Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem

 

Dear Brothers, dear sons of the best nation raised from mankind, dear respected people of Indonesia:

I have come from Lebanon, the land that was split from the land of al-Sham, the center of Dar al-Islam, specifically from a city named Tripoli of al-Sham, from the beaches of Al-Rabat that the distinguished Sahaba had held on to, followed by the heroes and Mujahideen after them. From the land that was conquered by the army of Ameer al-Mu'mineen Umar bin al-Khattab (ra). This land, that the Mujahideen set out from by land and sea carrying Islam, a message of mercy and guidance, to the world. From the land that about which Allah's Prophet (saw) said, "ألا إن عقر دار المؤمنين بالشام" "Behold, indeed the heart Dar al-Islam is al-Sham" and "إذا فسد أهل الشام فلا خير فيكم" "If the people of al-Sham are corrupted then there is no good in you."

And,

".وقال:"إن الله تكفل لي بالشام وأهله"، قالوا:"بم ذاك يا رسول الله"، قال:"ذلك بأن ملائكة الله باسطو أجنحتهم فوق الشام

"Allah has given me a guarantee concerning al-Sham and its people." They said, "Why is that O messenger of Allah?" He said, "Allah's angels spread their wings over al-Sham."

This land, that was invaded by the Franks five centuries after being merged into Dar al-Islam, who came from Europe that was drowning in the dark Middle Ages, and occupied the northern part and the coast reaching Jerusalem. And they established four Crusader countries spanning almost two centuries. In addition to their invasion was the invasion of the Mongols that dominated the land increasing corruption and bloodshed, and they overpowered the Muslims' Khilafah "Caliphate" in Baghdad. But they did not linger and were all defeated, and the Crusader states ceased to exist one after the other, by the hands of the heroic leaders of the Mujahideen: Imad ad-Din Zanki, Nur al-Din Mahmoud, Salahudeen al-Ayoubi who liberated Jerusalem, Muzaffar Qutuz and Zahir Baybars and Mansour Qalawoon who liberated Tripoli of al-Sham, and al-Ashraf Khalil, who purified al-Sham from the remnants of the Frank Crusaders, and returned all of the lands al-Sham to Dar al-Islam.

Seven centuries later, in the twentieth century, the modern West resumed its crusader imperial invasion of the lands al-Sham, and occupied it after the defeat of the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" in World War One in the year 1918 CE. And the hate-filled expressions of the invaders are still being repeated in today's history books. When the British General Allenby defeated the Muslim army in Palestine and occupied Jerusalem, he announced in his famous speech: "The wars of the crusaders are now complete" Then, sixty years later, the French general Gouraud arrived in Damascus as an occupier, and immediately and intentionally traveled to the grave of the freer of Jerusalem, the hero Salahudeen al-Ayoubi and stood in front of his grave gloatingly said: "Salahudeen, we have returned."

This secular European Imperialist came to our lands with the face of the historic Crusader, so they resolutely spread annihilation in the Ummah and its lands with its beliefs, morals and material resources. At the start of the First World War, European allies agreed amongst themselves in what is known as  the Sykes-Picot Agreement on the division of what was left of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, particularly Bilad al-Sham and Iraq. And when they occupied these lands they tore them apart into small states according to the well known Imperial principle "divide and conquer". So they divided the lands of al-Sham into four small states, which are Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the lands of Palestine.

As for the Palestinian lands, they surrendered it over to the lowliest of the displaced Jews from all over the world. These Jews displaced half of the Palestinian population, and subjugated the other half, and established the sectarian Jewish state and fraudulently called it "Israel", and the Masjid al-Aqsa fell prisoner between their hands for 46 years, without the traitor Arab rulers moving a finger to its liberation.

As for Jordan, the British created a state to protect the Eastern borders of the Jewish entity, and assigned this sin to the traitor family, the family of Sharif Hussein that stabbed the Ottoman Caliphate in the back by aligning with dissolute Britain in World War One.

