
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
O Allah! Confer Your salat and blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad as You conferred Your salat and blessings upon Ibrahim and the Family of Ibrahim. You are Owner of Praise, Owner of Glory! And be pleased with Muhammad's good companions and all Your righteous servants and mujahidin.
O Allah! Guide us and grant us acceptance, for You are the Hearing, the Knowing; accept our repentance, for You are the Relenting and the Merciful.
Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Before we begin our lecture, we would like to emphasise two important points:
The first point relates to the set time frame for delivering aid to the Gaza Strip. We stand firm in our position, and the armed forces stand ready to begin carrying out operations, which will take effect as soon as the deadline expires, should the aid not reach the Gaza Strip. We stress that it is the responsibility of everyone (all Arabs, all Arab regimes, and the entire Islamic world) to work towards delivering aid to the Gaza Strip and to exert pressure to make this happen. Although we know that many of them are not paying attention to this issue at all, but this is all about reminding them of their responsibility and making our case clear since this is the responsibility of everyone.
The second point is about what is happening in Syria, where takfiri groups are committing acts of genocide against unarmed, peaceful civilians on the Syrian coast. What has happened and is happening is a horrific crime that must be condemned and denounced, and efforts should be made to stop it. It is unacceptable to justify it, cover it up, or downplay its scale or severity; it is an extremely dreadful situation. Reports indicate that the victims of these heinous crimes, who are unarmed, peaceful civilians, number in the thousands, not just in the hundreds!
These crimes practised by the takfiri groups against peaceful, unarmed civilians on the Syrian coast reveal the true nature of these groups—just as their past crimes have. They also show that they are following in the footsteps of the Zionist Jews. This criminal practice of killing peaceful, unarmed civilians, including women and children, has nothing to do with Islam.
Islam is completely innocent of such acts in its principles, its law, its methods, and in the teachings of Allah and His Messenger (PBUH&F). Such actions are religiously forbidden and constitute pure criminality in every sense of the word. They are nothing more than the product of a Jewish and Zionist training and planning. They possess a criminal mentality and follow a criminal approach, as they embrace a philosophy that permits such horrendous crimes.
It is not different from the notorious, well-known Zionist pattern of behaviour. At the same time, this serves America and Israel, for it, as we mentioned yesterday, fits within the framework of the Israeli plan to tear apart the social fabric of Syria, pushing the Syrian people to seek protection from others in exchange for accepting occupation.
The Kurds, as we said yesterday, enjoy American protection and support, placing them in a strong position, while the Druze there enjoy Israeli protection. All Syrian citizens, regardless of their affiliations, should be protected by their state. There must be a state that protects everyone, primarily its peaceful, unarmed citizens. Therefore, what is happening is essentially a service to America and a clear, overt service to the Israelis.
The official Arab stance has been shameful, as usual, much like the situation regarding Palestine and any injustice faced by Arab peoples. There is no hope at all for any honourable position by the Arab regimes; their positions to the issues affecting the peoples of our Ummah are consistently disgraceful and a source of shame. They do not represent any hope for these peoples.The regional sponsors share responsibility for this crime and are striving to justify what is happening, downplaying its scale and horror. Despite the enormity of the events and the extremely grave and terrible crimes taking place, we can see that their media tries to cover that up and ignores the grievous scenes of horrific crimes against hundreds of Syrian people. There are clear and blatant crimes captured in videos showing these extremist groups carrying out executions of unarmed civilians, killing them brutally in the streets, in villages, and in orchards across various regions. They kill people in their homes, at their doorsteps, in their shops, and in the streets. However, the media affiliated with the regional sponsors of these takfiri groups attempts to cover up what is happening, ignoring it and downplaying it significantly. They even portray the situation as if there were operations targeting what they call 'remnants of the Syrian regime', with some individual incidents. This is a crime in itself—covering up such extreme atrocities and genocide is a crime and a blatant denial of the clear and known truths.
Therefore, I advise all the peoples of our Ummah not to rely on the media affiliated with the regional sponsors of these takfiri groups when it comes to what is happening in Syria. They are involved in these crimes, seeking to cover up and justify them. The scenes are clear and truly horrifying. Serious crimes have been committed. Just in a matter of days, how many people have these takfiri groups killed? These are not individual incidents, for individual incidents usually involve limited occurrences by a few individuals. However, the videos show these groups collectively carrying out mass executions of people, and this has continued for days. The regional sponsors of these takfiri groups could have contacted them or directed their representatives, the supervisors over these groups in Syria, to halt that. But, as it appears, they did not act, allowing the criminality to persist at an increasingly horrific and collective pace over these days.
This is the truth, and it must be made clear. The criminal conduct and the behavioural pattern these groups adopt from the Zionists—which reveal their deep connection to them and their criminal approach—must be exposed to the peoples of our Ummah. Wherever these groups may be, they follow the same approach and show such a level of criminality.
Therefore, satellite channels that aim to convey the truth to people should make an effort to present the real picture to the peoples of our Ummah. They should show those horrific scenes so that everyone can understand who these groups are and recognise the wrongdoing of those who cover up or justify these crimes or attempt to downplay their severity. The scenes can reveal the truth to all people.
This is a deliberate criminal behaviour exhibited by these groups, which is not merely individual actions but rather a collective and systematic approach, carried out openly in broad daylight. They even record themselves as they boast about it—some boast while driving in tanks, among them those who claim affiliation with what they call public security or identify with the so-called army there. They use some new terms; however, such new terms cannot change the reality of those criminal takfiri groups.
This is for the record, and it is essential for everyone to take a clear position against these crimes, to disassociate from them, and to also exert pressure to stop them. These are truly horrific, brutal, and repugnant crimes in every sense of the word.