The Miss Globe Pageant is Commerce at the expense of the Honour of Muslim Women

Following the organizing of the Miss Globe Pageant this year in Tunisia and setting the date of 25/12/2016 to take place in the Qubba Palace in El Menzah and based on the follow-up of the preparations and statements of those overseeing the pageant, we in the Women�s Section of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Tunisia would like to reiterate the following:

- This initiative has no connection to our Islamic Ummah and it represents a foreign custom thrust upon our society that aims to consecrate degeneration and decadence. We are saddened by the funding and encouragement of the two sponsors that presented this pageant at a time when women are suffering from life�s innumerable problems. For that reason, it is obligatory upon all sincere people to make sure that they boycott this abnormal initiative.

- At a time when the state is arresting anyone who puts forth an invention or scientific study under the charge of immoderation in thinking and instead of organizing a contest for the best scientific study or best university or honoring the students that have attained the highest grades and organizing contests for selecting female memorizers of the Qur�an and the best studies and highest grades; instead it organizes a contest to choose the most beautiful unclothed woman! This disgraceful and serious matter has no relation with the reformation or revival of the woman.

- The woman is need of a revolution of knowledge and not to be degraded into such abysses. This initiative is not from the woman�s priorities that she is in urgent need to reshape the level of her societal aspirations in terms of knowledge and morals in their consideration as leading personalities and mothers. They should not be dealt with as dolls and fashion models and especially when this initiative insults the woman because she is swayed to be naked and debauched. That is because these initiatives are foreign to our culture and principles.

- These toxic initiatives exploit the inclinations and desires of some naive young men and they are built upon a method that empties the person of his thought and relies upon the body and external appearance as a measure for superiority and prominence that reflects a major vacuum within the minds of our young men.

- These initiatives reflect how to treat the woman as a tool of production and means to amass wealth within the capitalist civilization. It makes her body a mere commodity in beauty queen contests and catwalks. She is treated as if she is a cosmetic image, element of scenery, an adorned object for visual meetings and she has become the most significant means for marketing numerous products to the point that not a single television or advertising poster advertisement is free of a woman adorned with make-up.

- These contests which are strange and at odds with the women of Tunisia which seek to portray the woman in Tunisia as being vulgar, indecent and stripped from her Islamic identity and culture. That is to create a model of the western woman within the lands of Islam to consolidate the intellectual and political subservience from her.

- The affair of the woman in Tunisia is like the affair of any upright and pure Muslim woman. She loves her Deen and yearns for it to return as the system of ruling, to restore her lost honour, glory and dignity. For that reason, we will never allow for this capitalism to vulgarize and degrade us. We will never allow the West and those vigilant over their interests to represent us.

- Verily, the woman in Tunisia seeks to be liberated from this degenerate view of her and the liberation that she wants must be upon the basis of Islam alone and not upon the disbelieving capitalist basis that denies the right of Allah Subhaanahu Wa Ta�Aalaa to legislate, or upon the basis of democracy that considers the body of the woman and displaying it as a mere commodity that is traded with. Therefore, the radical root solution for our women in Tunisia and all the Muslim lands is the ruling by the Shar�a of Allah and the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah (Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood. It will restore a woman�s �humanity� and right to live in this life as a �slave of Allah�, to Him alone with no partner whilst she finds assurance and tranquility in His legislation and judgement.

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�And Allah will perfect His light and even if the disbelievers hate it.�[As-Saff: 8]

Women�s Section

in the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia

New books published by MaktabaIslamia

The book Mafaheem Hizb Ut Tahrir was authored by the eminent Jurist, Thinker and statesman, Sheikh Taqiuddin An Nabhani and it is a deep and unbiased research into the conceptual reasons of the failure of the Islamic movements that arose in the past 2 centuries. This book mainly was written with the objective to clarify the key thoughts and concepts which the Ummah was confused in and therefore was not unable to stop the path of decline it had taken. 

MaktabaIslamia has just published the much awaited English translation of the Commentary & Explanation of Mafaheem Hizb Ut Tahrir by Sheikh Hafez saleh. You can check the book on the following link Commentary & Explanation of the Book Mafaheem.

The other books that Maktaba has published are

• As-Sababiyah (Causality) by Abdul Kareem Ash-Shaami
• The building of the Islamic Nafsiya and how to develop it by Bilal Fathi Saleem
• Taghyeer (change) - The inevitability of the Khilafah by Mahmoud AbdulKareem Hasan
• The Shariah methodology for the resumption of the Islamic way of life by Muhammad Hussein Abdullah 
• Khabar al Waahid Does not establish 'Ilm and it is not taken in Aqaid by Mohammad Shuwaiky
• The woman's cry for Khilafah by Dr Nazreen Nawaz
• An-Nahdah (Revival) by Sheikh Hafez Saleh
• Methodology of the Quran Al Kareem for the Daw'ah by Sheikh Hafez Saleh
• The Muslim's handbook to understanding China by Istinarah Press

The Muslim's handbook to understanding China is the first book from the 'The Muslim Ideologue's Companion' series published by Istinarah Press . The series is a part of an effort to address the need to have a handy guide to understand various Intellectual, Economic, Legislative & Political issues from an Islamic ideological perspective. The book on China is the First in the series and mainly consists of Q&A by Shekh Ata bin Khaleel abu Rashta on the subject. 

Check all the new books from Maktaba here.
 

Open Letter to Pakistan's New Military Command

Asalaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah!

