Reminder that as the world watches the world cup, the actual world is burning.
Gaza is still being wiped out, with even the Egyptian representative who was organizing the watch parties murdered by Israel in what appears to be a sick form of retaliation for the coach of the national team holding up the flag and cause of Palestine at the world cup. Lebanon is still under attack and an expanding occupation. And another round of stupidity and recklessness of the Iran war is now going to lead to even more casualties. All along, so many of the African nations, even if represented on the field, carry the weight of generations of exploitation.
Just be careful not to let the spectacle make you forget the suffering, the silenced, and the systems that keep crushing them.
May Allah keep our hearts awake, our eyes open, and our actions guided. May He protect the innocent and oppressed all around, and make an example of their oppressors. Ameen
Did you know? ONCE you commit a sin, Allah gives you 6HOURS for you to repent so the angels won't write it down. Yet we still complain Allah is merciful.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said:
“The one who reads Surah Al-Kahf on Fridays will find his entire week enlightened until the next Friday.”
But what actually is this light?
Once you understand it, you will never read Surah Al-Kahf the same way again.
Say after me:
"I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His Messenger."
If you've said it sincerely from your heart, welcome to Islam. 🤍☪️
I’ve been Muslim for almost 30 years and have always been open to question my faith and its evidences to make sure my life is based on faith backed by evidence. Have watched all the apologists arguments over the years and can say with absolute certainty that Islam is the right way of life and the way of life prescribed since the creation of human beings. Zero doubt in my mind.
They never ask why the migrants are coming.
Or rather, they ask it, and then they answer it wrong.
They come because of corruption in their home countries. Because of cultural dysfunction. Because of tribalism, poor governance, a failure to develop the institutions that produce stable societies.
They do not come because Britain ran Nigeria for sixty years, reorganized the economy around extraction, and built railways and ports primarily to move commodities outward.
They do not come because France still pegs the currency of fourteen African nations to its own, with a veto over monetary policy and a transition away from the system that keeps getting delayed, year after year.
They do not come because the IMF's structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s dismantled the public sectors of twenty countries in a single decade.
They do not come because Western agricultural subsidies make it impossible for Sahel farmers to compete in their own markets.
They come because of corruption.
Which is true, sometimes. The corruption is also real.
What they don't teach is who trained the corrupt officials, who banks their money, who sells them the weapons, who guarantees the loans that require the policies that produce the conditions that generate the corruption.
Those are Western cities on that list.
Those are Western banks.
But the migrants arrive without that context, carrying only their bodies and their desperation.
And the question gets asked again.
Why are they coming?