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THE TRANSLATED TEXT OF THE WARNING AND STATEMENT

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1. (U) What follows is post's Arabic translation of the
"Warning and Statement" published by 61 Saudi conservative
religious scholars as discussed in septel.


2. (U) BEGIN TRANSLATED TEXT:

Statement addressed to the Rulers in the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
The statement was posted on: http://www.islamlight.net
Dated: May 23, 2006



Statement and Warning

Praise be to Allah the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds
and there is no aggression except on the unjust and prayer
and peace be upon the seal of the Prophets and Messengers and
upon his companions, followers and all who follow them till
the Day of Judgment:

It is a duty to give advice to the rulers and to the nation
and it is a necessity of our zealously for the religion and
virtue. It is the duty placed by God on the scholars in
Saying:

&And remember Allah took a Covenant from the People of the
Book, to make it known and clear to mankind, and not to hide
it; but they threw it away behind their backs, and purchased
with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they
made!8 (Al-Omran ) Aya 187)

We warn the nation from a gang known for its deviant western
orientation that was able to affect decision making in the
county and to take over some of its departments that have a
big influence on the identity of the society and its future.

This in addition to the pressures and foreign cunning that
our country is subjected to. This gang has become an eye and
ear and tool for this foreign enemy using its support and
executing its plans.

The danger of this gang is great on society. It is launching
a war against morality, distorting the Islamic values and
changing its identity. It eagerly seeks to drain sources of
goodness and to drag the county into deviation, aversion from
religion by sizing down Islamic bodies and shrinking
religious curricula in official and national educational
establishments.

We warn from this gang and its plans and we point to the
following points:

(1) It is God,s will that this peninsula be the fortress
of Islam. We are talking about Islam that has been chosen
for us by God as a method and way of life and as it was

understood by the previous chosen centuries and those who
followed them. Among them are the Islamic Sharia scholars
who were the pillars for the establishment of this state and
bases of its legitimacy. It is the religion prevailing in
all aspects of life. It is not the religion that this gang
wants according to their whims and devious desires. The
nation; rulers and ruled are responsible for protecting the
Islamic Sharia.

The attempts of this gang to weaken the religious legitimacy
of this country through their positions and newspapers in
order to weaken it will fail by God,s will because they will
find a vigilant nation aware of their plans.

(2) The reform desired can only be achieved by adhering to
the Sharia rules and teachings. It would not happen by the
devious propaganda called for by those who are corrupting our
society. God Almighty described such group in the Quran:

&When it is said to them: Make not mischief on the earth,
they say: Why, we only want to make peace! Of a surety,
they are the ones who make mischief, but they realize it
not.8 (Al-Baqara ) Aya 11&12)

Opening up to all that is of a benefit to people is an
objective of every one who is sincere to this country.
Developing and advancing the country as well as speeding up
solving its problems is a religious duty. This however would
not happen by slipping away from the rules of Islamic Sharia
and virtues and by rushing to transform the society into an
image of the decedent societies. This is what is desired for

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by the minds of this malicious gang and their ill souls.

(3) Let those hypocrites know that their plans are obvious
and their agenda is watched and if they have the power for a
short time the end result is for the pious. God Al Mighty
Said:

&And soon will the unjust assailants know what vicissitudes
their affairs will take.8 (Al-Shu,ara ) Aya 227)

It is God,s grace that their westernization plan is refused
by all the society because it is a society where good win
over the bad and loves virtues. This society has proved -
with God,s help ) its capability to abort such projects
because it wants Islam but rejects any thing else.

It is a vigilance society conscious of these plans no matter
how much they employed the media of newspapers and satellite
channels, no matter how many ill souls writers they employed
for their blatant westernization project, no matter how much
they try to defame scholars and judges in front of the ruler
and no matter how much they hide from the ruler reform
letters sent by scholars.

