In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Islamic Administration for Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock
To the brothers responsible for irrigation in the regions of Wilayat Halab
1. The reduction in the water level has come about as a result of the fact that the thermal plant has stopped operating, and we will do everything we can to improve the situation. We ask you to cooperate with us through organising the system, disciplining those who violate the rules, and delivering water to all people as far as possible.
2. Our work is for God alone, and we do not care about individuals, however much they try to spot the project’s mistakes and individual mistakes for a specific end, whether it is a desire to take responsibility for the project or some other objective. It should be noted that the obligation on them is to advise if they see a specific mistake, not to indulge in complaints, the courts and currying favour with the walis because of a sickness in their souls.
3. It is currently forbidden to impose a fine by order of the wali, until the situation is considered with the brother.
4. We urge the brothers to intensify the work of the oversight committees night and day, discipline those who contravene the rules, and organise the system among the farmers. We ask God to make the matter easy for us.
5. Refer a complete list of the repairs requested from the general administration for channels as soon as possible in every region.
6. We are working to secure all the engineering machines for the project, and some of them have been secured, and the rest will soon be secured, if God wills.
7. We urge the brothers to go to the amirs of their areas who are present and inform them to refer complaints about irrigation to the place of the administration.
8. The brother Abu Mudhar is the irrigation official in the general framework, so please help him to regulate the project and coordinate with him in everything. please take instructions from him.
9. We inform you that we have received consent from the general administrative brother to buy all we need for the project as soon as possible. May God reward him all the best on our behalf, and the machines’ crisis will be resolved soon, God willing.
And God is the one behind the intention.
General Admin Official
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham General Agriculture Administration General Official
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
To the brothers in settlement department (may God protect them)
We inform you that the brother Abu al-Dhirr Raqawi al-Ra’i saw us in the wilaya’s personnel data office, and he is entitled to being granted the residency sponsorship: he is a brother present in al-Ra’i, is a brother in the Dawla since 1 Ramadan 1435 AH and is married and has two children.
May God reward you best.
8 Jumada al-Thani 1436 AH [29 March 2015 CE]
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Official for personnel data and human resources
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
To the brothers in settlement department (may God protect them)
We inform you that the brother Abu Ja’afar al-Ansari saw us in the wilaya’s personnel data office, and he is entitled to being granted the residency sponsorship: he is a brother present in al-Ra’i and is married and has a child.
May God reward you best.
8 Jumada al-Thani [?] 1436 AH [29 March 2015 CE]
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Official for personnel data and human resources
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Caliphate on the Prophetic Methodology
Islamic State Wilayat Halab Diwan al-Zakat wa al-Sadaqat Office: al-Ra’i
558
Review+disclosure [in handwriting]
Admission of ownership
I am the signatory below: Abd al-Manaf, the son of Ramzi. My mother is Adawiya Muhammad Ali.
I am known as Abu Muhammad Ma’nan [?] and I was born in Madinat al-Thawra on 9 December 1976 CE. My house address is: al-Ra’i, the dwelling of al-Shaykh Nur. My phone number is [blank]. My type of work is: Grinding. I work at: the market. The phone number is: [blank].
I came to the Zakat office and paid a sum of: [blank] Which is the zakat on my wealth estimated at: Estimated at around 265,000 Syrian pounds, with debts.
I also own: pistachio crops…olive crops…grapes…vehicles…gold…silver…sheep…number of hectares [NB: all these fields are marked with a cross, implying no ownership of these assets].
Should the contrary of what I have said be established, I placed myself under Shari’i penalty about which the Messenger of God (SAWS): “Whoso withholds the zakat, we will take it as one of the rights of God, while the person’s wealth will be cut in half.”
And God is witness to what I say.
Quoted in Hashiyat Qalyubi by Imam al-Nawawi (4/273): “Whoso says: God knows or God bears witness, and does so falsely in a deliberate sense, that person has committed kufr [disbelief].”
[In handwriting]: the year has not yet passed. He should see us on date 1 Sha’aban 1436 AH.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State Caliphate on the Prophetic Methodology Wilayat Halab
No.
Date: / / 1435 AH
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
[The following in handwriting]:
From the Diwan al-Zakat to the brothers in the Shari’i institute:
We ask you to subject the one-called [blank] to a Shari’i course to teach him the matters of his religion and Tawhid, and to give him a paper certificate after he completes the course, so we can disburse for him the zakat sum.
