Dawah in the UK: Challenges, Opportunities, Outcomes

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين،

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Alhamdullilahi Rabil alameen

wasalatu wasalamu ala sayidina Muhammad wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmaeen.

CONTEXT - Muslims in West at a Crossroads

How do we live by Islamic values in our daily life? What should be our relationship with the non-Muslims we live, interact and work with? How do we fulfil our duties towards the Muslim Ummah?

The path forward for us is not isolation from society. It is also NOT assimilation and the loosing of our Islamic values (modesty, living by the Islamic rules, having strong families, respect for women, care for our Ummah and being ambassadors for Islam. Our path in the West must be interaction with non-Muslims and the wider society, as directed by Islam, as ambassadors, as was the example of our beloved Prophet (saw) in Makkah.

لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ))

((لِّمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو اللَّهَ وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا

"You have a good example in Allah's Messenger for whoever hopes for Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah often." [Al-Ahzab: 21]

As a member of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain, I want to share with you some of our experiences working with Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain. What are some of the challenges and opportunities and some results we managed to achieve by the grace of Allah (swt), Alhamdulillah. There are several aspects to Hizb ut Tahrir's work in the UK.

Supporting the Work for Khilafah "Caliphate" in the Muslim world

How can we contribute to the work to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" in the Muslim world.

¨     The reality in the West is that Muslims in UK, Denmark, France and elsewhere are concerned by the disastrous situation in the Muslim world (occupation of Afghanistan and Palestine, drone attacks, poverty in Somalia, oppressive regimes that abuse their citizens, etc.

¨     Muslims in the West are connected with the Muslim world and they visit relatives in Muslim lands.

¨     Muslim Rulers visit London seeking support from their masters

¨     London is a media centre for global media so messages can be projected back home

When these Muslim treacherous rulers visit, we sometimes mobilise Muslims and have demonstrations outside their embassies in order to expose their treachery and call for the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in the Muslim world.

Alhamdulillah, we were able to do this when rulers from Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, and several other countries visit.

Being a Voice for Our Oppressed Ummah

We live in the UK which has sent soldiers to invade, occupy and fight our Muslim brothers and sisters in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These governments also support the Zionist occupation of Palestine and their governments are part of the war on terror. We live in the kitchen where the plans and false justifications are cooked up. Such as the lie that Iraq was a threat so it must be invaded. What did we do?

We launched a campaign to challenge the lies and false arguments. We organised protests, public talks and detailed and well researched reports cutting through their lies and showing the Khilafah "Caliphate" as the alternative. We issued press releases, and did TV interviews. We emailed opinion formers and distributed a dossier outside parliament.

As a result, some of their thinkers better understand our arguments and are in a better position to challenge the government's lies. Also, some Muslims became motivated to speak out against the government's policies - utilising our arguments. So Muslims are able to be a voice challenging the war on terror of western governments in Muslim lands.

Combating the Assimilation Agenda

After 9/11, as western governments started sending troops to fight against our brothers and sisters, they noticed that Muslims were not silent about that, that we didn't say, "I'm British, that's OK". They found Muslims standing speaking up and marching against such policies. So now, western governments, some western media and some politicians now say that Muslims are a threat because they believe in the concept of Ummah. They say Islam is a threat and that that Muslims must abandon Islamic concepts like Shariah, Khilafah "Caliphate", Ummah and Jihad if they want to live in the West.

So we see an aggressive assimilation agenda targeting Muslims.

• They are trying to form a 'British version of Islam' (no Jihad, Ummah, Khilafah "Caliphate")
• They have proposed Madrassa curricula, and training for Imams
• They tried to give communities money to spy on other Muslims and promote this British form of Islam.

We have worked with other Muslims to mobilise to reject these Madrassa curriculum and other government plans against the Muslim community have become discredited. Assimilation can be challenged by an aware community.

Hostile Attacks on Islam by some Politicians and Media

The British government and media have led hostile campaign towards Islam in the media.

