2025-07-23
Ar-Raya Newspaper:
Political and Ideological Facts
Confirmed by the Bloody Events in Sweida
On 7/16/2025, and in a shocking and surprising manner, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced the start of the withdrawal of the Syrian army forces from the city of Sweida, after an agreement between the government and the Druze sheikhs and the announcement by the Syrian President for the transitional phase, Ahmed Al-Shara', assigning local factions and Druze sheikhs the responsibility of maintaining security in Sweida, days after the violent and bloody clashes that claimed the lives of hundreds of our brothers as martyrs, after an American call for the withdrawal of government forces from the governorate, and after the Jewish entity's air force launched a series of violent raids on Damascus, targeting the General Staff building, the Ministry of Defense, and the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, and after a previous bombardment that affected several areas in the countryside of Damascus, Daraa, and Sweida, causing a large number of martyrs and wounded. This withdrawal was followed by treacherous, vengeful, and dirty acts that are shameful, affecting the blood and honor of our people, the Bedouins of Sweida; kidnapping, killing, torturing, and dragging with cars in the streets, by the Druze militias that are empowered by the Jewish entity, and with great instigation from Hikmat al-Hijri, who has become a symbol of crime, incitement against the state, separatist calls, demands for international protection, and independent self-rule.
In light of this scene and its painful details, cries for help were launched, seeking the chivalry of Muslims and the zeal of the sincere. Behold, we are faced with a majestic scene: huge convoys of the nation's sons and tribes cover the sun in response to the call, from the north of the country to its south, from its east to its west, and even beyond the borders of Sykes-Picot drawn by the colonizer. The chivalry of the people of Iraq was present with force, as were the people of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others, so that the militias empowered by the Jews received painful blows and began to collapse before the strikes of the sons of the tribes and the attacks of the nation's youth. As expected, the voices of America, the West, and the Jews rose, calling for the Syrian administration to intervene to resolve the conflict. This was followed by a new humiliating agreement in response to American pressure and Jewish demands! The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced the cessation of clashes in the city of Sweida and the evacuation of the area by tribal fighters following the deployment of Syrian security forces to implement the ceasefire, while Al-Hijri bragged about his humiliating conditions for the state, including that public security be on the administrative borders of the governorate, i.e., be border guards only, and his supervision of accepting aid and preventing the reception of state ministers, i.e., his non-recognition of it or its representatives! In addition to his demands to open a crossing with Jordan and for international protection!
As a result, a state of resentment, even popular and tribal anger, spread due to the current administration's insistence on stopping the battles inside Sweida in implementation of America's orders and in response to Jewish demands before the free people completed their march to defeat the henchmen of the Jews from the armed gangs that killed our children, attacked the sanctity of our people, and cut our mujahideen into pieces while they were alive! They did not stop at that, but exerted strong pressure to stop the ceasefire and spread checkpoints to prevent the entry of ammunition to the revolutionaries and prevent the arrival of reinforcements to them, not to mention seizing the weapons of the revolutionaries and restricting them. It is known that a large number of fighters are still in the city, refusing to leave and affirming their determination to continue the battles until the file of the armed gangs, the henchmen of the Jews, is closed, in addition to other numbers that public security pushed to leave Sweida by restricting them and depriving them of ammunition and supplies.
In light of all the above events, facts, and realities, the following must be emphasized:
Firstly: The people of Al-Sham, including the tribes, prove that they are truly people of truth, chivalry, support, and action, and that they are the best of men, the best of incubators, and the best of support for those who know their rights, give them their due, and place them in their proper positions.
Secondly: The movement of the tribes confirmed a deeply rooted ideological and political fact, that we are one nation apart from other people. Yes, it confirmed the strength of the nation and revealed the fragility of the regimes. The nation's interaction with the event also proved that Islam is deeply rooted in its heart and that its unity on the basis of Islam is its pulse and aspiration in what is to come after it broke the imaginary borders drawn by the infidel colonizer with his sinful hands. A blessed movement that revives the spirit of revolution and jihad in the hearts of the nation's youth and bequeaths hatred for the Jews and the approach of the promised meeting and the hadith of Al-Gharqad.
Thirdly: The real strength of any state and the real support for any sincere leadership that takes over the reins of leadership, after relying on God, is the nation and the popular incubator with its human and material capabilities and political awareness and revolutionary and jihadist spirit. The role of the revolutionary incubator over the course of 14 years is well known. Therefore, only a sincere and skilled person honors it and raises its status, and only an ignorant person who is approaching its enemies denies it, and his ignorance leads him to ruin.
Fourthly: The factions of treachery in Sweida, and their leader who is puffed up with Jewish support, have no covenant or pact. They have not left a crime against our people without committing it, nor an abomination without falling into it, under the eyes of the complicit and conspiring world. It is a crime that they are appeased and rewarded for what they have done by consolidating their administration of their criminal hotbeds under any pretext or justification. The lenient way of dealing with the Druze file revealed a dangerous underestimation by the new administration, as its representatives were expelled, international protection was requested, and contact was made with the Jewish entity, which is considered a clear betrayal.
Fifthly: Our enemies do not want us to rise again. They continue to weaken us, scatter our unity, and fragment our country so that we remain subservient and humiliated to them, unable to stand on our own without them. They want southern Syria to remain free of the presence of the army and its weapons so that the Jewish entity, whose fragility was exposed by the heroes of Gaza with their few blessed equipment and supplies, is safe.
Sixthly: We must be certain that submitting to international dictates and trusting American promises will only lead us to clear loss in this world and the hereafter, and that the hesitant administration's abandonment of decisiveness and determination, its rush to normalize relations with the Jews, and its appeasement of the East and the West, seeking honor from them, at the expense of the people of the revolution and its principles instead of relying on God, adhering to His law, and strengthening itself with His servants, confirms that it has begun to take a dangerous turn. Its abandonment of the application of God's law deprives it of God's support, which carried us to Damascus victorious, and its repetition of the same mistakes weakens the prestige of the revolution and wastes great gains for which the mujahideen paid with their blood. We remind it of His saying: ﴿AND DO NOT INCLINE TOWARD THOSE WHO DO WRONG, LEST YOU BE TOUCHED BY THE FIRE, AND YOU WOULD NOT HAVE OTHER THAN ALLAH ANY ALLIES; THEN YOU WOULD NOT BE HELPED﴾.
Seventhly: Our creed has defined for us the nature of the relationship with the Jewish entity that usurped our land and desecrated our holy places, which is committing the most heinous crimes against our people in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, as a relationship of war and existential conflict, an inevitable and inescapable battle. Delaying it only means more exhaustion of lives and capabilities. Therefore, we must prepare for it and be ready to fight it with all our capabilities. Accordingly, it is not permissible to normalize relations with the Jews or enter into any form of treaties that recognize their sovereignty, even over one inch of Muslim land.
In conclusion, the first step in the path to achieving victory is to declare a genuine commitment to applying God's law, without equivocation or delay, seeking God's pleasure and victory, not the pleasure of America or anyone else. Without that, we will not rise again, and the country will not have security or sovereignty. We must rely on the revolutionary incubator and the sincere among its sons, for they are the true support after God Almighty in times of crisis and adversity, ﴿AND WHOEVER RELIES UPON ALLAH - THEN HE IS SUFFICIENT FOR HIM. INDEED, ALLAH WILL ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE. ALLAH HAS ALREADY SET FOR EVERYTHING A [MEASURED] EXTENT.﴾.
By: Professor Nasser Sheikh Abdul Hai
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Syria
Source: Ar-Raya Newspaper
