Sixth Point: The Mubahala (The invocation for curse)!
One of the points over which a Mubahala (1) was made as stated by Adnani claiming that they are lies is that:
- "That we raised the matter to Sheikh Al Zawahiri and both the parties were pleased with him as the judge and arbitrator".
Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri said when giving the judgement that "letters from both the sides have come to me" (2) i.e. they both raised the matter to Sheikh Zawahiri.
Then Sheikh Abu Abdul Aziz Al Qatari (3) said in a video recording which has been spread in the internet: "Sheikh Al Baghdadi and Sheikh Al Joulani both of them said "we are waiting for the order from Sheikh Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri, may Allah protect him". If the order comes saying "oh Sheikh Baghdadi to return to where you were in Islamic State of Iraq", he (Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi) said "I will listen and obey, and I and my army will go to Iraq".
And in this there is an acknowledgment that they were pleased with Sheikh Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri as a judge between them!
And Sheikh Abu Abdul Aziz Al Qatari is a neutral person and he was recommended by Adnani in his speech "This was not our methodology nor will it ever be".
Similarly the general Shareeah official of ISIS in Aleppo, Umar Al Qahtani, confessed to that, and he said in an audio recording which is spread in the internet, "If the decision of Sheikh Ayman Al Zawahiri comes, with the text, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi said, "I swear by Allah that everyone who has a Bay'ah to ISIS is bound by the order of Sheikh Ayman Al Zawahiri, and his Bay'ah to ISIS will be invalid".
And this is another testimony that the general Shareeah official has sworn that Baghdadi had accepted Sheikh Al Zawahiri as an arbitrator!
And here it becomes clear to us that Adnani made the prayers of curses by lying openly!
The second point is the statement of Adnani in the speech "Oh our people, respond to the preacher of Allah" in which he said "So beware, for by fighting the Islamic State you fall into Kufr (disbelief) whether you realize it or not"!!
(1) Mubahala refers to prayers made in public between two people both of whom are accusing each other of telling a lie. Mubahala is done by publicly invoking curses on the liar and praying for the liar to be cursed and doomed - (Translator)
(2) The letter of partition, page 2
(3) He is the founder and the leader of Jund ul Aqsa which is a group that defected from Jabhat un Nusrah.