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Inflation in Egypt.. An Inevitable Result of Unjust Capitalist Policies and Ruling by Other Than What God Has Revealed
Inflation in Egypt.. An Inevitable Result of Unjust Capitalist Policies and Ruling by Other Than What God Has Revealed

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June 09, 2025

Inflation in Egypt.. An Inevitable Result of Unjust Capitalist Policies and Ruling by Other Than What God Has Revealed

Inflation in Egypt.. An Inevitable Result of Unjust Capitalist Policies and Ruling by Other Than What God Has Revealed

News:

Mazeed platform stated on its website on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, that the Central Bank of Egypt announced an increase in the annual core inflation rate to 13.1% in May 2025, compared to 10.4% in April, while the general inflation rate in cities recorded 16.8%, exceeding analysts' expectations, as a result of rising fuel and basic commodity prices, which led to a sharp increase in the cost of living.

Comment:

These figures are not just numbers in official bulletins, but rather screams from the mouths of the hungry, groans from the chests of the poor, and pain felt by everyone who is unable to buy food, treat their children, or pay their bills.

These economic crises are not inevitable fate or a temporary occurrence, but rather inevitable results of corrupt capitalist economic policies followed by the Egyptian state at the direct dictation of the International Monetary Fund, within what is falsely called economic reform. What is happening in Egypt today is systematic starvation of the people, and a continuous stripping of them of the lowest means of living, in exchange for the satisfaction of colonial countries and international financial institutions.

In capitalist systems, inflation is not seen as a problem that must be eradicated from its roots, but rather managed and exploited according to the interests of the capitalist classes, banks, and large companies. The reality is that inflation in Egypt today is not the result of natural market forces, but rather of political decisions dictated by the International Monetary Fund, including liberalizing the exchange rate, lifting subsidies on fuel, increasing taxes and fees, and privatizing what remains of the public sector. All of this falls under reducing the budget deficit at the expense of the poor, and increasing revenues to service debts, not to serve the people.

Official reports have confirmed that one of the reasons for the recent inflation in Egypt is the rise in fuel prices, a step that came in implementation of the state's commitments to the Fund to liberalize energy prices, which led to a series of increases in the prices of transportation, food, and medicine. Are these the policies that preserve people's dignity? Or are they sacrifices offered on the altar of financial colonialism?

The capitalist economic system by its nature is not based on meeting the basic needs of every individual, but rather on accumulating wealth in the hands of a small minority, and opening markets for global companies to plunder resources. Under this system, the state turns into a tool to serve the interests of the business class, not to serve the people.

Al-Sisi's regime, and those before him, did not rule by Islam, but rather ruled by what pleases America and the International Monetary Fund. They opened the doors to foreign investments protected by legislative guarantees, while imposing taxes on small merchants and workers, and lifting subsidies on the poor, while billions are lavished on ostentatious projects that do not satisfy hunger. Where is the justice in that?! And where is the rule of Islam?!

Islam, when it took charge of life's affairs, established a just economic system based on taking care of people's affairs, not exploiting them, and on achieving sufficiency for every individual, not at the expense of anyone. Islam absolutely prohibits usury in all its forms, which is the basis of the global banking system that has made Egypt today mired in debt and subject to the hegemony of the Monetary Fund. Also, Islam made oil, gas, and minerals public property, not the property of the state or private companies. The Prophet ﷺ said: "People are partners in three things: water, pasture, and fire." Therefore, selling fuel and gas and profiting from them, in addition to liberalizing their prices and privatizing resources, is an attack on the ownership of the nation, and a crime against it, and not an economic reform. As for inflation resulting from raising prices deliberately, or from printing currency without backing, and the currency being paper with no value, it is clear injustice, which contradicts the provisions of Islam, and theft of people's efforts and savings, while Islam made money gold and silver because of their intrinsic value.

The solution is not in economic patching or austerity programs, but rather in uprooting the capitalist system from its roots, and establishing the Rightly-Guided Caliphate on the method of Prophethood, which applies Islam in the economy as in politics and education, and makes wealth a trust to serve the nation, not a tool to plunder it. The Caliphate state applies a monetary system linked to gold and silver, which preserves the value of the currency and prevents inflation. It distributes wealth fairly, and provides the basic needs of food, clothing, housing, education, and treatment for every individual in the state. It holds rulers accountable, and prevents economic and political dependency.