Notices and regulations for hijra to the Islamic State
(A notice to be presented to the one who desires to make hijra when that person is in his/her own country)
Our creed
We believe that God alone has no partner in His lordship, divinity, names and qualities. He is the One who possesses divinity and the right to be worshipped is imposed on all His creation. We believe in what God Almighty has established for himself in His Book or the Sunna of His Messenger from names, and qualities in the form that befits him, without distortion, impeding or adjustment.
The necessity of revering the Prophet (SAWS) and that it is forbidden to precede him. We also believe that the one who disparages his noble standing and aspect is guilty of disbelief and apostasy, and likewise the one who disparages the pure family of his household, and his noble companions of the four Rashidun caliphs and the rest of the companions and family.
The Almighty has said: “We have sent you as a witness, bringer of tidings and warner, so that you may believe in God and His Messenger, and support Him and revere Him and honour him in the morning and evening.”
We consider it is obligatory to destroy and remove all phenomena of idolatry, and prohibit the means to it. This is because of what Imam Muslim narrated in his authentic collection regarding SAWS’ words to Ali: “Do not leave a statue without destroying it or an elevated tomb without levelling it.”
The obligation of resorting to arbitration to God’s law through Šariʿī courts in the Islamic State, as resorting to the arbitration of the Taghut of man-made laws and tribal customs and the like is among the nullifiers of Islam (and whoso does not rule by what God has revealed, those people are the disbelievers).
– Our pronouncements on faith are a middle ground between the extremist H̱awārij and the lax people of irja’ and we do not declare takfir on a Muslim man who prays in the direction of our qibla because of sins that do not constitute kufr, so long as he does not deem that sin permissible, and whoso pronounces the two shahadas and shows us Islam and does no commit one of the nullifiers, we deal with that person as we deal with Muslims, and we leave that person’s inner thoughts to God.
– We believe that kufr is of two types: greater and lesser…and takfir against the individual among those people and ruling on that person’s eternal confinement in hell depend on principles and conditions of takfir and the absence of the obstacles to it. We do not excuse an accountable person for that person’s ignorance of the principle of Tawḥīd.
The Rafidites are a sect of idolatry and apostasy, and as such they are refraining from implementing many of the outward rituals of Islam.
We believe in the disbelief and apostasy of the sorcerer and the obligation to kill that person, and not to accept that person’s repentance in the rulings of this world after power is gained over that person. Omar al-Faruq (may God be pleased with him) said: “The ḥadd punishment of the sorcerer is to strike that person with the sword.”
We believe secularism in its various banners and different madhhabs, like nationalism, patriotism, communism, and Ba’athism, is clear kufr that contradicts Islam and takes someone outside the faith. God Almighty has said regarding the one who agrees with the idolaters in replacing something from God’s law: “The Satans inspire their allies to dispute you, and if you appease them, you are idolaters.”
We believe that the abode in which the rituals of kufr prevail and the rulings of kufr predominate without the rulings of Islam, is an abode of kufr. This does not mean necessarily that we declare the inhabitants of that abode to be disbelievers, and in so far as the rulings that prevail in all the abodes of Islam today are rulings of the Taghut and its Šarīʿa we consider all the rulers of those states and their armies to be guilty of kufr and apostasy, and fighting them is more obligatory than fighting the Crusader occupier.
We believe it is obligatory to migrate to the Islamic State, and the one who refrains without one of the Šariʿī excuses is committing a sin.
We consider that jihad in God’s path is an individual obligation since the fall of al-Andalus in order to liberate the land of the Muslims, and this is to be pursued with every pious and immoral person, and the greatest of sins after disbelief in God is to forbid jihad in God’s path when it is an individual obligation. Ibn Ḥazm said: “There is no greater sin after kufr than the sin of the one who forbids jihad against the disbelievers and commanding the surrender of the Muslims’ abode to them, because of the immorality of a Muslim man for whose gross immorality no one else is to be held to account.”
We believe that the sects of the people of the Book and others of the Sabians and the like today are warring people who have no ḏimma pact, for they have violated what they have pledged to in many regards, innumerable in fact. Thus, if they want security and peace, they must sign a new pledge with the Islamic State according to the conditions of Omar they have violated.
