I don't think people understand what I mean when I say I'm in permanently severe pain.
It's not a headache.
I didn't stub my toe.
Didn't bite my tongue.
It's a dull, heavy ache, supplemented with electrical shocks, at all times, even in the most sensitive of places in the human body.
In medical literature, doctors consider it the equivalent of being physically tortured, permanently.
Doctors immediately sympathize. I get pain prescriptions that clean out entire pharmacies of their stock, just for one person, me.
My doctors consider it successful if I stay in my bed for weeks, if I'm consistently inebriated, usually sedated, because there's no reasonable way to help me other than being highly medicated.
I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to get you all to understand what I'm going through.
It's not a vacation, it's not enjoyable, it's brutal, malicious, and altogether humiliating.
We call people smart for building wealth, status, a comfortable life. Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) had a different test for intelligence, and most of what we admire fails it.
He posed a question:
كيف يكون عاقلًا من باع الجنة بما فيها بشهوة ساعة؟
"How can he be intelligent, the one who sells Paradise and all that is in it, for the desire of a single hour?"
Intelligence here is not sharpness of mind. It is accuracy of judgment. Knowing that no pleasure now is worth what it charges you forever.
And look at what we trade it for. A haram relationship. A haram income. Then we call that living.
The truly intelligent one refuses the bargain. He will not sell forever for an hour. That is why the Companions were the best of people; not by accident, but by a conscious decision they made, again and again.
Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Fawāʾid
Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Ar-Rajihi not long ago retracted his tazkiyyah from the heads of the Sururiyyah and warned against all of them.
- Safar al-Hawali
- Salman al-Awdah
- Nasir al-Umar
The shaykh said his warning includes all those whose condition has not become clear to him.
This new trend of young Muslims (men and now apparently even women) doing religious content with the purpose of "dunking" on others and scoring points while using thug like language and insulting people in the process has nothing to do with Dawah
This type of content needs to be called out and boycotted unless this behaviour starts to change
While some Non-Muslims can be vile and disrespectful and sometimes a level of firms needs to be displayed the whole point of being a Muslim is to have superior manners
If you start acting like them you're only doing harm to this religion.
Shaykh Salih Ali al-Shaykh on the Dangers of Constant Short-Form Content Consumption
“The first thing these endless short clips drain is mental focus. Those fast, quick-cut videos on different platforms, the reels and similar content, disrupt the mind. A person gradually loses the ability to sit with something deeply for more than five minutes. The mind becomes restless. It stops being able to focus and reflect.”
Ibn 'Uthaymin رحمه الله said;
The problem now is that there are some people who think that imitating the Kufr is a glory and they think returning to what the Prophet and his companions were upon the backwardness.
(Kutubun wa rasa'-ilu Li-Uthymin 8/117)
Ibn Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
"If the heart is busy with falsehood, there is no room for truth.
If it is busy with truth there is no room for falsehood."
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Ibn Hazm رحمه الله said,
“There is a unanimous agreement among the scholars that growing the beard is obligatory for men.”
[Maraatib al-Ijmaa’ (no. 157)]