Europe: University Symposium entitled "The Message of Islam" in the Belgian capital of Brussels
Regime Collaborates with IMF to Strangle the People over Electricity
Dawn reported on 5 May, "A senior government official told Dawn that more than Rs230bn would be raised through gas and electricity tariffs under the fiscal consolidation programme agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)... Pakistani authorities are at present in Dubai to finalise various budgetary measures in consultation with an IMF mission as part of the third review of the $6.78bn bailout package... The official ruled out the possibility of an increase in electricity tariff before September because of the prevailing electricity shortage even though the government had to generate about Rs120bn through the power sector in the next fiscal year. "In a political economy, you cannot afford to increase power tariff when voters are suffering from long hours of loadshedding in sizzling temperatures," he said. The situation would come under control between July and September and the government would withdraw more subsidies and increase tariff for a few categories for cross subsidisation after that period."
(http://www.dawn.com/news/1104249/govt-plans-rs550bn-fiscal-adjustment)
In its "Pakistan-Program Note" of 7 April 2014, the IMF highlights "The authorities' energy policy is geared to addressing the longstanding problems in the sector, which constitute the most critical constraint on growth and have generated large fiscal costs. Reforms in the trade regime, restructuring or privatizing public sector enterprises, and measures to improve the business climate, should also boost medium-term growth prospects." In reality, this is about continued privatization of the power sector and also increasing the price of electricity for the people, so as to guarantee profits for the new private owners of electricity generation and distribution. The regime has already guaranteed profits on investment for private owners, by increasing the electricity charges many fold. It has also made sure that the private owners are paid from the revenues of the state, even when they are not producing electricity because of fuel shortage. And now it will increase energy charges even more for the benefit of the private owners.
And the rulers are privatizing the Ummah's resources, such as power and gas, even though Islam has declared that energy is a public property for the Muslims. RasulAllah (saw) said,
«المسلمون شرکاء فی ثلاث الماء والکلأ والنار»
"Muslims are partners (associates) in three things: in water, pastures and fire (energy)" [Abu Dawood.]. Thus under the Khilafah "Caliphate", with its Islamic constitution, the benefit of electricity will be for the public and the state will supervise the matter to ensure that. Moreover, all of these loans are on interest, explicitly forbidden by Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw), which has prevented Pakistan from escaping the debt trap, even though it has paid back the principles of such loans many times over.
Raheel-Nawaz Regime Submit to the UN, Guardian of Colonialism
Addressing the concluding session of the Envoys Conference which focused on the Middle East, at the Foreign Office in the federal capital, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday 6 May 2014, categorically stated, "Our approach to the transition in the Arab world, would continue to be guided by the principles, enshrined in the United Nations Charter." The important conference apart from Pakistan's envoys was attended by Advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatimi, Secretary Foreign Affairs Iizaz Chaudhry and members of the Cabinet.
What is this United Nations Charter that is so sacred to the regime, that it alone should decide the Ummah's only nuclear power's stance to Muslim Lands? The international law upon which the Charter is built, originated as a Christian reaction to the Islamic expansion of the Khilafah "Caliphate" into the European lands including Greece, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria, to the point the Muslim army knocked upon the gates of Vienna. So international law and the bodies are founded upon it, oppose Islam as the dominant influence in the world. And today that practically means that the United Nations is a guardian for colonialism against the return of Islam as a state and authority, the Khilafah "Caliphate". This is the "transition" that the colonialist masters of the regime fear, compelling them to fight a proxy war within Syria against its good people, in order to save the collapsing regime of the tyrant Bashar.
The United Nations is a guardian for the interests of the major powers who are the permanent members of the Security Council, which they call "peace". The slogan of peace is repeated everywhere by their mouthpieces as a pretext for safeguarding their interests and preventing other states from liberation and emancipation from the noose of colonialism. Muslims have seen the oppression upon them justified by UN Resolutions, whether it is attacks by the colonialists themselves, as in Iraq or Afghanistan, or it is attacks by those the colonialists support against the Muslims, such as those by the Jewish State.
