Series of Answers from the Eminent Scholar Ata bin Khalil Abu Rashtah, Ameer of Hizb ut-Tahrir
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Institutes in the Lands of Muslims
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Dear brother,
Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you,
Question: On page 80 of the book "Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir" - the tenth line from the top, it says: (Rather, it works to uproot the conditions established by the disbelieving colonizer from its roots, by liberating the country, the institutes, and the ideas, from occupation.). End quote.
What is meant by the word (institutes)?
May Allah grant you success in what He loves and is pleased with.
Your brother / Radi
Answer:
Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you,
The place you are asking about is at the end of the book "Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir," page 83 of the Word file, and this is its text:
[Therefore, Hizb ut-Tahrir works to liberate the Islamic regions from all colonialism. It fights colonialism relentlessly, but it does not only demand evacuation, nor does it demand false independence, but rather it works to uproot the conditions established by the disbelieving colonizer from its roots, by liberating the country, the institutes, and the ideas, from occupation, whether this occupation is military, intellectual, cultural, economic, or otherwise. And it fights everyone who defends any aspect of colonialism until Islamic life is resumed with the establishment of the Islamic state that carries the message of Islam to the entire world. We ask Allah, and implore Him, to grant us help from Him to carry out these enormous responsibilities. He is All-Hearing, Responsive.] End.
The word "institutes" in this context refers to educational institutions, whether they are schools, colleges, or universities... etc. All educational institutions are included in the word "institutes" in this context, because the disbelieving colonizer placed educational policies in the lands of Muslims based on his ideas and his view of life, thus poisoning the minds of learners and distancing them from the ideas of Islam and its view of life. Therefore, it was necessary in the liberation process to include the institutes present in the lands of Muslims so that education policies in them would be in accordance with Islam... We have mentioned in the book "The State" a statement clarifying this meaning on pages 224-226 of the Word file, where we said:
[As soon as the disbelieving colonizer occupied the country, he immediately began implementing all Western laws directly as civil laws that have no connection to Islam, and the Sharia rulings were abandoned, thus establishing the rule of disbelief and removing the rule of Islam. He was aided in this by the fact that he established its pillars and based all its affairs on the education policy he drew up, and the educational curricula he developed, which have continued to be implemented to this day in all Islamic countries, and produced what it produced of these vast armies of teachers, most of whom are responsible for guarding and protecting these programs, and many of whom take the reins of affairs and proceed according to what the disbelieving colonizer wants. The education policy and its curricula were based on two foundations: one is the separation of religion from life, which naturally results in the separation of religion from the state, and this necessitates that the sons of Muslims fight against the establishment of an Islamic state, because it contradicts the basis on which they were taught. The second foundation is making the personality of the disbelieving colonizer the main source of what fills the minds of young people with knowledge and information. This necessitates respecting and venerating this disbelieving colonizer, and trying to emulate and imitate him, even if he is a disbelieving colonizer, and it necessitates despising the Muslim and distancing oneself from him and being disgusted by him and refusing to take from him. This requires fighting against the establishment of an Islamic state and considering it reactionary. Colonialism did not suffice with the curricula of the schools that it supervises or that the governments it established in its place supervise. Rather, it established alongside them missionary schools that are based on pure colonialism, and cultural institutes that take upon themselves the wrong political guidance and the erroneous cultural guidance. Thus, the intellectual atmosphere in the schools, in their various forms, and the cultural institutes, in their diversity, educate the nation with a culture that distances it from thinking about the Islamic state, and prevents it from working for it.
Alongside that, the political curricula in all Islamic countries were based on the separation of religion from life, and the general custom among intellectuals became the separation of religion from the state, and among the general public the separation of religion from politics. As a result, groups of intellectuals were found who claimed that the reason for the Muslims' backwardness was their adherence to religion, and that the only way to progress was nationalism and working for it...] End.
Therefore, it is necessary to liberate the Islamic countries, the institutes in the lands of Muslims, and the ideas of Muslims from any blemish of the blemishes of the colonizers, so that its traces are cut off and the nation becomes pure in its thought.
Your brother, Ata bin Khalil Abu Rashtah
21 Muharram 1447 AH
Corresponding to 2025/07/16 AD
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