Press Release
Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah of Sudan in the City of Al-Abyad Held a Stand in the Freedom Square, and Mosques in the City to Denounce the Closure of Mosques
(Translated)

On Sunday, 7/6/2020, the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Sudan in the city of Al-Ubayyid carried out a silent stand in the Freedom Square and Al-Abyad Mosques: (Al-Ateeq, Swar Al-Dahab, and Karshahila, Hijr) denouncing the closure of mosques in the faces of worshipers, with the pretext of the Coronavirus pandemic, without regard to the sanctity and holiness of Allah’s houses, at a time when people are crowded into the rows of bread (non-existent), cooking gas rows, gasoline rows, and other places of incessant crowds, in a scene that confirms the government's failure to solve the most basic elements of life , And make it available to people.

The Shabab carried banners with slogans denouncing the closure of Allah’s houses. And we question:

What is wrong with opening the mosques of Allah for maintaining them; by performing the prayers, and raising hands with supplications to lift the epidemic?!

Why differentiate between overcrowding in markets, banks, rows of bread, gas, and people praying in mosques?!

People attended, and those passing by the road, interacted with this stand, praising it, supporting the Shabab, and chanting Takbeer and Tahleel.

Hizb ut Tahrir had stated in the Answer to Question on 2nd Shaban 1441 AH corresponding to 26/03/2020 CE the Sharia ruling regarding performing the Friday and congregational prayers in the mosques, and that it is not permissible to close mosques but take all measures and precautions, as precaution does not mean leaving the Fardh (obligation). Rather, it is done with taking precautions and measures to prevent infection, but the Ummah’s calamity is in its rulers, who follow the steps of the colonial Kuffar (disbelievers), handspan by handspan and arm's length by arm's length, and if those countries were troubled in finding treatment of a specific disease, they follow them! and we have seen that the disease has spread among them despite their closures which they began retreating from them now, in light of the adherence of the rulers of Sudan to them, and their insistence on closing mosques, instead of urging people to repent in them, and supplicate to Allah to lift the epidemic and the injustice from us.

(وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن مَّنَعَ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ أَن يُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ وَسَعَى فِي خَرَابِهَا أُولَٰئِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمْ أَن يَدْخُلُوهَا إِلَّا خَائِفِينَ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا خِزْيٌ وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ)

“And who are more unjust than those who prevent the name of Allah from being mentioned in His mosques and strive toward their destruction. It is not for them to enter them except in fear. For them in this world is disgrace, and they will have in the Hereafter a great punishment.” [Al-Baqara: 114].

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