بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Miscellaneous Articles from Ar-Rayah Newspaper – Issue 588
Headline News
(Translated)
At the Top of the First Page
In this blessed month, we call upon all Muslims to make this Ramadan, beyond being a month of fasting, reciting the Noble Quran, performing taraweeh, and giving charity, a month of reflection, contemplation, insight, and re-examination of the Khilafah (Caliphate) and how it is part of the Prophetic methodology and a Shariah obligation upon them that cannot be postponed. May the month not end until they have joined hands with us, so that Allah (swt) may grant us and them a swift nasr (victory), enabling us to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the Method of Prophethood. Allah (swt) says,
[وَحَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَسَى اللَّهُ أَن يَكُفَّ بَأْسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَاللَّهُ أَشَدُّ بَأْساً وَأَشَدُّ تَنكِيلاً]
“And urge the believers on. Perhaps Allah will restrain the might of those who disbelieve. And Allah is stronger in might and more severe in punishment.” [TMQ Surah An-Nisaa: 84].
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For the Front Page
The Palestinian Authority Permits the Blood of the Children of Palestine Following the Example of the Jews, Like for Like!
A press release issued by the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Blessed Land of Palestine stated: The Palestinian Authority’s apparatuses yesterday, Sunday 15/2/2026, leapt to a new threshold in their audacity against Allah and against the people of Palestine. After it had previously permitted the blood of the people of Palestine, whether muhajideen or those wanted by the Jews or opposers of its betrayal, here it reaches today to targeting the innocent and the children, in the crime which it committed by opening fire on the car of Samer Samarah while his wife and his children were present, which resulted in the martyrdom of his son Ali, sixteen years old, then his daughter Ronza, three years old. It is a crime committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its apparatuses without an eyelid trembling, a crime from which even wild beasts would refrain, by which they imitate the crimes of the Jews while they kill children and women in Palestine.
The press release added: The Palestinian Authority, while it displays humiliation and submission before the occupation which withdrew its powers even from Area A, and while the Jews confiscate every land and demolish houses and work on displacing the people of Palestine under its hearing and its sight rather it shares with it in its crimes, so it pursues people in their livelihoods to tighten upon them then enacts Epstein-like laws with the participation of its “Sharia judges(!),” comes with this crime to raise a new threshold without limits for its crimes against the people of Palestine, a threshold that leaves no sanctity for the blood of their children and their women, so that all of that shows the true image of the PA and the essence of its men, that they are prepared for further than what comes to mind of crimes, and that they are prepared to be the hand of the Jews which permits the blood of the people of Palestine with their children and their women after the PA and its criminals permitted relinquishment and neglect of the blessed land, and after it permitted assisting the Jews against the people of Palestine, and after it permitted the sanctities of the Deen with its laws related to women and the family, and after it permitted removing everything that has a relation to Islam from the curricula, and after it permitted the wealth with its taxes which those of wealth can hardly bear, not to mention the general people. Thus the Palestinian Authority and its security apparatuses have become hostile to the people of Palestine with the hostility of the Jews equally and like for like, a hostility that carries hatred against the believers!
As if the people of Palestine were not sufficed by all the crimes of the Jews against them until the crimes are completed by the hands of the PA mercenaries and its leading figures, so they tighten the grip and constrict the noose upon the people of Palestine, so that they find none other than annihilation or departure!
The press release continued: We used to say that the Palestinian Authority is a partner in the crimes committed by the corrupters in the land, while they violate the sanctities of the people of Palestine and their blood and their wealth, and they rampage without it moving a still thing, and in return it pursues everyone who harms the Jews. But today it has gone beyond that matter, to become itself directly practicing the acts of highway robbers and the corrupters in the land openly in broad daylight with shamelessness that is not concealed by talk of opening an investigation nor by justifications of pursuing those outside the law. It is a true image of an authority that has rebelled against the limits of Allah and His sanctities, as if whenever the Jews disfigure it and humiliate it, it increases in audacity against the servants of Allah, as if it says to America and the Jews: keep us in whatever appearance of humiliation and whatever type of crimes, even if we become an openly declared part of the criminal apparatuses of the Jews!
