fire) they would never have come out of it, for obedience is required only in what is good." (See Hadith No. 629. Vol. 5)

THERE is evidence against suicide and using fire for punishment in Islamic Law! This evidence also goes against the 9/11 operation and the Madrid bombing(s).

SOURCE: Imam Malik's "Muwatta"


Section: Prohibition against Killing Women and Children in Military Expeditions

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Book 21, Number 21.3.8:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that a son of Kab ibn Malik (Malik believed that ibn Shihab said it was Abd ar-Rahman ibn Kab) said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade those who fought ibn Abi Huqayq (a treacherous jew from Madina) to kill women and children. He said that one of the men fighting had said, 'The wife of ibn Abi Huqayq began screaming and I repeatedly raised my sword against her. Then I would remember the prohibition of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, so I would stop. Had it not been for that, we would have been rid of her.' "


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Book 21, Number 21.3.9:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw the corpse of a woman who had been slain in one of the raids, and he disapproved of it and forbade the killing of women and children.


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Book 21, Number 21.3.10:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was sending armies to ash-Sham. He went for a walk with Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan who was the commander of one of the battalions. It is claimed that Yazid said to Abu Bakr, "Will you ride or shall I get down?" Abu Bakrsaid, "I will not ride and you will not get down. I intend these steps of mine to be in the way of Allah."

Then Abu Bakr advised Yazid, "You will find a people who claim to have totally given themselves to Allah. Leave them to what they claim to have given themselves. You will find a people who have shaved the middle of their heads, strike what they have shaved with the sword.

"I advise you ten things: Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty, and do not be cowardly."


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Book 21, Number 21.3.11:
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to one of his governors, "It has been passed down to us that when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sent out a raiding party, he would say to them, 'Make your raids in the name of Allah in the way of Allah. Fight whoever denies Allah. Do not steal from the booty, and do not act treacherously. Do not mutilate and do not kill children.' Say the same to your armies and raiding parties, Allah willing. Peace be upon you."

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It is strange that the Chechen group or Mujahideen is denying responsibility and condemning the actions in Beslan!

Man with iron fist tightens his grip on Russia

uploaded 12 Sep 2004

IAN MATHER DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

FOR many Russians it was a week of funerals, mourning and horrified disbelief. The reaction of Vladimir Putin to the deaths in Beslan, however, has been rather different: to go on the offensive.

The Russian president ordered his country’s Federal Security Service to offer an unprecedented reward of 300 million rubles (£5.7m) for information that could help "neutralise" Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord said to have masterminded the school hostage siege in which more than 300 people died, and of separatist former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov.

In words which echoed those of President George Bush after the September 11 attacks, Russia’s chief of general staff, Col-Gen Yuri Baluyevsky, also weighed in by declaring: "We will liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world."

On the international propaganda front, Britain was blasted for granting refugee status to Akhmed Zakayev, an envoy for Maskadov.

"Granting asylum to people involved in terrorism - and Russia has documented evidence of this - undermines the unity of the anti-terrorist coalition," foreign minister Sergey Lavrov warned.

The first consequence of the events in Beslan has been to make Putin even more determined to reject out of hand any modification of his long-standing policy to refuse all dialogue with Chechen separatists.

Talking to a group of foreign journalists at his country house outside Moscow last week, he accused the West of double standards. "Why do you not meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks; ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?" he asked.

It was Putin’s first meeting with foreigners since the Beslan massacre, and was designed to signal to the world that Putin regards the military campaign in Chechnya as part of the war against international terrorism.

No one doubts that Putin genuinely shares the public dismay that is sweeping through Russia as a result of the horrendous denouement at Beslan. Moreover, his hardline rhetoric has resonance with ordinary Russians, most of whom are much more concerned about their personal security than in negotiating with the Chechens.

Russian public opinion hardened further last week when forensic examination of 10 of the bodies of the hostage-takers revealed that six were Chechen and four were from neighbouring Ingushetia - also a Muslim region.

But Putin’s tough talk also has a deeper purpose. Calling on all Russians to rally round their leader in this hour of need, as Putin did in a televised address to the nation last week, happens to dovetail perfectly in to his own long-term plan to concentrate political and economic power in his own hands.

Russia has endured a dozen major terrorist attacks in recent years, with massive loss of life. In the past two weeks alone, more than 400 people have been killed. As acts of terrorism have multiplied, so Putin’s political control has grown steadily.

Since he became president, Putin has sought to stamp out any challenges to his power by creating a pliant parliament, imposing new restrictions on regional governors and cracking down on independent TV stations. It has now reached the stage where public criticism of him is muted; just how far was revealed in the remarkable unwillingness of leading Russian politicians and bureaucrats to make any public statements about the Beslan siege.

Members of the Duma did not even break into their summer holidays to hold an emergency debate on the school crisis.

"Institutions have been dramatically weakened. Public politics is generally over in Russia, and this is the result of Putin’s rule," said Masha Lipman, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Centre.

"His consistent policy is not to have any political opposition inside."

Igor Bunin, director of the Moscow-based Centre for Political Technologies, added: "Our system has been transformed in to one that is more administrative than political. In this kind of system, everyone waits for the president to speak first in a crisis."