O people of Egypt: This economic calamity is nothing but a bitter fruit of ruling by other than what God has revealed. Is there any distress after this distress? And is there any lesson after this collapse?! The duty upon you is not just to protest against prices, but to work hard to resume the Islamic way of life, establish the Caliphate, and eradicate these agent regimes that mortgage your capabilities in the hands of the colonizers.

O soldiers of Kinana: Is it not time for you to realize that whoever makes people taste hunger and high prices, and mortgages their capabilities to the Monetary Fund, does not care for a nation, but rather betrays it?! Is it not time to say the word of truth in the face of those who sold the land, humiliated the people, and subjected the country to the orders of the colonizers?!

You are the people of strength and immunity, and you are able, by God's permission, to support your religion, restore the authority of Islam, and establish the Rightly-Guided Caliphate on the method of Prophethood. So do not make your strength a shield for the oppressors, but rather a protection for the nation and a shield for Islam. You are a force capable of restoring the Islamic state that guarantees people to live in security, justice, and sufficiency, in which dignity is preserved and humiliation is lifted from the necks of people. In it, usury is prevented, money is distributed fairly, and rights are given without favor or coercion. In it, no hungry poor person is left, no sick person without medicine, and no student without knowledge. In it, dependency contracts and their restrictions end, sovereignty is restored, and rulers are subject to the rule of Sharia, under Islam and its state, the Rightly-Guided Caliphate on the method of Prophethood, may God hasten it and make the soldiers of Egypt its supporters.

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

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Mahmoud El Lithy

Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Egypt

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The high-level United Nations international conference entitled "Finding a Peaceful Solution to the Palestinian Issue and Implementing the Two-State Solution" was held in New York on July 29 and 30, led by France and Saudi Arabia. Following the conference, which aimed to recognize Palestine as a state and end the war in Gaza, a joint declaration was signed. In addition to the European Union and the League of Arab States, Turkey also signed the declaration along with 17 other countries. The declaration, which consisted of 42 articles and an annex, condemned Operation Al-Aqsa Flood carried out by Hamas. The participating countries called on Hamas to lay down its weapons and demanded that it hand over its administration to the Mahmoud Abbas regime. (Agencies, July 31, 2025).

Comment:

Considering the countries running the conference, the presence of America is clearly evident, and despite not having the authority or influence to make decisions, the Saudi regime, its servant, accompanying France is the clearest evidence of this.

In this regard, French President Emmanuel Macron stated on July 24 that France would officially recognize the Palestinian state in September, and would be the first G7 country to do so. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau held a press conference at the conference, announcing the goals of the New York Declaration. In fact, in the statement issued after the conference, the massacres of the Jewish entity were condemned without taking any punitive decision against it, and Hamas was asked to disarm and hand over the administration of Gaza to Mahmoud Abbas.

In the new Middle East strategy that America seeks to implement based on the Abraham Accords, the Salman regime represents the spearhead. Normalization with the Jewish entity will begin after the war, with Saudi Arabia; then other countries will follow, and this wave will turn into a strategic alliance extending from North Africa to Pakistan. The Jewish entity will also receive a security guarantee as an important part of this alliance; then America will use this alliance as fuel in its conflict against China and Russia, and to include Europe completely under its wings, and of course, against the possibility of establishing the Caliphate.

The obstacle to this plan currently is the war in Gaza and then the anger of the Ummah, which is increasing and is about to explode. Therefore, the United States preferred that the European Union, the Arab regimes, and Turkey take the initiative in the New York Declaration. Thinking that accepting the decisions contained in the declaration would be easier.

As for the Arab regimes and Turkey, their mission is to please the United States, protect the Jewish entity, and in return for this obedience, protect themselves from the anger of their peoples, and live a humiliating life with the crumbs of cheap power until they are thrown away or afflicted with the torment of the afterlife. Turkey's reservation on the declaration, on the condition that the so-called two-state solution plan is implemented, is only an attempt to cover up the real goal of the declaration and mislead Muslims, and it has no real value.

