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Hizb-ut-Tahrir opposes militancy against govt
By our correspondent
KARACHI: Hizb-ut-Tahrir - the 47-year-old global movement for the restoration of Khilafah - on Saturday opposed 'militancy against the government, working within the system through the democratic process or concentrating solely on individual reformation' deeming them incorrect methods to establish Khilafah.
The Hizb-ut-Tahrir has recently surfaced out of it's a decade old clandestine presence in Pakistan by holding press conferences and seminars in four major cities to describe its point of view on the restoration of Khilafah and other issues confronting the Muslim world.
Unfolding his party's agenda, Naveed Butt, the 31-year-old electronic engineer, further explained that the Prophet (SAW) before establishing the Islamic state in Madinah went through clearly defined stages performing specific clear actions. "From the Prophet's actions, the party has derived its own stages of action and deeds, which it has to perform during these stages."
Naveed apprised that a delegation of Hizb-ut-Tahrir and Chechen Muslims were in Afghanistan to enquire about the status of the Taliban regime, which acknowledged itself proclaimer of an Islamic emirate and not the bearer of Khilafah. "We along with Chechens were ready to show our allegiance to Khilafah if it was announced there. Islamic state cannot emerge only after enforcing certain prohibitions, as you can see they (Taliban) are silent over Pakistan's infidelity and trying their best to get the UN seat."
Naveed Butt strongly rejected the peace process on the issue of Palestine. "Muslim heads of the states have been endorsing the peace process, brokered under the US aegis in the Middle East. It is not acceptable to us. We have to unite Muslim and conquer Jerusalem the way Salahuddin Ayubi had done." To a query on Kashmir, Naveed Butt observed that Pakistan's demand for plebiscite in the Indian-occupied Kashmir lacked credence as far as the Shariah was concerned.
Replying queries regarding the Organisation for the Islamic Countries (OIC's)' role, Naveed Butt said that the OIC had become a tool to defuse emotions of the Muslims after any untoward incident against their brethren anywhere in the world.
When asked about the party's organisational set up such as number of members and offices, Naveed Butt replied that the Hizb-ut-Tahrir had been subjected to crack down in different Arab countries that was why it avoided having any physical location anywhere in the world.
"Hizb is a self-financed party having a strong set up. We want to go to the people and don't want them to come to us. That's why we don't have any office here in Pakistan but surely we reach out to people conveying what Islam is all about."
Naveed Butt said that the party's political struggle would be manifested in the struggle against disbelieving imperialists to deliver the Ummah from their domination and to liberate it from their influence by uprooting their intellectual, cultural, political, economic and military roots from all the Muslim countries.
"Hizb's work is political, in which the thoughts and laws of Islam are presented in order to act upon them and to carry them so as to establish them in life's affairs and in the state," he maintained.
Hizb-ut-Tahrir opposes militancy against govt
By our correspondent
KARACHI: Hizb-ut-Tahrir - the 47-year-old global movement for the restoration of Khilafah - on Saturday opposed 'militancy against the government, working within the system through the democratic process or concentrating solely on individual reformation' deeming them incorrect methods to establish Khilafah.
The Hizb-ut-Tahrir has recently surfaced out of it's a decade old clandestine presence in Pakistan by holding press conferences and seminars in four major cities to describe its point of view on the restoration of Khilafah and other issues confronting the Muslim world.
Unfolding his party's agenda, Naveed Butt, the 31-year-old electronic engineer, further explained that the Prophet (SAW) before establishing the Islamic state in Madinah went through clearly defined stages performing specific clear actions. "From the Prophet's actions, the party has derived its own stages of action and deeds, which it has to perform during these stages."
Naveed apprised that a delegation of Hizb-ut-Tahrir and Chechen Muslims were in Afghanistan to enquire about the status of the Taliban regime, which acknowledged itself proclaimer of an Islamic emirate and not the bearer of Khilafah. "We along with Chechens were ready to show our allegiance to Khilafah if it was announced there. Islamic state cannot emerge only after enforcing certain prohibitions, as you can see they (Taliban) are silent over Pakistan's infidelity and trying their best to get the UN seat."
Naveed Butt strongly rejected the peace process on the issue of Palestine. "Muslim heads of the states have been endorsing the peace process, brokered under the US aegis in the Middle East. It is not acceptable to us. We have to unite Muslim and conquer Jerusalem the way Salahuddin Ayubi had done." To a query on Kashmir, Naveed Butt observed that Pakistan's demand for plebiscite in the Indian-occupied Kashmir lacked credence as far as the Shariah was concerned.
Replying queries regarding the Organisation for the Islamic Countries (OIC's)' role, Naveed Butt said that the OIC had become a tool to defuse emotions of the Muslims after any untoward incident against their brethren anywhere in the world.
When asked about the party's organisational set up such as number of members and offices, Naveed Butt replied that the Hizb-ut-Tahrir had been subjected to crack down in different Arab countries that was why it avoided having any physical location anywhere in the world.
"Hizb is a self-financed party having a strong set up. We want to go to the people and don't want them to come to us. That's why we don't have any office here in Pakistan but surely we reach out to people conveying what Islam is all about."
Naveed Butt said that the party's political struggle would be manifested in the struggle against disbelieving imperialists to deliver the Ummah from their domination and to liberate it from their influence by uprooting their intellectual, cultural, political, economic and military roots from all the Muslim countries.
"Hizb's work is political, in which the thoughts and laws of Islam are presented in order to act upon them and to carry them so as to establish them in life's affairs and in the state," he maintained.
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