 Sobir agreed to the former, stating that those of Kabul were either participants or bystanders to the brutal murder.Sobir and the poem were labeled anti-Islamic.Although Sobir denied receiving direct personal death threats, the government authorities released a statement that a 26-year old Tajik national "admitted in court that had planned to murder the poet in order to gain the trust of an Islamic State commander", who had encouraged him to kill all those who had abandoned Islam.