بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
O Mujahideen of Syria! We Urge You to Achieve to True Islamic Aims of Your Revolution!
News:
On Sunday 8th December 2024, it was announced that Syrian opposition fighters had seized control of Damascus and ousted the criminal Bashar al Assad from his seat of power. The Mujahideen successfully captured the major cities of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Daraa and others in a matter of days, forcing Syrian government troops to withdraw from the areas. Focus has now turned to the future of Syria and what form the new government and state will take. The Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan and his Iranian and Russian counterparts met in Doha on Saturday, 7th December, and urged the restart of the political process in Syria in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2254 which addresses issues of governance, the constitutional process, and UN-supervised elections.
Comment:
O Mujahideen of Syria! Your Ummah across the world rejoices at your victory of toppling the butcher Assad. We are inspired by your heroism, courage and steadfastness to uproot this murderous oppressive regime. Our eyes are filled with tears of joy and pride at what you have achieved with the help of Allah (swt), and our hearts are filled with hope for a new dawn of justice and a bright future that awaits the land of Syria and beyond. This can only materialize by achieving the true aims of your revolution, which was not only to remove a dictator but to replace him and his corrupt secular regime and rule with a true Islamic system of governance. To settle for anything else would be a betrayal of all your sacrifices and struggles in this cause and that of the hundreds of thousands of martyrs who were killed by this tyrant. Indeed, the chants of the Syrian people, “we do it for the sake of Allah”, “Our leader forever is Muhammad (saw)”, and “our constitution is the Qur’an”, still echo in our ears, and we pray that these words will shape the political model that replaces Assad’s secular regime and system.
The knives are already out from those who tried to derail the Islamic revolution in Syria from its beginning. The US is using its tool, the UN, and its proxies in the region such as the Turkish and other regimes of the Muslim countries, to try and shape the future of Syria in the direction of the next Western compliant secular government and system that will secure their interests, including protecting the murderous Zionist entity in Palestine. These Muslim rulers and regimes, as well as the UN, and all Western powers watched on as the genocide unfolded in Syria and Palestine, failing to protect the Muslims from slaughter, as well as conspiring to derail the Islamic revolution and keep Assad in place through their conferences, resolutions and political agreements to secure American interests. Furthermore, the Arab League members welcomed the murderer Assad back into their ranks, while the Turkiye regime also sought to normalize relations with the tyrant. So, we ask, can any good come from accepting ‘dirty’ money, political support, negotiations, or political solutions from the likes of Western powers, the UN, or these western-serving Muslim rulers and regimes? Our beloved Prophet (saw) said,
«سَيَكُونُ بَعْدِي أُمَرَاءُ، فَمَنْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ دُورَهُمْ وَصَدَّقَهُمْ بِكَذِبِهِمْ وَأَعَانَهُمْ عَلَى ظُلْمِهِمْ ، فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي وَلَسْتُ مِنْهُ، وَلَا يَرِدُ عَلَى حَوْضِي، وَمَنْ لَمْ يَدْخُلْ عَلَيْهِمْ دَوْرَهُمْ، وَلَمْ يُصَدِّقْهُمْ بِكَذِبِهِمْ، وَلَمْ يُعِنْهُمْ عَلَى ظُلْمِهِمْ فَهُوَ مِنِّي وَأَنَا مِنْهُ وَسَيَرِدُ عَلَى حَوْضِي»
“Listen, have you heard that after me there will be leaders; whoever enters upon them and condones to their lies, and supports them in their oppression, then he is not from me and I am not from him, and he shall not drink with me from the Hawd. And whoever does not enter upon them, nor help them in their oppression, nor condones to their lies, then he is from me, and I am from him, and he shall drink with me at the Hawd.”
O Mujahideen of Syria! Success cannot be achieved by embracing a form of governance that gives a taste of Islam but is not based upon the Qur’an and Sunnah in its entirety. It is through Allah (swt)’s support alone that victory against Assad was achieved; and it through the Islamic system defined by Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) alone – the Khilafah (Caliphate) based upon the method of the Prophethood - that a successful future for the people of Syria and the whole Muslim world can be secured. Allah (swt) says,
[إِنَّمَا كَانَ قَوْلَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذَا دُعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن يَقُولُوا سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا وَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ]
“The only statement of the (true) believers when they are called to Allah and His Messenger to judge between them is that they say, ‘We hear and we obey.’ And those are the successful.” [An-Nur: 51]
Furthermore, a successful future cannot be achieved through a nation-state ‘emirate-type’ political model, which confines Islam to national borders and interests, which has heralded nothing but failure in countries such as Afghanistan. The concept of nationalism is alien to Islam and defined as abhorrent by our beloved Prophet (saw) who said,«دَعُوهَا فَإِنَّهَا مُنْتِنَةٌ» “Leave it, it is rotten.” Indeed, nationalism and the nation-state concept is a Western ideal, imposed upon the Muslim lands by colonial powers, as evident in the Sykes-Picot Agreement, to subjugate, weaken and divide us as Muslims so that we would never rise again as a unified global Islamic power and state. Therefore, if you seek true liberation, it is not by only toppling a western-implanted dictatorship, but by also ridding our lands from all vestiges of colonial intervention and rule – including all aspects of their political system and beliefs. Besides this, the land of Ash-Sham will never truly be independent until it carves out an independent Islamic vision, free from all Western and unIslamic interference.
O Mujahideen and People of Syria! Do not spoil your great achievement by implementing any aspect of the rule of kufr or accepting any form of governance or government that would give agency to foreign powers. Do not let them steal your revolution! Do not allow one oppressive man-made system to be replaced by another which will only usher in a new chapter of suffering for the people of Syria. Indeed, Allah (swt) says,
[وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أنزَلَ اللّهُ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ]
“Those who do not rule by what Allah has sent down, such people are oppressors.” [Al-Ma’ida: 45]. Without true Islamic governance represented by the Khilafah system, Syria will inevitably follow the same path of failure as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan and other states in which dictators were removed but replaced by chaos, internal conflict or another dictatorial regime.
O Mujahideen of Syria! True victory will only be achieved when the System of Allah (swt) is implemented upon this earth. We pray that the great rewards of this glorious victory will also be upon your hands Biithnillah!
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Asma Siddiq
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir