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(selected excerpts)
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until
Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated
others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna).
"The Islamic world is on fire. Each of us should
pour some water, no matter how little, to extinguish
whatever one can without waiting for the others."
(Sheikh Amjad al-Zahawi).
INTRODUCTION
This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS),
clarifies its picture, reveals its identity,
outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about
its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and
joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is
very great and very serious. It needs all sincere
efforts.
Article 6: Peculiarity and Independence
The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinct
Palestinian Movement which owes its loyalty to
Allah, derives from Islam its way of life and
strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch
of Palestine. Only under the shadow of Islam could
the members of all regions coexist in safety and
security for their lives, properties and right. In
the absence of Islam, conflict arises, oppression
reigns, corruption is rampant and struggles and wars
prevail.
Article 7: The Universality of Hamas
As a result of the fact that those Muslims who
adhere to the ways of the Islamic Resistance
Movement spread all over the world, rally support
for it and its stands, strive towards enhancing its
struggle, the Movement is a universal one.
...Whoever denigrates its worth, or avoids
supporting it, or is so blind as to dismiss its role
is challenging Fate itself.
The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The
Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims
will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews
hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O
Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and
kill him!
Article 8: The Slogan of the Hamas
Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Quran
its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the
case of Allah its most sublime belief.
Article 11: The Strategy of Hamas: Palestine is
an Islamic Waqf
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that
the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf
throughout the generations and until the Day of
Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it,
or abandon it or part of it.
Article 13: Peace Initiatives and International
Conferences
The so-called peaceful solutions and the
international conferences to resolve the Palestinian
problem are all contrary to the beliefs of the
Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part
of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion,
the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement
is part of its faith, the movement educates its
members to adhere to its principles and to raise the
banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight
their Jihad. The Islamic Resistance Movement does
not believe that those conferences are capable of
responding to demands, or of restoring rights or
doing justice to the oppressed. Those conferences
are no more than a means to appoint the nonbelievers
as arbitrators in the lands of Islam.... There is no
solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.
The initiatives, proposals and International
Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in
futility.
Article 15: The Jihad for the Liberation of
Palestine is an Individual Obligation
When our enemies usurp some Islamic lands, Jihad
becomes a duty binding on all Muslims...This would
require the propagation of Islamic consciousness
among the masses on all local, Arab and Islamic
levels. We must spread the spirit of Jihad among the
Islamic Umma, clash with the enemies and join the
ranks of the Jihad fighters. ...[on education] There
is no escape from introducing fundamental changes in
educational curricula in order to cleanse them from
all vestiges of the ideological invasion which has
been brought...Imperialism has been instrumental in
boosting the ideological invasion and deepening its
roots, and it is still pursuing this goal.
Article 17: The Role of Muslim Women
The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of
men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men
and play a great role in guiding and educating the
new generation.
Article 20: Social Solidarity [crimes of
Israelis]
Islamic society is one of solidarity.. A society
which confronts a vicious, Nazi-like enemy, who does
not differentiate between man and woman, elder and
young... Our enemy pursues the style of collective
punishment of usurping people’s countries and
properties, of pursuing them into their exiles and
places of assembly. It has resorted to breaking
bones, opening fire on women and children and the
old, with or without reason, and to setting up
detention camps where thousands upon thousands are
interned in inhuman conditions. In addition, it
destroys houses, renders children orphans and issues
oppressive judgments against thousands of young
people who spend the best years of their youth in
the darkness of prisons...They make war against
people’s livelihood, plunder their moneys and
threaten their honor.
Article 21 [charity]
Social solidarity consists of extending help to all
the needy, both materially and morally, or assisting
in the execution of certain actions. It is incumbent
upon the members of the Hamas to look after the
interest of the masses the way they would look after
their own interests.
Article 22: The Powers which Support the Enemy
The enemies...have accumulated a huge and
influential material wealth permitting them to take
over control of the world media. They also used this
wealth to stir revolution in various parts of the
globe in order to fulfill their interests... They
also used the money to establish clandestine
organizations which are spreading around the world,
in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist
interests. Such organizations are: the Freemasons,
Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rith and the
like. All of them are destructive spying
organizations... They stood behind World War I so as
to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate. They obtained the
Balfour Declaration and established the League of
Nations in order to rule the world by means of that
organization. They also stood behind World War II
where they collected immense benefits from trading
with war materials and prepared for the
establishment of their state.
Article 25:
Hamas is a movement of Jihad, of morality and
consciousness in its concept of life. It moves
forward with the others, abhors opportunism and only
wishes well to individuals and groups. It does not
aspire to material gains or to personal fame, nor
does it solicit remuneration from the people. It set
out relying on its own material resources and what
is available to it.
Article 27: The Palestine Liberation Organization
The PLO is among the closest to the Hamas, for it
constitutes a father, a brother, a relative, a
friend. Our homeland is one, our calamity is one,
our destiny is one and our enemy is common to both
of us ...[but] the PLO has adopted the idea of a
Secular State which is diametrically opposed to
religious thought. Therefore, in spite of our
appreciation for the PLO and its possible
transformation in the future, we cannot substitute
it for the Islamic nature of Palestine by adopting
secular thought. When the PLO adopts Islam as the
guideline for life, then we shall become its
soldiers.
Article 31: The Members of Other Religions
Hamas is a humane movement which cares for human
rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in
Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions.
It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards
it, or stand in its way...Under the shadow of Islam
it is possible for the members of the three
religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism to
coexist in safety and security.
Article 32: The Attempts to Isolate the
Palestinian People
World Zionism and Imperialism forces have been
attempting, with smart moves and considered
planning, to push the Arab countries, one after
another, out of the circle of conflict with Zionism,
in order, ultimately to isolate the Palestinian
People. ... Today it is Palestine and tomorrow it
may be another country or other countries for
Zionist scheming has no end, and after Palestine
they will covet expansion from the Nile to the
Euphrates. The scheme has been laid out in the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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