Nussrah Magazine in Pakistan Issue 7 Jul/Aug
Hizb-ut Tahrir / East Africa Organized Dawah Activities in Zanzibar, Tanzania
It is absolutely shocking to observe major powers struck by apparent bout of paralysis in their approach to prevent the massacre of Muslims in Syria and Burma. What makes their stance even more abhorrent is that some of them passionately covet human rights and have made it the epicenter of their civilization, but have conveniently overlooked such lofty ideals where Muslims are the victims. The outgoing international war envoy Kofi Annan epitomizes the collective inaction at the UN when he said, "Syria can still be saved from a worse calamity." Is not the massacre of 20,000 Syrians enough to mobilize the collective global consciousness to prevent the tyrant Bashar Al Assad from mercilessly slaughtering his people on a daily basis?
Equally hard to fathom for any sane person is the indifference displayed by major powers to stop the callous killing and the whole-sale slaughter of Muslims in Burma. This apathy has allowed the so called peaceful Buddhist monks to develop an incredulous appetite for spilling Muslim blood, debasing Muslim women and ostracizing Muslim communities. Incidentally, these are the same monks that are held in high esteem in Western capitals because of their recent struggle to bring democracy; however, their ugly crimes perpetrated against Muslims have gone apparently gone unnoticed.
Yet for several years now, major powers have been fully aware of the persecution of Muslims in both Syria and Burma. The evil nature of the Assad's regime and the wickedness of the Burmese military junta are vividly etched in the annals of history. In 1982 the world watched in utter silence as the butcher Hafiz Assad bombed the city of Hama and killed 30,000 people including women and children. Likewise, the world has chosen to muzzle its voice concerning the extermination of Rohingya Muslims in Burma. The very same UN that has meticulously portrayed itself as a bastion of peace and security described the Rohingya Muslims as the most persecuted community in the world, and refers to them as the Palestine of Asia. It is documented that in 1962 the Burmese military junta began its programme of ethnic cleansing, which continues with unabated ferocity today.
Should we as Muslims be surprised by the conduct of major powers and the demeanor of the UN? Take for instance the five permanent powers of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and their unstinting oppression of Muslims. America's history is steeped in soiling the earth with the blood of innocent Muslims through wars of attrition, coups, sanctions, covert operations and invasions. One only has to look at America's vicious terror campaign against Muslims in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen to get a sense of her scorn towards Muslims. Whereas the old colonial power-Britain and France have spilt the largest amount of Muslim blood through the partition of India and the war of independence in Algeria. Both powers still persist in their hostilities against Muslims, and are at the forefront of many campaigns with their crusading partner America.
Russia and China are just as guilty. Russia has tried to conceal the killing fields of Chechnya by giving the region's capital Grozny a makeover. China continues to subjugate Muslims of Xingyang under horrific conditions and purposefully denies them their basic rights. These crimes against humanity have not diminished in the slightest their thirst for Muslim blood and their desire to see Islam destroyed. Allah says:
"They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom." [TMQ: 3:118]
Furthermore, such acts have emboldened other countries to commit treacherous acts against their Muslim populations. Israel continues to oppress Palestinians through punitive measures not even found in concentration camps, and India-West's newfound darling- has outdone her protagonists by turning Kashmir into the world's largest prison.
