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#الوثنية المعاصرة والحرب على #الإرهاب

قال أحد السجانين، التابعين لأجهزة الأمن في #مصر ذات يوم، لسجين سياسي إسلامي: "ده لو ربنا نزل، حأحطه في الزنزانة اللي جنبك."

وعندما عرض عليه خفاف الكناني مساعدته في محاربة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، قال أبو جهل: "إن كنا نقاتل الله، كما يزعم محمد، فوالله ما لنا بالله طاقة. وإن كنا نقاتل الناس، فوالله إن بنا على الناس قوة. والله لا نرجع عن قتال محمد حتى نرد بدرًا، فنشرب فيها الخمور، وتعزف علينا القينات..." — البحر المحيط، ص ٥٠٠.

لم يقتنع أبو جهل أنه كان يحارب الله، ولكنه كان يعرف أنه لو كان يحارب الله، فما له ولأصحابه على الله أي قدرة أو طاقة. أيضًا كان أبو جهل صريحًا في أسبابه الرئيسية لمحاربته رسول الله ﷺ. ولاحظ أن أبا جهل كان يعرف الله، بل ويؤمن بالله! فقد كان يذكر الله في كلامه، فيقسم بالله. ولكنه أبى أن يؤمن بالله إلا وهو مشرك به؛ ورفض أن يطيع أوامر الله، وأصر على طاعة هواه وأن يعيش حياته على ما يظنه الدين الوسطي المعتدل الجميل الكْيُوت، الدين الذي يعترف بوجود الله، اعترافًا شكليًا في القلب، ولا يتعارض مع شرب الخمور والتبرج وعزف القينات — الذي يصاحبه رقص الكاسيات العاريات، ولا حتى يتعارض مع عبادة الأوثان، مثل وثن اللات، ووثن الحاكم، وثن #الوطن، وثن الأجداد، وثن العِلْم، ووثن الحرب. ودليل أو شاهد الوثنية؟ الله يقول شيئًا والحاكم يقول العكس فيطيعون الحاكم. الرسول ﷺ يأمر بشيء والأجداد (العرف والأصول) يأمرون بالعكس فيطيعون العرف. مصلحة دين الله تتعارض مع مصلحة الوطن أو جنوده، فيختارون مصلحة الوطن وجنوده. يتعارض "العِلْم" الطبيعي مع #الإسلام، فيصدقون علماء الطبيعة ويشكّون في الإسلام أو يحرفونه. هذه هي الوثنية — القديمة والمعاصرة — باختصار. فحق على أبي جهل مثلًا قول الله تعالى: تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ، إلى قوله تعالى: سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ.

وما هو الإرهاب عند هذه الناس؟ هم يرون الإرهاب متمثلًا في:

١. أوامر الله تعالى التي تناقض هواهم وتتعارض مع آرائهم الشخصية عن الصحيح والخطأ والمعتدل والمتشدد في الحياة، ولاحظ أنهم يرون الالتزام بتعاليم دين الله "تشددًا"، ثم يسمّون بعدها بقليل التشدد "إرهابًا"؛

٢. ومتمثلًا في الإيمان بالله تعالى وحده، إيمانًا يخلو من أي شرك.

هذا هو الإرهاب عندهم، لأن انتشار مثل هذا الإيمان وتلك الأوامر سوف يتعارض مباشرة مع مصالحهم ووثنيتهم وأسلوب حياتهم الذي يعشقونه ويعبدونه من دون الله (س "يخنقهم" كما يقولون هم)، فهم يترقبون الوحشة والوحدة والشعور بأنهم منبوذون إن اختفت الوثنية وانتشر التوحيد الخالص وانتشرت الطاعة لدين الله الحق. الاحتمال يخيفهم. تلك الصورة المستقبلية إرهاب لهم، مع أن بعضهم يؤمن بالله، ولكن...

«وَمَا يُؤْمِنُ أَكْثَرُهُم بِاللَّـهِ إِلَّا وَهُم مُّشْرِكُونَ» ﴿يوسف: ١٠٦﴾

#الحرب_على_الإرهاب

وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّـهِ أَمْوَاتٌ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ ﴿البقرة: ١٥٤﴾

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ خَرَجُوا مِن دِيَارِهِمْ وَهُمْ أُلُوفٌ حَذَرَ الْمَوْتِ فَقَالَ لَهُمُ اللَّـهُ مُوتُوا ثُمَّ أَحْيَاهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّـهَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَشْكُرُونَ ﴿البقرة: ٢٤٣﴾

وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَن تَمُوتَ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اللَّـهِ كِتَابًا مُّؤَجَّلًا وَمَن يُرِدْ ثَوَابَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِهِ مِنْهَا وَمَن يُرِدْ ثَوَابَ الْآخِرَةِ نُؤْتِهِ مِنْهَا وَسَنَجْزِي الشَّاكِرِينَ ﴿آل عمران: ١٤٥﴾

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَقَالُوا لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ إِذَا ضَرَبُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ أَوْ كَانُوا غُزًّى لَّوْ كَانُوا عِندَنَا مَا مَاتُوا وَمَا قُتِلُوا لِيَجْعَلَ اللَّـهُ ذَٰلِكَ حَسْرَةً فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ وَاللَّـهُ يُحْيِي وَيُمِيتُ وَاللَّـهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ ﴿آل عمران: ١٥٦﴾

وَلَئِن قُتِلْتُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّـهِ أَوْ مُتُّمْ لَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِّنَ اللَّـهِ وَرَحْمَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا يَجْمَعُونَ ﴿آل عمران: ١٥٧﴾

أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَـٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّـهِ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هَـٰذِهِ مِنْ عِندِكَ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّـهِ فَمَالِ هَـٰؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمِ لَا يَكَادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ حَدِيثًا ﴿النساء: ٧٨﴾

"And say not of those who are slain in God's cause, "They are dead": nay, they are alive, but you perceive it not." Quran 2:154.

"ART THOU NOT aware of those who forsook their homelands in their thousands for fear of death-whereupon God said unto them, "Die," and later brought them back to life? Behold, God is indeed limitless in His bounty unto man -but most people are ungrateful." Quran 2:243.

"And no human being can die save by God's leave, at a term pre-ordained. And if one desires the rewards of this world, We shall grant him thereof; and if one desires the rewards of the life to come, We shall grant him thereof; and We shall requite those who are grateful [to Us]." Quran 3:145.

"O you who have attained to faith! Be not like those who are bent on denying the truth and say of their brethren [who die] after having set out on a journey to faraway places or gone forth to war, "Had they but remained with us, they would not have died," or, "they would not have been slain" - for God will cause such thoughts to become a source of bitter regret in their hearts, since it is God who grants life and deals death. And God sees all that you do." Quran 3:156.

"And if indeed you are slain or die in God's cause, then surely forgiveness from God and His grace are better than all that one could amass [in this world]." Quran 3:157.

"Wherever you may be, death will overtake you - even though you be in towers raised high. "Yet, when a good thing happens to them, some [people] say, "This is from God," whereas when evil befalls them, they say, "This is from thee [O fellow­man]!” Say: "All is from God." What, then, is amiss with these people that they are in no wise near to grasping the truth of what they are told?" Quran 4:78.

«قالت "المتدينة": أداء ممثل دور الشذوذ كان رائعاً والفيلم حلو جداً!»

إن لم تسمع عن الممثل الأمريكي، ذي الأصول المصرية، الذي حصل على جائزة الأوسكار مؤخراً، فأنا أغبطك أن عافاك الله. وإن كنت ستقرأ هذا المنشور، فسامحني على هذا الابتلاء بالتفاصيل التالية.

المقدمة المختصرة: الممثل المذكور حصل على جائزة الأوسكار لدوره كمغني شاذ جنسياً، وفي الفيلم، هو يقبّل رجلاً في فمه (مؤكد) مثلما يقبل الرجال النساء في مثل تلك الأفلام. نعم، هو شيء قد يجعلك تتقيأ فورياً إن شاهدته بعينك من هول فُحشه وتعديه الفاجر على الفِطرة السليمة.

ونعم، أدرك أن ذوي الفطرة العفنة (منتكسة تهوين أو تصريح مكبوح) سوف يقولون: "تركوا كل شيء عن الفيلم، موضوعه الهادف والفن [والباذنجان الشديد التخلل] في الفيلم، ومسكوا فقط في موضوع الشذوذ ومشهد القبلة." يظنون أنه تحضراً وثقافة أن تتغاضى عن فُحش بيِّن ووقاحة فاجرة مثل ما يظهر في الفيلم لأن هناك "فنّ" في نفس الفيلم، وما يدفعهم لمثل هذا السقوط، لا تحضر ولا ثقافة، بل انتكاس صارخ مقزز للفطرة.

