July 22, 2025

Al-Raya Newspaper: The Islamic Creed is the Basis of Salvation and the Compass of Life

Al Raya sahafa

2025-07-23

Al-Raya Newspaper: The Islamic Creed is the Basis of Salvation and the Compass of Life

The creed linguistically is what is held in the heart, and in Sharia it is to believe in God, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and destiny, both good and evil, as stated in the two Sahihs on the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab that a man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, asking and confirming him until he said: "Tell me about faith?" He said: "To believe in God, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and to believe in destiny, both good and evil."

It is the firm belief that corresponds to reality with evidence. The creed of Islam is an intellectual creed, as a person must make his mind a guide to belief in the inevitability of the existence of the Creator, glory be to Him, and that He created the universe from nothing, and that He does not resemble any of His creatures, and that the Quran is the word of God, and that Muhammad ﷺ is a messenger from God. Then he takes what came with the textual evidence of the pillars of faith, and the role of the mind is limited to the firm belief in what the definitive evidence came with, which the mind cannot be evidence for.

The Islamic creed is a political creed, meaning that it is not a priestly creed, in which the believer is satisfied with believing that the universe has a creator only, and separates it from all or some of the affairs of his life. Rather, it is a political creed in the sense that it emanates from a system that manages human life and interests, and governs and cares for his affairs. From it emanate the rulings of Islamic Sharia, which regulate all human relations, whether his relationship with his Creator, his relationship with himself, or with other creatures. Among these relationships is the relationship of governance between the ruler and the ruled, which is that the owner of the universe, who is God Almighty alone, has the right to ownership, disposal, and management of what He created.

We find that one of the requirements of the creed is that it regulates the issue of governance, so the Muslim believes that governance belongs to God, and from here came the term creed of governance.

The creed is the basis of the radical change in the mentality and psychology of a person, as it makes him an Islamic personality. The creed of governance is the first entitlement of the word of monotheism, that is, the first entitlement of the testimony that there is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God. Without the creed of governance, the word of monotheism becomes meaningless, and its impact becomes ordinary or transient. The creed of governance is the required practical application for Islamic life, or in other words, it is the basis of the conflict between Islam and disbelief.

The creed of governance, theoretically, according to the commentators on the creed, lies in two things: The first is the existential governance, meaning that God Almighty is the controller of the universe in terms of creation, destiny, and estimation, and this is only denied by atheists. But our topic is the second thing, which is the legislative governance, which in terms of importance is in the third thing.

It is true that the disbelievers do not want Islam as a whole, but there are three things that if they succeed in one of them, they will have gained control over Islam and Muslims.

- The first thing is to remove the sanctity from the Quranic texts. Orientalists have written a book about this called "The History of the Quran," and it took about 80 years to write it. Its author was the devil of the orientalists, Lundke. They see that the Quran is the word of a human being that can be criticized, analyzed, discussed, researched, and thought about. Therefore, it is not unquestionable and sacred to them. But they did not succeed in this because Muslims sanctify their religion no matter what the situation.

- The second thing is to undermine the truth of the Sunnah and attack the books of Bukhari and Muslim and others, and they also did not succeed in this with the majority of Muslims, even if they were able to win individuals who call themselves enlightened, but in reality they were not able to inject their poison into the Muslim nation, so they did not succeed even by undermining the truth of the Sunnah.

- As for the third thing, it is the war on the creed of governance, and in this they have succeeded and gained control over the Muslims. We will detail how they succeeded in some things to bring the mind closer.

The Quran commands adherence to the rope of God, but they have succeeded in dividing the nation. The Quran commands not to ally with the disbelievers, but today Muslims are dragged to the Security Council and the International Court of Justice, which are colonial institutions that only serve the interests of the disbelievers, and reality is the greatest witness and evidence.

The Quran commands jihad to exalt the word of God, but today Muslims are fighting among themselves for the sake of the homeland, and they forget the creed ﴿The believers are but brothers﴾, and the Quran does not approve of any system other than the system of Islam, and the disbelievers have been able to make the systems of government in Muslim countries republican and monarchical... and other systems that contradict the creed of Islam, which perpetuate the fragmentation of the nation.

The Quran commands us to support our weak Muslim brothers in any country, but today Gaza is dying and the armies are guarding the borders drawn by colonialism in agreements such as the Sykes-Picot Agreement. There are more than sixty verses of the Holy Book that revolve around the sovereignty of God.

Therefore, without the creed of governance, the two testimonies become incomplete, and it is not possible to reach faith and achieve it except through it, ﴿But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves, and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission.﴾ Without the creed of governance, Islam becomes mere acts of worship practiced in mosques, and even the acts of worship will be left without linking them to it.

The Messenger of God ﷺ says: "The bonds of Islam will be broken one by one, and every time a bond is broken, people will cling to the one that follows it, and the first of them to be broken is the judgment, and the last of them is the prayer." Therefore, Islam made the obligation of judgment in the position of the crown of obligations, which if disrupted, the rest of the rulings would fade away until the last of them is prayer.

Therefore, when looking at the reality of people, you see them living with different standards in life, and every person has a standard. You see a person whose standard is personal interest, and he does not care about his society, his country, or even his religion, and he has nothing of religion to adhere to except what concerns him, such as prayer and fasting, and you see him uttering the claim (leave creation to the Creator), so this person and others like him, their existence and non-existence are the same, they live only for their personal interest. And God says about those whose condition is this: ﴿Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire?﴾ The person with a personal interest certainly follows his desire; because he is contrary to the religion of God by taking the religion of God selectively, he takes what agrees with his interest and what opposes his interest as if he did not hear it!

As for the second standard, it is as if he is following his master or sheikh or following his leader in general; whoever is in this condition has made his leader, who is a human being like him, a lord besides God. On the authority of Adi bin Hatim, he said: I came to the Prophet ﷺ with a cross of gold around my neck. He said: I heard him say: ﴿They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah﴾. He said: I said: O Messenger of God, they did not worship them. He said: "Yes, but they make lawful for them what God has forbidden, so they make it lawful, and they forbid them what God has made lawful, so they forbid it, and that is their worship of them."

As for the owner of the third standard, he is the ideological person who walks in life according to the judgment of God Almighty, and he turns with the evidence wherever it turns, and he does not pay attention to his interest if he thinks it is contrary to the evidence. This person's ruler in life is God, and he walks in it and has no ruler other than God.

By: Professor Mayas Al-Mukardi - Yemen Province

Source: Al-Raya Newspaper

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November 11, 2025

Ar-Raya Newspaper: Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

Al Raya sahafa

2025-11-12

Ar-Raya Newspaper:Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

O people of Sudan: How long will the conflict in Sudan and elsewhere remain fuel for international ambitions and their struggle with their malicious plans, interventions, and supplying the conflicting parties with weapons to completely control it?! Your women and children have been suffering for more than two years from this bloody conflict that only serves the interests of the West and its allies in controlling the fate of Sudan, which has always been coveted for its location and wealth, so it is in their interest to tear it apart and fragment it. The Rapid Support Forces' seizure of Al-Fashir is just another episode in these plans, as America wants to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan and eliminate British influence in it.

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The Goal of Ortagus' Visit

to Lebanon!

In light of the American offensive against Lebanon and the region with the project of normalization and surrender, and the US administration's endeavor under Trump and his team to bring more rulers of Muslim countries into the Abraham Accords, the visit of the American envoy Morgan Ortagus to Lebanon and the usurping Jewish entity comes, loaded with political, security, and economic pressures, threats, and conditions on Lebanon, noting that this visit coincided with the visit of the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the Director of Egyptian Intelligence, apparently to serve the same direction.

In response to these visits, a media statement from the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Lebanon affirmed the following:

First: The interventions of America and its followers in Muslim countries are to serve the interests of America and the Jewish entity, not to serve our interests, especially since America is the first supporter of the Jewish entity in politics, economy, finance, weapons, and media, openly and publicly.

