Afghan Children Killed in School, the Price of Learning without the Khilafah

News:

On the 30th of November 2022, 17 people were killed in a bomb blast in an Afghan school, the majority of the students were children ages between 9 and 15. The school had just ended its prayers when the blast took place in the city of Aybak in Samangan province. This latest targeting on schools comes after similar masses killing students in September, where at least 54 people - including 51 girls were killed after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in the capital city of Kabul. The attacker had targeted a hall where hundreds of students were sitting a test for university admission.

Comment:

The rising instability of the schooling system and general life in Afghanistan is a normal feature of the social-political infrastructure in Afghanistan. The previous presence of masses of US forces did nothing to stabilize the region and blaming the current spate of random bombings on the Taliban rule is nonsensical. It is merely a smoke screen to tarnish “Sharia Law” with a murderous identity and incapacity to solve the problem of a nation well. The Western security forces have been involved in planned incidents of disruption on many occasions. Whilst it is not clear who was behind this incident, we can say that such events are always used to justify the need for more liberal democratic policies and are media opportunities to brainwash people with secular values.

We must not submit to these cheap tactics of distraction and understand that as Muslims there is no recognizable valid authority that serves Quran and Sunnah. The Khilafah (Caliphate) in the way of the Prophet (saw) is the only legitimate solution to rid the world of global terrorism and mafia ruling systems that are represented all over the globe in their various colonialist forms.

Allah (swt) praises learning as one of the actions that take this Ummah to Jannah;

(وَإِذَا قِيلَ انْشُزُوا فَانْشُزُوا يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَاتٍ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ)

“...And when ye are told to rise up, rise up. Allah will raise up, to (suitable) ranks (and degrees), those of you who believe and who have been granted (mystic) Knowledge. And Allah is well-acquainted with all ye do” [Quran, 58:11].

The education of girls and women was always secured in the illustrious history of Islam and we can see documented evidence of the thousands of females who graduated from Islamic Universities and those that historically funded and founded Islamic places of learning. This was the case of the first University on Morocco Al-Karaouine by Fatima al Fihri.

We ask Allah (swt) to make the return of the Khilafah soon so that women and girls once more have their places of learning secure from attack and disruption.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammad
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir