Omar

ولا غالب إلا الله

[Ralph Stefan Weir @RalphStefanWeir]

Interesting new survey in which 36.7% of neuroscientists (n = 2,657) agreed or strongly agreed with mind-body dualism. A useful corrective to the idea, still popular in some circles, that dualism is simply scientifically naive https://t.co/WsY4OfMyM7

[Abu Hurayra @ZaidAbuHurayra]

When a human and a jinn love each other very much, can they reproduce?

And how does that relate to human evolution?

Dr. Yusef Wahb @YousefWahb recently published a paper on jinn-related legal discourse, which might shed some light on this knotty topic.

No worries if you're completely lost, let me walk you through this issue... (1/8) 🧵

[Kasurian @KasurianMag]

Where did the New Atheists go?

In Kasurian Spring 2026's final essay, Adam Taleem explores The Rise and Fall of New Atheism.

New Atheism had reached a cultural inflection point in the first decade of the 21st century. Three of the West’s load-bearing institutions—the Church, the state, and the market—had each found themselves discredited through scandal and failure.

Then the internet arrived, enabling movements to scale at previously unseen speeds. New Atheism was one of the first movements to harness the power and wrath of the early internet, spreading through digital media, forum posting, and YouTube vlogging.

Yet the very source of New Atheism’s growth, and the cultural and political milieu in which it succeeded, would later become the reason for its fracturing and downfall. Caught in the crosswinds of evolving culture wars and exposed for their close links to the Epstein network, New Atheism could not adapt.

At the movement’s heart was a remarkable network of ideologues, funders, and internet posters whose deeper connections with one another did not surface until recently, with the release of the Epstein files. In 2026, we have a much clearer picture of the story, which raises concerning questions about the relationship between reason, scientific authority, and power.

Read more on Kasurian. Link below:

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Gambling disorder cases have started skyrocketing in states where sports betting is legal (this started ~May, 2018) following the end of COVID.

They've remained flat from COVID to today in states where it has remained illegal.

[Sebastien @sebastien_c123]

🧵 What the Qur’an’s different words for Jews/Israelites tell us about the early Meccan milieu. (1/19)

[Nafi‘ @Tsunalyst]

It really is a loss that the starry skies are now a privilege rather than the universal Divine gift they always have been. Few things induce as much introspection as the stars and the sands.

[Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hāshimī @hashimiyy_]

An inscription attributed to Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (رحمه الله), dated to 110 AH near Makkah:

“I am Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad. I counsel every believer to fear Allah, to act in obedience to Him, to be content with His decree, to be patient with His trials, to be grateful for His blessings, and to place his trust in Him. This was written ten nights after the beginning of Shaʿbān in the year 110 AH.”

[Omar @dioxidelic]

@muslimmelange @ShamsTameez https://t.co/uB6ioOMVnD

This might be it

[العربية @AlArabiya]

" الله ولي عمر بن الخطاب في الدنيا والآخرة".. هيئة التراث السعودية تعلن عن اكتشاف نقوش صخرية تحمل اسم ثاني الخلفاء الراشدين

🔴 هيئة التراث السعودية تعلن العثور على نقش صخري نادر في محافظة المهد بمنطقة المدينة المنورة

🔴 النقش يتضمن عبارة: "الله ولي عمر بن الخطاب في الدنيا والآخرة"

🔴 هيئة التراث: الكشف من بين الشواهد المهمة على التاريخ الإسلامي المبكر

🔴 وأضافت الهيئة أن النقش كُتب بالخط الحجازي، أحد أقدم الخطوط العربية الإسلامية

🔴 باحثون يرون أن الاكتشاف يعزز توثيق رمزية عمر بن الخطاب الدينية والتاريخية

[Alyasa' @ytrihs]

A thread on a very interesting, but subtle point of intertextuality: The Not-So-Mundane Mundane Language of Sūrah Yūsuf

[Sinawi @mashshai]

Pairing F. Razi with J. Kim 👇

[Delman @dmontetheno1]

🚨 Ahmad Qadri (@the_qadrii) and I are honored to present a brand new article on the @oasis_wisdom Substack by the brilliant Dr. Ramon Harvey (@RamonIHarvey):

“Can AI Be Conscious? An Islamic Philosophical Perspective”

Thread on the article soon! 👀 🧵

(Link Below!)

