14 August Independence Day Message
The Khilafah will Secure True Independence for the Muslims of Pakistan
On this day the Muslims remember the enormous sacrifices made for establishing a state in the name of Islam, in the lands of Pakistan, the Pure, the Good. Hizb ut tahrir conveys a solemn reminder of what has passed, what we face today and what lies ahead.
As for what has passed, over which the pen is lifted and the ink has dried, presented to Allah (swt) for His Judgment and Reward. Having ruled the region for over a thousand years, governing the people by the light of Islam, from the time of the Khilafah Rashida, the Muslims had their authority seized by the occupying forces of the British Raj from 1757 onwards. We were restless as the British, aided by treacherous collaborators from within the leadership of the Muslims and Hindus, abolished our beloved Shariah rules and forcibly established their oppressive capitalism. Thus Muslims and non-Muslims were plunged to drown in poverty under Kufr, ravaged by famine and debt, whereas under Islam the Indian Subcontinent produced 25% of the world’s GDP and was a bread-basket for well beyond its borders.
We were restless and refused to bow down to the oppression. We resisted valiantly, whether it was the Jihad of 1857, the Khilafat movement or the movement to establish a state in the name of Islam, Pakistan. Islam was our cause then as it is today, for it alone mobilizes the Muslims like no other cause, for it stems from their love of Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw). Consider how for the creation of Pakistan, over seven million Muslims migrated to Pakistan to leave the oppression of the Hindu rule. Millions left their properties, hundreds of thousands were martyred, thousands were dishonoured, but the Muslims never regret for they know that their compensation lies with Ar-Raheem! The Muslims who migrated were generously received, as the Muslims remembered the glorious example of the Muhajiroon and Ansaar (ra). Indeed, the very creation of Pakistan would never have been possible were it not for Islam, the bond of brotherhood and the stance of defiance and sacrifice that it nurtures in the hearts of the believers!
As for what we face today, Islam remains the beating heart of our being as individuals and as a Muslim people. We are restless before a new oppression, a new Raj, an American Raj, which seeks to lay to waste the historical and momentous sacrifice of our forefathers. Traitors within the ranks of the military and political leadership, the ignoble sons of Mir Sadiq and Mir Jafir, have opened these pure lands to the filth of American intelligence and private military organizations. Evil hordes of Raymond Davis’s arrange bomb blasts in the mosques and markets, whilst leaving the American embassies, consulates and bases secure and safe to carry out their mischief. Blindly executing the orders of the Kuffar and their capitalism, whilst throwing the Shariah rules behind their backs, these traitors have laid waste to our economy despite our abundant resources. As for the Hindu state to which these traitors ask us to bow down before today, its small ruling elite continues to oppress the Indian masses through the scourge of capitalism, desperate to draw on Pakistan’s strength through “normalization” to shore up its fragile, factionalized and fragmented entity.
As for what lies ahead of us of obedience to Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw), Islam, its Shariah and its state the Khilafah is the only way to liberate us from the American Raj. Thus Hizb ut Tahrir invites all those who honour our over a millennium-long adherence to Islam, our history of defiance and sacrifice, to stand shoulder to shoulder with its Shebaab and make Pakistan the starting point for return of the Khilafah, as a guardian over the entire Ummah. And in particular Hizb ut Tahrir calls upon the sincere within the armed forces to follow the example of the Ansar (ra), who gave the Nussrah for the practical, complete and immediate establishment of Islam. Let not another year pass of this American Raj and may these lands be blessed again by the ruling by the book of Allah, under the shade of Allah on the earth, a righteous Khaleefah to rule us by Islam and unify us as one people against oppression and injustice. Let us stand together, reject the lowly invitation of the treacherous to participate in the sin of democracy and fully embrace the struggle to return Islam as a rule over us, depending on Allah (swt) alone, securing a victory over which the oppressed Muslims all over the world will rejoice.
((…وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ * وَعْدَ اللَّهِ لَا يُخْلِفُ اللَّهُ وَعْدَهُ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ))
“And that day the believers will rejoice in the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful. [It is] the promise of Allah and Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people know not.” [Surah Ar-Rûm 30:4-6]
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