Press Release

Attacks by (Tis'a Taweela) Will Only Be Eliminated by Implementing Sharia Law Under the Caliphate State

Habiba Al-Amin, a journalist for the Kosh News website, was seriously attacked by members of the "Tis'a Taweela" gang in the Transit area of Port Sudan, while returning from media coverage with a number of her colleagues. This is just one of many incidents of robbery, looting, and murder within cities that are supposed to be safe, such as Omdurman and Khartoum, and now in the administrative capital, Port Sudan. These are cities under the control of the government and its security apparatus.

However, criminals are attacking with audacity, as if they are confident that the government's hand will not reach them, and even if it does, they are assured of the weakness of the deterrent penalty, despite the magnitude of the crime committed.

No one disagrees that the spread of crime can only be deterred by the establishment of Sharia law. The Sharia principle is that (Hudud are deterrents and expiations); they are deterrents from committing crimes, and forgiveness for those upon whom the punishment is applied, expiating for them the torment of the Hereafter.

Abdullah bin Omar said: "The Prophet ﷺ cut off (the hand) for a shield worth three dirhams." Reported by Ibn Majah, and this is his wording, and reported by Bukhari and Muslim. And in another version: "That the Prophet ﷺ cut off the hand of a man who stole a shield from the women's section, its price was three dirhams." Sahih Abi Dawood, Al-Nasa'i, and others.

As for those who terrorize the safe, and practice murder, rape, plunder, and looting with the force of arms, as is the case with (Tis'a Taweela), the noble verses have come rebuking and deterring them. God Almighty said: ﴿INDEED, THE PENALTY FOR THOSE WHO WAGE WAR AGAINST ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER AND STRIVE UPON EARTH [TO CAUSE] CORRUPTION IS NONE BUT THAT THEY BE KILLED OR CRUCIFIED OR THAT THEIR HANDS AND FEET BE CUT OFF FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OR THAT THEY BE EXILED FROM THE LAND. THAT IS FOR THEM A DISGRACE IN THIS WORLD, AND FOR THEM IN THE HEREAFTER IS A GREAT PUNISHMENT﴾. If the government had taken the initiative and applied one of God's laws, all criminals would have been deterred, but it seems that it is an honor it does not deserve. Therefore, we see it going around in circles, thinking that appointing a Minister of Interior, or deploying the police in the city center, or organizing security campaigns, would make a difference, but the situation is getting worse.

The Sharia rulings are not applied except under the state of Islam; the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic method, it alone is the one that deters criminals, and deters them. As for democratic systems, they breed criminals, even create crime, and foster corruption, because of the weakness of penalties among them. They think that they are more merciful to people than their Creator, and there is no sin after disbelief.

So, will the people of power and strength in our country respond to the caller of the Most Merciful, and give victory to Hizb ut-Tahrir, to conclude the Sharia pledge of allegiance to a rightly guided Caliph, who establishes justice, spreads security, and deters criminals; their big ones before their small ones, in accordance with the saying of the Prophet ﷺ: "Indeed, the Imam is a shield, one fights from behind him and is protected by him"?!

﴿O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life﴾

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)

The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir

In the State of Sudan