In conclusion, the path to liberating Gaza and all of Palestine is not through a fictitious state in which Jews live. The Islamic solution for Palestine is the rule of Islam in the usurped land, which is to fight the usurper, and to mobilize the armies of Muslims to uproot the Jews from the blessed land. The permanent and radical solution is to establish the Rightly Guided Caliphate and protect the blessed land of Isra and Mi'raj with the shield of the Caliphate. God willing, those days are not far away.

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them, until the Jew hides behind the stone and the tree, and the stone or the tree says: O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, so come and kill him." (Narrated by Muslim)

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Muhammad Amin Yildirim

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What America Wants is Official Recognition of the Jewish Entity, Even if Weapons Remain
August 14, 2025

What America Wants is Official Recognition of the Jewish Entity, Even if Weapons Remain

What America Wants is Official Recognition of the Jewish Entity, Even if Weapons Remain

The News:

Most of the political and security news in Lebanon revolves around the issue of weapons targeting the Jewish entity, without any other weapons, and focusing on it by most political analysts and journalists.

Comment:

America is asking for the weapons that fought the Jews to be handed over to the Lebanese army, and it does not care about any weapons that remain in the hands of all the people, which can be used internally when it finds an interest in doing so, or between Muslims in neighboring countries.

America, the greatest enemy of us Muslims, said it frankly, even rudely, when its envoy Barack stated from Lebanon that the weapon that must be handed over to the Lebanese state is the weapon that can be used against the Jewish entity occupying blessed Palestine, and not any other individual or medium weapon because this does not harm the Jewish entity, but rather serves it and serves America and the entire West in inciting it to fight between Muslims under the pretext of takfiris, extremists, reactionaries, or backward people, or other descriptions that they fuel among Muslims under the pretext of sectarianism, nationalism, or ethnicity, or even between Muslims and others who have lived with us for hundreds of years and found nothing from us but the preservation of honor, money, and life, and that we were applying the laws to them as we apply them to ourselves, they have what we have and they are obligated to do what we are obligated to do. For the Sharia ruling is the basis of governance for Muslims, whether among themselves, or between them and other subjects of the state.

As long as our greatest enemy, America, wants to destroy or neutralize the weapon that harms the Jewish entity, then why focus on that among politicians and media professionals?!

Why are the most important topics raised in the media and in the Council of Ministers, at the request of the American enemy, without examining them in depth and clarifying the extent of their danger to the nation, the most dangerous of which is the demarcation of the land borders with the Jewish entity, that is, the official recognition of this occupying entity, in a way that no one after that has the right to carry weapons, any weapons, for the sake of Palestine, which is the property of all Muslims and not only the people of Palestine, as they try to convince us as if it belongs only to the people of Palestine?!

The danger lies in presenting this matter sometimes under the title of peace, sometimes under the title of reconciliation, and at other times under the title of security in the region, or under the title of economic, tourism and political prosperity, and the prosperity that they promise Muslims in the event of recognition of this monstrous entity!

America knows very well that Muslims can never be satisfied with recognizing the Jewish entity, and that is why you see it creeping into them through other things to distract them from the most important fateful matter. Yes, America wants us to focus on the issue of weapons, but it knows that weapons, no matter how powerful, will not work and cannot be used against the Jewish entity if official Lebanon recognizes it by demarcating the borders with it, and thus recognizes it and its right to the land of blessed Palestine, under the pretext of the Muslim rulers and the Palestinian Authority.

This recognition of the Jewish entity is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, and the believers, and of all the blood of the martyrs that has been shed and continues to be shed for the liberation of Palestine, and despite all that, we still hope for good in our nation, some of whom are fighting in Gaza, Hashim, and in Palestine, and they say to us with their blood: We will never recognize the Jewish entity, even if it costs us all this and more... So, do we accept in Lebanon to recognize the Jewish entity, no matter how difficult the circumstances are?! Do we accept to demarcate the borders with it, that is, to recognize it, even if the weapons are left with us?! It is the question that we must answer before it is too late.

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Dr. Muhammad Jaber

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