Islamic Anecdotal Notes 2026


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{ لِّلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا الْحُسْنَىٰ وَزِيَادَةٌ } 10-26

{Those who do good will have the finest reward and ˹even˺ more.}


isan 2026-07-26 # ==
The Quran as Civilizational Constitution Structurally

@kelevitch
The Prophet ﷺ built a state in 23 years from nothing.
No institutional inheritance. No existing bureaucracy. No economic base. A persecuted minority in a city that wanted him dead, then a refugee community in a city that didn’t fully trust him, then through a combination of military genius, diplomatic sophistication, and what can only be described as civilizational magnetism- the unification of Arabia and the launching of a civilization that would dominate the next millennium.

That’s a political science anomaly that nobody in mainstream IR theory has seriously tried to explain.
Because if you apply Weberian sociology to it, you get charismatic authority but Weber’s framework predicts collapse after the charismatic leader dies. Islam didn’t collapse. It accelerated. The first generation after the Prophet produced the most rapid legitimate state expansion in human history. That doesn’t fit the model.

If you apply Ibn Khaldun, you get closer strong asabiyyah, desert origins, high group cohesion but asabiyyah alone doesn’t explain the durability of the normative framework. Empires built on group solidarity collapse when the solidarity fractures. The Islamic world fractured politically almost immediately and still maintained civilizational coherence across a thousand years and a dozen dynasties.
The variable that both frameworks underweight is the text. A revealed, memorized, universally accessible normative anchor that no ruler could fully own or fully corrupt. The Quran as civilizational constitution structurally.
That’s what made it different. And that’s what’s hardest to reconstruct when the relationship to the text becomes decorative rather than generative.
Jun 27, 2026




isan 2026-07-25 # ==
King Faisal’s Courage Is a Reminder

@SultanSulamon
This is the leader who literally brought the world's status quo to its knees to stand for the oppressed. In a time of cowards and puppets, King Faisal’s courage is a reminder that morality and justice are priceless. It's time to remember what a real leader looks like. #KingFaisal


"When people reach a degree of immorality, degeneracy and inability to control themselves then they are able to control them."


isan 2026-07-09 ==
{Marry only one}

@salahudeen33
"Why are Muslims Allowed To Marry 4 Wives?"
Ahmed Deedat answered.




isan 2026-07-09 ==
Alternatives to Extractive Western Economics

@susanabulhawa
The extractive model that produces a genocide in Palestine; that resurrects the western economic engine of mass enslavement in the Congo; that engineers mass slaughter and famine in Sudan — this is not a world order in crisis. It is a world order working as it was designed [□ comment: by the arrogant powers].

The real crisis is that increasing numbers of people are noticing the design!

Gaza has pulled back the veil on everything and everyone. It is time to plan not merely an end to the violence, but to imagine a different order entirely.

The alternatives need not be invented from scratch. They already exist in the civilizational traditions that colonialism spent centuries trying to eliminate precisely because they offered different answers:

ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES
• Zakat as structural redistribution, not charity.
• The prohibition on riba (usury) as a principle that finance must serve human life.
• Waqf — the communal endowment held in perpetual trust — built the infrastructure of Islamic cities for a thousand years without privatization.

AFRICAN COMMUNAL ETHOS
• Ubuntu: “A person is a person through other persons.”
• A direct refutation of neoliberal capitalism’s premise that the individual is the primary unit of social life.
• South Africa enshrined ubuntu in its constitution.

INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN HERITAGE
• The olive tree as archive.
• Land as something you belong to, not something you own.

No amount of military power can purchase this relationship or replicate it.
Jun 27, 2026




isan 2026-07-09 ==
Dr. Safiya Consoles His Colleague

@CredibleUFO
November 2024: Director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, consoles his colleague who lost 17 members of his family following an Israeli strike on his home in Beit Lahiya.


Urgent: This doctor is dying in Isra-lic toture prison
◇ Save Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya ◇



isan 2026-07-09 ==
The Leader of ISIS Was a U.S. Agent

@DaniMayakovski
Translated from Spanish
"The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was a U.S. agent, was released from prison by the U.S., and they spent more than 20-30 million dollars to train ISIS groups in the region, which received funding and weapons from the Americans."

Nabil Naeem, former leader of Al Qaeda, admitting that ISIS has always been a tool of the empire to destabilize countries in the Middle East and advance its security interests in Europe.




isan 2026-07-08 ==
A Witch's Life in Mongolia

@NaokiQYamamoto
The Japanese anime Jaadugar: A Witch's Life in Mongolia quietly portrays the faith, wisdom, love, and resilience of Muslims through a delicate and beautiful artistic style. Its gentle storytelling and elegant visual artistry make it a deeply moving experience.

a-witchs-life-in-mongolia

Watch it here (1min)


Available on Crunchyroll, 7-Day Free Trial at crunchyroll.com

Comment by @KopiCobalagi
Lessons from Tenmaku no Jaadugar
To Allah belongs everything in the heavens and everything on the earth.
In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.



isltx 2026-06-15 ==
Is There Anything More Important Than Prayer?

@ferizandra
Translated from Indonesian
Senegal national team head coach Pape Thiaw has become a hot topic in America due to a statement he made during a press conference, regarding the Friday prayer worship.

Journalist:
"Today there's extremely strong wind in the state of New Jersey, and security personnel are advising delegation members not to go out for your safety… why did you still go out to perform the prayer…?"

Pape Thiaw:
"Is there anything more important than prayer? I think that's none of your business... you fear the wind, while we fear Allah, the One who created the wind… we come here for an entertainment match, and then we forget that we were created to worship Allah…

Even if the FIFA World Cup final were held today and we were one of the finalists, we would still go out to perform the Friday prayer, even if it meant losing the championship title…

Don't lecture us about our religious rituals and obligations…"



isltx 2026-06-15 ==
Women Find Islam a Safe Place

@HalalNation_
British Woman Admits So Many British People Are CONVERTING To Islam ☪️ 🇬🇧

Islam Will enter every home…



tempxp == 2026-01-29 13:57 ==
Islam The Violent Religion (or ?)

@Emeliarjl
Highest rates of prostitution in the world:

1.Thailand (Buddhist)
2.Denmark (Christian)
3.Italy (Christian)
4.Germany (Christian)
5.France (Christian)
6.Norway (Christian)
7.Belgium (Christian)
8.Spain (Christian)
9.United Kingdom (Christian)
10.Finland (Christian)

Highest rates of theft in the world:
1.Denmark and Finland (Christian)
2.Zimbabwe (Christian)
3.Australia (Christian)
4.Canada (Christian)
5.New Zealand (Christian)
6.India (Hindu)
7.England and Wales (Christian)
8.United States (Christian)
9.Sweden (Christian)
10.South Africa (Christian)

Highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world:
1.Moldova (Christian)
2.Belarus (Christian)
3.Lithuania (Christian)
4.Russia (Christian)
5.Czech Republic (Christian)
6.Ukraine (Christian)
7.Andorra (Christian)
8.Romania (Christian)
9.Serbia (Christian)
10.Australia (Christian)

Highest homicide rates in the world:
1.Honduras (Christian)
2.Venezuela (Christian)
3.Belize (Christian)
4.El Salvador (Christian)
5.Guatemala (Christian)
6.South Africa (Christian)
7.Saint Kitts and Nevis (Christian)
8.The Bahamas (Christian)
9.Lesotho (Christian)
10.Jamaica (Christian)

Most dangerous gangs in the world:
1.Yakuza (non-religious)
2.Agberos (Christian)
3.Wah Sing (Christian)
4.Jamaica Posse (Christian)
5.Primeiro (Christian)
6.Aryan Brotherhood (Christian)

Largest drug cartels in the world:
1.Pablo Escobar – Colombia (Christian)
2.Amado Carrillo – Colombia (Christian)
3.Carlos Lehder – Germany (Christian)
4.Griselda Blanco – Colombia (Christian)
5.Joaquín Guzmán – Mexico (Christian)
6.Rafael Caro – Mexico (Christian)

And then they say that #Islam is the cause of violence and terrorism in the world and want us to believe that.