Yet, again the regime has shown that its vision extends no further than appeasing its masters so as to cling to the throne for pure self-interest, even if it were for a while, rather than pay due consideration to the responsibility of this Ummah towards liberating a world ravaged by colonialism by the light of Islam. Allah (swt) said,
((كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنْ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ))
"You are the best Ummah brought forward to humankind, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil and believing in Allah." [Surah Aali Imran 3: 110]
American FBI Weapons Case: A Matter of Constitution
A court in Karachi on Thursday 8 May granted bail to a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee, Joel Cox Eugene, arrested for trying to board a domestic civilian flight in Karachi, headed to the capital on there his way to the US embassy in Islamabad, with 15 9 mm bullets and a knife in his luggage. A State Department spokeswoman said Washington was working closely with Pakistan to resolve Cox's arrest. "This individual detained is an employee of the FBI who was on a temporary duty assignment to provide routine assistance to the legal attache at the US mission," she said.
The people of Pakistan are incensed over the entire matter, as they were outraged at the Raymond Davis case. This case extends beyond the matter of an individual carrying lethal weapons in our most populated and troubled city, Karachi, on his way to our capital. It extends to the actual legality of the American presence in Pakistan, including its embassy, which is a fortress in all but name and its military, intelligence and private military which form a vast network within Pakistan's lands. These formidable assets are of a belligerent nation that is occupying Muslims lands and used its Raymond Davis network within Pakistan to orchestrate bombings and target killings against the military and civilians, to keep the fires of the war of Fitna in the tribal areas burning.
The people are frustrated, both at the court decision and the weak role of the regime in this case and other such cases. But addressing this injustice mandates going beyond the judicial, political and military institutions, to the very constitution that they uphold. The Constitution itself is why America despite its reality is treated as a friendly state, regardless of its open hostility. In addition, it is not enough to reform the Constitution, or bring Amendments to it. That is because of the matter of Sovereignty, the authority to decide what is lawful and what is prohibited. The Constitution upholds Democracy, a Western concept in which man is sovereign, whereas in Islam Sovereignty lies with Allah (swt), for He (swt) Alone decides what is Halaal and Haraam. To redress such injustices that exist under the current constitution, we do not merely need a change in the constitution; we need a change of the constitution entirely to an Islamic Constitution, derived exclusively from the Quran and the Sunnah.
In Article 189 of the Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut Tahrir adopted regarding belligerent nations like America: "If some or part of these countries come to be in a situation of actual war with us, in other words if they attacked the Muslim lands, then they would be treated according to the fourth clause of this article which deals with actual war, and for that reason America and Britain are considered as actual belligerents after they began their war upon Iraq and Afghanistan, and any other country which declared war on any of the Muslim lands would also be considered the same, and the rules to do with actual war are applied as long as the situation of war remains between us and them" and "The evidence to not create any diplomatic relations with the countries which are mentioned in the article is the fact that if their having embassies in a land which was under the authority of Islam would lead to harm because the job of embassies of countries like these is to try to increase the influence of their States in the countries where they had their embassies, so consequently they are prohibited in accordance with the practical application of the principle of منع فرد من أفراد المباح إذا كان يوصل إلى ضرر "prohibiting something permitted if it leads to harm.""
America Again Asks Pakistan's Army to Do More, Because Its Army Can't
US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns during his visit to Pakistan held a meeting with Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Friday 9 May. During the meeting with General Raheel, Burns discussed security along the Pak-Afghan border and shared more information about terrorist sanctuaries, punctuating his meeting with a calling for strikes against them.
This is a typical American demand from the very beginning of its campaign to establish a military footprint in the region, which it calls "War on Terror." Yet from the beginning, America's own military was its biggest handicap to its aspirations, for America's own army lacks in the required bravery, despite its sophistication in weapons. Using mind-altering drugs to counter fear and committing suicide to avoid the trauma of combat, deepened the ineffectiveness of the American troops. That is why poorly armed, yet highly motivated mujhadeen have brought its armed forces to its knees, forcing a partial withdrawal. That is also why America has repeatedly demanded Pakistan's Army engage itself in the tribal areas to fight the mujahideen, urging them to do more. As for America's contingent of Raymond Davis's on our soil, they instigate false flag attacks against our army, in the name of the tribal Muslims, sparking Fitna, to prod the army into action. The Americans are now in a process of salvaging a reduced military footprint in the region, with nine bases and a staff of over 100,000, and since it cannot rely on its own forces to get the job done, it again calls upon the brave and disciplined Pakistani armed forces.
