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Aug 25, 2019 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
In honor of Virgo season a few details about the sign from traditional Islamic astrology:

Virgo or Al Adhra is cold & dry, feminine, sterile, of great voice, generous, judging, and shapely

Women have long hair, men a little belly, both moles on chest
Virgo rules over eunuchs, singers, supervisors, and secretaries and bureaucrats.

Also rules Syria, the Euphrates, Sistan, and capital of Abyssinia

It has dominion over all things sown and running water.
You can read more at my previous thread on zodiac:
And of course, one of the most famous Virgo in Islamic history, was Caliph Ma'mun who lead a civil war to overthrow his brother Al-Amin. When victorious, he marched into Baghdad wearing all green and had his entire retinue do the same.
Fancying himself an intellectual, Ma'mun patronized philosophy and science, reputedly establishing the House of Wisdom.

He also oversaw the minha, an inquisition-style series of trials that tested philosophers and scholars for their beliefs.

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if true the US agrees to these terms it is the biggest strategic defeat for the US since Vietnam
the US started with 3 objectives:

1. Regime change
2. Eliminate uranium enrichment
3. Destroy Iran’s missile capabilities

Then added a 4th: open the Strait of Hormuz which wasn’t closed before the war

It failed to achieve all of them despite inflicting heavy damage
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1. Expose US bases and shift balance of power
2. Establish deterrence
3. Exact a toll/ establish control over Strait of Hormuz
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there’s a long and cool history of jinn participating in resistance, both in the past and even in contemporary lore. From the jinn of Afghanistan haunting US soldiers to African freedom fighters enlisting their jinn counterparts
Early Islam adopted many of the concepts of pre Islamic jinn including their participation in various wars

In some early narrations jinn participate in different conflicts on one side or the other
In particular Islamic thought adopted the understanding of jinn as dwellers of ruins and the special places of nature with cultural and regional variations.

In Egypt jinn ifrit used mirages to draw Napoleon’s troops into the desert leading them to their death
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gather around habibis, story time about how i had my second jinn encounter.

After what happened last time my friend, M kinda became fixated on whether what we saw was a jinn or something else so he came up with a plan: let’s seek out the jinn and whew did things get weird…
we grew up in a culture where the jinn were taken for granted. We all knew intellectually they may be real but seeing is something else

A few months after he had just escaped being hunted by the jinn-cat, M decided he wanted definitive proof it was a jinn
so he asked me to help him. While initially I said no, curiosity got the better of me. I mean this was 5th grade or so and I’ve always been more curious than anything and am not afraid of much.

Well that was dumb lol
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when a leaf falls, the time has come to reap a soul.

To the righteous the angel appears as a friend greeting them with peace but to the wicked the angel is a terrifying reminder of the judgement to come
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“Lord I am overpowered, so help me”
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have i told y’all of the first time i may have seen a jinn? Well gather around habibis for a thread.

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being kids we always spent some time playing in the park. next to the parking lot was an old basketball court.

one of the games we played would be to stand on a ridge/gutter and toss rocks into the empty parking lot. we even tried to score baskets from high up
one of my friends who was a little older, let’s call him M, would sometimes meet us there.

one day we were tossing rocks and hitting baskets when suddenly a scrawny cat walked out of the bushes and stopped right near the court
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