بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Bismillah arRahman arRaheem

All praise is to Allah, who brings victory to the believers and is the Custodian of the pious...

All praise is to Allah, who crushes the oppressors and the arrogant...

There is no deity other than Allah, He has no partners, to Him belongs the reign and all praise and He is capable of all things...

There is no other deity than Allah, who brings victory to His slave, dignifies His soldiers and He Alone defeats all parties...

Glad tidings and peace to the leader of all monotheists, the master of all prophets and messengers and leader of the resplendent, our Prophet Muhammad, upon him the best of tidings and peace, also upon the pure members of his house and his beloved companions and upon those who follow him in the best way till the Day of Resurrection. Further:

The revolution in al-Sham was launched as a blatant defiance, refusing to buckle down or to capitulate. It came out of the suffering and the pains elevated and strong. And the first word to be uttered during the revolution was "Allahu Akbar!" And "Allahu Akbar!" remained its slogan, thereby causing the colonialist disbeliever and his tyrant agent Bashar al-Assad nightmares during the days and the nights, and they don't know how to overcome it!

They want to stop the Takbeerat of the Ummah that have been spread everywhere and by which Allah has honoured her and He dignified the Ummah by not allowing her to bow down to other than Allah or raising other than His word. Yes indeed, we are the Ummah of "Allahu Akbar", so wherever we go and wherever we are scattered we will exclaim that Allah is the Greatest. The dignity belongs to Allah alone, and the shameful humiliation is for whoever elevates himself to the level of the Lord of the worlds.

This venerable Sahabi, Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas, may Allah be pleased with him, when speaking to the soldiers in the battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, while thirty thousand Muslim soldiers were facing one hundred thousand Persians, recited the words of Allah:

((وَلَقَدْ كَتَبْنَا فِي الزَّبُورِ مِنْ بَعْدِ الذِّكْرِ أَنَّ الْأَرْضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِيَ الصَّالِحُونَ))

"And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention that the land [of Paradise] is inherited by My righteous servants." [TMQ 21:105]

Afterwards he told the soldiers to scream "Allahu Akbar!", so he went on in addressing them: "Allah will not send the blessing of such a Takbeer upon a nation of black headed other than the Muslims. So it will lead you to victory with the permission of Allah!" So through the mercy of Allah it was an overwhelming victory.

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

When the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" fell on the 27^th of Rajab 1342, corresponding to the 3^rd of March 1924 CE, the Turkish parliament voted for the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" as a ruling system. Thereby a page was turned that had started with the arrival of the Messenger (saw) in the enlightened city of Madina and his establishment of the first Islamic state, which outlived him, carrying after him the name of Khilafah "Caliphate". It was the true embodiment of the unity of the Muslim Ummah and the catering to its worldly and religious affairs and the following generations of Muslims did not know nationalistic states nor were they gathered under banners stemming from the time of ignorance, until the Westerners occupied the Muslims lands and they worked hard to eradicate all that was evidence to the existence of such Khilafah "Caliphate". Because it represents the power of the Muslims even in the days of weakness, that struck the Ummah in the recent decades.

So it occurred what no Muslim could have imagined, and the enemy of Allah, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, took over the mission of abolishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" and exerted himself to changing the lands from the very root until there was no trace left of Islam and its Arabic language. He declared war on Islam and made it the emphasis of his effort to raise the pillars of secularism and introduce what he called the "Turkish identity" to the people and cleanse them from any Islamic influence. So in 1925 he forced men to wear a hat instead of the fez, as a symbolic measure to erase even the Islamic customs and substitute them with western customs. All of this was done under the name of democracy and the civil state.

Soon after that he prohibited women from wearing the Islamic dress and men and women alike from wearing Islamic clothing.  He allowed the Adhan only to be raised in the Turkish language and still, how upset was this heretic by the declaration of the two Shahadas, because the name of the Messenger (saw) is venerated in both of them, and he saw himself to be more worthy of mentioning. He turned the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul into a museum and brought back the pre-Islamic times of ignorance, substituting the Hijri calendar by the Gregorian calendar and the Arabic letters by the Latin letters. After abolishing the Islamic laws he introduced man made law by imposing Swiss civil law, Italian criminal law and German trade law. Thereby for the first time in history since the establishment of the Islamic State in Madina by the Prophet (saw), the Muslims were ruled by Kufr law imposed by tyrants rather than reserving the rule of man to Allah alone. Mustafa Kemal in his fierce campaign to erase all traces of Islam and the Arabic language, used the most brutal and monstrous policies, first and foremost aiming at the elimination of religion and not sparing anyone who dared to object to it from killing, imprisonment and displacement, all in the name of freedom, democracy, civil state and progress.

