Rakean Red

a dude just tryin to do better

[Rakean Red @rakeanradya]

ain't noone's gonna stop this train, rak

[Elisa @elisa_jkt]

Orang Jabodetabek gak bisa kek orang Seoul dan Gyeonggi. Akibat first mile last mile jelek, over capacity di berbagai KRL, transport regional jelek, headway TJ utk banyak rute jelek(tulung, kalau headway 20 menit itu namanya bus pariwisata), integrasi antar moda jelek, trotoar jelek, dll dll dll …

Ini jelek krn dibandingkan ama Seoul ya, bkn sama kota2 Indonesia lainnya.

[akila. @becka1icious]

english teachers recognizing ur potential is the kind of validation that stays w u forever

[Omar @omar_dddg]

The secular version of Mohamad ﷺ is more puzzling than the religious divinely inspired one.

The combination of roles Mohamad ﷺ had is the rarest in history.

Most world-historical religious figures occupied one lane. Jesus and the Buddha were teachers who held no state and commanded no army; their political and legal systems were built by others, later.

Muhammad ﷺ was simultaneously a religious founder, a lawgiver, a head of state, a judge, a diplomat, and a field commander,( and his enemies also accuse him of being a great poet, a knower of Greek science, philosophy, and Judeo- Christian apocryphal scripture spread across hundreds of monasteries and scrolls,) and he was also effective in all of those roles at once, in the same lifetime.

Very few people in history have done even two of those well.

The starting conditions were also unpromising. An orphan from a respected-but-not-ruling clan, no inherited wealth, no kingdom, no army, by tradition unlettered, who didn't begin preaching until around forty.

He then spent over a decade as the leader of a persecuted minority, was driven out of his own city, and still ended up, roughly 23 years later, with most of the Arabian Peninsula unified under a single religious-political order for the first time.

The slope of that trajectory, from those starting conditions, is very very very steep.

[Rakean Red @rakeanradya]

It’s interesting that as developing muslim nations are modernizing, discourse on shari’a seem to be increasingly pedantic – especially given the eve of social media

[Hasan Spiker @RealHasanSpiker]

A central reason Muslims have never yet flourished on a large scale in the West is our almost wholly negative attitude towards shari'a or sacred law. Negative shari'a should pivot on clear red lines, not a paranoia about whether or not everyday life is "halal."

The real purpose of sacred law is in any case positive; it provides principles for maximized human flourishing in accordance with the lofty vision of human nature that has been revealed to us, not a raft of complexes and prohibitions.

The true Muslim's natural assumption when encountering a new situation is not only that it is "halal", but that its halal status need not even be investigated. God created all that is in the earth for you; everything on this earth was created for our benefit, in order to help us in actualising the holistic flourishing demanded by our nature; it was not created so that we could be suspicious, uneasy, and paranoid about every unfamiliar thing that we encounter.

Instead, in everything you do be faithful and loyal to the haqa'iq and the sha'a'ir, the spiritual realities and the outward symbols of the din. It is that deep spiritual orientation and the pursuit of the corresponding truth, beauty, and goodness in all things which will keep you on the Straight Path, the path of closeness to Allah, not an unhealthy and morally lazy dependence on a "mufti" who has lost all touch with reality.

He created all that is in the earth for you is indeed one of the proof texts for the fiqh maxim "the default assumption is permissibility." We should combine it with the hadith, "Seek the moral judgement of your heart," and recognise that a pedantic and partisan fiqh madhhab calculus is rarely the right way to achieve the maqasid of the din in this time.

From the
ضروريات
to the
تحسينيات
the purposes of sacred law are configured to facilitate the cultivation of truth, beauty, and goodness in the life of each individual believer. Social and cultural non-participation, the self-incarceration of authentically Islamic creative energies, and our defaulting to "halal" medicine and engineering, and thus becoming grey, lifeless non-presences in Western societies that we should be transforming with light, is the price our communities pay for our lazy (and unislamic) legalism.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

"for you, i would" is such a gentle & sweet love language. like, no, maybe i wouldn't usually do this, but i would love to do it if it would make you happy.

[PS @dostoevesque]

It is easily the most quickly readable big book one can come across; however, I don't mean that in a way that it does not have some dense content; it just seamlessly manages to incorporate that dense content in the grand adventures and the changing vicissitudes of life one rarely manages to find stuck at any point of the story.

I don't really believe in the idea of seeing or treating reading as an escape from the real world and have always thought that, if anything, it only helps comprehend our real world better. And this book stands as a tall example of that. The prison Edmond Dantes finds himself in as a prisoner may not be the same one you can find yourself in, but if you start seeing it as a metaphor for your own life and your psychological prison, you can relate to the plight of Dantes a lot. We recognize our own self-imposed isolations and the wisdom we ignore until crisis forces us to listen.

The book's greatest trick may be that it feels like revenge fantasy while actually being a critique of revenge itself, how it consumes the avenger, how the innocent get shattered in the wake of righteous fury

[Rakean Red @rakeanradya]

we can learn a lot from this

[athurr aja @teahyucg]

kayaknya kita semua harus
nerapin ini deh

[kasra @kasratweets]

now that AI makes information consumption and transformation easier than ever I would like to bring back this old banger by Sasha Chapin about how books are not information transfer devices but subjectivity-merging devices

in fact I would say content consumption in general is more about subjectivity-merging than information transfer, which is why I am generally much more interested in writing by humans than by AI

[fawn 💌 @fawnn404]

from my journal (notes app)

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to succeed. Travel more. Talk to people.

[iza @izamamaa]

I pray u experience this at least once in your life.

[Rakean Red @rakeanradya]

Love this

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is so good! be childlike and mature, without being childish or hardened

this is exactly how I think about "growing up"

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

to whomever made this: thank you from the wells of history and farthest echoes of indigenous screams for justice for this labor of love and justice.
their terror will not be whitewashed.

[Rakean Red @rakeanradya]

IH padahal baru dari kino tadi

Ada yang bisa confirm ini ada gk yah di kino

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

New issue of Popeye, a Japanese menswear mag, looks great. It's a rare all-English edition and looks at how people from 18 different countries dress. Very aligned with my view of style: diversity and differences are good; dress is a form of social language. Avail at Kinokuniya

[Joel Picard @sociotalker]

strongly sugggest dude to submit a manuscript to an academic journal so his idea can be genuinely tested n verified by real economists.

[severian @Severian1999]

The fact that angels viewed humanity's creation as illogical, the fact that the almighty didn't dismiss their skepticism, and instead decided to prove his point, both for them and to the humans themselves, who will one day read this account. It's mindbending.