#islami

Banyak orang pandai mencari uang.. Tetapi sedikit yang pandai menjaga uang. Padahal dalam Islam, harta adalah amanah.

Rasulullah ﷺ bersabda,

"Tidak akan bergeser kedua kaki seorang hamba pada hari kiamat sampai ia ditanya... tentang hartanya, dari mana ia memperolehnya dan untuk apa ia membelanjakannya."

(HR. At-Tirmidzi)

Artinya, bukan hanya cara mencari uang yang dipertanggungjawabkan. Cara membelanjakannya pun akan dihisab.

Karena itu, tujuan manajemen keuangan keluarga Islami bukan sekadar agar rekening bertambah banyak.

Tujuan utamanya adalah menghadirkan keberkahan.

Sebab keluarga yang kuat bukanlah keluarga yang paling kaya, melainkan keluarga yang mampu mengelola amanah Allah dengan penuh tanggung jawab, hidup sederhana meskipun mampu, gemar berbagi meskipun tidak berlebihan, serta menjadikan setiap rupiah sebagai jalan menuju ridha Allah.

Senden sonra 23 şehir gezdim.

3 kilo aldım, saçlarımı 6 kez boyadım.

Dünya bilmem kaç 365 günde bilmem kaç dönümünü tamamladı.

Darbe oldu. Ihtilâl oldu. Barış gelmedi. Savaş bitmedi.

Seni özledim. iltica edecek tek yer bulamadım.

Gittiğim her yerde senden bir nefes bıraktım. Belki yürürsün aynı sokakta.

Ayak izime denk düşer ayak izin. Belki saçına değer nefes.

Belki sen de bir gün özlersin diye, seni uzakta bıraktım.

Seni uğurladım. Sana kavuştum. Seni terk ettim. Bilmem kaç kilometre yol gittim.

(These pics are ai generated but the pregnant girl Ovsanna is me and i genereated them with me and my baby daddy's pics.I am pregnant from him irl but he left me because his wife didn't want my baby so i wanted to create my ideal life worshipping my black muslim king and his muslim wife using ai 😭💔)

In Sicily, there wasn’t simply an Arab invasion. There was a Sicilian invitation.

That sentence sounds odd. But it’s how one of the most important chapters in Sicilian history began.

In 827 AD, Muslim forces from North Africa crossed to Sicily. Most people remember that as an invasion.

What they rarely hear is why they came in the first place.

A Sicilian admiral named Euphemius had rebelled against the Byzantine empire he previously served.

Byzantine rule in Sicily was distant, extractive, and brittle, with imperial governors sent from the east to squeeze the island for grain and gold, and ship both back to Constantinople. Sicily was treated less like a fortress guarding the sea routes, and more like a granary feeding the ambitions of the Byzantine Empire.

Facing defeat, Euphemius sought outside help and appealed to the Aghlabid rulers of Ifriqiya (Tunisia), offering the deal of a lifetime to the Muslim rulers:

𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴.

The Aghlabids accepted.

What followed was less a lightning conquest than a war that lasted more than seventy years.

Cities changed hands repeatedly.

Some Sicilians fought alongside the Byzantines. Others sided with the Muslim newcomers.

Alliances shifted, loyalties fractured, and the island became the battleground for competing visions of power.

Palermo fell in 831 and eventually became one of the greatest cities in the Mediterranean.

Syracuse held out until 878.

The last major Byzantine stronghold, Taormina, fell in 902, though Byzantine resistance lingered in parts of northeastern Sicily for years afterward.

None of this means this period of conquest was peaceful. But simply reducing it to the “Arabs invaded Sicily” flattens the local political crisis in Sicily that opened the door in the first place.

Empires are often conquered from the outside.

They usually begin collapsing from the inside.

Sometimes the army at the gate is there because someone inside unlocked it.