Press Release
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has completed his
official visit to Tanzania. Among other things, Rabat has promised constructing
an ultra-modern mosque in Dar es Salaam and a modern stadium in Dodoma.
Unfortunately, Rabat’s foreign policy scope has
a full of shallowness, blindness distant away from her glorious history.
The King of Morocco’s visit came within the
context of a south-south conciliation and to strengthen the diplomatic and
economic cooperation. Since Morocco wants Tanzania’s support for Morocco to
return to the African Union just as it seeks rapidly for its companies to be a
connecting link between the western colonialist companies and the African
natural resources. Morocco and Tanzania signed 22 economic, cultural, touristic
and political consultative agreements…
Morocco, like all Muslim lands, has nothing
left to it except concealing its evils and injustices resulting from carrying
the western viewpoint in ruling and economics and of its efforts to spread the
influence of the King’s companies and western companies equally whilst hiding behind
either pretending to manage or build new mosques. The role of the mosque is to
elevate the word of Allah Ta'ala:
﴿فِي بُيُوتٍ
أَذِنَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تُرْفَعَ وَيُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ فِيهَا
بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالآصَالِ﴾
“In houses which Allah has permitted to
be exalted and that His name may be remembered in them; there glorify Him
therein in the mornings and the evenings.” [an-Nur: 36]
Then, how can the state build the mosque while
the Islamic rulings are not implemented and the rulings of Kufr (disbelief)
prevail in ruling?
In addition, when has the building of a Masjid
been the measure for the soundness of the ruling and the soundness of the
systems applied in the state and the society?
Didn’t King Hassan II, predecessor of the
current king build a large mosque at Casablanca, the 13th largest mosque in the
world, with the tallest minaret than any mosque in the world, exhausting massive
resources and efforts of seven years. What came next? Did Morocco and the Muslim
world revive and rise from decline and humiliation?
Morocco is suffering in all aspects; its people
live are suffering from poverty, poor guardianship, corrupt judiciary, declined
education, a collapsed health sector, the natural resources and wealth are a
circulated amongst the king and those who serve him and suffer from morally
bankruptcy. It is a country which was once a cradle of knowledge and
civilization having the world oldest University of Al-Qarawiyyin; does not have
the confidence to use the Arabic language at University
level.
What sort of self-imposed humiliation is this?
Not to mention Rabat’s role in America’s war on terrorism which is in reality a
war against Islam undertaken on behalf of the western states and the US and
which also endangers the lives of its own citizens.
The King of Morocco has made numerous visits to
North Africa and he is currently undertaking visits to the states of East
Africa (Tanzania and Rwanda whilst the visit to Ethiopia was cancelled). In all
of these visits he demonstrates the shining history of Islam of the people of
Morocco with Africa. However, there is a vast difference between the one who carries
Islam as guidance to the world and the one who carries capitalism, democracy
and opens the doors to western countries to plunder Africa.
When will Morocco remove the cloak of blindness
of its history, and its Islamic history in general? It is a land that accepted
Islam which unified the masses, then became systematic standard-bearers and a source
of redemption for Muslims and mankind. Even non-Muslims sought assistance from
the oppression of their rulers. As residents of Spain including Visigoth
nobleman, Julian (Count of Ceuta) encouraged Muslims to open Iberia due to the
sufferings and injustice of King Roderic. Among them was
Roderic’s rape of Julian’s daughter.
Through this land, Spain was opened under Tariq
bin Ziad and Islam also expanded to many African states. In contrast this
glorious history, and today’s situation, is far between the earth and heaven!
Should Morocco stick with its glorious history,
it should have liberated the rest of far South Saharan Desert by Islam, instead
it embraced capitalism that blindfolded it from its glorious history, rushing only
to safeguard their fragile rule and filling their stomachs. Obviously, radical
Islamic change is needed to repeat our history.
Masoud Msellem
Media
Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Tanzania
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