#dying in the way of allah

[eretzyisrael]

[sissa-arrows]

The French cops killed yet another other young man…

Wanys an 18 years old North African (Allah yarhmou) was on his scooter with a friend. A police car hit him from the front and killed him. The friend ended up on the floor he saw Wanys, his friend, dying in front of him and you know what the police did? They fucking handcuffed him before dragging him on the side and they eventually took him in police custody for being an accomplice of whatever lie they accused Wanys of (for the record you CANNOT be an accomplice of that it’s impossible).

In the video you see Wanys driving normally. On the side a taxi that was parked starts moving and instead of doing the normal thing and hitting the brake, the cops behind the taxi fucking turn on the other lane and end up facing Wanys and hitting him. Even if hitting the brake meant touching the taxi and breaking both cars it would have been way less risky for the two cars. The cops say they were there because Wanys refused to stop and was running away but in the video you see him FACING the police car and going towards it so he is clearly not running way. So after the video got out the cops changed their stories and said he wasn’t running away from them but from an other police car and they were called to help (for the record the 2nd police car is nowhere to be seen in the video and Wanys was driving normally).

Cops are known to lie all the fucking time. Just a couple months ago while investigating on a female cop being corrupted and taking money to sell information from the police file to people who steal identities, they found text on her phone in which she admits and brag to her parents about hitting a Black man (he survived) on a scooter and how she was at fault but her and her coworkers lied on the report to make it look like the man was the one at fault. The judge ended up dismissing the case they found within the first corruption case saying without any investigation that the real lie wasn’t in the report, the real lie was her saying that she lied in the report… They lie all the fucking time so I don’t believe their version but EVEN if it was the reality, you don’t kill someone for refusing to show their fucking licence or ID.

[shehzadi]

seeing the videos and photos of palestinians fleeing from the north to the south of gaza, mostly on foot with a few donkey carts here and there, is so haunting in the way that it looks exactly like photos from the 1948 nakba. the ethnic cleansing and the genocide never ended. it’s just on an accelerated timescale now.

and, if you actually think palestinians moving to the south will give them any modicum of safety, you’re wrong because that so-called ‘safe zone’ in the south is still being bombed AND the palestinians who are being forcibly displaced are continually being attacked. today (10.11.23) israeli soldiers opened fire on palestinians who were trying to leave Al-Nasser hospital in northern gaza while waving white flags (universally recognised as a symbol of surrender/peace) and also bombed palestinians leaving through Salah Eddin Street which they had been told by israel was a ‘safe route’.

besides attacking those trying to leave, israel has, in the last ~24 hours:

9.11.23 - carried out airstrikes in the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital (which is now totally out of electricity as of 10.11.23)

9.11.23 - bombed the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital (@/ahmedhijazee on IG)

9.11.23 - bombed ambulances and paramedics outside Al-Awda hospital (@/palestine.pixel on IG)

9.11.23 - attacked Al-Rantisi hospital (a paediatric hospital btw) which resulted in areas of the hospital being set on fire (@/ahmedeldin on IG)

10.11.23 - bombed the outpatient clinic of Al-Shifa hospital (using a Hellfire R9X missile, also called the ‘flying ginsu’ because of the fact that it doesn’t explode but instead deploys several blades which fly at high speed, and essentially shred their targets). there are (very graphic) videos showing the martyrs and those injured in this attack @/palestine.pixel and a censored version @/middleeasteye on IG

10.11.23 - shot at palestinian staff and patients inside the ICU of Al-Quds hospital (@/PalestinePRCS on X)

today has been described as a ‘day of war on hospitals’ by the Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

and here are some updates from Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, who has been providing medical care and performing surgeries in different hospitals across the gaza strip:

and this still isn’t even all of the attacks of the last 2 days in gaza - there have been others on schools which are acting as shelters for the displaced, and, of course, refugee camps. the number of martyrs from bombings alone is almost at 11000.

also remember: there is ongoing settler violence and ethnic cleansing happening in the west bank where palestinians are also being martyred, there are now reports of people dying from starvation and dehydration, and from wounds/infection. ya Allah reham kar 🤲🏽

[pineapple-split]

Personally I find Flanagan’s work to be hit or miss but I really think Midnight Mass is his best. I love the transformation of Catholic communion to actual monstrosity (I say as a former Catholic who never questioned the “eat my body drink my blood thing” until long after I left).

