Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun. Please remember many of our brothers and sisters around the muslim world getting murdered in the way of Allah while they confront the tyrant rulers of today. May Allah swt raise them to the high status of Sayyid as-Shuhadah (The Master of the Martyrs) ameen. Since my last email, Mubarak has been removed! I hope you all witnessed this momentous event! Now we have more demonstrations in more places. These are the signs of change, positive change that is. Glad tidings there is for the Ummah! Indeed the grinding wheel of Islam is turning!
Now, Libya.
There are many disturbing news coming from Libya and subhanallah it even affected me at my work today. I read an article from TIME on my mobile phone about the massacres taking place there by the monster Ghadaffi (may Allah swt curse him). He has even outdone Mubarak and Ben Ali. Allah swt knows best but do you think the tyrant rulers of today put even this guy below, the Pharoah, to shame?!
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُمْلِي لِلظَّالِمِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخَذَهُ لَمْ يُفْلِتْهُ»
"Verily Allah affords the oppressor some time, until when He takes hold of him, He does not let him go."
(Bukhari and Muslim)
‘The Best Jihad is to speak the word of truth to the tyrant ruler’
* The events in Tunisia and Egypt have truly shown the amazing determination of the people to speak the truth against the tyrant rulers.
* For decades kings, dictators, tyrants and crony ‘democrats’ have ruled the Muslim Ummah, looted the Ummah’s wealth, and allowed the Western powers to steal our resources and occupy our lands.
* The Muslim Ummah from Indonesia to Tunisia from Uzbekistan to Pakistan have had enough of the oppression of these rulers. Corruption, unemployment, poverty, lack of education, insecurity, sectarianism and violence have been the everyday life of the people for as long as we can remember.
* We have tried so called ‘democracy’ in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iraq and we have seen the fruits. Whereas in the past one tyrant and his family would loot the wealth, now we have a whole cabal of so-called ‘democrats’ who are looting our wealth and pushing our countries into sectarian chaos.
* ‘Democracy’ is nothing more than a mirage that the West trumpets to give people the feeling that there is change. They only allow democracy if elections bring to power those they want. Zardari, Hasina, Karzai, Maliki and Erdogan are the products of this democracy. Elections in a system that is so inherently corruptible does nothing more than to give legitimacy to those who serve Western interests.
* The Ummah needs and is crying for change. This change will only come when we go back to our basis as an Ummah – that is Islam. Establishing the Islamic system of government – the Khilafah – is the only way that this Ummah can regain her position as a nation amongst nations.
* Rulers with integrity, accountable government, just laws, an end to gross inequality and poverty, and an end to occupation are just some of the fruits of living under the Islamic system where the Khalifah is a servant of the people, contracted through the bayah to implement laws emanating from the Quran and Sunnah, as opposed to what him and his masters desire.
* The Muslims in Egypt and Tunisia dodged tanks and water canons to speak the truth against these tyrants. Brothers and Sisters, are we going to keep silent or will we rise to act upon the words of the Messenger (salallahu alaihi wasallam)?
* We must show solidarity with the rest of our Ummah by calling for the real change that the Ummah needs. The call for Khilafah must be raised from all corners of the Earth. Our role here is to refute the attacks on Islam and Khilafah and present how the Khilafah can bring the much desired change not only in the Muslim world but the world over.
It is worth considering, what is the next step after you’ve removed a regime?
It was asked at the demonstrators from Libya at the Libyan embassy on the 20th February that why are you protesting and what are the plans after you removed him? They replied that we want to remove him because he is a killer but that they have no plan for what happens next.
Yet another western-backed leader can replace him ruling with the same Kufr system and nothing will change and the situation of the people will not change for the better. The West seemed to have no problem with Ghaddafi despite his 40 years of brutal oppression of the Muslims of Libya. They were not bothered to remove him. He has killed many and terrorised for so long but as long as he keeps the people down under his feet, the West enjoys good relations with him despite having a Pariah status. The UK even released their prisoner al-Megrahi in order to facilitate trade with Libya! All those killed in Lockerbie has no importance to them whatsoever. Oil companies were literally pouring into Libya after the sanctions were lifted and rubbing shoulders with him and his second Son Saif al-Islam who threatened ‘rivers of blood’!! Only now they’re raising their hands up in alarm at his killing of unarmed civilians, but come on O you West! We know you are the greatest actors greater than even Hollywood and the biggest Hypocrites! We know you relish at the killing of more Muslims by the hands of your Slaves, but rest assured, Allah swt is witnessing this and you will be accounted for your deeds.
