News:
On September 21, it was announced that according to data from TUIK (Turkish Statistical Institute), substance abuse and involvement in crime in recent years has shown a large increase. The number of children involved in crime recorded at security forces reached 273,571. While experts are discussing possible measures in the light of such terrible data, they also raise concern about the possible increase of the problem in the near future, as the closer school environment builds the most important drug market for the 16 million 400 thousand pupils who started with school. Accordingly, 57.9 percent of the children are aged between 15-17; 25 percent between 12-14; and 17.1 percent are aged between 11 and 6 years, while this ratio has increased by 14.5 percent in 2013 and those are only cases reflected on the date of security units.
Comment:
For years, the reporting of the increase of the scourge of drugs, the publishing of newer numbers each passing day, has neither stopped nor reduced the drug affliction among our Muslim youth and even children. On the contrary, we continue to be bystanders while from day to day more of our young people are falling victim to this Western imported scourge. Drugs, crime and drug-related criminal actions have created serious problems that cost the youth and their environment dearly. Instead of a youth who should live a life full of hope, struggle to achieve positive changes in the world, continue and increase their parent’s efforts, there occurs new generations of living dead, who strive to complete their days in this world. The reasons lying behind the increasingly wider and younger generation of youth drawn into a vortex of drugs are explained by a lot of researchers with the search after an identity, as well as the economic, educational and social environmental problems and the inexperience in finding solutions to these problems. What is always and commonly expressed by almost everybody is that drug abuse is not an individual but rather a social problem, which cannot be solved by simply adjusting legal regulations.
On the other hand, since the establishment of the Republic in Turkey, the pure Muslim youth who was never involved in any crime, in particular the youth of Hizb ut Tahrir, who is struggling to aid people out of the troubles caused by the non-Islamic way of life, is locked up in prisons while slandered as terrorists and criminals.
Therefore once again we as the Women of Hizb ut Tahrir want to remind everyone who sincerely seeks for a rescue from these and similar troubles surrounding our youth of the unique solution:
1. Allah (swt) says that He created mankind that it solely serves Him (swt). O Muslims, Muslim teachers, scholars, doctors, researchers! Teach our youth this Aya, the unique formula, which is solely able to prevent it from entering the wrong way in the search for identity:
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
“And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.”
(Ad-Dhāriyāt: 56)
2. Secularism and democracy make people as servants of their own lust and desires and not of Allah (swt). In a system which is in violation of this Aya, no matter how much you teach this Ayah, you will not be able to have success and finally, as you confessed by your selves, you constantly will be forced to bring new legislations. Moreover, any legislation you will bring, will be enrolled to primarily serve this secular and democratic system and will be restricted to it. If it was not so, why than is the most secular and the most democratic West still struggling with a growing drug problem? Therefore, you shall first change this system for a system which is implemented according to the laws of Allah (swt), the Qur’an and Sunnah and that is obliged to serve you, your efforts and our youth. Because a system which embraced the basic principle to be Allah’s servant will never raise a human who is servant to human desires.
الَر كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ لِتُخْرِجَ النَّاسَ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَى صِرَاطِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ
“Alif, Lam, Ra. [This is] a Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that you might bring mankind out of darknesses into the light by permission of their Lord – to the path of the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy.”
(Ibrāhīm: 1)
3. Together with this advice, we also invite you to protect your brothers and sisters who advice you in the right and patience, who advice emr-i bi’l ma’rûf and nahy-i-anil munkar to you. Because they do not want anything else than goodness for you. Surely their goodness is nothing else than revealing the failure of this system which made our youth to drug-addicts and opened the doors to all evil and turned this world and the next to a dungeon for them. Your brothers of Hizb ut Tahrir are treated as terrorists and criminals although they do a work which is praised by Allah (swt), and although they are not struggling in another way for the rescue of the youth – not only in Turkey but all over the world – than the ideological and political way that Rasulallah (saw) did. Oh Muslims! Salvation and improvement is not through easing a part of the problems of one part of the society. On the contrary, taking the utmost advantage of the provisions of this world and of the Hereafter is only possible through the comprehensive and immediate implementation of the Laws of Allah (swt).
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اسْتَجِيبُواْ لِلّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُم لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ وَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ اللّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ وَأَنَّهُ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ
“O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered.”
(Al-‘Anfāl 24)
Written for the Central Media Office Hizb ut Tahrir by
Umm Khalid