On 22/2/2016, various media agencies published the text of the joint statement issued by the United States and Russia on the truce which stated:
“… The United States and Russia, as co-chairs of the ISSG and ISSG Ceasefire Task Force, announce the adoption on February 22, 2016, of the Terms for a Cessation of Hostilities in Syria attached as an Annex to this statement, and propose that the cessation of hostilities commence at 00:00 (Damascus time) on February 27, 2016. The cessation of hostilities is to be applied to those parties to the Syrian conflict that have indicated their commitment to and acceptance of its terms…
1. To take part in the cessation of hostilities, armed opposition groups will confirm – to the United States of America or the Russian Federation, who will attest such confirmations to one another as co-chairs of the ISSG by no later than 12:00 (Damascus time) on February 26 2016 – their commitment to and acceptance of the following terms:
- To full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2254, adopted unanimously on December 18, 2015, ‑ including the readiness to participate in the UN-facilitated political negotiation process;
- To cease attacks with any weapons, including rockets, mortars, and anti-tank guided missiles …. To refrain from acquiring or seeking to acquire territory from other parties to the ceasefire… (state.gov 22/02/2016)
In which the Riyadh opposition accepted “… the US envoy to Syria, Michael Ratni, informed the negotiating body, the basic terms of the truce agreement that will begin this February 27, i.e. Saturday. In turn, Riyad Hijab, the General Coordinator of the High Negotiations Committee, announced the approval of the Commission to the terms of the truce agreement, in exchange for international guarantees …” (The New Arab, 22/2/2016). Afterwards the tyrant regime accepted it “… the Syrian Arab Republic accepts the cessation of fighting actions on the basis of continuing the military efforts for combating terrorism against “The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra and other Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations according to the Russian-US agreement.” (RT, 23/2/2016). “On Monday, 22/2/2016, during his return flight to Washington, Kerry informed Ministers in Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey about the agreement, according to a senior official in the US State Department”. (Middle East, 24/2/2016)
O Muslims: One who examines the texts of the truce, its introduction and backgrounds will find that America has made a great effort together with Russia to approve the truce. During the meeting in Vienna on 12/2/2016, the truce was approved within a week, but the week passed before anything was accomplished… therefore Kerry and Lavrov returned in consecutive meetings and set the new date for the truce at 27/2/2016. The US has exerted intense pressure on the opposition, even US envoy to Syria, Michael Ratni, who was nearly living with them, as mentioned before, to get them to accept the agreement, and so it was! Carefully considering the introductions of this truce and its background reveals that its venom is strewn within the details, through two fatal cracks, those who fall are only those fooled by them, the blind in sight and insight… Whereas the first: The truce stipulates that all who participate in the cessation of hostile acts must agree to enter a humiliating shameful settlement with the regime regarding the Syrian crisis… And second: That the truce considers all those who did not enter under the terms of this truce as a terrorist, this is not limited to what they have declared, i.e. ISIS and the An-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra), rather it includes anyone who does not agree to a settlement with the tyrant regime. There other factions who do not agree to the humiliating settlement with the regime, and all of them are to be bombed and killed in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Accordingly if we know that the rejection of the shameful humiliation settlement is in the hearts of most of the people of Syria, therefore it turns out that the people of Syria, or the vast majority are terrorists according to America and Russia and those who participated in these criminal dealings.
Terrorism was the pretext used by America and afterwards by Russia for their brutal attacks on the people of Syria. America had begun its attacks on behalf of the US coalition against Syria in 23/9/2014 and is still taking place… Then it called on Russia in a dirty deal through “the meeting between Obama and Putin, in the presence of two official delegations, for 90 minutes in New York on the evening of 29/9/2015, discussing the Syrian crisis, and the Ukrainian crisis, Putin described, in a press conference, “Today’s meeting was very constructive, practical and surprisingly frank,” declaring that there is a possibility of carrying out Russian air strikes in Syria … to support those who are on the battlefield resisting and fighting the terrorists”. US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to “some fundamental principles” on Syria… And the US official said that Obama and Putin agreed to hold talks between the armies of the two countries in order to avoid any conflict during possible operations in Syria …” (Russia Today, AFP, Reuters, AP, Assafir, 30/9/2015)
After their meeting and based upon it, the morning of 30/9/2015 Russia entered with its missiles and aircrafts declaring war on terrorism with US consent, which applies terrorism to all armed resistance against the regime, and now America has expanded its declaration to include all those who oppose the humiliating shameful settlement with the regime. Today, they do not conceal this, but declare that their brutal war is the means of pressure to enter into the toxic bloody settlement. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that all the steps taken by Moscow on the Syrian track are “focused on political process” in the country… (RT, 8/10/2015). The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that “Russian air force strikes creates a good atmosphere for the fight against terrorism and thus to the Syrian-Syrian negotiations. (RT, February 10, 2016)
O Muslims: It is not strange nor surprising that the United States and Russia weave the strands of the crime onto the people of Syria, rather onto all Muslims, for they are the enemies of Islam and Muslims. However even more peculiar and odd is the participation of people on behalf of the regime opposition, and on behalf of the people of Syria, and even more they carry Islamic names, they rushed to agree to a shameful humiliating truce, with the consent of Hijab and others! This truce is to protect the security of the regime for a matter of time. America does not want Bashar to leave before finding a traitor replacement like him who will serve its interests as he has, and preserve its influence as he did … and therefore it provides him its malicious means and with the support of its agents with their deception and misinformation. Therefore, America is the leader of the aggression against Muslim countries. It is fighting us in Ash-Sham, not only directly, but through multiple varied tools: local, regional, and international, at times through the tyrant of Ash-Sham and his henchmen, and if he is about to fall, it sends regional backing from Iran and its party in Lebanon and accessories from Iraq, and if that does not work, it will conclude a dirty internationally deal. Russia joined it and is fighting for it in a losing deal, because Putin believes that being in America’s service in Syria, it will quell Russia’s southern border problems regarding Ukraine, but these two matters are not related! Russia’s involvement in the war against Muslims will make it taste the ravages of the scourge with the problems with Ukraine and its accessories becoming a drop in the ocean of the Muslims’ anger towards them, and tomorrow is not far away. …
America has been paving the way for a big truce since the series of small truces from the truce of Kofi Annan on 10/4/2012, and the truce of Lakhdar Brahimi, to the truce of Barza neighborhood, and the truce of Qaboun neighborhood, then the truce of the towns: Kefraya, Al- Foah in Idlib northern countryside, and the towns of Zabadani and Madaya in Damascus countryside, then the Wa’ar neighborhood truce in December 2015, which had been praised by the US president who called for more expansion of truces, as it was planning since that time for the current larger truce. He said at the time, commenting on the Wa’ar truce agreement: “… it is a model for a truce agreements that is applied in certain areas, Obama said that it can be implemented in Syria at a greater rate …” (Reuters, 9 December 2015). Violating the truces is not an innovations of the tyrant regime, every sane person knows that the breaking of covenants is easier to the regime than blinking!, It has violated all of its agreed truces, and the wise man does not get bitten twice from the same hole, so how about if he is bitten over and over again?! The Prophet (saw) said:«لاَ يُلْدَغُ المُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ وَاحِدٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ»“A believer is not bitten from the same hole twice.” (Bukhari).
