In The Name Of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

I mean the heroic Mujahid, the lofty mountain (Nidal Arabiyat), or Abu Mohammed, professor of the science of booby-trapping in Mesopotamia, the first to establish its pillars and lay its foundations and the credit is due to him after Allah, in booby trapping cars.  This professor deserves the merit after Allah in most of the martyrdom operations that preceded his death, starting with Al–Hakim and a passage by “Dimlu” in the United Nations and the Italian forces, in the dens of the disbelievers in Shahin hotel and Nabil’s restaurant, and all the other major martyrdom operations, so let’s take a look at him closely:

He was a calm young man, good natured, kind-hearted always smiling. His talk was never free of a nice joke or nice comment. If you sat with him, you would feel like he knows you or you’ve known him for ages, concealing the alienation about you, and raises the veil of remoteness so that he settles in the bottom of your heart and the inquirer receives many surprises! I think we met each other in the past and what happened is that lives are like recruited soldiers (1); acquainted with each other we became harmonious.

He was from a great rich family, his father was a man of good manners, religious and from those who frequented Mosques regularly.  When he heard of his son’s killing, he contemplated and recalled Allah and said “All the praises and thanks be to Allah, who  granted him what he hoped for, to die as a martyr.

The martyr traveled to Afghanistan and then to Iraqi Kurdistan and joined a group of Arabs, the majority of who were Syrians. As we got to know him, we learned that fear knew no way of getting to him and he remained an unknown soldier until Mujahideen brother withdrew from the mountains due to the ferocity of the bombardment.  Then the martyr returned to Baghdad and joined the Mujahideen’s convoy. There Abu Hamza married Alhaaj Thamer’s (may Allah have mercy on him) daughter. Alhaaj Thamer was a man of high-profile and high-rank, the foremost in truthfulness and precedence when it came to Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism) and Jihad. He was granted a boy named Mohammed, therefore he was nicknamed Abu Mohammed, but the story of his death is the crux of the matter and a sign of his personality and proof of his courage.

Abu Hamza was entrusted with an important task. We sat together in a private room making a plan and arranging the items we had prepared. We posted one of the brothers in front of the house to guard it and not let anyone in. The house was in the island of Ramadi. It was the house of the brave, the energetic lion, the martyr Abu Fares (May Allah have mercy on him). We ask Allah to replace with him with one that is better. But, all the praises and thanks be to Allah, maybe I will return to his biography soon. There is neither Might nor Strength except in Allah; he had been the best support and the best of companions.

While we were sitting, it was time for noon prayer, so I told him (Abu Hamza): “May Allah bless no work that distracts from the prayer”. He went to the ablutions and the custom of Arabs is that ablutions and bathing areas are always far from the house. The house was near a closure. It was a street high up on land built to be a dam for the Euphrates River. I said, “I am going for ablution”, and as I was inside one of the facilities, one of the brothers knocked on the door. It was a frightful knocking, and he was saying loudly, “The Americans  ... The Americans!”. So I came rushing out and looked towards the closed road, where there was no other way to the house, and then I didn’t say a thing. I said to Abu Hamza, “Have they gone away my brother”? Abu Hamza pointed to me… “Behind you.”

The house was besieged from all sides by hummers. They were surrounding us, with at least two of them directing their machine guns directly at us. I thought to myself: one move and our bodies would be looking like a sieve, since there were only 15 meters between us and them, but Allah, glorified and exalted be He, guided us to running towards the direction of the closed road (embankment) and American soldiers ran behind us to try to capture us.  Since we had no weapons, the wild lion Abu Hamza exited the house and he was very skilful in the use of the revolver that was with him all the time, whether awake and during sleep. He directed it towards the American soldier and with agility and skill, he injured him in the head. Then all of a sudden, he fell on his face, the American soldiers were busy with him and it distracted them until all of the Mujahideen in the house were able to escape.

Even before shooting from the revolver, Abu Hamza helped women to get out first and wanted to get out from rear, but the Americans besieged the house with the help of a knowledgeable spy who knew the region well.

But returning to the star, after his ammunition ran out, he took out a hand grenade that was with him, and threw it on the crusaders, it settled inside a hummer, burning it and burning with it, four of those with black hearts, until I saw a helicopter descend on the house to pick up their dead and injured, in a battle against only one Mujahid who protected his brothers by himself with his soul; may the mercy of Allah be on you dear friend.

A day after the end of the battle, one of the brother’s fathers went to see the house and he knew Abu Hamza. He swore by Allah that the scent of musk filled the house that the Americans had reduced to a ruin, after they stole all the money the family had saved.

I mentioned that I met Abu Fares, may Allah have mercy on him, who was the owner of the house. He would say about one’s house, property and those that suffered dispersion, “All of it is redemption for this religion and not only our money.” Allah‘s mercy be on them all and we ask Allah to join us with them and not withhold us from receiving their reward.

Allah is Sufficient for you when you behave like a man
And the patience forces the heart and that’s better
Allah is Sufficient when I feel regret, pain and uneasiness
Allah is Sufficient when I absorb grief and tears thinking of you
Allah is Sufficient when we attack
Went those who we love in myriads,

Followed by abundant grief in the eye.

It remains to be said of the martyr Abu Hamza that the Americans took his body to Ramadi  hospital and we managed to bury it after 20 days, and all praise be to Allah. Since that time I promised myself to carry an explosive belt and a rifle everywhere, even while going to the ablutions and Allah is the protector.