On 15th Rabee' Awwal 1433 - 07/02/2012, one hundred and seven Muslim Scholars issued a statement regarding what is going on in Syria, in which they included fatwas of the sanctity of Muslim blood and other rights; that it is not permissible for the Syrian army and the security recruits to kill anybody (of the citizens), nor to continue in their jobs. They called for the support of the Free Army. They also called upon the Arab and Islamic countries to take serious positions towards the Syrian regime and the countries that support it like Russia and China. They called as well for the unification of the ranks of the opposition in order to build their state on the basis of justice, preservation of rights, establishment of liberties and the establishment of the institutions that preserve the unity and interests of the country. They declared their support for every effort that protects the blood of the Syrian people, leading to free elections that ensure fair rotation of authority and compensation the victims.

It is good to issue a statement by scholars from various Muslim countries, so bypassing borders; a matter that confirms the issues of Muslims are one.

But it is deplorable that the statement did not mention any Islamic solution, seemingly meaning to please parties that Allah (swt) disapproves of: the infidel capitalist West and the regimes that do not govern with the revelation of Allah.

A statement of Muslim scholars is supposed to be specific, explicit and bold, where it pronounces matters unequivocally. So, it should express the real Islamic position towards what is going on in Syria and all other Muslim countries. They should have sent in it a sincere call to all Muslims to take a vigil and sincere stance with their Lord, and their deen. They should have declared that the Islamic Ummah is unified over her issues, her peace and her war; that she is not divided by barriers or frontiers, and nor by regimes that divide them for the interests of Western countries, which struggle with each other over you as the wolves do over sheep.

We in Hizb ut-Tahrir - Syria turn to the scholars reminding them, firstly, that they are the heirs of the Prophet (saw) and the custodians of His deen. Allah has taken their covenant that they must explain the Truth to the people and not hide it. We remind them that Allah sees them and hears them. These are some of the definite (qat'ee) divine rules, over which Muslim scholars would be sinful if they hid them and did not explain them:

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to declare clearly and unequivocally that it is legally required of Muslims in Syria to overthrow the Syrian regime because it is first and foremost a system that does not rule by Islam.

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to show that the method of change must be according to the method of the Messenger of Allah (saw) and that the change must be pure and achieved by all of Muslims, including their scholars, their leaders, their common folk and the influential people amongst them. They should make this change with their own hands, for they are the ones that have the real and actual forces of change in the country.

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to explain to the influential people in Syria that they have two legitimate obligations: to protect their families and support their deen in order to establish the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" as the Ansar of Allah and His Messenger and the believers did in Medina.

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to explain that demanding of a civil State or a secular atheistic State is false because the systems of such a State are illegal and are prohibited to adopt, implement or call for.

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to explain the prohibition of foreign intervention in Muslim countries; whether they were America and European countries who claim hypocritically they support the people of Syria, or they were Russia and China, which express their open hostility against them. All of these countries are unanimous in their hostility towards Islam and on their fight against it - though each has its own way.

• It is a legal duty upon Muslim scholars to explain the prohibition of demanding the intervention of the UN Security Council for securing international protection; because its laws are kufr laws, and its objectives are linked to the objectives of the super powers, led by America.

Therefore, if Muslim scholars wish to be righteous, they have to declare that the issue of Muslims in all of their countries is one; the legal solution of it is one; and that the tyrant regimes that govern Muslims with other than the revelation of Allah must be overthrown; and that an Islamic State must be established in its place.

O Dear Distinguished Scholars in all Muslim countries:

It is time that you say the word of Truth after long silence, and that you would work to establish the promised second guided Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" after a long wait. We wish Ash-Sham, which Allah has blessed, be the heart of its land. So, give yourselves an opportunity at this critical moment of this labour that awaits the birth of the Islamic State. He says:

وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الأرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate any with Me. 'If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked. (24: 55)