Second: The envoy's visit is not a neutral visit, as some may imagine! Rather, it comes in the context of a clear American policy in the region that supports the Jewish entity and contributes to enabling it militarily and politically, and what the American envoy offers is only an imposition of hegemony, a consecration of subservience, and a diminution of sovereignty, which is a form of surrender and submission to the Jews, and this is what God refuses for the people of Islam.

Third: Accepting these dictates and signing any agreements that consecrate foreign tutelage is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, the Ummah, and everyone who fought or sacrificed to remove this usurping entity from Lebanon and Palestine.

Fourth: Dealing with the Jewish entity is a crime in the legal sense for the vast majority of the people of Lebanon, Muslims and non-Muslims, even in the positive law to which the Lebanese authority resorts, or human law in general, especially after the criminal entity committed genocide in Gaza, which it has not and will not hesitate to do in Lebanon and other Muslim countries.

Fifth: The American campaign and offensive on the region will not pass, and America will not succeed in its endeavor to shape the region as it desires, and if it has its project for the region, which is based on colonialism, plundering peoples, misleading Muslims, and even taking them out of their religion by calling for the (Abrahamic religion), then Muslims, in return, have their project promised by God Almighty; the project of the Second Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood, which has become very close, God willing, and this project is the one that will redraw the region, and even the entire world, anew, in fulfillment of the saying of the Messenger ﷺ: "Indeed, God showed me the earth, and I saw its east and its west, and my nation will reach what was shown to me of it." Narrated by Muslim, and the Jewish entity will be eliminated as the Messenger of God ﷺ foretold in his hadith: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them..." Agreed upon.

In conclusion, Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Lebanon continues to adopt the task of repelling America's campaign and offensive of normalization and surrender on Lebanon and the region, and nothing will deter it from doing so, and we warn the Lebanese authority against following the path of normalization and surrender! And we call on it to seek refuge in its people to confront that, and not to play around with the matter under the pretext of borders or reconstruction and the influence of the international system, ﴿And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.﴾.

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A Delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan

Meets with a Number of Dignitaries from the City of Al-Ubayyid

A delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan, on Monday, November 3, 2025, visited a number of dignitaries from the city of Al-Ubayyid, the capital of North Kordofan. The delegation was led by Professor Al-Nazeer Muhammad Hussein Abu Minhaj, a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Council in Wilayah Sudan, accompanied by Engineer Banqa Hamid and Professor Muhammad Saeed Boukeh, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The delegation met with:

Professor Khalid Hussein - Head of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jalaa Al-Azhari wing.

Dr. Abdullah Youssef Abu Seil - Lawyer and Professor of Law at universities.

Sheikh Abdul Rahim Jouda - From the Ansar al-Sunna group.

Mr. Ahmed Muhammad - Suna News Agency correspondent.

The meetings touched on the topic of the hour; the fall of Al-Fashir and the accompanying crimes of the militia against the people of the city, and the betrayal of the army leaders, who did not fulfill their duty towards the people of Al-Fashir and lift the siege on them, while they were capable of doing so throughout the period of the siege, and the repeated attacks on them, more than 266 attacks.

Then the delegation handed them a copy of the publication of Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan entitled: "The fall of Al-Fashir opens the way for America's plan to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan. How long will we be fuel for the international conflict?!" Their reactions were excellent and they called for the continuation of these meetings.

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"Phoenix Express 2025" Exercises

A Chapter in Tunisia's Submission to American Hegemony

Tunisia's preparation to host the new version of the multilateral naval exercise "Phoenix Express 2025" during the month of November comes, which is the exercise that the US Africa Command has become organizing annually after the regime in Tunisia involved the country by signing with America, on 2020/09/30, a military cooperation agreement, which US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper described as a roadmap that lasts for ten years.