The wise in the armed forces must consider these matters and their grave implications. The entire American scheme would never have been realized in the first place, were it not for traitors embedded in the very leadership of the military. Were it not for General Musharraf's collaboration with America, America would never have established a footprint in the first place, as he opened the doors to Pakistan, and silenced opposition within the armed force. Were it not for General Kayani's collaboration by deploying the armed forces into the tribal areas in waves of operations, America would not have even the option of a partial withdrawal and would have to completely withdraw as Soviet Russia before it, its tails between its legs. And now Raheel is faced with collaborating with America to retrieve a military footprint for it that it could never earn for itself, right on the doorstep of the Muslim Worlds sole nuclear power and most powerful armed forces.
The very least that is required for Pakistan's security, is to let the American occupation die its own death at the hands of the hardy tribal Muslims. More than that can only be expected by a Khaleefah, ruling by Islam, who will rally the armed forces and tribal Muslims as one force to eradicate all traces of the belligerent US presence in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including its embassies, consulates, bases, private military, military, intelligence and diplomats. And Allah (swt) said,
((وَلَيَنْصُرَنَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَنْصُرُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ))
"... Allah will certainly aid those who aid His (cause); for Verily Allah is full of strength, Exalted In Might, (able to enforce His Will." [Surah Hajj 22: 40]
Increased ForEx is Nothing to Boast About, As it Only Indicates an Economy about to Collapse
The government on Friday 9 May 2014, confirmed to have added about $15.3 billion to the country's external debt, violating prudent borrowing limits under the Fiscal Responsibility and Debt Limitation Act (FRDLA). This is part of Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS 2013-14 to 2017-18) after conclusion of third review of the IMF programme in Dubai. Then the very next day, at a joint press conference with Jeffrey Franks, the chief for the IMF Pakistan, on Saturday 10 May 2014, Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar cheerily reported that the country's foreign exchange reserves had soared following the bailout package. "I also have a good news to share - the country's foreign exchange reserves have jumped to $12.9 billion," he said, adding they will rise to $15 billion by the end of September.
In order to deceive the people about the worsening debt and economic situation of the country, the Raheel-Nawaz regime boasts about the increase in foreign exchange reserves (ForEx reserves). However, it is nothing to celebrate, as it indicates the economy is collapsing, on the verge of total collapse. The increased ForEx is due to remittances from Pakistani abroad alarmed at the hardships at home, coupled with reduction in exports and more dependence on imports due to Pakistan's collapsing local industry, as well as the government taking on huge foreign debt due to its negligence in applying the Sharia rules for revenues and expenditures.
The increase in poverty along with increase in foreign exchange reserves makes it very clear that the regime is neither sincere in solving the economic problems of the people of Pakistan nor does it possess any strategy to eliminate poverty. This reveals the extent to which the capitalist ideology has infatuated the hearts and minds of the members of the criminal regime. The Capitalist system relieves the government of the responsibility to provide the basic facilities and utilities to the people and grants it to the private sectors. So, in strict pursuance with this policy, the regime repeatedly woos the private sector for investment so that the provision of basic facilities to the people is turned into a business, whether energy, education or health, whilst the regime absolves itself of looking after the people's affairs. And whilst the people are crushed by rent, school fees, hospital bills and electricity bills, the government slaps itself on its back about increasing ForEx, like the Emperor Nero playing fiddle as Rome burns!
And thus it is an urgent reminder that the Muslims must engage in the serious work to abolish the Munkar of Democracy and Capitalism and restore the ruling by Islam through the Khilafah "Caliphate". Allah (swt) said,
إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَا يُعَذِّبُ الْعَامَّةَ بِعَمَلِ الْخَاصَّةِ حَتَّى يَرَوْا الْمُنْكَرَ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْهِمْ وَهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَى أَنْ يُنْكِرُوهُ فَلَا يُنْكِرُوهُ فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَذَّبَ اللَّهُ الْخَاصَّةَ وَالْعَامَّةَ
"Allah will not punish the public people (general masses) because of the action of particular people until they see the Munkar (committed) in their midst, and they are able to Forbid it, but they do not denounce it. If they did so, then Allah would punish the particular people (Khassah) and the public (‘Aammah)). [Ahmad]
No More Jockeys for America's Horse in Pakistan, Democracy
Brother of the Prime Minister and Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, on Sunday 11 May lashed out at the 'anti-government' rallies held by opposition parties in Pakistan capital on the same day. The protests took place on the first anniversary of elections in 2013, which the opposition say were rigged. Minister of Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique criticized the opposition for censuring a system that they they themselves are a part of.