As for Syria, they established a secular state in it and handed rule over to the secular party called the al-Ba'ath Party. In this party, sectarian minorities hid to control the Muslims of the land of al-Sham. The tyrant Hafez al-Assad sprung from this party to rule, and turned the state into a plantation for his family and followers from his sect. So he warred against Islam and its followers, and spread vice and immorality throughout the land, and during the 1980's, he murdered hundreds of thousands of Syria's Muslims, and tortured hundreds of thousands in his prisons, and enslaved the people of Syria and subjected them to evil torment. And his son after him continued on this course, who in the past two years alone has murdered more than one hundred and fifty thousand of Syria's people, and displaced half of its population, and destroyed hundreds of its cities and villages.

As for my country, Lebanon, the French had snatched it away about a century ago in the year of 1920 from the land of al-Sham, even though the Muslim people rejected and were outraged by their segregation from their brothers. They established a sectarian state in it, and handed rule over to a Christian sect that ruled for half a century, which lead to an odious sectarian war. In the midst of this the Assad regime waged a war in 1985 against my city of Tripoli, a demolishing war, and killed hundreds and displaced thousands destroying hundreds of homes. Then America authorized rule in Lebanon to the criminal Assad, and he enslaved its people as he had enslaved the Syrian people from before.

And when the blessed Revolution of al-Sham broke out two years ago the Muslims of Lebanon sympathized with it and were hopeful that they would be returned to the land of al-Sham. But the entire world warred against this blessed revolution, and the hypocrite rulers of Iran and their sectarian party in Lebanon falsely named Hezbollah, led the alliance from the sectarian minorities against the people of al-Sham and their revolution, and took the decision to forbid any support for the revolution in Lebanon.  However, Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon defied that decision with the help of Allah (swt), and was determined despite them to go out in the first demonstrations in support of the revolution of al-Sham in the Arab lands, particularly in my city Tripoli of al-Sham. So the agent authority in Lebanon - and with it Iran's Hezb and Assad's supporters - took the decision to forbid demonstrations and strapped security forces to threaten and intimidate us and terrorize the city's people, and arrested our members. However Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon was not hesitant, and was determined to go out in demonstrations, and it was a blessed demonstration and broke the ban and opened the door for the support of the revolution of al-Sham in all of Lebanon. Then the heroes of Tripoli and the rest of Lebanon followed their brothers in Syria, sacrificing for the sake of Allah their selves, wealth and what they owned of worldly belongings.

And because of this Iran's Hezb is now punishing Tripoli, so they push the criminal followers of Assad in Tripoli to open fire on its people and murder them, and I left my city while it was under shelling, gunfire and death from those criminals.

But we are confident and certain that the victory will be for the people of al-Sham, because today they are rebelling by virtue of them being believers, and they chant in their demonstrations: "Oh Allah we have none but You Oh Allah", and they chant: "Our Leader, Forever, Our Master Muhammad", and they raise the flag of Allah's Prophet (saw); openly declare that they will not be satisfied except with an Islamic State that rules with what Allah has revealed. And as long as Muslims combat as Muslims no power on Earth can defeat them, because Allah Almighty promised with His Saying: ((إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقدَامَكُم)) "if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet." and His Saying: ((وَلَقَدْ سَبَقَتْ كَلِمَتُنَا لِعِبَادِنَا المُرْسَلِينَ إِنَّهُمْ لَهُمُ المَنْصُورُونَ وَإِنَّ جُنْدَنَا لَهُمُ الغالِبُونَ)) "And Our word has already preceded for Our servants, the messengers, [That] indeed, they would be those given victory. And [that] indeed, Our soldiers will be those who overcome."

We all sincerely hope that the revolution of al-Sham does not stop and does not back down until the promised Khilafah "Caliphate" al-Rashida that the Prophet (saw) gave glad tidings of is restored, Allah willing.

((وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ))

"And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know."

 

Ahmad Al-Qasas

Director of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Lebanon