Osama bin Laden’s son Saad, while in hiding in 2008, wrote a letter to his wife on how she should raise their children in the aftermath of his death.
The letter is one of the 100 newly declassified documents by the US administration, and was obtained during the killer raid of Osama bin Laden’s hideout near Islamabad by the US Seals in 2011.
My will:
If I get killed, and you want to return to your family, then that is okay, but you have to raise my children properly, and to watch them, and be careful of bad company for them, especially after puberty, especially the girls `Asma` and (TN: possibly, Duha).
The daughters should be married to like-minded fighters.
Be very careful about them and if you can marry them to mujahidin, then that is best, or else to good people.
Son should be raised in the path of jihad:
As for Usama, when he reaches adulthood, if there is someone else who cares for you, then send him to the battlefield at his grandfather’s. I specify his grandfather because his path is clear and true without qualms on it, and because jihad is an obligated duty for all adults, so he has to conduct jihad.
Marriage of wife after his death:
If you want to marry after me, I have no objection, but I really want you to be my wife in paradise and make a choice on Judgment Day.
I know that you are in a psychological crisis, so I doubled my thinking to find a way out for you, so I ask God to speed up the resolution for you and to get us together on the shores of safety sooner and not later.