I love that Riley, the recovering alcoholic who killed someone, is the one to recognize the “gift” for the evil it is, and put the wheels in motion to stop it. Like, of course. Of course. Who would better understand fighting against an internal destructive force?

I love how much of a goddamn hypocrite Bev is - a true coward through and through, with no real faith at the end of the day. Just a bitter, miserable woman who latched onto religion as a way to feel superior.

I love that Sheriff Hassan did do his little bit to save the world, and he and Ali faced their death praying to Allah, totally at peace.

I like that the story is grounded in a working class setting, in a community that’s slowly dying. Not to show that these people are more stupid and thus more susceptible, but to demonstrate how and why people desperately reach for miracles when everything in life has been taken from them. And then how the influence of a bad actor can lead to fanaticism and ultimately tragedy.

And I really like that for all the show comes down hard on some specifics of religion, it never condemns faith. It admires faith. Envies it, almost.

[dumbseee]

i’ve been missing for a month and don’t worry i’ll be back soon but i have some things to get off my chest about what’s happening in the world right now.

palestine has been the victim of israel’s cruel and inhumane doing for 75 years. they got kicked out of their houses, k*lled, tortured, kidnapped, beaten and MORE for years and years again. never catching a break, not being able to live their lives on THEIR lands, their ancestors’s lands. they can’t live and breath without being scared of dying because of israel’s barbaric behaviour.

seeing all those celebrities and politicians chime in and openly support israel, is breaking my heart. the way some of my favourite celebrities, or just celebrities that i followed from afar support this barbaric government is just beyond me.

oh now children being massacred matter to them? where were they 75 years ago? where were they last year? where were they last month? and where were they a few days ago when palestinians finally had enough of living in fear in their own homes.

when ukraine got attacked by russia, the whole world showed support to them and sympathised with them. but when the SAME exact situation is happening in a muslim country suddenly it don’t matter?

i am so mad and sad at the same time when i read all those ignorants posts about what’s happening in palestine, all those « we stand with israel » bulls*it while palestine has been bleeding and suffering in front of the world for so many years, while the world gave up on them. can you imagine living in these conditions? constant fear, pain, grief, sorrow, it just never ends.

these people don’t give a sh*t about world’s peace or innocents lives being lost because if they really cared they’d be supporting the people being tortured for years. they post false reports and claim to « want peace for everyone » then why are you only posting for israel? because y’all are ignorants peace of garbage.

israel isn’t under attack, israel isn’t the victim, israel is the oppressor and the real victim in all of this finally had enough. may Allah protect the people of palestine, welcome our martyrs in his Heaven and help palestinians gain their well deserved freedom.

palestine will be free 🇵🇸

(if any of you support this barbaric government you can fu*k off and block me.)

[harmslength]

Cillian Murphy goes nude for recently released film, ‘Small Things Like These’

This is a fake article but now that you’re here.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH

The Israeli army have trapped the people of Palestine in Rafah—to which they deemed would be a safe zone from the bombing. Already 35,000 Palestinians have been murdered and close to 73,000 injured since November, but authorities have lost count long ago.

Israel has rejected the ceasefire resolution that Hamas has agreed to and now Israeli tanks have lined the borders of Rafahs crossing—the only other way to leave Palestine at this current time. This also means that Palestinians cannot get the aid that they desperately need. The Israeli army is currently sweeping Rafah and they are going to murder almost 1.5 million Palestinian people. That includes children. Especially since almost 40% of Palestinians are in fact under the age of 18.

On 5/6/24 Israel made house calls and sent down leaflets urging Palestinians to evacuate but they have closed and blocked off any way they would be able to. There is no other place for Palestinians can go. This is not a war. The Palestinian people are not fighting back. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing. You are witnessing genocide.