قرأت لتوي تعليقين عن الممثل والفيلم لفتاة لا أعرفها. تعليقها الأول كان: "الفيلم حلو جدا جدا جدا الصراحة." وتعليقها الثاني: "اداءة كان رائع الصراحة." تتحدث عن الممثل ذي الأصول المصرية.

توقف للحظة، وركّز جيداً فيما ذكرته عن الفيلم ودور الممثل والمشهد الذي أشرت إليه. ثم تذكر كلمات تلك الفتاة عن الفيلم وعن الممثل. تمام؟

نفس هذه الفتاة، شاركت منذ ساعات قبل تعليقيها بمنشور نصه (وهو ليس كلامها هي): "أقسم بالله كفايه إننا بنصحى من النوم صحتنا بخير... الحمد لله يا رب... الحمد لله على نعمة الصحة وعلى سترك يا الله." وكتبت هي فوق المنشور: "الحمد لله."

ونفس الفتاة كتبت منشوراً قبلها بساعات، هذا نصه: " ﺍﻟﻠّﻬﻢّ ﺍﻧﻈﺮ ﺇﻟﻴﻨﺎ ﻧﻈﺮﺓ ﺭِﺿـا ﺗَﻬْﺪِﻱ ﺑِﻬـا ﻗﻠﻮُﺑﻨـا ﻭﺗﻐﻔِﺮ ﺑِﻬﺎ ﺫﻧﻮﺑﻨـا ﻭﺗﺮﺩّﻧﺎ ﺑِﻬﺎ ﺇﻟﻴﻚ ﺭَﺩّﺍ ﺟَﻤِﻴﻼً ياﺭﺏ."

والسؤال الذي أرى أنه يطرح نفسه الآن: كيف؟

كيف اجتمعت كل هذه المنشورات والتعليقات في شخص واحد، بغض النظر عن جنسه؟ كيف؟!

ولماذا نرى مثل تلك الحالات الشديدة التناقض مع النفس في يومنا هذا؟ هل يوجد وباء سكيتزوفرينيا أو انفصام هوية مثلاً في العالم الإسلامي؟

ولا، هذا ليس حتى من الانقلاب يا إخوة! يحضرني الآن مقالاً كتبته في سنة ٢٠١٣ بعنوان: "عندما كدت أتقيأ من إحدى المسرحيات المصرية!" تحدثت في المقال عن أحد مسرحيات هنيدي، "طرائيعو"، وهي مسرحية سنة إنتاجها ٢٠٠٢، تبدأ بمشهد أصفه في المقالة، أشباه-ذكور بابتسامات بلهاء يرقصون مع مريض من مستشفى المجانين بطرطور على رأسه ويتبعهم كاسيات عاريات يرقصن الرقص الشرقي، وكل هذا بخلفية صوتية لغناء كلماته عبارة عن ذكر أو دعاء لله! ذكرت في المقال أني في اللحظة التي رأيت فيها الكاسيات العاريات، وأثناء سماعي لذكر الله في الخلفية، كنت سأتقيأ من هول ما أرى!

ما أذهلني في المسرحية ليس فقط انفصام الهوية العجيب الذي رأيته، بل أن ما رأيته يمكن أن يُرى من منظور أنه استهزاء بالله تعالى والعياذ بالله! فما هو معنى أن تردد كلمة "الله، الله، يا الله" وتدعو الله أن ينجيك، ويرأف بك، ويهديك للسكينة، وينجيك من دار الزور، والكاسيات العاريات ترقص وتهتز على رأسِك؟ ما معنى هذا؟

لا دخل لي بنوايا الناس وقلوبهم، وإنما هي مسألة الحكم بالظاهر. فسؤالي أعلاه يسأل عن معنى ما تراه عينك من تناقض وصل إلى مرحلة التطاول على الله والاستهزاء به سبحانه وتعالى. ومن باب حسن الظن، يمكننا أن نحاول أن نكون على يقين أن الأغلبية العظمى من العاملين في هذه المسرحية لم يقصدوا أبداً أن يستهزئوا بالله سبحانه وتعالى، ولكن... بعيداً عن القصد، أليس هذا ما يمكن استنتاجه مما تراه العين وتسمعه الأذن؟

