Nussrah Magazine Issue 16 January/ February 2014 – Rabi ul-Awwal/ Rabi uth-Thaanee 1435 AH Contents Editorial: The Real Internal Threat 01 Shaikh Ata ibn Khalil Abu Ar-Rashta: Tafseer: Al-Baqarah 92-96 02 Feature Article: Rabi ul-Awwal‘s Greatest Gift, RasulAllah (saw) 04 Naseer al-Islam Mehmood: The Betrayal of Islam and Muslims by the Armies 06 Role of the Ulema in the Establishment of the Khilafah State 08 Khalid Salahudeen: The Myth of a US Attack on Pakistan 12 Abid Mustafa- Pakistan Must Sever Ties with America for Future Economic Sustainability 18 Imran Khan- A New Jockey for America‘s Horse, Democracy 22 Martyrdom in Syria 25 Russian Foreign Minister Attacks the Khilafah 26 Q& A: The Stance of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Egypt 27 America Seeks A Permanent Presence Through Talks 35 Nussrah For Khilafah Bayyan Campaign 39 Price: Rs. 30/- Editorial The Real Internal Threat Our real internal threat is the substantial aggression, requiring US intervention. American presence within Pakistan. It is this Essentially, the United States was informing American presence which is the source of the the powers of the Old World that the intricate planning, huge funding and American continents were no longer open to sophisticated arms supply that allows the European influence, and that any effort to attacks on military and civilian targets. This is extend European political hegemony into the also why such attacks never target American New World would be considered by the assets, of which there are many on our soil, United States "as dangerous to our peace and but always target ours. Ending drone attacks, safety." The United States would not interfere partial withdrawal of foreign troops, in European wars or internal affairs, and maintaining military presence in the troubled firmly expected Europe to stay out of tribal areas and adjusting ties with America American affairs. By the end of the nineteenth are not addressing the root of our security century, Monroe's declaration was seen as a problems. defining moment in the foreign policy of the Such damaging interference in the affairs of United States and one of its longest-standing another nation is a feature of American tenets. foreign policy. American colonialist foreign However, though America despised European policy is based on foreign interventionism, a intervention in its neighboring nations, state's intervention in the affairs of another America saw no problem in its own nation. Pakistan is far from alone in suffering intervention in Latin American nations. As American interference. From Latin America Pakistan knows too well, the means included through Africa and the Middle East onwards political and military contact, intelligence to South East Asia, America has instigated assets such as the CIA and diplomatic chaos in other nations, with policies such as facilities, the embassy and consulates. In time low intensity conflict and covert operations. Latin America had good cause to resent the Low intensity conflict destroy internal Monroe Doctrine, as an excuse for America to stability, justifying repeated American replace European hegemony with its own. interference. As for covert operations, such as This resentment is what led America to ―false flag‖ attacks in the name of the enemy, disavow the maligned Monroe Doctrine they act to make sure the low intensity conflict ―officially‖, though not practically. In continues. In Pakistan's case, America has November 2013, Secretary of State John ensnared our armed forces in a low intensity Kerry declared that "the era of the Monroe conflict within the tribal areas. America uses Doctrine is over.‖ covert operations to attack our military and So much for the American double standards! civilian targets. It has both launched attacks And so much for rulers that plead with us to independently, in Raymond Davis fashion, as swallow this hypocrisy, just so that they can well as embedded its agents in the loose, acquire praise and wealth from their foreign susceptible tribal groupings. And these masters. It is upon the Muslims to lead the attacks are made in the name of the tribal world in rejecting American hypocrisy. Only people to provide justification for continuing the Khilafah has the necessary political will to the conflict. reject American interventionism and eradicate What America expects