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Jul 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
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...
Jul 20, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
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.
May 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Jihad is protection, not just in a literal military sense, but also in the sense of repelling fitna and evil.
For example, if a country implements jihad properly, the fiat currency system will disappear on its own.
The country will be cut of from the global riba system.
They will no longer have access to paper banknotes or the parts necessary to maintain the machinery that prints them.
They will likely lose most access to the internet, which intoxicates the minds of the youth and fills their heads with false images of Western culture.
May 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The misconception that Islam is compatible with Western models of industrial production results from internalizing Western narratives about technology.
These narratives emphasize the benefits of the technology while hiding, diminishing, or ignoring the associated harms.
The present level of technology was achieved only by convincing the Muslim world that they needed Western technology, and the resultant demand for it.
Were the Muslims to stop seeking to obtain this technology, the West would no longer be able to sustain it.
May 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A brother was recently admitted to the hospital in Markham, near Toronto, Canada, in what they are calling a suicide attempt by hanging. He was on life support and is now apparently brain dead. However in the weeks preceding this he expressly told me he was not suicidal...
...and that he feared for his safety from his family. He also explicitly told me that he thought they were capable of trying to frame him for some kind of suicide.
This brother had been supporting his family financially for a long time but recently he had started to feel...
May 29, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Growing up in a democracy, one of the things I noticed about the system is the appeasement dynamic.
The system gives competing interest groups some concessions, along with enough (false) hope to prevent them from becoming a threat to the system.
...groups most likely to pose a threat to US stability are urban blacks and rural whites. Both are armed, somewhat organized (gangs in the cities, militias in the country) and have deep mistrust of the state.
In my adult life I saw Bush Jr. excite the hopes of rural...
May 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
On the issue of Syrian refugees, we need to face the hard reality that far more of them needed to stay and fight. Giving military age men refugee status is not really a win.
The Nusayri regime has relied for years on forced conscription.
If the Muslims are forced by circumstances to fight rather than selling kunafa and baklava, Western style clothes, and opening barber shops where they do haram hairstyles, it will be better both for the souls of those who are involved as well as the condition of the ummah.
May 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There are two major problems with this perspective.
First, it privileges materialism, and second, it is a defensive perspective.
The weighing of harms and benefits is not taking into the account the damage of legitimizing, reinforcing, and supporting a system...
...that, even if you don't accept the very strong opinion that voting alone is major shirk, is without any doubt firmly rooted in kufr and shirk.
How does inviting millions of Muslims to participate in this weigh against a few Islamic schools with nationalistic curricula...
May 28, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Voting for Erdogan is not "the lesser evil," nor is it necessary.
There are many advantages for Islam and the Muslims to Erdogan losing.
First is that Erdogan's methodology contradicts the sunnah. Islam is pure, and purity is not achieved by mixing with filth.
While this methodology yields some benefits in the short term such as a few laws which are beneficial to the Muslims, in the long run it keeps the doors to corruption open, so even if there is more Islam, there is also more kufr.
May 28, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This illustrates one of the pitfalls of nation-state capture and seeking the (un-Islamic) legitimacy and sovereignty that goes along with them.
The inheritor of a state is bound to honor the previous obligations and commitments of the state, or else the state (which...
The idea of sovereignty is the belief that a territory "belongs" to "the people."
Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Being better than fiat from an Islamic viewpoint does not make a currency halal.
The absence of any evidences from Quran and sunnah prohibiting it does. There are numerous evidences that can be interpreted as critical of Bitcoin, but none is conclusive.
Those who claim that Bitcoin is either halal or haram represent vested interests.
Those who have called it haram generally are politically aligned with regimes that are beneficiaries of the fiat system, ie. government fatwa boards.
Mar 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I was just discussing with a Yemeni brother who emigrated to the US. He argued that he needed to live in the US to support his family and that there's no work in Yemen.
Yet the people in Yemen are currently mostly relying on imported food while a large portion of...
...the water and agricultural land are being used to grow qat. There is enough agricultural potential to feed everyone (although the war does make it much more difficult in many areas), but the presence of humanitarian aid and imported food (purchased with fiat currency...
Mar 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Conspiracy theories can serve the kuffar in multiple ways.
One is exaggerating the power of the kuffar.
Another is providing excuses to permanently abstain from the obligation of jihad.
Describing every mujahid group as a proxy for Mossad, the CIA, ISI, etc., is...
...a convenient way to throw up your hands and claim that there is "no real jihad" today, absolving yourself of all responsibility to contribute to the ongoing struggle.
Both types of conspiracy theories have the same end result, which is abandoning the obligation of fighting.
Jan 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
To claim that it is a violation of women's rights to prevent women from pursuing professional careers is more misogynistic than banning girls from schools.
There is an hierarchy of knowledge embedded in this view - it assumes that the knowledge gained by a wife or mother...
...is of less value than the knowledge gained in university.
Considering that modern universities are institutions developed by MEN, for MEN, and whose adaptation to include women is an afterthought in their history, suggesting that women being excluded from universities...
Jan 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hijab, especially viewed as a set of behaviors instead of a piece of cloth, does prevent rape without a doubt, and not just for the potential victim.
In the West people are trained to think individualistically, and so overlook the broader social impact of cultural practices.
Overall, rape *is* connected to levels of sexual desire, and the more men are exposed to attractive women, the more their sexual desire is stimulated. Some men will seek to express this desire through rape.
So by not observing proper hijab, women share responsibility for rape.
Jan 7, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A thread of hadith on gentleness with commentary.
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ " إِنَّ اللَّهَ رَفِيقٌ يُحِبُّ الرِّفْقَ وَيُعْطِي عَلَيْهِ مَا لاَ يُعْطِي عَلَى الْعُنْفِ "
The Prophet ﷺ said "Allah is Gentle and loves gentleness, and He grants reward for it that He does not grant for harshness."
Sunan ibn Majah 3688
Jan 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One area where you can see the superiority of Arabic over English is the word "friend."
The root of "friend" is the Germanic "freude," which means happiness. So a friend is someone you feel and share happiness.
The Arabic صديق (sideeq) comes from صدق (sidq)...
...which relates to truthfulness or honesty. This is also the root of صدقة (sadaqa) which means charity, perhaps because charity is a proof of true faith. So friendship is related not only to happiness, but also to being honest to your friend even when the truth may be...
Dec 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There was a fatwa of Abu Baraa as Sayf posted on Telegram today and then later deleted. It read roughly as follows:
"Sheikh, someone said in anger "I would not sit down even if Allah told me to sit down." Is he a kafir? Is it necessary to refer the matter to a Qadi before...
...killing him?
Answer: He is a kafir.
If he is in dar al Islam, the matter can be referred to a qadi, and if he is in dar al kufr, then anyone from the Muslims can kill him."
I almost took a screenshot, but planned on doing it later and didn't expect them to delete it.
Dec 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The idea of education being a "right" is closely connected to democracy.
The belief is that citizens must have some level of knowledge to participate in the political process, which gave rise to public schooling.
The idea of distributed political power was supposed to avoid tyranny, but it fails at this goal since it centralizes the power to shape children's minds, concentrating even more power in the hands of the state and removing tribal checks and balances.
Dec 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Liberalism is an end stage of idolatry.
The worship of created things is based on a belief that Allah is located within the creation, which eventually requires total equality and equal rights.
Acceptance of natural hierarchy begins with the authority of the Creator.
This applies to pharaonic mythology and worship of 'Isa alaihi asalam. Once a human is described as Allah, it opens the possibility of other humans, or all humans, having divine nature.
This leads to tyranny, as with Fir'awn or the image of white Jesus and colonialism.
