Asalaamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatahu

We welcome you to the website of the recently re-launched Khilafah magazine. The magazine is published by Hizb ut Tahrir (Britain). We pray Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) accepts it from us.

The magazine makes reappearance in a very different time from before. The past three years have seen a relentless media and political onslaught against Islam that started with accusations of violence and terrorism against Muslims, labelling some as moderate and some extremist. But it has now descended into a full blown attack on Islam itself – upon the aqueedah and the systems. The attacks on Shariah, the hudood, the women’s dress code targets and distorts the public and political manifestations of Islamic rules, but the accompanying smears on our Beloved Prophet (SAW) and the recent call in Holland ban the Quran prove that Islam’s enemies at least, realise the impossibility of separating the political from the spiritual when it comes to Islam. When Muslims said the war on terror was a war on Islam, people accused us of exaggeration, but the proof is now clear for all to see – and this media campaign is little more than war propaganda that tries to radicalise the wider non-Muslim society against Islam, so western governments can pursue their brutal policies in the Muslim world without the opposition they faced before the war on Iraq. The smear campaign also serves to intimidate and coerce our community into compliance with liberal values and subjugation to the state’s agenda: that we should laugh when Rasullah (SAW) is insulted (may Allah forbid) and be silent when Muslim lands are invaded.

Against this background Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain has launched a campaign set to last several months titled
‘Stand for Islam’ that aims to confront this smear campaign. Our community watches the attacks on Islam in anger and despair: anger from the casual insults of that which we revere, and despair not knowing how to respond. Hot headed or violent responses are clearly counterproductive, but silence in the face of such attacks on our deen is also unacceptable.

Our campaign aims first to empower our community with an understanding of the attacks and how to respond. We have to know our deen and live by it, not only so we please Allah and secure our own Iman, but so that this society that is a sea of chaos and decline has some islands of stability and sanity in its midst. That requires a comprehensive understanding of Islam, most especially the forgotten and neglected political aspects. This needs to be coupled by highlighting our concerns about the failings of the western way of life that harm so many people. The hypocrisy of insulting the Prophet under the defence of free speech is obvious when free speech is set aside in a call to ban the Quran. The tragedy of the values system that causes family and moral collapse needs to contrasted with the beautiful values of Islam. The dangers of the global capitalist system that is causing famine around the world as well as collapse in the financial markets needs to be set against the detailed systems and justice of Islam.

Our campaign will also address the tragedy that is Palestine, which this year faces its sixtieth year under
the occupation of Israeli terrorism. We know that standing for Islam also means standing with the Ummah against oppression, and no where epitomises this more than the blessed land of Israa and Miraj. This is a land that will only be liberated by the Khilafah when it returns. For the current despots in the Muslim world only collude with external powers perpetuating the misery and bloodshed. They call this a peace process, but it is little more than an attempt to normalise and legitimise the theft of the land, and the subjugation and expulsion of its people.

If we stand for Islam, we stand for our unity – within the UK and with the rest of the Islamic world. If we
stand for Islam, we stand against policies that support invasion and occupation of our lands. If we stand
for Islam, we stand for a community that exemplifies the best of the noble Islamic values, that interacts
with our neighbours in a way that is caring and decent, carrying the message of Islam wherever we are. If we stand for Islam, we stand for the return of the Khilafah Rashida in the Muslim world, and will do all we can to aid this effort. Brothers and sister, we stand for Islam: will you stand with us?

O you who believe, answer (the call of) Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life (Translated meaning Surah Al-Anfal 8:24)

Dr Abdul Wahid