The Documentary of Ash-Sham - Land of the Upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate" Part I showcases the banner of the Uqab, the banner of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). Returned to flutter in the entire land of Sham after decades of oppression, tyranny and slavery, implemented by the Kufr ruling authority on the pure land of Ash-Sham. The return of the banner of "La Illaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah" [There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah] to flutter declares a new era and a bright future for the Ummah of Islam. It is a revolution of the blessed al-Sham, initiated to restore the glory of Islam and its dignity and authority. It was first raised, after the fall of the Khilafah "Caliphate", by the honorable Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabahani (rahimahu Allah) him and a group from the Shabab of the Ummah when they founded Hizb ut Tahrir in the year of 1953 in Jerusalem. They raised the flag and demanded the return of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" once again. Here are today's Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir who have been involved in the Revolution of ash-Sham; and their presence in the demonstrations and sit-ins made a powerful impact on the spread of the flag and its adoption by the revolutionaries who came out originally to raise the word of Allah and glorifying His religion and the implementation of His Laws.
The film showcases through visits and interviews with the people of the Revolution, the changes that take place in the liberated territories, including the educational and economic development in the path for the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, by the permission of Allah. It also presents the good tidings when the warring factions on the land of Ash-Sham through interviews and visits with them how they not only seek to overthrow the Baathist regime but rather seek to establish an Islamic state, ruled by Islam in all aspects of life , and Allah is Able over that.
Allah (swt) said,
وَعَدَ اللَّـهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم مِّن بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient." [an-Nur: 55].
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Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Syria
Jumada II 1435 AH - April 2014 CE
On Saturday morning, 19 Jumada II 1435 AH, 19/4/2014, the security forces in the city of Gadarif have arrested the following members of Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah of Sudan- Gadarif: 1. Ibrahim Abdul Qadir, 2. Munnawar Dafa' Allah, 3. Usama Abdul Aziz, 4. Ilmu Deen Muhammad Al Hassan. They were released after several hours; but a computer, camera, and survey documents were withheld. This was at the backdrop of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah of Sudan...
News
On Thursday, 11 April 2014, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, called for a collective approach for addressing common challenges and laid stress on "enhanced connectivity for success". He said Pakistan was on the confluence of China, the Eurasian land-bridge and the Middle East, placing the country near the three-pronged economic corridor between China, Central Asia and the Middle East. "This is the triangular dimension of our relevance to the Silk Road," he added.
Comment
Mr. Nawaz Sharif has been reaching all corners of the world showing his nation that he is passionately working to present Pakistan as a business friendly country abroad and to bring foreign investors, so that the economy of Pakistan will once start moving in an upwards direction. Attending and addressing Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference was part of that struggle. The Raheel-Nawaz regime is claiming to make Pakistan a regional hub for regional and international trade, as part of the phenomenon of globalization. That is the justification that the regime is using to declare India as a Most Favored Nation (MFN) and support Afghanistan peace process, under the guise of a limited US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The regime claims that these two initiatives will bring the whole region, from Central Asia to India, closer and will boost economic activity. It claims that not only the people of Pakistan, but also the people of the whole region will benefit immensely.
However, this limited vision for the region, where only economic objectives determine the course of foreign relations, is erroneous and dangerous. In most of these regional economic cooperations, only one or two of the larger countries snatch most of the benefits. They use the markets of neighboring less developed countries to boost their own economies, flooding them with their goods and demolishing local industry. The under-developed countries get a share like a peanut in a camel's mouth, if that. Whether it is the European Union or NAFTA or any other economic treaties, big players always have the big share at the expense of other countries. Mexico has provided a growing market for meat for the US, leading to a surge in sales and profits for the US meat industry. The US Chamber of Commerce credits NAFTA with increasing US trade in goods and services with Canada and Mexico, from $337 billion in 1993 to $1.2 trillion in 2011.
Developed countries produce large amounts and varied types of goods because of their industrial superiority, whilst under-developed countries do not have developed industry, so they only produce limited goods. Therefore, under-developed countries are never able to get the most out of this so-called economic cooperation.
