Mulla Muhammed Umar
“Look, it has not happened before that Russia and America have been united in their stances-despite the presence of big differences between them- inorder to fight a small state like Afghanistan.
But our confidence in Allah and reliance and dependence on him is great, and even if the entire world stands against us, we will not compromise on our principles and beliefs, will we deviate from this march of ours, Allah willing, because we believe in our religion and will not compromise on it, because to compromise the religion is death for the Muslim.
The real death for the Muslims is in his compromising of the religion, scorning of it, or ceasing to act according to its rules. The outward death is nothing when we compare it with religious death. If we want life, then adherence to our religion is life. And if we can’t have life, then let us have death. Death is a cup from which everyone must drink, so every Muslim must reform himself, devote himself to the affairs of his religion, and strengthen his belief in his Lord, and there he will find victory and success in this world and the next.”
– Former leader of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Mulla Muhammed Umar.
