The Egyptian presidency announced the names of the commission of fifty whom were selected to carry out the task of amending the 2012 constitution which has been inactivated since the military overthrew President Muhammad Morsi after popular protests [BBC Sunday 1-9-2013 CE].
Commenting on this, we say: On July 3 the 2012 constitution was temporarily suspended, and afterwards a commission was put together made up of ten members to amend this constitution, and in turn this commission made amendments to 130 articles out of 236, abolishing the Consultative Council, and abolishing the proportion of workers and farmers in any election, and abolishing political isolation whether for the Muslim Brotherhood or the National Democratic Party, and recommending the prohibition of establishing political parties based on religion, and repealing the article that explains the Islamic Shariah, and cancelling the previous monitoring of the Constitutional Court on laws. The new preamble was void of any reference to the January 25 Revolution, and there had also been a change to the article concerning the armed forces with the omission of the sentence “Neutral and does not interfere in political affairs” and instead a malleable statement was placed saying “Our armed forces are the protective shield of the country that protect the borders of the state and defend our national security”. Likewise, there was a change to the police institution in a manner no less serious, as in the 2012 constitution preamble stated: “There is no justice without protection, and there is no protection without security institutions that respect human dignity and the rule of law”, and “human dignity and the rule of law” disappeared from the paragraph, and it read as such: “for there is no justice without protection, and no economy without security, and no community development or stability under loose security”, erasing the reference at this critical point to the respect of human dignity and the rule of law!!
The amendments of the –appointed- ten will be presented to the –appointed- commission of fifty to be studied and edited, and afterwards approved and put to a national referendum within sixty days. The presidency of the republic announced the names of the commission of fifty, and the representatives of the Islamic current were Dr. Zarqa and Dr. Helbawi; the former the representative of the Nour Party who joined the putschists in their coup, and the second a dissident of the Muslim Brotherhood who bitterly resents them.
We did not see any good in the 2012 Constitution; in fact we saw it as an extension of the 71 Constitution, despite that those who oversaw its development were the Muslim Brotherhood and the so-called Islamic current, but they were not forming an Islamic state by raising it as a slogan at that time. Instead secularism was consecrated by the hand of the Islamists themselves, for they agreed that sovereignty is for the people and not for the Shari’, and that Egypt is a state with the republic system and not the Khilafah system, and they agreed upon the Western freedoms and other Western values instead of the Ummah and its culture. So if the 2012 Constitution was put in place by Islamists, it is far from Islam, what about a constitution overseen by the secularists themselves and with “Islamists” participating as false witnesses?! Undoubtedly its filth will be more severe and crass!
We do not regret that the 2012 Constitution was thrown in the waste bin, as such we are not bothered much by the coming 2013 Constitution that will sanctify the coup for the putschists and re-instate the 71 Constitution to the people without “humanitarian strokes” or amendments. This is because we know that there is only one way for change, and change cannot come by placing a constitution on paper that does not reflect the Ummah; the Ummah whose life and civilization and true aspirations are formed from the Islamic Aqeedah. Change comes about by creating public opinion emanating from general awareness amongst the public about Islam as an idea and method, and crystallized in their overwhelming demand for its implementation in the Khilafah state, with them not accepting any substitute, and parallel to that the work to create strong support for this state among the people of power in the military, so that the military will stand with the demand of the people and protect them, and be the spearhead to whisk away the corrupt current regime and establish the Khilafah state, instead of being a tool to suppress the Muslims and sanctify the secular Kaffir regime.
This constitution that is being prepared will not be the last, as was with the past ones, and it will not stop the sincere from taking the path of fundamental change that will return for the Ummah its state, the Khilafah state, under which the Ummah lived long centuries; as one Ummah distinct from other people; a feared Ummah that has a standing on the international stage. An Ummah that lives prosperity as a true reality, not a slogan raised and not achieved at all. An Ummah cared for by a state of genuine patronage and not a levy state. An Ummah that understands the real meaning of freedom, that it is to not succumb to the subjection and slavery of any human, instead to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى along, and this is its greatest description! An Ummah whose constitution, laws and legislations are derived solely from the Quran and Sunnah, and Islam guides all their affairs.
The end of this constitution will be like that of the previous ones: in the waste bin of history! And the Ummah will return to its true place that Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants for it – the best Ummah raised for mankind, and it will be ruled by the constitution of the Khilafah state that is based on Allah’s سبحانه وتعالى Quran and the Sunnah of his Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم.
وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرَى آَمَنُوا وَاتَّقَوْا لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ بَرَكَاتٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَكِنْ كَذَّبُوا فَأَخَذْنَاهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
“If only the people of the cities had had iman and taqwa, We would have opened up to them blessings from heaven and earth. But they denied the truth so We seized them for what they earned.”
(Al-Araaf, 7:96)
Sharif Zayed
Director of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir – Egypt
Thursday 29th Shawwal 1434 AH
05/09/2013 CE
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