Interview with Greek Convert on the Anniversary of the destruction of the Khilafah

The following is a brief transcript of an audio interview with a Greek convert in Australia on the occasion of the Destruction of the Khilafah.

Q - How did you convert to Islam?

A - I started enquiring about religion accidentally. It was a mere statement from a Muslims who said: ‘All Muslims will go to Heaven and all non-Muslims will go to Hell”. I was amazed that in this day and age anybody could get away with that statement without understanding what he meant. I approached him and asked him to validate his statement, basically he said: “All Muslims believe in One God and Muhammad is His Messenger”. It was statement that I would later become to recite and cherish until this very day!

That interaction started with me on a journey to learn about the religion I was born with (Christianity- Greek Orthodox) and the deen that I would soon embrace wholeheartedly.

After enquiring with my parents and local priest about the fundamental questions that all human beings will ask in their lifetime, how did I get here? Where will I go after I die etc. It seems that these questions were too problematic for them to answer. So it was often said to me “These are not questions you should ask”! If we are not to ask these questions about the very existence of us being here, how would they react if I ask them to prove that Jesus was the son of god?!

It was then I went to some friends who I knew were Muslims. I went through the same drill of questions,

Q - Being part of Hizb ut-Tahrir (dawah), how does this affect you as a convert?

A - The Hizb has made nurtured me to be a robust dawah carrier/politician, understanding how the past and current events affect the Ummah

The hizb has crystallized my understanding of Islam to be more than just adhering to the individual spiritual matters, like fasting, prayer, and hajj

Islam is not about individuals rather it is a communal religion that ‘Enjoins the good and forbids the evil’.

Therefore the dawah has defined my path how to travel through this temporary life and meet my creator with a clear conscience in the akhirah

It is only by re-establishing the Khilafah that we can truly protect ourselves from the evils of this world.

Q- What do you think the affect of the re-establishment of the Khilafah will have on the Muslims and non-muslims?

A - There is no doubt that this world and the thoughts that people hold are in a mess!

As we know for decades there has been a constant war on Islam, and the western leaders/thinkers have come out openly and proclaimed the following:

From the US: “What we are fighting against is the prospect of a new evil empire". Joseph Lieberman's

Blair has also aligned Islam to an’ evil ideology’.

These are just snippets of the hatred from the western mouths.

Therefore our ideology is being tested like it was during the time of the Prophet (saw) in Mecca,

our sisters are being tested for wearing the hijab, our parents are being tested because of being concerned that our children will be labeled as extremists and terrorist, our youth are concerned about living their Islam and finding a job.

The non-muslims push to isolate us from the mainstream society and look at Islam and the Muslims with a lot of suspicion. And this is living in Australia, but on a global scale we can see the slaughter or innocent muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Kashmir. We see the military occupation of our lands, the rule of kufr on the muslims and the utter slavery from our so called muslim rulers to the West.

The world is crying out today for a state that upholds justice and will work sincerely to alleviate oppression in the world. The Caliphate will uphold the fundamental rights of justice and will not: break its treaties, torture and abuse prisoners, imprison people without charge, oppress minorities and spy on its citizens unlike Capitalism.

I can see that the return of the Khilafah is very much needed.

Pat Buchannan’s statement is worth highlighting when he says:

“If Islamic rule is an idea taking hold among the Islamic masses, how does even the best army on earth stop it?” Pat Buchannan

This Khilafah is not a pie in the sky; the CIA has plotted the return of the Khilafah by 2020.

I make this sincere du’a that Allah (swt) grants us the victory of the Khilafah.