The American government has used the Super Bowl as a distraction from what was happening in Palestine and now they are using the Met Gala.

ALL EYES NEED TO BE ON RAFAH.

I don’t care if you’re American or if you even feel that this concerns you. It does. You should be concerned.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I know everything—but I’ve seen the videos, the news articles and the first hand experiences of the Palestinian people. Ive seen children missing limbs and mothers crying for Allah to save them. I’m not going to argue with anyone about this. If you have a problem then disrespectfully shove it so far up your ass you choke on it. I don’t care that this isn’t a place for politics because people are dying and quite frankly this post should’ve been made months ago.

I know we all love Cillian and his wife Yvonne has openly spoken out about it, so I’m just going to leave this here. I don’t think Cillian attended the Met Gala but if he did, I will be permanently deleting my account.

Thank you,

[radfemsiren]

I am deeply, deeply afraid of God (Allah) i just want to say... lets for a moment say it's true. Lets say if you don't believe in allah, you will go to hell and be tortured there (ik you don't believe that, just asking you for a second to humor me)

What if... i reject faith and I die. What if it's true? Then it will be too late. God then (according to the quran) 😔 will not forgive. What will I do if it turns out to be true? Can't go back then..

I'm afraid. I can't live without Allah. I reject the mysogyny and the pedophilia bc that is NOT fucking okay. But i cannot live without allah. I'm afraid of death.

I'm sorry

Thank you for sending this ask ❤️

I want to talk about Pascal’s wager, because this is a popular concept that was argued between Christians and Atheists when I first got into debate. Pascal’s wager was proposed by a Christian, and his argument was yours: It’s better to just believe in God and follow Christ’s teachings “just in case”, that way if it’s true, you go to heaven, and if not, then at worst you just wasted some time. Because if you don’t follow the faith, and risk it being true, then you go to hell. So the least risky avenue would be to follow the religion…

This is a logical fallacy: it doesn’t make sense when put to the test of rational thought. This risk to reward analysis would only work if there was one religion.

There are thousands of religions, almost all of them punish non believers. What if Christianity was right? Now you risk going to their hell by being a Muslim. What if Hinduism is correct? What if the ancient Greeks were correct, and you will now be punished by Zeus?

There is no safety in choosing a faith, almost all of them rule by fear and will punish you if you make the wrong choice out of thousands…There is only one rational conclusion : none of them are correct, and our life is simply ruled by the principles of science. When we die, we decompose, and new life is created. We are made of dying stars, and will become a dying star once again… You can find beauty in that or not, but it’s the simple truth.

There is also another logical fallacy with Pascal’s wager when it’s proposed by Muslims: intent is everything with good deeds. We know this, it’s taught repeatedly to us. If you pray wrong for years, and learn the right way, they still count because of your intention. You can’t force someone at gunpoint to be Muslim or pray because any worship done without pure intention is not a true good deed, and won’t be counted for judgement day:

You can not make yourself believe something. You either do, or don’t. It’s not a choice: you can actively work against it for years, but in your heart, you know what your true perspective is. I know the sky is blue, I can keep trying to make myself believe it’s not, but it won’t work. If you pray to Allah for years, and in the back of your mind you know he doesn’t exist, those prayers don’t count. The only unforgivable sin is being an unbeliever in Allah… that’s the one thing that Muhammad can’t argue on your behalf on judgement day. And it’s also the one thing you can’t make yourself do: once you realize how fake it all is, you can’t make yourself unsee the lie.

