Talib

Talib of secrets the heart can't deny,
Drunk on love that no gold can buy,
Wandering worlds with dust in my eye,
Seeking the Friend beyond the sky

[Sikander Iqbal @MaulanaSikander]

I’ve always been sceptical about this guy, and now he has simply proven my point: a deformist, supposedly following a ṭarīqah. But what ṭarīqah is he following if it is not grounded in the Qurʾān and Sunnah?

The fundamental problem with these establishment puppets is that the clear principles of Islām become inconvenient. To save face, they are forced to reinterpret them and adopt Western propaganda in order to present themselves as representatives of “true Islam” — much like the Qādiyānīs.

I didn’t get the chance to listen to his entire four-minute rant, but at around 1:23 he says:

“What we do today, when the Americans invade, and ‘Allāhu Akbar, Islam is in danger,’ and blow ourselves up out of rage. The whole country is trashed and destroyed as a result. It’s hawā, impulse. Rage, pride — jāhilī things. That’s us.”

Where does one even begin with rebutting such nonsense, alongside his many other irresponsible statements?

Firstly, why does he say, “what we do” and “that’s us”? I thought he was the civilised master of ṭarīqah who supposedly understands Islām better than everyone else in Britain. If this is “us”, then perhaps it is his own people whom he has failed to educate and guide correctly.

As for my people — the Mujāhidīn who fought the occupiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim lands — they did not resist occupation simply because they were ignorant of ṭarīqah or driven by uncontrolled emotion. They understood resistance to oppression and occupation through an Islamic framework and through what they believed the Qurʾān, Sunnah and the legacy of the Salaf demanded of them.

It seems that this man may have reverted to Islām, but the lingering stench of racial and cultural superiority continues to get the better of him. Perhaps he should sit in the company of a real Shaykh and have his tazkiyah done properly. He appears more willing to repeat the narrative of the enemies of Islām than to consider what those fighting occupation believed they were doing to defend their lands, families, women and children.

Has this so-called Shaykh — looked up to by some reformist-minded Deobandis & others — ever stopped to consider the jahiliyyah and hawā brought to Iraq by the United States?

At Abu Ghraib, US personnel tortured, sexually abused and humiliated Iraqi detainees. Prisoners were subjected to forced nudity, stress positions and other forms of abuse. Human-rights organisations also documented secret detention, enforced disappearances, unlawful transfers, sleep deprivation, mock executions and threats of rape.

On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Amnesty International renewed its call for justice and reparations for serious violations committed during the US-led invasion and occupation, citing indiscriminate attacks harming civilians, secret detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Was all of this committed by “we Muslims”? Or was it committed by people who looked and sounded considerably more like Murad than the Iraqis he so casually lectures about?

The Shaykh should also know better than to suggest that rage itself is inherently condemned in Islām. Islām does not demand emotional paralysis in the face of oppression. It teaches that anger must be disciplined, controlled and directed within the boundaries established by Allāh.

Interestingly, he appears perfectly capable of channelling his own emotions when repeating narratives that favour the US/Israeli worldview.

That is the recurring problem with these defenders of the status quo: the lecture about controlling Muslim anger suddenly becomes extremely important when Muslims are occupied, bombed, tortured or humiliated. Yet the discussion about the oppression that produced that anger — including atrocities committed by Britain, the United States and Israel — is too often conspicuously absent.

Muslim rage requires lectures, Western violence receives context, qualifications and deafening silence.

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@maturidiakh @YasirAlHanafi Brother, he talks about Gaza. Don't question him.

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@AprilMo16116581 @mohammed_hijab Lead the way, by parading his wife in front of thousands (perhaps millions) of men. It only sounds absurd to people like when it concerns his own. Otherwise his perverted mind is content with making a mockery of the honour of Muslim women.

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@AprilMo16116581 @mohammed_hijab You're the one that is obviously oblivious to it's meaning. It is he who is entertaining the idea that it's some sort of communal obligation, I don't see any anyone else who has blurted such sewage. If he believes in it so much, and is so passionate, he should lead the way!

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@ArmaanSajid4 @MaulanaSikander @ShkhAbdulRaheem @ShkhAbdulRaheem

For the sake of clarity, can you condemn this event?

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@YasirAlHanafi Why being selective?

Please educate your good friend and bum chum @ShAsrarRashid on this first.

Thanks,

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@muadhchati

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@muadhchati Yet the hypocrisy is that the same individuals that endorse pre-modern rights given by Islam to women, hyperbole the rights of women by tredding a path distant from that trodden by women in the pre-modern Muslim world.

"fEmaLe EDuCasHon!"
"KHadijah WaS a CEO!"

هذا بهتان عظيم

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@DrShoaibAM "You exchanged details, now you'll convert her and fulfil your desi dream of marrying a white woman."

THE END.

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@mohammed_hijab @ddkk786 @kafirkounter @s_m_marandi If this is the case, you would have to sideline a significant amount of Ahadith from Sahih Muslim!

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@Rafidhi1514 @Haqiqatjou you see this? These are your filthy Rafidhi dogs.

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Twelve Shias are worse in their Kufr than even Hindus. Hindus do not have slandering the mother of the believers enshrined in their scripture, Shias do.

[Daniel Haqiqatjou @Haqiqatjou]

Not only does Rabbi Adnan advocate unity with Hindus, he also says Aurangzeb made a "mistake" by requiring them to pay jizya.

This is a statement of kufr, but I doubt any Wahhabi will hold him accountable for it.

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@youfibre I cant DM you without you doing it first!!

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@youfibre absolutely awful customer service. I have been without wifi at my house for a week now and cant get through to you. The once I got through, they cut me off!! I will now cancel my direct debits and never choose them again. Absolutely horrible

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@YasirAlHanafi Because you have "Adab" Ya sīdī, you prefer to give them honour and respect. Instead of referring to them Iranian stooges, it is far more honourable to 'break their teeth' and call them 'Baastar'

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@hashurtag As opposed to? An idiot that feels he can give religious verdicts whilst holding a guitar? Give us a break.

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@ibn_shabbir @muftitaqiusmani

حضرت مفتی صاحب. پاکستانی علماء کیوں اتنا خاموش؟ ممکن ہے کہ آج لیلة القدر ہو، معصوم توابین مسلمان بھائی کا ناحق خون - واحد دنيا کی اسلامی حكوم�� - یہ حيوان كيا جواب دینگے خدا تعالى كو؟ كيا "كلمة حق عند سلطان جائر" منسوخ ہو گیا ہے؟!

[Talib @TraversingTalib]

@YasirAlHanafi "I will avoid sectarianism but happy to fan the flames of nationalism from the pulpit, because Afghanistan took money from Israel and US."

Ai mere pyaare watan!