Press Release
Ramadan is the Time of Awakening
(Translated)

The crescent-moon of Ramadan was confirmed for the year 1440 AH, and Muslims from the east to the west witnessed the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the month of good, mercy, forgiveness and freedom from Hellfire. Ramadan is a month in which the night of Qadr (fate) which is better than a thousand months, and the night in which the Qur’an was revealed. Ramadan is the month of victories and conquests. In the month of Ramadan, the souls are enriched by the love of Allah and His pleasure and seeking His help and victory and thanks Him for His blessing. May Allah bless the Islamic Ummah with the month of Ramadan, and grant it happiness with the glad-tidings. May He accept its prayers, fasting and qiyam and accept its prayer, O Lord of the Worlds.

We in Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Turkey have launched a Ramadan campaign entitled, "Ramadan is the Time of Awakening." We appeal to all Muslims to wake up from their long state of mindlessness. Ninety-eight Ramadans have passed while we are deprived of the State of Islam, its authority, its dignity and its glory. We have been living in a dark tunnel of the Kufr rules. May Allah (swt) make this month the last Ramadan we live in under the rule and regulations of Kufr. We ask Him (swt) to make this Ramadan the month of openings and victory, a month of awakening after nearly a hundred years and the Muslim countries are under the occupation and control by the Kuffar, and suffers from the imposition of kufr regimes.

And we say to all Muslims: "O Muslims, wake up, and shake off the dust of death from you." Muslims have been in a deep slumber since the destruction of the Khilafah state (Caliphate), and they have not been able to escape their coma so far. No land is left unoccupied, no land has not been colonized, no wealth that has not been pillaged, they targeted our lives, our honour, our sanctities and our wealth, and they tore us apart into scattered peoples and nationalities. They drew artificial borders between us, and set up wires and fences between us, spread the seeds of hypocrisy in our land, and corrupted the land and generations, and left us despite our wealth in deprivation. The Kuffar and their local agents did all this mercilessly and unashamedly. Ash-Sham became a lake of blood, and Palestine is still under siege, and the many Islamic countries that are difficult to enumerate are still colonized. Our brothers and sisters and our children still suffer from heartbreaking pain. They turned our Suhoor and Iftar into deadly poison. As if all this did not suffice them, they launched their attack on our Deen and our worship. And the Islamic Ummah do not fast or celebrate Eid on the same day.

US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the time, addressing Jewish Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David said: "I hand you a sleeping nation so take opportunity as long as it is asleep, the Muslim nation sleeps but does not die, if it wakes up it will bring back what was taken from it for centuries, in years”. In this campaign, we appeal to all Muslims to achieve the fear of the Kuffar, the return of the Muslim Ummah to its former glory and greatness. The establishment of the Khilafah Rashidah (Righteous Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood that implements Islam as a Deen of mercy, justice and guidance. We ask Allah, Azza Wa Jal, to make our month the last one Ramadan without the Khilafah. O Allah make this month a means for the awakening of our Ummah, and save us from the evils of Kufr and its people, and the evils of injustice and the oppressors, and make this the last Ramadan we live deprived of nusra (support of people of power), victory and glad-tidings. Ameen, O Lord of the Worlds.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Turkey