Omar Ceesay

Young • Married • Entrepreneur
Co-Founder & General Manager: Points Bechek | Help Desk Gambia
Reader • Leading Self • And, please, “ichariba chode”🥹

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

First things first, what Musa said was wrong and against Islamic teachings. He owes the Manjago community a sincere public apology and clarification. Religion in The Gambia isn’t defined by tribe. We have Muslims and non-Muslims across all tribes. According to Musa, 1/2

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

Daytime sleep needs context. Sleeping during Duha, from sunrise until before Zuhr, is said to prevent rizq. Sleeping after Zuhr until Asr is Sunnah.

[Copy Counsel @BenYousef_E]

Counting on the fingers is better and more rewarding, in fact is the sunnah.

[Salah al-Iranee @SalahIranee]

There was a time when simply warning against these people and ideologies would get you called a spy, a snake, a government agent or a sell-out.

Salafis were mocked, ridiculed and laughed at for warning against the Khawārij, revolutionary movements, the Muslim Brotherhood and the methodology that would later be represented by people such as Usāmah bin Lādin.

Then things got serious.

9/11 happened.

Suddenly, everyone started jumping on the bandwagon and warning against the very extremism Salafi scholars had been warning about for years.

People need to understand: this is nothing new.

These warnings did not suddenly appear after 9/11.

For decades, the scholars were warning against takfīr, political agitation, rebellion, revolutionary ideology and the spilling of innocent blood.

Shaykh al-Albānī was openly criticising the methodology of the Muslim Brotherhood long before 9/11, particularly during his years in Jordan from the 1980s onwards.

Usāmah bin Lādin issued his “Declaration of War” in 1996, followed by the infamous declaration of 22 February 1998 calling for attacks against Americans.

Yet Salafi scholars were warning against him before 9/11.

On 19 December 1998, Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī said concerning bin Lādin:

“I completely reject and declare myself free of Bin Laden, for he is an evil threat and tribulation to the nation, and his actions are heinous.”

He also explained that he had already advised and warned bin Lādin and rejected attempts by those associated with him to involve his daʿwah in the purchasing of weapons.

So when Salafis warn against the ideology of the Khawārij today, this is not some post-9/11 invention. It was not manufactured to please governments, intelligence agencies or the Western media.

The warning begins with the Sunnah itself.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“The Khawārij are the dogs of Hellfire.”
- Sunan Ibn Mājah, 173

The Prophet ﷺ warned about them over fourteen centuries before al-Qāʿidah, ISIS or any modern political movement existed.

And there is another point worth mentioning.

People suffering from serious psychological problems deserve help and compassion. But someone who is clearly unstable, irrational or incapable of responsible judgement should not be pushed in front of cameras and presented as though they represent the religion of nearly two billion Muslims.

Islam has scholars. It has students of knowledge. It has principles, scholarship and an established tradition.

A disturbed individual shouting extreme opinions into a camera does not suddenly become a spokesman for Islam because his clips generate views.

And there is a lesson in all of this:

When Salafi scholars warn you about certain individuals or methodologies, do not wait until people are being killed, buildings are being blown up or the consequences are staring everyone in the face before you finally take those warnings seriously.

These scholars understand the roots of these ideologies. They know where certain principles lead, often long before the average person sees the end result.

And do not only become concerned when the issue is the Khawārij.

Have ghayrah for your religion.

Apply the same critical principles when the scholars warn against Ṣūfiyyah, ḥizbiyyah, innovation, political partisanship or anyone else opposing the Qurʾān, Sunnah and the way of the Salaf.

Do not wait for something to become fashionable or for the wider world to recognise the danger before you take the scholars seriously.

The Khawārij are not new.
The warnings are not new.
The only thing that changes is when people finally decide to listen.

[أَندلس . @o_s1874]

«مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ»

[Njool mu ñuul🥳 (grand bi)🇸🇳🏳 @DiaboneB]

Bayyi ci xel

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

This is DA’WAH, it’s an act of worship, not merely “a new method.” Charging people fees to attend your da’wah cannot be traced back to the Prophet ﷺ, the Sahabah, the Tabi‘een, or any Islamic source. Any act of worship without an asl (foundation) is bid‘ah by the Shari‘ah.

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

So it happened that even Prof. Dr. Shaykh Ndure (حفظه الله) mentioned this issue in his recent tafsir. One thing about Islam is, what’s right and what’s not is always clear and consistent regardless of what the masses believe. Listen

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

He’s a great guy, and I believe his intentions are pure. This may seem like a great initiative. But is it a religious event? If YES, there’s a problem. Other issues aside, did the Prophet ﷺ, Sahabah, Salaf, or our scholars in The Gambia precede him in this? If not, it’s Bid’ah.

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

Imagine holding an Aqeedah (creed) that cannot be traced back to any of the Sahabah (رضي الله عنهم).

[حسين 🇵🇸⭐️ @Tawakkul75]

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ.

[Sounnah Sénégal @sounnahsenegal]

Jaang bingay jaang Alxuraan daflay aar || Oustaz Mor KEBE

[cheikh tidiane🇵🇸🇸🇳 @Xeuch262]

Mba Yénangii wadial bess bi

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

Traore sits on the edge of being a dead man walking. The man is cutting the old colonial extraction circuit at the root.

Western private sector ran the industrial mines for over two decades.

The state took a thin free stake and royalties if any. The metal left raw. Refining, certification, and most of the margin sat offshore.

Since 2022 Traore has been reversing that piece by piece.

State free equity went from 10 to 15%.

Local processing became the stated rule.

Once the raw materials are stamped in in the country, it no longer has to beg a Swiss, South African, or Gulf refiner to turn its dirt into money.

Firms that lived on offtake, offtake finance, and cheap feedstock now face a host that wants the full stack.

The old colonial pattern was never only flags and barracks. It was ownership of the last step. Traore is attacking that step.

He is a small state playing an infinite game, trying to keep the mine, the plant, and the surplus.

The extraction system plays a finite game.

It can relocate capital.

He cannot relocate the country.

History in this region is blunt about what happens when a weak government seizes a high-margin flow without a hard security umbrella and a hard currency backstop.

Coups have already been attempted against him.

He now talks about spies and the death penalty.

He has mapped enemies in public.

[zāād al-Ma’aād @Alghurabaaaaaa]

Whoever says the Quran is distorted is a Kaffir

[حسين 🇵🇸⭐️ @Tawakkul75]

Ki mo am xam xam koi mdr

[Njool mu ñuul🥳 (grand bi)🇸🇳🏳 @DiaboneB]

Bul décourager

[J A L A @luqman_touray]

Even the popular film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆, which we used to watch as kids, was more of a Shia perspective.

[Njool mu ñuul🥳 (grand bi)🇸🇳🏳 @DiaboneB]

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