Clearly then there is one standard for the Muslim world and another standard for the rest. In short, the kafir major powers have declared an open season on Muslims everywhere and are avid enemies of Islam. Allah says:
"Verily Satan is an enemy to you: so treat him as an enemy. He only invites his adherents that they may become Companions of the Blazing Fire." [TMQ: 35:6]
Oh Muslims! After all of this it is not befitting for you to seek the help of the Kafir major powers or beseech their politicians to lift the aggression against fellow Muslims knowing full well how their governments use international law and the UN to craft solutions that are intended to divide and weaken you. Allah says:
"O ye who believe! Choose not My enemy and your enemy for friends. Do ye give them friendship when they disbelieve in that truth which hath come unto you, driving out the messenger and you because ye believe in Allah, your Lord? If ye have come forth to strive in My way and seeking My good pleasure, (show them not friendship)." [TMQ: 60:1]
The kafir major powers are not alone in their sheer hatred towards Muslims. They are joined in their crusade to suppress the Muslim masses through their agents in the Muslim world. The enmity of the agent rulers is far worse and deeper in magnitude than compared to their masters. The aim of such rulers is to stand firm together against the Muslim ummah and help their kafir masters protect their interest. Look how they fall over each other to protect the strategic and commercial interests of the kafir powers in Syria and Burma. Their half hearted condemnations against Bashar and the military junta in Burma do not go beyond finger pointing, empty promises and cheap slogans. They openly forbid the good and encourage the evil. Their hypocrisy towards Muslims knows no bounds. And Allah says about them:
"The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: they enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse." [TMQ: 9: 67]
Later this Ramadan you will see them gather in Mecca at the behest of King Abdullah the Custodian of West's interests in the region. They will feast on lavish banquets, whilst the ummah suffers from oppression and bloodshed. They will deliberate the plight of Muslims in Syria and Burma, but nothing will come of the meeting, unless the kafir major powers decide otherwise. Their real aim is to protect their thrones from the revolution and safeguard the interest of their kafir masters. So do not be dazzled or moved by their speeches. Allah warns:
"There is the type of man whose speech about this world's life May dazzle you and he calls Allah to witness about what is in his heart; yet is he the most contentious of enemies." [TMQ: 2:204]
Oh Muslims! You have already had a major hand in exposing the heinous crimes of Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Saleh and Assad before the world, and now during the nights of layal tul qadr the time has come to multiply your efforts and work hard for the complete elimination of the systems of kufr that shackle you and the agent rulers that eagerly allow the kafir powers to subjugate and abuse you and your Islam. This can only be achieved by working with members of the armed forces to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" State and only then will persecution and humiliation in places like Syria and Burma be permanently removed. The messenger of Allah (saw) said, "The Imam is a shield behind which the people fight and are protected."
And remember the words of your lord as you seek the night of power!
"If Allah helps you, there is none to overcome you. And if He abandons you, then, who is there to help you after that? In Allah the believers should place their trust." [TMQ 3:160]
By Abu Hashim
Hizb ut Tahrir conducted protests around the country. These protests were against an attack on the Islamic ideological foundations of Pakistan Army and the sentencing of sincere officers who raised their voices to end the American Raj in the country in order to protect Islam and the Muslims. They were holding banners and placards declaring "Punishment of Anti-American, pro-Islam Officers is an attack on Pakistan Army's ideological foundation''
It is at a time that the Jewish state and America are at a loss before an entire country, Syria, marching for Islamic rule in this blessed month of Ramadhan, that Kayani, Zardari and their small coterie of henchmen have lurched forward to their rescue. It was not enough for them to try to save America's failing crusade in Afghanistan, by burning Pakistan and its armed forces as a fuel for it,
The vital issue for Muslims across the whole world is bringing them back to the Islamic way of life, and the application of Islam in all aspects of their life. This is an Islamic duty that cannot be fulfilled except by returning back the rule of Allah through the establishment of Dar al Islam by the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", and the appointment of a Khaleefah to the Muslims, who is given the pledge of allegiance to listen to him and obey him on condition of ruling with the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and carrying the call for Islam to the world by Da'wa and Jihad.
The duty to establish the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" can be only accomplished through a group or an Islamic party, which has to be an ideological party, based on the Islamic 'aqeedah, committed to its work according to the ahkaam shar'iyyah, and following (as model for its re-establishment) the way of the Prophet - peace be upon him and his family - in establishing the first Islamic State in Madinah. The work of the party in its call has to be political in nature; because the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", appointing the Khaleefah and implementing the rule of Allah... are political actions.
This was the reason of establishing of Hizb-ut Tahrir. It was also established in compliance with the words of Allah, the Almighty:
"ولتكن منكم أمة يدعون إلى الخير ويأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المنكر وأولئك هم المفلحون"
"And let arise from amongst you a nation (a group) who invites to goodness (khayr), and enjoins the right (ma'roof) and forbids what is evil (munkar), and those are the successful."
Thus, the verse ordered of establishing at least one group or one Islamic party, whose work is call to Islam (khayr), enjoining the right (ma'roof) and forbidding of evil (munkar). That which is calling, enjoining and forbidding the rulers, is political work.
