Press Release

Mass Deaths in the Absence of an Eminent State!

(Translated)

Press Release

Mass Deaths in the Absence of an Eminent State!

(Translated)

The Arzini locality, east of Geneina in West Darfur witnessed bloody events that led to ten victims. It began when a man stabbed two men in an argument, one of which died immediately whilst the other was taken to the hospital for treatment and the killer handed himself over to the police.

Then the matter developed where two men riding a motorcycle undertook an attack upon worshipers whilst they were performing the Maghrib prayer. They opened fire upon them which led to the death of six of them at once, Wa Laa Hawla wa Laa Quwwata Illah Billah. Then they killed two more people, who were two brothers, inside their home, before fleeing, which has made the whole area boil which warns of consequences that will not be praiseworthy.

This incident was not the first of its kind in Darfur and West Sudan in general, and it will not be the last in the absence of an eminent state amongst the people, as a result of ineffectual policies of the government represented in the following:

Firstly: The government’s non-application of the deterring Islamic Ahkaam Ash-Shar’iah related to the punishments being applied upon all those who make blood cheap or violate the inviolable sanctities which has promoted the law of the jungle and brought down the standing and respect of the state and its authority!!

Secondly: A complete absence of the state and leaving the affair to what is called ‘Tribal family administration’. And so the government does not interfere or intervene until the matter becomes gravely serious in the case where it becomes an intermediary rather than the one responsible for the obligation of safeguarding the security and hold to account those who breach it or terrify the peaceful.

Thirdly: Fanning the fire of tribalism by appointing officials upon the basis of tribalism (through allotting shares).

Fourthly: The existence of armed entities upon a tribal or provincial bases. Indeed, from amongst these entities are those who use the state’s weaponry in tribal clashes which causes the region as a whole to enter into a sharp polarisation between the government and the armed movements.

The obligation of the state in Islam is to take care of the affairs of the people in the best possible manner, to provide security to them and to hold to account anyone who undertakes an action that violates Islam and in particular the one who kills the life that Allah (swt) has made Haraam except by just right. Allah (swt) says: ﴿وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا﴾ “Whosoever kills a believer intentionally then his recompense is the fire of hell to abide therein forever and the anger of Allah is upon him and His curse, and a great punishment has been prepared for him” [An-Nisaa’: 93].

Similarly, by applying the pure Ahkaam Ash-Shar’i the state accomplishes the moulding of the tribes into the melting pot of Islam that gives no regard or weight to tribalism but rather despises it. The Prophet (saw) said: «دَعُوهَا فَإِنَّهَا مُنْتِنَةٌ» “Leave it for verily it is rotten”. That is so all become brothers who love one another. The most competent assume the official posts of responsibility without any regard given to his tribe and clan, and this is what we are missing today.

O people in Darfur, indeed, in the whole of Sudan, nothing will ever save you from this hell that you are living other than the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood. So arise and roll up sleeves to embark in the work alongside those working for the resumption of the Islamic life via the establishment of the second rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate"; the obligation of your Lord, the launch pad for your honour and might, the preserver of your security which will safeguard your blood and honours.