“I congratulate Amirul-Mu’minin Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And congratulate ourselves on the khilafah [caliphate]. Congratulations to us on the triumphs and great victories. We ask Allah to protect you. By Allah, we love you for Allah’s sake. I say to [my family], perform hijrah [migration] to these lands that are ruled by Islam. Hijrah is now obligatory upon every Muslim. It is obligatory now because we are in the shade of Islam and rule by Allah’s Shari’ah.”

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“The Shari’ah of our Lord is light, by it we rise over the stars. By it we live without humiliation, a life of peace and security.”Aaron Y. Zelin, “al-Ḥayāt Media Center presents a new video message from The Islamic State: “‘Īd Greetings From the Land Of the Caliphate”Jihadology, August 2, 2014, http://jihadology.net/2014/08/02/al-%E1%B8%A5ayat-media-center-presents-a-new-video-message-from-the-islamic-state-id-greetings-from-the-land-of-the-caliphate/.