The kuffar are destroying themselves with the same technology that appears to be so powerful.

Consider the demographic problems highly industrialized societies like W. Europe, North America, China, and Japan are facing.

Low birth rates lead to an increasingly elderly population. With fewer younger people to care for all the elderly, there is a heavier burden on both the government and the young. The government has fewer workers to pay taxes with more expenses to care for elderly.

This means increasing taxes, which causes discontent among the population and weakens the government’s grip on power.

This also erodes the West’s claim to moral superiority, because they maintain order by paying out benefits rather than using raw violence.

Furthermore, these countries have to depend more and more on immigration to cover labor shortages. This decreases overall social cohesion and also increases tension.

This can be observed in the far right backlash against immigrants in Western Europe and North America, which is a major flashpoint in these countries’ descent toward civil war.

Less labor supply means labor costs go up, which drives inflation by making everything more expensive. Higher prices, of course, also fuel social tension inside of these countries. Since neo-colonial subjects also depend on supplies from neo-colonial master countries, it also causes unrest in the 3rd world slave countries, putting more pressure on the neo-colonial relationships.

And what is the source of this demographic imbalance?

It’s mainly that as technology becomes more advanced, the knowledge required to produce it becomes more specialized, requiring ever longer and more specialized education.

People are busy with their education, so don’t have children until much later. They also try to avoid having too many children due to the high cost of education and the fact that children don’t help economically due to mechanization.

Children not working further erodes the quality of society by leading to generations of entitled, spoiled brats with no discipline, gratitude, or sense of responsibility, meaning the quality as well as the quantity of the population declines.

This is not to mention the fact that delaying or abandoning marriage leads to the rise of a “hook up” culture which results in women getting emotionally ravaged and the rampant spread of mental illness, further eroding the overall health of the society.

Add to that the heavy load of industrial pollution, including toxic chemical and radiation causing hormonal imbalances and cancer.

You don’t need to see research about this – just go to rural Afghanistan or Mali and look at the people, and compare them to people in the West.

Making matters worse, continually advancing technology requires ever more expensive, advanced education, which means the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, because fewer people can afford to reach the top echelons of industry.

This adds to social tension even more.

So the kuffar achieve some impressive little feats in the very short term with their gadgets. However, they inflict even more harm on themselves in the process than whatever harm they do to the Muslims with their planes, guided missiles and artillery.


ان يمسسكم قرح فقد مس القوم قرح مثله

“If a wound should touch you, there has already touched the [opposing] people a wound similar to it.” [3:140]

The general principle here is that if the kuffar inflict harm upon the believers, they too are inflicted with harm.

و تلك الايام نداولها بين الناس وليعلم الله لذين ءامنوا و يتخذ منكم شهداء

“And these days of various [of varying conditions] We alternate among the people so that Allah may make evident those who believe and [may] take to Himself from among you martyrs…” [3:140, continued]

It’s a constant principle from Dawud and Jalut to the Battle of Badr that faith overcomes the appearance of worldly strength and power.

The purpose of fighting, for a believer, is to attain the mercy and acceptance of Allah by striving to make the word of Allah supreme.

Achieving this purpose does not depend on technology. Even honorable defeats are part of an ongoing struggle, as the Muslims today take inspiration from the struggle of mujahideen like Umar al Mukhtar or Imam Shamil, may Allah accept them.

So we should really not be amazed by dishonorable and cowardly engineers and scientists who devise methods to kill thousands of Muslims while simultaneously destroying both the dunya and akhira of their own people. If we can use these tehnologies without doing haram, fine.

If not, then we need not view the technologies as a prerequisite for armed struggle. The nature of asymmetric warfare also means that expensive technology can rapidly become a liability due to the cost of maintaining and deploying it.

This was also the case in the Battle of the Trench, where initially the confederates appeared fearsome and far more powerful than the Muslims due to having a large amount of cavalry, but with time they were unable to feed their horses, leading the army to disperse.

So don’t be like the treacherous Banu Qurayza, who went over to the side of the kuffar because of being amazed by their appearance of strength and power.

The promise of Allah is true, jannah is true, and jahannam is true, so fear Allah and go forth when you are called to do so.