In this regard, a press statement by Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah Tunisia reminded that the party clarified when this dangerous agreement was signed that the matter goes beyond traditional agreements, as America is drawing up a huge project that requires 10 full years to complete, and that the roadmap, according to America's claim, is related to border control, port protection, combating extremist ideology, and confronting Russia and China, and this means, with all impudence, a diminution of Tunisia's sovereignty, but rather it is direct tutelage over our country.

The statement affirmed that Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia, despite the harassment, arrests, and military trials that our youth are subjected to as a result of their speaking out with the word of truth, reaffirms its call to dissolve this ominous colonial agreement that is intended to drag the country and the entire Islamic Maghreb and adapt them to the malicious American policies, and also repeated its appeal to the people of power and strength in Tunisia and all Muslim countries to pay attention to what the enemies of the Ummah are plotting against them and luring them to, and that the Shariah duty requires them to support their religion and repel the enemy lurking in their countries and their Ummah, and to exalt the word of God by supporting those who work to implement His Shariah and establish His state, the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood promised soon, God willing.

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America's Disdain for Its Citizens

Leaves Women and Children Hungry

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program that helps low-income individuals and families and people with disabilities obtain electronic benefits that are used to purchase food and beverages, except for alcohol, and plants to grow their own food. Reports indicate that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families. 54% of adults who receive food assistance are women, most of whom are single mothers, and 39% are children, meaning that nearly one in five children relies on these benefits to ensure they don't go hungry. The federal shutdown also forced some states to find other ways to fund free and reduced-price food programs in their educational areas, so that children who rely on food during the school day would not have to live without food. As a result, the many food banks spread throughout the country post pictures of empty shelves and ask people to donate food and grocery store gift cards to meet the increasing demand for food.

Accordingly, the Women's Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: We may ask how can the richest country in the world ignore the fact that millions of its most vulnerable citizens will not find enough food? You may wonder where America spends its money, even during the shutdown? Well, instead of ensuring that Americans get enough food, they send billions of dollars to the Jewish entity to kill Palestinians. He is a ruler who sees building a luxurious celebration hall as more important than anything else, while other deputies find that their personal investments are given priority over the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent! As you can see, capitalist America has never been interested in caring for the affairs of its citizens, but was only interested in providing military and financial support to those who deprive children around the world of their right to security, food, shelter, and education, which are basic necessities. Therefore, it leaves children in America also suffering from hunger and insecurity, and lacking adequate education and health care.

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"Every Muslim is inviolable to another Muslim: his blood, his wealth, and his honor."

To every Muslim, to every officer, soldier, and policeman, to everyone who owns a weapon: God Almighty has granted us reason to think with, and obligated us to use it correctly, so one should not act, perform any action, or utter any statement before knowing its Shariah ruling. Knowing the Shariah ruling requires understanding the reality to which the Shariah ruling is to be applied, so the Muslim must enjoy political awareness, so that he perceives matters as they really are, and is not carried away by the plans of the colonizing disbelievers who do not want good for us or for Islam, and who strive with all their might, cunning, and ingenuity to tear us apart, control our countries, and plunder our capabilities and wealth. How can a Muslim accept to be a tool in the hands of those colonizing disbelievers, or an executor of the orders of their agents?! Does he covet a little of the fleeting pleasures of this world, so he loses his Hereafter and is among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever, cursed and expelled from the mercy of God? Does a Muslim accept to please any of the created, helpless humans while angering God Almighty, in whose hand is this world and the Hereafter?!

Hizb ut-Tahrir calls you to raise the level of political awareness, adhere to the rulings of God Almighty, and work with it to rule according to what God has revealed, so that it removes the hands of the colonizing disbelievers and their agents from you, and thwarts their plans in our countries.

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You Are the Ones Who Starved the Muslims

O Masoud Pezeshkian!

Under this title, the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: Iran has announced the bankruptcy of the largest private bank in it, which is (Ayandeh) Bank, and this bank has 270 branches in Iran, after the debts on it increased to five billion dollars. What is surprising in the matter is the criticism of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for administrative failure, saying: "We have oil and gas, but we are hungry"!