Denied proper industrial development for well over six decades, Pakistan is already seeing the negative effects of this so-called regional economic cooperation. Our markets have been converted to a dumping ground for low priced Chinese goods, to an extent that local manufacturing units cannot compete with them. And the large Indian manufacturers are salivating at the chance of doing the same as the Chinese. Our local manufacturers eventually close down their business and start importing, which results in local job losses and economic dependency on foreign countries. Moreover, such economic dependency opens the doors for foreign pressure on other national issues.
The Raheel-Nawaz regime does not see except what their masters sitting in Western capitals and international financial institutions headquarters say they should see. They are blind to the true potential of Pakistan, if it becomes the seat of the second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida. If Pakistan becomes a Khilafah "Caliphate" state, the implementation of the Islamic economic system will lead to massive economic prosperity, as it focuses on distribution of wealth, rather than the accumulation of wealth in a few hands, as the capitalist system does.
Moreover, when the Muslims lands from Central Asia to India, East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and Indonesia to Malaysia become part of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, Muslims will not need the markets of other nations. Their own market will be so immense that their goods will be consumed domestically quite easily. On the other hand, every nation on the earth will seek us out, so as to allow them to sell their goods in our huge market, eager to make their own fortune as well. So instead of confining ourselves to artificial borders created by colonialists, we must eliminate them, turning ourselves into a single giant Ummah of 1.6 billion Muslims and the world's leading nation.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Pakistan
News
In the past few weeks, there has been a significant rise in the brazen attacks on the mosques' worshippers in the Palestinian territories with the use of force by the Palestinian Authority Security Agencies, most notably the Grand Beera Mosque in Ramallah. This includes arrests, physical assault, and forcefully banning regular study circles or short talks after prayers. Worshippers of all ages fell victim to this type of abuse. (www.palinfo.com) (http://paltimes.net)
Comment
Throughout history, mosques have served as a gathering place to discuss events and issues from political to spiritual, and to heighten the general public's awareness and to enrich their knowledge. However as this is no longer the case or it seems... the Palestinian Authority has waged attack on the Holy Land's mosques. As the days pass, incidents increase in severity arresting the elderly and using batons to beat the worshippers especially those from Hizb ut Tahrir and those who try to protect and support them.
What is surprising is the timing of these incidents. The Palestinian Authority utilizes its riot troops and the various security agencies to instill a sense of overwhelming dictator style presence. The sad and pitiful part is that it displays its strength on the worshippers in the Houses of Allah which they are supposed to fortify from vandalism and arson committed by fanatical Jewish settlers who repeatedly spew their hate crimes against the Palestinians. The timing of the constriction of the mosque activities coincides with the events occurring throughout the Middle East more specifically the countries that experienced the Arab Spring Revolutions like Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco.
In these countries, the government and their security agencies ban any talk given without prior permission from the official government, and anyone who defies this face imprisonment. They do this according to them to prevent any incitement against the ruling authorities. It appears that the Palestinian Authority has followed suit. It is not surprising to have this domino effect in Palestine since the mosques serve as a gathering place for the sincere and pious believers. The United States is to have steered this emphasis on the mosques, making sure to silence the regular people, the aware people, the influential people from speaking to the masses against the atrocities committed by the ruling regimes and the West, particularly America, who has managed to sidetrack the revolutions in the aforementioned countries.
And in order to prevent a dominating and popular general opinion against them, it has repeatedly insisted that the Palestinian Authority restrict and ban the talks that according to them incite hatred against the Jewish entity and the Western governments.
However, it is relevant to mention that the fear mongering instigated by the Palestinian Authority and its security agencies will not muffle the calls to the vital issues nor will they silence the sincere dawah carriers who will not rest until the words of truth echo throughout the mosques and elsewhere. This gives them the assurance that their messages send fear throughout the various entities involved in their fear mongering campaign.
This gives the dawah carriers more strength and perseverance to continue upon this path without the fear of imprisonment or assault. Indeed the word of truth is mightier than the forces of the Palestinian Authority even when decked out their full riot gear.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Um Muhanad
Today, Friday around 10 a.m., the thugs of the Raheel-Nawaz regime lurked like thieves outside the Karachi home of member of Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan, Dr. Ismael Sheikh, and seized him. Then, without caring for the honor and property of the Muslim, these lowly thugs shot the gate open and took Dr. Ismael's car and entered the house, occupied by Dr. Ismael's terrified wife and small children, and snatched all matter of personal property.
Seeking economic guidance from the Western nations is a betrayal
On Wednesday April 9, Pakistan's Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, and his team attend a meeting of the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue's working group on economy and finance.
The team accompanying Mr Dar includes Secretary Economic Affairs Division Nargis Sethi, governor State Bank of Pakistan, secretary finance and the prime minister's special assistant on economic affairs. This meeting is ahead of critical meetings with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
It is going to be a spring of further planning for implementing Capitalist policies in Pakistan, at a time when the Capitalist system has caused a global crisis, due to its inability to distribute the wealth of nations amongst its people in a just way. Moreover, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) is betraying the Muslims who sacrificed their lives to establish a state for the sake of Islam, by seeking guidance from the Western nations, even though Islam has a a comprehensive economic system that allowed the Khilafah "Caliphate" to be the economic marvel of the world for centuries. The Messenger (saw) explicitly forbade us from imitating and following other nations. Al-Bukhari narrated from Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw), he said:
«لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تَأْخُذَ أُمَّتِي بِأَخْذِ الْقُرُونِ قَبْلَهَا شِبْرًا بِشِبْرٍ وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَفَارِسَ وَالرُّومِ فَقَالَ وَمَنْ النَّاسُ إِلَّا أُولَئِكَ»
"The Hour will not come until my Ummah follow the ways of the generations that came before her, hand span by hand span, and arm span by arm span. It was said: O Messenger of Allah; are they like the Persians and Romans? He said: Are there people other than them?" [Al-Bukhari]. It was also narrated from Abu said Al-Khudri from the Prophet (saw), he said:
«لَتَتَّبِعُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْرًا بِشِبْرٍ وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ سَلَكُوا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَسَلَكْتُمُوهُ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى قَالَ فَمَن؟»
"You will surely follow the ways of those who were before you, hand span by hand span, and arm span by arm span; even if they entered a lizard's hole, you would follow them. We said: O Messenger of Allah; (are they) the Jews and Christians? He said: Who is then (otherwise)?" [Al-Bukhari].
Tying up the not so hidden hands
A devastating explosion in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, has claimed the lives of 24 citizens so far, with dozens injured, some critically, on Wednesday 9th April. On the same day a dozen were killed in target killings in Pakistan's largest city and financial hub, Karachi. The Raheel-Nawaz regime hid behind its usual defense, that there are hidden hands, throwing up its own hands, as if there is nothing immediate or effective that can be done.
However, in reality, these hands are not hidden and can be tied at any time. Such carnage is the direct outcome of American foreign policy, specifically the policies of low intensity conflict that is kept alive through covert, "black" operations. It is known that the American Raymond Davis network which has infiltrated the loose local networks many years ago. Moreover, America has opened the doors to the region to India for its nefarious designs. Such foreign presence on our soil is the source of the intricate planning, huge funding and sophisticated arms supply that has allowed the targeting of military and civilian targets for so long. The prerequisite support infrastructure includes the embassy staff, intelligence, military and private military of the belligerently hostile nations amongst us. In the case of America, the embassy is now a fortress and its private military has lairs throughout the country, including our most sensitive areas.
Islam alone has the solution to our continuous suffering. As Hizb ut Tahrir has declared in its Introduction to the Constitution, Article 189, "States with whom we do not have treaties, and the actual imperialist states, such as Britain, America and France, and those states that have designs on the State, such as Russia, are legally considered to be belligerent states. All precautions must be taken towards them and it would be wrong to establish diplomatic relations with them. Their subjects may enter the Islamic State, but only with a passport and a visa specific to every individual and for every visit, unless they become practically belligerent." Moreover, If they become practically belligerent states i.e they have invaded our country or occupied our land, the Khilafah "Caliphate" shall apply the Shari' rules of practically belligerent states upon them.
Raheel-Nawaz regimes visionless foreign policy
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday 10 April who is in China to attend the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2014, held a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the BFA. During the meeting, the PM urged Premier Li Keqiang to encourage Chinese companies to invest in Pakistan, especially in energy and infrastructure. They agreed that expanding economic and trade cooperation, promoting economic integration, fostering economic development of the two countries would not only benefit China and Pakistan but also transform the whole region.
