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The Source of Faith
The basis of the religion of science is belief in the supremacy of the human intellect. If you believe in Allah, subhanahu wa t’ala, but believe that your faith proceeds from your intellect, you still fall into this trap.
Guidance comes from Allah:
وَمَاۤ أَرۡسَلۡنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا بِلِسَانِ قَوۡمِهِۦ لِیُبَیِّنَ لَهُمۡۖ فَیُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن یَشَاۤءُ وَیَهۡدِی مَن یَشَاۤءُۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِیزُ ٱلۡحَكِیمُ
“And We sent not a Messenger except with the language of his people, in order that he might make (the Message)
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clear for them. Then Allah misleads whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And He is the All-Mighty, the All Wise.”Just as Allah sends water to revive the dead earth, Allah grants faith to bring life to the heart.
النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ “ مَثَلُ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي يُذْكَرُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ وَالْبَيْتِ الَّذِي لاَ يُذْكَرُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ مَثَلُ الْحَىِّ وَالْمَيِّتِ ” .
The Prophet ﷺ said: “The likeness of the house in which Allah is remembered, and the house in which Allah is not remembered, is that of the living and the dead.”
Sahih Bukhari, 6044And it is Allah that causes the rain to fall:
أَفَرَءَیۡتُمُ ٱلۡمَاۤءَ ٱلَّذِی تَشۡرَبُونَ
ءَأَنتُمۡ أَنزَلۡتُمُوهُ مِنَ ٱلۡمُزۡنِ أَمۡ نَحۡنُ ٱلۡمُنزِلُونَ
“Consider the water which you drink.
Was it you that brought it down from the rain cloud or We?”
56:68-69Allah is above the physical phenomenon of precipitation. Even if all of the physical conditions for precipitation and rain are present, He can withhold the rain. And even if all of the conditions for rain are absent, He can send rain by His will.
The guidance of Allah is independent from rational understanding of the Truth. Rational understanding may be one aspect of Allah’s guidance, but it is never the source of guidance, just as a rain cloud is not the true source of rain. Allah may guide a person or increase them in faith by means of the intellect, or without it.
At times we may encounter some knowledge, or a rational argument which increases us in faith. At other times, it may be emotion that increases our faith. And nothing increases faith like witnessing karamat, or miracles, where Allah grants exceptions to the laws of physics. Even witnessing miracles, though, is no guarantee of faith or guidance.
The kuffar of Mecca witnessed the splitting of the moon and still did not believe. Ultimately, faith can only come from Allah. And so the Prophet ﷺ prayed:
يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ
“O turner of hearts, set my heart firmly upon your religion.”
Sunan at Tirmidhi, 3522On social media, there is a big demand among the Muslims (especially in the English speaking space) for refutations of atheism. This demand points to a need; Muslims in America are not very interested in refutations of Hinduism, because their faith is not attacked and threatened by Hinduism on a daily basis. The religion of science, however, is the dominant organizing principle of society, and this is the real meaning of “deen.”
A “deen” is the core logic of a society, a way of life. The deception of secularism is to reduce the definition of religion to a private spiritual practice. This means many Muslims are actually living according to a religion that contradicts Islam while trying to reconcile their lives with the teachings of the Quran and sunnah. This is an impossible task. We are so infected by the religion of science, that we even seek to use it to repair our faith. When we are confronted with doubts, we seek
reassurance in rational refutations of atheists, or scientific proofs of Islam.
That’s not to say that this approach is not valuable or important; it is. But the problem is that this is only one means to increase our faith, and it is being given a level of importance which reflects the values of the dominant science religion.Ibn Taymiyyah, rahimullah, said:
“Faith increases by acts of obedience to Allah and decreases by acts of disobedience.”
Sharh Al-Aqida Al-Wasitiyya 1/264How many times does Allah, subhanhu wa t’ala, command the believers to struggle and fight in His path in His book? So we have generally abandoned obedience to Allah, subhanhu wa t’ala, and we find our iman is sinking. So what is the solution?
Well, what does the logic of society teach us to do? Turn to human reason to find the solution. The religion of science teaches us to use logic to destroy these doubts, just as we use antibiotics to kill diseases. Well, here’s a logical and rational explanation of how supporting and participating in jihad can increase your iman, without referring to the Western academic and scientific establishment.قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم “ مَثَلُ الْجَلِيسِ الصَّالِحِ وَالْجَلِيسِ السَّوْءِ كَمَثَلِ صَاحِبِ الْمِسْكِ، وَكِيرِ الْحَدَّادِ، لاَ يَعْدَمُكَ مِنْ صَاحِبِ الْمِسْكِ إِمَّا تَشْتَرِيهِ، أَوْ تَجِدُ رِيحَهُ، وَكِيرُ الْحَدَّادِ يُحْرِقُ بَدَنَكَ أَوْ ثَوْبَكَ أَوْ تَجِدُ مِنْهُ رِيحًا خَبِيثَةً ”.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “The example of a good companion in comparison with a bad one is like that of the musk seller and the blacksmith’s bellows; from the first you would either buy musk or enjoy its good smell while the bellows would either burn your body or your clothes or you get a bad nasty smell thereof.”
Sahih Bukhari, 2101We are affected by our surroundings, and guess what happens when you start to even speak in support of the mujahideen in our time? You will find yourself abandoned by all kinds of people. Even many of your family members will stop speaking to you out of fear of the government.
Is this a loss? Not at all. Rather, the people who are in love with dunya will go away from you, because they will fear that you might cause them to lose some of what they love. At the same time, those who fear Allah, subhanahu wa t’ala, more than they fear His creation will still sit with you, and the quality of your companions will increase dramatically.
If you stay on this path, there are a few things that might happen; you will face increasing trials; you might be harassed and insulted. You may have trouble finding work. You might be imprisoned. But if you look at the people insulting you, you’ll find that being accepted by them would not help you in your religion.
You might find the job you were rejected from was filled with mixing with non-mahram women, and associated with other haram activities like riba, insurance, or supporting governments that are at war with Allah. If you go to prison, there’s a few possibilities; they can put you in the general population, which means you can make da’wah to the prisoners, and you will find them in many cases much more receptive than the normal people outside the prison who are busy with dunya. But the prison managers know this as well, so they may separate you from the general population and put you in a special area for religious Muslims, where the companionship of your brothers will increase you in iman and beneficial knowledge. And solitary confinement is probably the most difficult trial, but you will almost certainly spend much more time reciting and memorizing the book of Allah and making abundant dhikr.
From this persecution, you will come to hate the oppression of the kuffar and munafiqeen even more, and you may feel, if Allah wills, more willing to take the risks and endure the difficulty associated with emigration so as not to be in a position to be humiliated and abused by them any more.
These trials come in waves of difficulty and ease, ease and difficulty, and the only way to pass through these trials is reliance on Allah. Each trial may be greater than the last, and will require deepening your trust and dependence on Allah. Each time the help of Allah arrives after your sincere supplications, it will also increase your faith, in sha Allah. And as your faith increases, so too will the difficulty of the trials.عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ النَّاسِ أَشَدُّ بَلاَءً قَالَ “ الأَنْبِيَاءُ ثُمَّ الأَمْثَلُ فَالأَمْثَلُ يُبْتَلَى الْعَبْدُ عَلَى حَسَبِ دِينِهِ فَإِنْ كَانَ فِي دِينِهِ صُلْبًا اشْتَدَّ بَلاَؤُهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ فِي دِينِهِ رِقَّةٌ ابْتُلِيَ عَلَى حَسَبِ دِينِهِ فَمَا يَبْرَحُ الْبَلاَءُ بِالْعَبْدِ حَتَّى يَتْرُكَهُ يَمْشِي عَلَى الأَرْضِ وَمَا عَلَيْهِ مِنْ خَطِيئَةٍ ” .
It was narrated from Mus’ab bin Sa’d that his father, Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas, said:
“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, which people are most severely tested?’ He said: ‘The Prophets, then the next best and the next best. A person is tested according to his religious commitment. If he is steadfast in his religious commitment, he will be tested more severely, and if he is frail in his religious commitment, his test will be according to his commitment. Trials will continue to afflict a person until they leave him walking on the earth with no sin on him.’”
Sunan ibn Majah, 4023So the solution to weak iman is clear, but the reality is that most people don’t want it. And Allah, subhanhu wa t’ala, said:
وَقُلِ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمۡۖ فَمَن شَاۤءَ فَلۡیُؤۡمِن وَمَن شَاۤءَ فَلۡیَكۡفُرۡۚ
‘And say, “The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills -let them believe; and whoever wills – let them disbelieve.”’
18:29Making the choice to abandon jihad is an act of disobedience, and choosing disobedience is choosing to diminish in iman. Those who rationally think that they can benefit the ummah more by living a life of comfort and luxury than by sacrificing their life and wealth to establish the religion are simply using logic and reason to deceive themselves— just like the believers in the science religion. And Allah, subhanhu wa t’ala, says:
لَّا یَسۡتَوِی ٱلۡقَـٰعِدُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ غَیۡرُ أُو۟لِی ٱلضَّرَرِ وَٱلۡمُجَـٰهِدُونَ فِی سَبِیلِ ٱللَّهِ بِأَمۡوَ ٰلِهِمۡ وَأَنفُسِهِمۡۚ فَضَّلَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡمُجَـٰهِدِینَ بِأَمۡوَ ٰلِهِمۡ وَأَنفُسِهِمۡ عَلَى ٱلۡقَـٰعِدِینَ دَرَجَةࣰۚ وَكُلࣰّا وَعَدَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰۚ وَفَضَّلَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡمُجَـٰهِدِینَ عَلَى ٱلۡقَـٰعِدِینَ أَجۡرًا عَظِیمࣰاNot equal are those of the believers who sit (at home), except those who are disabled, and those who strive hard and fight in the cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit (at home).
4:95Stronger iman is one of the favors which Allah has granted to the mujahideen who strive sincerely in His path, and it is an indication of their status in the akhira. May Allah make us from the people of iman and the people of obedience to His command.
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In Search of a Better Life
When you read about migration from Africa to Europe, the migrants
are often described as being “in search of a better life.” It’s assumed that
“a better life” applies only to material standards; food, clothes, cars,
houses, infrastructure. When I first went to Africa, though, it seemed to
me that in many ways, the people had better lives than myself.
I was an only child, and spent countless hours of my youth alone,
watching television or sitting on a computer. I had many toys, but often
no one to play with.
When I went to any beach frequented by Europeans, I noticed that the
people would try to avoid each other. If the beach was 2 miles long, the
first group to arrive would go to one end; the second group would go
to the opposite end. It was as if they were trying to get as far away
from each other as possible.
I later traveled to Africa, where I visited a beach in Senegal outside of
Dakar. It was a huge beach stretching miles in either direction, and I
was amazed because of around 500 people on the beach, all were
concentrated in one small stretch of the beach, perhaps 100 meters long.
The water was packed with children all noisily playing and shouting.
They all seemed to be, on average, quite a bit happier than a typical
American or European child.
As a Muslim, I now realize that social contact has major benefits on
overall emotional health and happiness. If I am angry or stressed,
going to the masjid, exchanging salams, shaking hands, and checking in
with my neighbors, and of course the baraka of the salah itself, always
leaves me in a better mood, with more patience for whatever difficulty
I am facing.
There is no question, although I am not as rich as I was before
becoming Muslim, that my life is better as a Muslim. And yet, when
you hear the media talking about muhajireen, you never hear phrases
like “European Muslims are migrating to Syria in search of a better
life.” But that’s exactly what they are doing.
This demonstrates how materialistic prevailing media narratives are. It
also shows how false the image of media neutrality is. Materialism is
an agenda in itself, and it is an agenda that directly supports the war
efforts of the disbelievers. The will of a people to fight is directly
connected to their belief in the superiority of their way of life— their
deen. Christians and Jews feel they are correct in waging war against
Muslims, because they believe that their science, technology, and their
morals have made the human condition better.
To implement Islam requires fighting, whereas following the way of
life imposed upon us by the kuffar is easy and comfortable. Why bother
with this struggle if our religion is not superior, or if it’s enough to be a
good Muslim in your private life, but submit to secularism and
liberalism in every other aspect of our lives?
This is one of the reasons why the kuffar are so aggressive in bombing
anyone who establishes sharia. They can’t even allow for there to be a
single example of Islam in action, because its superiority would be
manifest. Even in the few brief instances where sharia is implemented,
their media goes into overdrive misrepresenting and distorting the
reality, all while consistently pushing a materialistic worldview.
Meanwhile, the people on the ground will tell you that there is an
astonishing level of security, and an upsurge in religiosity.
A powerful biblical principle which helped lead me to Islam is the idea
that “you will know a tree by its fruit.” In Muslim lands, I saw the
fruit of Islam in the faith and gratitude in people’s eyes as they broke
their fast during Ramadan, in the maintenance of the ties of kinship, in
the mental health that comes along with strong and supportive
families, and in the happiness and gratitude of simple and pure people
living with very little.
