Isn't it time for the Ummah to awaken?!
Between the heedlessness of Muslims and the abandoned system of Islam
Since the Caliphate disappeared from the reality of Muslims, and Islam moved away from the course of governance, the Ummah has entered a painful cycle of alienation from itself, its religion, and its innate nature. Not only was its land occupied, but governance according to what God revealed was diminished, and its cultural components and moral standards were obscured. The tragedy was not only in the demise of the unifying entity, but in the alteration of concepts, the reversal of the balance, and the occupation of the mind before the land.
What we see with our own eyes: the battle with the colonizing West is not just a battle of tanks and weapons, but an intellectual and civilizational battle. They want to reshape the Muslim, not according to his identity, but according to the image of the colonizer, to deviate from his religion, to disbelieve in his past, to surrender to his reality. Unfortunately, we are living in a time when concepts have become mixed:
Falsehood has become beautified, presented as "freedom", good is ridiculed, and evil is promoted as a modern lifestyle. What is forbidden has become fashionable, and decadence is sold as development and openness. Many have forgotten that civilization is not about abandoning the concepts of Islam, and that progress is not about a person shedding his values, religion, and innate nature. They want the Muslim to become a stranger in his own home, a stranger in his own mind, a stranger in his own identity.
Yes, the Muslim today has reached a point where he sees the truth as strange in his own country, and is accused of extremism simply for adhering to his faith. The conflict in the Ummah is no longer about jurisprudential details, but about the meaning of existence itself, about identity, dignity, and belonging. The Muslim is being dragged to accept life as the West has drawn it for him, a life that appears organized and prosperous, but whose essence is subordination and loss.
So the Muslim contemplates the state of the West, and sees them living an organized and peaceful life, so he is fascinated by that, and thinks that the secret is in them, not in his religion, in their systems, not in his Sharia. He has forgotten or been made to forget that what they have is a false shell without a soul, and that what he has is mercy for the worlds.
The problem is not just ignorance, but deception. The Muslim today does not know that he is a victim of a Westernizing colonial project, which targeted his mind before his land, and planted in him despair of Islam as a way of life, so that he remains attached to it as a spiritual belief only, without seeing it as a comprehensive solution for all aspects of life.
When a person is raised in a reality governed by man-made systems that separate religion from life, his consciousness is reshaped away from the standards of right and wrong that Islam brought. The measure of success becomes what the media promotes, and the measure of acceptance becomes what Western civilization draws from distorted concepts of happiness, freedom, and progress. So, the one who yesterday was averse to evil, today sees it as "personal freedom", and the one who aspired to live under the rule of Islam, has become convinced that politics is a "dirty game", and that Islam has nothing to do with governance. And that is the real alienation we live in today; alienation of thought, alienation of nature, and alienation of identity.
We have forgotten and pretended to forget the saying of God Almighty ﴿(That is) the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created (all) people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah. That is the straight religion﴾
Rather, we have gone along with the modern ignorance that works day and night to change this nature, and all we can do is strive to restore it to its proper place. Let our call to the people be: return to what you were created upon, and rise with your Islam, for it alone will free you from the captivity of deviation and restore your stolen humanity.
A person is a product of his environment, and if this environment is not changed to a pure Islamic environment, which derives its thought and system from revelation, he will remain a prisoner of deviation, even if he thinks he is right.
What has lost the Ummah is not only its material backwardness, but the loss of the Prophet's ﷺ methodology from its life. A methodology that combines the soul and the mind, worship and dealings, the individual and the society, the state and the subjects, in a comprehensive and just divine system. And this distortion will only be corrected by Islam. Not patching up or mending, but a civilizational revolution that returns man to his nature, and returns Islam to the center of leadership and guidance in all aspects of life.
Man, as God created him, is naturally inclined to perceive the truth, and to interact with what revives his soul and illuminates his path. But when he is raised in a distorted environment, in systems that do not rule according to what God has revealed, in poisoned education, and directed media, and a usurious economy, and an alien intellectual system, he becomes a slave to what is not of his nature, and his consciousness is shaped by standards that are not of his religion.
Thus begins the internal breakdown...
When the Muslim becomes alienated from his faith without realizing it, and accepts political injustice and social loss as if it were an inevitable fate, not a result of the loss of Islam as a way of life.
The reality we live in today did not arise from a vacuum, but is a direct result of the exclusion of Islam from governance, and the adoption of systems of disbelief that came from the West, entered the lands of Muslims with colonialism, and their roots extended after it in the form of national states, with artificial borders, and human constitutions, and functional governments that guard the interests of the disbelieving colonizer and supervise his project to fragment the Ummah and secularize life.
Yes, under these systems, concepts have changed, and the innate nature has been distorted: the one who calls for the implementation of God's law is described as reactionary, the one who adheres to his chastity is backward, and the one who calls for jihad is a threat to world peace. So, openness has become decadence, freedom is the freedom of disbelief and perversion, and rationality is submission to what Western institutions dictate.
This is not hidden from anyone. The West was not content with just overthrowing the Caliphate, but worked to reformulate so-called Islamic personalities, through curricula, media, art, and through their "distorted religions" that are presented today as we see them on the tongues of the sultans' preachers. They taught us to love homelands more than our love for God's religion, to sanctify colored banners more than the banner of the Messenger of God, and to belong to geography, not to creed.
Yes, a complex of inferiority has been planted in the souls of Muslims towards the disbelieving West. Western measures, Western models, and Western standards have become the norm, so some think that organization and prosperity can only be achieved under these Western systems and that Islam is not suitable for modern life. He does not know that what he sees of "order" in the West is based on the blood and wealth of Muslims, and on a purely materialistic system, separate from the soul and purpose, but its fate is ruin, no matter how much technology or prosperity it reaches.
