Ideas for .@DouglasKMurray and pals to win back Europe from the Muslimsπ§πΌthey fear so much and prevent its demise:
1. Start going Church and kickstart mass revival of Christianity, moving ppl away from atheism & meaningless ideologies. (Whaddya mean you donβt want to go Church?)
2. Encourage a mass baby boom amongst non-Muslims consistently for multiple generations (encourage women to settle down younger, have more babies, revive marriage even. It means discouraging alternative lifestyles and materialistic concerns about having big families).
3. Invent a new religion, with a scripture as compelling as the Qurβan anchored by deeply embedded truths that people are willing to live and fight for, even give up their lives for. (Yep- a doomed project)
4. Prevent the thousands of annual conversions to Islam by Europeans. (Hmm but that would go against freedom of religion and Doug wouldnβt be able to pretend heβs a Libertarian anymore).
5. Realise itβs no use and that Islam is the continuation of the message of God in previous scriptures and that its growth is irreversible and irresistible π‘.
One would think the Divine hand is guiding the growth of Islam in Europe! Well look here! Qurβan 9:32:
6. Sincerely look into Islam. Embrace it. Become a brother in faith, find peace of mind & serenity. Bring this peace of mind to Europe, saving it from the clutches of nihilism, pessimism and axiomatic confusion it is gripped by, thereby saving Europe from a painful death ππΌπ€²π»
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Children do not lose their Iman overnight. Parents please be vigilant. Donβt allow your teens to become strangers in their own homes. When you see your child or household culture going down a slippery slope - itβs time for renewal and intervention. Sooner rather than later.
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1. Connection with Allah
Do they talk to Allah? Do they know Allah? Do you pray and make duβa together? Are you establishing prayers in the house? At least some prayers in jamaβah? Salah protects from shamelessness and sin.
2. Connection with you as parent.
Do you show them love and attention? Can they come have banter and test ideas and worries with you? Do you spend plenty of time together? Can you help them with any questions they have?
Do sisters writing about the Emma Barnett female Imams debacle, referring to their fight against βpatriarchyβ realise that they are saying worse than anything Barnett did. They are literally parroting leftist/feminist/orientalist labelling of Islam as patriarchal?
We submit to the Divine, yes. The Divine is neither male nor female.
However the highest authority in our deen was the Prophet Muhammad S. who was a MAN. The eponyms of our foremost legal schools were MEN. The head of the family is the man. Are you fighting against that?
We had Mothers of the Believers who were also legal authorities - they are our matriarchs. Islam doesnβt fit the feminist paradigm.
Are we so intellectually colonised that we must use the language and labellings of Western feminism to view our own Deen?
One of the striking things about Aisha (RA) was that although not a biological mother herself, she considered children & the next generation so important that she decided to raise orphans in her home and prioritised them as her students. Some of them were her nephews and nieces..
Talha ibn Ubaydillah and az-Zubair bin al-'Awwam were her brothers-in-law and were killed around the time of the Incident of the Camel. Muhammad bin Abi Bakr -her brother- was killed in Egypt by the Umayyad governor. They left behind children who Aisha (RA) took under her wing...
Their orphaned children became great scholars, muhaddiths and jurists under her tutelage:
al-Qasim bin Muhammad (her brother's son)
'Urwah bin az-Zubair (her sister Asma's son)
'Aisha bint Talha (her sister Umm Kulthoum's son)...
Muslim students - the uni environment can cause us to lower our guard with regards to interactions with the opposite sex, but we must keep our guard up. Attraction and crushes feel very real (and can be painful)...
Some day you will, in shΔ AllΔh, be happily married to someone you love, who is good for your dΔ«n and worthy of building a family with. Until then, protect yourself and your heart from the pain of harΔm relationships and everything that can lead to them...
Actively avoid situations that ignite desires. By, for example, not freely mixing with the opposite sex, not being in seclusion with your professor (of the opposite sex), not listening to lewd lyrics, and lowering your gaze. Islam gave us these guidelines for our own protection.
The university space is notoriously filled with isms and schisms. Whether itβs orientalism, Marxism, or feminism - know that such isms tend to be ideologies: systems of ideas and ideals with their own architects, & loaded language.
Islam is the complete way of life revealed by our Creator. It is the source of our ideals and values. So remember that Islam contains its own framework for addressing oppression, for addressing the economy, for addressing womenβs rights, politics, questions of philosophy & more.
Worldly isms were formulated in the minds of fallible human beings and at times, charlatans. Even academia itself cannot escape its internal conventions, biases, assumptions and poor scholarship. So be careful before you innocently adopt trends such as βcancel cultureβ or...
Salam to you .@rustyrockets this was a great conversation between you and .@YusufCatStevens
My kids are beneficiaries of the schools he built. I think your journeys do have many parallels and I do hope you submit one day Russell. luminary.link/PExecI7jl9
@rustyrockets The only thing I would add, as a scholar of Islamic law, is that the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad s. did insist that if the message of Islam reaches you - you must embrace it for your own salvation. God didnβt leave us on earth without guidance.
@rustyrockets and this wishy washy idea of 'anything goes' is not an accurate representation of the message of the Prophet Muhammad who insisted that people must follow his message if they knew about it. Russell I fear you have certain fears around Islam and committing to one way