Intimidating Muslims to leave their values; so we saw the

¨     France hijab ban 2004, now niqab ban raging across Europe

¨     Blair, Brown, Cameron, attacked Islam saying: Islam is evil ideology, barbaric, backward

Hizb ut Tahrir launched a ‘Stand for Islam' campaign to empower Muslims with arguments with which to respond. This is our proactive agenda of carrying the ideology. To stand for Islam and expose the weakness, corruption, hypocrisy and damage of Capitalism, secularism and liberal values

• They say "Islam oppresses women"; lets discuss status of women in western societies, where men in the fashion and other industries exploit and demean women
• Through articles sent to thinkers, press releases, booklets and reports we try to expose the Capitalist finance system, democracy, the family breakdown, neglect of elderly and rampant individualism
• Our sisters took up the argument on the women's issues challenging Peter Holobone MP and Nigel Farage MEP to a debate, he declined

These arguments have helped Muslims to be able to debate with those who attack Islam and better explain Islam to the masses

Conclusion

• These are some of our actions and achievements in the UK, Alhamdulillah.
• I raise these examples to highlight what is possible when we mobilise, unite and engage with society in an Islamic manner.
• We need to continue to strive to build a strong Muslim community that holds unto the impressive and noble values of Islam and serves as an ambassador for Islam in the West.

((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن تَنصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ))

"O you who believe! If you help in the cause of Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold firm". [Muhammad 47:7]

• We have many new challenges in the West, especially in recent years with the rise of the far right, calls by Gert Wilders for the banning of the Qur'an, Danish cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (saw) and colonial wars launched from the West.
• The way to stop many of these actions is actually by having a strong Khilafah "Caliphate" state in the Muslim world which stands up for Islam and Muslims,
• So we actually look to you here in Indonesia and across the Muslim world to work to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate". The return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" will give a strong voice to the Ummah and affect even the situation of Muslims in Europe.
• We need you to keep up your efforts and ask Allah (swt) to reward this Ummah soon with the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in the Muslim world.

Taji Mustafa

Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem

Praise be to Allah, Praise be to Allah Lord of the Worlds, Praise be to Allah that sent His Messenger with guidance and the true religion to be supreme to all other religions, even though the polytheists may hate it, and even though the oppressors may hate it. Praise be to Allah, Who honored the Muslims with the Khilafah "Caliphate", and unified them under the leadership, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, the first and most honorable leader of the Islamic state, and upon his family, companions and supporters.

Dear brothers and sisters,

I greet you with the most beautiful greeting, the greeting of Islam, Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmat Allahu wa Barakatu....

I carry with me greetings from the Islamic lands, the cradle of the Khilafah "Caliphate", the last capital of the Ottoman Islamic State, from the beautiful and pure city of Istanbul. I carry with me greetings from Istanbul.

I carry greetings from the children of Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih Khan, who realized the tidings of the Prophet (saw) when it was the capital of Eastern Rome.

I carry with me greetings from the descendants of the Commander Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih Khan, who rose to conquer Istanbul by carrying ships through land and dismantling the chains of the gulf and launching bombs to achieve the honor of realizing the tidings of Allah's Prophet (saw).

Even though it is from far away, I carry greetings from your brothers in the Islamic Aqeedah, your brothers that sincerely love you, that are elatedly and vibrantly watching the impressiveness of your work that sends panic into the hearts of the disbelievers (Kuffar).

I carry with me greetings from all parts of Turkey, from Ankara, Bursa, Adana, Urfa, Diyarbakir, Van, Erzurum, Konya, Adiyaman, Bataman, Gaziantep, Mersin, Hatay, and from Yalova, Izmit and Istanbul.

My Dear Brothers and Sisters!

I come from Istanbul.

I come from Istanbul, the beautiful city of which Allah's Prophet (saw) gave tidings of its conquering.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

"لتفتحن القسطنطينية ولنعم الأمير أميرها، ولنعم الجيش ذلك الجيش"

"Constantinople will be conquered, what an excellent leader is its leader and what an excellent army is its army."

Istanbul remained the center of the Islamic State for almost 400 years, where the Islamic lands were ruled from its capital of Istanbul.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Khilafah "Caliphate" State and its lands were invaded by the Imperial Kafir England with the help of Turkish and Arab traitors.

Up until 89 years ago, on a day like this day, meaning on 28 Rajab 1345 AH, corresponding to March 3 1924 CE, the Khilafah "Caliphate" was abolished, where the Ummah's shield was broken on that day the Khaleefah was banished from Istanbul.

So this is Istanbul, the last capital of the Khilafah "Caliphate" that has only lived wretched days since that day.

Consequently my dear brothers in Indonesia that is drowning in grief due to the absence of the Khilafah "Caliphate", brothers who are pained due to the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", despite your being thousands of kilometers away from the center of the Islamic world. Indeed all the Muslims from Indonesia to Morocco are drowning in sadness due to the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate".

