Homs rebels and heroes are courageously carrying the banners and flags of the Messenger of Allah (saw) heading towards the Sahaabi Mosque of Khalid bin Walid chanting and demanding an Islamic state in Sham, refusing the projects of civil state and nationalism.
Friday, 19 Rabii II 1434 AH, corresponding to 01 March 2013
Lately, Iran has made headline news in a variety of ways. The Jewish entity regards Iran as an existential threat, the West continues to fret over Iran's nuclear programme, the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) bitterly complains about Tehran's interference in Bahrain and Yemen, and Syrians blame Iranian forces for the slaughter of civilians. Yet there is one piece of news that has only attracted a cursory mention and that is Iran's influence in the region is waning.
The Levant and Iraq is where Iran's influence is diminishing at a spectacular speed and eroding Iran's ability to influence regional politics. The pivot for this transition is Syria. At the beginning of the revolution Iran staunchly stood by its ally Assad. Tehran bolstered Syria's economy with enormous amounts of aid and strengthened Assad's forces with the elite Iranian commandoes to brutally suppress the uprising. On October 1st 2012, The "Times" newspaper reported that Tehran had given $10 billion to prop up Assad and his floundering regime. The revelation clearly demonstrates the value Tehran places on supporting Assad despite the huge economic toll of international sanctions against the Iranian people. In the summer of 2012, Tehran struggled to keep a lid on its clandestine military activities in Syria, and eventually the activities of the Quds Force became so pronounced and widespread that Tehran finally acknowledged its military operations in the country. In September 2012, Guards commander Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, "A number of Quds Force members are present in Syria and Lebanon... we provide (these countries) with counsel and advice, and transfer experience to them."
As the Syrian jihadists draw near towards surrounding Damascus, Iran's billions of dollars and military assistance in propping up Assad appears insignificant-a wasted effort. Amongst Sunni jihadist Iran has negligible influence and this is worrying the Iranian leadership as it struggles to grapple with the situation. It is faced with a strategic choice whether to continue to embrace the Alawite faction and their militia the Shabiha after falling from power or to embrace the Sunni Jihadists who deeply despise the Iranian regime. An article entitled "Syria's Fate Hinges on Whom It Hates Most, U.S. or Iran?" in Bloomberg on February 6th 2013, aptly summed up the strategic dilemma for Tehran as: ‘Thereafter Iran will face a strategic decision: whether to continue supporting a predominantly Alawite militia that represents only a small fraction of Syrian society, or to engage the Sunni Islamists who are poised to wield power in Damascus once Assad falls. Iran's leaders will try to embrace the Sunni radicals, and if that fails they will work with the Shabiha to prevent the formation of a stable, anti-Iranian order in Syria.'
Equally troublesome for Iran is the spillover of Syria's instability into Lebanon and Hezbollah's precarious position. At the outset of the Arab revolution, Iran's proxy Hezbollah and its surrogate leader Nasrallah publicly cheered the fall of autocratic rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but openly supported Assad and sent armed men to suppress the Syrian people. The hypocritical stance of Hezbollah jeopardized its ability to garner support amongst the Lebanese populace, especially amongst the Sunnis. Furthermore, the movement was despised by Syrians as aiding and abetting Assad against them, and this prompted the jihadists in Syria to openly warn Nasrallah of dire consequences should he continue to support Assad. Subsequently, Hezbollah's power has weakened both at home and across the Arab world. A weaker Hezbollah also implies the weakening of Iranian influence in Lebanese politics.
The weakening of Hezbollah-Assad-Iranian axis has been dealt a further blow by the rising wave of protests in Iraq. Sunni dominated areas in Iraq are witnessing a late Arab spring that is threatening Al-Malki's grip on Iraqi politics. Al-Malki who has close relations with Tehran is struggling to contain the Sunni hinterland after Iraqi soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians.
