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The Turkish Government in cooperation with Gendarmerie has launched a project about combating domestic violence against women, which is jointly financed by the European Union and Turkey. A total of 10,000 community police will receive training on gender equality and combating violence against women in families. Human rights organizations' statistics show an increase of violence against women over a period of 8 years of AKP ruling by 1400%. Over the last 5 years, about 6,000 women were murdered. While the number of women murders was 66 in 2002, in the first 9 months of 2013 alone, 842 women were killed. Female gendarmerie Major Songül Yakut stated that 25 thousand women were subject to violence in 2012 and that 76 of them died in Gendarmerie protected areas. The number increased to 28 thousand, with 95 murders in 2013. Turkey's European Union Delegation Vice President Béla Szombati underlined that they were launching this project just one week before the international day of "Eliminating violence against women" that will be on 25th November.

Comment

These numbers leave no doubt that ruling according to the capitalist secular view of life, which includes the liberal principle of personal freedoms, has never brought an improvement to any society in the world and especially not to the lives of Muslim women. Such values simply encourage men to act upon their own whims and desires, eroding the concept of accountability, responsibility, and respect in the manner by which they should treat women. Considering that Liberal Western countries themselves are fighting against increasing violence against women, such projects in Muslim countries including in Turkey are unlikely to stem the rising tide of this problem. Rather in truth, they only have one outcome, namely upholding and enforcing their corrupt values of democracy and personal freedoms upon the Muslim society that fuel such crimes. According to UK statistics almost 30 women a day try to kill themselves to escape physical and mental abuse, and every week three succeed. In the USA, the Pentagon alone has grappled with increasing sexual assaults within the US military, which increased by 46% to 3,553 during the last year alone. Can you then imagine the level of violence against women within their general society?

It is time now for the Muslims in Turkey to accept the failure of this capitalist liberal system, and not to lay their hopes in projects and solutions shaped upon its flawed ideas. It is time now to remember and to find our way back to the tranquil times under the protecting laws of Allah (swt), because real success for the women of this Muslim country and all over the world will never come by adopting any system that is based upon anything other than Islam. Islam alone has secured women's rights through a perfect system, and all these attempts of the defenders of this secular capitalist ideology are doomed to end in vain. The Khilafah "Caliphate" is the only system that can guarantee a life of dignity and safety for both women and men, through its Qur'an and Sunnah based constitution. Having a look to the history of Islam, for example the Judicial Records of the Anatolian Shariah Courts, will sweep away any doubts on the effectiveness of this system.

And Allah (swt) taught us in Surah al-Baqara,

(وَلَا تَلۡبِسُواْ ٱلۡحَقَّ بِٱلۡبَـٰطِلِ وَتَكۡتُمُواْ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ)

"And do not mix the truth with the falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know what it is" [TMQ Al-Baqara: 42]

And He (swt) also says in Surah Tauba,

فَمَنۡ أَسَّسَ بُنۡيَـٰنَهُ ۥ عَلَىٰ تَقۡوَىٰ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرِضۡوَٲنٍ خَيۡرٌ أَم مَّنۡ أَسَّسَ بُنۡيَـٰنَهُ ۥ عَلَىٰ شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ۬ فَٱنۡہَارَ بِهِۦ فِى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ‌ۗ

"Which then is best? - He who laid the foundation of his building on piety to Allah and His good Pleasure? Or he who laid the foundation of his building on the edge of a bank ready to crumble to pieces....."[TMQ At-Tauba: 109]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Umm Khalid
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

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Question

"Things are permitted in origin unless there is an evidence of prohibition". Money is a thing, there is no mention of evidence that prohibits it, and therefore, it remains in its original state of being permitted. For example: someone steals money, the ruling on the action of stealing is prohibition and the sin lies with the one who committed the action and all that follows in terms of the punishment. As for the money in terms of money, it remains as its origin which is permitted and must be returned back to its owner. This is the ruling on anything stolen regardless of the fact that it was transferred (from one place to another) or not, the money generally remains permitted regardless of the action connected to it as long as there is no restriction by evidences. There is no issue for the person if the money is taken from him as a gift or present, or nafaqa (money he is obliged to spend) because the prohibited action is not connected to the one who undertook the action only ...and Allah knows best.

«حُرِّمَتِ الْخَمْرُ بِعَيْنِهَا» "khamr was prohibited for its origin", the ‘ain of khamr (alcohol) is its origin, i.e. it is prohibited because it is khamr, i.e. its prohibition is because of its origin and the rules the rules related to it e.g. its seller, drinker...etc, but how is the prohibition of money, the transferred and that which is not transferred linked with the Khamr and its sale? Are the Khamr and its prohibition a divine reason (‘illa) for the prohibition of the money? If so, then by Qiyas (analogy) it would not be permissible to use the glass after using it for Khamr, or the truck that carried the Khamr because they share the same ‘illa?

