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Escapism survivor

[Kerr @KerrDepression]

Quickly wrote up the article. Probably a few mistakes.

https://t.co/Uj6yQXnne5

[Khairabadi Institute @khairabadi_inst]

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[Kais @Arubbothian]

@Babygravy9

[Muslim Bitcoiner BIP-110⚡ @MBitcoiner]

"The earth has been made a masjid. Every piece of it...Especially this piece"

"He completed Maghrib in the ruins of the plaza as the first stars became visible over the fallout zone."

From a post-apocalyptic Muslim sci-fi series called "Cyber Faerie"

Link to short story below:

[Wassal 🇩🇿🇲🇦 @wassalshbh]

Leaked picture of one of the soldiers from the Islamic Republic of Japan who attacked United States military forces :

[Peter Gould @petergouldart]

Salam friends! Excited to drop our first Tales of Khayaal animation teaser this weekend inshaAllah 💚 Our dedicated artists, illustrators and animators have been working tirelessly and passionately for our human-led process. In an era when AI prompts can quickly generate derivative generic output, we are focussing on heart-centered storytelling and original visual design in all of our characters, settings and assets.

Follow at https://t.co/MRhUX2hang - We're soft-launching in Istanbul and will share the link here once live. Please support us by commenting & sharing - but mostly reading Book One and leaving a review on Goodreads and gifting to friends. Alhumdulilah we have a beautiful active community growing, including on Discord, and with amazing feedback from around the world arriving from all ages and backgrounds.

ps. Book Two dropping in Q4 👀😊

[Stranger @joycatgeneral]

People misunderstand fiqhmaxxing because they can’t separate micro/macro level analysis.

At a micro level, everyone should fiqhmaxx. But at the macro level, fiqh has never played the role many imagine it did. World-history unfolded (eg. expansion) and fiqh justified it after.

[Shaka @AnwerShakaib]

@Han31506417073 Besides, praying with fresh blood on you is not allowed, you gotta clean the kafir subhuman's filthy blood off your skin before you pray.

[Ibrahim Abdul-Rauf @LongshotIbrahim]

I agree with most of this thread. Full solidarity for Iran against Epstein Coalition in 2025-26, but we shouldnt whitewash their extremely mixed (at best) record and repeated bouts of hypocrisy. Esp when ppl use the 2025-26 war to whitewash their earlier record

[Stranger @joycatgeneral]

I don’t care for that anime about the lil girl. We just need more meaningful cultural output whatever that may be. We need more memetic spread. That’s all my view boils down to.

[TORTURED MAN @tortured_man]

Another gender inversion. Groups of women are usually more loud and disruptive than groups of men now. When I sit behind a group of young women in the train I already know it will be the worst ride of my life. They scream, engage in extremely vulgar locker room talk, gossip, etc

[Stranger @joycatgeneral]

When Muslims stop being defensive, abandon the moralfagging, and learn to double down, the kuffar become dumbfounded. Completely unable to explain or understand what we are even saying.

#JoycatWarfare

[MENA Unleashed @MENAUnleashed]

Christians have to be careful what they wish for. Israel is over and you want to tie fatebof Christianity to a dying retarded country?! I mean sure go for it but dont cry when you get permanently eliminated.

This so called axis of minorities need to be crushed into dust. After this war no more minorities will be allowed in the region. Christians shiites alwaites druze and others will be erased because what a pretentious bunch of losers who still suck the cok of their former imperial master even when that master is dying.

This decade is the decade of ending minorities once and for all. We cannot accept minorities anymore. You come in line under islam or you are out. There is only one game in town and it is islam. Rest is horseshit.

Muslims crushed shiites fascism, US occupation, gulf corrupting money and soon we will take over all these losers. Most people think hardship is bad. It is actually just preparation for greatness.

So if you deem yourself a minority, please fuck off. You are not allowed to be a minority. Chose islam or you are out.

[Joseph Lumbard, شاكر عبد الحق @JosephLumbard]

The maximalist reading of having a good opinion of others (ḥusn al-ẓann) — treat every claim, every claimant, every fund-raiser charitably, and treat any skepticism as a moral defect — collapses categories that Islamic tradition maintains distinct.

The actual standard is more of a two-tier structure. Where no right of others is at stake, particularly private affairs, ḥusn al-ẓann governs. As the famous counsel of Ibn Sīrīn has it, “If something reaches you about your brother, seek an excuse for him; if you find none, say: 'Perhaps he has an excuse I do not know.'”

But in the domain of ḥuqūq (rights) — testimony, religious knowledge, money, fundraising, etc.— the governing values are clarification (tabayyun), prudence (ḥazm), and faithful trusteeship (amāna).

God commands that reports be verified, not presumed true: “If an iniquitous person comes to you with tidings, then be discerning, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become remorseful over that which you have done” (Q 49:6). This presupposes assessing the character of the source before accepting a report. The Prophet ﷺ advised to maintain vigilance: “The believer is not stung from the same hole twice.” Naïveté repeated is not a virtue.

Where rights are at stake, Islamic law does not operate on presumptive trust: integrity of witnesses must be formally established. The entire science of ḥadīth criticism rests on scholars publicly declaring certain narrators unreliable. When ʿUmar vetted a character witness, he asked: Have you been his neighbor? Traveled with him? Dealt with him in money? When the man answered no to all three, ʿUmar concluded he did not truly know him.

The strategy of manipulators is to import the ethic of the first tier into the second. They reframe due diligence as sūʾ al-ẓann (suspicion and conjecture) and warranted criticism as ghība (backbiting), weaponizing the community’s virtues against it. But extending unexamined trust in matters of rights is not virtue; it is negligence. Ḥusn al-ẓann is a discipline of the heart toward private conduct. It is not a license to hand the community’s money, trust, and religion to anyone who asks.

[наѕıм @wali_hv]

It’s tragic when you know someone who has been infected by some TikTok-induced psychosis and you witness them visibly decay from it

[Subzero @SubzeroWisky]

@MinionDaechir As much as I enjoyed the first two episodes, every second was a painful reminder of how culturally sterile we've become

[حورانية🏳️‍ @HolisticMuslim]

Egypt has such rich & plentiful Arab-Islamic material culture spanning centuries.. Very sad that it's completely overshadowed by obsession with Pharoanic ruins, which began with the West's Egyptomania. I hope Egypt starts prioritizing the preservation for its Islamic heritage

[꩜ @Aboubarchos]

I recommend all of my Muslim moots to watch this, even if you don't watch Anime normally. The Japanese blow everyone else in faithfully depicting the medieval Islamicate world

[Yousr @rsuyoy]

Every religion-related discourse on this platform reminds me of the deep, deep ignorance the Western secular mind lives in vis-à-vis orthodoxy. Most have no theory of mind for how a devout person actually conceives of things. None. They think they know, but they don’t — I’ve yet to meet a secular Westerner who can model Oriental religious dogma with even remotely correct accuracy. (I say oriontal, and it reminds me of that youtube video arguing that Islam could be labled a western religion just as well....)

The opposite is not true at all. I am muslim, and western liberal secularism has no secrets for me; I know how it works from the inside — the hows, the whys, all of it. Internet monoculture and globalisation made liberal spheres trivial to navigate for us all, I think. So when I argue with it, I manage to argue from within it, not like some ignorant, obtuse outsider lobbing rocks at a thing he’s never quite understood. (which is what most westerners commenting on orthodox muslim behaviour sounds like to me)

At the end of the day, I find western leftism to lack taste for the actually oriental, no stomach for its religious substance, which is ironic, given what “woke” is supposed to be about. This is probably less true in academic circles, as rigeour tends to get you closer to a proper model of the oriontal mind.

[Catacious Yedeković @pisiefend1]

Our sermon was about the need to be alert against subversive groups and heretical movements