هذا الانفصام العجيب في نفسية وعقلية بعض "المسلمين" في بلادنا قديم. على الأقل هو أقدم من الانقلاب العسكري في مصر. ولهذا، فمن أراد دراسته أو محاولة اكتشاف مصدره، وأعتقد أن مصدره أعمق من الجهل فقط، فعليه أن يرجع بالتاريخ والذكريات إلى القرن العشرين.

وأريد أن أسلط الضوء على نقطة هامة: هذا الانفصام نراه أيضاً في مؤيدي السيسي والعسكر. الكثير منهم "مسلمون"، يصلون، ونساؤهم يرتدين ملابساً يظنونها حجاباً، بل وبعضهن يرتدين حجاباً صحيحاً إلى حد ما، وهكذا. يعشقون كتابة "حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل فيكم يا إسلاميين يا إخوان يا شريرين"، وهذا من تديّنهم الشديد بالتأكيد.

يعني، هذه الظاهرة والمشكلة أهم مما نتخيل. هي ليست فقط مسألة مسرحيات من بداية الألفية تكاد تستهزأ بالذات الإلهية؛ أو مسألة مسلمين يتشدقون بالقرآن والأذكار وهم يعشقون أعمال الشذوذ الفني، أقصد الفن الشذوذي... لا، بل أقصد الفن "الراقي" الذي يتخلله مشهد واحد فقط، لا أكثر، للشذوذ الجنسي ما بين الذكور، يعشقونه عشقاً؛ وهي ليست حتى مسألة "مسلمين" متعطشين لدماء الإخوان المسلمين وأهل الأحزاب الإسلامية؛ بل هي مسألة ظاهرة تجمع كل تلك النتائج، أو هي مسألة مرض من أخطر أمراض القلوب يؤدي إلى تلك الظواهر العجيبة في البلاد الإسلامية. وكما ذكرت، أنا موقن أن المسألة أعمق من الجهل، بدليل أنك قد تشارك الشخص الذي تظهر عليه أعراض ذلك المرض أو أعراض الانفصام العجيب في الهوية بأحاديث أو آيات تثبت أن ما يفعله أو يقوله هو شديد الفحش والحُرمة في الدين، ولا يظهر عليه أي أعراض ذهول أو خوف أو ندم، بل وقد يجادلك ويكابر، ليس من الكِبر، بل من قناعة حقيقة أنه لا يوجد تناقض بين دينه وما يفعله أو يقوله.

فما هو السبب العميق لظاهرة الانتماء — الذي يبدو صادقاً — إلى الإسلام والترديد الصادق لبعض أذكاره، مع ميل القلب إلى أحط الأشياء وأقبح الفواحش وأكثر الجرائم فجوراً في الدنيا، وفي نفس الوقت عدم إدراك أو استوعاب المرء لوجود تناقضاً عجيباً فيه وانفصاماً مذهلاً في هويته؟

لا زلت أبحث عن إجابة هذا السؤال.

To all my brothers and sisters who talk about "balancing deen and dunya", balancing eternity with 70 or a 100 years, balancing a house larger than Earth with a mansion in the Maldives -- let alone whatever house in a fancy suburb you dream of, balancing perfect bliss with little pleasures occasionally interrupting struggle and either sadness for a suffering world or an oblivious existence of what’s happening around you. Quranic verses as translated by Muhammad Asad:

"Hence, let them fight in God's cause - all who are willing to barter the life of this world for the life to come ..." Quran 4:74.

