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Low Birth Rates Cripple Japan, When Islam Rewards Child Birth
News:
On the 23rd of January 2023, the BBC reported on Japan’s lowering birth rate. The country is facing a national crisis with the Prime Minister reporting that the country is on the brink of not being able to function due to an increasing elderly population and lowering number of young people to work managing infrastructures.
Comment:
Islam counteracts the current global depopulation initiatives in a way that would have averted the catastrophe unfolding in Japan and other regions. Allah (swt) explicitly states never consider the matter of provision or resources in killing your children or not having children as He (swt) is the Provider.
[وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًا]
“Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin.” [17:31].
Depopulation is not in human interests and Allah (swt) as the master of the world knows this more than any corrupt body or institution. The great forces controlling the world use population control as a means to assert their own control over countries. Forced sterilization programs exist in many Muslim lands to reduce the influence of the Islamic power and its return. Muslim women are not empowered with these false narratives and the Muslim countries will only seek to become more dependent on external non-Islamic influences with reduced population. We must ignore and dismantle these calls to not have children and learn from the disasters already unfolding in the cases of Japan and other nations. Our success in resuming the Islamic way of life can only be found in the complete adherence to Quran and Sunnah and the resumption of the Khilafah (Caliphate) to ensure the prosperity and increase in positive impact for Muslims and humanity as a whole.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammad
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir