Speech from Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan for the Khilafah Conference in Jakarta [Speech by Saad Jagranvi, Head of Hizb ut Tahrir Pakistan's Central Contact Committee for the Global Khilafah Conference in Jakarta held on Sunday, 23 Rajab 1434 AH cor
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Pakistan is ready to be a strong heart for the Khilafah "Caliphate"
Dear Brothers and Sisters;
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن والاه، وبعد.
Bismillah ِِar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Alhamdullilahi Rabil alameen
wasalatu wasalamu ala sayidina Muhammad wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa min wallaah wa ba'ed.
"أطيب ريح في الأرض الهند" "The most pleasant of the winds on the earth are those of Hind."
This hadith may have been an inspiration for Al-Walid b Abdul Malik who sent a 17 year old brave General Muhammed bin Qasim in 711 CE to conquer this land.
Since then our lands were ruled by Islam for centuries
We were part of the Ummayad Khilafah "Caliphate"... and the Abassi Khilafah "Caliphate" ...
Even when the Khilafah "Caliphate" was being destroyed while our lands were occupied by the British, our forefathers mobilized to undermine their work.
Let us recall the words of the mother of those who lead the Khilafah "Caliphate" movement in 1919, when she said:
"بولی اماں محمد علی کی جان بیٹا خلافت پہ دے دو" [Mother of Mohammed Ali said sacrifice your lives for the Khilafah "Caliphate".]
Brothers and sisters!
Islam is in the blood of the Ummah including the Muslims of India....
It was this idea to live under Islam that lead to the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 where we saw the largest migration in the modern history.
Our forefathers were massacred ...Our sisters and mothers were raped by the Mushrik Hindus and Sikhs......
With our blood and sweat, Pakistan was established...and there were NO Regrets!...
But sadly! This desire for the implementation of Islam has always been denied by the treacherous leaderships in Pakistan.
This desire still burns in our souls.....
This year, a survey was conducted by Pew Research Centre, showing "84% of the Pakistanis who say Sharia should be the official law".
And let me share with you what happened when Hizb ut Tahrir was launched in 2001 ... Within 2 years, we managed to stage a national conference ... It shook the colonialists leading their agent Musharaf to ban the party only few days later..
Brothers and Sisters! If you were to live with the Muslims in Pakistan ...visit the markets and bazaars ...the schools, colleges and Universities, you can sense their growing desire for Islam.
To the extent where those parties who never uttered a word for Khilafah "Caliphate"....Are now calling for it!!!
Let me recall an incident, when a brother was distributing a leaflet outside a masjid that called upon the sincere officers to give Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir. An old man walked up while gripping his son's hand who happened to be an officer, saying if you need him, take him!
You will hear of many stories about the people calling for Khilafah "Caliphate" having no connection with Hizb. But they will be asked a question: "Are you from Hizb ut Tahrir?"
Let alone the Ummah, there were few incidents where even the police have warned our Shabaab to leave their houses before executing a raid.
This is the response of those who are paid to contain our work.
And that is why the west is so worried about Pakistan.
And this is why David Kilcullen, an advisor to the US CENTCOM commander, said in an interview, "Pakistan has 173 million people, 100 nuclear weapons, an army bigger than the US Army...We're now reaching the point (of)...an extremist takeover -- that would dwarf everything we've seen in the war on terror today."
So, after witnessing the rising popularity of our call, the American's and its agents declared a war against the advocates of Khilafah "Caliphate"
Banning the party
Amending the Anti-Terrorism Act adding new clauses.....
Persecuting the Shabaab.....
Chasing them, not caring for the sanctity of their homes and the honour of our sisters....
Arresting them....Abducting them....
Torturing them... hanging them until the arms came out of their sockets.....
Employing mental torture... depriving them of sleep.....
Purging the Islamists out of the military... the likes of Brigadier Ali Khan and many officers who were court martialed and sentenced for years.
Brothers and Sisters!
After losing all hopes in their lowly tactics to finish this call, they went for kidnapping our Shabaab.
Not to forget our brave brother Naveed Butt Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan, who was abducted over a year ago in front of his small children by the thugs of Kayani......
What was his crime????
Calling for the return of Islam as a way of life?
Exposing the western colonialist agenda?
