Press Release
With the Strength of Our Armed Forces, Our Khilafah Alone Will Make Still the Evil Hands and Tongues that Repeatedly Dishonor Our Beloved RasulAllah (saw)

As the Muslims of Pakistan erupted in anger at the repeated publication of caricatures dishonoring RasulAllah (saw) by the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, Pakistan’s rulers tried to quell their anger, whilst anxiously diverting attention from their gross neglect in yet another life and death issue for the Muslims. In a carefully worded video message on 3 September 2020, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, cautiously reminded the enraged Muslims that Prime Minister, Imran Khan, had raised the issue of blasphemous caricatures in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in 2019.

What value is there in raising yet another vital issue of the Muslims to the United Nations, when its veto-yielding Security Council is dominated by the foremost enemies of the Islamic Ummah and its Deen? What value is there of mere words of condemnation, when Pakistan’s rulers command the fifth largest army in the entire world, whose troops and officers yearn for martyrdom? And what value is there of rulers who neither care nor sacrifice for the honor of RasulAllah (saw), as the Deen of Islam demands?!

O Muslims of Pakistan and Pakistan’s Armed Forces!

RasulAllah (saw) said,

«لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ وَلَدِهِ وَوَالِدِهِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ»

“None of you is a believer till I am dearer to him than his child, his father and the whole of mankind.” [Bukhari and Muslim]. Certainly, we are those who do not count our lives and our wealth when sacrificing in defence of the honour of RasulAllah (saw). Certainly, the rightful defence of the honour of RasulAllah (saw) will only be mounted by rulers who love RasulAllah (saw) as we do, ruling by all that Allah (swt) has revealed and fearing none but Him (swt). Indeed, even in the weakest period of our Khilafah (Caliphate), the lives and wealth of Muslims were brought forwards for sacrifice in defense of the honor of RasulAllah (saw).

When, just twenty years prior to the destruction of the ailing Khilafah, a play defaming RasulAllah (saw) was staged by the crusader nations, France and Britain, the Khilafah forced the evil tongues and hands to fall still by the threat of military action. As soon as the Khaleefah, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, heard, he merely warned France, which promptly stopped the play. When Britain arrogantly replied that the tickets were sold out and banning the play would be a violation of the “freedom” of its citizens, the Khaleefah simply declared, “I will issue an edict to the Islamic Ummah declaring that Britain is attacking and insulting our Prophet (saw). I will declare Jihad…” Thus, the evil tongues and hands fell still, never daring to repeat their evil, Britain apologized to the ambassador of the Ottoman State in London ... this was how the Muslims were glorified by their religion when their Khilafah was intact, but after the destruction of the Khilafah, the colonizers repeated their evil countless times.

It is clear as the sun in the cloudless sky that our enemies will not halt their assault on our lives, our lands, our Deen and the honor of our Prophet (saw), unless we restore our shield, the Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood. So, let all those who truly love the Final Prophet (saw) join their days with their nights to re-establish the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of Prophethood, through which Allah (swt) and RasulAllah (saw) will be glorified and the Deen of Truth will shine its guiding light upon entire world.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan