Pakistan's rulers strike at Islam's basis using lowly tactics

On 13 April, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Swat Nazam-e-Adl Regulation. However, it is not the first pact that the Pakistani government has made with Tahreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM). In the past, Pakistan's rulers have made pacts with TNSM in 1994, 1999 and 2007 as well. And again, as in the past, the government of Pakistan is not sincere in her measures, but she has taken this step to secure American interests. Pakistan's rulers are supporting America's new policy, as announced by President Obama on 27 March, which represents a continuation of Bush's policy of occupation of Afghanistan and demands upon Pakistan's army to do more. Under this "Af-Pak" policy, America has announced sending more troops in Afghanistan to curtail the resistance against her criminal occupation of Afghanistan, an occupation that faces peaked challenges during the summer season. America also wants to improve the dwindling situation of NATO troops in the south Afghanistan, before the scheduled elections in Afghanistan in August 2009. Hence, once again Pakistani government will focus her attention to the border region adjacent to Afghanistan. Implementing the Swat Judicial System Regulation was linked to this, aiming to calm one frontier and re-organize the armed forces for further operations in the Tribal Areas.

Also by making this pact, the government is trying to weaken the resistance which America is facing in Afghanistan, by inserting a wedge between the Swat resistant groups and the Al-Qaeda of the tribal areas. As the Pakistani ambassador in Washington explained, "We are trying to create a wedge between Al Qaida, militant Taliban and Swat's tribal movement, which is demanding the implementation of traditional laws. This is a very important/beneficial political and military diplomatic move which will draw the public away from militants and will make the militants isolated."

By using this pact, America is not only gaining military benefits, she is using this pact to create an atmosphere of fear in Pakistan. In an interview with Fox News on 25 April, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said, "If the worst, the unthinkable were to happen, and this advancing Taliban encouraged and supported by Al Qaeda and other extremists were to essentially topple the government for failure to beat them back - then they would have the keys to the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan." Before that Holbrooke said in his statement that Taliban do not want Pakistan to be a modern state.

Anyone who closely scrutinizes such statements by Pakistani and US officials can easily understand that the target of this propaganda is not a person or a group or party, but in fact the US is creating fear in the public about the very implementation of Islam, so that she can turn the feelings and emotions of a Muslim people who are fed up of the colonial democratic system imposed upon them and have a deep rooted desire for the supremacy of Islam. Hence, Pakistan's government, upon American supervision, is busy spreading wicked propaganda, in which she is actually targeting Islam and its laws, but using the word "Taliban" as a cover. The Swat video is one of the recent examples. The focus of discussion over the Swat video was not about who were the perpetrators and under which authority and jurisdiction they did so, but focused upon the punishment itself. Accordingly government officials and opposition parties, including Pakistan Muslim League (N), declared the divine punishment on media as obsolete, barbaric, cruel, and savagery. This is similar to the case of the "The Bill of Women's Rights" when an organized media campaign was launched to give an impression that the Islamic laws are outdated and unsuitable for the modern day. In fact, for a long time America has unleashed an intense ideological war against Islam, which she calls the "war within Islam". America knows well that if she criticizes the Islamic laws herself, such criticism will bring people closer to Islam rather than distancing them. So, America is hitting at the basis of Islam by using people who are seduced by Western culture, in order to shake the confidence of Muslims in Islam and to drive them away from their demand of implementing Islam.

The situation makes incumbent on every Muslim to be clear in his mind that implementation of Islam as system is a final and decisive order of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the debate that it should be implemented completely or not, is completely invalid. Denying the need for implementation of Islam as a system, is denying the Qur'an itself. And it is absolutely not permitted to judge the Islamic laws on the basis of corrupt western concepts of freedoms or on the basis of secular constitution of 1973. Allah سبحانه وتعالى clearly said in the Qur'an,

[وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلاَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمْ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ]

"It is not fitting for a believer, man or woman, that when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger, to have any option about their decision." [Surah Al Ahzab 33:36]

 And He سبحانه وتعالى said,

[وَأَنْ احْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلاَ تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ وَاحْذَرْهُمْ أَنْ يَفْتِنُوكَ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ]

"Judge between them by that which Allah has revealed and follow not their desires and beware of them lest they seduce you from some part of that which Allah hasrevealed to you." [Surah Al-Maida 5:49]

As far as implementing the Nizam-e-Adl regulation in Swat, implementing Islam is not just about implementing few judicial laws. Other than the punishment system and judiciary, Islam also gives ruling, economic and social systems, education and foreign policies, which are implemented in the form of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state. Hence it is not enough to implement few judicial laws, but it is necessary to implement all Islamic laws, at a state level, at once and without delay.

