Oman is a wealthy country, yet they haven’t succumbed to the modern and taller is always better mentality.
This is their beautiful and timeless capital city.
They deserve so much respect.
Cairo before the badly planned population boom.
It was the cleanest most impressive city in the world in the 1920’s, ruined by bad planning.
What a marvel it was.
What have the Salafis ever done in the grand scheme of things for Muslims?
Who halted the Mongol invasion? Not a Salafi.
Kicked out the Crusades?
Not a Salafi.
Conquered Constantinople?
Not a Salafi
What have they done besides build a Hilton on Abu Bakr’s (RA) house?
From
@nntaleb
My Muslim Lebanese mother tells me how they almost never saw a Hijabi woman in her 100% Muslim village.
Cultural shifts can happen so quickly. The one that happened in Lebanon was driven by modernity (preachers on satellite TV), funded by Saudi and Iran.
“I used to think
@nntaleb
was a genius until he disagreed with the ONE position I am very emotionally invested in.
He was so right about everything else and I loved his books but I think now he lost it all because he disagreed with MY thing”
Interesting twitter pattern.
I will say it again: there is no evidence music is Haram.
Opinion of: Gazali, Ibn Hazm, many Shafiya, Malikis, modern day: Azhar.
All the evidence depends on one single Hadith, not connected to the Prophet SAW (منقطع).
Ibn Hazm famously refused it.
Arabic has a problem, it’s a dead language.
Ask an average Arabic speaker about words that are too specific like horse ‘reins’ or a tree ‘stump’ and they will struggle but a 4 year old English speaker will tell you.
This is why Arabic speakers are forced to mix in English.
Why are the Christians parts of Lebanon generally better than the Muslim parts?
Batroun, Jbeil, Jezzine, E. Beirut etc.. first world towns.
(I have a few theories of my own but let’s hear yours please)
(Dont take offence anyone, this is just a rational,critical assessment)
As Lebanese person I say this idiot doesn’t represent us.
Pakistanis are some of the most honourable people I have met, especially when they find out you’re a a Muslim they would move mountains for you.
I have to admit as a Lebanese Muslim if the Lebanese Christians had their own nation they would probably have been of an economic standing good enough for the EU to ask them to join.
Not only ask, they would have insisted.
This building is a caricature of Islamic architecture. So vulgar. It’s very UAE, more = better. A silly amount of domes.
It’s as if someone designed a building based on Aladdin. It’s sad that it’s more famous than the Zaytuna in Tunisia.
In my opinion the worst Arab leader in the past century was Saddam Hussein.
A reckless miscalculator who broke Arab fraternity by invading Kuwait, which brought America to the region, then destroyed his own country by being reckless, gassed the Kurds..
Why is he even popular?
Nothing summarises Arab 21st century failure like fashion (outside of the Gulf).
Abandoned ancestral ways, city layouts, building methods, architecture, attire, and embraced a deformed and cheap knock-off version of Westernisation.
Neither here nor there.
The fact so many Ex Muslims become Zionists tells me that there’s a problem in the way many Muslims support Palestine.
The support for many is rooted in pure tribalism, like a football club, not the concept of justice/anti-tyranny as enshrined in the Quran.
We need to fix that
Congratulations 🎊 to
#EdenGolan
, of winning the hearts of not only millions of Israelis, but millions of people around the world with your exceptional performance in the
#Eurovision2024
, despite the antisemitism, Jew ✡️ &
#Israel
🇮🇱 hatred that was & still is spreading by the
@HanbaliRegiment
The Prophets عليهم السلام are the very rare exception. Neither women nor men need men really.
It’s like generalising that men need women to understand Islam fully, because if it wasn’t for Aisha RA a big chunk of our religion would be missing, when she was an exception.
BREAKING: Another morning of house demolitions in the South Hebron Hills. The Israeli Civil Administration has demolished a Palestinian house in Laseifer.
On the 8th of October when Israel had the highest victim credit it’s ever had who predicted it’ll result in statements like this as an outcome?
@nntaleb
sure did.
In hindsight it seems normal, but back then it seemed insane.
Other than NN Taleb, there are no serious thinkers/philosophers in the West nowadays like there used to be.
Who else is there on the same level of genuine original contribution?
Fukuyama, Pinker etc.. proven wrong.
Sam Harris is a super biased joke.
Who are these days Poppers?
The problem with podcasts is that the deep thinking folks with erudition would rarely start a podcast.
They would rather tweet to 75 followers in some corner of twitter or write it all down and throw it away.
Imagine if Al Andalus was Salafist, imagine if it hadn’t embraced Sufism, would it have been as beautiful and artful?
When the Salafists tried to create beauty they created the clock tower in Mecca, the ugliest building in the world, or Shaykh Zayed Mosque, inspired by Aladdin.
The Salafis of today would do Takfir on Salahuldin al Ayoubi (who was a Sunni Ashaari and respected Sufis) , Babyars and probably all Ottoman Sultans.
Their chance is today to stand against one of the biggest Muslim massacres of our time, yet all we have is crickets 🦗
Islam was traditionally the most liberal of Abrahamic religions by far.
