I see Israel's invasion of Syria as a great blessing and opportunity.

Gaza is completely cut off, making it impossible for Muslims to travel there to provide support in the form of manpower or materials.

Syria, on the other hand, can now open routes for air travel... ...and possibly import supplies via Turkey. They have also have well developed funding channels independent of the international banking system developed during the years in Idlib, which means that there is real potential for the whole ummah to direct funding there...

What's actually happening is a fall back position by the West.

IS supporters characterize Taliban and HTS as puppets for the West, while their supporters view them as being upon the true Islamic methodology, but the truth lies somewhere in between. The West failed to eliminate al Qaeda and ISIS, and one of the chronic problems they faced is that the secular dictators and dysfunctional republics they prop up to counter global jihad have very little credibility with sincere Muslims.

It was difficult to sleep last night due to events unfoldong in Syria, but when I did I had some wild dreams.

I was driving to a lake, and on the road there were many stunningly beautiful ancient Arabic or Islamic buildings and houses, all abandoned.

Although they were... ...abandoned, they were built on exposed wooden frames, and the wood was shining and new, as if freshly cut and polished.

The buildings were all cleaned and restored despite being ancient and empty.

After arriving, I joined a group of Muslims who were going out for jihad.

Ulema have and have always had great political influence.

The ulema are Islam's equivalent of the "checks and balances" of modern parliamentary systems.

This is also a kind of popular authority. Influential ulema have traditionally gained great respect from the common...

https://twitter.com/Covenant_watch/status/1864358290504728810

...people by means of their piety and knowledge, and in many cases karamat.

The strong censure in hadith and in narrations from the salaf against scholars who mix with rulers preserves this balance.

It prevents knowledge from being instrumentalized by the state.

"Islamic civilization" is not a failure because there is no singular Islamic civilization.

Aside from the fact that the entire modern concept of "civilization" is a colonial mind game developed by Europeans to instill their enemies with an inferiority complex.... ...Islam exists independently of agriculture and urbanization. Islam is a way of life suitable for all places in our era - the era of Islam.

A semi-nomadic tribe, an agricultural society, a mercantile society, or a complex military empire may all be informed by Islam.

*Relationship between local and global struggle - the case of Pakistan*

It's not only because of nuclear weapons that the West is terrified of Pakistan being controlled by Muslims.

Pakistan's biggest export is human resources, without which the West cannot function. This flow of wealth is not only via "brain drain" but also through outsourcing.

The West is terrified of Pakistan falling under the control of Muslims not only because of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, but also because of disruption of the world market.

Theee are 3 routes by which Bitcoin becomes a national reserve asset.

1) Normal analysis of strategic interests (least likely)

2) Lobbying efforts by Bitcoin interest groups (more likely)

3) Insider trading by politicians and heads of state (most likely) In any case, it's absolutely inevitable.

Anyone in any medium to large state who has the power to enact such a policy (whether lobbyists or politicians) can also quietly load up on Bitcoin begore making such an announcement and derive millions or billions in profits.

Two criteria are necessary for a network state to be a genuine expression of Islamic governance:

1) It must not be a net contributor to legal and institutional systems based upon laws other than what Allah revealed.

2) It must not be dependent on disbelievers for its survival. If these criteria are not fulfilled, an Islamic network state would fall into the same trap as most Islamist political projects of the last century.

1) Bringing benefit to the Muslims at the price of greater benefit to the disbelievers.

2) Deepening dependence on disbelievers.

This is nothing short of conscious, legal market manipulation and it's 100% guaranteed to work, and it can only work with an asset like Bitcoin.

Everyone who realizes what he is doing is first going to feel like an idiot for not thinking of it first, and then attempt...

https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1851718391889043954

...to do the same thing.

Eventually this will result in a collapse in the price not only of major currencies, but also commodities such as gold and real estate.

This is just another iteration of the same pattern I've been commenting on for the past 10 years.

Many Islamic reminders accounts talk about the importance of controlling your anger and not getting angry. This is important, but most of them rarely mention two things:

1) that anger for the sake of Allah is praiseworthy

2) that jihad fi sabilillah is a way to reduce anger Jihad is not only beneficial for reducing anger, but also for alleviating all kinds of psychological problems, including depression.

Ibn al Qayyim rahimullah writes:

تأثير الجهاد في دفع الهم والغم, فأمر معلوم بالوجدان, فإن النفس متى تركت صائل الباطل وصولته واستيلاءه...

The question "Should Muslims ally with the Shia?" should never be discussed without also asking "Will the Muslims be able to survive the assault by the Shia after the alliance runs its course?"

If you consider this question, it will become clear that the Shia always... ...have the eventual betrayal of the Muslims in the back of their mind, and that they do not enter into a deal to provide meaningful support to the Muslims except that the deal favors them more, ie. contributes to their plan to eventually gain dominance over the Muslims.

Every system has a hierarchy.

One of the many reasons there can never be an Islamic nation-state is because nation-states comprise a system with a hierarchy, and the higher ranking nation-states are explicitly anti-Islamic.

This means that entering into the nation-state... ...system means accepting an inferior and subordinate position in the international hierarchy.

By contrast, when rejecting the nation-state system and establishing an Islamic system, instances of the Islamic system do not exist in reference to nation-states.

I've never actually seen the "axis of resistance" types who claim to be Sunni explain how they justify backing Assad.

Do they say backing Nusayri crimes was "worth it" to counter the West?

Or do they deny it all and call it fake news?

Seems like another symptom of the... ...disease of nationalism. Getting tunnel vision to the point where Palestinian lives become more important than all other Muslim lives.

Rafidha probably killed ten times more Muslims than Israel did, and also stole ten times more land, how are Shia not hated more?

What happens to US statistics if we consider unborn babies to be people and abortions to be murder?

Including unborn babies, the US had ~1,048,000 murders or 317.5 murders per 100,000, by far the highest murder rate worldwide.

What about life expectancy? Last year 3,090,000 people died in the US with average life expectancy of 76.3 years. Including unborn babies, 4,116,000 people died.

Assuming an average age of 0.3 years for the unborn babies killed, average life expectancy was 57.3 years.

I spoke with a Yemeni brother who took US citizenship recently.

I asked him if he realizes that this means he is obligated to serve in the military in case of general mobilization.

His reply was a sly "What will happen if I refuse?" I said that then you would be liar in front of Allah.

In this dilemma lies the impossibility of Muslims truly integrating into the fabric of American society. If you want to enjoy the privileges of citizenship, you must be prepared to bear its responsibilities.

This is really very wrong on many levels.

Islamic finance competing with riba-based finance is similar to having a sporting competition where one team is allowed to use performance enhancing drugs while the other isn't.

https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim/status/1822596492281979053

This kind of mentality develops when Muslims become resigned to living under manmade laws. It leads to the normalization of a condition of inferiority which aggravates colonial and post-colonial inferiority complexes.

Considering the population of Madina during the life of Rasulullah ﷺ was around 20k including rural areas and nomads, killing 700-1,000 would be around 3.5-5% of the total population. Banu Qaynuqa had 700 fighters, so the whole tribe had to have been at least 1,500 including...

https://twitter.com/ibn_alJad/status/1821799181737930845

...women and children. Probably closer to 2,000.

I don't know about Banu Nadir but since they were initially prepared to fight a Muslim force of around 800 they must have been at least 500 men, 1,000 total, and probably closer to 2,000 including women and children.

It's amazing how many aspects of Western "civilization" only became viable with colonial wealth surpluses.

Criminal justice without torture or public executions, elaborate bureaucracies and legal systems, large professional classes of scientists, artists, and musicians...

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1820878763443245211

...industry, well-organized transport and sanitation infrastructure, feminism, etc.

Almost every single Western claim to cultural superiority was obtained by forced transfers of wealth that made it quite literally impossible for colonized cultures to do the same things.

Another problem with the "covenant of security" is that in classical sources, it refers to a voluntary agreement.

In the modern era, immigration to the West is deliberately engineered by destabilizing Muslim countries and then recruiting talented students and skilled... ...professionals, which the West desperately needs both this productive and consumptive resource to feed and maintain its economy.

While it is still voluntary on an individual level in most cases, from a high level perspective, this is actually looting of human resources...

Lack of unity was a much bigger factor in every military victory of the kafir West over the Muslims than any technological gap.

Even today, if there was strong solidarity among Muslims, the US could not withstand deploying troops in any Muslim country for even a short time. For example, imagine if every Muslims majority country responded to deployment of US troops by cutting off diplomatic relations, denying passage of US and US-allied ships through their territorial waters, and banning the operation of Western companies in their countries.

Western industrial civilization is a dead end.

Some of the ways:

-Destroys families, replaces them with the state and corporations, degrading mental health.

-Depends on riba, so concentrates wealth in the hands of an ever smaller group of ultra-wealthy.

https://twitter.com/OJ_Smoke_/status/1672459522084859905

-Pollutants lower testosterone, fertility, genetic quality, ability to concentrate.

-Dependence on non-renewable resources like oil, phosphates, groundwater

-Focus on worldly knowledge at the expense of religion leads to moral decay, spread of zina, addiction