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Honoured Brother, Editor of Al-Sudani Newspaper,

Assalam Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh,

Topic: Hizb ut Tahrir is a Political Party which does not Carry out Material Actions

Not out of Fear of Anyone, but Following the Example of the Prophet (saw)

We reviewed a report entitled: “Preachers, Extremists, and Religious Groups Send Threatening Letters to the US Ambassador in Khartoum... Are “Trapped Bombs” Rolling towards the Washington Embassy in Soba!” in your Al-Sudani Newspaper, Issue 5799, dated on Saturday, 18 Rabi’ al-Akhir 1444 AH corresponding to 12 November 2022, written by journalist Al-Hadi Muhammad Al-Amin, throughout the report, he tried to suggest to the readers that Hizb ut Tahrir is among the jihadist groups that carry out material actions. Rather, he described the party as radical, saying: “... where escalatory reactions appeared towards the movements of John Godfrey and the Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir (Wilayah of Sudan) came, which is led by Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil) is at the forefront of the Sudanese radical forces…etc.”

In our belief in achieving the truth, and in setting things straight, we kindly ask you to publish the following response to the fabrications of your report, in accordance with our right to respond:

First: Hizb ut Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam, and it works between and with the Ummah to take Islam as a cause for it and to lead it to restore the Khilafah Rashidah upon the method of the Prophethood, and to rule by what Allah has revealed into existence.

Secondly: Hizb ut Tahrir aims to revive the Ummah, the correct revival, with enlightened thought. Therefore, its work is limited to intellectual struggle and political struggle, and it does not perform material actions, not out of fear of anyone, but as a commitment to the method of the Prophet (saw) and following his fragrant biography in establishing the state. For he (saw) did not perform any material work before the establishment of the state, but rather he carried out intellectual struggle and political struggle until he (saw) established the state, and the state is the one that carries out material actions.

Third: The press release on which the author of the report relied to talk about Hizb ut Tahrir does not contain a threat by any material work to anyone, neither the American ambassador nor anyone else. The statement targets the rulers of Sudan and the people of Sudan, and its title suffices, which says: “In Light of the Humiliation of the Rulers of Sudan, the American Ambassador is Acting as the General Ruler of Sudan”, where the press release demands from the people of Sudan to establish the Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood that achieves for them true sovereignty over their country, and cuts off the hand of the Kafir colonizer over it, or does the author of the report like what the American ambassador and other ambassadors of colonial countries are doing in Sudan?! Does the Sudanese ambassador to America, or his ambassador to Britain, dare any of them to do a tenth of what the ambassadors of America and Britain do in terms of interference in our affairs?! They certainly will not dare because they know that America and Britain will not allow them to do so in order to preserve the sovereignty of their countries.

In conclusion: We ask Allah, the Most High, the Almighty, to repel the plot of the unbelievers and their lackeys from our country and the countries of the Muslims, and to bestow upon us a Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate) upon the method of the Prophethood as the glad tiding from the Prophet (saw) who said:

«... ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكاً جَبْرِيَّةً فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ، ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا، ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةً عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ، ثُمَّ سَكَتَ»

“…then there will be biting Kingship for as long as Allah Wills, then He will remove it when He wills, then there will be oppressive kingship for as long as Allah wills, then He will remove it when He wills, and then there will be Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood, and then he remained silent.” (Narrated by Ahmed).

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan