Let the blessings of Ramadhan spur us to establish the Khilafah state …
O Muslims of Pakistan!
“There will always be a group, victorious in fighting for the Truth until Day of Resurrection. Then will Eesa ibn Maryam (as) will descend and he will be asked by their Ameer to lead the prayer, but he will reply, No, your ameer has to be from you and this is the honor from Allah.” [Muslim]
Our Muslim brothers in Afghanistan are a good example. Even without an Islamic state or an Islamic army, their fearless resistance has caused the Americans to be fearful, frustrated and exhausted, after nearly eight years of trying to subdue them. On 19 July 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said about Afghanistan, “After the Iraq (war) experience, nobody is prepared to have a long slog where it is not apparent we are making headway …The troops are tired. The American people are pretty tired.” The problem is so severe that American soldiers are committing suicide or drinking until senselessness to escape fear. Moreover, knowing the weaknesses of their soldiers, America’s counterinsurgency experts have insisted that they now need 600,000 troops to succeed against the Muslims, about nine times the numbers they have now.
So, O Muslims, if without an Islamic state or an Islamic army, fearless Muslims can prevent the kuffar from settling their occupation, even though there is no decisive victory, what if fearless Muslims faced the enemy with their own Islamic State and their own Islamic army? Would there not be decisive victories after decisive victories, as there were for centuries in the golden era of Islam?
O Muslims of Pakistan!
In fact, at every stage of America’s war, the agent rulers of Pakistan have spread fear as a loyal service to America, plunging us into greater dangers. In 2001, when America was without the essential means to attack Afghanistan, Musharraf spread fear within the army and the masses, in order to grant America intelligence, air bases and air corridors on the basis of “saving Pakistan.” Musharraf even sidelined the brave officers who saw the grave dangers in his approach. Our situation worsened, for America then used its foothold in Afghanistan to open the doors for India to spread its mischief. Musharraf then used fear again to open the doors for American intelligence to establish offices throughout Pakistan. Again our situation worsened, for American intelligence is a terrorist organization more harmful than any other, which has caused misery, bombings and assassinations, wherever it has become entrenched, from Latin America to South East Asia. Then Zardari and his henchmen spread fear so that our soldiers are sacrificed for the sake of America’s war in the tribal areas, worsening our situation yet again.
Rather than acting out of fear, as the agent rulers and our enemies wish us to, we should ask: How will America annihilate Pakistan, when the cowardly crusaders cannot even stabilize Afghanistan, a country of such meager resources, despite nearly eight years of efforts? How will America even sustain an attack against Pakistan, when the very food and fuel for its army comes through Pakistan? How? How? How? The falsehood of American threats is obvious to the aware. Even whilst threatening to wipe out Pakistan, the strongest of all Muslim states, as if it were a mere fly, America insists that it is Pakistan alone that can help America emerge from its quagmire in Afghanistan!
O Muslims of Pakistan!
This Ramadhan, we are between two alternatives: either we are submissive of what the agent rulers are doing to us, and whatever results from the domination of the Kuffar and from our utter ruin in this life and in the Akhira. Or we move effectively to remove these traitorous rulers, working with those sincere Muslims, who are working for the re-establishment of the Khilafah state and whatever ensues by our return to our past glory as the greatest Ummah and the most powerful state.
O People of Power! O Muslims of the Armed Forces!
“Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when you are the uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for your (good) deeds.” [Surah Muhammad 47:35]
Hizbut Tahrir 1 Ramadhan 1430 AH
Wilayah Pakistan 22 August 2009