The Tragedy of Gabes, a Victim of the Choices of the Modern State [وَإِذَا تَوَلَّى سَعَى فِي الْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ الْحَرْثَ وَالنَّسْلَ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَسَادَ] “And when he goes away, he strives throughout the land to cause corruption therein and destroy crops and animals. And Allah does not like corruption.” [Al-Baqara:205]
The protests of the people of Gabes in the south of Tunisia continue because of the poisons emitted from the chemical complex, which has turned the city into an environmentally and health-stricken area, directly affecting the health of the inhabitants of Gabes and its natural resources. Cancer and respiratory diseases have spread, and the matter has even reached successive cases of suffocation among students. Decades of false promises and deliberate neglect have made Gabes a symbol of marginalization and pollution, as the phosphate wealth has turned from a blessing into a curse due to the policies of the modern state, which chose quick profit and the interests of large companies at the expense of people's health and their right to a decent life.
03:16None of you should urinate in stagnant water.
03:20That does not flow, then wash in it.
03:23And the Islamic legal principle is that the means to the unlawful is unlawful.
03:29Accordingly, polluting the environment in a harmful way or in a way that leads to harm or leads to the unlawful
03:37during the process of manufacturing, economic development, and exploitation of natural resources is forbidden, haram, by sharia.
03:47Regardless of the costs that result from avoiding it.
03:51O people of the beautiful city of Gage, the environmental problem cannot be solved through capitalist solutions that weigh all matters by benefit and profit.
04:03Nothing will curb the excesses of the capitalist companies that have destroyed crops and animals except the rule of Islam under the Khilafah Rashidah, rightly guided caliphate, on the method of the prophethood.
04:17The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
04:20The Imam is a shepherd and he is responsible for his flock.
04:29The treatment of the Islamic State would be to designate industrial zones far from residential areas for polluting industries, monitor industrial and agricultural facilities, and any other sources of pollution,
04:45and oblige these facilities and sources to follow clean production methods and systems, such as industrial waste treatment units, and not allow pollutants to leak into the surrounding environment.
04:58The Khilafah state also gives attention to establishing factories for reprocessing permissible industrial waste and reusing it as new forms of matter and energy, which is called recycling, to reduce the amount of industrial waste.
05:14What remains of this waste that cannot be exploited or recycled is disposed of by burial in remote areas.
05:24The protests of the heroic people of Gage must be a starting point to overthrow the savage capitalist system and establish righteous rule on the basis of Islam under the Khilafah Rashidah on the method of the prophethood.
05:40The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
05:43Then there will be a caliphate upon the method of the prophethood.
05:51Media Office of Hizb al-Tahrir in Wilayah, Tunisia.
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