Green dollars never blush of blood and never turn rusty
I am ashamed of you, my glorious Dagestan...
Frankly speaking I write these lines pressed by emotions which do erase in my heart the acute feeling of patriotism with which are proud all men and women of Daghestan. I write them in the day of Bekmurza Bekmurzaev - a minister of domestic affairs in Dagestan - assassination. The explosion of the bomb under the bottom of his car gathered the crowds of Makhachkala citizens who just observed how this old and respected man fought for the life of his driver and tried to save his life. And nobody tried to help. Nobody. The bleeding were crowded by hundreds of people among whom there was not a Man! Do theу really think that their life is an eternal gift and only other people are mortal? Probably, those people are going to live forever in this world. Well, let them try, though nobody has succeeded in it still. Everybody is born and die once. And they who died as heroes are happy. I am ashamed of you, my glorious Daghestan, I burn with shame and it hurts me.
Tell me is not one who earns his money by killing people а betrayer of Allah? Does not one become an ally of the Satan in the both worlds when he starts a bomb hidden under a car seat of an innocent? Who is more terrible than one who was created for God worshipping but sold his soul to the Satan? Nobody!
The Lord can forgive everything but betrayal. What is worse than betrayal of your Creator? Nothing!
Might those who are kidnapping people, extort money, blast their friends be considered Muslims? No!
A civil war in Dagestan is declared. The gates to enemies of Islam and bloody murderers were opened by Daghestanis themselves. And killers start their dirty work!
They try to murder those Muslims who are the most active, capable to call back to Islam, to Muslim morality. They simply kill Murids. The fact that enemies of Islam and Dagestan kill the best people is not so scaring. Anyway, sooner or later, being mortal we all shall leave this world. Much more terrible is to die from the hands of your compatriot and to know that your fellow-countrymen bargained about your life just before to kill you because he wanted to earn as many green sheets of paper as possible and cherished a vague hope to spend the rest of his criminal life in comfort and peace. Does a murderer expect to discharge himself in the Day of Reckoning saying that he just wanted to live comfortably for a while? It will not get out! Such a man will fail.
This world is not an imposter; it is just a ploughed field to be sown with the harvest for the Eternal life. Try to remember our Father Adam's mission in this word. Whether he came here for casinos, prostitutes or wine stores? No, he came here for Allah worshipping so that when he ascends back to Heaven he would appreciate what is bliss, eternity, and how is it like when he no longer fears every minute of the angel of death Malakul Mawt. All dirty things and tricks were invented by us, his descendants. But we are sent here for a short while; to say metaphorically let us consider ourselves being sent on an official trip for checking. And how can we for the sake of several days pleasure shed easily our brothers' blood as if it is a glass of water!
There was a song: "The doubloon never turns red and rusty" maybe that is why it is so easy to count money amassed by blackmail, blasting and murders. In Latin they say “pecunia non olet” - money does not smell. It is true. Money do not stink, do not turn bloody red; do not speak... Only here. In this word. But there they will speak as a murderer appears before the Mizan Balance, weeping, moaning and making excuses that he was forced, that he did not want etc. At that time not only his mouth, but also the money which he took for blood, his hands that glued detonator under somebody's car, even his own fingers that pulled trigger of a tommy gun will speak incriminating himself. They all will certainly speak...
Islam will not stop even by somebody's attempt to murder one of few adequate Dagestani leaders Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, even by assassinations of scores of murids. Muridism will prosper in Dagestan.
The assassinations of Shaykh Said Afandi's murids indicate that we are on the right way. In spite of the fact that murids do not go into politics, do not take part in corrupt practices, nevertheless, assassinations go on. The real truth frightens. They know that we are on the right track, that our conscience is clear from hypocrisy, that we are the servants of God only and, maybe, this matter especially annoys them. There is no any new and strange thing in this subject. This is a classic example. A classical example of the Prophet Mohammad's followers, a classic example of the Prophet Isa's followers etc.
How absurd statements of haters of Islam! "I've seen today a person in a green skullcap eating an ice-cream. It's outrageous! Now is Ramadhan, you know! And he is a murid..." Who told you that this man was a murid? It is an open secret that there are rumors about women who go out from saunas wearing hijab thereafter a hijab becomes an attribute of masked wanton women although a mini-skirt and a skintight trousers worn by thousands of pervert women is still considered as fashion. Do not laugh at yourself and also do not deceive yourself. Just some guy made up his mind to put on a green skullcap bought in some Islamic booth - and what? Are we going to ascribe all mucks he did to murids? Nothing will come out of it.
There were times when mountaineers in Dagestan protected their land, homes, women, children. But now quite the contrary, а mountaineer can kill for money his compatriot, a Moslem. Isn't it a shame, my Dagestan?!
Source : "As-salam" l, 17 (366).
Author: Patimat Gamzatova