This is the narrow vision of the Raheel-Nawaz regime. Regarding the economy, rather than developing state and public heavy industry and capability as Islam mandates, he encourages selling these interests off to private companies, both foreign and national, who profiteer at the cost of the entire state and its people. Moreover, regarding foreign policy, the ruler in Islam is not a cheap business man, but an ideological statesman whose primary foreign policy concern is conveying the Islamic ideology to other nations.
Thus we saw RasulAllah (saw) establish relations with other nations, on one basis, which is the invitation to Islam. Moreover, RasulAllah (saw) established a strong industrial foundation so that the Muslims were never dependent on other nations for critical matters. It was these foundations that allowed the Khilafah "Caliphate" for hundreds of years to be both the leading state and the economic powerhouse of the globe.
The role of the Judiciary is to ensure Islam is implemented, not democracy
Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani said on Friday 11 April that safeguarding democracy was the responsibility of the government and all other institutions. It is indeed a great shame that the senior judge of the state that was established after millions sacrificed for the sake of Islam, would make such an erroneous statement. Democracy commands the sovereignty of a parliament of men and women over us, whereas Islam commanded that the Sovereignty of Allah (swt) dominates over the relationships between the ruler and the citizens.
It is the failure in this fundamental and glaring difference between democracy and Islam, that has led to the abandoning of hundreds of commands and prohibition that Allah and His Messenger mandated for us in societal affairs. Until and unless a state is established where the rulers are bound by the judiciary and the Accounting by the citizenry to implement Islam this abysmal situation will continue.
Allah (swt) said,
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنْ تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ إِنْ كُنتُمْ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَحْسَنُ تَأْوِيلاً
"O you who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, and those of you who are in authority; and if you have a dispute concerning any matter, refer to Allah and to the Messenger if you are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and more seemly in the end." [An-Nisaa' 4: 59]
So, it ordered the citizens and the rulers, in case they had dispute concerning any matter, to refer it to the Hukm of Shar', and made that a sign of Eemaan, when it said: ((فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ)) ‘refer it to Allah and to the Messenger', followed by ((إِنْ كُنتُمْ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِر)) ‘if you are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day.' Then it continued by praising that work, saying: ((ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَحْسَنُ تَأْوِيلاً)) ‘That is better and more seemly in the end.' This give evidence of the Decisiveness (جزم Jazm) in referring the matter to Islam's Rulings, which is the profound exhortation to implement that which pleases Allah (swt).
Raheel-Nawaz regime cripples local manufacturing
On Friday 11 April S M Tanveer, Chairman of All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association's Punjab chapter, "Punjab's textile industry is being deprived of gas supplies despite being third on the priority list. We are getting just one quarter of our allocated gas supply though domestic demand has dipped significantly on rising temperatures... This is increasing our cost of production and forcing factories to close down."
Punjab, Pakistan's most populated province, is the agricultural powerhouse of Pakistan and its textile industry is renowned in the world. However, the textile industry is being supplied gas only six hours a day and facing power cuts of eight hours a day, causing disruptions to production. This is just one of the factors that crippled Pakistan's textile manufacture. The sudden flood of dollars through even more interest based foreign loans, led to grave losses in exports. Textile orders were made at an exchange rate of Rs105-108 a dollar, but the manufacturers in the end got export remittances at only Rs98-99 a dollar. Also, whilst local businesses are collapsing under the weight of ever increasing taxation, fuel costs and energy tarrifs, regional competitors are subsidising their industries. And due to the lack of heavy industry, local industry is dependent on costly imports of machinery and parts.
Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" can raise local industry to its full potential. Gas and electricity will be restored to the status of public property as Islam mandates, reducing costs, whilst alternative energy will aggressively be developed. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will also establish a heavy industry which will allow the local manufacture of engines and heavy industrial machinery. Islam has its own unique system of revenues, which avoid strangulating production through heavy taxation and tariffs, as well as allowing the economy to function without foreign loans. With the interest based foreign loans abolished, the currency will be based on gold and silver, which will end the rapid swings in the value of the currency. The need of the time is for the complete implementation of Islam, for the pleasure of Allah (swt) and securing Islam's abundant blessings. Otherwise, we will continue to face misery and degradation, as well as the sin of neglecting Islam. Allah (swt) said, Allah revealed,
((أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ إِلاَّ خِزْيٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُرَدُّونَ إِلَى أَشَدِّ الْعَذَابِ))
"Do you believe in a part of the Book and reject the rest? What else, then should be the retribution of those among you who do this than that they should live in degradation in the present life, and that on the Day of Resurrection they should be sent to the severest chastisement?" [Surah Al-Baqarah 2:85]
End privatization of public property for affordable and available electricity
Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Sunday 13 April said the maximum hours of load-shedding in the country will not exceed eight hours. "I can assure you today that from now on the maximum schedule of electricity load shedding in the whole country will not cross eight hours," the minister said.
In his speech the Minister limited discussion to the issue of installed capacity and circular debts and so the Minister failed to address the root cause of costly and shortage stricken electricity. It is through democracy's implementation of capitalism that the government is responsible for Pakistan's electricity crisis. The present capitalist system ensures that through privatization a few private owners, foreign and local, fully benefit from electricity resources whilst the public faces hardship. Privatization raises electricity prices so that the private owners can profit in their business. As an example the World Bank has closely overseen rises in electricity charges, which surged between 2000 & 2004 and continue to rise such that people are paying as much for electricity in the winter as they used to in the peak of summer before massive privatization took hold. So, whilst private owners amass huge wealth by owning electricity resources, the rest of society is stricken by increasingly un-affordable energy prices. In addition, regarding the electricity shortages, the government itself fell into debt to these private interests to the order of billions of Rupees and continues to be in danger of falling into large debts. Then the private interests reduced production of electricity because they were not paid what they were due and were not able to maintain profits.
Only Islam will end the capitalist economy which is the cause of the expensive and disrupted electricity supply. As a system Islam ensures the distribution of wealth and one of its mechanisms is the public ownership of electricity resources as well as coal, oil and gas. As such these resources are neither owned by the state nor individuals. Instead, the state administers this resource to ensure that its benefit is used for all the citizens, regardless of race, color, school of thought and religion. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will abolish taxes upon power and fuel which have further greatly inflated their prices. It will charge only to cover their production and distribution costs, if needed, and any profit from sales to non-hostile non-Muslim states will be put to use for taking care of public needs. Islam's electricity policy will contribute to a massive industrialization of Pakistan, supervised by the Khilafah "Caliphate".
The Khilafah "Caliphate" will end borders between Muslim Lands
Afghan security forces killed two Pakistani nationals who had mistakenly entered into Afghanistan near Badini area on Monday morning, 14 April 2014, a Levies official said.
The Durand Line is only one of the colonialist made borders that have carved the Muslim Lands into over fifty states. The origin of these borders is the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 which sought to divide the former lands of the Khilafah "Caliphate" as spoils between the colonialist powers. It is this division, a divide and rule policy, that helps the foreign powers to rule over us until today.
Today, Islam is a unifying force for the Muslims of South and Central Asia that are over half a billion in number, of which nearly 200 million are in the belligerent Hindu state itself, which is the source of hostility against the Muslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan for over six decades. Moreover, the combined armed forces of the Islamic Ummah is approaching six million, whilst those of the Hindu state stand at one million. The call for Khilafah "Caliphate" has permeated through Central and South Asia, so the platform for the reunification of the Muslim Lands is in place.
RasulAllah (saw) forged a single Ummah from many tribes, which consolidated its resources under one flag, with one head of state, one armed forces and one state treasury.
Over the ages of the Khilafah "Caliphate" many tribes and races embraced Islam, merging into one noble Ummah. There are to be no borders between Muslims for their lands are one and they are one brotherhood. The Muslims will not focus enmity upon each other, rather their eyes will be on the frontiers with the lands of the Kaafireen, in order to expand the Khilafah "Caliphate" so that Islam is dominant in the world. Accordingly, Hizb ut Tahrir has adopted in its Introduction to the Constitution, in Article 189, Clause 1, "The existing states in the Islamic world are considered to be part of one land and therefore they are not included within the sphere of foreign affairs.
Relations with these countries are not considered to be in the realm of foreign policy and it is obligatory to work to unify all these countries into one state."