The realization that elections brought more of the same has deepened the debate for change in Pakistan. Though Pakistan's current regime is defending elections, electoral reforms and electoral participation within Democracy, its talk has little appeal. Democracy has had its day in Pakistan. Last year is not so long ago and any voting that took place then was not inspired by any hope in Democracy. In fact voting was inspired by a fear that Democracy would bring something even worse than what it has unleashed so far into our abode. People reasoned that admitting a smaller thief into our home is better than letting a bigger one. Such are the high standards that Democracy has engendered! Moreover, the only true election promise was that of the US Ambassador who said, "Democracy is our horse in Pakistan." As long as Democracy exists in Pakistan, whoever comes to ride atop of it is immaterial, because the reins are firmly in the hands of the colonialists.
And the very next month after the elections, an international survey underlined that Democracy is dead and the people want Islam. The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life published on 30 April 2013 a survey entitled "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society." The survey report declared, "Overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law (sharia) to be the official law of the land." Survey findings in Pakistan were particularly encouraging. Only 29% said that democracy is better able to solve their county's problems, whilst support for making sharia the official law of the land stood at 84% and 91% of Muslims in Pakistan say that it is bad thing that the laws do not follow Shariah.
What remains for change is the decisive mobilization of those who have held aloft the corrupt rulers and corrupt systems in all this time- the Muslim armed forces.' For decades, dictators and democrats alike have depended on their consent and support to remain in power, for the armed forces are the basis of power itself today. No doubt, the armed forces are now affected by the popular sentiment for Islam as a state and rule, for they themselves are sons of the Ummah. No doubt, the horrified rulers are scrambling here and there to support the source of their livelihood Democracy. All that remains now is that the armed forces step up and do their Islamic duty, practically and decisively, by granting the Nussrah (material support) to Hizb ut Tahrir for the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate".
Praise be to Allah, prayer and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family and his companions and those who follow him,
To Sudan the Great Islam... To Sudan, the Mosque of Dongola, the first mosque planned by the early Muslims in Sudan... To Sudan, the great Islamic conquest in the era of the Khaleefah Uthman (ra), who ordered the governor of Egypt to convey the light of Islam to Sudan, so he sent the soldiers of Islam, led by Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh, and after fighting around Dongola, he entered Sudan from Nubia in the North, through a treaty; the Baqt Treaty, that he signed with the leader of Mukurra of the Nubia in the year 31 AH, and among its items was to maintain the Dongola Mosque... To Sudan the Abbasid Khaleefah, al-Ma'mun, who during his time some Muslims bought land in the Nubia, and the chief of Christians was opposed to the validity of the sale, saying that the seller is a Christian from his flock, so it is not permissible for him to sell his land without his permission and he did not authorize him to do so... He raised the issue to the Khaleefah al-Ma'mun, who referred the case to judiciary and the judge ruled that the owner of the land has the disposition of the land without the permission of the chief of Christians because he is not a slave to be prevented from acting on his own property. And Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, has told the truth when he said: "When did you enslave the people though their mothers born them free..." This just rule was the cause of entering a large number of Christians in Islam; because they saw that Islam does not discriminate against the right of the young or old, and that no one is oppressed under its rule. Therefore, Islam spread rapidly due to the bounty of Allah Almighty, until it filled the whole of Sudan: from North to South and from East to West. To Sudan the Ottomans, in which Sudan became one wilayah (province) with Egypt in the year 1821. Then to Sudan the Mujahid (fighter) against the British in their aggression against Sudan led by Kitchener. That aggression continued for around twenty years since 1896, where the British occupied Omdurman and Khartoum in 1898, then Kordofan in 1900 and Darfur continued its resistance until 1916, when the governor of Darfur, the strong and the pious hero Ali ibn Dinar was martyred. He was a Mujahid and scholar, who was credited with reforming "Zul-Hulaifa", the Miqaat (pilgrim's station) serving pilgrims coming from Medina and the people of Syria, and the establishment of wells for watering the pilgrims, which are still called by his name, Abiar Ali (Wells of Ali), until today.
To all those who lit Sudan with their faith, knowledge and Jihad... and to this honorable gathering at your blessed conference... I salute, with the greeting of Islam, Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.