In addition to creating fear about Islam, Pakistan's rulers are trying to make the present colonist system credible, because the survival of America and these rulers is linked to this system. Hence, Pakistan's rulers not only want the Muslims to accept the democratic system, but they are trying hard to make the Muslims start believing that this corrupt democratic system is in accordance to Islam, so that they never try to bring real change in Pakistan. The people of Pakistani must understand that the concept of democracy, which was invented by Greeks and glorified by the West, has no relation with Islam whatsoever. Instead, democracy is in direct contradiction with the rulings of Islam and its concepts. How can a system which is based on the separation of Deen from life affairs, where humans can makes laws according to their own desires, by putting aside the commands and prohibitions of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, be Islamic? Were the laws of Islam implemented in the era of RasulAllah صلى الله عليه وسلم and Sahabah (ra) only once they were approved by the majority of people or their elected representatives? Democracy is a system in which the supreme authority is not with Allah سبحانه وتعالى, but remains in the hands of humans. This is the case in the system of Pakistan, where if the majority of parliament's members approve of any law, it will be considered as the law of Pakistan, even if that law is purely against Islam, such as Riba laws. And no "free" court can punish any member of parliament for legislating an un-Islamic law, even though Allah سبحانه وتعالى said in the Qur'an,

[وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ الظَّالِمُونَ]

"Whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are oppressors." [Surah Al Maida 5:45]

O Muslims of Pakistan!

Your rulers are distancing you from Islam through false propaganda and want to keep you subdued by a system which is incapable to solve your problems and is in direct conflict with your Deen. This is an oppressive system which enforces taxes like GST, where taxes are sucked from the incapable with people committing suicide because of poverty, a system in which usury, gambling and obscenity are halal. It is a filthy system in which corrupt people like Zardari can become president just on the basis of majority, where rulers are exempted from any legal prosecution for not fulfilling their responsibilities properly. And it is a servile system where the worst enemies of Islam and Muslims are awarded with highest country medals, whilst intelligence agencies of mischievous countries, like America, are permitted to hatch conspiracies freely and in the name of national interest, colonialists are given free reign to massacre the Muslims. It is a system of division where parties based on racism and difference of language are allowed to strike the unity of Ummah whilst the people who are fighting against American and Hindu occupation are banned. In this system the laws derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah are suspended and UN resolutions are held as superior. This is the filthy, servile colonist democratic system which has brought you to the door steps of destruction, yet your rulers are trying to make you afraid that implementation of Islam will bring destruction for you!

O Muslims of Pakistan!

Remember the time when the Muslims were the unrivalled superpower of the world, when your universities were the cradles of knowledge for the whole world, when the Ummah was prosperous and problems like poverty did not exist at all. Your just rulers loved you and you loved them and you prayed for them and they prayed for you. And in that system an ordinary women could account the strong Khalifah of the most powerful state of the world, Amir ul Mumineen, Omar al Farooq (ra). That was the state of Khilafah "Caliphate", which was implementing Islam in totality. In 1924, Britain destroyed the Khilafah "Caliphate", depriving you of your system, and joined by America later, the kuffar implemented secular capitalist democratic system upon you through their agents, designating their agents as the guardians of that system. Since then you became humiliated and dishonored, with the Kuffar are herding you wherever they like, indeed you became like an orphan at a miser's dinning table. O Muslims, do you having any other option except to return to the superior Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" system? Allah سبحانه وتعالى has linked the success and respect of Ummah with the Islamic creed, hence if you will adopt any system or ideology other than Islam then you will not only be disgraced and dishonored in this world, the torment of the hereafter will be most severe. Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,

[وَمَنْ يَبْتَغِ غَيْرَ الإِسْلاَمِ دِينًا فَلَنْ يُقْبَلَ مِنْهُ وَهُوَ فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ الْخَاسِرِينَ]

"And whosoever seeks a deen other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers." [Surah Al-Imran 3:85]

It is high time that you foil the conspiracies of the Kuffar and their agents and make the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" your aim by joining Hizb ut-Tahrir. Without doubt, the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" will eliminate the darkness in which Ummah is living now a days.

O People of power!

Remember the time when Kuffar were afraid of Muslim armies, when Muslim armies used to open the lands through Jihad, spreading the Nur of Allah سبحانه وتعالى throughout the world. For the re-establishment of this state, Hizb ut-Tahrir is calling for your Nussrah (Material Support). Only you have the capability and power to up-root this system and re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate". So come forth and establish Khilafah "Caliphate" by giving the Nussrah to Hizb ut-Tahrir, a state which will again raise the Ummah as the strongest global power.