Yes indeed, this is how your considerate state fell, the protective mother of the lands and its people, that had come to reach the age of 1292 years: the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate". What had held the Ummah together was scattered and she was afflicted by disorientation. The Muslims became like orphans watching a banquet of villains, being picked on by the birds and mangled by the dogs. After a state of dignity that lasted almost 13 decades, we are now being insulted in our lands and abroad and being Muslim is equated with being a terrorist and the chaste Muslim woman is declared a threat to morally dissolved societies.

And the West, led by the head of all Kufr, America, rioted in crushing Islam and its people and declared war against all that is Islamic via its agents, the rulers of the Muslims lands, until the trees, stones and human beings screeched in pain and cried out for help to Allah from the unprecedented and unimaginable injustice. The prisoner of Guantanamo and his likes are clear evidence to the fall of the Western civilization and remind us of the Christian church in Europe during the middle ages, when it detained people to humiliate and torture them and cut off their limbs. There is no big difference between this and Guantanamo, which is the birthmark of shame on the forehead of Western democracy, for which they try to prepare the Muslim world.

This is the cause that led the Ummah to move and take the streets in her lands, shouting NO to injustice, NO to enslavement and NO to the days of ignorance!

Dear Shabab and dear Shabbat, these are your lands and at the forefront of our attention are the demonstrations and marches, in which you were from the first to demonstrate and raise the banners of change and return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" system. This seed was then absorbed from all corners of the Muslim lands and grew to become the Arab Spring which was converted to an Islamic Spring by the great revolution in al-Sham. So the Muslim masses took the street in the nucleus of Dar al-Islam, the Sham of the Messenger, the Sham of Khalid and Abi Ubaida and Salahuddin. The masses are haunting the colonial powers to scream in their grim faces that their time has come to an end and the era of bloodsucking the people through their agents is over.

Oh Brothers and Sisters,

The revolution in al-Sham is a great revolution resulting from the greatness of Islam, blessed by legendary steadfastness, history does not state any incident equal to it. It is a revolt against Kufr and tyranny; it is a revolt to eradicate the colonial disbeliever (kafir) and his stooges from the likes of Bashar al-Assad and his helpers. It emerged knowing the degree of the lowliness of this system and its head, and it stood tall to tell the Muslims: Fall into line with us, for my aim is not to rid myself from Bashar and his regime only nor is it to sever the hands of America and its stooges only, but to readopt the Islamic way of life through establishing the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" based on the method of the Prophethood.

The enemies of the Ummah have realized that the secret of the revolution's power and its stability stems from the elevated Islamic thinking that was embraced by the Ummah. They have realized that the Ummah's steadfastness, the pillars upon which it rests and the source of it civilization is Islam. It is an ancient and a modern truth: The Muslims have no power except if they reestablish their state and rule in it with the Qur'an. That is why back in the day the British prime minister stood before the House of Commons holding the Qur'an in his hand to address them: "As long as this Qur'an remains with the Muslims, we shall not have any power over them." Therefore Islam shall give the Muslims awareness and insight into their enemies' plans and they shall understand the reality of things:

((وَكَذَلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ وَلِتَسْتَبِينَ سَبِيلُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ ))

"And thus do We detail the verses, and [thus] the way of the criminals will become evident." [TMQ 6:55] And they shall not take the disbelievers as patrons, according to His saying:

((لَا يَتَّخِذِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَمَنْ يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ فَلَيْسَ مِنَ اللَّهِ فِي شَيْءٍ ))

"Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah, except when taking precaution against them in prudence. And Allah warns you of Himself, and to Allah is the [final] destination." [TMQ 3:28]

The revolution of the Ummah in al-Sham has laid clear that the strength of the Muslims stems from their Aqeedah, they have united after hard labor for Allah alone, they have screamed that it is for Allah: "It is for Allah, it is for Allah!" and they have proven this with their saying: "Ya Allah we have none other but You." They looked to the sky with pure and earnest hearts: "To your service ya Allah!" And when they understood that there is no refuge other than the Islamic state, the second rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" state, they screamed at their highest voice: "Our leader eternally is our master Muhammad!"