This truce will not preserve the security of the factions even the moderate or amended ones, and not even the civilians of the people of Syria. Furthermore America and Russia have expanded the meaning of the word terrorism, whoever refuses their humiliating treacherous settlement will be terrorists to those criminals. Those criminals forgot or have pretended to forget that they are the core of terrorism and its source. They have carried out the massacres in Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and carried out the brutality in Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and they are the ones who perpetrated the massacres in Grozny, Crimea and eastern Europe. They are the people of criminality and its perpetrators; and with the permission of Allah, will punish them for their crime even after a while.
[سَيُصِيبُ الَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا صَغَارٌ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَعَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَمْكُرُونَ ]
“There will afflict those who committed crimes debasement before Allah and severe punishment for what they used to conspire” [Al-An’am: 124]
And so this truce is to secure the regime, and it is deadly for those who accept it, even to Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahrar Ash-Sham, they will not escape its evil, if they do not release themselves from its burden before it is too late, and they shall regret it. The Kuffar will not be satisfied with a Muslim and will not be content with him if he violates one aspect of his Deen, but they will be content only when he departs his Deen, and the Truth. Allah (swt) says:
[وَلَنْ تَرْضَى عَنْكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلَا النَّصَارَى حَتَّى تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُم]
“And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion” [Al-Baqara: 120]
O Muslims, O Armed factions … O people of Ash-Sham, the Abode of Islam
America and its followers, Russia and the West are all too cowardly to make a change that they want, and are too weak to establish the secular government that they desire, unless they find among you traitors to become their agents, who have sold their religion cheaply. Look at America in Afghanistan, it could not have settled without traitors in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Likewise in Iraq, without agents who accompanied it from outside its tanks, and the traitors inside, they would not have been able to enter. Moreover, the same applies in the land of ash-Sham, defeating the colonist Kuffar is possible as long as they not find among you a traitor agent, and hence they will retreat and will not obtain any good, by the permission of Allah. So be a resolute barricade in front of the vulnerable people, so that they are not be manipulated by the colonists, and guide them, you are the men who will raise the banner of truth and eradicate the banner of falsehood. Allah willing.
[إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا]
“Indeed is falsehood, [by nature], ever bound to depart.” [Isra’: 81]
Beware of listening to the people of hypocrisy who are calling for the help of the Kuffar, due to their international strength, Allah (swt) is Mightier and more Powerful:
[أَيَبْتَغُونَ عِنْدَهُمُ الْعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ الْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا]
“Do they seek with them honor [through power]? But indeed, honor belongs to Allah entirely” [An-Nisa: 139]
In the authentic (Sahih) Hadith extracted by Abu Dawood in his Sunan on the authority of Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, the Messenger of Allah (saw) said:«إِنَّا لَا نَسْتَعِينُ بِمُشْرِكٍ»“We do not seek the support from a Mushrik”.
And know that the people of hypocrisy are harmful and their harm is great, Allah All-Knowing All-Aware made their punishment precede the Kuffar,
[إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَامِعُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْكَافِرِينَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ جَمِيعًا]
“Indeed, you would then be like them. Indeed Allah will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers in Hell all together.” [An-Nisa: 140]
The Messenger of Allah (saw) said in the Sahih Hadeeth, extracted by Ahmad in his Musnad on the authority of Omar bin al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him:
«إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي كُلُّ مُنَافِقٍ عَلِيمِ اللِّسَانِ»
“I fear for my Ummah the most every hypocrite who speaks with knowledge and does not implement it.”
Hizb ut Tahrir is the guide that does not lie to its people, it turns to you, O people of Ash-Sham to stand fast on the truth that you came out for, do not be fooled by the agent hypocrites who decorate the support of the Kuffar as a “coalition”, and taking the dirty money from them as “exchanging gifts”, and defeatism in front of them as “chivalry”.
[كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةً تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ إِنْ يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِبًا]
“Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie” [Al-Kahf: 5]
Ash-Sham is the abode of Islam, and it will be soon, Allah willing, the oppressive ruling is in its last stages, and then there will be the righteous Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of Prophethood.
[وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ]
“And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know” [Yusuf: 21]
H. 15 Jumada I 1437
M. : Wednesday, 24 February 2016