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At a press conference on Monday, Iran's newly re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, dismissed US President Donald Trump's weekend summit with Arab leaders, describing it as "just a show with no practical or political value of any kind." "Who can say regional stability can be restored without Iran?" Rouhani said. "Who can say the region will experience total stability without Iran?"

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Donald Trump has said that the shared concern about Iran is driving the Jewish entity and several Arab States together. What can be a shared concern that can bring a Muslim closer to the Jews than their own Muslim brothers?

Of course the pure material interest. And when Iran speaks out its voice it too is filled with nationalistic arrogance. Analyses started to pour in which were mainly based on the sectarian and nationalistic ground without even realizing that this whole US-Arab summit had nothing to do with the Muslim world’s wellbeing. Muslims need to recognise that the divide and rule policy applied on them is the same as before. This summit portrayed Trump as the leader of all the participants who had all the rights of dictating them the rights and wrongs. It has been 93 years since traitor Muslim leaderships have taken Kuffar as their allies and shared in the destruction of the Caliphate, but never before this has been displayed so openly.

The people of the Muslim World need to understand that the only survival for them is in the unity under an honest Muslim leadership. The ultimate purpose of a Muslim’s life is to attain Allah’s pleasure. No amount of pretense will be enough when these leaderships are in the Court of the King of All Kings. Iran-US verbal spats should not be confused as Iranians stand in the face of Taghoot (falsehood). Iranian-Russian ties have strengthened as the pair closely coordinated battlefield efforts to save Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a mutual ally, and this mutual ally is actually the mutual enemy of the Muslim Ummah. Currently Iran and the Arab world are playing in the hands of Kuffar. Last August, Iran allowed Russia to use one of its air bases for airstrikes inside Syria and we see now the USA and Saudi Arabia have signed one of the largest weapons sales in history, and these weapons are going to be used in killing innocent Muslims in Yemen.

This is the time for this Ummah to differentiate between friends and enemies, to recognise the real heroes and to reject the cowardly traitors. This is the time to stand up and demand a pure leadership. A leadership unlike the Iranian one that will not claim false bravery and unlike Saudi leaders that claim of blessedness and saintliness.

The leadership of Arabia must understand that for Allah the sanctity of a Muslim’s blood is more than the sanctity of the Kaabah itself.

Prophet Muhammad (saw) said:

«سَيَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ سَنَوَاتٌ خَدَّاعَاتُ يُصَدَّقُ فِيهَا الْكَاذِبُ وَيُكَذَّبُ فِيهَا الصَّادِقُ وَيُؤْتَمَنُ فِيهَا الْخَائِنُ وَيُخَوَّنُ فِيهَا الْأَمِينُ وَيَنْطِقُ فِيهَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ» قِيلَ: وَمَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ؟ قَالَ: «الرَّجُلُ التَّافِهُ فِي أَمْرِ الْعَامَّةِ»

“There will come to the people years of treachery, when the liar will be regarded as honest, and the honest man will be regarded as a liar; the traitor will be regarded as faithful , and the faithful man will be regarded as a traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decide matters.” It was said: ‘Who are the Ruwaibiddah?’ He said: “Vile and base men who control the affairs of the people.” (ibn Majah)

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Ikhlaq Jehan