King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

فقال له إمام أهل السُنَّة أحمد بن حنبل رحمه اللّٰه :
تُحِبُّ الصَّالِحِينَ وأنْتَ مِنْهُم
رَفِيقُ القَوْمِ يَلْحَقُ بِالْجَمَاعَة
وَتَكَرَهُ مَنْ بِضَاعَتُهِ الْمَعَاصِي
حَمَاكَ اللَّهُ مِنْ تِلْكَ البِضَاعَة

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

قال الإمام الشَافعي رحمه اللّٰه تعالى
أُحِبُّ الصَّالِحِينَ وَلَسَتُ منهم
وأَرْجُو أَنْ أَنَالَ بِهُمْ شَفَاعَة
وَ��َكْرَهُ مَنْ تِجَارَتُهُ الْمَعَاصي
وَإِنْ كَنَّا سَوَاءً فِي البِضَاعَة

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Jibrīl عليه السلام said to it:

“Are you doing this to Muhammad? No one has ever ridden you who is more honoured with Allah than him!”
The narrator said:
“Thereupon, it began to sweat profusely.”

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

عَنْ أَنَسِ رَضِي الله عَنْهُ أنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
أُتِّيَ بِالْبُرَاقِ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِي بِهِ مُلْجَماً مُسْرَجا فَاسْتَصْعَبَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ جِبْرِيلُ: أبِمُحَمَّدٍ تَفْعَلُ هَذَا فَمَا رَكِبَكَ أَحَدٌ أَكْرَمُ عَلَى اللّٰه مِنْهُ! قَالَ : فَارْفَضَّ عَرَقاً

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ was brought al-Burāq on the night he was taken on the Night Journey. It was bridled and saddled, but it became difficult for him to ride and resisted him.

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@KashmiriHanbali Interestingly enough, Imam Ahmad Zarruk says in his sharh of Risala Ibn Abi Zayd: that وقال المحققون: إنما تدور بين محرم ومكروه“"The verifying scholars (al-muhaqqiqun) said: religious innovation, or bid'ah only revolves between the forbidden (muharram) and the disliked makrüh

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@Green_3101 Not looking good today

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Spot on

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@wannabemuhadith It’ll be so hard to do this for the Maliki Madhab

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

No…

It wasn’t Thomas Tuchel’s substitutions…

Anthony Gordon scored in the 55th minute. The (already) infamous substitutions were made in the 82nd minute.

England had a measly 12% possession from the moment the ball hit the Argentinian net. It wasn’t the substitutions that made the difference (although perhaps they didn’t help)…it was the mindset of the England players after they scored. And this happens to England in major tournaments again and again and again and again…

So what happened? Performance anxiety…

“Don’t be the player to make a mistake”
“Let’s just see this through”

These aren’t thoughts. They’re feelings. Feelings in the pit of the stomach. Feelings that cascade through the whole body. Feelings that generate hesitancy, inhibition…and in the words of Thomas Tuchel post game, passiveness

A Low Intent - energy-back. Arguably the biggest killer in high performance sport is a drop in intent.

A couple of months ago I had the honour of being on The Overlap. As I described to Gary, Roy, Ian and Scholesy - “A drop in intent can make great players look very average.” Last night, a drop in intent made the England players, great players, look shockingly poor - an energy-back negatively impacting awareness, anticipation, decision-making, physicality, technical and tactical play.

The same happened against Spain in the Euros final 2024 and against Italy in the Euros final against Italy in 2020. And in countless tournaments prior.

Energy-back vs Energy-forward…

Argentina - energy-forward. Singing their national anthem with gusto. As aggressive in the press and in duels as you’re going to see. Slightly bending the rules. Being nasty…in their opponents’ faces…

…competing with so much passion and adoration for each other and with so much want and will and determination that there’s no room for anxieties (fears, uncertainties, doubts)…

No room…

This is hard to accomplish. Brutally, disgustingly hard. Phenomenally hard. Why? Because striving to play with energy-forward under pressure is so metabolically costly. It requires enormous will-power and tenacity…which needs an enormous amount of energy. It feels horrible. It feels exhausting. That’s why so many teams fail to deliver under pressure.

No, it wasn’t Tuchel’s substitutions. It’s a failure to address a national characteristic - a socio-cultural and bio-psychological tendency to play with fear (energy-back) under pressure.

This needs to be tackled now for the 2028 Euros and the 2030 World Cup. Plans need to be put in place…mental frameworks need to be laid down.

Attention
Intensity
Intent

England (like all nations and like all club teams) need mental frameworks that help players to compete with High Attention; Optimal Intensity; and (most importantly) High Intent under pressure.

And there is a behavioural template that shines like a beacon through the fog of complexity in the world game - the Argentinian National Team…

…they are, quite simply, the warriors of international football

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Lamine Yamal: "In my head, the semifinals should be: France vs Spain and Portugal vs Argentina."

🚨 Nico Williams: "We’ve already beaten them twice."

🚨 Presenter: "But they have a lot of dynamite."

🚨 Nico: "My God, they have players..."

🚨 Lamine: "And us?"

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@asharimaliki_x1 @ARAH_Ashari How can you follow imam Malik in fiqh but differ with him aqeedah and follow someone that came almost a 100 years after him.

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@asharimaliki_x1 Athari and Maliki is the way

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@asharimaliki_x1 @ARAH_Ashari He’d have you lots slashed for doing Tafwid and Ta’wil.

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

@ARAH_Ashari @asharimaliki_x1 Following imam Malik in both fiqh and Aqeeda (Athari) def make sense

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Because of that, if you were to meet one of them, you would find that they possess no knowledge, yet they claim that they have perfected their knowledge. Rather, they have only perfected their ignorance.

النصيحة الولدية

Abu Walid al-Baji

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Abu Walid Al Baji

Beware of reading anything from the books of manțig and philoso-phy, because they are founded on disbelief, opposition to the shariah, and separation.

[King D 🇬🇳🇦🇺 @1995_DB9]

Reading these books, you will realize the ugliness of their tricks and the weakness of their arguments and amusing stories that they use to deceive those without knowl-edge.