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ZEKR, MIT Shia Muslim Association

@zekrMIT

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2,519subscribers

+17 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001126446248
TypeChannel
Username@zekrMIT
CreatedBetween 1 June 2017 and 31 August 2020— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live12 August 2026
Measurements held5
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 12 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/zekrMIT

Topic

Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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.

Observations

These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.

Content that also appears on other registered channels

Posts published here appear word for word on 1 other registered channel. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.

Matching posts — open both and compare (6 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Posted firstThenOverlapGap
@zekrMIT/3857 · this entry22 Jul 2026, 01:12 UTC@Mesbahinfo/104022 Jul 2026, 01:15 UTC1.003 minutes
@zekrMIT/3859 · this entry23 Jul 2026, 01:07 UTC@Mesbahinfo/104223 Jul 2026, 01:19 UTC1.0012 minutes
@zekrMIT/3870 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 03:51 UTC@Mesbahinfo/10526 Aug 2026, 03:58 UTC1.007 minutes
@zekrMIT/3855 · this entry20 Jul 2026, 02:37 UTC@Mesbahinfo/103820 Jul 2026, 02:49 UTC0.9812 minutes
@zekrMIT/3852 · this entry17 Jul 2026, 03:34 UTC@Mesbahinfo/103517 Jul 2026, 03:44 UTC0.9610 minutes
@zekrMIT/3858 · this entry23 Jul 2026, 01:07 UTC@Mesbahinfo/104123 Jul 2026, 01:19 UTC0.9612 minutes
Every channel this entry shares post bodies with
ChannelMatching postsText overlapTypical gapPublished first
@Mesbahinfo10 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)0.978 minutesthis entry (100)

Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.

What this cannot establish

MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.

Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. None of the 0 matches recorded here fall after that date, so for this entry we cannot say whether any of them carried a credit. The duplication is measured; the absence of attribution is not.

“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 22 comparable posts for this entry, running 13 July 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.

The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.

  • Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
  • 'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
  • shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
  • Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).

Across the whole group of 2, the earliest publisher we hold is @zekrMIT — which is this entry. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.

Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.

Also posting the same content

This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.

Growth

2,5022,5192,510.56 August 2026 — 2,502 subscribers6 August 2026 — 2,502 subscribers6 August 2026 — 2,506 subscribers9 August 2026 — 2,510 subscribers12 August 2026 — 2,519 subscribers6 August 202612 August 2026
5 measurements spanning 7 days, net +17. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 2,499–2,522 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
12 Aug 2026, 23:152,519+9
9 Aug 2026, 12:412,510+4
6 Aug 2026, 17:502,506+4
6 Aug 2026, 05:342,502no change
6 Aug 2026, 03:022,502first reading

Engagement

22 posts held, back to 13 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
27.8%
avg views ÷ 2,519 subscribers
Avg views / post
701
20 posts measured
Reaction rate
this channel exposes no reaction counts
Posts in window
20
of 22 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026
Posts held22 (13 July 20267 August 2026)
Views total14,021
Reactions total
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken7 Aug 2026, 16:26 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

Recent posts

7 Aug 2026, 03:45 UTC693 viewsread 7 August 2026
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نصّ و اجتهاد در انديشه سياسی شيعه، دکتر حسن انصاری جلسه سوم: در اين جلسه به يک پرسش اساسی درباره بحث تعيين جانشينی پيامبر (ص) پاسخ داديم و آن اينکه آيا آنچه پيامبر (ص) درباره امر جانشينی خود و امامت امت بيان کرد در چارچوب "نصّ" می گنجد و يا موضوع اجتهاد است؟ آيا لازم است همه به وجود نص علم ضروری داشته باشند و يا علم بر پايه استدلال و اکتساب هم کافی است؟ آيا مضمون و دلالت آنچه پيامبر در اين زمينه فرمود در مقام نصّ و

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

7 Aug 2026, 03:44 UTC579 viewsread 7 August 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zdmzGFuKg&list=PLRagz8v-1fF5NWupyv3Cx-_HjO8ikUMF-&t=1s 🔻"Nass and Ijtihad in Shi'a Political Thought," Lec03 Speaker: Dr. Hassan Ansari July 28, 2026 🟥 Lecture in Persian. closed captions (CC) and auto-translate are available. Summary: In this session, we answered a fundamental question concerning the issue of the Prophet's (peace be upon him) succession: Does what the Prophet (pe

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

6 Aug 2026, 03:51 UTC151 viewsread 7 August 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnEUrZ1hvLY&t=2s 🔻"What Would You Have Done? — Karbala and the Choices That Define Us," Part II Speaker: H. I. Hasan Doagoo Jul 30, 2026 MIT Dua Kumayl & Lecture, Special Topics Safar 2026

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

5 Aug 2026, 00:56 UTC181 viewsread 7 August 2026
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@zekrMIT biweekly programs—Quran Study and Dua Kumayl—will resume after the summer break in the Fall semester, beginning on September 11, insha’Allah. During August our programs will be for special events which we have scheduled two, Aug 14th and 28th. Details will be announced. https://sites.mit.edu/zekrmit/ @zekrMIT