Who started World War I?
Not Muslims.

Who started World War II?
Not Muslims.

Who killed about 20 million of Australia’s indigenous people?
Not Muslims.

Who dropped the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan?
Not Muslims.

Who killed more than 100 million Native Americans in South America?
Not Muslims.

Who killed about 50 million Native Americans in North America?
Not Muslims.

Who kidnapped more than 180 million Africans as slaves from Africa, of whom about 88% died and were thrown into the oceans?
Not Muslims.

First, we must define terrorism or understand how terrorism is viewed by non-Muslims.
If a non-Muslim commits a terrorist act, it is called a crime; but if a Muslim commits it, it is called terrorism.

We must stop dealing with double standards.
Only then will you understand the purpose of my words.

I am proud of my Islam.
I am proud to be Muslim.

Do not let it stop with you—
inform others about the distortion of reality and truth.

Praise be to Allah for the blessing of Islam and all its blessings.
pic Islam-Didnt-Invent-Terrorism-US-did


cpin 2026-01-27 20:39 LT ==
Acts to Please Allah Alone

Acts for pleasing Allah (riḍwān)
We must look at each action that we do, or are about to do, and make sure that it will be pleasing to Allah.

Otherwise we will see that great actions are being made small because of one's [low or non-existing] intention. This can best be shown by the hadith related by Abu Umama, when a man once came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "What of a man who joined us in fighting, his intention being for fame and booty?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "He receives nothing." The man repeated the question three times, and each time the Prophet ﷺ said, "He receives nothing." Then he said,
"Allah only accepts actions that are intended purely for His good pleasure." An-Nisa'i


cpin 2026-01-21 12:19 LT ==
The Samson Option: How Israel Has Held America Hostage Since 1973

I’m about to tell you some things you likely didn’t know. Almost nobody does, because it’s been classified intel for 50 years. If U.S. support for Israel seems odd, or lack explanation, this well help it make sense to you. And when you understand it, the definition of evil will hit different. Why? Because we’ve had Jericho Missiles to our heads for half a century, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

cpin 2026-01-20 21:28 LT ==
The Islamic Perspective on Parent-Child Relationships

We’ve raised children who know how to take, but have we taught them how to give? This article dives into the Islamic response to a culture of entitlement.

In today’s increasingly individualized society and entitlement-driven culture -shaped heavily by Western ideals of autonomy and self-fulfillment- a worrying trend has emerged: many young people have come to see their parents not as figures of reverence, guidance, and gratitude, but as service providers; even well into adulthood.

This shift is particularly visible in children who, while benefitting from years of care and sacrifice, respond with entitlement or neglect. Some even say, “We didn’t ask to be born, it was your choice!” This perspective, although widely normalized in modern Western discourse, is deeply misaligned with the values and principles of Islam.…

cpin 2026-01-19 21:25 LT ==
046_Mossad-ran-9-11-Arab-hijacker-terrorist-operation

”The three-man Mossad unit then traveled to Hamburg where it made contact with Mohammed Atta, who believed they were sent by Osama Bin Laden. In fact, they were sent by Ephraim Halevy, the chief of Mossad.”

cpin 2026-01-19 21:13 LT ==
036_Is Islam the Only Valid Path to God?

How then should the above verse [2:62] be read? Scholars of tafsir, along with their belief that the Qur’an’s message now supersedes all previous heavenly teachings, offer these interpretations for the above verse: [i] It is said to refer to those seekers of truth who believed in the imminent arrival of the final Prophet – like Habib al-Najjar, Qays b. Sa‘adah …

cpin 2026-01-19 20:47 LT ==
Should-Muslims-in-the-North-Fast-23-Hours-a-Day?

Many scholars have tried to answer the question of how long a Muslim should fast in the summer of the northern regions of the world (above 48 degrees latitude) as this article explains …

cpin 2026-01-19 16:50 LT ==
Injustice in God's name: The corruption of modern Islam

the analytic and critical rigor that the Islamic tradition rightly deserves, but are rendered subservient to political expedience and symbolic displays of power …




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