Speaking the truth exposing the agents of the west who have created havoc in Pakistan?
Have we not heard of the hadith, when a man approached Rasool Allah (saw) and asked: "أَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ"
To which he replied: "كَلِمَةُ حَقٍّ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ"
"That the best of Jihad is the word of truth against the tyrant ruler."
If this is a crime brothers and sisters, then it makes us all criminals.
The west and its agents in Muslim lands have understood that they can not counter an idea with the batton.
So they started a propaganda against Hizb to counter her call
Inventing terms like sectarianism...Extremism and religiously inspired violence to push the Ummah away from its Deen.
They held conferences and seminars....employing secular writers and academics to attack the idea of Islam as an authority.....They hired Scholars for dollars to issue fatwas....
Spending millions not knowing that Allah has his own plan....
Allah says:
((إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّـهِ ۚ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا))
"Verily, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (men) from the Path of Allâh, and so will they continue to spend it;" [al-Anfal: 36]
((ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ))
"but In the end it will become an anguish for them. Then they will be overcome" [al-Anfal: 36]
So what was the response of the Hizb and its members?
Did they say forget it and let's just sit at home..... It's too difficult
Can't handle being arrested, tortured and imprisoned!
Can't afford to lose the job!
No!!! Brothers and sisters!
In fact, all of this only strengthened their resolve.
And they took heed from the words of Allah (swt), when he said,
((الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَاخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّـهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ))
"People said to them: A great army is gathering against you, therefore fear them but it (only) increased their faith. They said: For us Allah sufficeth, and He is the best disposer of affairs." [Al-Imran: 173]
So, they moved forward...
Harshly accounting Musharaf on his efforts to sell Kashmir, and compromising Pakistan's nuclear weapons while using our Noble Armed forces as a fuel for American war of Fitna.
Exposing the enemy of Muslims the tyrant Kayani who ordered the spilling of Muslim blood in Swaat and tribal Areas.
Accounting him at a time when no one dared raise his voice...
When our supporters rushed to us advising us to be careful
Hizb ut Tahrir stood when others dared not.....
Shabaab raised their voices when others kept silent.....
We were the lone voice of truth against the American hegemony and its War of Terror.....
And as I speak to you today, your brothers in Pakistan are moving around in the streets, markets, masajid and neighborhoods distributing an open letter accounting the rulers and demanding the release of our brother Naveed Butt who should've been here today instead of me.....
To the delegates in this conference, my brothers and sisters from Syria and Uzbekistan.........
I make a promise to you on behalf of the Shabab of Pakistan.
We will not rest....we will not tire.... we will not slow down till the Khilafah "Caliphate" is established in Pakistan OR we join, Inshallah!
Brothers I come to you from a land whose people find pride in Islam....
They are angry at the humiliation they face at the hands of Western Colonialists.
We have an army which is bred on Jihad.
Who defeated the Communists.
Who kept an enemy like India, 3 times its size, on the backfoot.
They are angry at the humiliation incurred upon it by its rulers when America raided Abottabad killing Osama Bin Laden and then at Salala Checkpost killing our soldiers.
They are angry at their leadership and the rulers stopping them to avenge this humiliation.
Brothers! From this land, on behalf of its people, on behalf of its army! I promise you that we will not spare any efforts to fulfill what our beloved Prophet (saw) promised to us of the glad tidings of Ghazwa e Hind.....
((عِصَابَتَانِ مِنْ أُمَّتِي أَحْرَزَهُمْ اللَّهُ مِنْ النَّارِ عِصَابَةٌ تَغْزُو الْهِنْدَ وَعِصَابَةٌ تَكُونُ مَعَ عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام))
"Two groups of my Ummah Allah has protected from the Hellfire: a group that will conquer India and a group that will be with ‘Isa ibnu Maryam."
O brothers and sisters! I promise you that in these lands, the sons of this ummah are eager, like Sultan Mohammad Fateh, to fulfill this prophecy, to conquer hind when the armies of the Khilafah "Caliphate" will mobilize and strike our enemy and reclaim the Islamic lands raising their voices with Takbeer:
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! AllahuAkbar!
Saad Jagranvi
Head of Hizb ut Tahrir Pakistan's Central Contact Committee