At a press briefing yesterday (13-05-2013), the Bangladesh Army announced the official end of the Rana Plaza rescue operation and stated that the final death toll from the collapse was 1,127. Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah Bangladesh, conveys its condolences to the families of the deceased; and prays to Allah, the Merciful, to shower them with peace and accept them as martyrs of the Hereafter. The Messenger of Allah (saw) stated that if one dies the death from such collapses, he will be of the martyrs. We also pray that Allah (swt) cures the injured soon.

This tragic incident and other similar incidents such as the Tazreen Fashion factory fire in November last year reveal the extent of the corruption of the existing system in Bangladesh, the ruling coalition government of Hasina, which includes the following:

1. The absolute failure and negligence of the government to care for the affairs of the people, to monitor the owners of factories and maintain the standards of engineering in construction, and its cronyism and nepotism in issuing building permits without a commitment to standards of engineering. It is simply enough that if the factory owner is a member of the ruling party he can build an additional three floors above the permitted five floors, with faulty design. This is in sharp contrast to what Muhammad (saw) stated:

"كُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ، وَكُلُّكُمْ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ "

"Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock."

2. Hasina and the regime ruling the people of Bangladesh have turned its people into slaves for global capitalist companies. They have marketed the labour force of the country as cheap slaves which made the global capitalist corporations greedy to switch from using prisoners in Chinese prisons to Bangladesh because of the low wages of the workers in Bangladesh, where the wages of those working in the garment factories for more than 12 hours a day is a meagre 30 Euros a month, although their work is for international companies; it has been shown that the workers in Rana Plaza were working for European companies such as Mango, Primark, and Benetton.

In addition to the bondage in the local factories, the secular governments have forced the people - who are desperate to escape from poverty and destitution resulting from the current system - to seek employment in the so-called overseas labour market until they became known as slaves in the world under the name of workers, especially in the Gulf states, where they are exploited in the most heinous ways, including physical abuse, humiliation and low wages which are no better than the wages of workers in the garment factories in Bangladesh.

What is worse is Hasina and the ruling regime's transformation of the Bangladesh Army into mercenaries for the United Nations, through sending them to combat missions, for implementing the schemes of the Kafir imperialists in various regions of the world, instead of using them to protect the people in the border or defending the Muslims in Myanmar, or sending them to support their brothers in Syria from America's agent, the tyrant of Al-Sham, Bashar al-Assad! The hadith of RasulAllah (saw) will apply to Hasina and this ruling regime for their crimes against the people:

«مَا مِنْ وَالٍ يَلِي رَعِيَّةً مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَمُوتُ وَهُوَ غَاشٌّ لَهُمْ إِلَّا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ»

"There is no wali (governor) who takes charge of Muslims and dies cheating them, except that Allah prohibits him paradise."

3. Such incidents also clearly reveal Hasina and the ruling regime's disregard for people's lives, when they invent lies and make irresponsible statements such as "the building collapsed due to the shaking of the gates" or "the cause of the collapse was due to the vibrations of electricity generators" as if the government is not responsible for the timed blackouts, forcing factory owners to use generators, not to mention their corruption and failure to monitor the owner's commitment to engineering standards.

O Muslims!

Enough is enough; enough of the corrupt regime's enslavement of yourselves and your children. They treat you even less than a slave. You are the best Ummah produced from the people; you have in your hands Islam, the great Deen which if you implemented in your lives by establishing the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" rather than the current corrupt system, you shall satisfy Allah (swt) and He will liberate you from oppression.

((...وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا (2) وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ وَمَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا)).

"...and whosoever fear Allah, He makes a way out for him (from every difficulty). And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then sufficient is Allah for him. Verily Allah will accomplish His purpose: Verily, for all things Allah has appointed a due proportion." [Surah At-Talaq: 2-3]

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