Another scenario is that the military can step in like what happened in Egypt. What must be pointed out is that the military must never be allowed to take power and that they only can give power (ie. material support) to help you take the power. It is not the role of the military to rule and they do not know how to rule! They only take orders from the civilian leader and this is then reflected down the chain of command. This is what happened with the Prophet Muhammad (saw) in Yathrib when he (saw) got the Nusrah from the Bani Aws and Khazraj (who were the military). They became the Ansar and facilitated the removal (coup) of the current rulers of Yathrib and help the Prophet (saw) and the Sahabas to take up positions of ruling and administration. Then Yathrib became al-Medina al-Munawwara (The City of the Prophet).
A political party that gains power to establish the Khilafah for the first time must then present forth a candidate to assume the position of a Caliph with the backing of the army. The people of power and influence (including the army) then gives the Bay’ah to the Caliph. Then the other members of the party then takes up positions in the new government just like the Sahabas did. The Caliph then takes the bay’ah from the people at large. This is how the contract of Ruling begins in Islam and how the Khilafah is established. Then subsequent Caliphs thereafter are elected into Power via elections from the people.
And Allah swt knows best.
Wasalaam mu aleikum,
Imran
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It's time for real change
SUNDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2011 11:15 ABU YUSUF
مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ
"We did not destroy any city without it having a set time. No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it." (Al-Hijr, 15:4-5)
We are witnessing monumental events taking place in the Muslim World. First was the WikiLeaks which exposed the colonialists and their agents and how they are conspiring day and night to impose the dominance of the west in the Muslim lands with assistance of the puppet Muslim rulers such Zardari and his co-operation with US war against the Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan and also like Saleh in Yemen in killing Muslims. Then the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, where the brave Muslims ousted President Ben Ali, who fled the country like a coward! Then came the Palestinians papers exposing the PLO for their treachery, assisting the Zionist in killing Muslims and willing to surrender Al-Aqsa to the Zionists. They have plotted and continue to plan and now Allah سبحانه وتعالى has exposed their plots for all to see.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,
وَمَكَرُوا وَمَكَرَ اللَّهُ ۖ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ
"They plotted and Allah plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters." (Al-Imran, 3:54)
Fear No More!
For a while we thought we can't bring about political change, because the regimes have created atmosphere of fear and intimidation using the police, judiciary and the army and anybody dared to challenge is harassed, jailed and even killed. This created a climate of fear, and no one dared to speak out and challenge these tyrants. Now the barrier of fear has been broken, the Muslims have shown in Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, Algeria and now in Egypt, the Muslims have found courage and began to challenge the tyrants and demand their downfall! This development is major milestone in the Muslims world and its quest for revival, the Muslims have realised that the power it possesses, when we collectively undertake political actions for change. The Muslim Ummah is now demanding end to tyrant rulers, western interference, end to poverty, police brutality and oppression. This feeling has been building over the years and now it is reaching boiling point!
Hijacking the revolution
What is very clear from the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt is that ummah wants change and is capable of bringing about change. However, the west governments and their media is portraying this call for change to be secular and democratic change in the Muslim world and claiming that it is a victory for the kufr system and ideology. Slogans such as 'Democracy', 'Freedom', 'Human Rights' and other western slogans should be understood how Muslims understand them in the Muslims in the Muslim world. The Muslims do not understand them in the ideological sense as in the west but rather they used as to express the injustices experience by them in face of the tyrant regimes.
Democracy - When Muslims call for Democracy they don't mean sovereignty to man over sovereignty over sharia, rather than mean the Muslims should appoint their own leaders and not imposed upon them by the west like Mubarak over the last 30 years.
Freedom - The call for freedom is a reaction against the state brutality against anyone opposing the regime, and being imprisoned and killed as a result. Muslims are not calling for freedom in the western sense of the term, where our prophet can be abused in the name of freedom of speech.
Human Rights - Call for human rights is a reaction to the police state in the Muslim world, where Muslims are falsely accused, harassed, spied upon and tortured.