Yes, the West today, in its war on the Ummah, does not only want to weaken the Muslims, but wants to abolish their identity, and strip them of their divine civilizational project, represented by the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic Method.
The world today is living on a hot plate of complex crises, and no sooner is one crisis resolved than another explodes. It has become clear to every rational person that the global system led by Western civilization is on the verge of collapse, not only because of its successive economic crises, but also because of the shaking of people's confidence in it, the failure of its treatments, and its deep moral decay.
The capitalist system, which is based on making benefit the basis for everything, has only produced a voracious consumer monster that wreaks havoc on people, land, and values. This system is no longer able to offer real solutions, but exports crises from one country to another, covers up its failure with wars, conflicts, and strife, and suffocates with its contradictions in all fields. Crises of confidence are growing between the ruler and the ruled, political institutions are eroding, the family is collapsing, and society is experiencing unprecedented moral decay. Whenever the West tries to boast about freedom and justice, its masks fall off in the face of the miserable reality that people live in its own home, not to mention the corruption and injustice it exports to the rest of the world's peoples.
Yes, the fall of the West is not the end of history, but the beginning of a new phase that will sprout from the womb of suffering, and from among the ruins of this decaying civilization. This opens a great door for the Islamic Ummah to rise again with its message, and lead the world with a just divine system, derived from revelation, which is Islam. This can only be achieved by establishing the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic Method, which raises the individual on the awareness of Islam, establishes society on the basis of piety, and establishes the state on the basis of Sharia, not on the standards of the West. Therefore, the solution can only be to change the entire system, not to beautify its ugly face.
Here, Muslims must be fully aware that the world today is looking for an alternative. The real alternative is not in China or Russia or any other man-made system, but in the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic Method, which implements Islam as God revealed it, establishes true justice, and takes care of the affairs of people according to the law of the Lord of the Worlds. The Ummah must overcome the illusions of reform within the systems of disbelief, and realize that real change can only be achieved by uprooting the capitalist system from its roots. Just as communism fell, so will capitalism fall, and that is not difficult for God.
Islam is not rituals, but a way of life, and Muslims did not know honor except when they ruled by it, and they did not know humiliation except when man-made systems were imposed on them; republic or monarchy, all of them are human systems that have nothing to do with Islam. Rather, the West wanted Islam to remain confined to the mosque, and God wanted it to be a comprehensive religion, organizing political, economic, and social life, and carrying its message to the world.
Let us all know that there is no real renaissance without the system of Islam. What prevents us from restoring the Ummah's glory and majesty? What stands between us and the life of the Companions and the Successors, who mixed faith and dignity, and purity and leadership? What stands between us and following the commands of God and His Messenger ﷺ? Have we really lost the ability, or has helplessness been planted in us until it has become a false certainty? Nothing prevents us except the illusion; the illusion that Islam is not suitable for this time, the illusion that progress is dependent on imitating the West, the illusion that sustenance is in the hands of our enemies, and that sovereignty is their destiny that cannot be changed.
In fact, God Almighty has prepared everything for us, and sent us a Prophet Muhammad ﷺ with this complete religion and made his law a mercy and guidance for every time and place, then promised us victory and empowerment if we followed his command. So why don't we believe the promise? And why don't we work for it?
Imagine if the Ummah today returned to the path of its Prophet ﷺ, in an era of tremendous scientific and technological developments and capabilities. If the power of faith combined with material progress. If the Ummah's wealth was managed according to God's law, if its armies were united, if generations were raised on an unshakable creed, what would the state of the world be? Rather, what would be the state of the disbelieving colonizer who feeds on our weakness and disunity?
The enemy did not only defeat us with his weapons, but with his mind and cunning, when he made us accept the reality, and become preoccupied with trivial pleasures, and strive after a loaf of bread, leaving the issues of the Ummah, so the vision disappeared and the concern fell, and the ultimate ambition of the young man became "travel", and the goal of the girl became "a small project", as if we were never a nation that led the world!
They deluded us that sustenance is in their hands and that whoever wants comfort must leave his country, language, and religion, and join their train, to be a subordinate under their system. But whoever contemplates the reality sees the truth:
What prevents us from restoring our glory is not the West, but us, when we fear, become lazy, and believe their lies more than we believe God's promise. God has promised victory, but He has made it conditional on support ﴿And Allah will surely support those who support Him﴾.
Let everyone know that Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneering party whose people do not lie, puts its finger on the root of the disease: the absence of Islam as a way of life, and the existence of client regimes that rule by other than what God has revealed, and drag the Ummah into civilizational and legislative subordination to the disbelieving colonizing West.
Therefore, we call on the Ummah to:
1- Awareness of reality: that what we are living in today of humiliation and backwardness is an inevitable result of ruling by other than Islam.
2- Revive the Islamic identity: by understanding Islam in a political and realistic way, not in a spiritual and empty way.
3- Work hard to establish the second Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic Method, which unites Muslims under one banner, restores sovereignty to the Sharia, and leads the Ummah to carry Islam as a message of light and guidance.
Isn't it time for the Muslim to realize that he is living in an illusion? Isn't it time for the Ummah to awaken from its heedlessness? If the Ummah knows that it is being deceived, it will inevitably rise. So what if it wakes up and gathers under the banner of Islam?
It is God's promise of succession, and God's condition is work ﴿Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession (to authority) in the land﴾. So let us work with those who work to establish the Caliphate, for it is the real hope and the only way to restore honor and dignity to the Islamic Ummah. ﴿And We want to confer favor upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them leaders and make them inheritors﴾.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Nusaiba Al-Fallahi (Umm Waad) - Wilayah Yemen