Putin is a political centralist, and ever since he came to power in 2000 he has systematically chipped away at the lax decentralised system that existed under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, though Putin himself describes his type of government as "controlled democracy", arguing that it is the only way in which a vast, disorganised country such as Russia can be run, there is ever more control and less democracy.

First up on Putin’s hitlist were Russia’s 89 regional governors, who exercised substantial autonomous powers. In his first year in office he had them removed from their seats in the Federation Council - the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.

At the same time he signed a decree carving Russia into seven enormous federal districts, each with its own governor general - all appointed by Putin. His distrust of regional élites has even extended to transferring the control of federal courts away from the regions to Moscow.

Though his United Russia party already holds a two-thirds majority in the lower house of the State Duma, Putin plans to cut the number of independent members. Half the members of the Duma are still chosen by constituencies, where independents find it easier to gain election. But the Kremlin wants to abolish constituency voting and have all members chosen by parties.

The consequence of these changes is that Putin has acquired enormous power of patronage throughout Russia. He used it ruthlessly during his campaign for re-election earlier this year, in which he won 71% of the vote. The election was condemned as unfair by international observers.

Then there is the media. Tight control of information is an important government tool in Russia once again, just as it was in the former Soviet Union.

A year after coming to power, Putin blatantly revoked the operating licences of several television stations without even the pretence of approval from the Duma.

All three major television networks are now run by the state, although they are offset somewhat by Russia’s newspapers and by lively internet channels.

Russian television was told to go easy on the grim footage from Beslan, while officials were understating the death toll and overstating the effectiveness of the special forces deployed to end the confrontation.

Soon after explosions and gunfire rocked the school, the main television channel shifted away from the scene of mayhem and broadcast a soap opera about Second World War spies. It was left to internet sites to offer fast-breaking first-hand accounts.

Putin has even jailed journalists with especially ‘dangerous’ views. In early 2000, journalist Andrei Babitsky of Radio Liberty, which is sponsored by the US, was arrested.

Babitsky had criticised the Russian government’s incursions into Chechen villages and its bombardment of Grozny. Russian authorities arrested and beat him, and he was held for several months.

Last week Raf Shakirov, the editor of Izvestia, was dismissed because his weekend edition ran a full front cover photograph of a man carrying a half-naked girl out of the school in Beslan. Inside the paper, the headline read: "The whole floor was strewn with the bodies of dead children."

The owner of the paper, the metals magnate Vladimir Potanin, prides himself on good relations with the Kremlin. Shakirov’s front page was at odds with official attempts to play down the horror at Beslan.

The dismissal is ominous because the Russian printed press has, until now, managed to maintain an element of freedom in its coverage, compared with the tightly controlled television.

Then there is the economy. The arrest and trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, head of Russia’s biggest oil conglomerate, Yukos, is designed to warn Russia’s other wealthy oligarchs that Putin will not tolerate their funding of opposition parties, as Khodorkovsky did.

The Khodorkovsky case smacks of hypocrisy. Tax evasion is a massive problem for Russia. But the legal loopholes exploited by Yukos were exactly the same as those used by many other companies, whose officials have not been prosecuted because they have done nothing to upset Putin. The courts even rejected 11 offers by the company to pay up, demonstrating that the government is not interested in collecting the money but in seizing the company’s assets.

The cost to investor confidence in Russia has already been enormous, and foreign investors are taking flight. Yukos produces 2% of the world’s oil, putting it level with Kuwait. Yet Russia, the third biggest oil producer in the world, is haemorrhaging funds at a time when the oil price has been at a record high.

There is also a disturbing expansion of the influence of the security services. Security service personnel, including Putin’s old chums from his days as a KGB officer, are now being given key positions in industry - a move which could spell disaster for the Russian economy, according to many observers.

"Putin’s power base consists of secret service officers and state enterprise managers - groups known for corruption and secrecy rather than market reform and transparency," says Anders Aslund, director of the Russian and Eurasian Programme at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Russia has become structurally similar to Latin America."

"This shift back to state control is a real threat to the Russian economy because all the big success stories in recent years are to be found in the flourishing private sector, while the state is patently failing.

"Far from reforming the secret police and the state monopoly companies, Putin has made them the basis of his regime. Privatisation has all but stalled."

Source: Scotsman

The Muslim fighters must return to the ideas of Islam for any success in this world and in the hereafter. If Shamyl Basayev violates Islamic regulations and the norms which are stated in the Islamic belief system then he is not a good muslim leader for the Chechen people. No one is above Islamic Law! No one !

FROM: Imam Bukhari's Sahih Bukhari

Volume 9, Book 89, Number 259:
Narrated 'Ali:

The Prophet sent an army unit (for some campaign) and appointed a man from the Ansar as its commander and ordered them (the soldiers) to obey him. (During the campaign) he became angry with them and said, "Didn't the Prophet order you to obey me?" They said, "Yes." He said, "I order you to collect wood and make a fire and then throw yourselves into it." So they collected wood and made a fire, but when they were about to throw themselves into, it they started looking at each other, and some of them said, "We followed the Prophet to escape from the fire. How should we enter it now?" So while they were in that state, the fire extinguished and their commander's anger abated. The event was mentioned to the Prophet and he said, "If they had entered it (the fire) they would never have come out of it, for obedience is required only in what is good." (See Hadith No. 629. Vol. 5)