The enemies of Allah know that they will be defeated if the Muslims implement what they have declared. That's why they have taken some of the sons of this Ummah, misusing them to split our strength and disrupt our potential. So they established the military councils and national coalitions and held conferences and started plotting, not to save the lives of Muslims but to eliminate the revolution and prevent them from reaching their goal. To understand what is really called for in those conferences, I convey what Professor Richard Wilkins - President of the International Center for Family Policies says: "The Western society has entered a death spiral, and it wants to drag the world behind it."

Only if those who claim their protectiveness on al-Sham and its people and those who meet with ambassadors and American and European ministers, only if they would realize that what is being done is like fatal poison to us. They are prolonging tyranny with all types of weapons and equipment to continue our killing while proclaiming to hold conferences to rescue us from wild wolves' claws which continues to kill and destroy, following the order from his master in the White House and through the tools handed to him by the stooges in Russia, Iran and their Lebanese henchmen. And Allah the Almighty has spoken the truth when He said:

الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمُنْكَرِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَنَسِيَهُمْ إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ. وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتِ وَالْكُفَّارَ نَارَ جَهَنَّمَ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا هِيَ حَسْبُهُمْ وَلَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُقِيمٌ

"The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right and close their hands. They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them [accordingly]. Indeed, the hypocrites - it is they who are the defiantly disobedient. The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right and close their hands. They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them [accordingly]. Indeed, the hypocrites - it is they who are the defiantly disobedient." [TMQ 9: 67-68]

On the other hand stand the sons of the Muslim Ummah with the people of al-Sham in their strife to revive the Islamic way of life and reestablish the second Khilafah "Caliphate" state, following the promise of the Prophet (saw) when he said: «..ثم تكون خلافة على منهاج النبوة» "Then there will be a Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of the Prophet." It will be a Khilafah "Caliphate" as in the best of times and the strongest eras. He (saw) told us that al-Sham is the nucleus of Dar al-Islam and that Damascus the great city will be the place of a major epic between Good and Evil, where Good will be victorious and the flag of Islam will be raised. He (saw) said: « يوم الملحمة الكبرى فسطاط المسلمين، بأرض يقال لها الغوطة، فيها مدينة يقال لها دمشق، خير منازل المسلمين يومئذ  » "On the day of the great epic that will befall the Muslims, in a land call al-Ghuta, in it there is a city called Damascus, it will be the best home for Muslims on that day." (Extracted by al-Haakim). Congratulations to those who worked for it and raised its banner, for the mercy of the Master of all servants will descend when Muslims work together to raise the word of Allah and to implement His laws and build His state and to protect their Ummah from the vicious plans of the planners and the malicious intrigues of the intriguing and to preserve the supremacy of the word of Allah and the debasement of the word of the disbelievers. He (swt) said:

وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَيُطِيعُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُولَئِكَ سَيَرْحَمُهُمُ اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

"The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Those - Allah will have mercy upon them. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise." [TMQ 9:71]

Dearest Brothers and dearest Sisters,

It does not surprise us that the enemies of the Ummah plan these vicious plots and intrigue against the Muslim Ummah. Deplorably some of our compatriots hasten to support these destructive policies and conniving plans and deceptive slogans, which are those who share the ideas of the enemies and advocate their calls, among them are the ignorant and fooled and among them are many of the elder thinkers and intellectuals that have substituted with the western secularized thinking the guidance from the Lord of the worlds and the Sunnah of the master of messengers (saw):

((وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ. أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَكِنْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ))

"And when it is said to them, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say, "We are but reformers." Unquestionably, it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive [it] not." [TMQ 2:11-12]

And when the sincere face their plans and expose their falsehood, they accuse them of reactionism, obscurantism, inertia and hostility against civilization and science:

((وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ آمِنُوا كَمَا آمَنَ النَّاسُ قَالُوا أَنُؤْمِنُ كَمَا آمَنَ السُّفَهَاءُ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ السُّفَهَاءُ وَلَكِنْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ))

"And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have believed," they say, "Should we believe as the foolish have believed?" Unquestionably, it is they who are the foolish, but they know [it] not." [TMQ 2:13]

The circles of conspiracy have intensified until the colonial Kafir has only very little left to oppose the strength of Islam and the greatness of the political project. It is the project of the Ummah in its entirety, a project not only to save the Ummah, but humanity as a whole. We are firmly determined that in the Islamic Sham after today there is no place except for an Islamic state, we want it to be a Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of the Prophet. Sooner or later Damascus will return as a light house for mankind, spreading the light of its culture and development to all corners of the globe and the Muslim will restore his dignity and with permission of Allah will travel from Jakarta to al-Sham, not fearing anyone but Allah and the ravages of the road.