I hope this helps! ❤️

[9amartt]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I wanted to ask and I hope you can answer if it doesn’t take from your time of course جزاك الله خير

What would you say is the right thing to do regarding friends whose aqeedah differs from you. Example, having a friend who is a Hazimi. You have advised them but they have brought what they believe is sufficient proof. But they are not vile in the sense that they have bad manners towards the one who opposes them and even befriend those who don’t share that view point. Or someone who believes that some form the Muslimeen are khawarij. They say things like : “well I believe they are khawarij but that’s okay if you don’t. We can have different political views or stances in the deen”. I have friends like this and because they are not bad mannered or publicly slander others, I’ve never gave it a thought to disassociate. But recently, I’ve been afraid of being a hypocrite. Do I really want to stand with them in front of Allah? Can I truly befriend the one who believes the sincere from amongst us are wrong ? And then also another fear of mine is being extreme and dropping all those who are have shown nothing but good from them and towards me. Even if you don’t have advice, have you had any experience and could you make dua Allah guides me to doing what’s right إن شاء الله

و عليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته

I will say everything from a subjective pov, or more like according to my own logic and experiences (ive had hazimj and madkhali friends too):

1- A Hazimi no matter how he may act with you deep down he believes you are misguided (or even a kaffir). It is the same as befriending a Christian who knows you are a disbeliever in his religion yet befriends you for fun, basically using you because he would never love you as much as a fellow Christian.

2- Those who accuse the muslims you associate with to be Khawarij, those stay away from them and distance yourself, if you really love those ‘khawarij’ you will abandon everyone who slanders them. By khawarij I assume they mean Mujahidin, so if you like to befriend someone who is sitting down and not benefitting the ummah at all, and not just that, but slanders those who DO help the ummah, then that’s up to you. But anyone with a sane mind and heart wouldn’t. We dissociate from those who slander our allies, so what if they slander the allies of ALLAH!!?

It is not politics, its religion, these people are the allies of Allah as we expect them to be, slandering them is punishable by Allah. Also. Sitting in a gathering in which they are slandered and not saying anything makes you sinful too.

my advice is to distance yourself, even the closest people to you if they slander the mujahideen avoid them.

3- Regarding the hypocrisy part, in sha Allah you are not a hypocrite, but if you keep associating with those people you think are your friends you will soon certainly become one (like them). So stay away from these people. For they will be the first ones to demotivate you from taking steps that benefit you in your akhirah. I am sure you feel like your heart is dying every time you sit with them. These people will slowly darken your heart until you become indifferent like them, and abandon your goals and aspirations, which should be high for you as a muwahhid/a.

4: Don’t be extreme or abandon everyone at once, take it all step to step (and wallahi I am talking from experience in regards to this), leave your bad friends one after the other in subtle ways , we can say “let the spark die” which is basically being everyday less and less engaging with them until they get tired and leave you. And then don’t feel bad, because you are doing this for yourself, after this, start slowly incorporating good friends, replacing your old ones. If you struggle to make friends irl try on social media. Also very important: once the spark with your old friends dies, remove them from your social media. Don’t let them see your moves or find a topic to converse about with you.

You may be alone for a while, so was I for a year or so after I abandoned all my bad friends, but i would make dua to Allah to bless me with righteous friends always. And Allah did! Wallahi now I have friends i would have never imagined to get and they have helped me to improve in so many aspects and helped me arrive to places i would never imagine arriving to. Alhamdulillah.

To summarise. Everyone who doesn’t respect the allies of Allah does not deserve your respect. Don’t sit with the people of Bidah. Everyone who believes you are misguided has no business being your friend, if they don’t have walaa and baraa to their own beliefs then you have them….

And… why would you befriend evil people when there’s thousands of good ones? You can easily pick and chose what best suits your personality (idk if you are a brother or a sister but either way there’s way too many brothers and sisters Alhamdulillah and the dawah keeps spreading and the numbers keep increasing Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah), so hop on social media if you feel lonely, start slowly making friends there, and let things flow without overthinking or forgetting Dua (dua dua dua verrrry important!!!) Don’t force friendships.

I hope this helps!!!

[butchrindou]

complaining fucking works dude i’m telling u i said their 2nd anniversary shit was ugly and they spat out the higher quality vers of this to shut me up thank you thank you thank you 😭😭Tahnkuou 😭😭i can’t feel my left arm she’s so cute. I’m currently dying of fever but idgaf rindou is so cute im going to buyevery single version of this merch i dont fiuvking play about winter i dont care you bitches ain’t like me ill become the literal greed they talk about in the bible for this merch. Oh my days. I can hear angels im so serious they’re singing to me right now oh my goodness it’s so beautiful i love my life everything is so amaizng oh mywvod i hope she comes to my door and sings a christmas carol so fucking bad i start crying and just take her to the back to beat her ass. My beautiful wife i love you so much j will travel the ends of time for you and still hate and love you in every universe. i dont even celebrate christmas bruh im a fucking muslim but ya allah this feels like a christmas miracle im literally gonan pray that everyone has an amazing rest of their life cuz this shit just changed my way of living. this is like a lobotomy made specifically for me.

