Abdessalam Yassine - The Last Testament of Imam Abdessalam Yassine

The Last Testament

of Imam Abdessalam Yassine

Translated from the Arabic
by the Editorial Board
of Justice and Spirituality Publishing

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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

May God shower His mercy, peace and blessings upon our Master Muammad, his family, his companions, his brothers and his party

The Last Testament
of Imam Abdessalam Yassine

The ultimate goal of my testament is that believing men and women should hear it recorded in my voice or read a transcript of it and invoke mercy upon me as I rest in my grave, a prisoner of my sins and hopeful of the mercy of my Lord. That is the foremost aim. May God have mercy on those servants who call on Him with a humble heart, praying for one whose deeds are cut off except for those three things that may be hoped for. Perhaps God will cause the benefit of your prayers to reach us, may God reward you.

The second aim is that someone may remember and take heed of the essence of that which we called to when we were among the residents of the material world, passing on to the eternal. It is a testament so that people may remember and pray, such that those elements that connected us in life may be rejoined and the virtue of visiting and loving one another for the sake of God may be realized across time. The connection is not restricted by the barrier of death.

Al-Bukhr, Muslim, Ab Dwd, at-Tirmidh, an-Nas and Mlik in the Muwaa all narrate on the authority of our master Abdull h b. Umar, may God be pleased with him, that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, It is not appropriate that a Muslim who has something to give as a bequest should sleep
for two nights in row without having a written testament .

Indeed, I have multiple things to bequeath and advise for those who hear and understand, and I hope that its echo will reach open ears and receptive hearts, by the permission of our Lord, the Guardian, the Praiseworthy.

An echo that will be conveyed onward, God willing, by the generations of Justice and Spirituality ( al-adl wal-isn ) until the Day of Judgment, in order that they may bear witness on the Day that witnesses stand forth that Abdessalam Yassine is a servant in utter need of the forgiveness of his Lord, who admits his sins and bears witness that there is none worthy of worship other than God, the One, the Self-Sufficient who neither begets nor was begotten and to Whom there is no likeness, and that our master Muammad is His servant and His Messenger, who He sent with guidance and the religion of Truth in order that He may make it prevail over all religion beginning as an open appeal and a comprehensive proof for all creation and then reaching fruition as an awe- inspiring khilfa built on the method of Prophethood.

He further bears witness that the angels are a purified creation from among the creations of God, and that the Book that God sent down is true, having reached us free of any distortion may God reward the Companions who preserved and conveyed this book with the help of God such that the words of our Lord reached us between the two covers of the muaf .

He further bears witness that the Messengers of God, may God bless them and grant them peace, conveyed the messages of their Lord until the certainty of death reached them, and that their leader and seal is the beloved of God, His Prophet and Messenger Muammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, our intercessor with God on the day of the great terror when people stand before the Lord of the Worlds.

He further bears witness that Gods measuring out of all events is true not a single atom in existence moves without the permission of the All-Wise, the Well- Acquainted.

He further bears witness that the Resurrection after death is true, the Gathering is true, the Balance is true, the Bridge over Hell is true, the Garden is true, the Fire is true, the Final Hour is coming without a doubt and God will resurrect those in the graves.

After that, I advise the one who hears or reads my words with that which God advised the human being. The Creator of the human being advised him to treat his parents well since his mother carried him, nursed him and raised him with tenderness and since both his mother and father took responsibility for him as a fetus and infant when he had no strength or ability of his own, and then through the various stages of his life.

God advised kindness and excellent treatment towards parents, especially in their old age when they are weak and in need of a tender hand, a sympathetic heart and beautiful treatment springing from fidelity and love.

I advise that which God advised His righteous servants and Messengers, Noah, Muammad, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, peace and blessings be upon them namely that the religion be established and that its adherents remain united as we read in Srat ash-Shr . Indeed, shr, or mutual consultation in public and private affairs, as well as in governance, is from the essence of the religion. We, the umma of Islam, are even more responsible for fulfilling all that God advised His beloved chosen servants for their ummas insofar as we are the umma that has inherited Gods message and has been appointed as witnesses over mankind.

I advise with all that God advised His believing servants in Srat al-An m (The Chapter of Livestock), in order that the believers be distinguished from the polytheists and that God may know who will come to the aid of His religion and His Messengers and who forsakes them. On this basis He will reward those who obey and disgrace those who are ungrateful and disobedient .

These are four pieces of advice so that we may understand deeply and be among the righteous monotheistic believers: that we not ascribe partners to God by worshipping material or mental idols, that we treat our parents kindly, that we not kill our children out of fear of poverty one of the worst manifestations of such killing is to allow the sources of misguidance and corruption to pick them off in front of our eyes and that we not approach shameful deeds whether they be open or secret. If we approach such things by our own will, or if we sit idly by in the face of those oppressive forces who would erase our culture and corrupt our morals then we have fallen into the quagmire of shameful deeds . And do not take any life, which God has made sacred, except by just right Killing the very humanity of the human being and convincing him that he is merely an evolved animal who has no meaning to his existence other than grazing like an animal, entertainment and meaningless action are the worst forms of taking the life that God has made sacred this wreaks havoc on the human being , his soul and his rights.

I convey the following four pieces of advice from Srat al-An m , reminding of that which God reminded anyone willing to take heed : that we not approach the property of the orphan except in the best manner, that we give full, just balance, that we be just and unbiased where the truth is concerned and that we fulfill Gods covenant. ( Quran 6:152) All of that should be understood in its generality with respect to individual character and private practice of religion, and understood according to its specific limits with respect to communal and political action.

I advise with the mother of all divine injunctions in Srat al-An m , which came to us in a single verse and is directed to us , the believers, perchance we may be among the God-conscious . This injunction is following the straight path the path of God to Whom belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth and to Whom all matters return and to Whom we will return after death. This mother of all injunctions warns us against following those paths that would divide us or remove us from the expansive path of God.