Allah grant us this and use us for it and make us from the soldiers of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state and bless us with the pledge of allegiance to the Khalifah of the Muslims in the nucleus of Dar al-Islam. We pray to Allah that our Ameer will be the Ameer of Hizb ut Tahrir, the honorable scholar Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Rashtah. May he be the Khalifah on whom we focus our hopes and who puts our hearts at ease. Then America and its stooges will see who the Muslims are and what the Khilafah "Caliphate" is:

((وَسَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنْقَلَبٍ يَنْقَلِبُونَ ))

"And those who have wronged are going to know to what [kind of] return they will be returned." [TMQ 26:227]

Wa Sallaamu alaikum wa Rahmatu Allah wa Barakatu

Engineer Hicham Al-Baba

Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Syria

I've travelled halve of the globe to be here with you today. Because you Indonesian people are truly an amazing and blessed nation. You accepted Islam by millions without any Opening. Instead you Opened your lands for Islam freely and willingly. So I'm extremely honored to be with my brothers and sisters who have shown the world their passion and love for Islam and work tirelessly, day and night to establish the Deen of Allah (swt) on earth on the method of the promised Khilafah "Caliphate" ar Rashidah!

I come from Holland. And I have brought you a warm message from the Muslims of Balanda. They requested me to convey the Salaam of Allah to the sincere Muslims of Indonesia.  Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu.

Also they requested me to convey to you the following message:

The Dutch government who once colonized you, killed your sons and made your wives and mothers widows, exploited your wealth, declared in 1915 that working with the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" State was a betrayal for the Dutch authority, and the ones who dared to work with the Khilafah "Caliphate" would be executed.

And yes they were successful in this, they silenced us, broke our unity, and together with the other western countries they brought down the Khilafah "Caliphate".

However, their arrogance misled them. And they made three miscalculations.

Firstly, they under estimated the Ummah of Muhammed (saw). Yes we did fall but we will always standup! Didn't they hear our History! The Mongols invaded us and kicked them out, the Crusaders invaded the blessed land and we kicked them out! We are not only a strong Ummah, we also have a Clear Message for mankind. We have a Mission!

"أَنْتُمْ تُوَفُّونَ سَبْعِينَ أُمَّةً أَنْتُمْ خَيْرَهَا وَأَكْرَمَهَا عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ"

"You are the final of seventy nations, you are the best and most honored among them to Allah."

The second miscalculation what they did was to underestimate the beauty and Strength of Islam!

Allah (swt) says:

((يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّـهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلَامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُم مِّنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ))

"There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book. By which Allah guides those who pursue His pleasure to the ways of peace and brings them out from darknesses into the light, by His permission, and guides them to a straight path." [Al-Maida: 16]

And yes, the Dutch government who fought Islam and who fought the Khilafah "Caliphate". Now, not more than 100 years later, their offspring's are embracing Islam in large numbers. Dutch men and women are led by Allah from the darkness of Kufr in to the Light of Islam. In every city in Holland, Islamic activism is vibrant. And every single day the voice for Khilafah "Caliphate" becomes more and more vocal in the Holland. And among them are dedicated young men and women who work with Hizb ut Tahrir and they have sworn to defend Islam, whenever and wherever they are. They have made an oath to Allah (swt) that they will continue with the Dawah to Islam and the Dawah for Khilafah "Caliphate" till Allah (swt) gives His Help and Victory.

The third and the biggest mistake they made is their animosity against the Deen of Allah. The Creator of the seven heavens and earth, the Creator of them and the Creator of us! It is He The One and the Only, He is who will make this Deen Victorious and Dominant over all other religious and ideologies, whether they like it or not.

(( هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ))

"It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to dominate it over all religion, although the mushrikeen dislike it." [At-Tawba: 33]

The promised Khilafah "Caliphate" is near; And yes we can see it coming on the Horizon. And it will Shine and lighten the earth ones again after its darkness. But it will not come for free!

(( يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن تَنصُرُوا اللَّـهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ ))

"...if you support Allah, He will support you and make your feet firm" [Muhammad: 7]

We have to struggle and we have to fulfill our obligation. And surely Allah swt will aid us with His Help.