[fake-protagonist]

Bila last kau menangis?

Today,I asked Allah to keep me being a "softie" so that I will always find ways to forgive those who hurt me unintentionally, because I am too, desperate for His forgiveness.

Dan kalau dengan berikan aku kesedihan dan sedikit kesusahan, hanya akan buat aku mengingatkan Dia, to keep Him close, then Ya Allah, hold onto me dan jangan lepaskan.

Years ago, aku rasa dengan mati dapat menyelesaikan segala masalah, but I grew so much over the years, and instead of dying, I actually found myself wanting to live. I have also learned not to run from anything that scares me. I am quite ready to face it head on, but the only thing that is stopping me from allowing myself to be happy is that, I am afraid that my existence might actually end up hurting people that loves me.

And it feels like Allah send a little birdie to remind me that, hidup ni tak mudah, everyone has their own struggles, so kita lenjan je hidup ni selagi tak melanggar syarak. And tell your problems and fears that your Allah is bigger than them. So live it heartily the way it would pleases Allah. So you would skipped happily back into His arms...the day, your life ends here in dunya. For His Jannah is waiting to welcome you for everything you've endured here because you have so much faith in Allah. You'll know He won't abandon you come what may.

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Race Headcannons 🥀🌼

Requested: Nu uh I just felt like it

CW: Race, Rook Slander, Ortho spoiler Idia's part.

Characters: NRC students

These are my Race Headcannons for the NRC men. Some of these I just went by feeling a lot of these I did research about the movie setting although with the fishes + beast men I went by geography.

Some of these I'm unsure of (Heavy on Sebek) If anything is incorrect or you want to share your thoughts go ahead I'm always open to corrections and hearing others. (PROOFREAD FOR ONCE)

(Updated Epel on 5.12.24)

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Heartslabyul

Riddle (British)

I don't really have an explanation for this one other than the Red Queen in Tim Burton's version she was British and had a big goofy forehead (I have not seen the animated one help)

Trey (German)

Would you believe me if I told you I whipped out a map closed my eyes and threw a dart and it landed on Germany??

For this one I went with somewhere in Europe and I picked Germany because it just made sense to me I was gonna say Polish, but his Green hair was telling me German.

Cater (Scottish)

It's his ginger hair tbh.

Ace (Japanese)

A lot of people headcannon him as Filipino, but me personally I wanted to be quirky and different /j

This one doesn't really have any evidence I just went by feeling. I also headcannon it that he would love Jojo and Junji Ito.

Deuce (Mexican)

As a fellow Mexican I KNOW ONE OF US WHEN I SEE ONE OF US. He is Mexican and I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.

Savanaclaw

Leona (Kenya)

I actually googled it and Lion King takes place in Kenya which is a country in the eastern part of Africa. For obvious reasons since he is based off Scar it made sense to make him Kenyan.

Ruggie (Multiracial)

I may get a lot of heat for this one, but this man got blonde ass hair and blue eyes, HOWEVER for the geography of spotted Hyena's I feel he is light skinned. He's got some Kenya in him but he also got some white genes. Geography wise I believe he is also part Arab since there are Arab countries in Africa. So therefore I believe he is white, black, and Arab.

Jack (Bircial)

Another one I may get a lot of heat for.

From what I remember Jack is from the same country as Vil? So, I believe Jack is part black, but also part European. It also isn't explicitly stated what movie he is from we just know he is a wolf.

Pop off Jacob Black (not sorry)

Octavinelle

Azul (Cuban) + The Twins (Filipino)

I googled Coral Sea locations and I came to these conclusions.

