Free Muslim Prisoners

FREE MUSLIM PRISONERS

                                                   AUG 05 2015 - 20 SHAWWAL 1436 AH

By AbuQ9

Anjem Choudary is one of two men who has been charged with inviting support for Islamic State militants, Scotland Yard says.

He and another man, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, have each been charged with one offence under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between 29 June 2014 and 6 March this year.

They were due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

Mr Choudary, 48, of Ilford in East London, and Mohammed Rahman, 32, of Whitechapel in east London, were arrested on 25 September last year on suspicion of being members of IS, which is a proscribed organisation.

Sue Hemming, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "It is alleged that Anjem Choudary and Mohammed Rahman invited support for Isis [also known as Islamic State] in individual lectures which were subsequently published online."

OUR DUTIES TOWARD MUSLIM PRISONERS

Just as the five daily Salah (prayers) are Fard (obligatory) on the Muslims, likewise the Sawm (fast) in Ramadan is obligatory on the Muslims. To do Da’wah (enjoining the good and forbidding the evil in society) is obligatory on the Muslims. The freeing of Muslims in captivity (Aseer) is also obligatory on the Muslims. To free any Muslim in the captivity of the disbelievers is obligatory. It's not recommended or permissible (mubah).

Sheikh-ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: “Freeing the prisoners is one of the greatest compulsory deeds and spending ransom money and other means towards that, is one of the greatest ways to come close to Allah.” [Al-Fatawa (28/635)]

By Allah, we will be accounted by Allah in regards to the Muslim prisoners. What we did to secure their release. There is a lot we what we can do.

1) Pay money for their release. This could be bail money or even ransom.

Ibn Hazm (rh) said, “It is the consensus (Ijma) of the Companions, that if the only way to release Muslims from captivity is to gather all the money from the Ummah, it becomes Wajib (compulsory) to do this.” [Muhallah Bab-ul-Aseer]

2) Prisoner swap if we have kuffar in captivity. This is what the Prophet (ﷺ) did.

3) Break them out by force if we have the ability.

4) We can make dua for them. The dua is the weapon of the believer.

5) There are many permissible things we can do like, demonstrations, social media campaigns, speaking to media to highlight their situation.

Oh Muslims, the Haq (rights) of our Ummah are being violated daily all over the world and we should fulfil all of our duties (be they Izhaar-ul-Deen, implementing the Shari’ah, Da’wah, Jihad etc.) to Allah (Subhana wa ta'ala) by completing them to the best of our abilities.