Please clarify and shed some light on the issue, Barak Allahu Feek.

Answer

Yes, "Things are permitted in origin unless there is an evidence of prohibition". As for your question on ‘Illa of Khamr (alcohol) and its prohibition and about the truck that transfers it and the glass which was filled with Khamr, the issue is as following:

«مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ، فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ»

The Prophet (saw) said from what Abu Dawoud extracted from Jabir bin Abdullah: "What intoxicates in a large amount, it small amount is prohibited."

What is clear from this hadeeth is the absence of ‘illa (cause), intoxication is not ‘illa, the evidence for this is that if a small amount is consumed it does not lead to intoxication of the drinker but it is still regarded as prohibited and he is deserving of the punishment. The hadeeth prohibits the small amount if the large amount leads to the state of intoxication; drinking a small amount therefore is prohibited.
Also there is no mention of the ‘ila regarding the ten categories:

«لَعَنَ اللَّهُ الْخَمْرَ، وَلَعَنَ سَاقِيهَا، وَشَارِبَهَا، وَعَاصِرَهَا، وَمُعْتَصِرَهَا، وَحَامِلَهَا، وَالْمَحْمُولَةَ إِلَيْهِ، وَبَايِعِهَا وَمُبْتَاعَهَا، وَآكِلَ ثَمَنِهَا»

In the Mustadrak, Hakim extracted from the two Sahih from Abdullah Bin Ummar, from his father that the Prophet (saw) said: "Allah has cursed Khamr (alcohol), its server, its drinker, its presser, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who conveys it, and the one to whom it is conveyed, its seller, its buyer, the one who enjoys profit from its price."

What is clear from the hadeeth is that there is no mention of ‘illa, therefore Qiyas (analogy) is not applicable between this and other issues.
Based on this, any drink that leads to intoxication is khamr; they are equal in prohibition whether in small or large amounts. The ten categories mentioned in the hadeeth are prohibited without ‘illa. But this ruling applies to the Mukalaf (accountable), so it is implemented on the truck driver but not on the truck used to transfer the alcohol, nor on the glass that was filled with it. The rule related to khamr is not the same as the truck or the glass. Al-Tabarani extracted in Al-Kabeer from Abi Tha'laba Al-Khushani that he said:

قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ: ... وَأَنَا فِي أَرْضِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَهُمْ يَأْكُلُونَ فِي آنِيَتِهِمْ الْخِنْزِيرَ وَيَشْرَبُونَ فِيهَا الْخَمْرَ فَآكُلُ فِيهَا وَأَشْرَبُ...؟ ثُمَّ قَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ...وَإِنْ وَجَدْتَ عَنْ آنِيَةِ الْكُفَّارِ غِنًى فَلَا تَأْكُلْ فِيهَا، وَإِنْ لَم تَجِدْ غِنًى فَارْحَضْهَا بِالْمَاءِ رَحْضًا شَدِيدًا ثُمَّ كُلْ فِيهَا

"I came to the Prophet (saw) and said: "O Messenger of Allah... and I am in the land of the people of the book and they eat pork with their utensils and drink khamr, can I drink and eat from them?" The Prophet (saw) said:

«...وَإِنْ وَجَدْتَ عَنْ آنِيَةِ الْكُفَّارِ غِنًى فَلَا تَأْكُلْ فِيهَا، وَإِنْ لَم تَجِدْ غِنًى فَارْحَضْهَا بِالْمَاءِ رَحْضًا شَدِيدًا ثُمَّ كُلْ فِيهَا»

"if you can spare yourself from eating from the utensils of the Kufar then do so, if you cannot, then wash them vigorously with water, then eat from them."

I.e. if you were in need for them and could not find other utensils, then wash them very well.

Your brother,
Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al- Rashtah

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Question:

On Wednesday 13/11/2013 the Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "China will step ahead with reforms to solve the economic problems but these reforms require careful planning and cannot be achieved between night and day..." This was in the end of a meeting held by the Chinese leadership starting on Saturday 9/11/2013 that lasted four days. This meeting was held after seven explosions took place on November 6, 2013 in one of the regional headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party - the ruling party in China. These explosions happened one week after a car crashed into a crowd of people and caught fire in a street close to Tiananmen Square, the great public square in Beijing that is considered the symbolic heart of the Chinese capital. And the Question: We hear that the Chinese economy is at an apex, so what does it mean when the Chinese leadership meets to find solutions to the economic problems? And is there a relationship between the explosions and the meeting of Chinese officials to study economic issues? May Allah (swt) reward you.

