Nida e Khorasan Issue 13 Promotes Hijrah and Financial Support for Jihad While Attacking Taliban Legitimacy
Source: Urdu Media
Executive Summary
Nida e Khorasan Magazine issue 13, released in Rajab 1447 AH by Moassasat al Azaim, pushes Islamic State aligned messaging that rejects democratic governance as un Islamic, urges supporters to conduct “jihad with wealth,” and argues for strict enforcement of its version of sharia punishments. The issue also includes battlefield style claims and martyr praise narratives, including references to clashes involving Turkish backed forces and a profile that describes a suicide attack in Kabul, alongside a polemical “clarification” targeting “taghut scholars,” including a figure identified as “Mullah Izzat.”
Analysis
The magazine frames democracy and popular sovereignty as illegitimate and uses that argument to justify delegitimizing state institutions and religious figures it portrays as aligned with “taghut,” while simultaneously urging supporters to materially fund jihad and align themselves with its political religious model.
Ideological articles including “Democracy is a permanent religion,” “Do jihad with your wealth,” and “The sharia limit for the magician and the condition of the Taliban,” indicating a focus on delegitimizing democratic rule and criticizing Taliban governance from an Islamic State aligned perspective.
A section of the issue argues about governance and selection of rulers, contrasting “democracy” with its preferred religious legal framework and citing religious texts to support claims about who can rule and how authority is established.
The issue includes a “clarification” item directed at “taghut scholars,” explicitly naming “Mullah Izzat” in the table of contents, consistent with Islamic State aligned efforts to discredit rival clerics and religious authorities.
The issue includes operational and conflict related content, including claims of clashes involving “Turkish murtad forces” and “mujahideen,” as well as a profile of “Ayyubi, the Lion of Khaybar,” which states he conducted a suicide attack in Kabul against “murtad police.”
Beyond ideology, the issue appears designed to serve multiple functions at once: reinforce in group identity, argue that non Islamic political systems are inherently apostate, channel readers into financial support roles, and keep supporters engaged with a mix of religious polemics, battlefield claims, and martyr biographies.
Sources
Urdu Media