"... Brief is the enjoyment of this world, whereas the life to come is the best for all who are conscious of God ..." Quran 4:77

"And nothing is the life of this world but a play and a passing delight; and the life in the hereafter is by far the better for all who are conscious of God. Will you not, then, use your reason?" Quran 6:32

"For, [if they did, they would know that] the life of this world is nothing but a passing delight and a play - whereas, behold, the life in the hereafter is indeed the only [true] life: if they but knew this!" Quran 29:64

"O my people! This worldly life is but a brief enjoyment, whereas, behold, the life to come is the home abiding." Quran 40:39

"KNOW [O men] that the life of this world is but a play and a passing delight, and a beautiful show, and [the cause of] your boastful vying with one another, and [of your] greed for more and more riches and children. Its parable is that of [life-giving] rain: the herbage which it causes to grow delights the tillers of the soil; but then it withers, and thou canst see it turn yellow; and in the end it crumbles into dust. But [the abiding truth of man’s condition will become fully apparent] in the life to come: [either] suffering severe, or God’s forgiveness and His goodly acceptance: for the life of this world is nothing but an enjoyment of self-delusion." Quran 57:20

"But nay, [O men,] you prefer the life of this world." Quran 87:16

So don’t pretend; with your words about “balancing deen and dunya”, you know you do prefer the life of this world, with the single verse you care about on the topic, and with your actions and choices, doing the minimum for the hereafter and, on the other hand, living this life to the fullest and sacrificing almost nothing.

[Disclaimer: Not too many people know today that there’s a bit of a geek in me, as I rarely post things related to this. But when an IT problem happens to me and I don’t find the solution on one page, or I have to collect things from several pages, I sometimes post something about it for my and others’ reference.]

Recently I installed some Windows 7 updates on a machine and the machine wouldn’t start afterwards. None of the usual repair methods worked, including “last known configuration”; and there was no Recovery points to use. That was the blue-screen error message that showed:

STOP: C0000145 (APPLICATION ERROR) The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)

After some searching, I found that most probably the cause of this error and blue screen is a recent Windows update, and that one way to potentially resolve this is to use Windows Repair’s command prompt (press F8 when booting and go for the Repair option then find the Command Prompt option) to remove those updates with the following commands:

c: dism /image:c:\ /get-packages > c:\pkglist notepad c:\pkglist

If you get an error message about access to the image, try exchanging the C letter above for D (or vice versa); for example, dism /image:d:\ /get-packages, etc. For reasons currently beyond my understanding, I actually had to do this process once with the C drive and again with the D drive; and before that, the last few packages were not being removed, and the command prompt showed instead an error message about not finding a file in Windows\temp folder. However, when I repeated the whole process with the D letter or drive, those packages were removed just fine and that machine started.

Then to use the Find (Ctrl+F) functionality of Notepad to find all “pending” updates and remove them using the following command(s):

dism /image:c:\ /remove-package /packagename:Package_for_KB2952664~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.13.2

No matter how the above command shows up on your screen, it is one line with no breaks or enters; and the italicized part, starting with “Package_for...”, is one example of several names or IDs for update packages that may be pending. You need to replace that part with the exact ID or name of the pending packages on your machine by copying the ID from Notepad and pasting it in the end of the command line (pasting in that command prompt works for me by right-clicking the black area). You need to repeat this process for all pending packages.

Afterwards, you can install those Windows updates individually, one by one, and restart Windows after installing just one Windows update, until you see the blue screen or error or the start fails again; this way, you can pinpoint the exact Windows update that gives you this problem and avoid it.

I did not know about the band, Imagine Dragons, until I stumbled upon their song, Friction, as the soundtrack of a trailer for the game, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. I very much liked the melody or music of that song, so I researched the band a little, and listened to other songs by them, and liked the music of even more of their songs. 

Eventually, I started to wonder about the meaning of the words of that song, Friction; the music of which I like a lot. So I researched a bit, and stumbled upon Genius.com’s page for the song. Apparently people think that the theme of the song is the “top lifestyle”; but I think not, as I wrote on Genius’s page:

Actually, if we try to think objectively, and not as fans, about this song and its real main theme, we may find out that the main theme of Friction is not lifestyle, but drugs.

First, this song was featured in one of the trailers of the game, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, and the game is about fighting an intricate web of drug cartels. And yes, this alone doesn’t necessarily indicate that the song is about drugs, but…

Secondly, think about it: The message is to “get down with the victim” (of drug addiction? We’ll see…) “We both know you need [them]” Need who? Drug addicts because they provide your profits? Or need the drugs themselves? Maybe you need both?

And, after all, “you’re stuck in the middle of all irrelevance”, whether you make or sell drugs, or you are simply an average citizen. “And your heart is beating”, in anticipation or anxiety? Or “[Because] you know that you gotta get out of the middle, and rise to the top now”? Yes, rise to the top, but take note, not after years of hard work, no, [now]! You gotta “rise to the top [now]”!

