Chapter Two

Goals

Causes and targets

Article 9

The Islamic Resistance Movement was born in an era in which Islam was absent from daily life. As a result, balances were upset, concepts were confused, values altered and evil people took power. Injustice and darkness prevailed, cowards behaved like tigers, homelands were taken by force and people were driven out and wandered purposelessly all over the earth. The Country of Truth disappeared and was replaced by the Country of Falsehood, [consequently] nothing was left in its rightful place. That is the state of affairs when Islam vanishes from the scene, everything changes, and those are the causes.

As to the goals [of the Islamic Resistance Movement], they are: a war to the death against falsehood, conquering it and stamping it out so that truth may prevail, homelands may be returned [to their rightful owners] and the call of the muezzin may be heard from the turrets of the mosques, announcing the [re]institution of an Islamic state, so that Muslims might return and everything return to its rightful place, with the help of Allah, [as it is written in the Qur’an:] “If Allah did not urge people not to lay hands upon one another, the land would [certainly] be in disarray, but Allah bestows his grace on all human beings” ([Surah 2] Al-Baqarah [Verse] 251).

Article 10

The Islamic Resistance Movement, while making its way forward, with all its might [offers] support to anyone oppressed and protects anyone who feels he was unjustly treated. It does not spare any effort to institute justice and wipe out falsehood, in word and deed, both in this place and in every place it reaches and wherever it can have influence.

Contents:

    • Introduction

    • An analysis of the Hamas charter

    • Translation (Appendix A)
        Introduction and Chapter 1
        Chapter 2
        Chapter 3
        Chapter 4
        Chapter 5 and Conclusion

    • The original Arabic document (Appendix B)