There are different Coral reefs going from Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Maldives. With the Twins I thought how funny would it be to make them Australian, but Filipino just kind of felt right like a gut feeling. The Carribean sea also has coral reefs so I made Azul Cuban. I was going to make him Venezuelan however I ended up going with Cuban, but I feel like both fit him in a way.

Scarabia

Jamil + Kalim (Arab)

I don't really think this one needs an explanation Aladdin quite literally takes place Agrabah which was based off of Baghdad, Iraq (source: Google)

HOWEVER

There is an article that says the Architecture is based on the Taj Mahal which is Indian.

There is also a mention of Allah in the animated version BUT because I don't fully understand religion in general (And also Disney back then was kind of racist) I don't want to use religion as a justification to where specifically they are from. So I will simply just say they are Arab.

Pomefiore

Vil (German)

Snow white was based in Germany. (I have nothing more to say :Skull:)

Rook (French)

Self explanatory

Epel (Sami)

The Sami People are people who are indigenous to Sapmi which is in Northern Europe. (Todays Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway).

From doing a bit of research the Sami people seem to be dying out and their language too. (If you want to feel free to Google the Sami people there's a lot to learn about them and it's really interesting. There was basically a bunch of policies put in place to kill them and mistreat them it's really sad)

So in short Epel is Sami Indigenous (If I'm correct he's the first Indigenous character we got so far which is nice representation) (I also hope my research was correct please correct me if not)

Ignihyde

Idia (Greek)

Based on where Hercules takes place and because Hades is quite literally Greek Mythology he is Greek.

Ortho is just a robot, but when he didn't drop dead he was Greek.

Diasmonia

Malleus (German/French)

I am not really getting a clear answer as to where Sleeping Beauty takes place so I made him a French German. He slayed tbh

Lilia (Romanian)

Dracula's castle is in Romania that is the only explanation you are getting

Silver (French/German)

I am being told he is based off Sleeping Beauty so I am making him the same race as Waka Sama.

Sebek (Biracial)

When I first was thinking of a race for him I was thinking Slavic kind of fits him (atleast to me) or possibly Asian. However I had a really hard time guessing so I made him SlavicAsian. Maybe possibly Slovakia and Vietnam?

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[loneberry]

"Physically-healthy Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek dies by euthanasia aged 29 because she did not want to live with depression"

Read the article here.

Here's another article from before the procedure.

I think it was brave of Zoraya ter Beek to speak so publicly about her decision to be euthanized for depression and other mental illnesses, and it breaks my heart that she was met with so much vitriol:

Ter Beek was forced to delete all her social media profiles after an article about her case was published in April, which led to many users bombarding her inbox telling her not to go through with the procedure, which left her in distress.

“People were saying: ‘Don’t do it, your life is precious.’ I know that. Others said they had a cure, like a special diet or drugs. Some told me to find Jesus or Allah, or told me I’d burn in hell. It was a total s–tstorm. I couldn’t handle all the negativity.”

I am still ambivalent about legal euthanasia for mental illness. I was once suicidally depressed and now feel quite grateful to still be alive. But I understand this woman's desperation to find relief, having tried out every treatment modality myself.

There's something weird about the temporality of depression tho--it has a way of canceling the future. What is felt in the moment (pure suffering) is imputed to both the past and future: it will always be this way. Yet that is not always the case.

That said, I don't doubt that there are people who are, I guess you could call, incurable. They might become "curable" as humans unravel the mysteries of mental illness. But it seems impossible to really know whether someone is actually incurable or temporarily believes they're incurable--I probably would have thought I was one of the incurables when I was in it. The main difference between Zoraya ter Beek and me is: she tried everything and did not improve. I tried everything and eventually improved through a lengthy psychoanalysis.

Maybe I'm slowly coming around to Zoraya ter Beek's perspective. I think her critics probably cannot get into the mind of someone who experiences consciousness as unremitting torture.

From my journal:

She coolly says, there will be no music when they put her down. No funeral. She will exit this world sitting on her couch with her partner. Yes, she’s afraid of dying—death being the ultimate unknown. She feels guilty about leaving her loved ones behind. “But sometimes when you love someone, you have to let them go.” Her words prick me. Why couldn’t I just let you be…gone? When a deer is mortally wounded we speak of the need to put the poor creature out of its misery, but we felt no guilt about demanding you stay alive. I still hear Amelia Rosselli, from beyond the grave, whispering about “those who destroy me by making me exist.”

Is it possible that requiring someone to stay alive (against their will) is a form of torture? Do people have a "right" to die? Is the desire to keep someone alive more about the narcissism of living loved ones than altruism?

[eretzyisrael]

by Robert Williams

To assess correctly the damage that Qatari influence in the US is causing, it is essential to understand what Qatar stands for and promotes. Qatar has for decades cultivated a close relationship with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, whose motto is: “‘Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” It aims to ensure that Islamic law, Sharia, governs all countries and all matters.

Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has enjoyed Qatar as its main sponsor, to the tune of up to $360 million a year, and was until recently the home of Hamas’ leadership. In 2012, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the terrorist group’s political bureau, Mousa Abu Marzook, and Khaled Mashaal, among others, moved to Qatar for a life of luxury. This month, likely because of Israel’s announcement that it will hunt down and eliminate Hamas leaders in Qatar and Turkey, the Qatar-based Hamas officials reportedly fled to other countries.

Qatar was also home to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was exiled from Egypt until his death in September 2022. According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

💬 “Qaradawi is mainly known as the key figure in shaping the concept of violent jihad and the one who allowed carrying out terror attacks, including suicide bombing attacks, against Israeli citizens, the US forces in Iraq, and some of the Arab regimes. Because of that, he was banned from entering Western countries and some Arab countries…. In 1999, he was banned from entering the USA. In 2009, he was banned from entering Britain…”

Qaradawi also founded many radical Islamist organizations which are funded by Qatar. These include the International Union of Muslim Scholars, which released a statement that called the October 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas against communities in southern Israel an “effective” and “mandatory development of legitimate resistance” and said that Muslims have a religious duty to support their brothers and sisters “throughout all of Palestine, especially in Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem, and Gaza.”

Qatar is still home to the lavishly-funded television network Al Jazeera, founded in 1996 by Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani. Called the ���mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Al Jazeera began the violent “Arab Spring,” which “brought the return of autocratic rulers.”

In 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt made 13 demands of Qatar: “to cut off relations with Iran, shutter Al Jazeera, and stop granting Qatari citizenship to other countries’ exiled oppositionists.” They subsequently cut ties with Qatar over its failure to agree to any of the demands, including ending its support for terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Jazeera.

The Saudi state-run news agency SPA said at the time:

💬 “[Qatar] embraces multiple terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda, and promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media constantly,”

US universities and colleges are happy to see this kind of influence on their campuses in exchange for billions of dollars in Qatari donations. According to ISGAP:

💬 “[F]oreign donations from Qatar, especially, have had a substantial impact on fomenting growing levels of antisemitic discourse and campus politics at US universities, as well as growing support for anti-democratic values within these institutions of higher education.”

[speaker-of-the-void-cats]

Final attempts to understand before the Shape is unveiled

What is the Light?

Matter. Creation. Complexity. The Light is all these things, and in all things. Look up at the Sky. Light reveals. Light blinds.

What is the Traveler?

A manifestation. A generator. A projector. A computer and storage drive for one form of existence. A cage. A source. A wellspring. A Gardener seeking to sow. A half-truth.

What is the Veil?

A manifestation. An enigma. A blueprint. A mirror. A cocoon and a web. A matrix. A devourer. A reaper. A recycler. A chalice. A xenotaph. A prism. A prison. A black box. Katabasis. Minds; yours, mine, ours. Its. Rivers. All-in-one and one-in-all. The other half.

What are we meant to be?

Not soldiers given orders by the general of a grand campaign of conquest. Not warlords granted power to rule over the weak. Guardians, vested with a singular, true purpose; protect this reality and those passing through it in mortality. See them safely along the path so they may realize their potential. Steadfast sentinels, insatiable explorers, mindful truth seekers; a trinity that ripples across the ocean of life itself.

What are the Ghosts?

A Guardian's guardian. A link. A proxy. A go-between. A stopper on death.

When one dies and vacates their form of Light, the soul is reclaimed to the bottle from which we all once poured... all except Guardians. Guardians remain because another soul stands in the way, one already taken from life but torn back from death and given a new shell. A ghost, holding the reaper at bay. For now.

What is the Witness?

Not the Shape, but the shadow of one. The first child, the first knife to carve flesh and stone. Not the pyramidion, but the block supporting it, lifting it up, making it possible. Many in one, an aspirational reflection of that which was seen darkly beyond the Veil. A seer. An observer. A summoner. A false prophet. A thorn. A witness to the end, to the true Shape.

What is the Darkness?

Thought. Memory. Emotion. Consciousness. Collapse. The mirror's image. A byproduct. You. Me. The universe. The Deep.

What is the Final Shape?

Beauty. Fear. Sorrow. Majesty. A winnower to shape the garden, to give it ultimate purpose. A singular mind with a singular vision and a singular purpose which is what it is because it is all it ever could be. A force of nature yet shaped by a hand. Created to devour you, me, everything and everyone we know. The pyramidion. The peak. The pinnacle. The inevitable.

Choose the form of the destructor.

What is the truth in the Darkness?

Light casts shadows. The shadows dance upon the cave wall, lies projected to convey the truth, the meaning; there is no meaning. We are all the same.

We are all pinched silhouettes impaled on the twitchings of infinitely long spiderlegs.

All the while I thought on the truth of Bashaarat’s words: past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

— The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang

V. What the Thunder Said After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop But there is no water Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you? What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings And crawled head downward down a blackened wall And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home. It has no windows, and the door swings, Dry bones can harm no one. Only a cock stood on the rooftree Co co rico co co rico In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust Bringing rain Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves Waited for rain, while the black clouds Gathered far distant, over Himavant. The jungle crouched, humped in silence. Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty rooms DA Dayadhvam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison Only at nightfall, aethereal rumours Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus DA Damyata: The boat responded Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar The sea was calm, your heart would have responded Gaily, when invited, beating obedient To controlling hands I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam uti chelidon—O swallow swallow Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih

[humbledinsujood]

We are losing beautiful souls day by day in our Muslim countries like Palestine. Our real heroes who show us the truth are dying one by one. Everyday I wake up to a new update of someone being martyred or has disappeared. My dear brothers and sisters it is a sincere request to please pray for them. It does not take even 5 minutes to pray for them. With a sincere heart, put your hands out to Allah and look towards the sky.

“Oh Rab of Musa, the One who split the sea for him and his people. Make a way out for our heroes who live upon La Illaha illallah. Make a way just as you made a way out of oppression of all the people of old.”

[be-a-muslim-1st]

Our Grand Sheikh was telling us about our responsibilities, according to the Awliya.

"Every day", he said, there are twenty-four thousand breaths, sixteen thousand movements and thirty thousand works for each person. On the judgement Day, each of us will be question: What was your intention for each of those actions? If you can reply to Allah Almighty, I was intending your pleasure, 'this will be enough.'

It is a clear hadith of our Prophet: "I came to you with shariah (Law, rules, Methods) like the sun shining."

We are, therefore, under heavy responsibility every moment. Either we are obedient servants, or we are not.

If a man is thinking this, how can he find time to find faults with others? You must always be thinking, "What will be my situation in the Divine Presence?"

This makes for good character, It is a formula for human life, a base to build upon. Allah Almighty says, "Your every action, your praying, working, living and dying must be for Me only." This means that we must live and act in His way. We are sitting here for Allah Almighty, not for ourselves.

To find faults with others is haram. It is a big sin to set oneself up as a judge of others. That is for Allah alone. He has no partners. When a man looks for another's faults, he is "Junub", (impure). He must quickly make ghusul (bath, major ablution) to be clean. Under this Imposition he will be afraid to find fault with other people.

-Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al Haqqani