[Chris AR Blauvelt @arblauvelt]

https://t.co/2oyl6tsYnz support Amin’s family here

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[Abu Hurayra @ZaidAbuHurayra]

A few days ago, I was having a conversation with an Islamic scholar about the possibility of locating Adam—and so the origin of humanity—a million years into the past.

The Shaykh was quite uncomfortable with this suggestion, but admitted that there's no Qur'anic verse or Hadith that strictly contradicts such a possibility.

I personally have no problem placing the origin of humanity in deep time—but as the Shaykh's reaction demonstrated, not everyone feels the same.

In the recent post on my blog, I explore reasons for thinking why a million year old-Adam might be problematic, and find none of these reasons to be convincing.

Humanity may as well have dwelt on this earth for unfathomable eons.

https://t.co/kWvyfo5KsQ

[Omar @dioxidelic]

The author of al-Nibrās highlights some of the main cities of “mā warā' al-nahr”, preserving some of the old names and lost cities, and just how far it extended: Nasaf (now Qarshi), Samarqand and Bukhāra, of course, but also Shāsh (Tashkent) as well as Kāshghar.

[Omar @dioxidelic]

Important new essay!

[Abu Hurayra @ZaidAbuHurayra]

Islam says we came from a primordial pair of humans who were created at some unspecified time in the past.

In this essay, I discuss and defend a model of how this could've happened, and that too in a way that's theologically unproblematic.

The essay doesn't argue that there were "non-Adamic" humans, or that Adam's progeny had children with them, or anything similarly controversial.

Surprisingly, as I demonstrate at length in the essay—our best scientific evidence doesn't contradict any of these claims—be it from paleoneurology, archaeology, paleontology or genetics.

While scientists wouldn't agree with the conclusion, each premise of the model has wide scientific support. If anything, this is an example that science and Islamic belief can coexist without having to distort either.

I've been working on this essay on and off for the past 2 months—hopefully y'all will find this beneficial! Please share and follow my Substack.

https://t.co/nwyDiiyRLb

(Stay tuned for the next episode in this series, expected to release a week from now—where we consider the theological implications of the great antiquity of humanity's origin)

[Abu Hurayra @ZaidAbuHurayra]

Islam says we came from a primordial pair of humans who were created at some unspecified time in the past.

In this essay, I discuss and defend a model of how this could've happened, and that too in a way that's theologically unproblematic.

The essay doesn't argue that there were "non-Adamic" humans, or that Adam's progeny had children with them, or anything similarly controversial.

Surprisingly, as I demonstrate at length in the essay—our best scientific evidence doesn't contradict any of these claims—be it from paleoneurology, archaeology, paleontology or genetics.

While scientists wouldn't agree with the conclusion, each premise of the model has wide scientific support. If anything, this is an example that science and Islamic belief can coexist without having to distort either.

I've been working on this essay on and off for the past 2 months—hopefully y'all will find this beneficial! Please share and follow my Substack.

https://t.co/nwyDiiyRLb

(Stay tuned for the next episode in this series, expected to release a week from now—where we consider the theological implications of the great antiquity of humanity's origin)

[مُضَر | Modar @ivarmm]

"نحن السوريون وجدنا ما وعدنا به ربنا سبحانه وتعالى، فهل وجدت أنت يا عاطف نجيب ما وعدك به ربك بشار الأسد؟"

من جلسة محاكمة المجرم عاطف نجيب.

[Abu Hurayra @ZaidAbuHurayra]

There are two reactions one could have when looking at something like the bacterial flagellar motor:

1. This must've been engineered by a higher intelligence.

Or,

2. This evolved via natural processes. But a universe in which natural processes can make molecular motors is a very special universe—one that speaks to an even higher intelligence.

Reminds me of this quote from Charles Kingsley:

"We knew of old that God was so wise that He could make all things; but behold, He is so much wiser than even that, that He can make all things make themselves."

Incidentally, the most upvoted comment on this gif on r/damnthatsinteresting: "We live in a damn simulation".

[Gif put together by Prashant Singh et al. See their paper: Singh, P.K., Sharma, P., Afanzar, O., Goldfarb, M.H., Maklashina, E., Eisenbach, M., Cecchini, G. and Iverson, T.M., 2024. CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction. Nature Microbiology, 9(5), pp.1271-1281]