My dear brothers and sisters,

We live in a global village nowadays. Every action you do here will resonate throughout the whole world. The millions who cry out for the establishment of the promised Khilafah "Caliphate" in Indonesia will be loudly heard by the Muslims.

So Muslims in Indonesia. Know! That your voice is strong and can make a real impact! This event here today will Inshallah be broadcasted in to the houses of millions of Muslims all across the Muslim- and the Western world.

Know, that your Voice, your hard work and dedication for this noble Dawah is like a blessed rain after a period severe drought; it will rejuvenate this noble call, it will give motivation and confidence for the Ummah on the other side of the globe to work even more dedicated for the reestablishment of the Deen of Allah (swt).

I ask Allah (swt) to enlighten our sight and to guide us in every step we make; He is the best protector and Best Helper. May Allah (swt) accept your and our deeds and grand us Victory in this world and in the Akhira.

Okay Pala

Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Netherlands

Address to Ummah and Movement for Khilafah "Caliphate" in Hind

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن والاه، وبعد

Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatallahi wabarakatu

Al Hamdulillah, Al Hamdulilahi Rabbil Alameen ...Wassalatu Wassalamu Ala Rasulihil Kareem, Amma Baad.

Qalallau Ta'ala fil Qur'anil Majeed, Ba'da Ayuqobullahiminashaitanirrazim, Bismillihirrahmanirraheem!

((الر ۚ كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ لِتُخْرِجَ النَّاسَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ))

"(This is) a Book which We have revealed to you (O Muhammad [sal-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam]) in order that you might lead mankind out of darkness (of disbelief and polytheism) into light (of belief in the Oneness of Allah and Islamic Monotheism) by their Lord's Leave to the path of the All-Mighty, the Owner of all praise." [Ibrahim: 1]

I bring you Greetings and wishes from the land of Mujahideen, and from the land of the scholars and knowledge, from the lands of soldiers like Tipu Sultan and Aurangzeb, the Muslims of the Subcontinent of Hind, Assalamualaikum warrahmatullahi wabarakatuh I praise Allah and thank Him for making us a part of this blessed conference, at the same time I would like to extend warm greetings and our gratitude to Hizb Ut Tahrir Indonesia and our Ameer, the great learned scholar Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, hafizahullah for organizing this conference.

The Hind subcontinent was opened at the hands of Mohammad bin Qasim Atthaqafi who was sent by the Umayyad Khaleefah al-Walid bin Abdul Malik as a leader of an army in the end of the first Hijri century when a group of Muslim sailors were arrested near the coast of Sindh. And because the Khaleefah of that time was different to the oppressive rulers of today's time who have strangled the throats of the Muslims and who stand like statues while atrocities are committed against the Muslims and that is why the Khaleefah sent the army for the support of the Muslims.

Hind remained a part of the Khilafah "Caliphate" for over a thousand years and in the era of the Khaleefah Haroon ar-Rashid (786 AH - 809 AH) the Islamic army spread over Sindh till Gujurat. And then the Muslim army built a base and established new cities in it and from that time onwards millions of non-Muslims started entering the folds of Islam in Hind moving out from the darkness of ignorance and shirk to the light of Islam, obeying none but Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw). So the Islamic ruling was known to the people of Hind, Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh for over 1000 years.

حَدَّثَنِي خَلِيلِي الصَّادِقُ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ : يَكُونُ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْثٌ إِلَى السِّنْدِ وَالْهِنْدِ ، فَإِنْ أَنَا أَدْرَكْتُهُ فَاسْتُشْهِدْتُ فَذَاكَ ، وَإِنْ أَنَا - فَذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً - رَجَعْتُ وَأَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الْمُحَرَّرُ ، قَدْ أَعْتَقَنِي مِنَ النَّارِ

Abu Hurayrah (ra) narrated: "My true friend, Allah's Messenger (saw) said: "The armies of this Ummah will be sent to Hind." If I get the opportunity to participate in it and be martyred then that is one (auspicious) thing, and if I return then I will be the free Abu Hurayrah. The Exalted Lord would have given me freedom from Hell." [Ahmad, Nisai]

Hind had been one of the Wilayat of the Khilafah "Caliphate" from the time of the Delhi Sultanate 1205 - 1526 CE and till the end of the Mughal rule from 1526 - 1857 CE. The Muslims ruled Hind for well over a thousand years. The situation of the Ummah including the non-Muslims was prosperous to the extent that even today people in Hind say that during the Islamic rule, Hind was like a Golden Bird.

