Press Release
Road Accidents in Egypt: Blatant Evidence of Lack of Care and Corruption of the Capitalist System
In a scene that repeats itself until it has become a tragic habit, people woke up a few days ago to a new disaster in which nine innocent lives were lost in a collision on the regional road in Menoufia Governorate, less than a week after a tragedy that broke hearts when eighteen young girls died in a similar accident that differed in nothing from its predecessors except the number of victims. The regional road - which the regime has always promoted as a "national achievement" - has become a constant witness to the absurdity of the alleged achievements that the rulers sing about as they hide behind false media banners and neglect the people's right to their most basic rights, which is to live safely on roads that do not snatch their souls.
These tragedies are not mere accidents that some justify with fate or bad luck, but rather the natural and direct result of the absence of genuine care for people's affairs, and of the rampant chronic corruption in state institutions, a corruption that stems from the adoption of the rotten capitalist system that measures things by the standard of utility and weighs them by the balance of profit and loss, not by the balance of right and duty, and has no regard for God's permissible and forbidden things.
An Associated Press report issued on June 27, 2025, stated that the truck that claimed the lives of nineteen people, including eighteen young girls, was traveling at excessive speed, and that the dilapidated road was undergoing incomplete maintenance work. Nevertheless, the authorities allowed traffic to continue on it without controls or security measures. In another report by the same agency dated July 5, 2025, regarding the collision between two minibuses on the regional road, it became clear that exceeding the load, drivers' failure to adhere to the prescribed speeds, and negligence in lighting the road and its signs were all direct causes of the massacre. Instead of holding state agencies accountable for their failure to maintain and secure roads and monitor drivers, the authorities rushed to absorb public anger with meager compensations and hollow statements about "deep sorrow" and "urgent measures," as if the problem were a lack of lamentation, not a lack of care!
Preserving lives is one of the great objectives of Islam, which made it the responsibility of the ruler to establish the interests of the people and protect their rights, not to be preoccupied with falsifying their awareness and deceiving them with projects whose appearance is a false glitter and whose essence is neglect. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The Imam is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock." This responsibility can only be achieved by establishing a system of governance that regulates the affairs of life with legitimate standards, not with the standards of the market and profit.
These roads and public facilities are public property that the people benefit from, and which the state must maintain and ensure the safety of people in them without negligence. What we see today of the lack of maintenance of the regional road and other roads for basic infrastructure, despite the fact that it is a major thoroughfare for tens of thousands of workers and the poor, is the product of corruption that strikes its roots in the structure of the capitalist system, which sees in humans only a number in the profit lists.
Egypt has witnessed, according to reports from the Ministry of Health and Population and international press reports, more than 7,000 deaths annually due to road accidents, a number that exceeds the victims of many armed conflicts. It is noteworthy that the majority of them are concentrated on newly constructed roads such as the regional road, the Upper Egypt Expressway, and the Alamein Road, which reveals that these disasters are not due to old roads, but rather due to the mentality of managing public funds that does not care about people's safety. The capitalist system, which justifies privatization and the sale of assets and makes infrastructure a means of accumulating profits, cannot provide genuine care, because it considers it a financial burden, not a legitimate right.
Islam views man as an honored creature whom God has honored, and considers preserving his life, property, and honor as an end in itself, and obliges the state to secure everything that this requires. Under the Islamic state, roads are maintained and equipped with the necessary safety specifications; from adequate lighting, determining appropriate speeds, inspecting the load, specifying traffic times, placing barriers, and activating deterrent legal penalties against those who disregard lives. The Islamic state also obliges itself to allocate the necessary funds for road maintenance, not as a favor, but as a legal duty.
What happened in the disaster of the 18 girls and the disaster of the 9 victims is only a page from a long record written for years under a regime that only considers the interests of the influential and their bank accounts. And if some of them say that "these accidents are predestined," then the Sharia teaches us that fate does not exempt from responsibility, but rather that leaving the legal measures to protect people is a neglect that warrants accountability. God Almighty said: ﴿And do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is ever, to you, Merciful﴾ So what about a regime that leaves hundreds of souls harvested on the asphalt every year and does not move except with a statement of condolence or meager compensation?!
The treatment of these disasters is not with statements of condemnation or promises of reform, but with the establishment of a system that governs by Sharia and takes care of people's affairs according to its rulings, so it strikes against the corrupt, and controls its actions with the standard of halal and haram, not with the standard of "return on investment"! This capitalist system, which has failed to save people from their poverty, diseases, and road disasters, is the same system that entrenches corruption, opposes Islam, and prevents the establishment of the Caliphate, which alone is capable of making people's lives and dignity a priority, not a propaganda tool.
The Islamic nation today is facing a clear choice: either to remain hostage to a capitalist system that kills its sons on the roads, starves them in their homes, and deceives them with false slogans, or to move to establish the Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, which establishes God's rule and restores to the people their rights to a safe and dignified life.
These souls that are lost every day on the roads of Egypt and other Muslim countries are a fair witness to the truth of our saying that there is no salvation for the nation except in Islam as a system, rule, and leadership. These pure bloods are a call to everyone who has a ذره of faith left in his heart to move to work to establish the state of truth and justice, until the nation returns to rule according to what God has revealed and breaks the bonds of dependency, corruption, and negligence, ﴿[They are] those who, if We give them authority in the land, establish prayer and give zakah and enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. And to Allah belongs the outcome of [all] matters.﴾.
The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
In the State of Egypt