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Without the Khilafah China's Brutal Regime is Free to Abort the Babies of the Noble Uyghur Women

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Radio Free Asia reported on 30th of December 2013 about a horrific story of China's authorities forcing four Uyghur women in the region of Xinjiang, a Muslim populated province to abort their babies for violating the one-child policy implemented in China since the 1970s. One of the women was nine months into her pregnancy. They were injected with unspecified abortion-inducing drugs to induce miscarriage.

Memettursun Kawul, the depressed husband of the 9-months-pregnant woman who was forced to undergo the abortion told that his wife delivered their baby boy alive but he died an hour later. He said, "'although my wife was injected by doctors, my son was still crying when he was born." When he heard the cries of his son, he stormed into the delivery room, grabbed the baby and took him to a nearby hospital in a bid to save him. The doctors in the hospital tried to save him but failed, due to the abortion drug that had already been injected. My son died an hour after he was born." Metkurban Nuri, the husband of another Uyghur woman who was four months into her pregnancy, said he and his wife had been hiding in Hotan city for a week but local family planning officials located them on Saturday, then he was detained at Arish police station for 24 hours and forced to agree to allow his wife to undergo an abortion at the Nurluq Hospital.

Truly this is a savage and barbaric act committed by the immoral criminal Chinese regime! The regime which is blinded by its hatred towards Islam and its greed for economic growth has aborted many sons and daughters of Islam from the noble wombs of Uyghur's women. On behalf of the controversial one-child policy, China has made ​​history for forcing 336 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations since 1971, and continues to reap endless insults and controversy both domestically and internationally. Its peak happened in November when a Plenary Meeting of the Communist Party announced policy reforms to ease the one-child policy that has been implemented for decades. Finally now, based on the new rules, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on December 28 officially approved that couples who are both only childs can have two children. Policy makers have predicted that the easing would benefit around 15 to 20 million couples in China's major cities and will result in 1-2 million additional births per year in the first few years, with over 16 million babies born every year in China.

But apparently this easing policy does not apply to Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, East Turkistan. The province is home to around ten million mostly Uyghur Muslims which is a small fraction of the Han ethnic Chinese population. Many observers say the Uyghur Muslims should not be subjected to the one-child policy because their numbers do not threaten economic growth in China. As an ethnic minority, the Uyghurs are supposed to be exempt from the population-limiting policy. However, despite this, Uighurs who live in cities are only allowed to have a maximum of two children, while if they live in rural areas, a maximum of three children is allowed. If they exceed this limit, they are forced to have an abortion or sterilization, or are subject to other actions that can dismiss the pregnancy. The US-based Women's Rights without frontiers organization that monitors forced abortion and gendercide in China stated that "In reality, they (the Uyghurs) are subject to strict population control."  It is therefore not surprising that over the years, the population growth of Uyghur Muslim has remained low.

Truly the Chinese criminal regime has committed a "double crime" against Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan - firstly by implementing brutal and heinous population control policies, and secondly by continuing to combat Islam and Muslims in Xinjiang.

THE CRIME OF ONE CHILD POLICY

Due to their greed for economic growth, China has undervalued the existence of their own children as the future generation and seen them as burden and obstacle to their economic growth. Millions of babies, especially baby girls, were aborted in various towns and villages in China. Hundreds of millions of women have been oppressed for nearly half a century by this cruel policy. The irony of this policy is that it is implemented merely for economic reasons, which is to prevent the population explosion in order to boost economic growth.

In fact the very same reason - namely the need for economic growth has also triggered the easing of the one-child policy that was newly introduced last December. The greedy Chinese regime realized the high cost they have to pay as a result of curbing their population for decades. China now faces a lack of productive labor to support their giant engines of economic growth. With an average annual GDP growth rate of 10.5 percent between 2001 and 2010 and 9.7 percent between 1979 and 2009, ​​China emerged as the second largest economy, and the largest manufacturing and trading nation in the world. But these achievements have brought with them dangerously heavy fog and smoke  and pollution of water and soil, which lead into respiratory diseases and cancer, as well as depriving the rights of more than 300 million people to safe drinking water. Indeed there is a high cost to pay for such a narrow one-track-vision for economic growth; China loses not only its productive age youth, but also healthy children.

Undoubtedly, China has been blinded by the capitalist ideology that sees all problems from an economic perspective and ignores the social impact of its policies on the lives of generations and society as a whole. Capitalism carries the mistaken belief that existing resources are insufficient to provide the basic needs of all people because Capitalism is the ideology that has consistently put profits over people and finance over humanity as well as economic growth over the millions of lives of the next generation.

THE HATRED AGAINST ISLAM

It is no secret that the Chinese government considers the existence of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province as a threat, employing the cynical umbrella of battling extremism to justify its violent, oppressive and discriminative policies against the minority. According to the Xinjiang Daily Newspaper, last October, the authority claimed that the battle against religious extremism cannot be avoided because it is an obstacle to security and stability in China. China continues to propagate the rhetoric against Uyghur Muslims who they called terrorists and extremists.

Indeed, these hostile actions against Muslims in East Turkistan which is occupied by China does not only reflect their hatred towards the Islamic laws and values, but their fear that the ideology of Islam will influence communities in China - a state that today does not have a clear ideological direction due to the erosion of communism within the country. On the other hand, the aggressive stance of the Chinese government towards Islam demonstrates that remnants of the repressive communist doctrine and values that have a legacy of persecuting religious minorities still remain firmly rooted within the state. Although the ideology of communism in the world has collapsed, Uyghur women continue to face intense pressure from all directions. Not only is their right to wear Islamic dress systematically deprived by the tyrant, but also their right to define the size of their family and have children! The ruling party has sought periodically to stamp out the Islamic dress since taking power in 1949, first launching an atheism drive and then banning the headscarf altogether in the 1960′s and 70′s.

Hence, Uyghur Muslim women not only have to deal with repressive policies that threaten their Islamic identity by campaigns against their Islamic dress, but are also confronted by the brutal policies that destroy their noble wombs by immoral and massive abortion and sterilization programs! These are programs which emanate from the brutal criminal rulers of China through their hate for Islam and fear of the birth of the next bright generation of Mujaheed and Mujtaheed of Islam who will be able InshaAllah to restore the glory of Islam in East Turkestan and all over the Muslim world. For from the noble wombs of Uyghur women and Muslim women around the world will be born the future generation of Muslim leaders who will bring the Ummah from the darkness into the light.

This is one of heart-wrenching realities from which Muslim women in the far east of the Muslim world are suffering. They are helpless victims of predator Kufr rulers who have been allowed by the existing world system to target Muslims. They have also been neglected by the puppet Muslim rulers who are the colonial remnants of the Western capitalist countries- those who have aborted their sense of humanity and become adulators of the secular and capitalist world system. As long as the world system remains as it is today, the plight of Uyghur women in East Turkistan undoubtedly will never end, because the base problem of all this suffering is nothing but the absence of the Khilafah "Caliphate" as the shield for the Ummah - a state which would eliminate Kufr hegemony over the Muslims and protect the honor of Muslim women and children throughout the Muslim world.

THE KHILAFAH IS TRUE SHIELD FOR UYGHUR WOMEN

Muslim narrated from Al-Araj from Abu Hurayrah from the Prophet (saw) that he (saw) said:

«‏إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ ‏‏جُنَّةٌ ‏ ‏يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ»

"Indeed the Imam (Khalifah) is a shield from behind whom (one) would fight and one would protect oneself"

The Uyghur women desperately need their true shield that will protect both their honor and their families. The Khilafah "Caliphate" is a state with a lofty view regarding women's honor, where the protection of the honor of one woman equaled the value of the conquest of a whole city - the Roman city of Ammuriah - in the eyes of the Caliph al Mu'tasim! Caliph al Mu'tasim responded to the call from a Muslim woman who was harassed by the Roman army, by mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers stretching from the gates of the capital of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in Baghdad all the way to Ammuriah to liberate the Muslim woman from her oppressors and bring the city under the folds of Islam...

Furthermore, the Khilafah "Caliphate" rejects the theory and policy of population control. It also rejects the capitalist materialistic view of limiting family size for economic interests that oppresses women by suppressing their natural instinct to bear children. This is due to the Islamic solution that always solves problems from the viewpoint of what is best for humanity rather than from the narrow economic perspective that defines capitalist solutions. Islam recommends having many children without the fear of poverty because its texts emphasize that provision in origin is from Allah (swt), and that He (swt) is the Sustainer and the Provider who has created enough resources in the world for every human being to sustain themselves. This unique Islamic belief nurtures a mentality within a Muslim that views having many children as a blessing to a family and to society rather than a burden to their finances. Allah (swt) said in

((أَلَمْ تَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَأَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُ ظَاهِرَةً وَبَاطِنَةً))

"Do you not see how Allah has made subjected for you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and He has completed and perfected His favours upon you, both the open and the hidden." [TMQ Luqman 31:20]

O our dear Uyghur sisters! Be patient with the pressure and oppression from the tyrant Chinese regime! The dawn of the Khilafah "Caliphate" is very near and we are one Ummah, we belong to one Deen, our Prophet is one, our Qur'an is one, our flag is one, and our struggle is one. It is the Khilafah "Caliphate" state alone that will enable you to live by all the Commands of Allah swt and having a prosperous harmonious family life with many children and at the same time also has a time-tested approach in creating brilliant generations of leaders who are able to take Islam to the world and bring the Ummah out from the darkness into the light InshaAllah!

وَعَدَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنكُمۡ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَيَسۡتَخۡلِفَنَّهُمۡ فِى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ ڪَمَا ٱسۡتَخۡلَفَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمۡ دِينَہُمُ ٱلَّذِى ٱرۡتَضَىٰ لَهُمۡ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّہُم مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ خَوۡفِهِمۡ أَمۡنً۬ا‌ۚ يَعۡبُدُونَنِى لَا يُشۡرِكُونَ بِى شَيۡـًٔ۬ا‌ۚ وَمَن ڪَفَرَ بَعۡدَ ذَٲلِكَ فَأُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ هُمُ ٱلۡفَـٰسِقُونَ

"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 and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient." [TMQ An-Nur 55]

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Fika Komara

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

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Ustadh Abu Anas: Syria Issue

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By the grace of Allah, the Exalted, Isma'il al-Wahwah (Abu Anas), member and Arabic media representative of Hizb ut Tahrir Australia, had visited Syria to aid the blessed uprising in June 2013. He will play a role in the political work undertaken by Hizb ut Tahrir in Syria aimed at directing the uprising to its rightful destination, namely, the establishment of Islam in the form the Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate).

Abu Anas addressed the importance of maintaining the Islamic identity of the uprising and raising awareness against western attempts, led by the US, to hijack the uprising or deviate it from its path.

 

 

 

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Oh you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.” [Al-Hujurat: 6] Black Chambers and Suspicious Hands Distribute a

To every Muslim brother, protective of his Taqwa and defensive towards his Deen, his Ummah and his brothers:

Some suspicious agencies that conspire against Islam and its people, and are working to block the project of political Islam, proceeded spreading a letter full of lies and slander. This letter seemingly introduces Hizb ut Tahrir, whereas its real purpose is to tarnish the image and circulate a false image of the Hizb. This is only being done out of recognition of the Hizb's impact in spreading the Islamic political project

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News & Comment Sincere Army Officers Must Ignore all Commands and Orders of Zalim Hasina and her Generals, and Obey Allah (swt) and His Rasul (saw)

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On December 22, (2013) Bangladesh Election Commission formally sent a letter to the Armed Forces Division to deploy the army to maintain law and order before, during and after the January 5 national election. According to media reports, 43,660 members of armed forces have started their duties in 59 districts ‘in aid of civil administration' from December 26. Around the same time, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Sheikh Hasina on December 24 to send troops in South Sudan for peace keeping missions. Bangladesh duly complied with Ban Ki Moon's call.

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The national parliamentary election to be held on January 5 has simultaneously become a national comedy and tragedy. None other than the ruling alliance is participating in the election where more than fifty percent of the candidates have become ‘elected' uncontested. On the other hand, opposition political activists and innocent people are dying every day from political violence. In such a scenario the Army Command has apparently sided with Hasina by carrying out election duties knowing fully well that this election is just a mechanism to prolong her rule.

Yet another tragedy is that although peace has disappeared from Bangladesh, the army and the air force under the direction of Hasina have responded within 48 hours to the call of Ban Ki-moon for yet another "peace keeping mission". By doing that, the army has created an impression that they are ready to carry out all orders of the U.S. and fulfill her interests where U.N. is just a disguise. Such incidents also create an image that the army only responds to money and nothing else matters. In 2007, when there was a hint from the U.N. that the army might lose its role in U.N. peace keeping missions, they took over the power and installed a government of their choice. After that experience, known as 1/11 in Bangladesh, the Ummah has a notion today that the Army Command is always ready to implement U.S. plans in Bangladesh.

After the deployment of the army, people naturally ask how the army can stand beside the murderer of army officers in Pilkhana. How can they stand in favor of the murderer of their fathers, abuser of their mothers and sisters? How can the army remain blind when Hasina stands against Islam and the Ummah, orders killing of the Ulema, gives public resources to foreigners, signs deals with U.S.A. and India that are detrimental to the Ummah? Did they forget that exactly in the same manner the British took over this land when the whole army stood still before the British and only a handful fought against the enemy? How can they remain silent when Ummah is struggling and calling for support from its sincere officers to establish Khilafah "Caliphate" and fulfill a noble obligation? Will they only respond to worldly gains, follow the agent rulers and the Army Command and not respond to Islam, honour, dignity and Jannah?

