On 06/04/2015, Brother Mohammed Ad-Dokhi (Abu Ahmed) and Brother Radhwan Al-Kholi (Abu Osama) were arrested, both are members of Hizb ut Tahrir/Wilayah of Syria. It was against the backdrop of distributing a statement titled "Has Muslim Blood Become Cheap to "Sham Ar-Rasool" Brigade As it Has for the Tyrant of Ash-Sham?!" The statement revealed the assassination attempt of Sheikh Ibrahim An-Najjar (Abu Suhaib) one of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir/Wilayah of Syria in Kafr city of Batna in eastern Ghouta, who chaired a committee of people from the neighborhood to follow through with the case of the two Mujahideen killed at the hands of "Sham Ar-Rasool" Brigade. The statement explained the sanctity of Muslim blood and called the Mujahideen to protect Muslims from the oppression of the tyrant of Ash-Sham. But it seems that this has annoyed the "Army of Islam", and rather than being just to the oppressed, it started to arrest those who distributed the statement; upholding the word of truth and enjoining the good and forbidding the Munkar according to Allah's command and it is a "Fitna" according to the Army of Islam !!.

On 10/04/2015 a mass demonstration took place in Kafr Batna demanding the Army of Islam to release members of the Hizb. The next day, a delegation of Ghouta notables went to the Army of Islam demanding the release of the detainees and they responded to this and released them. On 26/04/2015, the Army of Islam re-arrested the two brothers on one of their check-points in Douma.

O Muslims in Ash-Sham the abode of Islam: It is no secret that Hizb ut Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam; it was established in response to the command of Allah (swt):((وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ)) "And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful" [Al-i-Imran: 104]

We wonder why are there harassment to the party members in the south and the north and in this particular time in which the signs of the entrance of the interim government inside Syrian with the international support are looming in the horizon. These harassments and other acts will not deter the party from adhering to the commands of Allah (swt) to enjoin the good and forbid the evil, we will continue to uphold the truth fearing Allah alone, following the saying of Allah (swt): ((فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ)) "Then declare what you are commanded and turn away from the polytheists" [Al-Hijr:94]

Until Allah (swt) makes Islam prevail by the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" otherwise we shall perish working for it. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: «أفضل الجهاد كلمة عدل عند سلطان جائر» "The best Jihad is the just word to a tyrant ruler". And He (saw) said: «سيد الشهداء حمزة بن عبد المطلب ورجل قام إلى إمام جائر فأمره ونهاه فقتله» "The master of martyrs is Hamza Ibn Abdul Mutalib and a man who stands up to a tyrant ruler and orders and forbids him (accounts him) and is killed (by the ruler)". We call upon the (Army of Islam) to release the two members, and to fear Allah in the Dawah carriers, and direct their efforts to overthrow the secular system. It is a stone's throw away from them, and to work for the support of this Deen with the sincere workers to establish the guided Khilafah "Caliphate" on its ruins, in response to the command of Allah Almighty:

وَأَنِ احْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ وَاحْذَرْهُمْ أَنْ يَفْتِنُوكَ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يُصِيبَهُمْ بِبَعْضِ ذُنُوبِهِمْ وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِنَ النَّاسِ لَفَاسِقُونَ

"And judge, [O Muhammad], between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations and beware of them, lest they tempt you away from some of what Allah has revealed to you. And if they turn away - then know that Allah only intends to afflict them with some of their [own] sins. And indeed, many among the people are defiantly disobedient." [Al-Ma'ida: 49]

Ahmad Abdul Wahab
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Wilayah of Syria