Messi's trophy cabinet with Argentina 🇦🇷
🏆🏆 Copa América
🏆 FIFA World Cup
🏆 FIFA World Youth Championship
🥇 Olympic Gold
🏆 Finalissima
From youth glory to lifting the World Cup, Leo completed the set ✨
Greatest to ever do it? 👀
I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. Don’t miss this trust me.
I just want to put one final point on Messi’s story: football has never truly been an individual sport—except when it came to him.
Football is a team game. No matter how great you are, you still need the players around you to compete, even if the entire system is built to maximize your strengths.
Yet even with Messi, people kept repeating the same old narrative about Xavi, Iniesta, and Guardiola. The reality is that Messi only spent about four years playing with that historic generation, and even that team looked lost before Guardiola arrived. Messi contributed just as much to their greatness as they did to his.
When that generation left, Barcelona became almost entirely dependent on Messi for two years. Then Luis Enrique arrived, along with Suárez and Neymar, not to carry Messi, but to help share the burden.
After Neymar left, and with Suárez well past his best, Messi was once again carrying Barcelona almost entirely by himself, surrounded by average players. He was one game away from another historic treble, and once again, he was the team’s standout player.
Many people forget that in 2014, after Messi became La Liga’s all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick against Sevilla, Barcelona fans were handed flyers asking: “What if you woke up tomorrow and Messi was no longer at Barcelona?” Even then, some people still couldn’t bring themselves to give him the credit he deserved.
Messi even wanted to leave in 2020, and the situation nearly ended up in court. But he stayed because he didn’t want to fight the club he loved. In the end, he was still forced out in one of the saddest exits in football history.
Argentina was no different.
For years, Messi carried one of the worst-run national teams in modern football. In 2010, Maradona played Germany with four attackers because he believed more forwards meant more goals. Argentina lost 4–0.
Yet Messi was the one blamed.
He was called a failure, a choker, and a coward by people who ignored the reality that, without him, Argentina might not even have qualified for the 2014 World Cup. Every Copa América final they reached was because Messi got them there in the first place.
The difference was enormous: with Messi, Argentina reached finals; without him, they struggled even against much weaker opponents.
The 2022 World Cup wasn’t just about a great team—it was also about Messi bringing confidence, leadership, and belief to a group of players who followed him. He carried the responsibility while everyone else played their role.
Even in the latest World Cup, at 39 years old, Messi was covering huge areas of the pitch, playing 120 minutes repeatedly, and constantly finding new ways to win games almost by himself.
Most people will never care about these details or this context. Future generations will only look at trophies and short tournaments.
In the end, every argument people used against Messi eventually disappeared. They said he had no World Cup—he won it. They said he had no Copa América—he won it too.
To me, Messi is the most unfairly judged player in football history. No player has been blamed for more things beyond his control or had more false narratives attached to his name.
That’s Messi’s story—through logic, reality, and everything he had to endure.
Messi posted himself alone after the World Cup defeat to Spain (while graciously accepting the outcome); Emphasis on alone, preventing any negative remarks on the Argentine squad. But since the start of the World Cup tournament he was consistently posting his entire team, and not in just one slide, even when he was the main spotlight.
Some players will do the exact opposite, by making the victory about themself and making the defeat a group project.
Maturity.
Apparently making 3 out of 6 World Cup finals and winning 1 of them is more embarrassing than making 0 out of 6 World Cup finals. Strange world we live in
In Arabic, “good morning” is Ṣabāḥ al-khayr (صباح الخير). It literally means “a morning of goodness.”
What’s beautiful is the reply. People don’t usually say “good morning” back.
They say:
Dear Muslim Lady,
Be industrious.
Work diligently.
Acquire beneficial knowledge.
Earn good money through lawful means.
Own properties.
Build businesses.
Invest in your health.
Invest in valuable assets.
Be financially grounded.
Develop useful skills.
Read widely and continuously.
Save consistently.
Plan for the future.
Avoid unnecessary debts.
Support your parents.
Take care of your children.
Be a blessing to your husband if you are married.
Be independent, but never arrogant.
Be ambitious, but remain humble.
Be confident, but preserve your modesty.
Build your intellect as much as you build your appearance.
Protect your dignity.
Protect your reputation.
Choose your friends wisely.
Use social media responsibly.
Do not measure your worth by likes, comments, or validation from strangers.
Have goals bigger than fashion and trends.
Contribute positively to your community.
Give charity regularly.
Help other women rise.
Stand for truth and justice.
Fear Allah in public and in private.
Pray consistently.
Recite the Qur'an regularly.
Maintain good character.
Guard your tongue.
Guard your chastity.
Guard your heart.
Remember that beauty fades, trends change, and wealth can disappear, but faith, character, knowledge, and good deeds remain.
Strive to become a woman who is respected not merely for her appearance, but for her faith, intelligence, wisdom, compassion, integrity, and contribution to humanity.
May Allah make you among the righteous women of this world and the successful women of the Hereafter.
Āmīn.
This question may sound deep on the surface, but it falls apart because it is built on a big historical and theological misunderstanding.
The premise assumes that Islam claims God only speaks Arabic, or that Arabic is the only language of divine revelation. But in reality, both Islamic theology and secular history teach the exact opposite.
If we check mainstream academic books such as “The Aramaic Language of Jesus” by Dr. Sebastian P. Brock, or we check Angel Sáenz-Badillos's “A History of the Hebrew Language” these mainstream scholars proved
that the historical Jesus taught in Galilean Aramaic, while Moses received the Torah in Biblical Hebrew.
Even according to Christian and Western history, the Divine has always spoken to prophets in the native language of their direct audience. Arabic is simply the continuation of this exact historical pattern for the final Prophet, who happened to be born in Arabia.
To say "Allah only speaks Arabic" is to completely miss how the concept of divine speech works. If you look at profound African Christian scholarship, particularly Professor John S. Mbiti's book which he titled: Concepts of God in Africa, it was meticulously documented that African societies possessed a deep understanding of a single, supreme Creator long before foreign intervention.
Whether they call Him Olodumare, Chukwu, or Modimo, the Creator understands and hears every human being in their indigenous tongue. In Islam, a person can make personal supplication to Allah in Yoruba, Zulu, English, or Mandarin, and it is perfectly understood and answered.
This is why I make bold to say that the choice of Arabic is not a matter of cultural supremacy, but a brilliant masterclass in global sociolinguistics.
One book I find interesting here is Peter Trudgill's Sociolinguistics which he called: An Introduction to Language and Society.
He pointed out that, any global movement requires a foundational standard language to keep its core message from fracturing into thousands of conflicting interpretations over time.
Just as English serves as the universal language of global aviation today so pilots from Nigeria and Japan do not crash into each other, Arabic is preserved strictly as the universal language of Muslims’ ritual prayer.
It is a global stabilizer that ensures a Muslim from Lagos, a Muslim from Beijing, and a Muslim from Rio can stand in the same row and pray in perfect, beautiful unison without a single language barrier.
I hope this help clears your misunderstanding and confusion.
Allah knows best.