Allah (swt) says, (...إِنِ الْحُكْمُ إِلَّا لِلَّهِ أَمَرَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ ذَلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ)

"... the command is for none but Allah. He has commanded that you worship none but Him..." [Surah Yusuf: 40]

Therefore, sincere army officers must ignore all commands and orders of zalim Hasina and her generals, and obey Allah (swt) and His Rasul (saw) by responding to the call to establish Islam and Khilafah "Caliphate". Allah (swt) commanded us to rule the world by the Qur'an and Sunnah. Providing material support to establish Khilafah "Caliphate" is a fardh (duty) upon the army officers and it is the only way to save the Ummah from the oppressive Hasina-Khaleda's rule.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Muhammad Raiyan Hasan
Member of Hizb ut Tahrir in Bangladesh

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Press Release Slander against Hizb ut Tahrir's News! The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Syria announced that the news item posted today by "Reporters without Borders - Al-Riqqa" on their Facebook page and perhaps other places Is a lie and t

It was incumbent upon the organizers of this website to be committed to the Legislative Rulings in reporting news rather than publishing a news item that is totally baseless so that their credibility and integrity are not toppled; this is in the case that we have given them the benefit of the doubt and did not say that they have intended to formulate this news for the sake of causing Fitna and tarnishing the image of Hizb ut Tahrir.

The protest of Hizb ut Tahrir in Al-Riqqa was launched on Saturday 4/1/2014 from Al-Fawwaz Mosque in Central Riqqa to overthrow the conspiracy of Geneva and its allies of the coalition, opposition, and beneficiaries; it had no other objective.

It is well known of Hizb ut Tahrir, that it allies whoever allies Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw), and opposes whoever opposes Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw), it does not flatter nor does it fear in Allah the blame of the blamers, we have called many times for the end of the bloodshed of Muslims and directing the weapons to the regime who is behind this bloodshed; because these actions only serve the regime and the plans of America and the West.

 

Hisham Al-Baba
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Wilayah of Syria

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Dr. Mohammed Malkawi: Tafsir Al Quran - Surah Al-Asr (The Declining Time)

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Sheikh Abu Talha expounds on the meanings of Surah Al Asr which was revealed early stages of the mission of Prophet(sas). In his unique style and presentation he links the message of the Quran into our current scenario and the oppression and obstacles faced by the Islamic dawah carriers which are similar to those faced by the Prophet Mohammed (SAW) and the Sahaba (RA). He also extracts the method to carry the dawah from the way of the Prophet Mohammed SAW and his companions.

 

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Taji Mustafa: Knowledge is Power

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To defend Islam, we must know our Deen. Knowledge is power.
[Part of a khutbah on the hadith about tests (fitan) and holding onto hot coals.]

 

 

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«أَكْثِرُوا ذِكْرَ هَاذِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ يَعْنِي الْمَوْتَ» "Increase the remembrance of that which destroys all desires - Death" [Al Tirmidhi 2229]

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Indeed death is worthy of remembrance. Unlike status, wealth and health, death is certain for every soul. It marks the move from the fleeting life of this world to the ever-lasting world of the hereafter. Allah (swt) said,

(كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَـمَةِ فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ وَما الْحَيَوةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ مَتَـعُ الْغُرُورِ)

"Everyone shall taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full. And whoever is moved away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception." [Surah Aali-Imran 3: 185]

Moreover, there is no cheating Death, escaping death or delaying it. Every soul will die at a time known to Allah (swt). Allah (swt) said,

(إِذَا جَآءَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَلاَ يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلاَ يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ)

"When their term comes, then they can't put it off an hour, not hasten (it)." [Surah Yunus 10: 49]. And He (swt) said,

(وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تَمُوتَ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ الله كِتَـباً مُّؤَجَّلاً)

"No soul can ever die except by Allah's leave and at a term appointed." [Surah Al-Imran 3:145]

Thus is Death. It is certain and terminates this life. It occurs at a time that is known only to Allah (swt). So how is one to be regarding an impending and unannounced arrival? Moreover, an arrival that can seize us from any moment that we are born! The wise one is the one who is always prepared for its arrival, by performing the good actions and abstaining from evil and woe to the feeble one who meets it with regret. RasulAllah (saw), «الْكَيِّسُ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ وَعَمِلَ لِمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَالْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتْبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا وَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ» "The wise one is he who disciplined himself and worked for what is after death, and the feeble one is he who followed his desires, then made (vain) prayers to Allah". [Tirmidhi 2383] Woe to the feeble one who upon seeing death will seek to repent or return. Allah (swt) said,

(وَلَيْسَتِ التَّوْبَةُ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَـتِ حَتَّى إِذَا حَضَرَ أَحَدَهُمُ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ إِنِّى تُبْتُ الاٌّنَ وَلاَ الَّذِينَ يَمُوتُونَ وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ أُوْلَـئِكَ أَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَاباً أَلِيماً)

"Of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil deeds, until death faces one of them, and he says: ‘Now I repent' nor of those who die while they are disbelievers. For them have we prepared a painful torment" [An-Nisa 4: 18].

