A translation of this announcement from Naseem Al-Sham:
In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful
The
Ummah of Islam has suffered an immense loss, and we have suffered especially
due to the loss of our master and teacher, the great scholar, Dr Muḥammad Saʿīd
Ramaḍān Al-Būṭī, may Allah the Exalted have mercy on him, who was martyred, and
along with him his grandson Aḥmad and fifty students of knowledge, on the night
of Friday,[1]
the 10th of Jumād Al-Awal, 1434 AH.
First
of all, for our part, we remember the families and children of these sincere
brethren who accepted nothing but to attain the honour of companionship and
martyrdom, and they are from the minority that stayed firm despite the
circumstances that our blessed land is suffering under. Likewise, we ask Allah
to heal and restore to health those who have been wounded and afflicted, and
they are greater in number.
We
thank all the loving and sincere brethren who have offered their condolences
and consoled us with regards to our loss, from within Syria and without.
However,
our first and last consolation is that the great scholar and his companions
ascended to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in a gathering that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, described as, as related in Ṣaḥīḥ
Muslim: “No people gather in
one of the houses of Allah reciting the Book of Allah and studying it amongst
themselves except that tranquillity transcends upon them, mercy covers them,
the angels surround them and Allah mentions them to those with Him.”
The
great scholar and martyr has attained martyrdom in the most magnificent of
ways: in the miḥrāb of one of
Allah’s houses while accompanied by students of knowledge who were studying the
Book of Allah amongst themselves. When the wretch from amongst the wretched had
blown himself up, shortly after the explosion the masjid was overcome with
intense darkness while the great scholar and martyr remained sitting, undaunted,
with his enlightened face like the full moon on the chair of teaching,
embracing the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and sealing his life with the
words: ‘O Allah.’
Engraved
on his face was a smile of pleasure to be meeting Allah the Exalted, and his
blessed body remained tender and fresh as if he were sleeping until the time
came to wash him, which was carried out by a group of loving and sincere people
from amongst the people of knowledge. Meanwhile, his warm blood drained from a
wound in his body up until the time in which he was buried.
Indeed
on this occasion, we decisively negate the lies that are being spread by a
channel that is known near and far for lying and falsehood, and we make it
absolutely clear that the virtuous scholar and martyr does not have any sons or
daughters in Turkey. Likewise, we negate that any one of his sons, daughters or
grandchildren have made any statement accusing the Syrian regime, and
especially for the channel whose dubious background, along with its agents and
lies, the great scholar and martyr warned tirelessly against.
Whoever
examines the internet will realise who was spewing threatening and menacing
words towards the great scholar and martyr and who was inciting the killing of
scholars, and are now gloating over the martyrdom of the great scholar.
Our
sheikh, our master, our teacher: you lived well and you have died well… we ask Allah
the Exalted to gather us with you and with our grandfather, Sheikh Mulla Ramaḍān Al-Būṭī, under the banner of the master of creation, our master Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
The Family of the Great Scholar and Martyr
30/03/2013
19 Jumād Al-Awal, 1434
This translation is also available on the English Naseem Al-Sham site.
[1] (tn): please
note that an Islamic day starts after sunset
