Advice to Ahmed al-Sharaa on Reports of Syrian Forces Being Sent to Yemen

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. And blessings and peace be upon the master of the first and the last, our Prophet Muhammad.

And upon all his family and companions. To proceed.

On the authority of Tamim al-Dari, may God be pleased with him, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Religion is sincere counsel.”

We asked, “To whom, O Messenger of God?”

He said, “To God, His Book, His Messenger, the leaders of the Muslims, and the Muslim public.”

Narrated by Muslim. In light of this, I offer this advice to our brother, Abu Muhammad al- Julani, Syrian President Ahmed al- Sharaa, about reports that he is sending his forces to Yemen or to the Saudi- Yemeni border.

First, Abu Muhammad, you are a man who fought the Americans in Iraq and the Russians in Syria.

That is a great history. These are the greatest countries on earth.

America and Russia are the largest countries in the world today.

And you have the honor of having fought them.

So, my dear brother, you must not end your life fighting your Muslim brothers in Yemen, in a battle in Yemen in which you have no stake.

And just as you Syrian brothers were upset when some factions came To fight you in Syria.

It's perfectly natural that your going to Yemen would have the same result.

People will be upset by your intervention in Yemen.

Second, Wouldn't it be better, my dear brother, to fight the Zionist entity in Daraa, on Mount Hermon and in Syrian territory?

Those who, I mean, are urging you into this war, by God, don't love you.

We appreciate your position, and we know with certainty that you stayed away from wars, and you even apologized for not fighting in Lebanon, against Hezbollah, even though they fought you in Syria, and repeatedly apologized for not fighting in Yemen,

But I don't know who engineered this, perhaps.

I'm saying perhaps the Turkish brothers are the architects of this idea, because they see the foreign fighters you have as adherents of extremist Wahhabi thought, and they are on the Syrian-Turkish border.

And Turkey, my dear brother, doesn't like Wahhabism or even Saudi Arabia, and they see Wahhabism as an enemy.

It fought the Ottoman state, declared the Ottomans infidels, and claimed they were polytheists.

At that stage, some young men from the Ikhwan of Ta'at Allah were deceived.

British intelligence and others used them.

And so, young people are used at every stage.

Even we can be deceived. We never claim at all that we are, so to speak, infallible.

But a believer isn't bitten twice by the same snake, Brother Ahmed.

I mean, this Saudi regime sent young men to Afghanistan.

They went with the Americans in those days.

They went with Sheikh Osama bin Laden, a sincere man, true to his intentions, then they called him an infidel, cursed him, and issued fatwas against him, until he developed ideas that were somewhat similar, meaning extremist.

He began fighting them and calling them infidels too.

They drove him to the brink, even though he was moderate, though we disagree with him, but the man was sincere in his jihad in Afghanistan.

So who… who pushed him to that point? As for the young men who went to Afghanistan, they classified them, imprisoned them, and killed them.

If these groups are sent to the Syrian-Yemeni border, of course, they won't act as the Saudis want, nor the Turks, nor you.

They'll establish an Islamic emirate on the Syrian border, along the Saudi- Yemeni border.

Because they also have reservations about the Saudi regime and see it as a tyrannical regime.

Then the Saudi air force will take off and strike them.

They'll curse them and declare them infidels.

And these are your brothers. These are your reinforcements and support, the ones who took you to Damascus.

You'd be better off integrating them into society and fostering moderation.

You and the Turkish brothers should devise a plan for moderation.

That would be better than getting rid of them and thinking they'll go to the Yemeni border and accomplish something.

First, if you were a breeze, you faced a hurricane.

If you send these fighters to Yemen, God forbid, they'll be a formidable force.

We fought them. We know them well.

And if you were a breeze, you faced a hurricane.

None of them will return if they intervene in Yemen.

And if they establish an Islamic emirate along the Saudi- Yemeni border, they'll cause you a problem.

They'll also cause you problems with the international community and hold you responsible.

So, the one who wants you to go with these forces To the Saudi- Yemeni border, or get involved in the Yemeni file, and they'll get you into trouble.

I know no one has gone that far, but get a grip on yourself. I swear, they don't love you.

Even the amount they signed with you for, I think it was seventy million dollars.

This is a crime, brother, I swear. A crime, a crime, brother. This damned Saudi is signing with a soccer player for seventy million dollars.

A country like Syria, Syria's size—no, not Syria.

But these people… They give the Frenchman four billion, ten billion.

And they don't give Trump a trillion. And they give you seventy million dollars.

Even though Syria needs hundreds of billions, which should be given unconditionally.

These are Arabs and Muslims, and the Syrians are their brothers.

But these people are tools of the West. Mr. Mohammad. Brother Ahmad.

Anyway, this is advice from a brother, I swear.

If it has to be done, if it has to be done, if it has to be done to get rid of these young men, especially those who are from East Asia, or Chechnya, or the Caucasus, or those who are there, then make them fight the Zionist.

This is an honor for you in this world and the Hereafter.

Let them fight the Zionists on Mount Hermon, or wherever they threaten Syrian water, or now they control Syria’s water source, in Daraa and elsewhere. This is an honor for you.

But bringing them to the Yemeni border— believe me, you’re caught between two problems: either you fight alongside these people.

Of course, these are our people. Look, they don’t— some of them don’t portray them as polytheists or Zoroastrians.

By God, they don’t say, “O Ali,” or “O Hasan,” or “O Husayn.”

By God, they only say, “O God.” By God, we haven’t heard them say anything polytheistic.

You’re lying and making things up. Whenever they win somewhere, they say, “O Lord, praise be to You. O Lord, praise be to You.”

We’ve never heard them say, “O Ali, praise be to You,” or, “O Husayn, praise be to You.”

That is the testimony you heard. Even though we disagree with them and fought them, don’t let them portray them to you through the false, vile image that the intelligence services paint to lure you into this trap.

By God, we want nothing but good for you, our young people, and your young people, and for our country and yours.

And Syria today, I mean, is emerging from the ruins.

These cowards and scoundrels should be helping her not making it conditional on you doing anything but al- Razzaq.

And God is the Strong, the Mighty. May God grant you and all of us success in doing what He loves and is pleased with.

Peace be upon you, and God's mercy and blessings.