Dear Distinguished Brothers: After this radiant and prosperous history, the direct colonialism by the British, the enemy of Islam and Muslims, continued for another forty years. Hence, the direct British colonialism in Sudan lasted sixty years since the British aggression in 1896 CE until the year 1956 CE. This was followed by the indirect colonialism; political and cultural, the spread of the rotten capitalist values and the clash of the old and the new colonialism; England and America, over Sudan. The land of Sudan, the good and the pure land, ended up to be ripped off; separating the South from the North through the fatal false (batil) Nevasha Agreement, under the auspices of the colonialist America. If this had stopped at this point, we would have said these are the Kafir Colonists, are interested in ripping apart Muslim lands, but what is worse is that the regime in Sudan, motivated by America, has exerted its efforts in conducting the negotiations and the Nevasha Agreement. Oh, we wish it acknowledged that the agreement is void but carried it out with a blurred vision on its sight. On the contrary, it considered tearing the country as a victory, and considered the Nevasha Agreement, the title of this ripping, a major achievement! Thus values were changed, and concepts were overturned, and the Messenger of Allah (saw) told the truth when he said, as narrated by Ibn Majah from Abu Hurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:
«سَيَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ سَنَوَاتٌ خَدَّاعَاتُ، يُصَدَّقُ فِيهَا الْكَاذِبُ، وَيُكَذَّبُ فِيهَا الصَّادِقُ، وَيُؤْتَمَنُ فِيهَا الْخَائِنُ، وَيُخَوَّنُ فِيهَا الْأَمِينُ، وَيَنْطِقُ فِيهَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ»، قِيلَ: وَمَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ؟ قَالَ: «الرَّجُلُ التَّافِهُ فِي أَمْرِ الْعَامَّةِ».
"A time will come upon people when they will employ deceit in everything. At that time the liars will be declared as the truthful and the truthful will be condemned as liars. The traitor will be regarded as upright while the upright will be regarded as betrayer; The "Ruwaibadha" will represent (lead) the people." It was asked who the "Ruwaibadha" were? He (saw) said: "They were the incompetent, unscrupulous and insignificant people. They will attend to the important matters pertaining to the public and make decisions".
O Muslims: Today's rulers after they have seen the awakening of the Ummah, and that it wants the source of its dignity, the Righteous Khilafah "Caliphate"; in this period government in Sudan calls for dialogue to search for compromises on the way of capitalism under the pretext of saving Sudan. Where in fact it is to save the ruling class from the evil it manufactured and to tuck away its crimes as if they did not exist. They are calling for a dialogue with the same regime which tore the country and planted the seed of secession in the land of Sudan, and what is in between the lines of the Doha Agreement on Darfur pronounces this. Our remedy of the disease that we suffer, dear brothers, is in the Law of Allah, in the system of the Khilafah "Caliphate", and not in the dialogue which America and its agents push for it in order to reach a compromising solution leading to a religion other than the Deen of Allah. Rather it leads to an evil from the East and an evil from the West, mixed together to produce a distorted, anomalous system, despised by Allah, His Messenger and the believers, and what is underway today in the Muslim countries of the laws pronounces this.
The solution to our problems is not unknown, nor is that it a theory far from the application. Rather, it is inscribed in the Book of Allah the Almighty, in the Sunnah of His Messenger (saw), and by the consensus of his Companions, May Allah be pleased with them. It is the provisions of the legitimacy that illuminate the darkness, and followed by Muslims for centuries so that their state was the leading state in the world, delivering goodness, not only throughout its boundaries, but throughout the entire world. Then after this, do you not wonder, why a few women seized by the king of Sindh cried out for help and Muhammad ibn Qasim answered their call, and hastened with an army of Muslims, ordered by the Khaleefah, to shake the throne of the king of Sindh, free them from their captivity and open the Sindh and India and radiate those lands with Islam. Why did such a cry receive a response by an Army that released their captivity and opened the country with the light of Islam, yet today women, children and elderly cry out for help in Myanmar Burma, which is a stone's throw away from Bangladesh and no one responds to their cry?! Then does anyone wonder why a woman's cry who was mistreated by a Roman called out Wa Muatsimah, reaches the ears of the Khaleefah, who leads an army to avenge her from the one who mistreated her, and opens Amuriyah, the city near Ankara today, one of the most impregnable and guarded Roman cities. Why did this cry move an army, while today's cries upon cries of the elderly, women and children in Central Africa, which is a stone's throw away from Sudan, yet no one respond to the cries and no army mobilized to rescue them?!