Moreover, the Muslim Ummah is an Islamic Ummah and motivated by the aqeedah and a desire to live by Islam which has been shown surveys after surveys that they seek role of Islam in politics, implementation of the sharia, unity of the Muslim lands etc.
Although it is good news that Muslim ummah are moving towards taking control of their own affairs, but there is real danger that emotions and momentum for change will be hijacked by the regimes and the western powers by making cosmetic changes such changing the face of the regimes and making minor concessions and partial policy changes to relief poverty. To offset against this risk we must realise four points:
1. Radical Change - The changes that is required is not reform, change of faces, policies - this will only sap the energy of the Muslims and the efforts and sacrifices of the Muslims will be put to waste. Also just prolong the life of these regimes and kufr systems. The change must be radical - must remove the regimes and the kufr system.
2. Public Opinion for Islam - The Muslim Ummah must articulate clearly and create a strong public opinion for the Islamic system as the alternative system that will provide dignity, justice, decent living and peace. This requires that Ummah has deep knowledge of the systems of Islam as a solution the contemporary problems in the Muslim world.
Khilafah / Democracy - Instead of calling for Democracy, the Muslim Ummah must call for the Khilafah, which gives them the right to appoint their leader through the process of baya to the Khaleefah. Islam has detailed the process - it is done via the Majlis al-Ummah to short list the candidates and appoint one of them, like the Khulfah Rashida.
Accountability / Freedom - Rather than calling for freedom as a basis the Islamic system has detailed the ways in which the Muslims can account their rulers on the basis of Islam. In Islam accounting the ruler is fard not just a civic right. Accounting rulers is one of the most important duties in Islam and it's considered the best of Jihad.
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said,
أفضل الجهاد كلمة حق عند سلطان جائر
"The best jihad is to say the work of truth a tyrant ruler."
This duty is performed by the Majlis Al-Ummah, Islamic Political parties and individuals and an independent media.
The Islamic state does not torture, based on due process and respects the privacy of all the citizens.
Torture is prohibited
Torture of anyone in the Khilafah is prohibited regardless of any benefit it may bring, such as intelligence information. The Khilafah does not lower itself to the despicable behaviour of the Americans and Israelis and their ‘state sanctioned' torture methods. Muslim narrated from Hisham b. Hakeem, who said:
‘I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم say: "Allah will punish those who punish the people in the Dunya."'
Judicial Process
Arbitrary arrest and detention without trial is forbidden in the Khilafah. The legal principle of habeas corpus exists where anyone arrested must be brought before a judicial court and their case investigated by a judge (qadi).
"The Messenger of Allah has ordered that the two disputing parties should sit before a judge."
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a shari'ah court.
Private/Public Sphere
The sanctity of someone's home in the Khilafah cannot be violated by spying on them.
The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "He who peeps into some people's house without their permission, it is allowed for them to gouge out his eye."
Also Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in the Holy Qur'an:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِنَ الظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ ۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا
"O you who believe, avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is a crime. And do not spy." (Al-Hujraat, 49:12)
Allah سبحانه وتعالى prohibited spying in this verse when He سبحانه وتعالى said - "do not spy."
These ahkham (rules) are the solution the problems that we face which lead to tranquility and progress in society. And we as the youth must study and carry this message to the Ummah.
3. Political Awareness.
The Muslim Ummah should develop strong political awareness so that we do not fall into the political traps of US and her allies. They will call for reforms and minor changes to placate the sentiments of the Muslims. The US ordered Mubarak to dismiss the cabinet, appoint a vice president, announce reforms all to preserve the regime and her interest in the region which Mubarak serves dutifully like protecting Israel, mediator for the peace process and aid the US against her war against Islam by fighting the dawa carriers.
4. Role of the Army
Finally the events in Tunisia and Egypt have confirmed the effectiveness and truth-fullness of the method of taking power is to seek nusra from the influential people is effective and can deliver change. This is the method of Mohammed سبحانه وتعالى where he sought nusrah from the Aus and Khazraj in the second pledge of Aqabah, so when entered into Medina he entered as a head of state with the most powerful faction backing him.
