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  • Atheistic rage and Antichrist

    Nafi’ reported that Ibn ‘Umar met Ibn Sayyad on some of the paths of Medina and he said to him a word which enraged him and he was so much swollen with anger that the way was blocked.

     

    Ibn ‘Umar went to Hafsa and informed her about this. Thereupon she said:

    May Allah have mercy upon you, why did you incite Ibn Sayyad in spite of the fact that you knew it would be the extreme anger which would make Dajjal appear in the world?

  • End of history and future of semi realities

    We the faithful of latest covenant perceive end of history as an era when semi-realities fade and Reality or Haqq prevails. And, the protagonists of partial truths will be disappointed. Compared with modern nihilism it is a very optimistic worldview.

  • Veiled zoologists and xenophobic feminists

    My mother is a veiled zoologist and xenophobic feminists will be patronizingly frightened of her.

  • Future of international atheism

    Atheism is sugarcoated greek polytheism. An international atheism will take sometime to emerge but will be tainted by communist tyranny without Christian humanism. 

  • Orthodox Muslims, boredom and meaning

    Submitted by Anonymous on May 5, 2013 – 8:00pm

    I have a great job, a terrific apartment, loving parents. Haven’t touched alcohol in years, and never tried illicit drugs. No gambling, no reckless driving, no extreme sports. No sex in over a year. And turning 36 next week.

    I am profoundly bored.
    I got here by swallowing my feelings and continuing to put one foot in front of the other. Nowadays it takes 300mg of Effexor a day to that. Boredom never ends. And it does not feel like an emptiness, but rather like I’m being buried alive. Life means nothing, there is no point, no purpose that I can find.

    Submitted by Ishmael on March 11, 2019 – 11:08am

    I am an orthodox Muslim. People may expect us to have very boring lives but our meaningful lives help us a lot to deal with existential boredom. Exploring the local Mosque and/or Muslim community might help you.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/heartache-hope/201304/boredom-very-real-road-addiction

  • Message to an Azerbaijani logician

    Peace brother from Pakistan. The biological mechanism of fight or flight has hagiosophical lessons to inform our cultural resistance. Spider cannibalism is part of our Scripture. Many giants of our history may have had a schizoid personality. We really need lessons in logical fallacies and cognitive biases to inform our religio-political discourse like the traditional mantiq lessons.

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  • Islam and specieism

    Islam teaches that on day of judgement a goat will be provided justice for being wronged by another goat by the horn. Leader of saints Ali peace be upon him taught that I would not accept a position of hagiocracy which involves taking away seeds from ants unjustly.

    21st century Muslims are victims of a kind of reverse specieism in which animals in west have more rights than anti-imperial Muslims.

  • An Afpak saint died

    Maata rahib at tawhid wa zahidu khurasan wa hibrus sufiyyah. 

  • Islam, Christianity and narcissistic victim syndrome

    I am an orthodox Muslim with some narcissistic family members. I am raised a Sunni and I like Shia attitude towards narcissistic anti-religious or pseudo-religious dictators. Now I am a semi-Sunni semi-Shia Zaydi. Shias cites Quran 4:148 as the Scriptural basis for being outspoken when you suffer abuse. Religion neither teaches blind anarchism nor blind obedience. Rather a optimal middle path of moderate respectful rebellion on that spectrum. Reza Aslan has shown rebellious elements in early Christianity which are different from modern socialism.

    https://narc-attack.blogspot.com/2008/02/religion-and-victimhood.html

  • Prayer for divine protection by Prophetic descendant

    مناجاة بالاستعاذة عن الإمام الجواد

    اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ مُلِمَّاتِ نَوَازِلِ الْبَلَاءِ وَ أَهْوَالِ عَظَائِمِ الضَّرَّاءِ فَأَعِذْنِي رَبِّ مِنْ صَرْعَةِ الْبَأْسَاءِ وَ احْجُبْنِي مِنْ سَطَوَاتِ الْبَلَاءِ وَ نَجِّنِي مِنْ مُفَاجَاةِ النِّقَمِ وَ أَجِرْنِي مِنْ زَوَالِ النِّعَمِ وَ مِنْ زَلَلِ الْقَدَمِ وَ اجْعَلْنِي اللَّهُمَّ فِي حِيَاطَةِ عِزِّكَ وَ حِفَاظِ حِرْزِكَ مِنْ مُبَاغَتَةِ الدَّوَائِرِ وَ مُعَاجَلَةِ الْبَوَادِرِ اللَّهُمَّ رَبِّ وَ أَرْضُ الْبَلَاءِ فَاخْسِفْهَا وَ عَرْصَةُ الْمِحَنِ فَارْجُفْهَا وَ شَمْسُ النَّوَائِبِ فَاكْسِفْهَا وَ جِبَالُ السَّوْءِ فَانْسِفْهَا وَ كَرْبُ الدَّهْرِ فَاكْشِفْهَا وَ عَوَائِقُ الْأُمُورِ فَاصْرِفْهَا وَ أَوْرِدْنِي حِيَاضَ السَّلَامَةِ وَ احْمِلْنِي عَلَى مَطَايَا الْكَرَامَةِ وَ اصْحَبْنِي بِإِقَالَةِ الْعَثْرَةِ وَ اشْمَلْنِي بِسَتْرِ الْعَوْرَةِ وَ جُدْ عَلَيَّ يَا رَبِّ بِآلَائِكَ وَ كَشْفِ بَلَائِكَ وَ دَفْعِ ضَرَّائِكَ وَ ارْفَعْ كَلَاكِلَ عَذَابِكَ وَ اصْرِفْ عَنِّي أَلِيمَ عِقَابِكَ- وَ أَعِذْنِي مِنْ بَوَائِقِ الدُّهُورِ وَ أَنْقِذْنِي مِنْ سُوءِ عَوَاقِبِ الْأُمُورِ وَ احْرُسْنِي مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْمَحْذُورِ وَ اصْدَعْ صَفَاءَ الْبَلَاءِ عَنْ أَمْرِي وَ اشْلُلْ يَدَهُ عَنِّي مَدَى عُمُرِي إِنَّكَ الرَّبُّ الْمَجِيدُ الْمُبْدِئُ الْمُعِيدُ الْفَعَّالُ لِمَا تُرِيدُ