# Al-Qaeda’s Pledge to the Islamic State of Iraq

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117507347937427503
- Source account: [@obid260](https://x.com/obid260)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 2026-11-05
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq) They said the sayings of the sheikhs, but the successors paid no heed to the Criterion.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=7) I had sent him, may God have mercy on him, a letter in Jumada al-Awwal, in the year 1435 AH.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=15) In it, I wrote: I know how grieved you are by what is happening in Syria, and by the outbreak of blind strife there, and the disregard for the sacred limits of Islamic law, and the denial of established facts, such as the State's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda, and the deception surrounding it.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=31) They said the sayings of the sheikhs, but the successors paid no heed to the Criterion.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=39) Al-Qaeda is but one faction among the factions of the Islamic State.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=42) And al-Qaeda's emir, al-Muhajir, publicly declared his pledge, and his hearing and obedience to this humble servant.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=50) The organization was officially dissolved in favor of the Islamic State.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=53) The organization was officially dissolved in favor of the Islamic State.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=57) The organization was officially dissolved in favor of the Islamic State.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=61) The Islamic State of Iraq. And since the time has come for honesty and decisiveness, I say to the virtuous sheikh, the courageous scion, of Hashemite, Qurayshi, Husayni lineage, Commander of the Faithful, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi:

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=78) I pledge allegiance to you to hear and obey, in hardship and ease, in vigor and adversity, and even when others are given preference over us, And that we not dispute authority with its rightful holders, and that we speak the truth wherever we may be,

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=95) fearing no one's blame for God's sake, declaring the dissolution of all the groups we established, including the Mujahideen Shura Council, and on behalf of my brothers on the council, under the authority of the Islamic State of Iraq.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=112) The al- Qaeda Jihad group, with all its branches, including its branch in Iraq.

[1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=116) The Islamic State of Iraq. All of them are required to break their pledge of allegiance to their emir, al-Baghdadi, and those with him.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=122) Al-Qaeda is only one faction among the factions of the Islamic State.

[2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=126) First, I would like to clarify that there is nothing in Iraq now called al-Qaeda, but the Jihad Base Organization in Mesopotamia has, by God's grace, merged with other jihadist groups into the Islamic State of Iraq, may God preserve it.

[2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=141) I praise and thank God for enabling His soldiers to take this blessed step, whose first fruits were the joining of more than thirteen factions and groups of jihadists under one banner, following their auspicious announcement in the Alliance of the Perfumed.

[2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=162) The second question: If there were two Islamic emirates Or are there two caliphates, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, so are they two separate states?

[2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=172) Or are they under the rule of a single ruler?

[2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=176) More precisely, do the roles of Mullah Mohammed Omar or Sheikh Omar al-Baghdadi or Sheikh Osama bin Laden differ?

[3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=185) And what is the relationship between their roles?

[3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=187) My answer is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Add to them the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus Islamic emirates that do not answer to a single ruler They do not answer to a single ruler They do not answer to a single ruler.

[3:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=198) They told him, “You opposed the sayings of the sheikhs,” yet the successor paid no heed to the Criterion.

[3:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/llZH5sREfKU6/en/al-qaeda-s-pledge-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq?t=205) “You opposed the sayings of the sheikhs,” but you opposed the one who brought the Quran.