Why is this O Muslims? Is it not because the Khaleefah who we fight behind and are protected by and takes care of the affairs of the Ummah, in which that Khaleefah does not exist? Is it not so? Doesn't anyone with clear vision understand this? Is it not the glory for Muslims in establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate"? Is the issue of Khilafah "Caliphate" not a vital issue for Muslims? Is it not the one who dies while there is no Bay'ah (pledge of allegiance) to a Khaleefah who rules by the laws of Allah, he dies the death of Jahiliyya (ignorance)? Is this not an obligation (Fardh), and not any Fardh? Hence, O Muslims, our matter will not be reformed except with a remedy from the start... A state that rules by the truth and applies Islam with justice, a Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of the Prophethood following the example of the First Khilafah "Caliphate", applying Islam internally, and its armies launch to spread Islam externally.
O Muslims: We are aware that there are those who say Hizb ut Tahrir dreams about establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate", which is impossible to do these days! We say, Is Hizb ut Tahrir dreaming, when it recites the promise of Allah of succession to those who believe and do goodness:
((وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ))
"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them." ]An-Nur: 55[?
Is Hizb ut Tahrir dreaming when it reads the Hadeeth of Rasulallah (saw) of the new return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" after this ruling:
«...ثُمَّ تَكُونُ جَبْرِيَّةً... ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةٌ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ»
"...Afterwards there will be an oppressive rule....then there will be Khilafah "Caliphate" according to the method of the Prophethood"?
We are also aware that there are some who say that Hizb ut Tahrir has no other merchandise except the Khilafah "Caliphate", wherever it goes or travels it only talks about the Khilafah "Caliphate", it doesn't know anything else, and it has no other companion... and so on!
Indeed O Muslims, the Khilafah "Caliphate" is the merchandise and the industry, it is the guardian of the Deen and Dunya, with it the rules are implemented, the punishments (Hudood) are established, and conquests are achieved by truth. It is the one that Muslims were engaged with it before starting to prepare Rasulallah (saw) for his burial- in spite of the importance and gravity of that matter- all because of the greatness of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and its significance. The great Sahabah found that it was more important to be involved with it than that great duty which was to prepare Rasulallah (saw) (to be buried).
Yes, the Khilafah "Caliphate" is the glory and the protector. It is the one that will exterminate the Jewish state and restore the whole of Palestine to the lands of Islam. It will destroy the authority of the Hindus in Kashmir, and end the Russian rule in Chechnya, the Caucasus and Tatarstan. It will eliminate China's occupation of East Turkistan. It will restore Crimea to where it belongs, as part of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State. It will restore all the lands of Islam to their origin... It will cut off the hands of America, Britain and France ending them from interfering with the Muslim lands, and expel them back to their homelands if they will have one remaining. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will spread safety and security in Ash-Sham, it will prevent the tearing of Iraq, and restore what was taken in the separation of Sudan. It will return integrity to Somalia, and remove borders and dams that were drawn by the colonial Kuffar, from the Pacific Ocean where Indonesia and Malaysia, to the shores of the Atlantic, where Morocco and Andalusia. It will spread the good and Justice, and will honor Islam and Muslims, and uproot injustice and evil, and humiliates the Kaffir colonists...
Someone may say will the Khilafah "Caliphate" do all of this? Will it give us victory and drive defeat away? We say, yes, Allah Almighty says,
((إِن تَنصُرُوا اللَّـهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ))
"...if you support Allah, He will support you and make your feet firm" [Muhammad: 7].
The actual victory of Allah is not complete except by the establishment of the state of Islam, which implements its Ahkam, if it is established Allah (swt) will grant triumph to it, it will be solidified and glorified, it will be respected by its friends and feared by its enemies. Rasulallah (saw) says about this:
«الإمام جُنَّة يُقاتل من ورائه ويُتقى به»
"The Imam is but a shield from behind whom people fight and by whom they are protected". Thus the Khaleefah and the Khilafah "Caliphate" are a shield, that is protection, and he who has protection, will finally be victorious by the will of Allah, his rights won't be waste, nor his country, and his enemies dare not come near him. This is illustrated by the history of the Khilafah "Caliphate", so where Byzantine and its scepter? And where are the Madian and the emperors of Kisar? Then, who raised the voice with Allahu Akbar in those countries which spread on the length and the width of the earth, from ocean to ocean, if it was not for the state of Islam, the soldiers of Islam and the justice of Islam? Thus, the Khilafah "Caliphate" is the source of Muslims glory, and the way for their revival, and the title of their unity... it is their success in this world and their attainment in the hereafter, and that is what the great attainment is. This is the truth O Muslims, and for the like of this let the workers work.
((ويومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ))
"And that day the believers will rejoice at the victory of Allah. Allah makes victorious whom He will, and He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful". Ar-Rum: 4-5
In conclusion, I remind you of three events in this sacred month of Rajab, the month in which this conference is held, with admonitions and lessons for whoever has a heart or who listens bearing witness. The first two events illuminated the world by Allah's bounty and favor. The first is: the incident of Al-Isra wal-Mi'raj, which Allah (swt) honored His Messenger (saw) by it after the death of his wife, the mother of the Believers, Khadijah (ra), and then the death of his uncle Abu Talib, who was helping him in front of Quraish. The second incident is the permission of Allah Almighty for His Messenger (saw) to seek Nusrah (support) for the establishment of the Islamic state, and the application of the rule of Allah on earth. Therefore, the Ansar responded, and the State of Islam was established, and the earth revitalized with good and justice.
The third event had brought darkness after the light, where the British conspired with its traitors agents from the Arabs and the Turks, plotted on the Khilafah "Caliphate" in Istanbul, and abolished it. Then our land was sorely ripped, and as result of that it afflicted us what is testament to our successive miseries. So O Muslims, come to remove this adventitious darkness, and return the brightness of the Khilafah "Caliphate" once again. So that we live in this world under the shadow of the banner of Al Okab; the banner of the Messenger of Allah (saw), and in the Hereafter under the shadow of the Almighty on the day there is no shade but His. And we, Allah willing, be with those who Allah (swt) said in them:
((فِي مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِنْدَ مَلِيكٍ مُقْتَدِرٍ))
"In a seat of honor near a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability." ]Al-Qamar: 55[.
Wassallaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
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Details emerged on the 6th May of more girls having been abducted from Nigeria's Borno State to add to the kidnapping of more than 250 girls from a school in Chibok in the same region of the country almost a month ago. Some secularists have shamefully exploited this incident which contradicts Islam to replicate oft-repeated associations between the strict application of Shariah and the deprivation of education for women. On the 2nd of May, the UK Guardian ran an article entitled, "The kidnapped Nigerian girls show that religious conservatives hate education", in which the journalist wrote, "for many girls around the world, walking through the schoolhouse door isn't a right or an assumption: it's a victory over conservative fanatics." The writer goes on to say, "On the surface, these kidnappings follow a theme we've seen across the globe: religious extremists don't want to see girls getting the kind of education that will allow them to enter the workforce because they correctly understand that education sets girls on a path to economic independence and self-reliance."
Comment
Such secularists seem to have conveniently ignored the fact that it is secular and non-Islamic regimes in the Muslim world that have failed dismally to provide adequate education to millions of their girls. Nigeria as an example - a secular capitalist state - and largest economy in Africa, spends only 1.5% of its GDP on education, reflecting the lack of importance it places on the value of education for its citizens, a reality reflected in secular states across the region. It is hardly surprising therefore that in Nigeria 10.5 million children are not in school (including 6 million girls) according to David Archer of Action Aid. Additionally, more than two thirds of girls aged 15-19 in Nigeria's north are unable to read and only 3% complete secondary school.
Such secularists seem to also disregard the destructive fallout of the foreign policy of their own secular Western governments who have not only robbed girls in the Muslim world of an education but also their lives. The war on terror and occupation of Afghanistan as an example has killed thousands of women and girls over the years and resulted in a climate of insecurity, lawlessness, and instability in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. All this has prevented girls from attending school out of fear for their life and dignity. Furthermore, the massive debt incurred upon developing countries due to interest-heavy loans from secular bodies such as the IMF or World Bank, accompanied by their poisonous economic prescription policies imposed upon states has resulted in many governments spending more on debt re-payments rather than public services such as education. The IMF has even pressured particular poor African states such as Malawi and Mozambique to freeze wages and recruitment of teachers in order to curb their public spending.
And such secularists, in typical orientalist fashion, espouse the Eurocentric idea that opposing Western education in the Muslim lands (that is used to import liberal culture into the region's schools) equates to rejection of education per sé for girls and children.