Between 2004 to 2008 Iranian influence and power in Iraq was at its apex. It evoked King Abdullah to comment on the reach and magnitude of Iranian power by using the term Shia Crescent which described Iranian influence stretching from Damascus to Tehran passing through Baghdad. The other side of the crescent passes through Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Today, the long reach of Iran is facing an existential threat in Syria, which surely spells the end of the Iranian efforts to create the Shia crescent and ends her ambitions to dominate the Middle East and its supplies of hydrocarbons.
Nonetheless, Iran is not the only loser in the political reconfiguration that will ensue in aftermath of Assad's demise. The real loser is America. For the past four decades, America has secretly collaborated with Iran in a desperate bid to create a Shia Crescent that would eventually place oil away from the hands of Sunni despots into the hands of the Shia autocrats and mullahs who in turn would be more loyal subjects to America than Sunnis. This also explains why America has been so reluctant to punish Iran over its interference in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, even though Washington has had ample opportunity to chastise Tehran. Similarly, America has gone out of it way to assuage Israeli concerns over Iran's nuclear programme. America knows full well that if Iran is subject to any sort of military attack, Iran's influence that stretches from Yemen to Lebanon will fade. By doing so, America's capacity to fashion political solutions and maintain her hegemony in the region would be severely impaired. Brzezinski has warned about such consequences for America should it choose punish Iran. He said, "A war in the Middle East, in the present context, may last for years. High inflation, instability, insecurity...probably significant isolation for the United States in the world scene. In effect, the American taxpayer should be ready to pay $5 to $10 a gallon for the pleasure of having a war in the Strait of Hormuz."
Hence, America has little choice but to use Iran to prop up Assad and hope that its long-term plan of using Iran to control the hydrocarbons of the Middle East via the Shia crescent remains intact.
Abu Hashim
Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan has issued a following Publicized Policy Position (PPP) regarding the military doctrine of the armed forces of the soon to be established Khilafah "Caliphate". Our noble armed forces have been enslaved to America and its interests through America's controlling its direction by means of traitors within Pakistan military and political leadership.
Protests in Otma, Idleb
Hizb ut Tahrir and its supporters and the rebels insisted on going out again in Otma on Friday waving the banners and flags of the Messenger of Allah (saw) chanting Khilafah "Caliphate", confident of Allah's victory and the promise of His Messenger peace be upon him, proud of their Islamic Ummah, refusing projects from the Kafir West and their agent-rulers of the Muslim forced upon the necks of the nation.
Friday, 19 Rabii II 1434 AH, corresponding to 01 March 2013
Rally in Soran, Aleppo
Hizb ut Tahrir and his supporters and the rebels in Soran intervening to have their say: we will not accept without a Khilafah "Caliphate" system and all the projects of the secular coalitions Western-backed and the projects and dialogue with the criminal Bashar do not represent us.
Friday, 19 Rabii II 1434 AH, corresponding to 01 March 2013
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In an interview to the BBC News, on 1st March 2013, the Head of the Ulema Council Pakistan, Molana Tahir Ashrafi said, "Philistine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir is occupied by India and Afghanistan is occupied by the U.S. forces. If all the Muslims have no atomic weapons they should sacrifice their own selves in the way of their lord, Allah (swt)."
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The statement of Molana Tahir Ashrafi provoked the emotions of the people from all corners, which are mainly based on the false premise of Nationalism, and have been condemned, by specific national circles saying that such statements are politically motivated. They also refused it because it contradicts the Fatwas of Saudi Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other Islamic lands Ulema's councils.
The reaction is intensified by some circles in the government and media so that to widen the gap between the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan by fanning the fire of Nationalism, so for so that the Molana has taken his statement back and said "The statement has misinterpreted by the media."
Ironically government institutions such as Ulema Councils, Ministries of Hajj and Auqaf and other such organizations are more or less like the Christian's churches, whose responsibility is to keep Islam separated from the political sphere of individual and state affairs. Moreover, the West has been using these institutions for their malicious schemes by providing them with funds and other incentives to make sure they function under the prevailing laws of the state, having no executioner authority whatsoever, as well as to use them to deviate the Ummah from the true path of reviving Islam and throw them into the intellectual, political and geographical disunity.