After the recent round of promotions to the levels of Brigadier, Major-General, Lieutenant-General and General, we address you all as the new military command of Pakistan's armed forces, one of the world's most capable fighting forces. No doubt military command is a great duty in our Deen and a source of great reward. Indeed, the Final Messenger to all humankind, RasulAllah (saaw), himself was a military commander, after he (saaw) made Hijrah to Madinah on 12^th Rabiul-Awwal, having previously secured Nussrah (Material Support) from your noble predecessors, the military command of the Ansaar (ra). Thus, RasulAllah (saaw) set the glorious example of military command for you, securing the Muslims from their enemies and raising the word of Allah (swt) as the highest before all of humankind.

We put to you that the greatest challenge you face is to end Pakistan's alliance with the United States. Far from being a source of strength by which to counter India's regional mischief, this alliance is the cause of our being progressively and perilously weakened before India.

Through its alliance in the era of General Musharraf, the US exploited the intelligence, bases and air corridors of our armed forces to make possible its invasion and subsequent occupation of Afghanistan in the first place. Then, the US promptly opened the doors of Afghanistan to India to grant it an unprecedented presence there, which the Hindu State began using as a base to destabilize Pakistan, igniting the fires of chaos and Fitna throughout our soil. Firmly allied to the United States, General Musharraf then declared Jihad in Kashmir as �terrorism," an American demand that granted great relief to India, whose cowardly troops were shaken by small groups of poorly armed, yet highly motivated Muslims.

Then, through its alliance in the era of General Kayani, Washington ensured our armed forces were massively deployed on the Western border. It is this American demand which not only granted India on the Eastern border even greater relief, further bolstering its regional ambitions, it reduced Pakistan's armed forces role to that of a security detail for the American and Indian presence in Afghanistan.

Then, through its alliance in the era of General Raheel, Washington brought further relief for India, through ensuring the forceful suppression of Islam under the banner of �fighting extremism,� stabbing the Muslim resistance in Kashmir in the back under the banner of �ending cross border terrorism� and restricting us to frustrating, token, tit-for-tat responses in the face of ever increasing Indian aggression on our eastern borders, under the banner of "restraint."

And now if alliance with the United States is allowed to continue under General Bajwa, Pakistan will be herded towards US sponsored talks with India, to bury forever any hope of a fully liberated Kashmir being unified with Pakistan. This American ploy is to grant India a victory through the maze of diplomatic talks that it could never secure for itself on the battlefield. As for the �normalization� of relations, it is an American demand to permanently remove Pakistan as an obstacle to India as the dominant regional power, through a whole host of security concessions, including our falling on the sword of self-inflicted nuclear disarmament.

Respected military commanders!

America is an open, hostile, Kaffir enemy of Muslims. Its enmity is apparent from its support of the Hindu State in the east and the Jewish State in the west. Its enmity is evident from its aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Its enmity is clear from its relentless bringing Pakistan to heel before India. Islam forbids alliance with the enemy forces who fight Muslims, occupies our lands and desires only our ruin, for Allah (swt) said, ???? ???????? ????????? ???????? ??? ??????????? ???????? ????????????? ??????????? ????????? ?????????? ?????????????? ?????? ???????? ????? ????????? ???? ????????? �O you who believe do not take My enemy and your enemy as allies, meeting them with softness. Indeed, they disbelieve in that which has come to you of truth.�[Surah Mutahina 60:1] And we assure you that you are not only fully capable of ending alliance with Washington, the situation is ripe for it.

Consider, respected commanders, the weaknesses of the United States itself. Militarily, its own forces, whose lack of bravery cripples their possession of sophisticated weaponry, have been shaken by small, poorly armed tribal men in Afghanistan, forcing them to come to rely upon our armed forces. Economically, the consuming greed of its elite has led to an immense and unsustainable concentration of wealth within a few, causing the collapsing of its economy. Politically, its standing and reputation is in tatters through its naked, violent pursuit of material resources abroad, inciting great hatred against it, not just within the Muslim World, but beyond it.

Consider that despite the immense oppression against the Ummah from the current tyrant rulers, our Ummah has not retreated rather it has grown in its commitment to Islam. The rejection of colonialism and Democracy is stronger than ever before within her, as is her demand for ruling of Islam and establishing its Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood. Thus, the Islamic Ummah would rejoice, applaud and fully support your brave and bold step to deliver that which she desires most.

Consider also that Hizb ut Tahrir under its Ameer, Sheikh Ata ibn Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, is fully prepared for ruling by Islam, commanding legions of capable politicians whose influence extends from Indonesia in the east to Morocco in the west. Today they work tirelessly day and night, despite immense persecution against them by the current tyrants, which includes arrests, abduction and the severest of torture. And soon, when the Khilafah is established at your hands, they will work with the same commitment to Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saaw) to ensure the unification of the current Muslim states as the single most resourceful state in the world.

And consider above all else, that when you move in support of Islam and its Deen, in humble and complete submission to the commands of our Lord (swt), you will earn the help of Allah (swt). Indeed, history has been made by the Muslim military commanders who wielded this help as their most powerful weapon, succeeding against their enemies despite overwhelming odds, from Khalid bin Waleed (ra), to Salahuddin and Muhammad bin Qasim. Walk now in the footsteps of the righteous military commanders, grant Nussrah for the establishment of the Khilafah and you will need no helper other than Allah (swt), as you march towards dignity and victory.

Allah (swt) said,

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�If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you? And in Allah (Alone) let believers put their trust.� [Surah Aali-i-Imran 3:160]

Hizb ut Tahrir - Wilayah Pakistan

17 Rabiul Awwal 1438 AH                                                                     

16 December 2016 CE