The pre-chorus part is the only minor part that mixes the meaning or theme of “improving one’s lifestyle to go to the top” with the song’s main theme of drugs; and it is there to help some of the fans believe in some sort of positive message behind the song, but it is a small and minor part compared to everything else that repeats again and again, especially the “easing it off” part as we’ll see. Let’s move to the natural continuation of you having to rise to the top [now]…

Well, “you can’t fight the friction” with society, the system, and your circumstances when you try to rise to the top, so what to do? “So ease it off”. How? Well, be smart, if you want to rise to the top [now], get high [now], obviously you need to do drugs. You “can’t take the pressure”, “so ease it off”, go ahead. No, “don’t tell me to be strong”, just “ease it off” with a needle. Really, “you can’t fight the friction”, “so ease it off”.

“And get into the system” just like everyone else, the same system that keeps you from rising to the top via hard work; after all, “we both know you need one”, some sort of system anyway.

And now, “the tip of the needle is taking over you”, “and”, ohhh, “your heart is beating”, “[because] you know that you gotta…rise to the top now”.

Are you resisting that urge? “Why can’t you let go”? After all, you’re “like a bird in the snow”, and “this is no place to build your home”, not in this system, and not with all this friction. “So ease it off”.

I hope you are convinced now, and understand the real message of this song. The vast majority of what I put between “quotes” are exact lyrics from the song, and I add little words here and there to explain to you how it makes sense. And again, with this song being in the trailer of Ghost Recon Wildlands, it really is a no-brainer.

There are several videos from several parts of the world for this phenomenon for the past 7 years, but this is one of the clearest videos available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raKBiPeuVkY

When I combine that phenomenon with an authentic hadith by prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, a translation of which is:

Narrated Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri: that the Messenger of God (ﷺ) said: "How can I be comfortable when ‘The One with the Horn’ is holding it in his lips, and his forehead is leaning forward, waiting to be given permission to blow?" The Muslims said: "So what should we say, O Messenger of God?" He said: "Say: God is sufficient for us and what a good protector He is. We rely upon [our Lord] Allah." - and perhaps Sufyan (one of the narrators) said: "Upon God we rely."

The whole thing sends a chill down my spine.

If you also believe that there is a "One with the Horn", and he took it on his lips already more than 1400 years of the time we count, and he is waiting for permission to blow that specific horn that will shatter the very physical fabric of the universe and earth as we know them; if you believe, and you hear those noises in the videos, you may not be able to help yourself getting similar chills. It may not be tomorrow, but something is closer than anyone can imagine.

And through it all, I sometimes pay close attention to things like the brand of coffee, the little puss on my finger, and I watch videos of funny cats and dogs; I guess there is no shame in doing such things but only if occasionally. After all, no sane believer can remember the gravity of such possibilities, possibilities suggested by that phenomenon and the belief in the One with the Horn, and keep spending too much time in trivialities.

—Yaseen Rocca

​​«’كيف أنعَمُ وقد التقم صاحبُ القرنِ القَرنَ، وحنى جبهتَه وأصغَى سمعَه، ينتظرُ أن يُؤمَرَ فينفخُ.‘ فكأنَّ ذلك ثَقُل على أصحابِه فقالوا: ’كيف نفعلُ يا رسولَ اللهِ؟ أو نقول؟‘ قال: ’قالوا حسبُنا اللهُ ونعمَ الوكيلُ، على اللهِ توكَّلْنا.‘ وربما قال توكَّلْنا على اللهِ.»

An Islamophobe wrote several sarcastic comments about God and Islam, including what he called [Islamic] rituals, on a video on YouTube; this was my response to him:

Even if God did not send any messages at all and did not send any angels to any humans who became prophets, even if none of that happened—as you believe, things in this universe are clear enough for the sane, let alone the educated. Something cannot come from nothing; a device cannot manifest without an engineer. Without any heavenly messages or messengers whatsoever, this universal necessity for a Designer, an Engineer, or even a...Source, is crystal clear to the sane. If I showed you a smartphone and told you that it came from nothing, manifested by coincidence, or randomly came together as a few monkeys were playing with electronic chips for a century, you would be a moron to believe me; the difference between you and me is that I see something a zillion times more complex than a smartphone when I look at the universe as a system or framework, along with its subsystems, while you see something different when you look at the same.