In conclusion, we have the right to ask, how long will the people of Palestine carry he patience of wounds above their heads while they do not hear the calls of jihad and victories and support from their brothers and sisters?! And they do not see one who avenges their sanctities which the Jews violated, or one who takes retribution from those who permitted their blood from the Palestinian Authority and its criminal apparatuses?!
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Under the Feature Article
The Women’s Section of the Central Media Office Campaign, “Ramadan: Embracing the True Vision for Change”
Ramadan is a reminder of how Islam came to transform the world and solve the problems of mankind according the guidance and vision contained within the Qur’an and Sunnah. When we witness the oppression, injustice and multitude of crises and problems that the Muslim Ummah and humanity generally are suffering today it is clear that the successful vision for change that Islam provides is needed more than ever in this world.
States, global institutions and international bodies have proven incapable of providing sound, sustainable, successful and correct solutions to the problems of nations or ending genocides, occupations and mass oppression.
This blessed month of Ramadan should therefore be a time where we strive to understand and reflect on what the true vision for change for humankind as contained within the Qur’an and Sunnah entails and how to achieve it as well as our role as Muslims in realizing this goal.
This Ramadan, the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir will be addressing this subject, including the qualities and change required within ourselves as Muslims, as a Muslim Ummah, our political parties, armies and on the level of a state to deliver this true vision for change, as well as the obstacles in achieving it and how to overcome them.
To follow the campaign on websites, use the following link:
https://hizb-uttahrir.info/ar/index.php/women-s-section/dawah-news/107768.html
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Lebanese Security Forces Continue to Use Kidnapping Tactics Against People!
On Friday, February 20, 2026, at approximately 1:00 PM in Beirut, members of the Lebanese Army Intelligence Directorate, without any legal justification, warrant, or judicial authorization, and with complete disregard for basic human rights and dignity, kidnapped two members of Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon. The pretext given was that the two men had distributed a press release regarding the increase in the gasoline tax and the rise in the Value Added Tax (VAT).
In response, the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Lebanon issued a press release stating: They were released after midnight, this matter and these actions warrant serious consideration. While security forces are meant to protect people, not terrorize or abduct them, they continue to be a source of intimidation and suppression of the voice of truth expressing the people's suffering. They have become a source of both deprivations of freedom and insecurity.
It said: What Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Lebanon has stated and continues to state in this leaflet—indeed, in all its releases—is a general issue affecting the people of the country, including state employees and its institutions! Do you want these unjust taxes and this manipulation of people's livelihoods to go unchecked and unpunished?! If the state has become accustomed to the people's silence due to their despair of fundamental change in the state, does that mean that those with influence and intellect should remain silent about these rights?! This will never happen until Allah (swt) judges between us with truth.
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Manifestos in Bangladesh’s 2026 Election: Offering Cosmetic Solutions, Silent about Real Structural Change
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami have recently unveiled their detailed election manifestos that, despite their differences, both propose a vision for a welfare state model derivative of Western capitalism. The BNP’s manifesto, “Shobar Agey Bangladesh,” centers on a plan to build a reformed state with a democratized economy, aiming to transform Bangladesh into an upper-middle-income country with a $1 trillion economy by 2034. In contrast, Jamaat-e-Islami’s “A safe and humane Bangladesh’s manifesto” explicitly calls for the establishment of a transparent and accountable welfare state, focusing on justice, institutional reform, and social protection.
Accordingly, the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Bangladesh stated in a press release, “We state clearly that these manifestos offer nothing more than cosmetic pledges and hollow rhetoric, fundamentally incapable of delivering true freedom and sovereign development. These critically fail to challenge the core mechanisms of neocolonial exploitation, such as IMF-World Bank prescriptions for agricultural subsidy cuts, privatization, and policies that dismantle local industry. While promoting FDI and open markets, they ignore how these very policies surrender national assets — like the energy sector to corporations like Chevron and ExxonMobil and strategic ports to private control — ensuring continued economic subservience. Ultimately, without a commitment to dismantle this exploitative capitalist system and reject the "trickle-down" model that loots public wealth, the manifestos offer no real alternative to the structural oppression that impoverishes the populace and blocks the path to true liberation.”
The press release added: “The public must understand that while political rule may change, the oppressive capitalist system persists, perpetually harming the masses to enrich a small elite and their imperialist backers. Therefore, any promise that fails to uproot this foundational system amounts to nothing more than a cosmetic change and cannot lead to genuine liberation. We invite you to unite in the struggle to establish the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood — the only system capable of guaranteeing justice, enabling self-sufficient industrialization, and restoring the dignity of the Ummah, as promised by Allah (swt).”
