Kuffar tried to inject democracy into Islam, and many deviants and zanadiqa helped them in this.
Now some Muslims go to the other extreme by labelling anyone who acknowledges the importance of politics in asymmetric, modern war as democrats.
There's not really a substantial difference between someone who calls politics in asymmetric war kufr and somebody who calls using advanced math in designing rockets kufr.
There is kufr contained within both of these disciplines as a whole, but there should be no...
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..."guilt by association" against Muslims who use parts of these bodies of knowledge while intentionally avoiding the elements of them which are explicit kufr.
The problem is that if you don't have a firm grounding in both sharia and Islam and the fields in question...
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...you won't be able to filter through the knowledge to avoid the problematic parts.
This is why there are people on this app continuously labelling as "Sururis" individuals who do not at all embody Sururi though. They see Muslims who delved into a field of knowledge...
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...and fell into kufr as a result, and then assume every time they see some reference to this field of knowledge, that those referring to it must be upon the same manhaj.
This relates to a longstanding prejudice among Muslims, and a prejudice which was actually...
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...cultivated by the kuffar, and that is the strong preference for hard sciences over social sciences.
Social sciences are effectively the "software" for political and institutional systems, while hard sciences are the "hardware."
The kuffar promoted professions...
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...like medicine and engineering among Muslims, because these professions ensure the smooth functioning of a system - they do not determine what the actual impact or effect of the system is.
So they wanted systems controlled by kuffar but built and maintained by Muslims.
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The danger of falling into kufr as a result of believing in technology is as imminent as the danger of falling into kufr by believing in the superiority of democracy, and study of either social sciences or hard sciences can lead to this without proper Islamic grounding.
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...large amounts of IS's already doubtful takfir further into doubt, or rather exposed the invalid foundations of much of their takfir.
Many of the compromises made for the sake of siyasa sharia by ahl us sunnah in Idlib were made in light of the situation of extreme...
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...pressure and intense war, and the apparent outcome of these decisions was maintaining a refuge for millions of the general masses of Muslims who had nowhere else to go.
These Muslims, including thousands of muhajirin, now have a level of protection in their religion...
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Some hadith that come to mind are the hadith on 'eena, a type of riba which is hidden behind a sale, the hadith that mentions the ummah will be in a state of humiliation when they abandon jihad and deal in 'eena, the hadith prohibiting combining multiple contracts...
...in a single contract (and combining multiple contracts is how the modern day equivalent of 'eena is achieved), the fact that 'eena is technically legal, but 'Aisha told one of the veterans of Badr that he had nullified all of his battles with Rasulullah ﷺ by...
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...entering into 'eena, unless he repented, the hadith on hijra, where the Prophet ﷺ absolved himself of responsibility for those who stayed in dar al kufr, and said "their fires should not be visible to one another" about the necessity of separation between....
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@SafdarAlam is correct that using conventional banking is a better than "Islamic" banking according to Islam.
In either case, use should be limited to the absolute minimum necessary, but the only advantage of Islamic banking is not investing in industries like...
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...alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and this is far outweighed by the enormous sin of lying about Allah's religion, and using deception to label the haram as halal.
Furthermore, all of this deception costs money, so Islamic banking is just less efficient and more expensive...
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...riba, which actually makes Islam look bad (but alhamdulillah what they are doing is not actually from Islam). Since "Islamic" financial products are more expensive, it also weakens the Muslims economically.
If you truly have to use banking services, or if your...
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During the early formation of the Nigerian struggle, there was a dispute between two leaders, Muhammed Ali and Muhammed Yusuf, about the excuse of ignorance and establishment of proof.
Ali made takfir on Yusuf over the disagreement and began the struggle without hujjah...
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...and the effort was largely a failure.
Later on Yusuf took over leadership of the movement, and delayed actually fighting until he had established proof about secular law to all of the local leaders, and then began the struggle. The effort was more successful...
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...and eventually was taken over by Abu Bakr Shekau after Mohammed Yusuf was executed by the Nigerian military, and named Jamaat Ahl as Sunnah li-Dawah wal Jihad.
AQ supported Shekau with advice and funding, which helped make possible their first successful operation...
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Muslims should treat any international sporting competitions such as FIFA or the Olympics as any other innovation in the religion, because they reinforce artificial identities designed to divide and weaken the Muslims.
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The Olympic games were originally an act of worship for pagan Greeks. The games were part of a festival honoring Zeus, the chief god of the Greek pantheon. They are named for Mt. Olympus, which was the home of the gods in Greek mythology.
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The Olympic games today still include a derivative of ritual from the ancient Greek religion in the form of the Olympic torch ceremony.
In the original games, a fire was lit on the altar of Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and kept burning throughout the games.
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Airstrikes don't win wars. 7 million *tons* (7 billion kg) of explosives were dropped during the Vietnam war, about 3.5 times more than the total droppes in WW2 in all theaters.
Children reached their teens rarely seeing natural daylight.
The reason the US still couldn't achieve its objectives is pretty simple. The will to fight of the North Vietnamese people was much stronger than any of the forces fighting them.
There are two important lessons here (among others).
First, the appearance of power...
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...and strength of highly industrialized and technologically advanced nations is an illusion.
Secondly, the power of ideological and economkc warfare is much more than the power of weaponry.
The reason Muslim countries are unwilling to fight against the kuffar is not...
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