IMRA (www.imra.org.il) publishes the FBIS reports of Friday Sermons throughout Araby: The Sanaa (Yemeni) Television in Arabic, official television station of the Republic of Yemen, carried the live sermon from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa.After Shaykh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi delivers the sermon, the imam concluded with a prayer to God for mercy and general wellbeing. He prayed: "O God, support whoever supports religion, humble whoever humbles Muslims, and give success and mercy to the nation of Muhammad." He also prayed: "O God, give victory to our brother mujahidin in Palestine and everywhere. O God, make them steadfast and strengthen their hearts." He went on: "O God, deal with the Jews and their supporters and the Christians and their supporters. Shake the land under their feet, instill fear in their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins. O God, deal with them for they are within your power. Turn fate against them, lower their flags, divide their ranks, and disperse their assemblies. O God, we ask you to deal with them and spare us their evil. O God, make fate turn against them." Riyadh TV1 in Arabic, official television station of the Saudi Government, carried the llive sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca.After Shaykh Usamah al-Khayyat delivered the sermon, the imam concluded with a prayer to God to support Islam and Muslims, destroy the enemies of religion, unify Muslims, and guide their rulers. He prays for the triumph of mujahidin in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya. He also prayed: "O God, deal with the oppressive Jews, as they are within your power, and spare us their evil. O God, whoever wishes us and Muslims evil, keep him preoccupied with himself and make plans destroy him." Finally, he prayed to God to protect this and other Muslim countries from the evil of sedition. From Damascus, Arab Republic Radio in Arabic, official station of the Syrian Government, carried on 11 October 2002 the live sermon from Al-Zahra Mosque in Damascus.After Shaykh Dr. Muhammad al-Habash delivered the sermon....the imam said: "There is a need today to speak about jihad. Islam is the religion of tolerance, mercy, and love. But, it is also the religion of justice and jihad, and peace and
power. It is not sound to imagine that the arrogant on earth have suddenly
turned meek and that we could stop Zionist designs against Palestine with
wisdom and good word. The tyranny that the Zionists practice daily on the
land of Palestine, calls upon us to resurrect the message of jihad." God
ordained jihad so this nation would repulse oppression, establish justice,
and deal with life with realism and rationalism, he said, adding: There must
be force to protect justice and deter oppression. "But, this jihad, which God has ordained as a means to achieve justice on earth," the imam said, "is being distorted in Western circles. They confuse terrorism with the right to legitimate resistance. The arrogant on earth are vying with one another in describing jihad as a form of aggression. Unfortunately, some erroneous Muslim concepts contribute to spreading this wrong image of jihad."The imam addressed President Bashar al-Asad, saying Arabs and Muslims "await a new October." This is the people's hope, he said, while they witness Zionist atrocities in Khan Yunus, Ramallah, Rafah, and Janin. "The only language that can change the attitude of this arrogant tyrant and war criminal, who is committing murder daily, is jihad as ordained by Allah and offered to us by the October War," he adds. The imam went on: "The Zionist lobby today is leading the United States, the master of the world, to an all-out confrontation with the Islamic World. The United States speaks like a great power to the world, but turns into a lowly agent for the Zionists when the matter concerns the designs of the Zionist lobby. The US Congress approved a law recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the Hebrew state thereby flouting all international laws."
power. It is not sound to imagine that the arrogant on earth have suddenly
turned meek and that we could stop Zionist designs against Palestine with
wisdom and good word. The tyranny that the Zionists practice daily on the
land of Palestine, calls upon us to resurrect the message of jihad." God
ordained jihad so this nation would repulse oppression, establish justice,
and deal with life with realism and rationalism, he said, adding: There must
be force to protect justice and deter oppression. "But, this jihad, which God has ordained as a means to achieve justice on earth," the imam said, "is being distorted in Western circles. They confuse terrorism with the right to legitimate resistance. The arrogant on earth are vying with one another in describing jihad as a form of aggression. Unfortunately, some erroneous Muslim concepts contribute to spreading this wrong image of jihad."The imam addressed President Bashar al-Asad, saying Arabs and Muslims "await a new October." This is the people's hope, he said, while they witness Zionist atrocities in Khan Yunus, Ramallah, Rafah, and Janin. "The only language that can change the attitude of this arrogant tyrant and war criminal, who is committing murder daily, is jihad as ordained by Allah and offered to us by the October War," he adds. The imam went on: "The Zionist lobby today is leading the United States, the master of the world, to an all-out confrontation with the Islamic World. The United States speaks like a great power to the world, but turns into a lowly agent for the Zionists when the matter concerns the designs of the Zionist lobby. The US Congress approved a law recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the Hebrew state thereby flouting all international laws."