Success of the Mujahidin

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

In an excerpt of an article from 1999 in “The Muslim Magazine”, the mujahid, shahid and former Chechen President, Hadhrat Aslan Maskhaduf asked, “Do you know how many soldiers we had, with which we defeated Russia?”  He continued, “The whole army of Chechen mujahidin were not more than 4,000 in all of Chechnya.  Only 837 mujahidin were in Grozny, the capital, and the Russian army surrounding the capital was 120,000 soldiers.  837 Chechen mujahidin were able to defeat 120,000 Russian Soldiers.  120,000!” 

“Allah (s.w.t.) Says, in the Qur’an, that with the Support of Allah (s.w.t.), however small a group you are, you will defeat thousands and thousands of unbelieving people,” he answered.  The President continued, “Do you know why we were so successful, defeating this Russian Army with only a few soldiers?  Islam came to us in Chechnya and Daghestan and Russia and Tataristan and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, all these countries by the Sufis.  And Islam was Preserved under Communism from one generation to another for so many years by taswawwuf.  Do you know how it was Preserved?  By dzikrullah and swalawat on the Prophet (s.a.w.).  We are Qadiris and Naqshbandis in Chechnya.  Before we ever go out to a battle, we sit in a circle and recite Qaswidah al-Burdah and al-Mudariyyah.  We used to recite all together, loud — you hear it as if it is one voice, and then we make swalawat on the Prophet (s.a.w.), and then dzikr, and then we go and fight, with the barakah of these swalawat on Prophet (s.a.w.) and this dzikrullah.”