Answer:

1. Yes, there is a relationship, even if the government, as always, hastened to say: "the government blames what it calls Islamic extremists", to divert attention from the faltering economic situation that is pushing the Chinese people, particularly in the countryside and the midland, to misery and hardship, which will then push them to violent demonstrations to bring the state's attention to the economic suffering.
2. These incidents are considered a part of an underlying political trend that indicates that China is facing deep internal troubles, which will affect their management of foreign policy. In 2005 China dealt with 87,000 cases of social unrest, including general discontent, and demonstrations, and internal conflict. In 2010, 180,000 demonstrations, protests and other social incidents happened in China. In other words, the unrest is increasing...
3. The free economic zones in China (SEZs), which were the major source of the fast growth in China, were all set up in the eastern coast of China, and everything that comes out of the production lines is carried on ships and exported to the world. As a result the coastal region was linked to the international economy; and saw most of the rapid growth in China, as it also created a new generation of elite, all at the expense of the rest of China. The rest of China is still mainly agricultural, with minimal infrastructure and its inhabitants living lives of poverty. According to the international study of the distribution of wealth carried out by the Boston Consulting Group in 2008, 0.2% of the population in China control 70% of the wealth in China. And the effect of this poor distribution is compounded by physical abuse, imprisonment, lax labour laws, and extremely low wages, and the Chinese government's failure to heed the economic needs of most of its citizens.
4. The Chinese economic model that relies on low wages and high foreign exports is faltering now; and the international economic crisis in 2008 completely exposed this fact. A number of economic experts consider the Chinese economy to be in distress. The recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, Paul Krugman said, "The signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We're not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country's whole way of doing business, the economic system that has driven three decades of incredible growth, has reached its limits. You could say that the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall, and the only question now is just how bad the crash will be." (Hitting China's Wall, Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 18 July 2013) Stratfor also said: "Major shifts underway in the Chinese economy that Stratfor has forecast and discussed for years have now drawn the attention of the mainstream media. Many have asked when China would find itself in an economic crisis, to which we have answered that China has been there for awhile -- something not widely recognized outside China, and particularly not in the United States. A crisis can exist before it is recognized. The admission that a crisis exists is a critical moment, because this is when most others start to change their behavior in reaction to the crisis. The question we had been asking was when the Chinese economic crisis would finally become an accepted fact, thus changing the global dynamic." (The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle, Stratfor, 23 July 2013)
5. In the last ten years China has begun to progress in the capitalist approach to economic growth which means that economic growth is measured by an increase in production without considering distribution, so if production increases that means that the economy is strong and advanced even if it is all the fortune of a small group and the rest of the people live miserably... in other words concentration is on an increase in production without concentrating on fair distribution. If China continues on this communist/capitalist hybrid approach it will be afflicted with what affected the Soviet Union, which collapsed when it attempted to mix communism and capitalism, and became as a crow that tried to imitate another bird in the way it walks, and could not and ended up forgetting how it used to walk! And this is how China might become... Unless it realizes the source of its problems and solves them.
6. China would be able to save itself from this crisis if it can transform from this hybrid economy, and stop focusing on high exports without first focusing on local demand by its people, and meeting the needs of this people. Otherwise, 948 million of the 1.3 billion of the people of China will continue to live on less than five dollars a day, and the wealth will remain concentrated in a small group that exploits the energy of the poor labourers, and then meeting the needs of a majority of the people is elusive, and production is controlled by a small portion of people who export production outside, so increase in production appears, but an increase in poverty in the lives of most of the people pushes them to demonstration and unrest... Zhou Xiaosheng, a distinguished professor in the Institute of Law and Sociology at Renmin University in China, explained the reality of China saying: "Do not forget that the current success of China is built on the fact that 300 million people exploit one billion low wage labourers. And the judicial system is unfair, and the unjust distribution of wealth makes the challenges greater."
7. China should not follow in the footsteps of the capitalist West and attribute all demonstrations and unrest to "Islamic extremism" instead of looking for the roots of the crisis of its hybrid economy that depends on increasing production and exporting it, so production increases in volume but poor distribution gets worse, and the number of people in poverty increases, and therefore demonstrations increase... We warn China that if it continues with this "Communocapitalist" economic policy it will follow the Soviets, and become a happening of the past...

We do not say to China to implement Islam they will thrive... and this is because this implementation requires the Islamic creed first, and it is not found with them... but we tell them to not imitate the capitalist West by focusing on increasing production without fair distribution by meeting the needs of a majority of the people that are affected by poverty. Otherwise, an increase in demonstrations is expected due to the dire economic and intellectual situation and not due to so called Islamic extremism as is promoted by the West... Speaking of Islamic extremism falls under political indictment, and it is a prelude to the serious indictment of China due to its occupation of eastern Turkistan by iron and fire, but all these deceptions and guile and attempts at changing reality will not make the Muslims forget China's occupation of Turkistan. Indeed it will return, Allah (swt) willing, sooner or later to the Islamic Ummah.

((وَلَتَعْلَمُنَّ نَبَأَهُ بَعْدَ حِين))

"And you will know its message after a while" [Sad: 88]

14th Muharram 1435 AH

17/11/2013 CE