It's worth mentioning here that Molana Tahir Ashrafi himself is the head of Ulema council of a country who has the Atomic weapons, but what is the benefit of the Atomic weapon of Pakistan for the Muslims of Philistine, Kashmir and Afghanistan? Is Jihad only obligatory upon the people who are invaded, and not on those who are not and has got a powerful army? This makes it clear that the Molana is the Mufti of a country, whose enmity with the Ummah and its loyalty to the Kuffar is obvious to the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Furthermore, his country's rulers are those who provided all the intelligence, logistic and military support to the US and NATO forces against their own brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. The Molana failed to realize that thousands of NATO containers are passing through Pakistan, on a daily basis. He should also understand that this was the Pakistani rulers who sold Muslims, both Pakistanis and Afghans, to the Kuffar. They have also permitted U.S. drones to bombard the tribal areas of Pakistan; killing thousands of Muslims, the same rulers are trying to incite Shia and Sunni façade in Karachi and Baluchistan. They are kidnapping the sincere sons and daughter of the Ummah, especially those who are raising their voice against shameless policies and focus to establish Islam by re-establishment the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, on the method of the Prophethood. Due to this ‘crime' of calling for the Deen-ul-Haq, they have been disappeared by the government agencies in the broad day light and their life and death is not known to their families, Naveed Butt can be a clear example of such atrocities.
Alas no one from the Ummah, so far, heard any fatwa from these government-backed scholars, which states that it's obligatory upon the rulers to rule by what Allah (swt) has revealed and establish Khilafah "Caliphate" state to reunify the Ummah. Rather their fatwas are mainly to destroy the Ummah and to legalize the Kufri systems of Democracy, Dictatorship etc. Besides, they try best to please their masters by making sure these systems prevail.
As Muslims we know that there is no concept of clergy in Islam, as in other religions. In Islam it is the obligation of every single Muslim to implement Islam, therefore, the so-called religious institutions established in the Muslim world is to make sure Islam remains detached from the worldly affairs and the pseudo scholars, who are on the payrolls of the traitor rulers, will always give fatwas in order to create a rift between the Ummah. They are the people who by the dictates of the rulers are making Haram as Halal and Halal as Haram, as done by the clergy of Jews and Christians in the past. That's why Prophet Muhammad (saw) said in one of his hadith;
" لتتبعن سنن من كان قبلكم شبرا شبرا، وذراعا بذراع، حتى لو دخلوا جحر ضب تبعتموهم. قلنا: يا رسول الله، اليهود والنصارى؟ قال: فمن "
"You (Muslims) will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a lizard, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said,"Who else?" [Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith, Narrated by Abu Said Al Khudri]
Saifullah Mustanir
Kabul, Afghanistan
[كانت بنو إسرائيل تسوسهم الأنبياء، كلما هلك نبي خلفه نبي، وإنه لا نبي بعدي، ولكن ستكون خلفاء فتكثر. قالوا: فما تأمرنا: قال: فوا ببيعة الأول فالأول. " [صحيح مسلم"
"Bani Israel were ruled by their Prophets. When one died, there would follow another. There will be no Prophet after me, only Khulafaa'.' They asked Rasoolallah, ‘What should we do?' He said ‘Give them bay'ah, one after the other." [Sahīh Muslim]
The Madinah State of the Prophet (saw) was the highest model of governance that has ever existed - succeeded by the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah, on the model of Prophethood.
The Khulafaa' that succeed the Khulafaa' al Rashidun were of varying quality. The best - like Umar bin Abdul Aziz, Muhammad al Fatih, Suleiman al Qaanooni and Abdul Hameed II - were great rulers. The worst were better than the criminal rulers that rule the Muslim world today. Even until Ottoman era, when it was indebted and weakened, the Khilafah "Caliphate" was still a significant power on the world stage; not only because they never thought and nor did rule with any innovative system other than Islam, but also they struggled hard to preserve the unity of the state and the unity of the Ummah.
