Sheik Umar message

Sheikh Umar Abdur-Rahman's Message to the Muslim Ummah



Sheikh Omar's lonely cry from the dungeon of humiliation in 'free' America
(Moderater Note: (by Allaah) this letter is no fake, i have seen a brother read
a photo copy of the original and a translation of this letter on paper, just to
understand the kind of Alim(scholar) we are speaking about he is known as one of
the few mufasireen(commentater of the Quran) in this modern day, his tafseer of
surah thawbah(9) consists of 4000 pages not Words PAGES....SubhanAllaah)

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind scholar, incarcerated in the Springfield
Centre (Missouri), sent out the following letter from prison.

Its contents are shocking and humiliating for all Muslims. We reproduce it below
so that the world would know what the Americans are doing to a respected Muslim
alim.

'In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.' 'All praise be to Allah,
the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessing be upon the master of the
messengers, Prophet Muhammad. Blessing and peace be upon his family, his
companions and those who follow him faithfully until the Day of Judgement....'

'The conditions in the prison (where I am kept) are very bad and extremely poor.
This can be seen from the following:

'1. What they claim about freedom of religion and freedom of worship is
all-false. I have not been allowed to pray Juma (Friday) prayers, or even pray
in congregation since I arrived at the prison in October 1995.

'2. There is prejudice and discrimination in the their treatment in prison. When
other prisoners call for the guards, they hurry to respond. I keep knocking on
my cell door for hours but nobody responds to my needs.

'3. I go for months without my hair and nails cut; similarly I have to wash my
underwear myself.

'4. I am kept in solitary confinement, in my situation (sheikh Omar is blind,
suffers from diabetes and is advanced in age) without anyone to help me arrange
my belongings. I have no one to converse with day or night, nor am I allowed to
socialise with others since there is no one close to my cell, neither Muslim nor
anyone else who can speak Arabic (Remember, Sheikh Omar can only speak Arabic).
I stay like that day and night. What loneliness, what cruelty?

By doing this they want to make me terminally ill to exact revenge because I am
a Muslim. Are these the human rights they boast about so much and fill the
airwaves and new media while persecuting us so that we are unable to speak or
raise our voice?

5) Have you heard of the strip searches and exposure of the private parts, and
stripping people of all their outer and inner garments so that they are naked as
the day they were born? By Allah, this occurs to me every time a friend or
family member visits me (Although I have no relative in America, all Muslims are
my family).

Every visit means I have to strip twice. They order me to remove all my clothes,
and I swish this was the end of it. Instead, the chief prison guard, named
Curling, with another man named Day and several other guards order me to open my
thighs and bend forward. And then, like beasts- I can not really say it out of
shyness and shame, but I will say it to relieve the pressure on myself and to
let the Muslim Ummah live up to its duties and responsibilities towards its
religion-they search my private parts intimately while they stand around
watching and laughing.

Groups of guards race around to take turns in looking inside my private parts
while I am in this bent position. The one who spends the longest time looking
and inspecting is considered to have done the best job.

They humiliate and degrade me in this manner because I am Muslim and what they
do is expressly forbidden by Allah. And shy should they not do this? They have
found their prey and achieved their goal. What are they looking for in my
private parts? Are they looking for weapons, explosives or drugs that I have
taken from the prison cell to my visitor or from my visitor to my cell? They do
this twice to me on each visit so that I melt from shame and embarrassment and
wish that the earth would open up and swallow me rather than they do this to me.

Does this please those who protect their religion and honour?

'O People of manliness and brotherhood. O People that save and fulfil. O People
of sacrifice and dignity. O Men of Allah! Rise from your deep slumber.

Rise up with your resounding voices be heard in every place., loudly without
rear. Rise up,

'O Men of Allah and like one body, show the truth and negate the evil. 'And
don't give in to those who aggress lest the fire take hold of you.'

'Prisons are for Scholars or criminals to sleep in? Death has surrounded my
Ummah. Say Allahu Akbar and tell death to live!
'Who will wake up a nation that builds its nest on the winds, its feelings
numbed and shows no reaction to plots? It is lost if its scholars fill up the
cells like sheep.

Aren't there courageous men who fear Allah? Aren't there strong words to throw
the evil and shrink it? ALLAHU AKBAR' Rise up as one!

Do not fear loss of income.'