You just have to search up what Europeans thought of Andalusians, gay, liberal, lesbians, degenerates, allowed divorce etc.. everything that Muslims accuse Europeans of today.
I remember asking back then why the UK was lagging behind the rest of the G7.
Professor
@nntaleb
kindly responded: different accountants.
It stuck with me.
Now it’s becoming clear that it’s all just inconsistent accounting methods.
Grain of salt, always.
My Lebanese Muslim grandad used to tell me he preferred dealing with Christians in business than Muslims.
He said they were more honest, less deceitful and a lot more reliable.
Lebanese Christians make it hard to hate them.🥰
Even the scientific and philosophical contributions.
Khawarimi? Not a Salafi.
Ibn Sina? Not a Salafi
Jaber ibn Hayan? Not a Salafi
Ibn Khaldun? Not a Salafi
None were Salafis.
This is so misguided.
“Arabs” is a very loose term like European but much less united and it’s far from being one culture. I blame the Arabists.
The Palestinians are Levantine.
Their culture is tied to the land: olive farming, Levantine cuisine, their own villages etc..
If you think women have to work because of modernity, then I have news for you.
Modernity pulled women out of the back breaking farms and allowed them the luxury to be teachers or sit in air conditioned offices or be dentists instead.
Insane history: In 1802 the Saudis raided Karbala in Iraq and defaced the tomb of Imam Hussein.
The Ottomans got so angry, they captured the Saudi king, Abdullah Al Saud, and beheaded him in Istanbul.
They made him listen to the lute before beheading him because he forbade it.
Arabic as it was written by Ibn Khaldoun or Al Mutanabi was arguably the most supreme of all languages of all time, incredibly beautiful and articulate.
However, nobody can speak like that anymore and only a dwindling minority can write like that.
Fun fact, her great great grandfather Daher al Omar was caught and decapitated by a Moroccan Ottoman soldier while he was attempting to flee the battle of Acre in 1775 against the Ottomans.
His head was subsequently sent to Constantinople. Maybe not so fun.
It really doesn’t get more beautiful than Andalusian architecture.
Took this in Alcazaba, built by the Ummayads. The fortress is huge, and used to be a small Phoenician fortress.
I am sick of Muslims copying Western Redpill advice. Our marriages and relationships are a lot more resilient.
If your wife will leave you because you cried over your grandfather’s death, then so be it, she can go to hell.
Early Arabs used to cry when theyre homesick.
Don’t ever cry in front of your wife
The only exception is if it’s during salah / Dua due to khushoo
Any other situation, be strong and masculine , if you have to, shed a tear, but never cry bawl like a boy
If I hear one more Sunni call Persians Majous as a slur 😩
What is the Sunni Madhab without Persia?
No:
Imam Abu Hanifa
No Bukahri or Muslim or Thirmidhi!!
Ghazali
Tabari
Al Baghawi
Al Bayahqi
Pretty much no Sunni Madhab. It was born in Iran.
Aisha, the prophet’s wife led an army in the Battle of the Camel, in the early Middle Ages.
Imagine a Salafi allowing his wife to lead an army today with all our accumulated knowledge since then.
The reason British Muslims are so much more fanatical than US ones is because Muslim migration to America was highly skilled whereas to the UK it was mostly mass migration for labour.
It’s a class difference.
🚨WARNING: If you are in Lebanon, leave IMMEDIATELY.
If no indication of war in tomorrow's speech by Hezbollah's leader, then feel free to return to the country (risk of war will still remain high, but less so if war not declared tomorrow)
If war is declared tomorrow, the
This idiot thinks Muslim societies should replace machines with slavery.
This is the level intellect of the average Muslim today and it’s very embarrassing. It’s why we’re getting stomped on and rag dolled by everyone.
Embarrassing
Slavery was historically abolished because it was no longer necessary and became an economic burden. In the past, slavery was the cheapest and most effective way of gaining labourers, and this was necessary because there had to be a sufficient amount of food and other basic
Damned if we integrate and participate in democracy / civic life and damned if we don’t.
We’re either too competent and clever schemers or dumb unemployed third worlders living off benefits? Which is it?
The Mayor of London is a Muslim.
The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Leeds is Muslim.
Mayor of Blackburn - Muslim.
The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim.
The mayor of Luton is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oldham is Muslim.
The mayor
If you think Allah who created the birds, beauty, camels, mountains, penguins will punish you because you listened to Um Kholtoum or someone play a piano then I genuinely feel sorry for you.
Praise God, I have just became an uncle for a second time. We have a baby Hussein born on the 25th of December.
May God turn him to a force of good in this world.
Yet I always hear Arabs say, Arabic is a powerful language because we have 50 words for different types of love or 500 words for lion.
Useless features really and 90% of people never use or know those words.
I am not speaking of classical Arabic though as it WAS used.
I am now in the minority of my community arguing that the Prophet probably didn’t marry a 9 year old and that it’s wrong to marry kids and that the evidence for music being Haram is very sparse.
My father says 20 years ago this was the mainstream stance. We are regressing.
The more you learn about Albert Einstein the clearer it is that intelligence is an extremistan field.