As for many of your other comments about "butt-ups" and the likes, it is obviously a matter of perception. You repeat the word "forced"; is your beef with the "butt-ups" that it is "forced" or that they are "butt-ups"? Because if it's about butt-ups, then you are obviously ignorant and unscientific to claim that they are useless without scientific or at least empirical data to support that claim. And if you tried to create the empirical data, your loftiest goal will not be proving their uselessness, because you'll never prove such a laughable claim; your best hope is to prove that the benefits of the "butt-ups" are comparable to the so-called placebo effect in medicine. Which brings me to my first phrase: it is all a matter of perception. Yoga has "butt-ups", too, for example; can you claim yoga's butt-ups are useless? So, again, what's your problem? The form of prayer...or that it is mandatory? If it's the form, I already argued that it is ignorant to claim something like that is useless without proof (which you'll never find); if it's the obligation, then the very religion or belief system within which this prayer is obligatory, the belief itself is optional. And that's also why things are not "clear" enough for your tastes; see, it's not science that you can "know" from lab work; it's called religion, a matter of "belief" for a reason. The difference between "knowledge" and "belief" is that knowledge can be in—and by—the mind alone, but belief must be in—and by—both, the mind and heart. Some misguided people can base belief only on the heart, which is why they end up believing in irrational, corrupted copies of God's message; and some people want to accept something by the mind alone, which is why they remain ignorant while thinking that they are "scientific"; because they will always be slaves to technology, just like science itself is dependent on technology. And let's face it, any day's technology is literally primitive compared to the technology of five decades forward; so people who use just their mind to accept information and consider possibilities, and only trust science, are, by definition...primitive.

#China: Government orders #Muslims to sell #cigarettes & #alcohol! The excuse? In the name of fighting religious #extremism! 

Once you've distorted a religion to become "liberal" or "socialist" enough for your tastes, does it remain that religion? Or does it [actually] turn into liberalism or socialism, masquerading as a religion for the oppressed and uneducated (or brainwashed) former followers? A question for the overzealous liberal or socialist "extremists" ruling the world today, and their puppets.

A Monotheistic Submitter (or Muslim) must understand and believe that the root cure always comes from God. One is required to seek medication and take the best medicine accessible, just as one is required to find a job and go to work; but ultimately, the cure and healing come from God and God alone, just as money and other rewards, like food and sustenance, also come from God alone. 

As usual, one is required to do something, put in an effort, because Justice (which is one of God’s names in Monotheistic Submission or Islam) requires that before God is to send people their "rewards", whether the rewards are cars, food, or healing, people must seek those rewards with the most intelligent and relevant effort possible. Then, they are to leave the rest (results) to God, so He sorts them out His way. 

Sometimes, sought results (or rewards) come from a completely different way than the way in which we actually invested our effort (like when someone has been using matchmaking websites diligently and seriously for years, then a colleague introduces them to their soul mate!); that is God's way of reminding us of this practical fact, which some atheists fail to understand or believe, sometimes even ridicule, and some believers also fail to comprehend and keep in their mind always; the fact that results and rewards are from God and God alone, even if it falsely seems like our efforts bring them. 

If the concept is still difficult, or even seems contradictory to some (especially atheists), understanding that results are actually "rewards" from God for our efforts, or simply thinking of results as “rewards” can be a great start for enlightenment in this concept. And here is an angle or analogy that can make the concept even easier to understand and accept: It is like participating in a competition of sorts, where you put in your very best effort, but the "prize" (the reward) is not really guaranteed; it may come or be granted [to you] based on the verdict of the competition organizers or judges, or not!

Some people or skeptics may ask, "If the results are not guaranteed, why put in any effort, then?!" The almost obvious answer is: Because people have been doing that since the dawn of time, with almost no complaints, so why complain when all of a sudden the reality of life is put in the context of God being the judge and reward-giver? Farmers have always planted seeds for crops, fishermen have always risked trips into the ocean, investing hours and days, even though harvest and fish were never guaranteed, just "expected" or even "hoped for". One is to follow the same approach, but this time not with humility towards the misnomer, "Mother Nature", or towards "luck", but with humility and hopefulness towards the True Giver and Sustainer, God. And why put in any effort again? Because, from a logical perspective, without any effort, one is almost guaranteed zero results or rewards; but with effort, there is at least a very strong chance of good results, and almost guaranteed humble results...or rewards.