other nations to the physical means for this to occur, the tolerate, it will never tolerate itself. The American embassies, consulates, bases, ―Monroe Doctrine‖ as it came to be known, intelligence, military and diplomatic missions. was a policy of the United States introduced This will is mandated by the Islamic Aqeedah on December 2, 1823 during President James which forbids the domination of the affairs of Monroe's seventh annual State of the Union Muslims by kufr and its people. And the Address to Congress. It stated that further exercise of such a will to eradicate the efforts by European nations to colonize land American cancer from within our body, would or interfere with states in North or South be an example for other nations to admire and America would be viewed as acts of follow. Nussrah Magazine 1 Tafseer: Al-Baqarah 92-96 Tafseer: Al-Baqarah 92-96 From the Book ―Introduction to the Tafseer of proves Musa‘s Prophethood. Yet, they took the Quran‖ by the Ameer of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the calf as a god after Musa went to Mount the eminent jurist and statesman, Shaikh Ata Tur to meet his Lord. Thus they were ibn Khalil Abu Ar-Rashta: Dhalimeen (wrongdoers), as they put the matter out of its place, making the calf a god, ٌَٚمَ ْذ َجب َء ُوُ ِٛ َعٝ ثب ٌْج١ََِّٕب ِد ثُُ ارَّ َخ ْزرُُ ا ٌْ ؼِ ْجً ِِ ْٓ ثَ ؼْ ِذ ِٖ ٚأَ ْٔزُُ then you“ .ثُُ ارَّ َخ ْزرُُ ا ؼٌْجً .when it is not so َ ْ ُ ِ َّ ْ َ َ ْ َّ ْ ِ ْ َ َظبٌِّٛ َْ )29) worshipped the Calf‖ This means that there ُ َٚ was a delay, i.e. that they spent some timeئِ ْر أَ َخ ْز َٔب ١ِثَبلَ ُى ُْ َٚ َسفَ ؼْ َٕب فَ ْٛلَ ُى ُْ اٌ ُّطٛ َس ُخ ُزٚا َِب آرَ ١ْ َٕب ُو ُْ ثِمُ َّٛ ٍح َٚ considering the signs. So, the signs came, thenا ْع َّ ٛؼُا لَبٌُٛا َع ِّ ؼْ َٕب ػَ َٚ َص ١َْٕب َٚأُ ْش ِشثُٛا فِٟ لٍُُٛثِ ِٙ ُْ ا ٌْ ؼِ ْج ًَ they pondered them, yet after realizing their ثِ ُى ْف ِش ِ٘ ُْ لُ ًْ ثِ ْئ َغ َّب ٠َأْ ُِ ُش ُو ُْ ثِ ِٗ ئ٠ِ َّبُٔ ُى ُْ ئِ ْْ ُوٕزُ ُْ ُِ ْإ ١ِِٕ َٓ )29) ;definitiveness as proof of Musa‘s truthfulness لُ ًْ ئِ ْْ َوبَٔ ْذ ٌَ ُى ُْ اٌ َّذا ُس ا٢ ِخ َشحُ ػِ ْٕ َذ ََّّللاِ َخبٌِ َصخ ِ ْٓ ُدٚ ِْ إٌَّب ِط they still took the calf as their god. So, this is فَزَ ََّّٕ ْٛا ا ٌْ َّ ْٛ َد ئِ ْْ ُوٕزُ ُْ َصب ِدل١ِ َٓ )29) a reprimand of them. ٌََٚ ْٓ ٠َزَ ََّّٕ ُْٖٛ أَثَ ذا ثِ َّب لَ َّذ َِ ْذ أَ ٠ْ ِذ٠ َٚ ُْ ِٙ ََّّللاُ ١ٍِػَ ٌُ ثِبٌظَّبٌِ ١ِّ َٓ )29) 2. Then they came back, so Allah mentions a َ َ َٚ covenant and raising the mountain above theirٌَزَ ِج َذَّٔ ُٙ ُْ أ ْد َش َص إٌَّب ِط ٍَٝػَ َد١َب ٍح َٚ ِ ْٓ اٌَّ ِز٠ َٓ أ ْش َش ُوٛا ٠َ َٛ ُّد َ َ َ heads, and that they should take Allah‘s signs أ َد ُذ ُ٘ ُْ ٌَ ْٛ ٠ُ ؼَ َّّ ُش أ ٌْ َف َعَٕ ٍخ َٚ َِب ُ٘ َٛ ثِ ُّ َض ْد ِض ِد ِٗ ِ ْٓ ا ٌْ ؼَ َزا ِة أ ْْ seriously and strive. This is similar to what ٠ُ ؼَ َّّ َش َٚ ََّّللاُ ثَ ِص١ ٌش ثِ َّب ٠َ ٍَُّٛ ؼْ َْ )29) َٚئِ ْر أَ َخ ْز َٔ ب :Musa brought you the Clear Signs; then was mentioned in a previous verse (92)― ١ِثَبلَ ُى ُْ َٚ َسفَ ؼْ َٕب فَ ْٛلَ ُى ُْ اٌ ُّطٛ َس ُخ ُزٚا َِب آرَ ١َْٕب ُو ُْ ثِمُ َّٛ ٍح َٚا ْر ُو ُشٚا you worshipped the Calf, after he left, and ,And (O Children of Isra'il― َِب ف١ِ ِٗ ٌَ ؼٍََّ ُى ُْ رَزَّمwere wrongdoers. (93) Remember when We َْ ُٛ made a covenant with you and lifted up the remember) when We took your covenant and Mount above your heads: ‗Take hold We raised above you the Mount (saying): vigorously of what We have given you and ‗Hold fast to that which We have given you, listen.‘ They said, ‗We hear and disobey.‘ and remember that which is therein so that They were made to absorb the Calf into their you may acquire Taqwa.‘‖ [Surah Al-Baqarah hearts because of their kufr. Say, ‗If you are 2:63] Repetition of the verse is for emphasis, Believers, what an evil thing your iman has which is that – there is no value in listening to made you do.‘ (94) Say, ‗If the abode of the Allah‘s command, unless it is listening, with akhira with Allah is for you alone, to the following the order as it is. i.e. obedience, ا ْع َّ ٛؼُاexclusion of all others, then long for death if with acceptance. Allah says in the verse We― َع ِّ ؼَْٕب ػَ َٚ َص ١َْٕب you are telling the truth.‘ (95) But they will ―Listen.‖ yet they replied never ever long for it because of what they hear and disobey‖ So, the reply indicates that ,Listen‖ includes hearing and obeying― ا ْع َّ ٛؼُا (have done. Allah knows the wrongdoers.