Hence, Hizb-ut Tahrir is a political party, whose ideology is Islam. It is based on the Islamic 'aqeedah regarding of all its thoughts and perceptions. It abides in all of its actions and practices by the divine rules ahkaam shar'iyyah. And its work in the call (Da'wah) is political that addresses the actions of the rulers: being inconsistent with Islam, linked (loyal) to the West and are betrayal to the Muslims. Besides, these actions ought to be implementation of Islam in the life of Muslims, and carrying the message of Islam to the world by calling (Da'wah) and Jihad.
When Hizb-ut Tahrir defined its vital issue as bringing back the rule of Allah, and defined its objective as the establishment of Dar ul-Islam by the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" State; it tried to determine the divine method it must follow to realise its objective: which is represented in the method of the Prophet -peace and prayers be upon him and his family - in his work from when Allah sent him as a messenger until he established the Islamic state in the Madinah.
Based on the Seerah of the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family in establishing the Islamic state and converting dar ul-kufr to dar ul-Islam, and in transforming the Jahili society to Islamic society, Hizb-ut Tahrir defined its method in three stages:
The first stage: The culturing stage in order to develop people who believe in the Islamic thought upon which the party is built in order to realise its objective. This is similar to that which the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family did, where he used to invite people - and whoever responded positively to him and believed in him and his message he used to link him (to his group) secretly, and was keen to teach him whatever had been revealed of the message of Islam until he had absorbed it.
The second stage: Interaction stage: A stage of interaction with the Ummah so that she adopts Islam, takes it as her own issue and works for its implementation in real life, state and society. In this stage, the party carried out intensive culturing in circles for the development of its own party body and to develop Islamic personalities capable to carry out the call. It also carried out a collective culturing to the masses of people, to create general awareness about its ideas amongst themselves, so as to build up the popular foundation that enabled it to lead the Ummah just as the Prophet - peace be upon him and his family - did in Madinah. The party has also followed the Messenger - may Allah bless him and his family - where it engaged into intellectual struggle by confronting the beliefs, systems and thoughts of kufr, and engaging in the political struggle against Muslim rulers and those behind them of the Western capitalist disbelieving countries. So it exposed the plots and revealed the plans for the sake of liberation of the Ummah. Besides, it adopted the interests of the nation and looked after its affairs in accordance with the provisions of the Sharee'ah.
At this stage, the party performed seeking of support (talab un-Nussrah) of the people of power, just as the Prophet - peace be upon him and his family did - as reported by Ibn Kathir in the Seerah from Ali bin Abi Talib, who said:
"لما أمر الله رسوله أن يعرض نفسه على قبائل العرب خرج وأنا معه وأبو بكر إلى منى حتى دفعنا إلى مجلس من مجالس العرب"
"When Allah commanded His Messenger to present himself to the Arab tribes, he came out - accompanied by me and Abu Bakr - to Mina till we reached one of the councils of the Arabs." By this seeking of support (talab un-Nussrah) the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family, established the Islamic state after taking the covenant (bay'ah) from the supporters (Ansar) to defend this deen regardless of the size of threat that might face them.
The third Stage: This is the stage of taking authority and application of Islam, totally and comprehensively, and carrying it as a message to the world.
Hizb-ut Tahrir works to unify the Muslim lands in the single Khilafah "Caliphate" State that combines all Muslims under its leadership in one single Islamic nation (Ummah) that does not distinguish between an Arab and non- Arab, and nor between a black or a white - except by piety.
Hizb-ut Tahrir has worked in Syria since the beginning of its call in the 1950s. It has continued to pursue its call without deviation from the method of the Prophet - may Allah bless him and his family. The difficulties it faced in the days of its call only increased its determination. It suffered a lot from the brutal rule of the family of Al-Assad. It yearns for the victory from Allah alone that opens the hearts and minds of the people of power to support it, after He opened the hearts of Muslims in general to its call. It also aspires to be worthy of this true promise by establishing the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" at its own hands, when the Noble Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family said:
"ثم تكون خلافة راشدة على منهاج النبوة"
"Then it would be a rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" on the model of Prophethood". It also looks to Allah alone to honour the people of the Sham by making their land the centre abode of the Khilafah "Caliphate" as confirmed by the words of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family:
"عقر دار الإسلام بالشام"
"The centre abode of Islam is in the Sham."
