Assalaamu Alaikum Wa’rahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu to Our Dear Honourable Sisters of Al-Sham.
Assalaamu aleykum to Al-Sham and its people, for whom Rasulallah صلى الله عليه وسلم prayed to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bless it for us, and which he صلى الله عليه وسلم described it as lying beneath the wings of the angels and is inhabited by those who are the best produced for mankind! We are incessantly following every news regarding you day and night. Seeing what our sisters and brothers in Syria are going through, we are not able to look at the faces of our own sisters and brothers. When we adorn our hijabs before stepping out of our homes, we feel the fear of our Syrian sisters in our hearts. The weeping of our babies rebounds to our ears, reminding us of the lamentation of our children in Syria, and together with their heartrending pictures, we hug our children with pain in our hearts.
Every pain you live over there, we feel it as well, because Rasulallah صلى الله عليه وسلم said that we are “كمثل الجسد الواحد” ‘like one body’ and Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,
إِنَّمَا ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ إِخۡوَةٌ
“The believers are only brothers”
(Al-Hujurat, 49:10)
And we plea to Allah سبحانه وتعالى, Al-Qahhar, to punish those who do this evil to our brothers and sisters. For more than a hundred years now, the West has tried to anesthetize us with different deceptions in order to make us get used to this pain that we feel when we witness our Ummah suffering across the world. But they have failed. Today, there is no doubt that our hearts and the heart of every Muslim is bleeding due to the happenings in Syria.
O dear sisters of Syria,
You have demonstrated a resistance which is inspiring. Al-Sham is the Land of Hope! Your uprising is the crowning of the Ummah’s struggle for a century. Because you are our honorable sisters and brothers, who shout out with a clear, unambiguous and loud voice for the Islamic State which this Ummah has desired for almost 90 years, pledging not to rest until the Khilafah is established. Our Lord honored us with you, O you, the best of people produced for mankind! All praise is to Allah سبحانه وتعالى who granted us brotherhood with you! Rasulallah صلى الله عليه وسلم informed us:
‘ألا وإن الإيمان حين تقع الفتن بالشام’
“Verily! Iman is in Al-Sham when fitna arises.”
You raised the hope that the founding of the Khilafah will be soon biithnillah – a state which will free this Ummah from the hegemony of the West, re-unite the Islamic world under the Rayah of Rasulallah صلى الله عليه وسلم and which will implement all of the Hukm ash-Sharai in order to take care of the people’s affairs. Your uprising proved to this Ummah and the whole world that the establishment of the Islamic system is a very close reality InshaAllah! Therefore the success of the struggle of the Muslims in Syria is the success of this Ummah. Your victory is the Ummah’s victory. So keep firm to your Islamic struggle dear honourable sisters for you have the support of the Lord of the Worlds. And do not allow those with Western, democratic, man-made inspired solutions to hijack or derail your pure revolution.
We, your sisters from Hizb ut Tahrir Turkey, together with our brothers and sisters from Hizb ut Tahrir across the globe support your Dawah with every means in our hands of replacing your secular dictatorship and system with Islamic rule. While your calls resound all around the world, we work day and night to strengthen that sound. In Turkey, we have organized conferences attended by thousands. We hold seminars and press conferences in order to proclaim your honorable Dawah. Not only in Turkey, but all over the world, your sisters and brothers from Hizb ut Tahrir have organized demonstrations, conferences, and countless discussions to raise awareness about your plight and to call for the Khilafah that will be your shield and guardian. This has all been under the leadership of our honourable Amir Sheikh Ata ibn Khalil Abu Ar-Rashtah, the eminent mujtahid, skilled politician, and leading thinker. He has also spent time in the dungeons of the dictators of the Muslim world for carrying the Islamic Dawah, yet he has remained firm without compromise to this Islamic struggle. And we pray Insha Allah that he will become the next Khalifah of the Muslims, your guardian and protector, mobilizing the Muslim armies without hesitation or delay to defend your blood and honour in the manner that only a leader that embodies Islam in thought, action, and vision will do, establishing for you lives of dignity, security, and prosperity and raising the flag of Islam across the world.
Dear honourable sisters of Al-Sham!
Our blood boils in rage at the Turkish government’s betrayal of you for it has abandoned you at your most desperate time of need, failing to mobilizing a single soldier, despite being blessed with one of the strongest armies in the world, consisting of over half of a million soldiers. This is because Erdogan and his regime are involved in the plots to corrupt the success of your uprising, along with the other leaderships of the Muslim world by supporting their Western Masters’ plans to prevent the birth of the second Khilafah Rashida and to install their next puppet ruler and regime in Syria that will secure their interests and do their bidding. This is the reason why the Turkish government has turned its back on you. Yet that was not enough, but its treachery reached such a scale that it handed the officers who took refuge on its soil to Bashar’s murderous regime. This is alongside subjecting the vulnerable Syrian refugees who fled the most brutal oppression to another dehumanizing ordeal by placing them in camps with the most dangerous and appalling conditions which are not fit for animals, while also returning others to Syria to face death. Our dear sisters, our hearts weep in grief at your desperate situation and Erdogan’s deplorable approach to managing your needs due to his corrupt nationalistic system that refuses to protect your blood and places national economic interests over providing you with adequate welfare and safety.
Nevertheless, all this together with your patient and steadfast resistance, opened the eyes of the Muslims in Turkey as well as many around the world enough to clearly convince their minds about what they felt and knew already: that democracy and secularism, freedom and human rights are not only empty words, but moreover an ambush and cheat of the West.
On the other side, the good news that reaches us of your victories against the Syrian regime and the pictures of the heroic Mujahideen make the Khalid ibn Waleeds alive in the eyes of our children. Seeing the unwavering courage of our Mujahidah sisters fighting against oppression is truly inspirational. Your blood is not shed in vain and it will not be shed in vain for sure! Your rewards in the Hereafter will be immense InshaAllah and you will forever be in the duaas of this Ummah – now and for all generations to come – for being the ones who helped bring the light and mercy of the Islamic system to the world once again that has been submerged in darkness for so long.
But our hearts weep to see the Muslim armies, including in Turkey chained to their barracks by their cowardly rulers, leaving the brave men, women, and even children of Syria to fight their oppressor alone. However, we will raise the call amongst the sons of the Turkish army and all the Muslim armies of the world to break their allegiance to these spineless leaders and to rise to their great Islamic duty with urgency to defend your blood and remove your murderous dictatorship. For there are sincere soldiers within the Muslim armies who love Allah سبحانه وتعالى and wait with longing hearts to rid our Muslim lands of these treacherous leaderships who keep them subjugated and tie their hands while their Ummah bleeds! They wait to become the “Army of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم” again, in order to regain the dignity and honor for themselves and the Ummah, by fulfilling the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى through their only commander, the Khalifah! The commander and leader they are waiting for is a Khalifah like Mu’tasim Billah who rode immediately to Al-Sham with a formidable army in response to the call of a Muslim woman who was captured and humiliated by the Romans in the city of Amuriyya and cried out the name of the Khalifah to rescue her. After liberating the city from the Kuffar, he freed the woman with his own hands and apologized that she had to wait for him, saying, “Dear sister, I could not come earlier, for the way from Baghdad to you is a quite far one.”
Those armies who had such Khalifahs, were those who rushed to help this Ummah; they protected the honor of their Muslim sisters; took vengeance for the oppressed; and opened the doors of relief for the desperate ones. And InshaAllah we will soon see their likes again with the return of the second Khilafah Rashida upon the model of the Prophethood which we dear sisters will continue to struggle with all our efforts, following the footsteps of Rasulallah صلى الله عليه وسلم together with you, with patience and steadfastness, until we get back our Khalifah who will punish with severity those who dishonored the honourable Muslim women and orphaned our children, and those who betrayed this Ummah! We can already hear the footsteps of the Second Khilafah Rashida, that is coming with your victory and that will liberate Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and all the occupied lands, and that will take revenge for this Ummah and spread the call for Islam as a Message to the entire world!
Stand firm dear sisters to your Islamic struggle and we stand by you with all hearts, without falter, and with resolute determination! O, our distinguished, excellent, courageous, inspiring sisters from Syria, by Allah’s سبحانه وتعالى Will, the day is close when we will all rejoice! Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,
وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ
بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ ۚ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۖ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ
وَعْدَ اللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخْلِفُ اللَّهُ وَعْدَهُ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
“On that day, the believers will rejoice in Allah’s help. He grants victory to whoever He wills. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. That is Allah’s promise. Allah does not break His promise. But most people do not know it.”
(Ar-Rûm, 30:4-6)
Oh Allah! Grant us this clear Nusrah and let us enjoy the khayr of this glad tiding! Without doubt, You are our Lord, The All-Hearer, The Responsive! Without doubt You are the Helper of the Believers and the Oppressed!
Wa’alaikum Salaam Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.
Your sisters from Hizb ut Tahrir in Turkey
19 Jumada Al-Thani 1434 AH
29 April 2013 CE