Yet 89 years ago, on the 3rd March 1924, some years after it had been dismembered (after World War One) and after a long period of intellectual decline - the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, the model of government established by Allah's beloved Messenger (saw), was abolished by the criminal Mustafa Kemal in Ankara. The Muslim world reacted with shock. It was described as a ‘disaster to both Islam and civilization'. It was predicted the Muslim world would be thrown into ‘the ranks of revolution and disorder'. Sadly, these predictions proved true. The Ummah has been divided, oppressed, colonized, exploited and occupied ever since. Till now, Muslims are looking for a way to overcome this misery.
For decades Muslims have been looking at the Western capitalist system and nation state model - alternating between the oppression of dictators and the corruption of democratic politicians. Since the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, Islam has been confined to personal belief, Salah, Zakat, Fasting in Ramadhan and Hajj. We follow the Prophet's (saw) Sunnah in these individual ibadat, yet we have abandoned his Sunnah in politics and government! It is through this great institution that the Prophet (saw) taught this Ummah how to do politics and run a society and state for Muslims and non-Muslims.
The Khilafah "Caliphate" State represents the unity of the Ummah. The Khalifah is the Ameer of this Ummah. Allah (swt) said...
((واعتصموا بحبل الله جميعاً ولا تفرقوا))
"Hold fast to the rope of Allah and be not divided amongst yourselves." [Surah al Imran 3:103]. The Khilafah "Caliphate" is the practical method by which the Shari'ah secured this unity. The bond that links people in the Khilafah "Caliphate" is their citizenship. All of those who hold the citizenship of the Islamic State - Muslim and non-Muslim - have the full right to enjoy guardianship without fear of discrimination, just as they all obey the law, in line with the divine principle that states: "They have the same fairness enjoyed by Muslims; and they are also accountable like Muslims." The Khilafah "Caliphate" looks after the affairs of all citizens regardless of tribe or ethnicity - abiding by the Quran order:
((إن أكرمكم عند الله أتقاكم))
"The best among you in the sight of Allah is the most pious of you." [Surah Hujuraat 49:13].
Without the Islamic system of unity, the Ummah has been divided into nation states and the menace of nationalism and sectarianism has brought nothing but war, conflict, division and fitnah in our countries amongst our own people.
The Khilafah "Caliphate" State is a political system where the Ummah holds the authority and has a duty to account the Khalīfah according to Islam. On assuming his position as Khalīfah, Sayiduna Abu Bakr al Siddīq (May Allah be pleased with him) said: ‘O People! I have been put in authority over you and I am not the best of you. So if I do the right thing then help me and if I do wrong then put me straight... Obey me as long as I obey Allah and His messenger, and if I do not obey Allah and His messenger then obedience to me is not incumbent upon you.'
The Khilafah "Caliphate" enshrines the accountability of the government because Allah (swt) ordered the Muslim Ummah to enjoin ma'roof and forbid munkar on the ruler. The Messenger (saw) said:
(والذي نفسي بيده لتأمرن بالمعروف ولتنهونَّ عن المنكر أو ليوشكن الله عز وجل أن يبعث عليكم عذابا من عنده ثم تدعونه فلا يستجاب لكم." (سنن أبو داود"
"By He Who owns my soul, you must enjoin the Ma'roof and forbid the Munkar, or Allah may inflict upon you a punishment from Him, you would then supplicate Him and your supplication would go unanswered [Sunan Abu Dawud #4336]. So, there is a branch of the judiciary to judge between the ruler and the people, the Qadhi Madhalim - with the power to remove the Khalīfah if he breaks his contractual conditions of ruling. Islam encourages political parties to hold the ruler to account; a Majlis of elected representatives to account the ruler and be consulted by him; and an independent media to hold the government to account and scrutinise its actions. While democracy is claimed as the only way to ensure accountable government, the reality is this so-called democratic system in countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Afghanistan have produced politicians who are corrupt to the core, siphoning millions and billions of the Ummah's wealth and have opened our countries to the ugly plans of the colonialists.
