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And We raised your remembrance.
Chor der Derwische | Chorus of Dervishes by Beethoven [English subtitles] Men's Choir - Male Voices
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[Harristotle @harrishanafite]

Shaykh al-Akbar Ibn 'Arabi (ق) Does Tawassul Through the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

and I wronged myself, and I came to his grave ﷺ and saw the matter exactly as I described it, and Allah fulfilled my need, and I departed." My sole purpose in that coming to the Messenger was none other than this constant remembrance. And likewise, I recited it to him ﷺ during my visit to him at his grave. Thus, acceptance occurred, and I departed. That was in the year six hundred and one [1601 AH]. I have now informed you how the one who wrongs his soul comes [to the Prophet]. "And Allah says the truth, and He guides to the right way."

[Harristotle @harrishanafite]

Imam Alī (may Allah noble his face) used to say: 'O Kāf-Hā-Yā-‘Ayn-Ṣād, forgive me!'

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Despite being a vegetarian, Plotinus would sacrifice on mawlid al-aflatun wa suqrat (birthdays of plato and socrates) and offer a feast for his companions

[Nota T @NotaT240400]

Greek inscription from the time of Caliph Mu’āwiya in the baths of Hammat Gader, Jund al-Urdunn, Umayyad Sham

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Rhodes was a homosexual? Oh interesting.
He was a Zionist? Oh interesting.
He admired the Jesuits and based his Society of the Elect on them? Oh interesting.
His pals drafted the Balfour declaration? Oh interesting.

[Richard Grove @tragedyandhope]

This book (featured in #GrandTheftWorld ep 299) is $168.94 (lowest price) on Amazon
https://t.co/TGoRVybrhR

I bought it from eBay for $40. 🏁☑️

The Secret Society: Cecil John Rhodes’s Plan for a New World Order https://t.co/64lCIlxFD2 #Amazon via @Amazon

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YouTube Can Trace What You’ve Shared Back To You | Ruminatory Reflections
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[Hasan Spiker @RealHasanSpiker]

Reflections from Plato’s Academy, Athens

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YouTube Can Trace What You’ve Shared Back To You | Ruminatory Reflections
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First blog post. Be kind.

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Beauty in Our Imperfection | Ruminatory Reflections
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Beauty in Our Imperfection | Ruminatory Reflections
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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

There seems to be some confusion about what I said when I launched Restore Britain as a political party.

I said we are going to offer the British people a genuine alternative. Finally. Providing men and women from outside the political establishment.

A democratic route out.

I said it. And I meant it.

Not failed Tories wearing a turquoise rosette. But bringing in new and fresh faces who have no experience of driving our country into the dust.

We did it in Great Yarmouth, in ten seats - putting forward those candidates.

We won all ten. We decimated the competition.

Now we are taking it national. Makerfield.

They laughed when I said we’d win Great Yarmouth. We beat them all.

I’m now saying the same about Makerfield.

We are in this to win it.

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@RupertLowe10 Thoughts on this?
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Why are there Gazan migrants in the first place, Rupert?
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[Daniel Haqiqatjou @Haqiqatjou]

Jews spread "woke" identity politics to all non-White groups to build a coalition against whites. They also were scared of being singled out as critics of whites.

Jews only turned against "woke" identity politics once non-White groups started claiming that Jews were actually more racist and genocidal than Whites.

Jews were outraged when non-White groups started expressing sympathy for Whites oppressed by Jewish power.

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“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

Sounds like the Nur e Muhammadiyyah.

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God”.

Sounds like the Qalam to me.

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Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdrom" rally should be renamed to "Unite the Shabbos Goyim" rally.

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Wow, the lengths this guy goes to a pathetic. He's written a whole article making it a point to 𝗻𝗼𝘁 send salat and salam after mentioning the Prophet ﷺ, arguing salawat upon him simply means active support and solidarity, not necessarily verbalisation.
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[ابن ابراهيم @_ibnNuh]

@HATzortzis Hamza, why are you still promoting this misguided “Shaykh” who spewed absolute falsehood right in front of you? Has he repented & retracted from this & his other heretical views? Do you agree with these views?

[Hasan Spiker @RealHasanSpiker]

It seems inevitable that the revival of Islam in the latter days will take place within Western cultural forms.

This will surely involve a transformation of the very highest of Western cultural forms,* as illuminated by the “Prophetic breeze" foreseen 200 years ago by al-Rawwas. Yes, in a (hitherto insufficiently well-known) visionary experience, the great Rifa'i saint Imam al-Rawwas saw that at the very height of the West's dominance and enmity towards Islam, an effusion from the Prophetic Presence ﷺ would bring large numbers of Westerners into Islam, who in virtue of that effusion, would be blessed with an extraordinarily profound understanding of the dīn. More recently, the great Moroccan saint Shaykh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib also foresaw that the revival of Islam would take place at the hands of individuals from the West.

Much of the Muslim presence in the West has failed. I will seek to avoid inciting defensiveness by mentioning names, but many of the initial forms in which the establishment of Islam was sought in the Western world were some or all of

1 formalistic and legalistic

2 narrow-mindedly ethnocentric

3 subordinate to economic concerns, with "Islamic" observance largely no more than a cocoon employed (despite the almost complete absence of an authentic Islamic worldview) to justify fear of a half-understood host culture, and thereby validate insularity, as well as to establish rigid family control structures.

4 intellectually fideistic in a manner that ironically played into the hands of default scientism and positivism

5 devoid of continuity with the historically normative twofold structure of . self-mastery and . purification leading to inward tasting and illumination.

Thus personally incapable of presenting a profound vision of Islam to our Western hosts, we became the skulking, sullen intruder whose presence makes no sense. Hence identitarianism, self-ghettoisation, and burning resentment.

To the contrary, to be sufficiently acknowledged by the ascendent cultural hegemon to be able to begin to transform it, Islam has to make deep, uniquely intelligible sense as vessel of sanctification, as both the redeemer and liberator of human nature, and as the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional consummator and fulfiller of the human journey through this world, embracing all human types.

Meanwhile, the West of advanced modernity has reached unprecedented heights in developing the apparatuses of techne capable of serving as multifarious vehicles for this supreme vision of human nature. But it lacks the cohesive, holistic, integral metaphysical worldview able to provide deep-rooted meaning and content to match that highly enriched matter; it lacks content, that is, beyond hedonism and an ultimately futile and bleak, nihilistic (but still highly arresting) depiction of the drama of human life.

And yet let's face it, we are utterly mimetically subordinate to these cultural forms; we cannot see outside them; and we cannot fully see inside them either. Hence our dismal creative weakness and lack of compelling narrative.

What we need most urgently of all as an Umma, is the return to the prioritisation of that Prophetic Presence ﷺ in all things. What could effect this transformation but the Presence of the Perfect Man ﷺ?

The uniter of all the human types, the full scope of the human experience, mystic, warrior, lawgiver, trader, husband, father, friend? The harmoniser of majesty and beauty in all of those human types, such that the Four Caliphs, the most complete of human beings, were but facets of his perfection ﷺ ?

The many of you who think this impossible, thank you, we don't need you. And if this has proved impossible hitherto, it is thanks to the likes of you.

For those who believe in the transformative power of the revelation to the Last Prophet ﷺ know that all is possible in the One God who sent him.

TBC ...

In an upcoming post I will set forward some possible solutions to replace the inadequacies I have outlined here. In the meantime, I'd be interested in your thoughts on all this, including 1-5 above.

* i.e., the transformation of Western e.g., literary, artistic, music, institutional, philosophical, and even religious forms.