How did extremism blind the Tajik community?
Author: Dr. Awliya Jalali, Analyst
In recent days, a video of Juma, one of the Taliban commanders, has been circulated in which he vehemently threatens that he will not show mercy to the enemies of the Pashtun Emirate, even if they are his father and brother.
First, it would be nice to know who Juma is.
He was born in 1365 (1986) in the village of Shahdara, Nusay district (one of the five districts of Darvaz) of Badakhshan province. Both his parents are Tajiks.
During the republic, he had a small shop in the bazaar in the center of the district, and sometimes he sang at weddings and small gatherings for the amusement of locals.
There were local disagreements between the residents of the district center Nusay and its 16 villages. People living in the center of the district always demanded more privileges than those outside it. This did not please the residents of the surrounding villages and sometimes caused their complaints and discontent.
Juma is one of those disgruntled villagers who complained about the behavior of the center's residents and eventually decided to protest. This led to his physical conflict with the head of the security service of the Nusay district, as a result of which Juma was beaten and imprisoned.
After his release, he decided to go to Warduj, the center of the Taliban in Badakhshan, to Qari Fasihuddin (now the chief of the general staff of the Taliban army), and after some time he returned to his village with a group of six people and began a guerrilla war against government forces.
In one of the battles with the commandos of the National Army, who were fighting with air support, he came under fire from fighter jets. He broke one of his arms in the shoulder area. He is still disabled and is undergoing treatment.
During one of his morning raids in the Moimai district, he shot dead 30 young men, including his maternal uncle Jumhuriddin, who was one of the famous mujahideen, and his son. Juma first captured them and then shot them. After this, he received the nickname “the killer of young Tajiks of Darvaz” and was included in the book of events of the forty-year war in Badakhshan.
After the Taliban came to power, he was appointed emir of five border districts of Darwaz bordering Tajikistan and also worked as the head of the Nusay district administration.
Recently, he was appointed director of the drug enforcement department in Badakhshan.
Now the main question is how a rural and poor youth, who five years ago sang songs for the joy of the local people, today, in his own words, turned into the cruelest and merciless man, who for the pleasure of the Pashtun's power, as a sign of loyalty to the tribal emirate, crosses all divine, human, moral and chivalrous lines to his Tajiks? In addition, he understands well that the war on this land has nothing to do with Islam and Islamic values, but is only a tribal and ethnic war.
Juma's words clarify one thing: he has no information and knowledge about Islam and the values of the Mohammedan religion.
His words show that he still does not know why Abu Bakr was chosen as the first caliph of the Muslims. Along with dozens of religious reasons, one of the reasons for his choice was that he was from the "Quraysh" tribe. It is necessary to take into account the fact that ethnic and tribal inclinations have always been at the center of Islam. Besides the fact that the Holy Quran and the beloved Prophet of Islam consider only piety as the reason for the superiority of Muslims, the facts in this matter cannot be denied.
For example, the main reason for the martyrdom of the Tajik Imam Abu Hanifa by Mansur, the Abbasid Caliph, was his historical fatwa.
Once tears flowed down the cheeks of the Imam when he saw the oppression and torture of the Arab rulers of the Persians because of their ignorance of the Arabic language. Then he issued his historical fatwa, which is still in effect today: He who does not know Arabic can pray in Persian, this does not contradict the Sharia.
This fatwa of his saved the lives of thousands of his compatriots from imminent death, but he was tortured under flogging in prison under the wrath of Mansur under the pretext of refusing to accept the position of judge of the Caliphate.
Juma should remember even from the Islamic point of view it is not allowed to kill Tajiks for the sake of happiness of the soul and spirit of the government and power of the Pashtun Emirate.
According to history, the Halakukhan Mongol destroyed 72% of the men of Fararud, Abdul Rahman destroyed 60% of the Hazara community, and Timur built towers from sculls of people, but today people in this geography still stand, hold on, and curse the soul and spirit of these historical criminals.
Therefore, he can be sure that killing the Tajiks never helps the Pashtun emirate to become strong and durable.
In the words of Ustad Khalilullah Khalili (verbatim):
I will not fall with one wound, my enemy.
If we live, we will meet on another battlefield.