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It is Your Obligation, Both By Shariah and By Reason, O Sons and Daughters of the Islamic Ummah
The corrupt rulers of the Muslims and their cronies — ministers, representatives, and delegates — have grown accustomed to humiliation and subjugation, to the point that it has become an integral part of them. They have lost every shred of shame. Trump commands them, and they rush to obey. They preserve and protect the Jewish entity, giving it free rein to do as it pleases in the Blessed Land of Palestine. They open their airspace to its planes and missiles, allowing them to roam freely, violating the sanctity of Muslim lands and shedding their blood in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
O Muslims, how long will these corrupt rulers continue to sell you out to your enemies, squandering your causes and abandoning them? To what extent will they go in empowering colonialist powers over you and your lands? You, with the seas and waterways Allah (swt) has bestowed upon you, have the power to control them, and with the resources Allah (swt) has granted you, you have the power to cut off their lifelines. Would those colonialists’ powers have been able to seize your lands were it not for these foolish ones?
It is your obligation, by both by Shariah and reason, O sons and daughters of the Islamic Ummah, and O people of military power and protection within it, to make up your minds and take your fateful decision by uprooting these treacherous rulers and their regimes, and installing one Khaleefah (Caliph) who will rule you all with the Book of Allah (swt) and the Sunnah of His Messenger (saw). This is Hizb ut Tahrir - the guide who does not lie to his people - among you and from you, so hasten to work with it and support it, to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the Method of Prophethood, which will deliver you from this humiliation.
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People Drown When the Guardian Is Absent and the State Is Merely a Tax Collector!
In a press release, Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil), Official Spokesperson for Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan, reported that twelve people drowned in the White Nile in the Wad al-Zaki area after a boat carrying them from the al-Sufi area capsized on Saturday, 14/2/2026.
On Wednesday, 11/2/2026, 21 people drowned in the Nile River while crossing it on a boat between Tayba al-Khawad and Deim al-Quray in the River Nile State.
Ustadh Abu Khalil added: The fact of the matter is that the two incidents were due to a lack of care, and we don't say poor care, because such incidents are always recurring, and in many areas of Sudan, and the reason is one: the state does not play its role in providing safe ferries for crossing, and does not perform its Shariah duty in caring for the affairs of the people. This is because the state that exists in Sudan is not a welfare state, but rather a state of tax collection. It does not care if people die by drowning, hunger, disease, or a fabricated war, but what matters is the people's pockets, as the Minister of Finance explicitly said. Rather, the government fights those who seek to establish a welfare state; the Islamic state; the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood, and it files malicious reports against members of Hizb ut Tahrir in the city of Al-Ubayyid, and throws them in prison, and denies them even the right to bail, so that they remain punished in prison for nearly a month until the day of the trial on Sunday, 22/2/2026.
Abu Khalil said: But we in Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Sudan will not be intimidated by prisons, nor will trials frighten us, for we are undertaking a great obligation, one that many have neglected, despite the Prophet'swarning of a death of the days of ignorance for those who neglect this duty. He (saw) said: «وَمَنْ مَاتَ وَلَيْسَ فِي عُنُقِهِ بَيْعَةٌ مَاتَ مِيتَةً جَاهِلِيَّةً» “Whoever dies without having a pledge of allegiance on his neck dies the death of the days of ignorance.” So, O people of Sudan, come together to work with Hizb ut Tahrir to establish the Khilafah (Caliphate); the obligation of your Lord, the source of your glory, and the guardian of your affairs, for in it lies the pleasure of your Lord.
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The Return of Islam to Ruling Authority Disturbs the Sleep of the Disbelieving West
The return of Islam to ruling authority, under a state that embodies its principles in daily life and carries its Risaalah message of guidance and mercy to all humanity, is a nightmare that haunts Western politicians and thinkers. Therefore, we see them forming international alliances to prevent its establishment, and to fight those who strive for it.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault's statement that there should be no return of “terrorism” to Syria reflects his deep fear and anxiety about the establishment of a Khilafah (Caliphate). Throughout the years of the blessed Syrian revolution, the West has worked to eradicate the idea of implementing Shariah Law from the hearts of the revolutionaries and force them to accept a secular regime with new, grim faces. However, the strong spirit of revolution and Jihad among the people of Syria and the mujahideen has terrified America, as it grows stronger every day despite its attempts to stifle it. America has also tried to remove the pillars of power in Syria — the mujahideen and the Muslim popular platform — from the state, and to integrate remnants of the old regime and small minorities into the state and its army. This is intended to corrupt the general atmosphere, eliminate the spirit of Jihad, and remove sincere individuals from the government and the army, so that the army becomes devoid of Islamic character, as America plans and as the new Syrian politicians implement.
This is what America and the disbelieving West want. Will the mujahideen and their supporters have a different opinion, adopting and implementing an Islamic constitution in a state that thwarts America's schemes and becomes the nucleus for the liberation of Baytul Maqdis and the spread of Islam’s eternal Risaalah message to the entire world?
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History Bears Witness to You, and the Future Awaits You
The Islamic Ummah has lost much of its strength, not due to a lack of numbers or resources, but because it has severed its connection with its civilizational heritage, which establishes justice as the foundation of politics and dignity as a prerequisite for recognition.
Reclaiming this heritage does not begin from palaces, or statements of condemnation, but with rebuilding the awareness of the Islamic Ummah, so that it understands that its strength and honor lie in its state and its Deen, and that true security can only be found in the state of Islam.
It must realize that dignity is not granted but seized back, and that whoever relinquishes their right to a cause will later relinquish their right to the land.
The time has come for the Islamic Ummah to regain its self-confidence and return to the position of witness, not follower; of champion of its causes, not spectator.
O sons and daughters of the Islamic Ummah, your glory has never been found in subservience or in imitating others, but in your aqeedah, which cultivated humanity before ruling authority and built the state before civilizational culture. Your standing will not be restored through slogans, but through sincere and diligent work to reinstate Islam as a way of life, and to return to your state, the source of your glory, so that your prestige may be restored and the world may take you seriously.
History bears witness to you, the future awaits you, and Allah (swt) has promised,
[وَلَيَنصُرَنَّ اللَّهُ مَن يَنصُرُهُ]
“And Allah (swt) will surely support those who support Him.” [TMQ Surah Al-Hajj 40]
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The Rulers of Muslims and their Henchmen Wage War on Muslims and Make Peace with the Disbelievers
During a meeting of the Board of Peace on Thursday (19/02/2026), the Indonesian president stated, “We are committed to providing more than 8,000 troops to participate in the International Stabilization Force.” He added, “We agreed with President Trump’s plan and committed to it, and therefore we joined the Board of Peace and are committed to its success.”
Ar-Rayah Newspaper: The rulers of Muslims have not mobilized their armies towards Gaza, to save it from the war of extermination waged against it by the Jews, for more than two years, even though the Messenger of Allah (saw) commanded them to do so. On the authority of Abdullah bin Umar, may Allah (swt) be pleased with them both, that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, «الْمُسْلِمُ أَخُو الْمُسْلِمِ؛ لَا يَظْلِمُهُ وَلَا يُسْلِمُهُ، وَمَنْ كَانَ فِي حَاجَةِ أَخِيهِ كَانَ اللَّهُ فِي حَاجَتِهِ، وَمَنْ فَرَّجَ عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ كُرْبَةً فَرَّجَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ كُرْبَةً مِنْ كُرُبَاتِ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَمَنْ سَتَرَ مُسْلِماً سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»“A Muslim is the brother of another Muslim." He does not wrong him, nor does he abandon him. Whoever helps his brother in need, Allah will help him in his need. Whoever relieves a Muslim of a hardship, Allah will relieve him of a hardship on the Day of Resurrection. And whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.” (Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim).
Yet they flocked to join Trump’s Board of Peace, offering money, pledges, and contributions, and sending Muslim armies to fulfill his goal: securing the Jewish entity by disarming Gaza, colonizing Gaza, and turning it into tourist resorts. They thus bear witness against themselves that they are at war with Muslims and at peace with the disbelievers and colonialists.
And this president of Indonesia is an example of those rulers who have aligned themselves with the enemies of the Ummah. May Allah (swt) curse them, rulers who sold their Deen for the worldly gains of others!
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