The rationality, practicality, and beauty of Islam or Monotheistic Submission here is that the same universal rules apply to—and the same Justice rules over—the believer (Monotheistic Submitter) and the disbeliever (atheists and followers of corrupted religious belief systems); both get relatively similar results (rewards) in this world and life, but interestingly enough, there is a world of difference between their fates in the hereafter, after death, and that world of difference is due to such a simple concept: Belief. The Monotheistic Submitter believes; others do not. The Monotheistic Submitter takes the hereafter seriously (that’s why he or she was guided to Monotheistic Submission and became a Monotheistic Submitter or Muslim to begin with); others do not take what’s after their death seriously, or misguidedly—even unscientifically and illogically—know (for an alleged fact!) that there is nothing after death. Whoever does not take what’s after death seriously enough, whoever does not invest enough thought (regardless to level of education) in the possibilities after death, becomes misguided, either by an overzealous, illogical belief in “nothing” or by a purely emotional, illogical belief in a corrupted belief system that reeks of its corruption in so many places that should have been obvious to the sane, let alone the wise.

This life is not meant to be easy, because it is a serious, decisive test. Test of character, mind, heart, humility, selflessness, self-control, and foresight. With that said, although it is not meant to be easy, life can actually be simple, even simple to understand. For example, the question of why should a believer, a Monotheistic Submitter take medicine, even if God is the Ultimate Curer, can be answered by the simple understanding of the cure as a “reward”. But, of course, because life is also a matter of perception, not everyone will see, accept and understand it as simple as it is.

A question that is asked a lot: Am I too old (or too young!) to learn X (this or that skill or field)?

You're not too old (or too young) to learn martial arts, gymnastics, the piano, reading, a new language, 3 new languages, physics, carpentry, sewing...anything!

In fact, nobody is too old (or too young for that matter) to learn or do anything whatsoever; that's a myth that's being busted every day around the world by all sorts of people, from 11-years-old music degree graduates, through 17-years-old golf world champions, to 85-years-old bodybuilders!

And yes, you can totally learn almost anything by yourself in today's world, without an instructor, teacher, or trainer. YouTube, Google, flash cards (Anki on the web, PC, and on your phone), and free PDFs on the web are your friends and instructors. Use an app like Habitbull to help motivate yourself to keep a daily learning and practice time of 15 minutes, 5 to 6 days a week. That's really all you need: the resources above and 15 min a day, 5 or 6 days / week to learn almost anything. If you can do more, good for you, but you do [not] need more to achieve shocking levels of skill in a few weeks or months.

#American #army soldiers, posing for a photo, not so long ago, with a smile and two #Vietnamese decapitated heads.

I'm tired of hearing emotional atheists being the quickest people, among others, to complain about what "God did" and thus not deserving worship or belief or however they explain that argument of theirs, rather than stick to the principle they supposedly have, which is no existence of a deity in the world, and thus the only entity responsible for the catastrophes, diseases, depressions, and crises in the world being us, the human race itself.

We pollute the environment; mess up with the very genetics of nature; fall to greed, mass production, and growth acceleration; produce toxic and carcinogenic chemicals to apply on and ingest into our very bodies; lead sedantary lives that our motion-hungry bodies were never made for; spend tens of times more on military infrastructure and active wars, rather than on education, health care, or an infrastructure that is resistent to natural catastrophes like volcanoes and earthquakes. And after aaall this, after all these crimes against our fellow human beings and even against ourselves, some of us find it soo easy to blame a deity—whether they believe in one or not—for the misery that befalls us and our whole race.

It's exactly as if a father gave his newly matured son a hammer and told him that he now has permission to use it creatively the way he wants, and that he trusts that the lessons he taught his son will help him choose wisely. Then, the son takes the hammer and his free will and goes to bash other human beings' skulls, murdering them; and the son returns to his father and blames his father for the crimes and misery caused! Why? Because his father had the power to stop him. As if exercising that power wouldn't render the "free will" gifted to the son meaningless. That's the human race's story with their deity, whether they believe in one, pretend to, or pretend not to.