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CULTURE - VIEWPOINT

How would a Khilafah in Pakistan deal with the floods?

floodsThe 2010 monsoon rains have left death and destruction across Pakistan. The monsoon season due every year near the end of July has in 2010 produced a year's rain in 36 hours. The Indus River which flows through Pakistan was overwhelmed leading to the flooding of many villages.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

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Khilafah - Hope for the Ummah

PalestineThis week, on the 28th of Rajab, the Ummah will mark the 89th anniversary of the fall of the Khilafah. We should use this anniversary as a reminder of our obligation - as an Ummah - to resume the Islamic way of life, through the re-establishment of the...

Monday, 5 July 2010

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Islamic Ruling on Military Alliances

Islamic soldierToday, we find Muslim countries making military alliances with the kuffar and fighting alongside them. Turkey is a member of NATO and has sent troops to Afghanistan under the UN International Security Assistance Force.

Pakistan has entered a military alliance with America to fight Muslims in...

Sunday, 27 June 2010

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Nussrah: The Shara’i method to assume authority for the establishment of Khilafah

AqabahNussrah and Hijrah

Allah سبحانه و تعالى has bestowed the early Muslims with His honor, decreed rewards for them and made mention of their praise in the Noble Qur’an. He سبحانه و تعالى called two brotherly groups, who accomplished the mission of establishing the Islamic State, as...

Sunday, 27 June 2010

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CULTURE - POLITICAL ANALYSIS

Floods in Pakistan: The Treachery of Muslim Rulers

zardari_gilaniClose to 2,000 people have died in Pakistan's biggest natural disaster since 1929. Millions have lost their homes and run the risk of being infected by deadly water-borne diseases such as cholera. The government's slow response has been criminally inadequate whereas the magnitude of the devastation was made worse...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

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A Radical Approach to Pakistan's Economic Crisis

paki_economy‘Roti, Kapra aur Mukan' (food, clothing and shelter)! This has been the selfless slogan of the PPP rulers since the party was founded in the 1970s. Yet with the delivery of the new budget Pakistan's rulers have come bearing gifts of a totally different but not of an unexpected...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

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Bangladesh bans part of the Qur'an

Al QuranOn 27th July the appellate division of the Supreme Court in Bangladesh has given a verdict to change the constitution of Bangladesh with some observations. This verdict is seen as a triumph for those who call for restoration of the 1972 constitution laid down by the late President...

Friday, 13 August 2010

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Obama and the Politics of Troop Withdrawal

IraqOn Wednesday 3rd August 2010 Barack Obama in a speech to a packed audience at the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta, Georgia, confirmed the end of all combat operations in Iraq by the end of August 2010. The thrust of Obama's speech was the fulfilment...

Friday, 13 August 2010

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CULTURE - USUL & FIQH

Chapter 9: The Prohibition [al-Harām] & The Permissible [al-Mubāh]

S3The following is a translation from the Usul Al-Fiqh masterpiece of the Arabic book “The Islamic Personality Volume 3” by Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani. Please refer to the original Arabic for accurate meanings.

The Prohibition [al-Harām]
The prohibition is that which textual evidence indicates upon as being the address of...

Saturday, 3 April 2010

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Chapter 8: That which is Required to Fulfill a Wājib is itself Wājib

S3The following is a translation from the Usul Al-Fiqh masterpiece of the Arabic book “The Islamic Personality Volume 3” by Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani. Please refer to the original Arabic for accurate meanings.

A thing required to fulfill a wājib can be of two types: i) it can be such...

Saturday, 3 April 2010

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Chapter 7a: The Obligatory [al-Wajib]

ushul fiqhThe wājib and the fard have one meaning, without distinction; the two are synonymous. As for what some of the mujtahideen held that if the ruling is established by a definite evidence such as the Qur’an and the mutawātir hadith then it is fard, and if it is established...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

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The Hukm Shar'ai (Divine Rule)

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اسْتَجِيبُواْ لِلّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُم لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْhukm syar'ai

"Oh you who believe, answer the call of Allah and the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life". [Al-Anfaal, 8:24]

In the tafseer of Al-Qurtubi and Ibn...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

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ABOUT HIZB UT-TAHRIR

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam, so politics is its work and Islam is its ideology. It works within the Ummah and together with her, so that she adopts Islam as her cause and is led to restore the Khilafah and the ruling by what Allah (swt) revealed. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political group and not a priestly one. Nor is it an academic, educational or a charity group. The Islamic thought is the soul of its body, its core and the secret of its life. Read More

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