Islamic Revival

(Translated) The Syrian regime aircrafts carried out a new massacre targeting a funeral tent in al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo, which led to the death and injury of more than 26 civilians including women and children. The targeting of the neighborhood came after a day of being targeted with toxic chlorine gas, leading to the injury of nearly 100 people who have suffocated and received first aid in medical points that lacked the necessary equipment and devices. This is in addition to the successive raids by the crusader alliance warplanes on the neighborhood on Wednesday, which claimed the lives of more than 40 martyrs and wounded 57 people, mostly women and children, and destroyed several residential buildings. Air raids are still incessantly occurring and the regime’s pounding of the besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo continue despite the unremitting shuttle endeavors especially between America and Russia, to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, deceiving the worl

﴿ مِّنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّـهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُم مَّن قَضَىٰ نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَنتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا ﴾ “Among the believers are men true to what they promised Allah. Among them is he who has fulfilled his vow [to the death], and among them is he who awaits [his chance]. And they did not alter [the terms of their commitment] by any alteration” [Al-Ahzaab: 23]. (Translated) In submission to the command of Allah and content with His Qadaa, we in Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Syria announce the death of one of the carriers of the Da’wah from the city of Halab (Aleppo) from amongst those who carried the Da’wah for the ruling to be by the Shar’a of Allah via the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah (Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood. He endured, whilst following that path, harassment and prosecutions from the Assad regime prior to the revolution and he continued to work alongside his brothers in the revo

Hanafi Ulema on Khilafah and its Fiqh written by  Usman Badr Ulama of the Hanafi madhhab, like those of the other madhahib, emphasised the role and importance of the Khilafah throughout the ages. In many respects, they had more to say about issues of ruling and governance than other ulama since many khulafa – the Abbasids and Uthmanis in particular – adopted the Hanafi madhhab and sought advice and rulings from the Hanafi ulama of their times. For example, the Abbasid Khalifah Harun al-Rashid wrote to Abu Yusuf (rh), the student and companion of Abu Hanifa (rh), asking him questions about how to manage the finances of the state. Abu Yusuf wrote back with his famous and excellent treatise entitled  al-Kharaj  detailing many of the Shari’ah rules regarding state finances. In this article we have a look at some of what the Hanafi ulama said about the Khilafah, noting that this should be of particular interest to the ulama, students of shar’i knowledge and activists of Pakist