The difference in intelligence between him and the average person is bigger than that of an average human and a dog.
Spain doesn’t have a modesty culture, yet women in general seem to be left alone compared to so many conservative cities around the world.
The key is that street harassment is shamed for men.
It’s vulgar, seen as something for the peasants, the desperate and the low brow.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 A little girl cries after seeing a journalist who resembles her father.
The man thought she was crying because she never got any candy, but the actual reason was because he resembled her father.
Heartbreaking 💔
If the Muslims were the ones oppressing Jews we should be correcting the Muslims.
The cause should never be tribalistic, it should be based on justice.
It’s why I don’t understand Muslims who sympathise with Nazis. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
This isn’t Islam.
It’s the new cult of Salafism, that has never contributed to anything in Islamic history.
None of the great Muslim scientists, leaders, philosophers, conquerors were Salafists.
Salafists only fail, literally never succeeded in anything.
Just two British Muslims discussing how much they hate non-Muslims and tolerate living among them.
"I can be in a land where I live with these people, but I have hate for these people, I don't like them."
The problem many tech and academic nerds have is that they refuse to recognise the genius in other fields.
Tell an academic nerd that 50Cent is a genius or that the bartender who has a healthy social life and isn't a virgin is smarter in a different way and they'll squirm.
My village of origin is on the southern border of Lebanon.
Had the border moved a few kms north, I would have then magically become non-native to my village and someone from New York would have been native to it instead?
Hannibal was North African with Phoenician ancestry.
Why not use a Tunisian or even any Mediterranean actor?
The lumping of North African with Sub Saharan Africa is like lumping up the Lebanese with the Chinese because we’re both on Asia.
Just saw the most layman Sunni comment ever on a video about an Ummayad Caliph who’s servant-girl used to play Oud for him.
He said: impossible, the Caliph, commander of believer, didn’t listen to music.
It was a man in his thirties too. You pure soul.
People aren’t buying the myth of the ‘scary and evil Muslims’ anymore. They’re just lies peddled by racists and Islamophobes, but people are waking up to zionism and pro-Israel folk.
Modern liberals often critique the historical concept of Dhimmis in Islam, but back then it was the reason why Jews found refuge away from persecution in Christiandom where that concept didn’t exist.
Dhimmism saved a lot of Jews. May have even saved Judaism( e.g Maimonides)
So a misogynist who isn’t from a Muslim background stabbed women and kids in Sydney.
A Pakistani Muslim died trying to stop him, and a Lebanese Muslim also stood in his way.
Yet social media was blaming the protests for Gaza for the crime yesterday? 😩🤦♂️
Ibn Jubayr said upon visiting Alexandria in the 13th Century from his home town Valencia said:
“It’s fascinating how the people of this land conduct their affairs at night as if it’s day time.”
Egypt is still busy at night to this today.
I am going to stop posting for the next few days at least.
I cannot bare to post about subjects of interest while little kids are getting slaughtered in Gaza.
May Allah (swt) grant our brothers and sisters an unwavering patience.
May He hasten the delivery of His justice.
If NNT is arrogant we’re fucked.
Show me another account with 10% of his followers that regularly interacts, responds, teaches and follows small accounts on this site.
People mistake telling truth to charlatans and idiots with arrogance nowadays?
@BjornLomborg
@davidboxenhorn
You're a charlatan.
I may be arrogant, very arrogant, very very arrogant, very very very very arrogant; but at least I try to be reliable before posting statistical claims.
You fool.
The Palestinians have mostly Canaanite genetics. It’s proven and settled.
They’re mostly descendent from the same people of the Bible who converted to Islam.
You think all the 1.5 billion Muslims today come from Arabia?
I heard an Arab anthropologist say that Sunnism is akin to Judaism because it’s law based whereas Shiasm is akin to Christianity because it’s role-model (Imam Ali, Ahul bayt etc..) based.
On face value it sounds right but needs contemplating. Certainly applies to Salafi Sunnism
When did the Hijab as a we now know it now (face showing) become a thing?
From my research it seems very new (1970s?).
Up to the early 20th century the only “hijab” was this below. It covered almost everything.
Many city women wore it, villagers didn’t because they worked.
I am not pro-Shi’sm or anti-Shi’sm. i just don’t think Sunnis and Shias should see each other as enemies.
Btw Abdullah Ibn Saud, ruler of the first Saudi state, was executed by the Ottomans because they sacked Karbalaa.
Do you think the Muslims are divided now?
Ibn Jubayr (12th century) describes doing Taraweeh in Mecca.
The Shafii’s prayed with their Imam, the Hanbalis an Imam, so did the Hanafis and Zaydia and the Malikis had three taking turns.
They also competed on who had most candles.
Another sentence I like to use is something as basic as:
“ the castle looked majestic on the hill”
Ask an Arabic speaker to say that basic sentence in spoken Arabic (not فصحى) and it’s not possible.
There are no words for majestic.
They’ll say حلوة ، بتعقد etc..
@IbrahimAlHashid
There’s a difference between GDP and GDP Per Capita.
Yemen has almost 8 times the population of Oman.
Yemen also had a GDP higher than Luxembourg