The Documentary of Ash-Sham - Land of the Upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate" Part I showcases the banner of the Uqab, the banner of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). Returned to flutter in the entire land of Sham after decades of oppression, tyranny and slavery, implemented by the Kufr ruling authority on the pure land of Ash-Sham. The return of the banner of "La Illaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah" [There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah] to flutter declares a new era and a bright future for the Ummah of Islam. It is a revolution of the blessed al-Sham, initiated to restore the glory of Islam and its dignity and authority. It was first raised, after the fall of the Khilafah "Caliphate", by the honorable Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabahani (rahimahu Allah) him and a group from the Shabab of the Ummah when they founded Hizb ut Tahrir in the year of 1953 in Jerusalem. They raised the flag and demanded the return of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" once again. Here are today's Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir who have been involved in the Revolution of ash-Sham; and their presence in the demonstrations and sit-ins made a powerful impact on the spread of the flag and its adoption by the revolutionaries who came out originally to raise the word of Allah and glorifying His religion and the implementation of His Laws.

The film showcases through visits and interviews with the people of the Revolution, the changes that take place in the liberated territories, including the educational and economic development in the path for the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, by the permission of Allah. It also presents the good tidings when the warring factions on the land of Ash-Sham through interviews and visits with them how they not only seek to overthrow the Baathist regime but rather seek to establish an Islamic state, ruled by Islam in all aspects of life , and Allah is Able over that.

Allah (swt) said,

وَعَدَ اللَّـهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم مِّن بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

"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." [an-Nur: 55].

A Production by the

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Syria

Jumada II 1435 AH - April 2014 CE

News

On Thursday, 11 April 2014, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, called for a collective approach for addressing common challenges and laid stress on "enhanced connectivity for success". He said Pakistan was on the confluence of China, the Eurasian land-bridge and the Middle East, placing the country near the three-pronged economic corridor between China, Central Asia and the Middle East. "This is the triangular dimension of our relevance to the Silk Road," he added.

Comment

Mr. Nawaz Sharif has been reaching all corners of the world showing his nation that he is passionately working to present Pakistan as a business friendly country abroad and to bring foreign investors, so that the economy of Pakistan will once start moving in an upwards direction. Attending and addressing Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference was part of that struggle. The Raheel-Nawaz regime is claiming to make Pakistan a regional hub for regional and international trade, as part of the phenomenon of globalization. That is the justification that the regime is using to declare India as a Most Favored Nation (MFN) and support Afghanistan peace process, under the guise of a limited US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The regime claims that these two initiatives will bring the whole region, from Central Asia to India, closer and will boost economic activity. It claims that not only the people of Pakistan, but also the people of the whole region will benefit immensely.

However, this limited vision for the region, where only economic objectives determine the course of foreign relations, is erroneous and dangerous. In most of these regional economic cooperations, only one or two of the larger countries snatch most of the benefits. They use the markets of neighboring less developed countries to boost their own economies, flooding them with their goods and demolishing local industry. The under-developed countries get a share like a peanut in a camel's mouth, if that. Whether it is the European Union or NAFTA or any other economic treaties, big players always have the big share at the expense of other countries. Mexico has provided a growing market for meat for the US, leading to a surge in sales and profits for the US meat industry. The US Chamber of Commerce credits NAFTA with increasing US trade in goods and services with Canada and Mexico, from $337 billion in 1993 to $1.2 trillion in 2011.

Developed countries produce large amounts and varied types of goods because of their industrial superiority, whilst under-developed countries do not have developed industry, so they only produce limited goods. Therefore, under-developed countries are never able to get the most out of this so-called economic cooperation.

Denied proper industrial development for well over six decades, Pakistan is already seeing the negative effects of this so-called regional economic cooperation. Our markets have been converted to a dumping ground for low priced Chinese goods, to an extent that local manufacturing units cannot compete with them. And the large Indian manufacturers are salivating at the chance of doing the same as the Chinese. Our local manufacturers eventually close down their business and start importing, which results in local job losses and economic dependency on foreign countries. Moreover, such economic dependency opens the doors for foreign pressure on other national issues.

The Raheel-Nawaz regime does not see except what their masters sitting in Western capitals and international financial institutions headquarters say they should see. They are blind to the true potential of Pakistan, if it becomes the seat of the second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida. If Pakistan becomes a Khilafah "Caliphate" state, the implementation of the Islamic economic system will lead to massive economic prosperity, as it focuses on distribution of wealth, rather than the accumulation of wealth in a few hands, as the capitalist system does.

Moreover, when the Muslims lands from Central Asia to India, East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and Indonesia to Malaysia become part of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, Muslims will not need the markets of other nations. Their own market will be so immense that their goods will be consumed domestically quite easily. On the other hand, every nation on the earth will seek us out, so as to allow them to sell their goods in our huge market, eager to make their own fortune as well. So instead of confining ourselves to artificial borders created by colonialists, we must eliminate them, turning ourselves into a single giant Ummah of 1.6 billion Muslims and the world's leading nation.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shahzad Shaikh

Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir

in Wilayah Pakistan