In 1857 when British had completely occupied Hind, the Muslims although small in number formed the frontier of Opposition. The names of Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan are still remembered with respect and honour as these governors stood against the British and fought valiantly.

Even after the British occupied Hind, the Muslims of Hind remained loyal to the Khaleefah in Istanbul and many of them continued to do Jihad against the colonialists like Syed Ahmad Shaheed and others.

During the First World War, mosques in Hind rang with fervent prayers whose Khutba would invoke the benediction of Allah for the well-being of the Sultan and the success of his armies in their effort to destroy the forces of Kufr.

Sheikh ul-Hind Maulana Mahmoud ul-Hasan who at that time was the head of the famous Darul Uloom Deoband passed orders to close the institute and that the students and teachers take part in Jihad to assist the Khaleefah. Sheikh ul-Hind supported the Khilafah "Caliphate" worked hard to protect it. He travelled to Hijaz to meet the governor of the Khaleefah in Makkah Mukarrama where he was arrested at the hands of the traitor Shareef Hussain on the 23 Safar 1335 AH. Shareef Hussain wanted the Sheikh to reject the Uthmani Khilafah "Caliphate" which the Sheikh and those with him rejected. The Sheikh was handed over to the British who imprisoned him in Malta where he remained in the prison for over three years. When he was released, he returned to Hind to become part of the famous Khilafat Movement also known as Tahreeke Khilafat.

Khilafat Movement:

The relationship of the Muslims of Hind with the Khilafah "Caliphate" was and is unique; it is like the relation of a mother and a child, an unbreakable one. So in 1918 when the seat of the Khilafah "Caliphate", Istanbul was occupied by British forces, the Muslims of Hind started the historical Khilafat movement for the preservation of the Khilafah "Caliphate". This movement was supported by many influentials of the time to the extent that even non-Muslims lent their hand to it. The Ulemah were on the forefront of this struggle and thus bore the brunt of the struggle to the maximum. The famous among these scholars are Maulana Mahmoud ul-Hasan, Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Even today the Khilafat Movement is part of the secular education system in Hind although ironically Muslims are given the understanding that it was a nationalistic freedom struggle.

The words of one of the pioneers of the Khilafat movements tells us the fire in the hearts of the scholars and the public at the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate", Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was one of the speakers of Khilafah "Caliphate" conference who published a book in 1920 called Masla-e-Khilafat (The Issue of Khilafah "Caliphate"), he stated: "Without the Khilafah "Caliphate" the existence of Islam is not possible, the Muslims of Hind with all their effort and power need to work for this."

Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar also stated: "The ruler of Turkey was the Khaleefah or successor of the Prophet and Amir-u-Mu'mineen or chief of the believers and the Khilafah "Caliphate" is as essentially our religious concern as the Quran or the Sunnah of the Prophet." [My Life a Fragment, Mohammed Ali Johar, pg.41]

And after Hind gained its so-called independence under "Jawaharial Nehru" the Muslim oppression continued. Hundreds and thousands of the Muslims were killed in Kashmir and other places and continue to be killed until today. Thousands of Muslim sisters were raped, masajid destroyed, and the lives of Muslims converted to hell. We all saw what happened in 2002 when 3000 Muslims were massacred in broad day light in Gujarat.

The capitalist system and the existing leadership in Hind have failed in solving the problems of the people. More than 40% of the population lives in poverty and over 70% of them live below 2 dollars a day. Over half of Hind does not receive electricity and those who do receive it have power failures most of the time. 40% of children suffer from malnutrition and starvation, not to forget that due to economic injustice and oppression has allowed tribal militants to take over about 40% of Hind.

Call for Khilafah "Caliphate" today:

Even after the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate", the people of Hind continued their struggle to reestablish the Khilafah "Caliphate", so in the 1940's Maulana Abul Ala Maududi stood up with a call to reestablish the Islamic State.

Even though the current generation has not seen the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate" but the idea of the Khilafah "Caliphate" is very vivid and deep within them. They are in pain because of their inability to manage their lives according to the rules of Islam. And a large majority of scholars in Hind and Islamic groups and thinkers call for the Islamic system. We all make duaa to Allah to reestablish the Khilafah "Caliphate".

