An Important Announcement from the Family of the Great Scholar and Martyr
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
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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 AlBūṭī, 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 Jumad Al-Awal, 1434