On the economic front our countries are submerged in a quagmire of debt, poverty, inequality and economic colonialism. This goes on, whilst our Ummah is blessed with some of the largest natural resources, vast fertile agricultural lands and abundant human resources. This states of affairs is because the secular politicians who are in charge of this Ummah today are there to steal this wealth and help the colonial powers implement their IMF/World Bank policies to ensure our resources continue to be in Western hands. Only a sincere Islamic leadership implementing the clear economic rules from Islam can break this status quo. One of the roles of the Khalīfah is the collection of Zakat. The Khalifah's role is to collect any revenues that Islam permitted - Zakat, Ushr, Kharaaj, Jizya, as well as the revenues from state and public properties - and spend them on the things that are mandatory. For example, every citizen needs to have food, clothing and shelter; every male and female child must be educated; and the state has a due to spend on health and military expenditure.
The Muslim world is crying under the weight of its problems, and it needs an alternative - and that alternative is the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" state. Following the Arab revolutions, Egypt and Tunisia are still engulfed in political crisis and mismanagement as fundamentally the secular man made system is still in place. It is the Khilafah "Caliphate" system that can bring a government that is based upon our Aqeedah, agrees with our identity, history and culture and has the practical solutions for our various political, economic and social problems. More important; it is through this alone we will attain the good pleasure of Allah, subhanahu wata'ala.
Today the Western capitalist system that has ruled the world for decades is not admired as it once was. It has created another global economic crisis. Western powers have overreached themselves in imperial warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their societies are filled with family breakdown and social problems. People view their politicians as increasingly corrupt, bowing down to banks and big business.
In desperation, Western politicians and their corporate-backed media slander the Prophet of Islam (saw) and portray the Khilafah "Caliphate" system of governance as backward and as the aspiration of extremists. All because they know it challenges their political, economic and military dominance of the Muslim world.
Brothers and Sisters: We as Muslims living in Britain have a duty to challenge these lies about Islam, about Allah's Messenger (saw), about his system of governance, about the Shari'ah of Islam. Indeed, we have a duty to offer people - who question the way the world is today - an alternative, by giving our neighbours, colleagues and others the da'wah to Islam - to show them how the Islamic Aqeedah convinces the mind, agrees with man's nature and has the capacity to solve humanity's problems.
It is the promise of Allah's Messenger that the Khilafah "Caliphate" on the way of Prophethood will return - after it had been abolished. He (saw) said after a period of biting oppression,
[ثمّ تكون خلافة راشدة على منهاج النبوة، ثم سكت." [مسند الإمام أحمد"
"There will be a Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida according to the ways of the Prophethood.' Then he kept silent." [Musnad Imam Ahmad]
And in anticipation of that return, isn't it right that we redress the shameful misrepresentation of the Prophetic system of governance that we see today. It is our duty as Muslims to know this model of governance and to tell others about its reality - and not the media's scaremongering.
Dear Brothers and Sisters: It is the Promise from your Lord, the glad tidings from your Prophet and the highest of obligations.
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The Emir of Qatar has bought six Greek islands in a deal worth at least £7.22million. The islands are part of a small archipelago known as the Echinades, a couple of miles from Ithaca, a famous site in Homer's Odyssey. They first caught the eye of the Emir, 56-year-old Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, when he moored his super-yacht nearby whilst on holiday four years ago. The £4.2million deal for Oxia, the largest of the islands at 1,200 acres, was agreed last year but had been held up by delays in obtaining land use permits from Greek forestry officials, according to the Financial Times. Ithaca's Greek-American mayor, Ioannis Kassianos, said: "When you buy an island, even if you are the emir of Qatar, it takes a year and a half for all the paperwork to go through." The Emir had pledged to invest up to 5 billion euros in Greece's transport and infrastructure when it was hit by the economic crisis three years ago. He had been put off by Greece's red tape and inefficiency but relations have improved, with Qatar now bidding to redevelop the Hellenikon Airport site near Athens. If the deal goes through, the airport could serve as an international hub for Qatar Airways. Qatar may also bid for the Astir Palace hotel, a beachfront hotel near Athens that is popular with Arab tourists. Despite Greece's extensive privatisation programme, it has been suggested that Greece should be prepared to sell off even more of its assets to help reduce its debt obligations to other countries.