Today Muslims of the subcontinent realize their identity as Muslims and they are affected by the issues that face the Ummah. They have always been at the forefront to stand up for the issues of the Ummah; for example, when in 2007 the West published the caricatures of the Prophet (saw), the Muslims in Hind organized protests, so much so that in the city of Bhopal which is an old Muslim city almost 300,000 Muslims with many holding the Raya and the ‘Uqab protested against it.

Conclusion:

The Khilafah "Caliphate" that the Prophet (saw) prophesized that we will unite the Muslims under one flag is very close to be established Inshallah and we make duaa to Allah to enable us to work under the leadership of Hizb ut Tahrir and we make duaa to Allah (swt) that we be part of those whom Rasoolullah mentioned in the Hadith:

يغزو قوم من أمتي الهند ، فيفتح الله عليهم ، حتى يلقوا بملوك الهند مغلولين في السلاسل ، يغفر الله لهم ذنوبهم ، فينصرفون إلى الشام فيجدون عيسى بن مريم بالشام

"Two groups amongst My Ummah would be such, to whom Allah has freed from fire: One group would attack Hind and the second would be that who would accompany Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (AS)."

The Real Change is a Revolution for the Sake of the Khilafah "Caliphate"

The revolution in Egypt was a start of good (khair) after the Tunisian revolution since it assured that the movement of the Ummah in Tunisia was not isolated from its surroundings, but it was a revolution in line with the rest of the Muslim lands. And there is no sense in replicating the tyrant of Egypt and his thugs by saying that Egypt is different from Tunisia or to say to the buried Gaddafi that Libya is different from Tunisia or Egypt.

However, did the anger of the Egyptian revolutionaries achieve anything of what they aspired to? Did the regime change? Or was it simply a change of faces?

The era of the tyrant Mubarak ended in the same way it ended for his friend Ben Ali in Tunisia, elections took place, and those carrying the slogan of "Islam is the Solution" ascended into power, and the rebelling people focused their hopes on them, because they love Islam and want to see it implemented in their reality. But did they materialize anything of their raised slogans? Is their implemented Islam any different than how the ousted used to claim to implement Islam?

The hope of today's scattered Ummah to become united once again under the shade of the Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of the Prophethood pleases the inhabitants of the heavens and earth. This great desire that needs to stir for the sake of the Ummah today is what will truly liberate it from subordination and humiliation to the Kafir western nations, who hijacked these blessed revolutions and diverted them as they wanted, far from Islam that was supposed to direct the moving masses longing for change, ridding the regimes in the Muslim world from the dependency on America and the Kafir west. We can say that the Ummah came to realize that the overthrow of tyrants without the removal of their regimes makes the revolutions in vain. What is the lesson behind  the overthrow of those traitor agents without the overthrow of their regimes that still form the backbone of the colonial Kafir, the source of the plague  and the transmitter of the disease from which the Ummah suffers since the fall of its state and its real system embodied in the Khilafah "Caliphate"?

Perhaps in the slogan "The Revolution Continues" raised by some in Egypt we can find consolation, as this slogan assures that amongst the Ummah there are those who realize the revolution must persist, since it has not achieved what it set out for initially. There is a matter that has to be understood by anyone who seeks a real exit from the sufferings of the Ummah, be it disunity, fragmentation, disorientation or looting of its resources and wealth, that is to realize the deep impact of the dominance of misleading western culture on the minds of people in our lands plagued by colonialism since the mid-19^th century. The colonial states have dominated our lands and shared amongst each other the influence, with England holding the lion's share, followed by France. Those are the two countries that tore the lands apart in the degrading Sykes-Picot Treaty.

In the shade of the nightmare of the misleading western culture the conception of a nation within national boundaries, that separates it from its Ummah, as well as the secular constitution and the divisive flag are entrenched. Thereby the generations are imprinted with the conception of nationalism and national unity, as well as loyalty to the nation state, its constitution and its national flag.

The leaderships that took over the bridle of affairs amidst the Arab Spring focus on these decadent concepts and as if we were turning in circles, the slogans of "Unity" and "Abolition of Boundaries" and other slogans connected to the Aqeedah of the Ummah, its culture and its history have disappeared from the scene.  All of this to an extent that these new leaderships allowed murderous Iranian ships to pass the Suez Canal, aiding the tyrant of al-Sham in killing even more of the sons of this Ummah in Syria. This under the same pretext of the former regime: "It is not Egypt's right to forbid any ship from passing through the Suez Canal, unless it belongs to a state that has declared war upon Egypt." The regime after the revolution does not see the enmity against the Muslims as an enmity against Egypt!! What is wrong with you?! By what measures do you judge?!

