Press Release
Is It Not Time for The Islamic Ummah to Rid Itself of a Century of Humiliation and Disgrace?!
(Translated)

The Islamic Ummah has not experienced a greater catastrophe than the destruction of the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the third of March, 1924. After more than thirteen centuries of glory, conquests, and spreading the light of Islam throughout the world, and after Muslims and even non-Muslim lived under its shade in peace and harmony, came the ominous declaration to abolish the Khilafah by the criminal Mustafa Kemal. This declaration was not surprising, as it was preceded by actions, including those related to Muslims who had become extremely weak in their understanding, to the extent that they became incapable of deriving Sharia solutions to emerging problems towards the end of the Ottoman Caliphate. It also included actions related to its enemies, as the dogs of the West and its wolves attacked it internally by spreading the poisons of nationalism, which tore apart its fabric, and externally by forming alliances against it until they destroyed it.

Since then, the Islamic Ummah has lost the Imam and guardian who watches over its security, preserves its blood, honor, and wealth, fearing to be held accountable by Allah if a stray mule stumbles on an unpaved road! Instead, traitorous Ruwaibidah rulers have replaced him, making themselves bridges to the infidel (kufr) West - to its system, ideas, and culture. The Ummah's lands have torn apart into fifty-six states from being one unified state, inviting kufr nations to kill, displace, desecrate the Holy Quran, and mock the Prophet Muhammad (saw).

What we witness today of crimes and brutality against Muslims in the resilient Gaza, the killing of innocent people, the destruction of hospitals and buildings by the usurping Jewish entity, with declared Western support and submission from treacherous Muslim rulers, is the greatest evidence of the deplorable state the Islamic Ummah has reached due to the absence of the Khilafah.

O Muslims: Is it not time for you to shake off the dust of a century of humiliation?! Is it not time for you to return to your Deen and the guidance of your Prophet and obey the command of your Lord to restore the Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate)?! Hasn't the time come to fulfill this great obligation hanging over your heads, which has been neglected for a century?!

O Muslims: Know that Allah will question you about every drop of blood shed unjustly, about every violated limit, and about every shortcoming in carrying out the dawah. We see the blood of Muslims shed by the kaffir West, Jews, Magians, and Buddhists, and we hear the cries of children and the pleas of women and the vulnerable among the Muslims of Palestine, the Uighurs in Turkestan, and the Rohingyas in Burma. Therefore, every Muslim must present his argument before Allah, from Whom nothing is hidden.

For the sake of all these tragedies, Hizb ut Tahrir calls upon you to work diligently to establish the Khilafah, liberate the lands of the Muslims, and unify them into one state under a just leader.

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ وَأَنَّهُ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ]

“O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered.” [Surat Al-Anfal:24]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Iraq