A Big Chaos is Created Because of the Prayer Rug, But Allah's Commands Are Trampled On

News:

President Erdoğan showed the prayer rug that was given to him as a gift and said, “This prayer rug is not to stamp on it. On May 15, I hope we will perform the prayer of thankfulness on this prayer rug." (03.04.2023 Sabah)

Comment:

The political polemic took place, and still continues, after the picture of CHP Istanbul Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu stepped on the prayer rug with her shoes, together with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, CHP leader and presidential candidate. The prayer rug is a tool and material for the political conflict between pro-American Erdoğan and pro-British Kılıçdaroğlu shortly before the elections. Apart from this, for both Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu, religious values or symbols have no value other than using the religious feelings of the people for their own interests. Both are abusers of religion.

Erdogan's creating of chaos over the religiously sanctified prayer rug is not because he values the prayer rug or the symbols of religion. On the contrary, in Erdogan's eyes, the prayer rug has no meaning other than presenting Kılıçdaroğlu, who has formed a strong alliance with predominantly pro-British parties in the presidential elections to be held on May 14, as an enemy of religion, and consolidating his own support and votes through the anti-religiousness of CHP. The prayer rug should have had another meaning in Erdogan's eyes than to collect votes and to present his opponent as an enemy of religion and himself a friend of religion.

Because, if Erdogan had given the slightest value to the values and symbols of religion, he would rule according to the rules of Islam, not according to capitalism during his 20-year rule, and would not establish relations and friendships with Russia, China, America, India and many other countries that are hostile to Islam and Muslims. He would cut off diplomatic and commercial relations with Western countries that insulted Allah's Messenger and burned the Qur'an, expelled their diplomatic missions from the country, and would not meet the president of the bloody usurper Jewish entity with red carpets at the "Presidential Complex".

So, according to Erdogan, the "sanctity" of the prayer rug is superior to all of the above and more. He probably forgets that when the chaos broke out because of stepping on the prayer rug with shoes, or when the lies were flying in the air, he did not rule according to Allah's decrees and trampled upon Allah's systems, and that he ascribed sanctity to these un-Islamic ideas by throwing Muslims who attacked ideas such as patriotism, nationalism, freedoms and democracy in prisons!

Erdogan or Kılıçdaroğlu or other politicians don't have much to do with the rulings of religion, but they know very well how to abuse the rulings of religion when it suits them. Maybe Kılıçdaroğlu is a novice in this subject because he does not come from the Islamic tradition, but Erdoğan is the master of this subject. He knows very well how to put an Islamic cover on the provisions of unbelief. The best proof of this is that he said that he would perform the prayer of thankfulness after May 15th. However, when the rulings of unbelief or rulings contrary to Islam are fulfilled, the prayer or prostration of thankfulness is not performed.

Muslims in Turkey should boycott the elections rather than voting for one or another candidate in elections where religious discourses will probably come to the fore. They should know that no matter which party or person comes to power, there will be no change in their lives, and the economic misery and political dependence will continue as they did, because democratic elections only prolong the life of the collapsing system.

Therefore, the salvation of Muslims is not democratic elections, but the Khilafah that will rule according to the Qur'an and Sunnah. No matter who comes to power other than the caliphate, there will be no change in our lives.

(وَمَنْ اَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْر۪ي فَاِنَّ لَهُ مَع۪يشَةً ضَنْكًا وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِ اَعْمٰى)

“But whoever turns away from My Reminder will certainly have a miserable life, then We will raise them up blind on the Day of Judgment.” [Surah Taha: 124]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Ercan Tekinbaş