For years the Muslims thought the Muslims armies are so corrupt and we cannot rely on them to deliver political change, but example of Tunisia and Egypt have shown the Muslim armies will not fire on the masses and will side with the Ummah if there is strong support for a political idea. Therefore, it is possible for the Muslim Ummah to topple the regime if the armies either support the change or even remain silent by allowing the political movement to take power. This means that we have to carry the call of Islam to them and let them resume the role of the Ansar like Aus and Khazraj in giving victory to this Deen.
By following this method to bring about the change, we pray and beg Allah سبحانه وتعالى to fulfill his promise on us, He سبحانه وتعالى says:
وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
"Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that He will make them successors in the land as He made those before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their deen with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who are kafir after that, such people are deviators." (An-Nur, 24:55)
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Change has come to Libya
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2011 09:28 IBTIHAL BSIS
A personal insight on the developing situation in Libya
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُمْلِي لِلظَّالِمِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخَذَهُ لَمْ يُفْلِتْهُ»
"Verily Allah affords the oppressor some time, until when He takes hold of him, He does not let him go."(Bukhari and Muslim)
Libya usually conjures up images of oil, the Lockerbie disaster in 1988 and Muammar Gaddafi - more aptly known to the world as the ‘mad man.' With a population of 6.5 million, Libya is not usually the country that comes to mind when the Muslim world is discussed, Libya is alo one of very few countries that was colonized by Fascist Italy.
Libya was created from Cyrenaica , Tripolitania and Fezzan in 1952 and was ruled under a monarchy through King Idris, until he was overthrown by the ‘mad man' in 1969. Ever since the ‘mad man has ruled with brutal oppression.
When the revolutions were taking shape in Egypt and Tunisia, many were determined that Libya would be next, I was not so sure. I was from the generation that knew no other ruler than Gaddaffi. I often have discussions with Muslims from the Arab world that would compare their dictator with mine, who was worse? The stories that I heard always seemed worse, maybe because I knew many people who had their lives literally destroyed.
Change seemed like a distant cry.
I awoke on 17th February 2011 and was in shock as I witnessed the images on TV, images I actually believed would never come. As my brothers and sisters took to the streets in Benghazi I immediately feared for their lives, I knew what this ‘mad man' was capable of. Bin Ali was a killer, and Mubarak was also a murderer, but Gaddafi is something else.
Muammar Gaddafi was the sinister man that killed in order to pass time, for fun - there is no way else to explain it. He is the man who set upon killing the ulema, the people of knowledge and even simple imams of mosques. He did not stop there. He killed thinkers, academics and intellectuals, ensuring there was no intellectual challenge to his rule.
Gaddafi is known as the mad man because of the lengths he would go to remain in power. He once sent his police to my older sister's secondary private school, where he set about intimidating children for aspiring to be the thinkers of the future. That fateful day is still etched in the mind of my older sister thirty years on. She was fortunate; she managed to escape whilst they began to round up all the children. She and a friend had decided to climb a high wall. My sister was only 12. My sister described to me the screams and crying that took place as she managed to escape. My sister and her friend remained silent throughout the ordeal. My sister and her friend managed to escape - but they were the lucky ones.
My sister was found stranded on the road side. Her torn clothing was just too much for my father to bear. It was at that point that he decided, as he describes it to people today: "to put my family in my car and keep driving".
My family's phone has not stopped ringing since people took to the streets in Libya. "He's killing people, he's killing us" is how all conversations start. Our fears were being realised. People from Benghazi have reported the cold killing of children as young as 12. They aim at the head, stomach or chest, that is where all the wounds have been found. They place themselves strategically on top of buildings and just shoot. After watching events unravel in Tunisia and Egypt, Gaddafi spotted his potential weakness and set about ensuring the danger was removed: he disarmed his army. He shipped in gangs of youths from Mali and Chad, states that he has historically funded, in order to shoot, maim and kill the popular uprising against him.
The demonstrators are unarmed, tells me a sister from Tripoli. "We have tried taking to the streets here, but they fire and he has thrown missiles into the crowds in Benghazi," she screams. "We have more shuddah here than Egypt and Tunisia put together, and we are a nation that only numbers five million. He will not stop, he will not cease until we are all dead. We have started putting our corpses in schools; the hospitals are full of the bodies and blood of the shuhadah."