We consider it is obligatory to save the prisoners and women of the Muslims from the hands of the disbelievers through raiding or ransom. SAWS said: “Free the prisoner.” We also consider it is obligatory to sponsor their families and the families of the martyrs. SAWS said: “Whoso prepares a raider has gone on a raid, and whoso takes care of a raider’s family has gone on a raid.”
– We consider it is obligatory for the Ummah to learn the commands of its religion, even if some fortunes of this world go by it, and we obligate from worldly knowledge whatever the Ummah is in need of and the anything else besides that is permissible so long as it does not go out from the restrictions of the law.
– We mandate the Muslim as a Šariʿī obligation to cover her face and keep away from unveiling and mixing and that it is obligatory to be modest and pure. God Almighty has said: “Those who wish for obscenity to spread among those who have believed have a painful torment in this world and the Hereafter, and God knows and you don’t know.”
Notices and regulations for joining the Islamic State:
– Bayʿa to the Caliph of the Muslims Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. – Hearing and obeying the Caliph and the amirs in what does not constitute disobedience to God. – Not objecting to the place or area you are assigned to. – No request to move from the place you are assigned to before six months have passed. – In the event you desire to leave the state of the Caliphate, that will not be fulfilled as you wish, and you will expose yourself to security investigation and Šariʿī accountability
Means of assignment: you are assigned in a definitive sense after 60 days, during which period you go through a Šariʿī and military camp, then ribat on the enemy, and after this you are assigned according to data and assessment of your record during the 60 day period.
. Warnings before the migration:
– It is forbidden to bring modern phone apparatuses, and it is forbidden to bring laptop apparatuses and screen devices, and one should only bring an ordinary phone in which secure private phone connection is available. Otherwise all the devices will be confiscated from you.
– One should bring one rucksack, and in the event you bring more than one sack, we don’t bear responsibility for bringing it in, and we disavow any responsibility in the event any destruction or loss for that.
– Handing over all the personal ID documents when you enter.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State Diwan al-Khidamat al-‘Aama
cc. Accounting office Date: 11 Muharram 1436 AH
Admin order
To all those working in the Diwan al-Khidamat al-‘Aama, please comply with the work hours specified by the Diwan’s administration. Work starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m.
Note: it is forbidden to leave the Diwan without prior permission from the general official for any reason whatsoever. Also as regards sick leave or justified absence, we must be informed of that.
Any violation of the prior order will result in immediate dismissal of the worker.
Note: work is in accordance with winter timing.
We thank you for your cooperation, and may God reward you bes.
10 Muharram 1436 ah
Stamp of the general official
Islamic State Diwan al-Khidamat al-‘Aama General official
NB: This document is a supplement to the previous post under the name of Diwan al-Ta’aleem. It is not an Islamic State document but was rather issued under the the general directorate for education in Ninawa and features the previously mentioned school’s exam results for second setting in school year 2013-2014. This is an important example of how documents prior to the imposition of the Islamic State administration and its institutions were still relevant for various matters, such as comparison with prior examination results, transactions and dealings requiring ID cards (since the Islamic State did not get around to implementing a systematic ID system for the civilian populations under its rule etc.).
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Islamic State Wilayat Halab
al-Ra’i
Diwan al-Amn al-Aam General Intelligence Administration
Date / /1436 AH
The individual: Hasan al-Shibli The individual: Rabi’ al-Shibli
We were on patrol in the al-Ra’i area and these people were arrested because their names are among the names of wanted people and there is a third person called Ala’ al-Shibli now present in al-Bab.
Note: there’s a mistake in the name of Hasan al-Shibli. We asked him and his siblings. [They said that?] they were working in an iron factory.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu
To the brothers in settlement (may God protect them)
We inform you that the brother Abu [?] al-Baljiki [the Belgian], came to us in the wilaya’s personnel office, and he is entitled to be given settlement sponsorship [i.e. rent subsidy etc.]: [in handwriting] and he has been a brother in the Dawla [i.e. member of the Islamic State] for three months and he is married and has one child.
May God reward you best.
12 Rabi’ al-Thani 1436 AH [1 February 2015 CE] Islamic State Wilayat Halab Official of Personnel and Human Resources
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