Join the Caravan Paperback – 1 May 2001

1987 original pub. 1991(Second English edition published in London, UK; ISBN 0-9540843-0-6) An appeal for Muslims to establish "a solid foundation as a base for Islam" in Afghanistan by expelling the Russian invaders of this Muslim land. The author quoted extensively from the Quran and the hadeeth in establishing his jurisprudence reasoning as to why Muslims not only have a communal obligation (Fard Kifayah) in providing financial help to Muslim soldiers (mujahideen), but now that the foreign occupiers have become so threatening that there is now an individual obligation (Fard Ain) for committed Muslims to travel to the embattled lands and become active combatants themselves. The author, who was in Pakistan to coordinate financial support to the al-Quida/Taliban fighters, wrote that although the immediate battle was against the Russians in Afghanistan, the battle needed to be expanded to overthrow the Jewish state of Israel and "other usurped Muslim lands of the like" (i.e., Spain). He wrote that older teenage boys did not need their father's permission to travel to join in the jihad, but female volunteers needed to be escorted by a male relative (mahram) to Pakistan to work as a nurse or cook for the mujahideen, but they could not become fighters themselves (as Afghani women were not being used as fighters at that time). Azzam's other books: "Defense of the Muslim Lands" (his jurisprudence reasoning as to why Muslims must travel to Afghanistan to fight the Russian invaders, and eventually travel to Palestine to expel the Jewish invaders); "Signs of Ar-Rahman in the Jihad of the Afghan" (revelations of mystical spirits assisting the mujahideen); "Lovers of the Pardise Maidens" (stories of 150 jihad martyrs in Afghanistan).