Revival of the Covenant

Revival of the Covenant

(Translated)

News:

During the 51st session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Ishaq Dar, condemned the recent aggression of the Jewish entity against Iran, describing it as a flagrant violation of international law and a serious threat to regional stability. Dar stressed the need for the unity of Islamic countries to face the increasing challenges and urged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to play a decisive role in addressing these crises.

Comment:

The Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, a 75-year-old Muslim, born and living in a country founded 77 years ago in the name of Islam, addresses an organization founded 56 years ago in response to a 1969 attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, similar in structure to the United Nations, emerged as an attempt to raise a collective Islamic voice to the world. Just as the United Nations emerged as a global response after two devastating world wars under the belief that the world should now be governed differently, that fighting should be criminalized because it leads to war, and that the ability to wage war should remain in the hands of only a select few; Muslims, despite being divided into national states, felt the pain of the people of Palestine, yet it took 24 years and two wars on Palestine to form the Organization of Islamic Cooperation until Al-Aqsa was actually attacked.

In this new world order, resistance is often described as a betrayal of the modern concept of nation-states, while violence remains the prerogative of those deemed legitimate by international consensus. Decades of bloodshed and injustice have exposed not only Western organizations but also the so-called Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which has failed to play any role. The presence of its members in their own conflicts, and then the presence of other members as allies, has made it a miniature version of the United Nations, where speeches are given and decisions are made, but nothing is accomplished. The reason is that this organization carries no Islamic character other than that those who attend it claim to be Muslim.

The main goals and obligations stipulated in the founding charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are to improve and enhance Islamic friendship and solidarity among member states; to protect and defend the true image of Islam and prevent defamation of it; to promote dialogue between civilizations and religions; and to strive for integrated and sustainable human development, and ensure the well-being of member states. Furthermore, the Charter safeguards the right to self-determination and non-interference in the internal affairs of member states, as well as their sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has failed in every crisis faced by the Islamic world since its establishment. Even if it holds meetings and its representatives express their dissatisfaction with the attacks on Iran or the genocide in Gaza, it remains a failed entity. Muslims do not need to create new platforms based on Western principles, but rather they need to establish the authentic Islamic state according to the path followed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

In Islam, we have the example of the Pledge of Aqaba. Ibn Ishaq said: When they gathered for the pledge, Al-Abbas bin Ubadah bin Nadlah said: Do you know what you are pledging to this man? They said: Yes. He said: You are pledging to fight the red and black of people, and if you see that when your wealth is exhausted by a calamity, and your nobles are killed, you will surrender him, then from now on, by God, if you do, it is the disgrace of this world and the Hereafter, and if you see that you will fulfill what you have called him to, at the expense of wealth and the killing of nobles, then take him, for by God, it is the best of this world and the Hereafter. They said: By God, we take him at the expense of wealth and the killing of nobles. What do we get for that, O Messenger of Allah, if we fulfill it? He said: "Paradise." They said: Extend your hand, so he extended his hand, and they pledged allegiance to him.

The covenant in Islam does not require mere words and promises of coexistence, but rather requires commitment. The covenant that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made was to protect him as the last prophet of Islam, and this includes the message, its implementation, and its protection. Muslims who realize the seriousness of this covenant will not dare to manipulate words, and they will not wait for decades or manipulate to prolong their meager existence a little with the blood of innocent Muslims. We, the Muslims, reject all these false promises, movements, and organizations, and we demand the renewal of the covenant made by our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and we demand that the armies move for Jihad, as there is no way to Jihad except through it.

﴿And they say, "Our Lord, why have You decreed upon us fighting? Why did You not delay us for a short term?" Say, "The enjoyment of this world is little, and the Hereafter is better for he who fears Allah. And injustice will not be done to you, [even] as much as a thread [inside a date seed]."﴾

Written for the Central Media Office radio of Hizb ut Tahrir

Ikhlaq Jehan

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Turkey and Arab Regimes Asked Hamas to Lay Down Their Weapons

Turkey and Arab Regimes Asked Hamas to Lay Down Their Weapons

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News:

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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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.

Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Dr. Muhammad Jaber

Head of the Central Communications Committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Lebanon

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