Russian spirituality

“Before the conflict, I used to be a mufti [Islamic legal jurist], you recognize? I met with kings, presidents, ministers, and deputies. Now, I can dwell within the chilly, without heating or electricity, within the mud as much as my knees.

I’ve by no means been in such a meat grinder. It is tough to foretell how you’ll behave once you get to conflict. Many people panic. Someone is confused. Others, quite the opposite, are extremely concentrated and do their job nicely.

They say Putin promised to take Bakhmut by the New Year. They threw all their forces and sources there. They are pushing like loopy, not counting the losses. He has a fanatical want to seize Bakhmut because the Crusaders have been continuously crusing from Europe to the Middle East to seize Jerusalem for the sake of some thought.

The spirituality of Russians is empty.

I’ve no sympathy for the enemy. I see with my very own eyes how inhumanly they act. It is a shock for Ukrainians and all regular individuals. And for the Russians themselves, it’s the norm. They have such a pathetic stage of morality that they commit terrible crimes and don’t care about them.

When they speak about Russian spirituality, it’s the identical fantasy because the myths concerning the “second army of the world” and “Russian culture.”

In non secular research, there’s a time period — “ritualism,” when an individual believes not in God, ethical virtues, or values; however when a very powerful factor is to carry out the ceremony accurately. He hung a cross on himself, got here to the church, lit a candle, and donated one thing — carried out! All so non secular.

But all these rites don’t add as much as humanity. And the identical particular person in life can behave just like the worst legal and sinner. The spirituality of Russians is empty.

Back to Ivan the Terrible

I’ve many private motives on this conflict. The important one is that the Muslims of Ukraine are not looking for Russian occupation. Russia just isn’t pleasant or tolerant of Islam.

Since Ivan the Terrible’s time, Muslims have suffered nice losses from Muscovites. He organized a bloodbath in Kazan and ordered the killing of all males and even boys. Since then, Muslims have been exterminated throughout Russia. In Ukraine, that is seen in the history of the Crimean Tatars. Now Muscovites within the occupied Crimea proceed the identical repression.

Muslims of Ukraine know that each one our rights, freedoms, non secular life and non secular revival can be completed if Russia comes right here.

Most Muslims in fashionable Russia, it doesn’t matter what is completed to them or how their language, tradition, and faith are destroyed, swallow every thing. They haven’t any will.

After the victory, we’d like a nationwide dialogue.

Only the Muslims of the North Caucasus, who continuously opposed slavery, Russification, and the destruction of nationwide identification, differ from this mass. In the Caucasus, consciousness is greater. In different areas of the Russian Federation, it’s horrible. We see that some have turn into extra Russian than the Russians themselves.

Unity is victory

We should all perceive: Ukraine will win solely within the unity and consciousness of who we’re and what we’re preventing for. This spirit of brotherhood, values of democratic freedoms and ethical rules should stay after the conflict.

There can be no reconciliation with collaborators who labored with Russia within the occupied territories. After the conflict, we must dwell with what we’ve overcome for a very long time. The important factor is that these contradictions don’t turn into a pretext for inside conflicts. Therefore, after the victory, we’d like a nationwide dialogue.

I don’t doubt our victory. To all troopers, defenders, volunteers, and people who work for Ukraine in a technique or one other, victory doesn’t start with weapons. It at all times begins within the head and coronary heart.

When you might be assured in your self and your nation, perceive what you might be preventing for, and don’t complain concerning the lack of sunshine, you might be already a winner.”