Amir

Yes

[Hamed Barakat @HamedBarakat8]

من لطائف طرق الحج التي سلكها المسلمون قديماً، "طريق الحج الإفريقي"؛ حيث كان مسلمو وسط وغرب إفريقيا يقطعون مسافة هائلة تفصلهم عن الأراضي المقدسة، تُقدّر بنحو سبعة آلاف كيلومتر.

كانت هذه المسافة الشاسعة تتطلب منهم الخروج لقصد الحج قبل موعده بعام كامل أو يزيد، يطوون فيه الأرض سيراً على الأقدام.

ولأجل تعذر حمل المتاع والزاد طوال هذه الشهور الممتدة، ابتكر الحجاج حيلة ذكية؛ فكان الواحد منهم يخرج لرحلته مستصحباً معه قطيعاً من الماشية؛ من البقر والجاموس والماعز، ليرتوي من ألبانها ويتغذى عليها طوال الطريق. فإذا ما بلغ الميناء ليعبر إلى الضفة الأخرى من البحر الأحمر، باع ماشيته هناك، وادخر ثمنها نفقة لقضاء المناسك ولرحلة الإياب.

ولم يكن الدرب كله قفراً بائساً؛ إذ كانت تقام على طول الطريق الأسبلة، والتكايا، والخانات، والآبار، التي شيدها سلاطين المسلمين وأهل الخير لخدمة الحجيج وتوفير سبل الراحة لهم.

ومع هذه التسهيلات، فإن العناء الذي كان يقاسيه هؤلاء الحجاج كان بالغ المشقة؛ حتى إن الرحلة كانت تستغرق من أعمارهم سنتين كاملتين؛ سنة للذهاب وأخرى للعودة.

ومنهم من كانت تبتلع الرحلة من عمره أكثر من ذلك؛ إن هو آثر الجوار في مكة عاماً، أو عرّج في طريقه على حواضر وعواصم المسلمين؛ كالقاهرة ودمشق والقيروان، ليجلس في مساجدها يطلب العلم ويتزود الخير، قبل أن يعود إلى بلاده، يحمل في صدره نور العلم، ويسبق اسمه لقب "الحاج".

[Ali ████ @ASAinsights]

Everything you are witnessing has a single root.

It's not geopolitics. Not resources. Not Huntington's lazy civilisational thesis.

It's two refusals, ancient and unresolved, bleeding into the present.

The first: the Jews could not accept that the awaited Seal of Prophethood did not descend from their race.

The second: the Christians could not accept that the figure they deified was a Prophet, one who announced the coming of one greater Prophet, and that no ritual, no vicarious atonement, no symbolic cannibalism purchases salvation while sin runs uninterrupted:

بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ
Man desires nothing more than to keep sinning with a clear conscience.

But it is the racial vanity of the first group that deserves the closest examination, because it strips all pretence away.

Abu Jahl, the foremost enemy of the early Muslims, did not dispute the character of Muhammad ﷺ. He conceded it openly. When pressed on why he refused to follow a man he acknowledged as truthful, he did not reach for theology. He reached for blood:

"We and the Banu Hashim competed for honour. We were neck and neck like two racehorses. Then they said: a Prophet is from among us. By Allah, how could we ever compete with them in that?"

The message was not rejected because it was false. It was rejected because accepting it meant permanent defeat to a rival clan.

And this was not original. It was an imitation. The template was set long before Arabia, by the first creature to choose pride over submission:

أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِينٍ
"I am better than him. You created me from fire; him from clay."

Satan did not deny the command. He understood it perfectly. He simply decided his origin entitled him to refuse it.

The line runs clean from Satan to Abu Jahl to every modern power that cannot tolerate a divine authority originating outside its own bloodline.

Everything else is branch.

This is the root.

[Pehn Di Siri @PehnDiSiri]

Donald Trump only watching Pak-Afghan war as he didn't get Noble Prize

[🇧🇷 @7moudy_]

Dagestan, I wasn’t familiar with your القراء

[Karim Amr @Krimamr1]

Frames of cairo

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Hind Rajabs words on a mobile phone as Israel was murdering her.

‘“I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”

[Amir @_am1rali_]

@kamranAX معاف کردو چچا غصّے میں اِدھر اُدھر نکل جاتے ہیں

[Junaid Sahi @Junaid_Sahi]

"Sab kuch Lahore pe lag gya hai" has no motive except creating bigotry in Punjab and killing vote of development

Lahore is a city of 1 crore 40 lakh people

Next 5, Faislabad, Gujranwala, Pindi, Multan and Sargodha even COMBINED are still smaller than Lahore!

The entire

[Muslim Landmarks Explored @MuslimLandmarks]

The path leading to Bab as-Salam in Masjid-e-Nabwi, Madinah taken 50 years apart.

Bab as-Salam, meaning the Gate of Peace, leads to the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

May we all be blessed to visit, Ameen.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Unfortunately, this infant isn't old enough to understand, as enlightened Western adults do, that "Israel has the right to defend itself."

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Of all the images they could have used to show what happened, they chose a map.

[Zarrar Khuhro @ZarrarKhuhro]

Some of you may have seen Hindutvadi tweets talking about cauliflower farming and wondered 'what is this about?' Well brace yourselves for one heck of a story:

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

After the autopsy of the body of the martyr Yahya al-Sinwar, it was established that:
His arm was bleeding so much that he almost lost it, so he tied it with an electrical cord to stop the bleeding; Just so he could keep fighting...
He was then shot in the head with three bullets, resulting in his martyrdom. Until he turned away from the enemy.
He fought, wounded and hungry; he fought, although he had eaten nothing for three days and had nothing in his stomach but bitter coffee. However, he never retreated.
That's part of what the autopsy revealed, according to a report in the New York Times.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

they stopped ambulances, rounded up medics and massacred them, then tried to hide it by burying them in a mass grave, then lied and said they were hamas, then video came out showing they lied and the depraved NYT and BBC say it just "appears" as though they lied. Genocidal scum

[Majed @GoonerSJ]

"grandson eliminated" GRANDSON. ELIMINATED.

these guys are some of the most psychopathic people I have seen.

The grandson in question.

[KS.ˆĀdil @ProAdil_27]

"The Fastest Debate in History!"

Imām al-Rāzī entered one of the mosques in Samarkand to pray. There, he found the mosque's shaykh explaining his books incorrectly. When al-Rāzī corrected him, the shaykh became furious, got agitated, and demanded a public debate to refute—

[Kiran @KiranMechstars]

Same energy*