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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

https://youtu.be/vAWR7QjR85g

>The popular Jihad movement with its long path of effort, great sacrifice and serious losses, purifies souls so that they tower above the lower material world. Important matters rise above petty disputes about money, short-term desires and inferior provisions. Malice disappears and souls are sharpened; and the caravan moves on up from the foot of the mountain to the lofty summit, far away from the stench of clay and the struggles of the low ground. Along the path of Jihad, the leadership is categorized. Abilities become manifest from the offerings and sacrifices, and men come forth with bravery and service.

>Do not think glory to be a wine-skin and songstress,
>For glory can come only through war and severe fighting.

Abdullah Azzam (pic related, his first name is in Arabic), from one of his short work on the subject of jihad, “Join the Caravan”. He continues,

>The nature of societies is precisely that of water. In stagnant water, water moss and decayed matter float on the surface, whereas flowing water will not carry scum on its surface. Similarly, the leadership of a stagnant society cannot fulfil its responsibility because leadership emerges only through movement, sacrifice, service and offering.

Lecture on his life
https://ia800703.us.archive.org/34/items/HeroesOfIslam/CD10ShaykhAbdullahAzzam.mp3

Pastebin of Islamic resources
https://pastebin.com/CKbsaqE0

What Abdullah Azzam is saying is built on a long tradition of jihadist metaphysics articulated in depth by
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