I have sat glued to the TV as this mad man attempts to wipe out his own very people. His desperate attempts are failing him, the army are beginning to defect, Libyan ambassadors from across the world are resigning and it appears even infighting has started within the Gaddafi family.
The Ummah in Libya like their brothers and sisters in Tunisia and Egypt have realized that their ruler has to be removed. In the face of this massacre our brothers and sisters from all walks of life have been brave and await Allah سبحانه وتعالى victory.
Upon hearing of the fate of people in Tripoli, people from Zawiay and Sabratha and the other surrounding towns have now headed to Tripoli to help their brothers. One of the largest tribes, Warafla, has joined the demonstrations. This in itself has forced the Libyan Representative to the Arab League and the Libyan Diplomat in China to resign. A Sheikh from Yargan has called upon all heads of tribes and the army to take to the streets to remove the tyrant ruler. The people have taken hold of bulldozers from construction sites and driven to army barracks where they know weapons are stored. They have ceased them and returned them to the army to remove the tyrant ruler.
In a telephone conversation to my father in which he said he is now elderly and in turn feels guilt at not being on the streets helping the Ummah. Perhaps we are all feeling like that, wanting for them the security that we have. Their sacrifice, resolve and iman should inspire us to continue in our struggle to call for that which they chant as they risk everything in the streets of Libya.
Muammar Gaddafi has ruled Libya for over 40 years; many tyrant rulers have come and gone as he ruled with an iron fist. He thought he was above revolt. He even denied the Ahadiths and murdered the sincere brothers from the Ummah who went to account him. Like all rulers before him and after him they should take heed from the ahadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُمْلِي لِلظَّالِمِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَخَذَهُ لَمْ يُفْلِتْهُ»
"Verily Allah affords the oppressor some time, until when He takes hold of him, He does not let him go."(Bukhari and Muslim)
Ibtihal Bsis was born in Libya
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Gaddafi’ War on Islam
Gaddafi’s war on Islam – and consequently on his own Islamic people – has been going for most of his last 42 years of ruling. Over the decades Muslims from a variety of different Islamic groups and schools of thought were targeted, arrested, tortured and martyred. Many were simply imprisoned for having beards or praying fajr in the mosque.
Over most of this time Gaddafi remained a faithful ally of the west, considered as a stabilising force in the region. His family would come and go from the UK and Europe. He enjoyed warm first-name relationships with prime ministers, even if the media characterised him as a pariah.
From the early 1970′s Gaddafi targeted and imprisoned members of HIzb ut-Tahrir – including the man who is the current Ameer, Shaykh Ata ibn Khaleel abu Rasha.
A delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir met him in 1978 for 4 hours, after Gaddafi issued edicts denying the Sunnah, and presented a comprehensive communique refuting his position. The meeting and communiqué decisively addressed the falsehood of Gadaffi’s rejection of the Sunnah. The communiqué and details of the meeting were circulated widely.
Gaddafi was so incensed that he arrested hundreds. Many spent years in prison. Some were eventually released, but banned from ever studying in University. Eventually he arranged sham retrials and then murdered thirteen members; they were hanged in universities and schools in front of their teachers, pupils and families. One of them was brought down still alive, he was hung a second time, then they tied his body to the back of a car which was driven in full view of his family and sons. Their efforts were because a tyrant was trying to undermine, and extinguish the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW, and trying to destroy Islam as an ideology. For that immense aim, they some gave their education, some their youth, and some their lives.
Included amongst these was Muhammad Hfaf , who was known amongst the shab, for needing no lawyer in the courtroom because of his eloquence of speech. He was a young student in Tripoli, in the final year of his engineering degree, at the time of his arrest. Imagine his and his parent’s joy when he would achieved his entry to Uni. Imagine how his parents felt when he was imprisoned in April ’73. Those who knew him sensed no regrets on his part. After ten years in prison he was retried, and executed within 24 hours of being sentenced to death on 7 April ’83 by a public hanging in the engineering college. Many were hanged the same day, their names unknown to us.
Gaddafi made it an annual event to spontaneously lock University gates every year on this day, to publicly hang more. But still more shabab worked on, ignoring his intimidation.
