Who is the Ummah today?
In The Liberal and Socialist Ummahs, Yaaser Al-Zaiat (@al_ashajj) explores how liberalism and socialism became the two 'ummahs' of the modern world.
In the fallout of Islamic civilisation's collapse in the 20th century, Islam was relegated from the status of 'ummah' (a community of universal faith) to a mere 'millah' (approximating the secular definition of 'religion').
In turn, two 'madhabs' (intellectual schools of thought and practice) tried to offer an answer: the Manarists and the Qutbists. Both claimed an ‘ummatic’ cause, yet were largely ensconced within the two greater ummahs of liberalism and socialism.
There is one ummah today: the liberal, Anglophone world order that grew out of industrial capitalism. Socialism itself could not make it to the 21st century. Everything since has operated within the liberal ummah, including Islamic movements like the Manarists and Qutbists.
The process of secularisation that came with the liberal and socialist ummahs did not take Islam away in the absolute, but rather imposed a hard limit to its scale. Muslims have been reduced from an ummah to a millah, from a civilisation able to address the whole world in a competent, authoritative language to a sect that broadcasts its politics as dreams.
This is a shift modern Muslims across the political spectrum have failed to make, imagining Islam as an alternative bloc rather than a living force in a one-world reality.
All flaws in worldviews, political methodologies, legal distinctions, and even social movements stem from the failure to recognise this most basic reality: that there is no alternative ideological existence.
The fish do not know the water they swim in.
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Israel’s existence is not negotiable. It does not depend on superpowers or public opinion. If they keep pushing Israel into a corner, they will suffer most. Israel has not used everything it has. Some weapons stay hidden for a reason. For now, we are still just playing around.
Palestinian goyim will one day get their property / land back. They have a lower time preference than the Zionist Jewish State because they are more civilised. Islamic jurisprudence will once again reign in Sham / Levant and Jew, Christian m
In this interview with Mario Nawfal, I discuss my Misesian case against Israel, arguing the Palestinian/Israeli conflict can only be understood as the result of the denial of property rights for Palestinians based purely on their not belonging to the ruling ethnoreligious group.
🇹🇷 In Turkey, a journalist asked an elderly Muslim about the economy and the general situation in the country.
Journalist: How do you assess the current situation?
🗣 Very bad. Because people can no longer live a decent life. Their incomes are devaluing, and life is becoming increasingly difficult. But I do not think the situation will change if one ruler leaves and another comes in. The problem is not with individuals — the problem lies in the system itself.
🗣 Since the economy is based on usury (riba), there will be neither justice nor true progress. Society lives in anxiety and uncertainty. People do not feel complete security regarding their lives, property, and dignity. The source of these problems is the system itself, which deprives people of peace of mind and stability.
🗣 As long as usury, corruption, and gambling are accepted as normal, waiting for reform is pointless. Society needs Islamic governance so that Sharia becomes the foundation of life and Allah’s laws are applied. Only then can true recovery happen. Otherwise, no matter who sits on the throne of power, nothing will change.
🗣Does it make a difference if Ahmad or Mehmed comes to the top of the state? Does the system itself change? No. Therefore, its consequences do not change either. The important thing is not the individuals, but the order and rules on which society lives.
Journalist: Isn’t democracy enough by itself?
🗣Certainly not enough. It has not given people true peace of mind or confidence in tomorrow. Communism failed because it was the wrong system. This democratic system is not eternal either. It has existed for over a century, but what results has it produced? Have economic difficulties disappeared? Have political crises been resolved? Has society remained spiritually healthy? No. The main problems are still unresolved. That is why what needs to be changed is not the people, but the system itself.
"Fourteenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores credit and banking as the institutions that channel savings into investment, how commodity credit emerges from real savings, while circulation credit comes from money creation, why interest rates reflect time preference
Your CEO should be strong.
Your CTO should be wise.
Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,
As I return from Hajj I pray every Muslim politician who endorses pride month loses their campaign.
We can’t send a messages that the only way to win is to betray your faith and sell your soul.
Deeply disappointed by @AbdulElSayed
We as a community have an obligation to ordain good and forbid evil.
I’m not sure what’s worse - if these politicians genuinely think it’s ok to endorse things contrary to all the holy scripture, or if they know it’s wrong but do so for political gains any way.
All the muslims that think it's ok to promote sodomy to a majority non-muslim society have been infected by secularism and hold their faith as mere cultural appendage. They have a confused and contradictory worldview
A muslim should never promote:
• Alcohol
• Riba
• Gamble
Nobody should be surprised that the socialist Bernie Sanders supports Israel. The Jewish Nation State was first started by Communits / Socialists. That's why they steal land and property.
The future of online da'wa might be female articulate niqabi ninjas dismantling the anti-Islam arguments of the fearful, hateful, and ignorant. May Allah keep them sincere.
We should acknowledge the psychological reality: many men opposing conservative Muslim female figures aren’t driven purely by jurisprudential conviction, but by discomfort that many women perform the role more effectively than us. If we were medieval warriors, we wouldn’t care but many derive their self-concept from public engagement. We don’t see Christians behaving this way with Candace Owens, and this insecurity is part of our failure