The statement affirmed: The person responsible for that administrative failure that the Iranian president is talking about is the president himself, so why is the Iranian people hungry - O Masoud Pezeshkian - and you have oil, gas, and other wealth and minerals? Is it not a result of your foolish policies? Is it not due to your distance from ruling by Islam? The same can be said about the rest of the Muslim countries. The foolish rulers in them squander the Ummah's huge wealth, enable the colonizing disbelievers to access it, and deprive the Ummah of that wealth, then one of them comes to justify the reason for the hunger by saying that it is an administrative failure!

In conclusion, the press statement addressed the Muslims: The foolishness of these rulers who are in charge of your affairs has become clear to every sighted person, and they are not worthy of taking charge of it. It is time for you to restrain them, for this is the ruling of the fool; preventing him from disposing of money and restraining him, and pledge allegiance to one Khaleefah who rules you with the Shariah of God Almighty, and cancels the riba system in your countries so that your Lord Almighty and His Messenger ﷺ will be pleased with you, and restores your plundered wealth, and restores your dignity and honor. Here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneer whose people do not lie, calling you to work with it to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood.

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To the Sincere Descendants of the Ottoman Heroes

We ask the sincere descendants of the Ottoman heroes: What happened, O great army?! What is this humiliation and weakness?! Is it due to a lack of equipment and supplies?! How can this be, when you are the strongest army in the Middle East? And you rank eighth among the strongest armies in the world, while the Jewish entity ranks eleventh. That is, you are ahead of it in all respects, so how can you accept humiliation?!

The Jihadi army may lose a battle, but it will not lose a war; because the determination that ignited its leaders and soldiers is the same determination that created Badr, Hunayn, and Yarmouk, it is the same determination that opened Andalusia and made Muhammad al-Fatih determined to conquer Constantinople. And it is the same determination that will liberate Al-Aqsa and restore things to their rightful place.

We affirm that the national military doctrine has been lost and not preserved. It is a doctrine of weakness and failure, which diminishes the prestige of the army because it does not open the door to fighting in the way of God. It is a doctrine that made the military a job to receive a salary, so conscription became a heavy burden on the hearts of young people, who avoid it. It is a doctrine that made military ranks for boasting, so the army was emptied of its true meaning.

We in Hizb ut-Tahrir call on our sons in the Turkish army not to continue abandoning Jihad and not to support the Muslims who are crying out for their help; because that is an evil, and what an evil... So do not abandon the pinnacle of this religion until you win in both worlds.

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Trump's Attack on the Democrats

A Coup Against Democracy and an Exposure of Its Falsehood

(Al Jazeera Net, Wednesday, Jumada Al-Akhira 14, 1447 AH, 2025/11/5AD) US President Donald Trump launched a series of sharp statements, criticizing the performance of the Democrats, the voting system, immigration policies, and the government shutdown, stressing that the time has come for the Republicans to take decisive steps (Al Jazeera Network).

Ar-Raya: Since Donald Trump's rise to the American political scene, the world has witnessed a wide debate about the nature of his speech and his style in dealing with his political opponents. Between those who see him as a reformer who wants to restore America to its "lost greatness," and those who consider him a direct threat to the values of democracy, the most important question remains: Is Trump's continuous attack on the Democratic Party merely a normal political conflict, or is it in its essence a coup against American democracy itself?

Trump's attack on the Democrats comes as an internal explosion in the heart of the American system, as it exposes the real conflict between the elite class that controls the joints of the state, and the American people who feel that their voice is no longer effective in the political decision.

Trump's attack on the Democrats, although it seems like a rebellion against American political norms, is in fact a mirror that reflects the crisis of Western democracy itself. It is not only a coup against democracy, but an exposure of its falsehood, and that it is a dead person waiting for the Khilafah state to announce its death and bury it soon, God willing. Our responsibility is to be certain that the path to renaissance is not by imitating

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