All the Muslims, in Turkey as well, have lived with great suffering after the fall of their protective shield - the Khilafah "Caliphate" State. Likewise, some of the scholars were executed, such as Sheikh Saeed, who was executed for starting an uprising in the face of the system of Kufr that caused the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate". Similarly, some of the Muslim scholars were banished or humiliated, so they were crushed under heavy rubble and shocks.

Look at how the Egyptians poet Shawki designed poetry around the sadness he felt due to the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate":

Minarets and platforms erupted over you,

And kingdoms and regions wept over you,

India is distressed and Egypt is saddened,

Weeping over you with streaming tears,

And al-Sham asks Iraq and Persia,

Was the Khilafah "Caliphate" erased from the Earth?

And all the people opened a funeral,

And sat mournfully lamenting,

Oh Men, for the free man was buried alive,

Was killed without guilt or fault

My dear brothers,

The second worst shock, after the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", happened with the occupation of the Holy Land by the Jews. We painfully watched the crusaders control this land with dirty games, the land that the leader of the Islamic Ummah, Salahudeen al-Ayoubi, had previously freed and purified.

Look at how Sultan Abdul-Hamid Khan had replied to the Jewish leader Herzl, when in 1919 he suggested paying money to the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" State in exchange for the Holy Land.

"If the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" is one day destroyed then they will be able to take Palestine without a price. But while I am alive, I would rather push a sword into my body than see the land of Palestine severed and given away from the Islamic State. This will not be."

Unfortunately, the first country to recognize this Jewish entity that occupied this land was the secular Turkish Republic that was established on the ruins of Abdul-Hamid's Khilafah "Caliphate".

Sadly as well, Turkey is the country that allowed America to occupy Iraq and Turkey is also the country that America used as a ground corridor to enter its troops into Iraq.

Likewise, Turkey is also the country that at the present time agreed with the United States and the Western countries to prevent the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state in Syria.

Dear brothers and sisters!

We thank Allah, the Lord of the worlds, that Hizb ut Tahrir was founded under the leadership of the eminent scholar of the distinguished personality, Sheikh Taqiuddin al-Nabahani, after we had experienced the two great shocks that shook the Muslims - the abolishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and the occupation of the lands of Palestine. Thus, Hizb ut Tahrir has undertaken the work of a campaign of revival to reestablish the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, of whose return there are tidings.

Since that day Hizb ut Tahrir has been the only hope of the Islamic Ummah, that exposes all the Kaffir's plots, and the nightmare that haunts them in their beds. It is Hizb ut Tahrir that shows the Ummah the betrayal of the treacherous governments, it is Hizb ut Tahrir that calls to the right the communities and leaders that insist on the wrong, and Hizb ut Tahrir that calls to nothing but good and fears none but Allah, and Hizb ut Tahrir is the party that seeks goodness behind its aim.

Likewise, Hizb ut Tahrir realizes that the only salvation for the Ummah is the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, and that the Islamic Ummah has provided the support and assistance to Hizb ut Tahrir in the revival campaign that it started.

What about the Kuffar? ... They have lost their minds from the return of the Islamic Ummah to its origins. They have become distraught. They have seen the crumbling of Western thought, so they rose like hungry wolves attacking the Islamic lands to prevent the awakening of the Muslims. Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Somalia, Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia, and Syria... They have exploited the resources of the Islamic lands and made the countries as agents and controlled them through the loans that they grant them. The only aim of all these occupations and colonization is to prevent the establishment of a new Khilafah "Caliphate" state in the Islamic territories.

Despite all of these policies of occupation and exploitation, and despite the pressure by the treacherous governments, and despite the propaganda of malignant ideas like democracy and moderate Islam, despite all that the Muslims have awakened and risen and took to the squares, until they reached the palaces of the dictatorial governments, until they opposed all the tyrant (Taghout) regimes whether they were moderate or not.

The Muslims, pushed by their connection to Islam and its holiness, took to the streets and marched when the Prophet (saw) was insulted. The occupied lands have been irrigated with the blood of the martyrs. And the Muslims who want an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" have reached in the hundreds of thousands, in fact millions. They took to the streets chanting: The people want an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate"! There is no God but Allah, and the Khilafah "Caliphate" is Allah's promise!