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

4 Aug 2026, 18:22 UTC199 viewsread 7 August 2026
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🏴 20 Safar (Aug. 4): Arbaeen - The Anniversary of the 40th day of the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (p), 61 AH السَّلامُ عَلَىٰ وَلِيِّ اللّٰهِ وَحَبِيبِهِ، السَّلامُ عَلَىٰ خَلِيلِ اللّٰهِ وَنَجِيبِهِ، السَّلامُ عَلَىٰ صَفِيِّ اللّٰهِ وَابْنِ صَفِيِّهِ، السَّلامُ عَلَى الْحُسَيْنِ الْمَظْلُومِ الشَّهِيدِ، السَّلامُ عَلَىٰ أَسِيرِ الْكُرُباتِ وَقَتِيلِ الْعَبَرَاتِ. (زیارت اربعین)

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

29 Jul 2026, 02:38 UTC391 viewsread 7 August 2026
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Dua Kumayl & Lecture, Special Topics, Safar 2026 🌐 Hybrid, EN Lecture Speaker: H. I. Hasan Doagoo (joining by zoom) Lecture: "What Would You Have Done? — Karbala and the Choices That Define Us," Part II Date Thursday July 30th, 2026 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm (Eastern Time) Location MIT Tang Center, E51-395, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02142 Schedule 7:00-7:05 Quran Recitation 7:05-7:30 Dua Kumayl 7:30-8:15 Lecture and

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

28 Jul 2026, 01:38 UTC322 viewsread 7 August 2026
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درس گفتارهای تاریخ اندیشه و تمدن اسلامی 🌐 بصورت مجازی، به فارسی «نصّ و اجتهاد در انديشه سياسی شيعه» توسط دکتر حسن انصاری جلسه سوم (آخر)، سه شنبه ۲۸ جولای، ۸:۰۰ تا ۱۰:۳۰ شب (به وقت شرق آمریکا) Zoom Participation (webinar): https://mit.zoom.us/j/93933325521 در باره سخنران: https://www.ias.edu/hs/ansari #نص_اجتهاد_شيعه @azbarresihayetarikhi https://sites.mit.edu/zekrmit/ @zekrMIT

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

28 Jul 2026, 01:36 UTC278 viewsread 7 August 2026
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Lecture Series, Lec03 🌐 Virtual, FA Lecture | Subtitled on YouTube Date Tuesday July 28th, 2026 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm (US Eastern Time) Location Online, Detail Below Schedule 8:00-8:05 Login to zoom 8:05-10:15 Lecture, in Persian, Dr. Hassan Ansari Title: "Nass and Ijtihad in Shi'a Political Thought," Lec03 (last) 10:15-10:30 Q&A Zoom Participation (webinar): https://mit.zoom.us/j/93933325521 - About Speaker (Bio

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

27 Jul 2026, 00:01 UTC294 viewsread 7 August 2026
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upcoming events, Jul 28-30, 2026 🔹Virtual ▫️Tue, Jul 28, 8:00-10:30 pm Lecture Series, 03, "Nass and Ijtihad in Shi'a Political Thought," Hassan Ansari, IAS, Princeton. 🔸Hybrid ▫️Thu, Jul 30, 7:00-9:30 pm Dua Kumayl & Lecture, Special Topics. visit us: https://sites.mit.edu/zekrmit/ @zekrMIT

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

23 Jul 2026, 01:07 UTC440 viewsread 7 August 2026

Abstract: Ashura presents one of the deepest paradoxes in history: Imam Husayn was militarily defeated, yet the values he embodied survived the power that killed him. His body was overcome in Karbala, but his moral world outlived the empire that tried to erase him. This presentation looks beyond the final day of Ashura to examine Imam Husayn’s life, words, family, and companions. It combines a brief academic summary

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

23 Jul 2026, 01:07 UTC332 viewsread 7 August 2026
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Special Topics, Safar 2026 🌐 Hybrid, EN Lecture Speaker: Dr. Mehran Dibaji Lecture: "The Paradox of Imam Husayn: Which Values Survive Power, Historical Defeat, and Become the Backbone of Nations?" Date Friday July 24th, 2026 7:15 pm to 9:30 pm (Eastern Time) Location MIT Tang Center, E51-376, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02142 Schedule 7:15-7:20 Ziyarat Ale-Yasin 7:20-8:30 Lecture and Q&A, in English Maghrib: Pra

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

22 Jul 2026, 01:12 UTC309 viewsread 7 August 2026
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7 Safar (July 22): Birth of Imam Musa al-Kadhim (p), 128 AH اللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى الْأَمِينِ الْمُؤْتَمَنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الْبَرِّ الْوَفِيِّ، الطَّاهِرِ الزَّكِيِّ، النُّورِ الْمُبِينِ ، الْمُجْتَهِدِ الْمُحْتَسِبِ الصَّابِرِ عَلَى الْأَذىٰ فِيكَ . اللّٰهُمَّ وَكَما بَلَّغَ عَنْ آبائِهِ مَا اسْتُودِعَ مِنْ أَمْرِكَ وَنَهْيِكَ، وَحَمَلَ عَلَى الْمَحَجَّةِ، وَكابَدَ أَهْلَ الْعِزَّةِ وَالشِّدَّةِ فِيما كانَ يَ

Signed Ahlulbayt Islamic Society

Showing the 12 most recent of 22 posts we hold for @zekrMIT. 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.

Citation-graph rank

Citation-graph rank — 131,337 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 3 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“ZEKR, MIT Shia Muslim Association” (@zekrMIT), 2,519 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/zekrMIT.

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.