This gang is a small group most of them live in a state of
isolation and exile from their society. Nevertheless, they
talk on behalf of the majority and on behalf of the society
because they managed to be in certain key positions to take
revenge at the identity of a religious society that hates
them and reject them and had aborted their plans and dropped
their flags over the past decades.

(4) Since Women have great effect on society they exerted
wicked efforts to westernize them under blatant deceitful
slogans of women rights and liberation from restriction and
development. They cried over their current situation in
order to influence them emotionally then to lead them behind
their false mirage. Unfortunately some women were cheated
and they are being used as tools to execute their plans.
Unfortunately those who assumed this destructive role are
bodies and dignitaries from our homeland. They made their
objective the execution of wicked westernization plan. One
time under the pretext of expansion of women's work and
another time under the pretext of empowering women or solving
the problem of unemployment. They forgot the Islamic rules
for women's work in the society and called for normalizing
mixing between men and women. They, on the other hand,
didn,t make much effort to solve the problem of unemployment
for male youth which is the concern of all nations.

Decision makers ignored all norms relating to women privacy
in this country and her special position and treatment in
Islamic Sharia.

Their negligence reached the point where they canceled item
(160) of the new Labor law prohibiting mixed workplace and
all other previous decision and circulars in this regard
among them circular of the Minister of Interior (Former head
of Man Power) number k/8721 dated 1/2/1423. Which stated
that women work is approved according to certain conditions?
If this circular was our reference with relation to women
work it would have saved us much evils.

Their wickedness reached encouraging every female deviant
from the Islamic Sharia by praising her and presenting her as
an example for other women as well as supporting her
financially and morally.

The vile novel &Girls of Riyadh8 is an example of this
behavior. The person who introduced this novel is a
dignitary who is in a political and educational responsible
position. He praised the novel and the writer and encouraged
her to continue her work disdaining and challenging in this
act the Islamic values and norms of this county.

(5) Since media and its culprits have an effect in building
or destroying they took a very strong hold of it. Their
point of view becomes the only one expressed except in rare
cases. Our media become now in the hands of this gang and no
one else expresses the opinion of society or represents its
identity. They ignored the media policy of the county. The
media became controlled by the desires of the deviants
without any law or control.

They presented in the visual and written media what
contradicts all that has been anonymously agreed upon by
Muslims in all decades; calling people to discords and

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stirring their desires. The media during their time doesn,t
any more represent the media in the country of the holy
mosques and the country of scholars and monotheism. It
doesn,t represent any more the rulers over the different
stages of history. God Al Mighty Said:

&Allah will certainly aid those who aid his cause ) for
verily Allah is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might, able to
enforce His Will. They are those who, if we establish them
in the land, establish regular prayer, and give regular
charity, enjoin the right and forbid wrong. With Allah rests
the end and decision of all affairs.8 (Al-Hajj ) Aya 40&41)

(6) They follow the way of the hypocrites of raising
deceiving slogans for media marketing when they are the most
against them; they call for nationalism when they are the
least patriotic and most deceiving for sons of the country.
They have contacts with foreign embassies and foreign media
agencies. They correspond with them and send them reports
about curricula, women and defame scholars and describe them
as encouraging terrorism. They exploit the sensitivity of
the country to foreign criticism. They invest these reports
in the foreign media to threaten the country and its rulers
from continuing the Islamic life style. Their ways are overt
and very clear and every body in our society is aware of the
danger of the practices of this gang.

They call for respecting the opinion of the other and they
call for dialogue when they are the most who dismiss the
other. A perfect example of this is how they dismissed good
elements from the educational program of the first book fair
that took place in Riyadh in 2006 and before that the
conference of Saudi Intellectuals. They also practiced this
in newspapers where they publish their opinions and dismiss
others.

If you give them the other opinion they raise hell and they
slander those with the other opinion in their newspapers with
terms that harbor hatred, violence and narrowness of mind.
Opposite to what they claim.

