The implications of us defeat in Afghanistan are immense. We are on the verge of witnessing events rapidly unfolding over the next few weeks and months which are enormously important for not just Muslims but all the oppressed people of the world. Afghanistan has returned to the people who fought against their occupiers for their homeland. The Afghans have written a whole new script, showing the lands of Islam, as well as the Global South, how to defeat the self-referential, seemingly invincible US/NATO empire. The Afghans did it with Islamic faith, patience and force of will with minimal formal military training, no backing of any state – unlike Vietnam, which had China and the USSR – no hundreds of billions of dollars from NATO, no trained army, no air force and no state-of-the-art technology. Undoubtedly, the humiliating withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan also reveals the fragile power of the US in the world today which implies that the US is on the brink of severe decline.