My Dear Brothers and Sisters!

This confrontation, lasting 100 years, between Islam and the Kafir West has moved to a point where the confrontation has become a global confrontation. This confrontation is a difficult confrontation that has lasted 14 centuries, between Islam and Kufr. This confrontation is the confrontation between the political parties that are integrated with the democratic system and funded by the West and made up of agent rulers, and the Muslims who work for an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" in the face of the "Moderate Islam" and "Democratic Islam" that is sought to be implemented.

My Dear Brothers and Sisters!

There absolutely is no strength strong enough to stand before the Muslims' course towards the Khilafah "Caliphate"; this is because there is no longer an alternative idea or system that the Kuffar can use to replace the collapsing capitalist ideology.

And humanity no longer believes in the ability of any ideology other than Islam to provide it with well being and tranquility.

Likewise the Kuffar and the rulers of the Islamic lands who are loyal to the West use the idea of "Moderate Islam" and "Democratic Islam" to distract the Muslims and hypnotize them for many more long years before the Muslims dominate their lives, before the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state.

And the United States and the West work to peddle this project via Turkey to the Middle East and Central Asia.

So they call for the absence of a system of government specific to Islam, and thus the ability to rule with Islam and democracy simultaneously. And they work to hypnotize the Muslims with the marketing of this idea at the hands of their collaborators.

Likewise they have ruled the Islamic lands for many years using the dictators.

And when they saw the awakening of the Muslims and the collapse of the dictators they started to understand the meaning of fear and worry. So they supported the Islamists that adopt the democratic system, and transferred them to power in place of the collapsed dictators. In Turkey, they transferred the Islamists to power after the Kemalist dictator. As for Tunisia, they stole the Muslims' revolution after the collapse of the secularist Zein al-Abideen, and supported the democratic Islamists headed by Rashid al-Ghanoosh. And in Egypt they oriented the revolution and supported another democratic Islamist, Muhammad Mursi, after the dictator Mubarak had made the people of Egypt cried tears of blood for 40 years.  Likewise in Libya, they supported the moderates after they exploited their resources.

And they pointed to Turkey as a model while they perpetuated this against the Islamic people and lands. And they pointed to the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as a model as well.

And the Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic, Erdogan, spends night and day propagating democracy to the Islamic lands, and when he went to the Egypt free of the dictator, he indicated the need for it to adopt secularism, as he said that democracy is from Islam.

And in Syria while he claims to support the people in their confrontation against the murderer Bashar al-Assad, he also indicates his support of the establishment of a democratic Syria.

And while Muslims took to the streets in the Islamic lands to express their reaction to the film that insulted Allah's Prophet (saw), the Muslims in Turkey remained silent. When the Prime Minister was asked about the absence of a reaction from the Turkish people, he answered, "In the last past 10 years, extremes have been curbed and we acted like a lightning rod."

My Dear Brethren!

The Muslims in the Islamic lands chant in squares about their wanting an Islamic State and Khilafah "Caliphate" only, and not for democracy.  The Tunisian public wants an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", the Egyptian public wants an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", the Yemeni public wants an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", and the Syrian public wants an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate"....

And what do you want, democracy? Or an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate"?

The Islamic Ummah, with its awakening and this revolutionary movement that it started, showed the world: That democracy, that is considered the cap of Islam and model of Kufr initiated by Turkey, has no place in the Islamic lands. And after the Ummah's awakening every sighted person sees this.

Oh Brothers!

The awakening of the Muslims and this revolution reminds the Kuffar of the slap of Abdul Hamid to the Jews who offered to buy the land of Palestine. This slap showed them that Palestine is not for sale. Currently the slap that the revolution achieved showed that this land is not suitable for democracy and the plots of Imperialism.

Our People in Indonesia!

The movement of the awakening that had been started by Hizb ut Tahrir 60 years ago, and your beneficial works in the past and present, and the Khilafah "Caliphate" Revolution that started in the lands of al-Sham, have breathed into the body of the Muslims a new spirit of hope once again.

And especially in us, the Muslims of Turkey, for it extended us with vitality with the addition of more movement atop of our movement and effort atop of our movement.

The calls of the Amir of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the eminent scholar Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, and his statements giving tidings of the Khilafah "Caliphate", Allah willing, and his call for the unification, cooperation, and solidarity of the Muslims and to not to adhere to anything other than Allah's rope, has increased the hope of the entire Islamic Ummah. And the advice of the sincere leader, Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, to the Muslims to resist and seek help from Allah and not from the Kuffar, has intensified their patience and steadfastness.