And Allah (swt) said,

(حَتَّى إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَهُمُ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِ - لَعَلِّى أَعْمَلُ صَـلِحاً فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ كَلاَّ إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَآئِلُهَا وَمِن وَرَآئِهِمْ بَرْزَخٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ)

"Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: "My Lord! Send me back, - So that I may do good in that which I have left behind!'' No! (Kalla) It is but a word that he speaks; and in front of them is Barzakh until the Day when they will be resurrected." [Al-Mu'minun 23: 99-100].
Woe to the feeble one for the word Kalla (No!) is a word that is used as a rebuke and the meaning is: "No, We will not respond to what he asks for and We will not accept it from him.'' Thus we hear of Al-Rabee' b. Khaytham who had dug a grave in his house, so that if he found hardness within his heart, he would enter it and lay down for as long as Allah wished and read from these ayaat: (رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِ - لَعَلِّى أَعْمَلُ صَـلِحاً فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ) "O my Lord! Send me back (to life) in order that I may work righteousness in the things I neglected" repeating it, then he would reply to himself saying: "Oh, Rabee', here, you have been returned, so work."

It is known that our time in Barzakh will continue, ending only when we are summoned for Judgment, on the Day of Judgment. Thus, once in the Barzakh there is no return to this life, only forward to Judgment. Mujahid said, Al-Barzakh is a barrier between this world and the Hereafter. Muhammad bin Ka`b said, "Al-Barzakh is what is between this world and the Hereafter, neither they are the people of this world, eating and drinking, nor are they with the people of the Hereafter, being rewarded or punished for their deeds.'' Thus it is a place where there is no deed that can be performed, let alone save from the Judgment which heralds punishment or reward. So, when a man asks, when will the Day of Judgment come for me, personally, as a man, let him consider that as soon as he dies, it is time for his Judgment.

Thus the wise one is the one who heeds this certainty and works for it every waking moment of every day. He is the one who is aware of the wisest of us all and the best of us all, RasulAllah (saw), for (saw) was always deeply aware and prepared for death. Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq (ra) once said to him (saw): "Your hair has become grey, O Messenger of Allah." So he saw said: «شَيَّبَتْنِي هُودٌ وَالْوَاقِعَةُ وَالْمُرْسَلَاتُ وَعَمَّ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ وَإِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَت» "[Surah] Hud and its sisters have made my hair grey: Al-Waqi'a, ‘Amma Yatasaa'alun and Itha Al-Shamsu Kuwwirat." [Tirmidhi 3219] And it was narrated by Ibn Najjar, of Ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah (saw) overheard a reader reading,

(إِنَّ لَدَيْنَآ أَنكَالاً وَجَحِيماً)

"With Us are Fetters (to bind them), and a Fire (to burn them)" [Al-Muzammil 73: 12]

and he (saw) fainted. So aware were the Companions of death. Not only was he (saw) aware and prepared, he (saw) called upon us to be aware of death and prepared of it. This is why the Messenger of Allah (saw) stressed the remembrance of death and to pre-pare for it, as he stressed the visiting of graves and praying for peace upon them, as it is the best admonition and the best of reminders. Abi Tharr (ra) said The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: «زُورُوا الْقُبُورَ فَإِنَّهَا تُذَكِّرُكُمْ الْآخِرَةَ» "Visit the graves, as it will be a reminder of the Akhirah" [Ibn Majah 1558]. The Messenger of Allah saw said, «أَكْثِرُوا ذِكْرَ هادم اللَّذَّاتِ يَعْنِي الْمَوْتَ» "Increase the remembrance of that which destroys all desires" [Al Tirmidhi 2229].

So let us all today be mindful and take heed. Let us consider the terminator of life's pleasure and let us be prepared. Let us strive and let us not waste a moment seeking the pleasure of Allah (swt). Let us strive to know of all the obligations and fulfill them. Let us take care to be aware of the prohibitions and abstain from them. Let us work to establish Islam in our individual lives as well as the collective life of this Ummah, as a Khilafah "Caliphate", implementing Islam, protecting it and spreading its light to all of humankind.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Musab Umair - Pakistan

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