The Speech by the Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan at the Rhetorical Festival...A Victory for Al-Aqsa
(Translated)

All praise be to Allah (swt) who made the cause of the Al-Aqsa Mosque high and surrounded it with blessings and prayers, and peace be upon the one whom Allah (swt) made His cause high; the one whom the Almighty (swt) took at night from the Haram Mosque to Al-Aqsa Mosque; our master and beloved Muhammad son of Abdallah, and upon his pure family, his good companions, the followers, the ones that are guided by the chosen one and followed his path and kept straight onto his road.

Honoured gathering, Assalamu Alaikum wa RahmatuAllahu wa Barakatuhu,

We speak to you whilst the throat is dry and the heart is aching and broken because of the state we have reached and the degradation we are living in. The Jews have not defiled Al-Aqsa only today or had control over it this year; rather, Al-Aqsa was lost the day the Ummah lost its unity; the day it was scattered into national states and the day it lost its shield. The Prophet of Allah (saw) said:

«إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ»

"A commander (of the Muslims) is a shield for them. They fight behind him and they are protected by (him from tyrants and aggressors).”

The day the Khilafah was destroyed, its land was ripped apart, its people were scattered and the united state of the Muslims became many little statelets controlled by the Kafir colonizer through rulers, who are brutal over their people but sheep in front of their masters; they protect the Jewish entity and instead of uprooting it, they forbid and fight the ones that wish to fight the Jews and remove them from the Holy Land.

Honoured brothers, Ulemah of the Ummah and its leaders and frontrunners:

Rise up to the ranks and speak the truth, even if the price is cutting off your heads and cutting off livelihoods, because the Ummah yearns for you to make a serious move for the sake of changing this corrupted reality, known to all, into a reality loved by Allah (swt) and His Prophet (saw). Raging rallies, processions of the people and condemnations are not enough; let our rallies and processions rumble demanding the unity of the Ummah and the upholding of the Muslim armies to their shar’i responsibilities which are jihad for the sake of Allah (swt) and freeing the holy land because the officers and soldiers of these armies are our brothers and sons, and they should have that same feeling and boiling blood in their veins but they are fogged and restricted. Therefore, help them destroy these restrictions and free themselves from the eras of the tyrannical governance because these reverend rulers control the Ummah with your force (i.e., the armies) so drag this power from them and make it a force of the truth against the void. Support the Deen of Allah (swt) and He will make you victorious,

(إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ)

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

O Muslims armies! Enough killing of each other for the sake of protecting weary thrones and chairs with crooked legs; enough obedience to falling rulers that do not have the gallantry of Al-Mutasim in them, and they do not even have the sense of honour of a soldier from Salahuddin’s army.

O Officers and Soldiers in the Muslim Armies:

Does your Ummah’s situation satisfy you? Are you at ease being an instrument in the hand of rulers who do not care a bit about a believing person? Do you accept to be in the blind obedience of those who are blind towards the rulers of clients, who fight Islam and the call to it, thereby making you his instrument in executing this for the sake of satisfying the US and not for satisfying the Lord of the US and mankind?!

No, by Allah, you are not the ones that accept this, so roar in the face of the oppressors and lead the battalions of victory and give victory to the ones working for the unification of this Ummah in one entity – the second Khilafah Rashidah on the methodology of the Prophethood after this oppressive rule we are living under, Allah’s Prophet (saw) said:

«ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا جَبْرِيَّةً، فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ، ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا، ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلاَفَةٌ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةٍ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ»

“Then there will be tyrannical (forceful) kingship and it will remain for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then He will raise it when He wills to raise it. Then there will be a Khilafah upon the methodology of the Prophethood” (Narrated by Imam Ahmad on the authority of Hudaifah ben Al-Yaman).

So be that army who will give victory to Hizb ut Tahrir who is working for its reestablishment... blessed be that army...

Unify your ranks so you can be the Muslim Ummah’s army, not for the national armies created by the Kafir colonizer so that they might prevail over them, as was their old policy, nowadays it is to ”divide and conquer”.

The Muslim armies will walk in the steps of the Muslim conquests and their great leaders – the likes of Khaled ben Al-Walid, Salahhudeen Al-Ayoubi, Qataz, Al-Zahir Baybars, Muhammad Al-Fateh and others, then Allah (swt) will remind you of the ones that are with him and make your cause high as He (swt) did with their cause. This is the method to be used and no other method will resume the Ummah’s glory and honour and make it victorious over its enemies and then Al-Aqsa will return to Islam’s gathering and its protected fort.

(لِمِثْلِ هَذَا فَلْيَعْمَلِ الْعَامِلُونَ)

“For the like of this let the workers work” [Al-Saffat: 61].

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Sudan