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The World and its Adornment, and the Hereafter and its Bliss
The World and its Adornment, and the Hereafter and its Bliss

Allah Almighty says: "Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in wealth and children. It is like a rain—its growth delights the planters, but then it withers and you see it turn yellow, then it becomes debris. And in the Hereafter there will be severe punishment, and forgiveness from Allah and pleasure. And the life of this world is only an enjoyment of deception."

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August 02, 2025

The World and its Adornment, and the Hereafter and its Bliss

The World and its Adornment, and the Hereafter and its Bliss

Allah Almighty says: ﴿Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in wealth and children. It is like a rain—its growth delights the planters, but then it withers and you see it turn yellow, then it becomes debris. And in the Hereafter there will be severe punishment, and forgiveness from Allah and pleasure. And the life of this world is only an enjoyment of deception.﴾, and Allah Almighty says: ﴿Rivalry in worldly increase distracts you, Until you visit the graveyards. No! You will soon know. Then, no! You will soon know. No! If you only knew with knowledge of certainty, You would surely see the Hellfire. Then you will surely see it with the eye of certainty. Then you will surely be asked that Day about pleasure.﴾, and He said about the Hereafter: ﴿Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure, And indeed, the wicked will be in Hellfire, They will [enter to] burn therein on the Day of Recompense, And never will they be absent therefrom.﴾.

A strange equation, one part of which is witnessed, known, visible, and described in the creation of man, which he lives with day and night, wrestling with it and it wrestling with him, and he is in a constant state of conflict.

Allah Almighty says: ﴿We have certainly created man in hardship.﴾, in which the son of Adam struggles day and night until certainty comes to him, and as he walks in this worldly life, he sees this certainty (death) coming to others in their journey, he sees this certainty but his eyes are on adornment, boasting, and increasing, Allah Almighty says: ﴿And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether, And you love wealth with immense love.﴾, he lives with certainty in others, but he does not feel it in himself before certainty comes to him and overcomes his desires and shocks him before he meets it, ﴿For he neither believed nor prayed, But denied and turned away.﴾... This is the absence of insight that afflicts the sight with a veil from perceiving a visible, tangible, palpable reality that is not an imagined fantasy or a hidden truth, but rather a tangible, palpable reality. If this person realized it, he would live in his world with its harshness and misery, its wretchedness and meanness, its narrowness and happiness, because he understood its meaning and lived its purpose, so he prepared for it what he could rely on from provisions that do not fade or change, easy to carry but heavy in the scales, ﴿And take provisions, but indeed, the best provision is fear of Allah. And fear Me, O you of understanding.﴾.

This equation of the world reveals a natural physical law; that what is precious, solid, strong, fruitful, and enriching is what is constant, does not move, change, transform, or be blown away by the winds, ﴿like a good tree, whose root is firm and whose branches reach into the sky, producing its fruit in every season by permission of its Lord.﴾. Therefore, this physical reality reveals a rule that what is precious is not exposed, not superficial, and not blown away by the winds, and it is difficult to discover and reveal because it strikes deep into the earth, so to reach it requires effort, hardship, giving, and competition to consult the books of prophets and scholars, for in the depths of the seas lie treasures and precious stones, and on the surface of the water float carcasses and scum ﴿As for the foam, it vanishes, [passing] away; but what benefits people remains on the earth. Thus does Allah present examples.﴾.

This reveals the rules of sound and unsound understanding; sound understanding is based on sound belief and a clean, unpolluted mind, which reads reality, analyzes it, and then applies God's judgment to it, either approving or denying it. As for unsound understanding, it is a superficial, colorful, and changing understanding that is taken by the winds of desire to the right and left, so it has no stability or truth to draw from, it inclines wherever people incline, it is like the scum of the sea that is blown by the winds and floats on the surface, but it is useless unless it is corrupt and corrupting.

In the political reality that we see, and we see its image as a clear fact that is not tainted by any flaw, that those who have taken over the altar and the chairs and prevailed, so necks are subservient to them, are the scum of the sea and the chaff of the grains that cannot withstand a debate or an arena of argument. They are scum blown away by the winds, they have no roots or stable anchors. These are the ones whom the Messenger ﷺ warned us against because of the great calamity and widespread evil they carry, they do not bear fruit and are corrupt wherever they go, and God Almighty said about them: ﴿They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allah destroy them; how are they turned away?﴾, and the Prophet ﷺ said, warning and threatening against this superficial, prominent, and clear evil, and threatening against its calamity that will affect trees, stones, and humans: «When the matter is entrusted to those who are not its people, then wait for the Hour», meaning wait for a widespread evil and a calamity that has no equal, from which the towering mountains and the treasures in their hiding places seek refuge, and from whose evil the whales of the sea seek refuge, and God Almighty said with it: ﴿Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned﴾ and the Prophet ﷺ said: «Two types of people, if they are righteous, the people are righteous, and if they are corrupt, the people are corrupt: the scholars and the rulers» and the people here are not all the people, but the people in the two narrations are the two types that the Noble Messenger ﷺ specified.

Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut Tahrir

Salem Abu Subaitan

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How Have Other Countries Dealt with Epidemics?

Brazil:

- Launched ground and aerial spraying campaigns using modern pesticides.

- Distributed mosquito nets and activated community awareness campaigns.

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Bangladesh:

- Established temporary emergency centers in poor neighborhoods.

- Provided hotlines for reports and mobile response teams.

France:

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- Intensified monitoring of the transmitting mosquito and started local awareness campaigns.

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- Providing free health care as a basic right for all the people. And canceling licenses for private hospitals and preventing investment in the field of medicine.

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- Restructuring the Ministry of Health to be responsible for people's lives, not just an administrative body.

- Adopting a political system that puts human life above economic and political interests.

- Disconnecting from criminal organizations and the drug mafia.

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

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On the morning of the twenty-second of Rabi’ al-Awwal 1447 AH, corresponding to the fourteenth of September 2025 AD, at the age of eighty-seven, Ahmed Baker (Hazeem), one of the first generation in Hizb ut-Tahrir, passed away to his Lord. He carried the call for many years and endured long imprisonment and severe torture for its sake, but he did not falter, weaken, change, or alter, thanks to God's grace and help.

He spent long years in Syria in the eighties during the rule of the late Hafez, in hiding, until he was arrested with a group of Hizb ut-Tahrir youth by the Air Force Intelligence in 1991, to face the most severe forms of torture under the supervision of the criminals Ali Mamlouk and Jamil Hassan, where one of those who entered the interrogation room after a round of interrogation with Abu Osama and some of his comrades told me that he saw some pieces of flesh flying and blood on the walls of the interrogation room.

After more than a year in the cells of the Air Force Intelligence Branch in Mezzeh, he was transferred with the rest of his colleagues to Sednaya prison to be sentenced to ten years, of which he spent seven years patiently and expectantly, then God bestowed upon him relief.

After his release from prison, he continued to carry the call directly and continued until the arrests of the party's youth began, which included hundreds in Syria in the middle of December 1999, where his house in Beirut was raided and he was kidnapped to be transferred to the Air Force Intelligence Branch at Mezzeh Airport, to begin a new phase of terrible torture. Despite his old age, he was, with God's help, patient, steadfast, and expectant.

After nearly a year, he was transferred to Sednaya prison again, to be tried in the State Security Court, and later sentenced to ten years, of which God decreed that he spend nearly eight years, then God bestowed upon him relief.

I spent a full year with him in 2001 in Sednaya prison, but I was right next to him in the fifth dormitory (A) on the left of the third floor, I used to call him my dear uncle.

We used to eat together, sleep next to each other, and study culture and ideas. From him we gained culture and from him we learned patience and steadfastness.

He was tolerant, loved people, and was keen on the youth, instilling in them confidence in victory and the imminence of the fulfillment of God's promise.

He was a memorizer of the Book of God and he used to read it every day and night and he used to spend most of the night in prayer, and when dawn approached, he would shake me to wake me up for the night prayer and then for the dawn prayer.

I left prison and then returned to it in 2004, and we were transferred to Sednaya prison again in early 2005, to meet again with those who remained in prison when we left for the first time at the end of 2001, and among them was the dear uncle Abu Osama Ahmed Baker (Hazeem), may God have mercy on him.

We used to walk for long periods in front of the dormitories to forget with him the walls of the prison, the iron bars, and the separation from family and loved ones, how not, when he spent long years in prison and suffered what he suffered!

Despite my closeness to him and my companionship with him for long periods, I never saw him complain or grumble, as if he were not in prison, but soaring outside the walls of the prison; soaring with the Qur’an that he recites in most of his times, soaring with the wings of confidence in God’s promise and the glad tidings of His Messenger ﷺ of victory and empowerment.

We were in the darkest and most severe circumstances looking forward to the day of the great victory, the day when the glad tidings of our Messenger ﷺ are fulfilled "Then there will be a Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood." We longed to gather under the shade of the Khilafah and the banner of the Eagle fluttering. But God decreed that you move from the abode of misery to the abode of eternity and permanence.

We ask God to be in the highest Paradise and we do not purify anyone before God.

Our dear uncle, Abu Osama:

We ask God to cover you with His vast mercy, to dwell you in His spacious gardens, to make you with the righteous and the martyrs, and to reward you for the harm and torment you have suffered with the highest degrees in Paradise, and we ask Him, the Almighty, to gather us with you at the Cistern with our Messenger ﷺ and in a permanent abode of His mercy.

Our consolation is that you are arriving to the Most Merciful of the merciful, and we say only what pleases God, Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return.

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