Highlights of the Visit of the Syrian President, Ahmad al-Shara, to Moscow Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, accompanied by an official delegation that included his foreign minister, Asaad Al-Shaibani, visited the Russian capital, Moscow, on October 15, 2025. They met with Russian President Putin in their first official visit since the fall of the Assad regime, at the end of last year.
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00:08Highlights of the visit of the Syrian President Ahmad al-Shari' to Moscow by Ustaz Ahmad al-Sourani.
00:15Translated, Haraya Newspaper issue 570, the 22nd of October 2025 CE.
00:22Syria's transitional president, Ahmad al-Shari' accompanied by an official delegation that included his foreign minister, Assad al-Shaybani, visited the Russian capital Moscow on October 15, 2025.
00:37They met with Russian President Putin on their first official visit since the fall of the Assad regime at the end of last year.
00:43Anyone following the news of this visit realizes that it has nothing to do with the demand for Bashar's extradition, as some are claiming.
00:53It is only taking place with American approval to lend more legitimacy to Ahmad al-Shari' who has diverse connections.
01:01The issue of Russian bases in Syria and their continued existence were discussed and it appears that they have pledged their continued existence.
01:10However, one of the most dangerous implications of the visit is that it demonstrates that what comes after the revolution is not what came before it and that the new course of action requires forgetting the revolution and its constants.
01:25Although Russia, led by Putin, played a role in stabilizing the Assad regime for 10 years following its military intervention in 2015 at Obama's behest, supporting it with weapons, equipment, and experts, and committing the most heinous massacres against the people of Syria,
01:43the new Syrian leadership overlooked this criminal past of the Russians.
01:48The Syrian delegation left them meeting, exchanging smiles and jokes with Putin.
01:53Ahmad al-Shari' even affirmed that he respects all previous agreements with Russia.
01:58As a wave of criticism swept across the visit, its statements, and the resulting calamities that rewarded the Russians with their intervention in Syria and whitewashed their dark faces,
02:10Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaybani attempted to salvage the situation with an interview on the official Syrian news channel, declaring,
02:19From this, we see that the extent of the Syrian administration's confusion in managing political matters contrary to the desires and aspirations of the Syrian people who hold utter hostility toward Russia.
02:46Al-Shaybani was unable to declare these agreements invalid, but instead described them as suspended and open to negotiation and amendment.
02:56This contradicts the statement of his president, Ahmad al-Shari' regarding respect for the agreements concluded with Russia.
03:04It's worth noting that Al-Shaybani declared in January of this year that the former regime's allies held $30 billion in foreign debt,
03:14After a wave of protests against his statement, no official statement was issued by the Damascus government regarding these debts,
03:22Indicating an acknowledgment of the debts and which the Syrian people paid in blood throughout the revolution.
03:28Then, it appears that this bereaved people are being forced to repay these debts from their own pockets to appease the Russian enemy.
03:36The saying, quote, there is no permanent enmity between countries in politics, end quote,
03:42Is a statement that contradicts Islamic Sharia law.
03:45The Prophet ﷺ declared enmity against all countries that were actually at war and divided the world into the abode of Islam,
03:55Dar al-Islam, and the abode of disbelief, Dar al-Kufr.
03:58This goal was to conquer the lands of the disbelievers and annex them to the Islamic State,
04:04transforming them into abodes of Islam governed by the law of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
04:10and their security secured by the security of the Muslims, that is, by their own military power.
04:16Despite the small number of Muslims, the Prophet ﷺ would correspond with kings and emperors,
04:23warning them,
04:24Aslim Taslam
04:25Submit to Islam and you will be safe.
04:27Even when he concluded treaties, such as the Treaty of Hudaydiya,
04:32it was a temporary truce aimed at neutralizing the Quraysh for a while.
04:36It aided the conquest of Khaybar, and then the Prophet ﷺ returned to conquer Mecca.
04:43He ﷺ never once sat with the leaders of the Kuffar,
04:49exchanging smiles and reassuring them that they were safe from the Muslim armies,
04:54as is happening now between the Syrian administration and the Jewish, Russian, or American officials.
05:00This visit cannot be justified, explained, or interpreted in any way.
05:04One of the principles of the revolution was to cut off the influence of other countries from our country
05:10and their interference in our affairs.
05:13It would have been more appropriate to pay attention to the strength of the popular platform
05:19whose efforts, with the help of Allah ﷻ, brought us to Damascus victorious instead of seeking glory from the Kuffar.
05:28Sitting with Russia, the Jewish entity, and the greatest enemy America,
05:33and submitting to Western directives is a continuation of the subservient approach
05:39that America seeks to impose on the new administration,
05:42which seeks to keep Syria within the hold of the international order,
05:46just as it was during the era of the defunct Assad regime.
05:50The people of Hashem did not rise up to reproduce a secular system subservient to the international order.
05:58Instead, they rose up to achieve justice and repel injustice.
06:03This will only happen if Islam returns to dominate as a political system,
06:08and if state imposes a new international order.
06:11Rather than being part of this corrupt international order that is criminal against its people,
06:19today the Ummah is called upon to hold its head high,
06:23sever the bonds of dependence on the East and the West,
06:27and restore its loyalty to Allah ﷻ alone, to His Messenger ﷺ, and to the Muslims.
06:34The dignity of the Islamic Ummah can only be restored through the sovereignty of Islam
06:40and justice on earth.
06:42That can only be established by the rule of Allah ﷻ.
06:46The revival of the people of Hashem and the Islamic Ummah
06:50will not only be based on the Islamic Deen
06:53and the existence of a comprehensive project emanating from it.
06:57By establishing the Islamic State, the Khilaf al-Rashidah,
07:00rightly guided caliphate, on the method of the prophethood,
07:03which will unify their ranks,
07:06sever the hands of the colonialists from their lands,
07:08and restore their status among the nations of the world,
07:12as Allah ﷻ intended it to be.
07:16One Ummah carrying the message of truth to the world.
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