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 Dawah around the World: A Response to the President of ABIM

AssalamuAlaykum WRWB

Welcome to today’s episode of Dawah around the World – A Response to the President of ABIM.

On the 12th of June, Business FM radio held an interview with the president of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM)- Mohamad Raimi Ab Rahim. The interviewer Mr. Sharaad Kuttan asked him the question:

“We have in this country groups like Hizb ut Tahrir... you know... and such, who come up with a very strong statement about the implementation of Shariah saying God’s law trumps the democratic process for instance, where do you think on balance is the conversation weighted today? Are those groups who wanted Caliphate... you know... one end of the spectrum, are they winning ground today?”

In answering this question, the youth group’s president made some inaccurate and misleading points about Hizb ut Tahrir, its work and goals.

The first thing he stated, “Young Muslims around the world got frustrated with their governments and the elections and this was reason such groups as Hizb ut Tahrir and others came.”

He went on to say, “they stop believing in election, in democracy and they start having a new utopian idea of going to Syria, or joining ISIS and becoming Boko Haram.”

It is only too late when they have decided and made up their minds to go for... you know... some places for jihad and then only you came and counter them”.

After thanking Mr Sharaad -the Interviewer, for showing his concern about the Hizb, the spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir Malaysia - Abdul Hakim Othman –responded to these falsities and clarified all the absurd comments made.

He explained, Hizb ut Tahrir was established in response to the command of Allah SWT:

وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ ۚ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ

“Let there be among you a group that invites to the good, orders what is right and forbids what is evil, and they are those who are successful” [Ali-Imran: 104].

So, frustration or no frustration is beside the point! Hizb ut Tahrir’s establishment, actions and reactions come from the sole source of it being an obligation to enjoin what’s good and forbid all that is evil.

To claim that the Hizb believe violence is the method of change is a complete lie! It should be made clear that although we oppose democracy, we also oppose any form of violence in changing the government as both approaches are haraam in Islam.

Number 1 - Democracy is a total contradiction to Islam and Number Two - ANYONE who fights Muslims – be it ISIS or Boko Haram – are completely disregarded because their actions are not in line with Islam! So to say this is our utopia is utter ignorance.

Hizb ut Tahrir, since its establishment in 1953, has been working to bring back the the islamic Khilafah system. Never has there been a detour in the method, neither has there ever been any evidence of violent activities. The work has only been within the political and intellectual spectrum as this was the process of our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW.

As for the point mentioned on Jihad, which was from a rather negative angle – Brother Abdul Hakim clarified that Jihad is a divine obligation from Allah (swt) and is the peak of worship in Islam. He explained that the Hizb stance is very clear where it is upon the STATE to send the army to wage wars against the disbelievers who wage wars against Islam and the Muslims!! It is the absence of this state which has caged our armies from acting to protect our Ummah worldwide. However, rather than blaming the Muslims who go for jihad, the President of ABIM should have blamed the Muslim leaders who failed miserably to despatch armies of jihad in defending the Muslims!

The hizb has vowed to lead the Ummah on the path leading to revival and re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah system and will remain steadfast until the victory arrives, by the will of Allah.

Therefore; the hizb will continue to account our leaders, to urge them to stop the evil and oppression that they perpetrate against the people and urge them to uproot the man-made systems that they implement and adhere to – and will always work until the Khilafah returns.

Prophet Muhammad SAW said,

"whoever dies while there was no Imaam of a Jamaa’ah ruling over him, his death would be that of the days of Jahiliyyah.”

May Allah SWT grant us our Imam to protect us from such a humiliating ending. Ameen

JazakumAllah kahyrun for joining us today.
WSLM WR WB

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