My Honorable Brothers and Sisters!

May Allah bless you in this work and save it from any calamity and cunning plot.

May Allah crown this work of yours with the Khilafah "Caliphate" State that Islam and its people will be honored by and by which Kufr and its people will be humiliated.

May Allah bless us in the Syrian Revolution and protect it from every cunning conspiracy.

May Allah seal the Syrian Revolution with the Khilafah "Caliphate" State that Islam and its people will be honored by and Kufr and its people shall be humiliated.

((وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهْوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ))

"And that day the believers will rejoice. In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."

The last of our Prayers, Praise is for Allah Lord of the World

Wassalamu Alaykum wa Rahmat Allahu wa Barakatu...

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

Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem

Dear Brothers, dear sons of the best nation raised from mankind, dear respected people of Indonesia:

I have come from Lebanon, the land that was split from the land of al-Sham, the center of Dar al-Islam, specifically from a city named Tripoli of al-Sham, from the beaches of Al-Rabat that the distinguished Sahaba had held on to, followed by the heroes and Mujahideen after them. From the land that was conquered by the army of Ameer al-Mu'mineen Umar bin al-Khattab (ra). This land, that the Mujahideen set out from by land and sea carrying Islam, a message of mercy and guidance, to the world. From the land that about which Allah's Prophet (saw) said, "ألا إن عقر دار المؤمنين بالشام" "Behold, indeed the heart Dar al-Islam is al-Sham" and "إذا فسد أهل الشام فلا خير فيكم" "If the people of al-Sham are corrupted then there is no good in you."

And,

".وقال:"إن الله تكفل لي بالشام وأهله"، قالوا:"بم ذاك يا رسول الله"، قال:"ذلك بأن ملائكة الله باسطو أجنحتهم فوق الشام

"Allah has given me a guarantee concerning al-Sham and its people." They said, "Why is that O messenger of Allah?" He said, "Allah's angels spread their wings over al-Sham."

This land, that was invaded by the Franks five centuries after being merged into Dar al-Islam, who came from Europe that was drowning in the dark Middle Ages, and occupied the northern part and the coast reaching Jerusalem. And they established four Crusader countries spanning almost two centuries. In addition to their invasion was the invasion of the Mongols that dominated the land increasing corruption and bloodshed, and they overpowered the Muslims' Khilafah "Caliphate" in Baghdad. But they did not linger and were all defeated, and the Crusader states ceased to exist one after the other, by the hands of the heroic leaders of the Mujahideen: Imad ad-Din Zanki, Nur al-Din Mahmoud, Salahudeen al-Ayoubi who liberated Jerusalem, Muzaffar Qutuz and Zahir Baybars and Mansour Qalawoon who liberated Tripoli of al-Sham, and al-Ashraf Khalil, who purified al-Sham from the remnants of the Frank Crusaders, and returned all of the lands al-Sham to Dar al-Islam.

Seven centuries later, in the twentieth century, the modern West resumed its crusader imperial invasion of the lands al-Sham, and occupied it after the defeat of the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" in World War One in the year 1918 CE. And the hate-filled expressions of the invaders are still being repeated in today's history books. When the British General Allenby defeated the Muslim army in Palestine and occupied Jerusalem, he announced in his famous speech: "The wars of the crusaders are now complete" Then, sixty years later, the French general Gouraud arrived in Damascus as an occupier, and immediately and intentionally traveled to the grave of the freer of Jerusalem, the hero Salahudeen al-Ayoubi and stood in front of his grave gloatingly said: "Salahudeen, we have returned."

This secular European Imperialist came to our lands with the face of the historic Crusader, so they resolutely spread annihilation in the Ummah and its lands with its beliefs, morals and material resources. At the start of the First World War, European allies agreed amongst themselves in what is known as  the Sykes-Picot Agreement on the division of what was left of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, particularly Bilad al-Sham and Iraq. And when they occupied these lands they tore them apart into small states according to the well known Imperial principle "divide and conquer". So they divided the lands of al-Sham into four small states, which are Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the lands of Palestine.

