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From Kazan to Aleppo, Muslims need Khilafah "Caliphate"!
News
On 18th October INTERFAX news agency reported: “Today, from 10 am Russian and Syrian Air Forces will stop airstrikes in Aleppo. An early termination of airstrikes is necessary for the introduction of humanitarian pauses on 20th October”, – said Shoigu on a conference call. According to the minister, an early termination of airstrikes “will ensure safe passage for civilians on the six corridors and will prepare the sick and wounded for the evacuation from the eastern part of Aleppo”.
Comment
The recent events in the Sham, and particularly in Aleppo, remind us the sad 5-century-old events of the Kazan Khanate. Then the Islamic Ummah lost one of the most strategically important cities – Kazan. In October 1552 the 150,000 army of Ivan the Terrible stormed the city, which defended 41 long days. The protective walls and towers of the city were bombed with the latest military technology. The city was under heavy fire with the big cannons, specially designed for this battle.
According to different sources from 20 to 30 thousand soldiers defended Kazan. One of the leaders of the defense of Kazan was a famous scholar of the time, the Imam Kul Sharif, who with his followers, united in a special military unit “regiment”, consisted of young dervishes and Sufis, defended stepping up to the madrasah building. The disbelievers pushed him to the roof where he was stabbed and fell down. The life of the outstanding personality of the Kazan Khanate epoch was cut short so tragically.
Kazan was completely looted and destroyed. No stone of the central mosque was left unturned. In an unequal battle all its defenders were killed. Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered the murder all of the remaining men, to take women and children into slavery. According to the custom of the time the city was given to the soldiers to plunder for three days. The disbelieving invaders cut the bellies of the pregnant women and beheaded the elderly and children, the men were drowned in the Volga in order the whole world to know about this and be afraid of Russia.
We can see that history repeats itself, but in the Sham. Another Russian Tsar Putin besieges another Muslim city of Aleppo. Then, the disunity of Muslim khans, who left Kazan Muslim alone with the disbelieving invaders, contributed to the victory of the disbelievers. Today, this disunity of the Muslim groups and corrupt rulers, allows the disbelievers to bomb Syrian cities, Aleppo in particular.
Putin, who has armed his army with the latest military technologies, under the approval of his friends in the West, is bombing Aleppo, sparing no civilians of the city: women, elderly and children. News of the bombing, the killed and wounded spreads every day throughout the world. And, ultimately, if the city will be captured by the disbelieving colonizers, history will repeat itself, as has already happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and other Islamic territories. After all, it is no secret that the purpose of the physical extermination of the Muslims of Syria, is to force the people to abandon the project of revival of the righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" state (Caliphate).
The Ummah from Aleppo to Kazan, needs a unification of all the disparate groups on the territory of Syria and around the world. History shows that when Muslims were attacked by the Mongols, Muslims, only when they united, were able to repel the hordes of wild polytheists. And yet, when Muslims united against the Crusaders headed by Salahuddin, Muslims were victorious and liberated Muslim lands from invaders. We, the Islamic Ummah, like a single body, as our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw) said:
«الْمُؤْمِنُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ كَالْبُنْيَانِ يَشُدُّ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا»
“Muslims are to one another like [parts of] a building – each part strengthening the others” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari, Saheeh Muslim).
And Allah Almighty and All Powerful says in His Noble Book:
(وَاعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ اللّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُواْ)
“And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided” [3:103].
O noble sons of the Islamic Ummah! O brave Mujahideen of the holy revolution! Hurry to leave all quarrels among yourselves and unite to liberate the Sham from the unbelieving colonizers, and their servants in the face of corrupt rulers. Hurry to unite around the project of Hizb ut Tahrir to revive the Islamic way of life. Let Allah (swt) help us!
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Eldar Khamzin
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir