New paper. 📄
The ummah's crisis is not one of resources or military capacity.
It is a crisis of the conceptual framework through which Muslims read the world.
The Siyar Mentality: How Islam Teaches Muslims to Read the World
✍️ @DrKamalAbuZahra
📥 https://t.co/k9R9AJ93Bq
بما أن الحرب توقفت.. ففتح #المسجد_الأقصى أصبح مسألةً ملحةً بالنسبة للاحتلال مع انتفاء حجة إغلاقه.. وقد يعلن الاحتلال فتحه في أية لحظة بشروطه:
1- قد يكون ذلك دون تحديد أعداد نظراً لانتفاء شروط ما يسمى "الجبهة الداخلية".
2- الثابت الوحيد عند الاحتلال هو فتح المسجد "بالتساوي" بين المسلمين والمستوطنين.. بمعنى تثبيت رؤية الاحتلال في كون #الأقصى "مقدساً مشتركاً" يعمل فيه الاحتلال على العودة لتقسيمه زمنياً ومنع المسلمين من الوصول إليه خلال فترة الاقتحامات.
3- لا زال باقياً يومٌ واحد للفصح العبري.. ولذلك قد تحاول جماعات المعبد المتطرفة تعويض ما فاتها في المسجد خلال الحرب بأي ثمن.
العيون يجب أن تفتح الآن على مصراعيها لحماية المسجد، فالاحتلال يعتبر السيطرة عليه في هذا الوقت مسألةً مركزية (ومن المؤسف أنها لا تزال هامشيةً عند بعض مَن ينطقون بلساننا).
والواجب علينا أن نكسر شروط الاحتلال ورؤيته وأهدافه بالحضور للمسجد بكثافة غير مسبوقة وإعماره بشكل كامل ودائم رغم أنف الاحتلال الذي يخشى قيام شعبنا بإغراقه بالأعداد الكثيفة.
والثابت الأساسي الذي ينبغي أن نفهمه هنا دائماً: إعلان الاحتلال فتح مسجدنا بشروطه هو ليس إنجازاً.
#الأقصى_يستغيث
#سنفتح_أقصانا
This came up on my feed, and I completely disagree with this framing.
It is not the Ummah that has abandoned Gaza. Rather, it is a significant segment within the power structure—the upper layers of the pyramid—that has failed the Ummah. This failure trickles down from nation-state leaders to scholars, to imams, including many within the British context.
To generalise and blame the entire Ummah is both inaccurate and unjust. The Ummah is not a monolith of apathy; rather, it is a body that has been restrained, suppressed, and, in many cases, deliberately silenced — by forces that warrant a discussion in and of themselves.
Allah has allowed this insignificant servant to be blessed with visiting the Ḥaramayn over the past two years of the Gaza war and even now at this very moment. On a personal level, I can stand in front of Rasūlullāh ﷺ with a sense of contentment that, at the very least, I did not remain silent. I defended the Mujāhidīn and the Ummah at large with my words for His sake.
And even then, this puts me to shame—because in such circumstances, the bare minimum should have been giving up my life in jihad for His sake. Words are insignificant when compared to true sacrifice.
Whilst many imams chose to downplay, dilute, or distance themselves from the heroic actions of the Mujāhidīn over the years, we place our hope in Allah, our Lord, and thereafter in our Sayyid and Master, Rasūlullāh ﷺ—that we are on the correct side of the Dīn: the balanced path, the path of truth.
As I have iterated before, Gaza was our Badr. It distinguished truth from falsehood. It exposed sincerity from hypocrisy. It revealed who speaks for the Dīn, and who speaks to protect their position.
When kuffar activists, with far less influence and far more to lose, did more through their words and actions than many imams, the easy escape is to blame “the Ummah” as a whole. That is not courage, it is deflection.
Imam Al-Ghazali r.a. profoundly stated in Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn:
“So these are the biographies and ways of the scholars regarding them commanding the good and forbidding the evil, and their lack of concern for being oppressed by the sultans, because of their faith in the kindness of Allāh to protect them and their being pleased with Allāh decreeing martyrdom for them. And because they had ikhlāṣ in their intentions, their words had an impact on hardened hearts by softening them and removing the hardness.
As for now (in these times), worldly greed has shackled the tongues of the scholars, so they remain silent; and if they were to speak, their words would not be backed up by their internal states, hence they are not successful. But had they been truthful and intended to fulfil the duties imposed upon them by ‘ilm, they would have succeeded.
So the population is corrupted due to the corruption of the rulers. And the rulers are corrupted due to the corruption of the scholars. And the scholars are corrupted due to love of wealth and status.
And whoever is overtaken by love of this world will not be able to do ḥisbah (commanding the good and forbidding the evil) upon the weakest of people, so how can they possibly command and forbid the kings and the powerful? And Allāh’s help is sought in all circumstances.”
This is not a new crisis, it is a recurring disease.
Worldly attachment has paralysed tongues. Truth has become costly. Silence has become comfortable.
The blame game is easy for those who sit on the fence or watch from the sidelines.
As for those sincere brothers whose concern is matched with action—they have every right to speak. They have earned that right.
But to blame the entire Ummah?
That is neither accurate, nor sincere, nor just.
Allah knows best.
90 years on from Ataturk ‘banning’ Islam, converting mosques, changing the Adhan, removing Islamic institutions and secularising the country.
All praise is to Allah.
We’ve come a long way and are only getting better and stronger.
i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in SUDAN. SUDAN barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more
i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in SUDAN. SUDAN barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more
Muslim demonstrators gathered outside the Jordanian embassy in London on Saturday, demanding action over the continued closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israel.
Protesters waved Palestinian flags and held signs reading “hands off Al-Aqsa,” whilst calling on Jordan and all the armies from nations across the Islamic world to step in and take action to save Palestine and Jerusalem.
The protests come as Israeli authorities have maintained a complete closure of the Al-Aqsa compound for over 37 days now, citing security reasons due to the ongoing war with Iran.
Failed to rescue the pilot...
Failed to rescue the rescue team...
Failed to rescue the rescue team that tried to rescue the rescue team...
Failed to convince anyone with their lies about rescuing the pilot.
This is the laughing stock the US military has become.
#NoGeneralsUSA
This is embarrassing. Surely the kill switch for Trump's ego and piping down Netanyahu's ambition needs to be activated soon by the deep state because the longer this drags on the faster America's demise happens.
America celebrates saving a captain whilst losing a hunch of fighter jets in the process. The way the Trump administration frames things is embarrassing
BREAKING:
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US has lost another two C-130 transport aircraft last night while trying to save the pilot
The NYT reports that during the operation in Iran, two U.S. transport aircraft intended to carry the airmen were disabled and abandoned, then blown up.
After they were hit, new ones were sent to extract the second group.
The US denies casualties but judging by the photos on the ground, it is unlikely that this is the case.
Iran announced 5 losses to local militias