Following the fire disaster that rocked Faza island in Lamu district which left nearly three thousand people homeless and injured many others, Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa wish to send its sincere condolences to all victims, majority of whom are Muslims. May the Almighty Allah grant them patience and we ask Him also to grant the injured quick relief... Amin!             

 While sending these condolences, we would like to remind our affected brothers at Faza that such calamities fall under a part of actions that control over human being, hence man has no ability to rule them out. Such actions normally occur without man's wish and are referred to as ‘Al-Qadha' meaning Allah Alone has ordained them and man is affected by them without any choice on his part. Islam has recommended a Muslim when afflicted with any calamity to surrender to Allah and say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly to Him we shall return."

 According to the best teachings of Islam, all Muslims are like a single body in their empathy and mutual love. It is for this reason that the shabab of Hizb ut-Tahrir in East Africa share  the grief of any Muslim in the whole world. Rather all Muslims are nothing other than brothers; our happiness is one and our grief is also one as we are  one Ummah and our only Helper is Allah.

 We strongly believe that suppose there had there existed an Islamic state (Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah), it would have quickly hastened in delivering help to the victims, without discrimination between Muslims or non Muslims so long as they were citizens. Rather it would guarantee all their basic needs. What a great loss today! Without an Islamic State, our enemies the kuffar pretend to be helpful to Muslims, one example of such theatrics being the hosting by the US envoy a Ramadhan dinner for Muslims in Nairobi and Mombasa. The envoy later announced that  US soldiers in Lamu will build houses for the victims.

 O you Noble Ummah! Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa wishes to finalise this press release by clarifying that what is done by the US envoy is nothing other than a puzzling charade for Muslims. For how many of our Muslim brothers in Afghanistan, Iraq and many other places in the world are being killed brutally by US troops? Truly the responsibility of helping fellow Muslim is upon Muslims themselves, and during this holy month of Ramadhan we urge all Muslims to help their affected brothers in Faza. May Allah  give us the spirit of love and empathy and grant patience to our brothers in Faza.

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Shaban Mwalimu

Media representative

Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa

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