Press Release
The Assassination of Imam Abdullah Bukhari - May Allah have Mercy on Him - in Istanbul!

(مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوْا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللّٰهَ عَلَيْهِ ۚ فَمِنْهُمْ مَّنْ قَضٰى نَحْبَهٗۙ وَمِنْهُمْ مَّنْ يَّنْتَظِرُ ۖوَمَا بَدَّلُوْا تَبْدِيْلًاۙ)

Among the believers are men true to what they promised Allah. Amongthem is he who has fulfilled his vow (to the death), and among them is he who awaits (his chance). And they did not alter (the terms of their commitment) by any alteration." [Al-Ahzab: 23]
(Translated)

Daily Sabah, the Turkish newspaper, published on its English-language website on 13/12/2014 CE the report of the heinous crime that took place on Wednesday morning, on 10/12/2014, in Istanbul.

During his meeting with Putin on 10/12/2014, the tyrant of Uzbekistan, Karimov, had requested help from his partner in crime Putin in the face of Islam, which deprive him of sleep. The very same day the Russian Intelligence Service in coordination with the Uzbek Intelligence Service carried out the assassination of Imam Abdullah Bukhari (38 years old) a martyr of the word of truth, in the city of Istanbul when he was about to enter the Headquarters of the Education Institute where he lectures on Shariah to his students. The Martyr Abdullah Bukhari had been forced to migrate from Uzbekistan because of his pursuit by the repressive forces of Karimov the dictator, threatening his life and his family, and despite receiving repeated death threats, he insisted on moving forward in his call to get rid of the tyranny of the dictator Karimov.

This assassination crime comes within a long series of the crimes of the tyrant Karimov and his partner, Putin, who declared war on Islamic Dawah carriers not only in Russia and Central Asia, and even abroad. The Russian and Uzbek intelligence services have committed in 2009 and 2011, several assassinations in Turkey against activists calling for the demise of the Karimov's tyranny, and assassinations against media personnel who expose his crimes. According to press reports, there is a list of activists opposed to Karimov targeted to be assassinated. In 1995, the Uzbek security services kidnapped Imam Abdul Wali Mirzayev in Tashkent airport. In August 2006, Imam Muhammad Rafeeq Kamalov was killed in Kyrgyzstan. In February 2012, the assassination attempt of Imam Abed Qari Nazarov took place in Sweden, and the last of those crimes was the assassination of Imam Abdullah Bukhari in Turkey.

May Allah have mercy on the Imam Abdullah Bukhari and accept him in the footsteps of the martyrs of the call and may Allah grant him an abode with the prophets and the Sidiqeen and Martyrs and the righteous and those are the best of companion. We ask Allah to take revenge on the tyrant of Uzbekistan and his partner tyrant of Russia sooner rather than later.

Their pure blood will be, God willing, the flames of light that will add to the Muslims' resolve and determination to sacrifice all dear and precious for the Deen, also there will be a curse that deprives the tyrant of Uzbekistan and his partner Putin of sleep, Allah (swt) says:

(أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَيَنْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَانُوا أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمْ وَأَشَدَّ قُوَّةً وَآثَارًا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ)

"Have they not traveled through the land and seen how was the end of those before them? Allah destroyed [everything] over them, and for the disbelievers is something comparable" [Muhammad: 10]

Oh Allah, we are confident and sure in you alone and Allah is sufficient for all, Oh Allah make the foothold of our brothers firm and send Your tranquility in their hearts. This call is in Your path and You promised those who follow Your path of victory and authority, and You are the Haqq and Your promise is true:

(وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ)

"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient" [An-Nur: 55]

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