Rulers of Bahrain and UAE Give Money to the British Army:
Britain's top military academy, Sandhurst, has come under fire for renaming a sports hall commemorating a First World War battle after the King of Bahrain. The Mons Hall - named after the 1914 battle where thousands died - will have its name changed to honour the Bahraini monarch who has given millions in funding to the Army's officer training college. The building will now be called King Hamad Hall and will reopen next month after being refurbished thanks to a £3 million donation from the king, who is the patron of the Sandhurst Foundation but is known for brutally repressing demonstrators at home. Sandhurst has also accepted a £15 million donation from the United Arab Emirates to build a new accommodation block, raising questions about the college's links with authoritarian Gulf states accused of human rights abuses.
Russia plans to Offer Islamic Studies to Counter Extremism:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the government will hammer out a single Bachelor's and Master's degree program on Islam study within three months. Supporters say the move would help remove problems facing Russians studying Islam. There are no academic institutions or universities for Russians interested in studying Islam. Currently, Russians seeking to study Islam are trained at secular and religious educational institutions. "What we currently see in Russia are Islamic secondary schools, or madrasahs, rather than academies or universities, where students should get more knowledge regarding theological subjects, Muslim law and history," said Denga Khalidov, Head of the Center for Islam Ethnopolitics Studies in Moscow. The Russian Federation is home to some 23 million Muslims in the north of the Caucasus and southern republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. Islam is Russia's second-largest religion representing roughly 15 percent of its 145 million predominantly Orthodox population. But some experts see the program as a government attempt to fight religious extremism in Russia. "Many of those who graduate from Islamic universities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt face problems," Moscow-based Islam expert Georgy Engelgardt said. He said graduates from foreign countries get radical ideas "that are out of line with forms of religions adopted on Russian territory". "Consequently, they seek to give their disciples a vision of the religion and its political supplements that they studied in other countries," he said. "This leads to radicalization of certain groups of believers and may culminate in armed clashes, something that is currently in place in North Caucasus and the Volga Region in Russia. The authorities have already admitted that this problem poses a threat."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen have called on Pakistan to do more to combat terrorism and condemned statements made last week by a leading Pakistan cleric apparently endorsing suicide attacks in Afghanistan. This latest spat between the neighbouring countries could set back joint efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Karzai criticized the comments, which were made on Afghan television by a prominent Pakistan cleric who had been part of efforts by religious leaders in the two countries to bring peace to Afghanistan, and are likely to sour an already strained relationship between the two countries. Speaking at a press conference, Karzai said the statements made by Pakistan cleric Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi of the All Pakistan Ulema Council prove Islamabad supports suicide attacks as a tool of the Taliban's fight in Afghanistan. We have always known that they supported suicide attacks, Karzai said, but now we have heard this directly from them. We hope that they [Pakistan] will be wise enough to take steps to change this situation. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking at the same news conference, also condemned any suggestion that suicide attacks could be a legitimate tool of war. He urged the Pakistani government and military to step up their fight against terrorism and extremism. "And I think the time has come for the Pakistani leadership - the military leadership as well as the political leadership - to realize that it is in their self-interest to ensure a peaceful development in Afghanistan," said Rasmussen.
Abu Hashim
Sunday, 21 Rabii II 1434 AH, 03 March 2013. Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah Turkey organized a seminar in the city of Istanbul entitled "Governance and Administration in Islam" on the occasion of the calendar anniversary of the demolition of the Islamic Caliphate. It received a large presence of various people of society. Alhamdulillah, Lord of the Worlds.
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