Under the nightmare of the misguided western culture, alien concepts were imprinted amongst our Ummah, and perhaps the term "civil state" that is being echoed by many is the most dangerous of these western concepts for the civilization and culture of this Ummah. Was the revolution and were the sacrifices of the people for the sake of a secular civil state?! Did we actually revolt to oust these tyrants to then be ruled by other tyrants dressed in the civil cloak, devoted to secularism and democracy but appearing under the new label of "the civil state"?! Do those, raising such slogans, really think that they will be able to deceive the Ummah if they whitewash this term with their claim of the desired civil state being one of "Islamic Reference"?!

During the "marches of rage" emerged clearly the slogans called for by movements which are known to be Islamic, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis in Egypt, and the Islamic an-Nahda movement in Tunisia and other countries. The banner of "Islam is the Solution" was raised in these countries and other slogans were raised, that place weight on a change based on Islam, such as: "We Don't Bow to Other Than Allah", "If You Give Victory to Allah, Allah Will Grant You Victory" and "It Is For Allah, It Is For Allah".

The question now is: Where are those movements with Islamic reference that emerged through the votes of the electors, when it comes to Islam as the creed of the Ummah, through which people expect salvation?

The Republican system has become acceptable, just like monarchy,  and the civil state has become one of their accepted terms, they have started calling for pluralism and democracy and they say: "Islamic Democracy" as if in order for Islam to be acceptable it has to be dressed in this western cloak that is alien to it. All of this to satisfy the Kafir west. Are they really unaware, that it the same west, that dragged upon us all the calamities and horrors, and it is the cause of our underdevelopment, and it is them who tore apart our Ummah, removed its prestige and occupied our lands and established the primary enemy of the Ummah, the Zionist entity on the blessed spot that is from the holiest of our lands?!

The change the Ummah is longing for needs to be radical, restoring its leadership position amongst the nations, and we see severed limbs, extreme retardation, deprived of all manifestations of pride and dignity. It is a radical change which will encompass the whole of the contemporary world: east and west, north and south.

Today the whole world is witness to corruption in all of man's affairs, Allah the Almighty said:

((ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُمْ بَعْضَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ))

"Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness]." [TMQ 30:41]

Islam had removed this corruption from the land and seas through the mission of the beloved Prophet and it is capable of removing the current corruption, dominating the world through the Ummah of goodness, the Muslim Ummah that is indeed the best Ummah extracted for mankind.

We are compelled, if we want real change, to radically change the poisoned ideas planted by our colonial enemy, replacing them with original Islamic ideas and make them dominate the public opinion in society. This is what will bring about true change, causing us to rejoice and granting us a dignified and distinguished life. This will happen through fighting the west and its concepts and becoming aware of our Islamic ideas in their correct image. This mission of change cannot be carried out by someone whose words and actions still bear clear evidence to his misleading western education.

Therefore the talk of a republican system in these lands is meaningless, as the Ummah has its own distinctive system, the Khilafah "Caliphate".

There is no meaning to the talk of the nation state and nationalism or the raising of a flag produced by the ill-fated "Sykes-Picot" treaty. The Ummah has its creed as alliance that elevates from the ground and untouched by dust and it has its distinctive flag and banner of the Messenger of Allah (saw). There is no meaning to the term of "democracy", "civil state" and the "liberal Islamic alliance". Because Islam is supreme and nothing is supreme to it. There is no sense in respecting the agreements of humiliation and the peace treaties, only the governance by the Shari'ah has to be respected and bindingly followed. Legislation belongs to Allah alone.

The coming days promise total goodness for this precious Ummah. The "strangers of the Ummah", who were systematically ignored and obscured by the regimes and their media, will soon see the end of their strangeness, when they straighten the issue and to their Deen and their state, the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" will belong the decisive word in all of the world's matters. Then there will be no strangeness for these men, for they and their Ummah will own the supreme word and the upper hand. Their great Deen will reign over all systems, including the capitalist system, which did not come from Allah or His sovereignty:

((وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ))

"And that day the believers will rejoice; In the victory of Allah." [TMQ 30:4]

Engineer Sharif Zayid

Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Egypt