Press Release
Martyr Abdul Raheem - A Star in the Sky of Uzbekistan!
(Translated)

The martyr Tahsinov Abdul Raheem Abdul Faqqar Fitch was born in the year 1971 in the city of Andijan to a Muslim family that was known for its Taqwa (God-consciousness) and righteousness, his parents raised him on Islam and gave him a proper Islamic upbringing, so he was an example of a pious, sincere and faithful Muslim. When Abdul Raheem realized the miserable and wretched reality of the Muslims, his good upbringing pushed him to move towards working to change this bitter reality.

Abdul Raheem learned the concepts of Hizb ut Tahrir and studied its literature, so he joined the Hizb to work with it to change this corrupt reality, and over a short period of time, he - Rahimahullah - became one of the active members of the Hizb, who were always relentless and their resolve never weakened in the work to raise the word of Allah high, so he did not fear the blame of the blamers, nor the assault and the oppression of the oppressors, Abdul Raheem was for many years in charge of the Hizb in Uzbekistan, leading its work there.

When Abdul Raheem - Rahimahullah - moved from Andijan to Tashkent, the intelligence services of the criminal regime in Uzbekistan pursued his arrest, and that was in the year 2006. He was in prison for many years in which he set an example to be followed in his strength of Iman in Allah (swt) by the concept he carried and the aim for which he worked for to achieve. He was also an example to be followed in his patience, fortitude and steadfastness, as none of the methods of repression and brutal torture practiced by the executors of the Jewish criminal Karimov, the tyrant of Uzbekistan, none of them yielded his resolve nor defeated his patience and steadfastness, nor did it coerce him into forsaking Hizb ut Tahrir, and leaving its clear and pure ideas, and the aim that he worked with the Hizb to achieve which is the resumption of the Islamic way of life by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, which lead the henchmen of Karimov to kill and get rid of him. On the night of the 18th of June, and in the darkness of night, the secret intelligence crawlers of the criminal regime handed in the body of our pure brother Abdul Raheem to his relatives. And as usual, to cover the effects of the apparent torture on the body of Abdul Raheem, the Uzbek intelligence forced his family to hasten in burying his pure body.

We ask Allah (swt) to accept our brother Abdul Raheem to be among the Shuhada' who worked for the sake of restoring the Righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" State, and to grant him the joy of neighboring the Prophets, Believers, Shuhada', and the Righteous, in a seat of Truth near the Omnipotent King.

And as we extend our condolences to the family of the Shaheed for parting him in this world, asking Allah (swt) to bestow them with patience, persistence and fortitude, and to reunite them in the Hereafter in a Jannah that is greater than the heavens and the earth where there is no exhaustion nor illness nor separation. We promise them that the blood of their son and the rest of the Shuhada' will not go in vain; because the Khilafah "Caliphate" State that is coming soon insha Allah will take revenge from the Jewish criminal Karimov, and from all of his oppressor henchmen and helpers, this will be in this life, and indeed, the punishment of the Hereafter is far greater, only if they knew.

(وَلاَ تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُواْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا بَلْ أَحْيَاء عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ * فَرِحِينَ بِمَا آتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِالَّذِينَ لَمْ يَلْحَقُواْ بِهِم مِّنْ خَلْفِهِمْ أَلاَّ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ * يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِنِعْمَةٍ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَفَضْلٍ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ)

"Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah. And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve. They glory in the Grace and the bounty from Allah, and in the fact that Allah suffereth not the reward of the Faithful to be lost (in the least)." [Ali-Imran: 169-171]

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