This brings us back to the fatwa on using zakat funds for political causes. What purpose does it serve? Who is shaping that purpose? And why? Had this been a fatwa about using general funds to fund a PAC, or influence politicians, there would be no objection. Why specifically zakat funds? Who decides which political candidates can receive these funds? How much are we going to assess a politician’s overall platform …

Channel
Saleem Seedat - Readings and Musings
@saleemseedat
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605subscribers
+21 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002882709270 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @saleemseedat |
| Created | Between 1 June 2025 and 31 August 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/saleemseedat |
Topic
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 54% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026, 19:39 | 605 | +3 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 17:57 | 602 | +9 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 23:48 | 593 | +1 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 23:02 | 592 | +1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 11:59 | 591 | +6 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 02:26 | 585 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:02 | 584 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 15:04 | 584 | first reading |
Engagement
11 posts held, back to 2 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 11 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
3 reactions across 1 post, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 66.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 😁 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| 😱 | 1 | 33.3% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 11 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 3 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 11 most recent posts we hold, published 2 August 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
'Whether this constellation can be transferred one-to-one to the present day is for each individual to decide. But the parallel is striking: the West has also been telling itself the story of its own civilization for decades—and in doing so, overlooks how often it has broken the very rules it wishes to uphold.' https://impuls.news/en/culture/movie/the-odyssey-nolan-politically/
PTSD, Guilt and Alienation: Watching 'The Odyssey' in Israel Hits Differently - Art & Culture 'Beyond that, the film offers Israelis something they have sorely lacked in recent years: perspective. We are so deeply immersed in our own terrible odyssey that we have lost the ability to see ourselves as others do. Nolan's interpretation depicts a society corroding from within, a moral and psychological collapse born of …
Also, beneficial to read Mufti Shafi/Rafi and Shaykh Qaradawi's works on the subject. Also, found an interesting passage in Shaykh Mustafa Sabri's Mawqif al-Aql where he says; in comparison to Roman and French law, that the 'asas' of the Shari'ah is 'hurriyat al-fard' or individual freedom (as default) (vol.4, pg.268). Hence, Zakah, Nafaqah and other obligations are exceptions to the rule. #Economics #Islam #Social…
Neither Socialism nor Capitalism Imam Wahbah Al Zuhayli among his many works has a short but meticulous comparison of Islamic economics, capitalism, and socialism in his encyclopedic work Islamic Fiqh and Its Evidences. Among the brilliant points he makes: ولا يمكن القول بأن نظام الإسلام الاقتصادي نظام رأسمالي أو اشتراكي؛ لأن للرأسمالية أو الاشتراكية في الوقت الحاضر معنى محددا مفهوما، له خصائص معينة في معالجة الحي…
https://youtu.be/3DPRzG1uk8c?si=g2w19kWtEPShM1WQ
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This book by Imam Ahmad Rida Khan critiques and rules upon a widespread practice in certain regions where relatives and acquaintances gather at the home of a deceased person for extended periods. During this time, the grieving family is expected to host visitors, provide food, drinks, and handle heavy hospitality expenses. Imam Ahmad Rida Khan explains that preparing and hosting food for crowds at the house of the d…
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#Fiqh #Fatawa #Masjid #Ittisal #Women #Janazah #Mahmud #Gangohi #Thanwi #Lajpuri
Mufti Abdur Raheem Lajpuri provides a nice summary, chronologically; from the time of the founders of the Madhhab, of the Hanafi position on Salat al-Janazah in the Masjid.
Hazrat Thanwi deals with the particulars, how to deal with the Ikhtilaf that exists and its permissibility when there is a need or in the context of the Haramayn.
Showing the 11 most recent of 11 posts we hold for @saleemseedat. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Saleem Seedat - Readings and Musings” (@saleemseedat), 605 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/saleemseedat.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.