However, they should remember that while women under secular systems in the West struggled historically to secure basic educational rights, including access to universities, Islam gave the same importance to male and female education1400 years ago. This is why women under the application of the Shariah in the Khilafah "Caliphate" were not only gaining an education in the most prestigious mosques, colleges, and universities of the state but lecturing in them and even founding them. Colleges such as the Saqlatuniya Madrassa in Cairo were funded and staffed entirely by women; Fatima Al-Fihri established in 859 in Qarawayyin, Morroco what is considered to be the oldest degree-granting university in the world; Al-Azhar University in Cairo gave access to female students and lecturers centuries before academic institutions in the West did the same. The history of the Khilafah "Caliphate" is flooded with examples of thousands of female scholars in Islam and other subjects such as engineering, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and calligraphy. The hospitals in the Khilafah "Caliphate" are also considered to be amongst the first to employ female physicians, the most famous of whom were from the Banu Zuhr family who served the 12th century Khalifah Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur.
The educational aspirations of women in the Muslim world were secured by making Islam the sole basis of their state. It was a state ruled by the Shariah that does not embrace the flawed capitalist basis of Western education that views the purpose of educating girls as simply to prepare them to enter the workforce, seeing them as tools to feed the economy. This is a view incidentally that leads to capitalist regimes failing to invest in girls' education if they see no economic benefit for the state emerging from it. The Shariah in contrast views the provision of education as a basic right of every girl and boy that gives self-fulfilment to individuals, should give them a love of acquiring knowledge, and enables them to become personalities that embody Islam. It views education as a means to empower people to function effectively as citizens of the state, understanding Islam's solutions to the problems of life and contributing to the progress of their society and improvement of the lives of humanity. It is therefore not those who advocate ruling by the Shariah under the Khilafah "Caliphate" who are a threat to the educational dreams of girls in the Muslim world, but rather those who argue for maintaining the secular and non-Islamic status quo of the systems in the region and the need to continue Western meddling in its affairs.
Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
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8th May 2014, Ambassador Stephen Beecroft was selected to fill in the nine-month vacancy as US Ambassador to Egypt (Source: AP News). Few days before, on 5 May 2014 Sisi vows that Muslim Brotherhood will not exist if he wins the election. (Source: BBC News)
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Egypt has a long and strong relationship with the US for more than 65 years with a military aid assistance of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Sisi's statement towards Muslim Brotherhood and the appointment of US ambassador to Egypt after the nine-month vacancy is happening at the same time of elections this month. It shows Sisi's full commitment as the servant to the US and the continuation of the previous regime Hosni Mubarak's policy. The appointment of US ambassador is an extra support given by US on top of 10 Apache helicopters and $650m assistance to Egypt's military in April 2014.
It means that the plan to remove the idea of Islam and implant the hatred towards it remains the objective of Egypt's regime. It seeks to do so with all its might, with the assistance of its Master, the US. This comes of course atop of the relationship, with Egypt since it is important for the US to continue the policy in the Middle East.
With the people's rule of law or democracy, the Egyptians have made the choice through the election in 2012 but this was not truly applicable to Egypt. The Democracy only applicable to assist the US allies and strengthen its power in the Middle East. The same had happened in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan in which rulers who do not serve US objective or interest will be changed.
Barrack Obama has been honored for human rights stands at Shoah Gala on 8th of May 2014 and has received a Noble Prize Award in 2009, failed to defend the right of the majority of Egyptians who has selected the president in 2012. He was not able to voice the right of people of Egypt to defend themselves in court. Hundreds of Muslims have been killed in Egypt after the military coup led by Sisi and US kept silent of this action. At the same time, he continues in providing aid and military assistance. By resending the ambassador, the US is acknowledging what the current Egyptian regime did as correct. This clearly shows the hypocrisy of the US and the work of its puppet, Sisi. We as Muslim know that whatever they do, Allah (swt) will reveal it.
((وَمَڪَرُواْ وَمَڪَرَ ٱللَّهُۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيۡرُ ٱلۡمَـٰكِرِين))
"And they (the disbelievers) plan, and Allah plan (against them): and Allah is the best of planner." [Ali-Imran: 54]
Do we still believe in human made law of Democracy and take Kuffar as friend and protector for Muslims? Allah (swt) reminded us not to take Kuffar as our friend or protector,
((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى أَوْلِيَاءَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّهُمْ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ))
"O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people." [Al-Maidah: 51]
The Khalifah is the protector for Muslims, follow Allah's (swt) guidance and the path of His Messenger (saw), then victory will be for us.
((وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ ۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ فَإِنَّ حِزۡبَ ٱللَّهِ هُمُ ٱلۡغَـٰلِبُونَ))
"And whoever is an ally of Allah and His Messenger and those who have believed - indeed, the party of Allah - they will be the predominant." [Al-Maidah: 56]
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Abu Ahmad
