7 Aug 2026, 03:09 UTC143 views14 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The other day, someone was complaining to me about social media and how it’s brought about this new age of preachers and spokespeople who talk absolute nonsense.
I said: “You say NEW?! Broski it’s been this way LONG before social media lol”
Ibn al-Jawzī, a scholar in Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate (12th century CE) wrote in Talbīs Iblīs, in the chapter:
ذكر تلبيسه على الوعاظ والقصاص
“How Iblīs deceived the …
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5 Aug 2026, 18:12 UTC185 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Yah'yā b. Sa'ǐd said, "Once Muhammad b. Yah'yā b. Habban and I were sitting down, and Muhammad called a man over to him and said to him, "Tell me what you've heard from your father." The man replied that his father had told him that he went to Zayd b. Thābit and asked him, "What do you think of reciting the entire Proclamation in seven days?" Zayd said, "That's good, but I prefer to read it over two weeks, or ten day…
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5 Aug 2026, 00:35 UTC201 views7 reactionsread 7 August 2026 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw
The point is that genuine progress requires people who refuse to accept things as they are. If everyone just went along adapting to existing circumstances, civilisations would never have been built, diseases would never…
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4 Aug 2026, 17:45 UTC202 views15 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The hadith “Seize five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your occupation, and your life before your death” is a compressed prophetic statement of a central principle in the final Proclamation: the conditions in which we can serve God are temporary, and we will be held to account for what we did with them.
The verb ight…
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4 Aug 2026, 17:45 UTC200 views14 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Youth asks what we will do with strength, health with ability, wealth with provision, free time with opportunity, life with the whole account before it is closed. So the hadith says more than just appreciate what you have. It’s telling you to use every present capacity in loyal service to God before it is withdrawn.
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4 Aug 2026, 06:07 UTC150 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 - financial speculation
- algorithmic pricing
- monopolistic platforms
- private-equity extraction
- wage dependence
- global supply chains
- planned obsolescence
- commodified housing
- mass consumer psychology
To take rulings about individual contracts and assume that they amount to a theory of capitalism is a severe category error. A society can use technically valid contracts while its entire economic structure …
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4 Aug 2026, 06:07 UTC156 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Family, religion, sex, work, and identity are treated as matters of self-construction. Medieval thought often assumed thick communal identities, inherited obligations, and relatively fixed social roles. Modern liberalism assumes choice, mobility, and individual rights. (Neither can simply be accepted without criticism.) A covenantal politics must protect the person from coercion and domination while also rejecting th…
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4 Aug 2026, 06:07 UTC180 views17 reactionsread 7 August 2026 It is harder to decide what should be taxed, at what rate, by whom, with what incentives, for which public purposes, with what protection against waste or abuse.
Similarly, it's easy to condemn exploitation but it's much harder to design labour protections,
ownership models, fair and productive welfare systems, planning rules, financial regulations,
and corporate structures that reduce exploitation without producing…
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4 Aug 2026, 06:07 UTC155 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026 There is a bizarre culture to get medieval, and it enters at the point where Muslims assume that inherited jurisprudence already constitutes a political philosophy.
But it doesn’t.
Premodern jurists produced what in their time were sophisticated bodies of law, ethics, governance, theology, and social reasoning. But they weren’t answering the questions posed by a modern Western society. They were working within a ve…
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4 Aug 2026, 05:25 UTC152 viewsread 7 August 2026 Now here’s my thesis addressing medievalism in modern thinking:
4 Aug 2026, 05:19 UTC156 views14 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The faithful have to shift the discussion away from policy by policy proof-texting and on to the more interesting question: where does the framework itself come from?
I deeply hope this opens up a more ambitious project. In what accords to the covenantal tradition of truly submitting to God, the goal isn’t to produce an “Islamic socialism” or an “Islamic conservatism.” We have to reconstruct a covenantal political p…
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4 Aug 2026, 05:16 UTC195 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 I’m having a wonderful conversation with one of our venerable American sisters, discussing the very interesting undertakings of Mayor Mamdani of New York.
One point leads to another (I won’t bore you with the details) and I arrive at a point that I think is worth some serious, mature, adult consideration. (As usual, I’m always excited to unpick things and talk them through).
The observation I make is that modern Mu…
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