#iyov

Eliyahu:

Eliyahu would be a Wizard because he's so powerful and can manipulate reality (life/death, especially) and even though his body is gone his spirit has been at every Seder and Brit Milah for thousands of years. His alignment would be Chaotic Good. Sometimes the dude's chaotic, and there's no way his student Elisha didn't learn his chaotic-ness from him.

Iyov (Job):

Hmmm.....he would be a Druid. He was devoted to G-d and yet nature struck back at him. I think he'd be like.....a Druid whose connection to nature is an adversarial one. Obviously the book of Iyov is highly metaphorical, but the figure Iyov would be a druid.

As He made the finest of his female creation like the moon.

the Lord has too made the finest of his male creation like the sun,

For the sun spreads light, yet seeks none.

For the true and superior man gives, yet he asks for none.

The moon is only bright because it reflects the sunshine.

The man is the initiator, the leader, giver of the light.

Beautiful is their eclipse as it glorifies the Divine,

So is the parable of the masculine and the feminine.

Indeed, man, like the sun, is sustained only by the One.

Remember that it was in the island of Babylon the boy was born,

And in the town surrounded by the two mountainous horns, the man was made and grown.

Nothing really happens by coincidence, just so that you know.

Here on this side of the ethereal grass,

Not everything is limited to the material, for energy is relative to mass.

Mesmerizing indeed how the atoms vibrate and dance,

In eternal praise of their Maker, such is their state of trance.

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As for worldly success, power, and gold,

You've sampled them well, and have known their relatively hollow core,

For genuine fulfillment of your soul lies in something less, yet something worth more.

Verily in the Divine's sight alone, that your status may reach its highest floor,

its parable is of the gentle heart whose wealth feeds the poor,

who happens to be the custodian that knows well when to draw his sword,

and who happens to be the warrior who knows when to unleash the lion's roar.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, and you may often find yourself being a conduit for a message that far exceeds one's understanding, even yours.

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To the gates of hell you once ventured, to know the taste of the sky,

Yet in the abysses' beneath, you gazed upon the devil, a reality no mystic could deny.

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Raised in Pharaoh's palace, every corner of it you know,

Behind the scenes, and the exterior's glamorous show.

The godless found their fleeting purpose in the consolidation of worldly power,

the amassing of materialistic gain, the pursuit of consumerism, and the worship of one’s own desires.

What's displayed outside, is but a seductive nevertheless a disguise,

and the tyrants' empire is built on illusion and lies.

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remember the favor of your Lord, as you were saved from being led astray to join their pole,

Call it the west, or call it Rome, it is deemed to fall once more.

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In one of their late philosopher’s fleeting legacy, he proclaimed: God is dead.

Rather, it is they who severed the tie, and went astray to propagate the lie.

Exalted is Whom no vision can grasp above all ignorance and pride.

Leveraging propaganda and subliminal suggestion of how to live, which ladder to climb and what's right and wrong.

Read this fiction, watch this show, all a scheme, to condition your tastes, and to chain your soul.

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Remember and remind, Rome's debts will come due,

As the house of cards collapses, bathed in the very blood-river it drew.

Now even more so, exposed is the hearts of stone, no matter how hard they pretend,

with what they’re unleashed monstrosity to your besieged and persecuted kin in the holy lands

No remembrance for the sons of zion, inevitable is their appointment of doom,

But for the orphans of the fearless lions,

Glorious is their coming victory and their ever after bloom.

When everyone puts a price on their name,

We trust you'll be one of the few who put their moral code over material gain.

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Every soul will be tested, yours will too,

Virtuous character must be exemplified, in honor of the Eternal True.

The heights of your soul must be conquered,

where else other than the mountain's peak is a better view?

Read the Holy writings, and From the oceans of Oneness rise anew.

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When the servants of your adversary have sold their soul,

You must find the man who sold the world.

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Join the lovers of God, and with them rejoice in these latter days,

From darkness into light, He guides your way,

That which you direct your mental energy towards affects your reality in ways that is barely perceived.

When I look at the west, broadly and roughly speaking, it’s not a difficult task to catch the often outspoken slogans of “love yourself first” and “have self-confidence” in social media or else, permeating the atmosphere. This is a surface manifestation of a deeper alarming issue. If you look a bit deeper though, and benchmark this value statement against a framework of values that is intrinsically built around the supremacy of God, one can’t help but come to the conclusion that “love God first”, and have confidence/trust in God”, is clearly a more effective and hence better mindset to engage life, in both pragmatic and idealistic terms. After all, most spiritual paths put an emphasis on renouncing the glorification of the ego. A healthy ego surrendered to the Transcendent may easily enter a resistless state of flow, and begin at last, the expressing of the innate will to life without illusory obstacles and false needs.

This is thus another reminder that the western civilization, A.K.A. Rome 3.0, is unfortunately as it is, in its final days. Objectively speaking, taking Rome 1.0 as an example, one can acknowledge indeed that it there were days of power and influence, yet the latter ones were eventually marked by;

an eventual disconnect from the Divine;

a loss of spiritual purpose;

the shift towards materialistic consumerism;

the selfish worship of desires;

the mindless pursuit of status and power;

and ironically, the androgenization of society, that is the blurring of the masculine/feminine undeniable dichotomy through nature, among other anomalies of the latter days.

Perhaps the greed for more has blinded western institutions and their leadership, from learning past historical trends, taking Babylon for instance or any reincarnation of it. Perhaps, this could serve as reminder for the mindful, that only the God-mindful individuals and societies will be sustained, God-willing (demonstrated by an actually applied hierarchical system of values with God at the top), while the godless societies will perish in a self-caused humiliating fashion.

In a way, all that remains of the west is the feeble image of it, illusory statements from Hollywood productions, and other deceptive suggestions i.e., throughout social media. Like that famous quote from that flight club whose first rule is hereby broken:

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war...

since the effects are irreversible, I would end this on a note reiterating that for anyone who seeks a good future for themselves, their children, their families and loved ones as well as later generations (if we make it that far in time in the first place), then the west is certainly not the place to be nor to settle in. Reflecting on my recent case for instance, I thank God for redirecting my path as I was about to pursue some serious graduate studies and a subsequent future in a leading and prestigious business school of one of the western nations, but it all flipped 180 degree right before the brutal war crime on Gaza, somehow an satirical yet deeply poetic divine intervention, praise be to the Most High. It is thus an advice to anyone who really places God at the top of their value system to consider the muslim world as the home for their future. As the west is falling, Godly societies will appreciate the lending hands and brains to rebuild and reconsolidate what was so ruthlessly robbed from this hemisphere of earth (name any country from MENA region that was destabilized not just for its resources but for its threatening existence).

It’s a pragmatic inevitability, even if occulted western institutions of influence are working day and night to prevent this mass exodus and ultimate shift in the balances of power (which needs a dissertation of its own), but what is more better than to do so not for the practicality of the situation, but rather for the love of the ideal, for the love of Allah, and for that which glorifies Allah ﷻ.