Press Release
Will You Sit Idly by while the Muslims are Prevented from Performing the Friday Prayer in Masjid Al-Aqsa?
(Translated)

On Friday, July 14, 2017, following the massacre of three Palestinian Muslims in Masjid al-Aqsa by the invaders, the Jewish entity closed the Blessed Masjid doors to worship. Today the Muslims could not perform the Friday Prayer, just as it was the case after the invasion of Jerusalem due to the betrayal of the treacherous Arab leaders in 1967.

The occupying Jews are excavating beneath the Masjid Al-Aqsa day and night, sometimes they break into the Masjid and harass the praying people in order to provoke them, and sometimes they herd their brats into the Holy Masjid to hold ceremonies. And they cowardly kill Muslims if they oppose these atrocities. Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims have been killed during the last 2 years. And all leaders throughout the Muslim lands, with Turkey on the forefront, simply sit idly by and watch. Not only do they fail to take an active step against this boldness of the invasive Jewish entity; we could not even see a simple courage to condemn these with meager statements. Those leaders who shouted at the top of their voices on squares to eyewash and deceive the Muslims, nowadays even do not hold their empty talks any more.

Months ago when speaking at a meeting of “Forum of Jerusalem Foundations” in Istanbul, President Erdogan said, “We will never allow the silencing of azan in the skies of Jerusalem”, and suggested the Muslims following solution: “Why should not hundreds of thousands (of Muslims) visit the Masjid Al-Aqsa? The most powerful support we can give to our brothers and sisters is our presence in Jerusalem.”

Oh Muslims! Is this the way of clearing out the occupying Jews from Masjid Al-Aqsa? Is it the travel tours from Turkey to Jerusalem that will rescue Al-Aqsa from captivity, while the Palestinian Muslims are prevented from performing the Friday Prayer in the Masjid Al-Aqsa!?

Visiting these blessed soils in order to aid Masjid Al-Aqsa is a worthwhile goal that will be recorded on white pages. However, this kind of calls to the Muslims by the leaders is an ignominious action that will be recorded on black pages. How vulgar became these leaders that they dare to link the liberation of Jerusalem from the occupying Jews to visiting Masjid Al-Aqsa more often? In the past, the Kuffar crusaders invaded Palestine, destroyed its Mimbar and transformed its masjid into a stable for their horses. However; did Muslims then engage in travelling and visiting in order to rescue it?

Did Muslim leaders busy themselves in empty rhetoric and talks? And what was the action of Muslim armies? The leaders did not divert the Muslims with empty rhetoric, nor were the Muslims and armies busy with re-building and restoring the Mimbar under the shadow of occupation. In contrary; their only sorrow, night and day, was to prepare armies and to equip them with loyal soldiers under the command of Salahuddin towards Egypt and Sham; under the shadow of the Khilafah, which would rule by what was revealed by Allah, and fight on the path of Allah.

O brave Commanders! Therefore do as Salahuddin did. There is no other way to settle scores with the occupying Jews. There is no other way to destroy the Jewish entity, to liberate Jerusalem and Masjid Al-Aqsa, and entirely make Palestine an Islamic land again.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Turkey