On the 3rd of October,
Turkey announced that the European Commission had signed two direct grants
worth €600 million to support Syrian refugees and host communities in Turkey in
the areas of education and health. Half of the grant will supposedly be used to
support Syrian refugee children’s integration into the Turkish schooling
system. Only 340,000 of the 814,000 school-age Syrian children currently in
Turkey received education last year. The plan is to increase this number to
400,000. The other €300 million is aimed at the provision of comprehensive health
care for refugees in Turkey.
There is no doubt that the Syrian
refugees, and in particular the children, titled by the UN as the “Lost
Generation”, are in dire need of support. Most refugee children and youth are
forced to skip school, due to being compelled to earn a living for their
families or due to difficulties in adapting to life in their new host country.
However, these agreements and payments are faulty due to three aspects:
1. It is
absurd to believe that those states that have shown public enmity to Muslims
and Islam, both nationally and internationally, and have the blood of hundreds
of thousands of Muslims on their own hands from the colonial wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Mali and other lands across the world, would have a genuine
concern for the wellbeing of Syrian refugees in Turkey or elsewhere. These are
the same states who have for more than 5 years given the Butcher Assad a green
light to slaughter the Muslims of Syria with impunity, to abort the ash-Sham
revolution. Any help they offer to the Muslims always pours into self-serving
interests.
2. These
agreements and aids that have been signed and promised to the Syrian refugees are
only in order to ensure Turkey’s implementation of the EU-Turkey Joint
Action Plan and the EU-Turkey-Statement, which among others aim to
carry out the return and resettlement of refugees, and thus decrease the number
of refugees entering Europe. So there is no true help for the Syrian or any
other refugees in this.
3.
It is not the duty of the Kuffar, who kill and maim
Muslims and support others who also do so, to look after the needs of our
Muslim brother, sisters, and children. In contrary, it is the duty of the
Muslims!
The
Prophet (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 مُسْلِمًا سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»
“A Muslim is a brother of another
Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an
oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his
needs; whoever brought his (Muslim) brother out of a discomfort, Allah will
bring him out of the discomforts of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever
screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection.”
The fact is that while Turkey
clings onto its disabling nationalistic political model, it will never be able
to fulfil its duty towards the Muslims seeking refuge in it. It needs the
cooperation and support of the other Muslim lands. However, other states such
as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and others who are flooded in wealth, have
washed their hands of the responsibility of defending the Muslims in Syria and
elsewhere, for they only use their money and armies in the service of the
interests of their Western Masters! Re-uniting the Muslim lands under a single
state – the second Khilafah Rashidah upon the Method of Prophethood – is what
will save Syria and the rest of the Muslim lands from its puppet tyrants,
oppressors and the colonialist invaders who hold their strings. It will also
unite all the resources of the Ummah, which are more than enough to provide for
the needs of the whole Ummah across the world. This single Islamic leadership
will utilise its resources as commanded by Allah (swt), and hence will be able
to fulfil its obligation of providing safety and security and the educational,
health, and maintenance needs of every single person upon its soil.
Women’s
Section
in The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
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