On Friday, the Minister of Endowments Calls for Innovation!
The News:
The Yemeni Minister of Endowments and Guidance, Dr. Muhammad Shabiba, called on preachers, imams of mosques, scholars, and preachers in various governorates to dedicate Friday sermons and lessons to reviving the meanings and goals of the September and October revolutions and adhering to the values of freedom and the republic. (Aden Al-Ghad, September 21, 2025).
Comment:
The Prophet ﷺ said: "Indeed, whoever among you lives will see much اختلاف (disagreement), so adhere to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided Caliphs; cling to it with your molar teeth. And beware of newly invented matters, for every innovation is a misguidance." Narrated by Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak.
This hadith, which is rarely absent from a Friday sermon, comes and the Minister of Endowments throws it to the wind, but rather calls for innovation and reviving it instead of fighting it!
In this exhortation, the Messenger ﷺ calls on Muslims after him to adhere to the Islamic political system, which is the Khilafah system alone. He called for following the Sunnah of the rightly-guided Caliphs, which is exclusively the political system by which they ruled, as indicated by the word "Caliphs," not "Companions." At the same time, the Messenger ﷺ warns against any innovation or change in this system and describes it as misguidance, which is a path to Hell.
Instead of reminding people, in the anniversary of these two failed revolutions that produced the republican system and brought democracy, which is the head of innovations in this era, and instead of calling on the nation to correct the course of these revolutions that produced decline, poverty, misery, dependency, and enslavement to the infidel West and distanced Islam from life and governance, the Minister of Endowments comes with all impudence to call for innovation and the Western republican system!!
The original role of all scholars, preachers, and sheikhs is to call Muslims to restore the system of Islam represented in the Khilafah on the Prophetic method, and to remind them of how they were under the rule of Islam, and how they have become today like orphans at the tables of the stingy! These occasions remind us that there is no success in this world or the hereafter in following Western projects and false slogans of independence while we are groaning under Western hegemony in all aspects of life, foremost of which is governance.
Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut Tahrir
Omar Abdullah - Wilayah of Yemen