(7) In imitation of the Quranic style, we will mention some
of their descriptions and sayings without specifying them by
their names;

Some of them say words that express infidelity and insist on
them. They promote indecency in their poems and novels.

Some others reveal infidelity, atheism and call blatantly for
secularism.

Others have set up satellite channels to destroy the values
of the society.

Most of those were raised in communist and atheist
nationalist factions.

Some of them officials in responsible positions while others
control newspapers and they work on defaming every religious
department in the country.

Some are corrupt companions of the officials.

Some are advisors who do not advise of any good

They are a gang rebellious on the identity of the society and
its source of strength )God Al Mighty said:

&And others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah
doth know.8 (Al-Anfal ) Aya 60)

They are the gang of hypocrisy in our society, what should we
expect from them? God Al-Mighty Warned us against such
people:

&They are the enemies; so beware of them. The curse of
Allah be on them! How they are deluded (away from the
Truth).8 (Al-Munafeqoon ) Aya 4)

God Al-Mighty described who carry out such acts Saying:

&Hast thou not turned they vision to those who have changed
the favour of Allah into blasphemy and caused their people to
descend to the House of Perdition?8 (Ibrahim ) Aya 28)

God ordered His Prophet Mohammad Peace be Upon him ) Which
is an order to every ruler of Muslims Saying:

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&Prophet! Strive hard against the unbelievers and the
hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell )
an evil refuge.8 (Al-Tahrim ) Aya 9)

They are the messengers of the unbelievers. Whomever betrays
God and his Prophet will betray any one else.

Fight them and kill them if they don,t return from following
the path of the devil and dealing with God,s enemies.

(8) At the end of this statement we remind of the following:


1) The duty of the rulers in this blessed country is great
) may God Guide them to all good.God has honored them of
ruling this country that has a great esteem in the hearts of
all Muslims and it should be an exemplary to all Muslims.
The nation in general and people who seeks reform in
particular expect the rulers to stand firmly in the face of
these intellectual corrupt currents that will lead the
country and people to evil. We expect them to dismiss any
one who is stained in his religion or loyalty who has proved
along the days the deviance of his orientation and his
misguided affiliation. We expect the rulers to dismiss such
figures from positions of responsibility and to keep them
away from pulpits of the media and guidance.

2) The responsibility of the Islamic scholars is great.
They have the duty to warn and explain and to promote virtue
and to prevent vice whether those of them who have positions
or not. They should advise the rulers and call all people to
what is good for the nation and people and to warn them
against expected evils since their sayings and speeches has
great effect on putting obstacle in the face of the
hypocrites, project.

3) We call all the society to reveal the plan of this gang
and to be ware of this westernization project and from being
cheated by it. It starts with nice misleading slogans )
wisdom should be gathered from the experience of many of the
Muslim societies where they were lenient at the beginning but
become later incapable of stopping this sweeping flood.

4) Those hypocrites are not forwarding a beneficial
project for this country because they only have projects
based on dismissing religion and spreading evil in the lands
as well as riding the carriage of the enemies. In turn
Muslims in this country know that there is no peace or
stability or reform except by applying Islam and its method
of life and they insist on this. This is the project of
Muslims that they call for all the time and call all the
world for it because it is a religion for the whole world.
God Al-Mighty Said to Prophet Mohammad:

&We sent thou not, but as a mercy for all creatures.8
(Al-Anbiya ) Aya 107)

5) Finally we call this gang deviating from the straight
path and all those who follow their steps and were mislead by
them to repent to God and return to what pleases Him and to
cooperate with those who want goodness for this county and
want its development on bases of a firm Islamic Sharia. We
remind them that our breath is counted and every thing comes
to an end.

May God guide this nation to the straight path where the
righteous are powerful and the disobedient are humiliated and
where virtue is promoted and vice is prevented. You hear our
prayers, make Your religion victorious and raise Your word
and keep this country in prosperity, peace and security as
well as all Muslim nations.

3.(U) END TRANSLATED TEXT.





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