Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Don’t Blame Others
Someone complained: ‘The colonialists are wolves!’ Jamaludin Afghani said: ‘If you hadn’t been sheep, they couldn’t have been wolves.’ قالوا لجمال الدين الأفغاني : إن المستعمرين ذئاب فقال : لو لم يجدوكم نعاجاً لما كانوا ذئابا....
View DetailsWhy Are Muslims Behind?
Let’s face it: نستطيع إخراج الجن من الإنسان... لكن لا نستطيع اخراج البترول من الأرض. ‘𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗶𝗻𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱.’ There is no point in bragging about our glorious past… ...
View DetailsKing’s Flatterers
Once a king shot an arrow at a deer, but he missed and the deer ran away. The king’s flatterers said: ‘Sire, this is the first time that we see a dead deer running!’ ذهب السلطان للصيد فأخطأ صيده فقال بعض حاشيته:هذه أول مره يا مولاي نرى غزالاً يركض ...
View DetailsKhurasan
Once upon a time it was said: خراسان كنانه الله إذا غضب على قوم رماهم بهم ‘The land of Khurasan is the quiver of God, when He gets angry at a nation, He hits them with it.’ [‘Mu’jam al-Buldan’, 2/351]....
View DetailsMonks By Night
A spy form Byzantine described the Muslims as: رهبانا بالليل فرسانا بالنهار ‘Monks (worshipers) by night and knights by day.’ [‘Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah’, 7/11]....
View DetailsRefugees Syria & Ukraine
تلك الأيام نداولها بين الناس ‘These are days which we alternate between people.’ [Qur’an 3:140]....
View DetailsWar Of Fitnah
Ibn Taymiyah said: ومن رأى أن هذا القتال مفسدته أكثر من مصلحته، علم أنه قتال فتنة 'Whoever sees that the harms of a particular war outweigh its benefits, then he knows that this war is a Fitnah (tribulation - impermissible to take part in).'...
View DetailsLoyalties & Disavowal
A flawed understanding of 'loyalty and disavowal' - الولاء والبراء Some people mistakenly think that a believer cannot love ANY disbeliever, and that ALL disbelievers must be hated and treated harshly [أَشِدَّاءُ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُ...
View DetailsNot Every War Is Worth Fighting
“If a battle cannot be won, do not fight it.” - Sun Tzu - 496 BC, Chinese general & military strategist ———————-...
View DetailsLenin’s Famous Saying
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” هناك عقود لم يحدث فيها شيء وهناك أسابيع حيث تحدث فيها عقود -Lenin...
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