Abdullah Abul Qasim al-Masalaati was another Student. He was detained on 16th April 1983 during the crack down in which hundreds of writers, intellectuals and political activists were rounded-up. He was tried several times and imprisoned for membership of the Party. Subsequently he was retried by a Revolutionary Court and sentenced to death and executed in April, 1984. The sentence was carried out in the Central Prison in Tripoli. He body was never handed to his relatives.
It was not only students sacrificed for this daawah, and Allah’s pleasure.
Hasan A. al-Kurdi, was a civil servant arrested among hundreds in Spring ’73. In June, 73 he was accused with nine others of membership of the Hizb and of writing articles opposing the regime. On 7 Dec. ’73, the Revolutionary Council issued resolution to stop the trials and release the accused. He was rearrested on the same day and held without trial until Feb. ’77, then sentenced to 15 years in prison, but days later, the sentence increased to life imprisonment. He was eventually executed in prison without trial in April 1984.
Saalih Ali al Zarooq an-Nawaal from Bengazi schoolteacher who, in October, 1983 was executed in prison for being a member of the Hizb.
Muhammad Umar an-Ni’aas was a Lawyer from Tripoli. A Graduate of the Faculty of Law, he was detained in April 1983 & was tortured to death in the Central Prison in Tripoli.
Abdullah Muhammad Hamoodah was a Businessman from Benghazi, who was to be the organizer of the Hizb’s daawah in this region. One brother who new him in January 1980 remembers how he was about to give up his job in the shoe production and supply business so that he would have more time for daawah. He eventually negotiated with his boss so that he only had to work one day per week. He was detained in April 1984 for being a member of the Party. One eyewitness saw him after he had been retried and sentenced. They were in different cars, so they could not talk to each other. He simply pointed his finger skywards, and then across his neck in a circular motion, like the sacrifice of a lamb, all the time with a huge smile on his face, as he realized his chance for martyrdom, and perhaps realizing the potential magnitude of his work, Inshallah, if Allah had chosen a death for him such as this. When he returned to the prison, and met one of the other prisoners looking sad on death row, he said to him – ‘why has your face lost its look of Iman’. It is recorded that he died as a result of torture on 29th.November 1984 and although some say that he became ill before the sentence was carried out.
The Gadaffi regime informed his relatives of his death, but they refused to hand over his body -
Five brothers were held in solitary confinement from 1973 until 2002, all because they refuse to write a simple letter of apology to Gadafi. They sacrificed almost 30 years of their lives for Allah’s pleasure. They were originally sentenced to 5, then 15 years and then to life imprisonment, after various staged retrials. One was also a final year engineering student when he went into prison. Almost 30 years later he exited into a strange and different world. Another was originally form Tunisia. His only living close family member when he was imprisoned was his mother. Sadly, she died whilst he was imprisoned. Most of the others were not there to see their parents before they died.
Now – almost forty years after this reign of tyranny, Gaddafi is on the brink of humiliation in the dunya. Ultimately he will face his humiliation on the Day of Judgment.
We pray that the many sacrifices people have made over these years – whether they were made shaheed, or lost jobs or their education – or if they lost their loved ones – or if they were imprisoned and tortured – will all contribute to the promised victory from Allah.
He SWT says:
Allah has promised those among you who believe, and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the present rulers) in the earth, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will grant them the authority to practise their religion, that which He has chosen for them (i.e. Islam). And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they (believers) worship Me anddo not associate anything (in worship) with Me. But whoever disbelieved after this, they are the rebellious sinners. [TMQ 24:55]
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Islamic scholars call for removal of tyrants while rejecting democracy
The statement by a group of Islamic jurists, who are an important source guidance for Muslims, supporting the uprisings in the Middle East and condemning the leadership of dictators in the Arab world while warning against the call of democracy is a positive step and will give heart to millions of Muslims who long to rid themselves of the tyrants yet are not persuaded by the failed western democratic model which is alien to Islam.
The only Islamic political system rooted in authentic guidance (the Quran and Sunnah) is the Khilafah system implemented from the time of the rightly guided Caliphs, and which was totalled removed from political life in 1924.
We urge the Muslims of the region to support the call for nothing other than the Khilafah system which will, by the Will of Allah, bring success in this life and the Hereafter.
http://www.hizb.org.uk/news-watch/libyan-islamic-leaders-urge-muslims-to-rebel
http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/news-watch/middle-east/11324-muslim-preachers-laude-revolution-slam-democracy
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