A lot of false narratives will be peddled about how Awami League was toppled in 2024.
I will try to summarize how this event came to be.
After the Pilkhana Massacre AL had virtual hegemony over all the government institutions in Bangladesh. They began their Bangladesh Vision 2021 project. A large part of this project was gaining total political hegemony and eliminating the opposition.
Dec 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The current education minister Habibullah Agha was specifically appointed to ensure that girl's education is completely banned.
The acting education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani had a long term plan that went against what the "senior" Ulema wanted. So his removal is no surprise.
The fact of the matter is there are many within the ranks of the Taliban who want to make educated available for everyone.
But the at the senior level you have those who don't really care for what the people need. They just want to impose what they believe is the Shariah.
1. Basic(or you can call them lazy) Salafi Tullab just stick to basic dawah/Tafsiya wa Tarbiyah. They don't bother reading beyond the sanitized texts of the quietist Salafi faction. They do continue doing tabdi however.
Nov 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Where did people get the idea that the top down approach does not work?
All of history is defined by top down approach.
Mustafa Kemal did not run some extended campaign before he seized power. He grabbed power and then imposed secularism on the Muslim majority through militant oppression. Secular cadres inspired by westerners helped. But even today without the support of the military,
Nov 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The fact is you don't really care about the Islamic commandments.
No layman is intentionally ignorant of Islamic history or proud of what they think they know. The only one who shows arrogance with the little knowledge they have is you.
You had no issue when Imran Khan recommended your rubbish book which has a very generalized and reductive portrayal of history with facts that you now mock everyone for restating.
Oct 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
90s Salafism all over again.
There is not an issue with following Saheeh Hadith. Generally they are pretty straightforward.
The issue starts when you have cases of two Saheeh Hadiths for the same Aml.
For eg. Ibn Baz and Albani differed over what to do after rising from Rukuh
It's very easy to sloganeer that merely knowing a Hadith is Sahih is enough to derive Amls. But even in Salah you will encounter issues of Ikhtilaf among those who claim to follow the Hadith only.
Oct 7, 2022 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
I personally would prefer to have an environment where segregation is maintained, 5 times prayers are enforced, the Fuqaha are the legal body and Islam has a clear visible public influence.
However, the reality is most Muslims would not.
Because of decades of incubation in a secular liberal(and patently Islamophobic) environment they have subconsciously developed a bleak picture of an Islamic society while picking up bad habits of the westerners along the way which they seem as harmless.
Feb 1, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
The beginnings of the deviant forms of "Sufism".
They had peculiar practices derived from pagan rituals. None had a single basis in any Sunni text.
Jan 31, 2022 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
LGBT is a big fitnah that we should have been wary of from decades ago.
LGBT did not start with the normalization of liwat. It started off with the normalization of Zina.
The religion of the LGBT movement is romance and ecstasy.
crisismagazine.com/2015/the-proto…
Normalization of LGBT began long ago through eons of idealization of romantic and sexual passion. It's the constant drilling of this one single idea in the minds of the youth.
"Love trumps all boundaries".
In the decades gone by Hollywood and Bollywood media have rehashed
Jan 31, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In my thread on Imam Tahawi and Imam Maturidi, I had touched on the points where the Hanafis clearly differ with the Atharis.
This just adds to the overarching point and the low key rancour you see among Salafi laymen(and even Salafi scholars) for Abu Hanifa is not a coincidence
So the whole question that arises is whether Ibrahim(عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ) was being a so and so? (I am not going to utter those words)
Amina Wadud added her own spin on this and frankly speaking her framing from the start to finish is disrespectful and does not
Jan 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The crucial role that Naqshbandi Sufis played in the fragmenting polities of the Indian and Central Asian Sultanates.
Sufis were never really just apolitical preachers that towed the line with Sultans. They were community leaders in the absolute sense and
and in times of crisis it was the Khanqahs where people sought refuge.
Sufis were also active players in colonial resistance and they were the last bastions to fall before colonial and post colonial states carved up communities for their own debauched ends
Jan 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The funny thing is Foudah does NOT really care about the Hanbalis so it stands to reason that he won't know many "real" Hanbali scholars.
I am pretty sure as an Ashari he finds the Mufawwid discourse rather anemic so he isn't really invested in their tradition.
It's not necessarily a bad thing to be honest.
It's the same reason why I don't watch Muslim debates against Apus or the other riff raff.
These conversations are done and dusted for me for over a decade ago.
Feb 24, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Imam Tahawi and Imam Maturidi were contemporaries.
Maturidis say that he was Maturidi. Salafis say he was Salafi(i.e. Athari).
Which is actually the truth?
Tahawi's core text is said to be the documentation of the Hanafi Aqeedah which could be traced all the way back to Abu Yusuf, Muhammad Al Shaybani and Abu Hanifa himself.
Salafis use the commentary of Ibn Abi Al Izz to affirm that Abu Hanifa was in fact Athari(Salafi).
Feb 21, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Yeah, Shaybani and Mawardi never existed. It was only Ibn Taymiyyah who made it all up.
They had peculiar practices derived from pagan rituals. None had a single basis in any Sunni text. 
