Islamic Revival

A Circle delivered by The Late Sheikh Imam Ali Syed Abul Hassan (May Allah rest his soul), former Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sudan and Imam of Masjid as Sahabah in Khartoum, Sudan.

من المؤمنين رجالٌ صدقوا ما عاهدوا الله عليه، فمنهم من قضى نحبه، ومنهم من ينتظر، وما بدّلوا تبديلاً "And from among the believing men there are those who have been true to their covenant of them some have fulfilled their obligations; and some of them are still waiting, but they have never changed in the least." (Al-Ahzaab, 23) Hizb-ut-Tahrir Jordan makes an obituary for one of its active and persevering Shabab Al-Ustaadh 'Muhammad Khair' Ahmad Mahmood Al-Asmar (Abu Hishaam) who passed away at the time of Zuhr today after 75 years of life which he spent in the obedience of Allah, carrying the Islaamic Da'wah, working to resume the Islaamic way of life via the establishment of the Islaamic Khilaafah and preferring the next life to the temporary life of this world. We ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to place our lost one among those whom He has said about: وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَشْرِي نَفْسَهُ ابْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ رَءُوفٌ بِالْعِبَادِيقاً "And of mankin

Dissatisfaction with the systems of capitalism in the West is about to reach a tipping point. Only two months ago a relatively small group of around 2.000 people marched unto Wall Street in New York to protest against political and economic inequality in America. Since then, this “Occupy Movement” has spread worldwide, organizing protests against the control of super-rich over politics and the economy in over 1.500 cities around the world. When the Nobel-price economist Joseph Stiglitz in May of this year wrote an article to criticize the political and economic state-of-affairs in America, he named it “ Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% ”. A title which aptly plays on Abraham Lincoln’s famous description of America’s democracy as being “government of the people, by the people, for the people” to describe the reality of the political system in the United States. Stiglitz’s criticism, in short, is that the “democratic” political process in America is fully controlled by only a small group