As for the Palestinian lands, they surrendered it over to the lowliest of the displaced Jews from all over the world. These Jews displaced half of the Palestinian population, and subjugated the other half, and established the sectarian Jewish state and fraudulently called it "Israel", and the Masjid al-Aqsa fell prisoner between their hands for 46 years, without the traitor Arab rulers moving a finger to its liberation.

As for Jordan, the British created a state to protect the Eastern borders of the Jewish entity, and assigned this sin to the traitor family, the family of Sharif Hussein that stabbed the Ottoman Caliphate in the back by aligning with dissolute Britain in World War One.

As for Syria, they established a secular state in it and handed rule over to the secular party called the al-Ba'ath Party. In this party, sectarian minorities hid to control the Muslims of the land of al-Sham. The tyrant Hafez al-Assad sprung from this party to rule, and turned the state into a plantation for his family and followers from his sect. So he warred against Islam and its followers, and spread vice and immorality throughout the land, and during the 1980's, he murdered hundreds of thousands of Syria's Muslims, and tortured hundreds of thousands in his prisons, and enslaved the people of Syria and subjected them to evil torment. And his son after him continued on this course, who in the past two years alone has murdered more than one hundred and fifty thousand of Syria's people, and displaced half of its population, and destroyed hundreds of its cities and villages.

As for my country, Lebanon, the French had snatched it away about a century ago in the year of 1920 from the land of al-Sham, even though the Muslim people rejected and were outraged by their segregation from their brothers. They established a sectarian state in it, and handed rule over to a Christian sect that ruled for half a century, which lead to an odious sectarian war. In the midst of this the Assad regime waged a war in 1985 against my city of Tripoli, a demolishing war, and killed hundreds and displaced thousands destroying hundreds of homes. Then America authorized rule in Lebanon to the criminal Assad, and he enslaved its people as he had enslaved the Syrian people from before.

And when the blessed Revolution of al-Sham broke out two years ago the Muslims of Lebanon sympathized with it and were hopeful that they would be returned to the land of al-Sham. But the entire world warred against this blessed revolution, and the hypocrite rulers of Iran and their sectarian party in Lebanon falsely named Hezbollah, led the alliance from the sectarian minorities against the people of al-Sham and their revolution, and took the decision to forbid any support for the revolution in Lebanon.  However, Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon defied that decision with the help of Allah (swt), and was determined despite them to go out in the first demonstrations in support of the revolution of al-Sham in the Arab lands, particularly in my city Tripoli of al-Sham. So the agent authority in Lebanon - and with it Iran's Hezb and Assad's supporters - took the decision to forbid demonstrations and strapped security forces to threaten and intimidate us and terrorize the city's people, and arrested our members. However Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon was not hesitant, and was determined to go out in demonstrations, and it was a blessed demonstration and broke the ban and opened the door for the support of the revolution of al-Sham in all of Lebanon. Then the heroes of Tripoli and the rest of Lebanon followed their brothers in Syria, sacrificing for the sake of Allah their selves, wealth and what they owned of worldly belongings.

And because of this Iran's Hezb is now punishing Tripoli, so they push the criminal followers of Assad in Tripoli to open fire on its people and murder them, and I left my city while it was under shelling, gunfire and death from those criminals.

But we are confident and certain that the victory will be for the people of al-Sham, because today they are rebelling by virtue of them being believers, and they chant in their demonstrations: "Oh Allah we have none but You Oh Allah", and they chant: "Our Leader, Forever, Our Master Muhammad", and they raise the flag of Allah's Prophet (saw); openly declare that they will not be satisfied except with an Islamic State that rules with what Allah has revealed. And as long as Muslims combat as Muslims no power on Earth can defeat them, because Allah Almighty promised with His Saying: ((إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقدَامَكُم)) "if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet." and His Saying: ((وَلَقَدْ سَبَقَتْ كَلِمَتُنَا لِعِبَادِنَا المُرْسَلِينَ إِنَّهُمْ لَهُمُ المَنْصُورُونَ وَإِنَّ جُنْدَنَا لَهُمُ الغالِبُونَ)) "And Our word has already preceded for Our servants, the messengers, [That] indeed, they would be those given victory. And [that] indeed, Our soldiers will be those who overcome."

We all sincerely hope that the revolution of al-Sham does not stop and does not back down until the promised Khilafah "Caliphate" al-Rashida that the Prophet (saw) gave glad tidings of is restored, Allah willing.

((وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ))

"And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know."

Ahmad Al-Qasas

Director of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Lebanon