Why was it, I wondered, that seemingly impoverished Muslims would
seem so much happier than many of my friends and family in
America? At first, I thought it might be cultural and have nothing to do
with the religion, but then I traveled to Pakistan in the East, and
Morocco and Mauritania in the West, and I saw similarities running
through very different cultures. The answer is that our disconnection
from our true purpose is at the root of our anxiety and sadness.وَمَنۡ أَعۡرَضَ عَن ذِكۡرِی فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِیشَةࣰ ضَنكࣰا وَنَحۡشُرُهُۥ یَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِیَـٰمَةِ أَعۡمَىٰ
“And whoever turns away from My remembrance – indeed,
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he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on
the Day of Resurrection blind.”Islam is a mercy sent to all humanity. The only truly “better life” is the
life in which we are better able to worship Allah. The materialistic
worldview constantly propagated by the media and educational
systems of the kuffar is in itself a rejection of the true purpose of life,
which is to worship our Lord. Materialistic thinking is very toxic, and
yet it has become so pervasive that we hardly even notice it. Even
Muslims who are affected by this thinking often unconsciously
propagate materialistic ideas and judgments, unaware that they
directly contradict Islam on a fundamental level.In Surah al Kahf, Allah, subhanahu wa t’ala, tells us to stay in the
company of those who remember Him frequently, and not to obey
those who neglect the remembrance of Allah, and who follow their
desires:وَٱصۡبِرۡ نَفۡسَكَ مَعَ ٱلَّذِینَ یَدۡعُونَ رَبَّهُم بِٱلۡغَدَوٰةِ وَٱلۡعَشِیِّ یُرِیدُونَ وَجۡهَهُۥۖ وَلَا تَعۡدُ عَیۡنَاكَ عَنۡهُمۡ تُرِیدُ زِینَةَ ٱلۡحَیَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡیَاۖ وَلَا تُطِعۡ مَنۡ أَغۡفَلۡنَا قَلۡبَهُۥ عَن ذِكۡرِنَا وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ وَكَانَ أَمۡرُهُۥ فُرُطࣰا
“And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call
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upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking
His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond
them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not
obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our
remembrance and who follows his desire and whose
affair is ever [in] neglect.”We are all living today in a system where following desires has become
the ordering principle of the entire world. All of the “human rights”
that are continuously being pushed down our throats are nothing more
than desires— the desire for life, the desire to eat, the desire to
reproduce, and desires are the basis of the law, because people vote
based on their desires. The elite bribe the public by fulfilling desires,
and they do it only to stay in power in order to fulfill their own desires.Truly blessed are the ones that refuse to obey these awliya of Satan who
rule according to their desires, and seek instead to obey their Lord by
commanding the good and forbidding the evil. This is what makes the
Muslims the best ummah on earth.كُنتُمۡ خَیۡرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخۡرِجَتۡ لِلنَّاسِ تَأۡمُرُونَ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَتَنۡهَوۡنَ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنكَرِ وَتُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِۗ وَلَوۡ ءَامَنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبِ لَكَانَ خَیۡرࣰا لَّهُمۚ مِّنۡهُمُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ وَأَكۡثَرُهُمُ ٱلۡفَـٰسِقُونَ
“You are the best nation produced [as an example] for
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mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is
wrong and believe in Allah. If only the People of the
Scripture had believed, it would have been better for
them. Among them are believers, but most of them are
defiantly disobedient.”This is why the one who tries to change the sharia or replace it with
something else is not part of the ummah of Muhammed ﷺ. Islam is perfect guidance, and the sharia is its implementation and the basis of our identity as Muslims.If our awareness of the deception of materialism and its false gods
increases, we will see the light and the life of the path of Allah; how the
hardship of that path burns away the impurities in the hearts of the
believers and pushes them towards the remembrance of Allah,
subhanahu wa t’ala, and reliance on Him alone. This is the true path to a
better life.وَمَن یَتَوَكَّلۡ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسۡبُهُۥۤۚ
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The Deception of Individualism
Individualism, as a worldview and legal paradigm, is a lie. One of the best proofs of this is the ayah of qisas in which Allah prescribes the killing of a free man in retaliation for a free, a woman for a woman, and
a slave for a slave:یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ كُتِبَ عَلَیۡكُمُ ٱلۡقِصَاصُ فِی ٱلۡقَتۡلَىۖ ٱلۡحُرُّ بِٱلۡحُرِّ وَٱلۡعَبۡدُ بِٱلۡعَبۡدِ وَٱلۡأُنثَىٰ بِٱلۡأُنثَىٰۚ فَمَنۡ عُفِیَ لَهُۥ مِنۡ أَخِیهِ شَیۡءࣱ فَٱتِّبَاعُۢ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَأَدَاۤءٌ إِلَیۡهِ بِإِحۡسَـٰنࣲۗ ذَ ٰلِكَ تَخۡفِیفࣱ مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡ وَرَحۡمَةࣱۗ فَمَنِ ٱعۡتَدَىٰ بَعۡدَ ذَ ٰلِكَ فَلَهُۥ عَذَابٌ أَلِیمࣱ
“O you who have believed, prescribed for you is legal retribution for those murdered – the free for the free, the
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slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But whoever overlooks from his brother anything, then there
should be a suitable follow-up and payment to him with good conduct. This is an alleviation from your Lord and a
mercy. But whoever transgresses after that will have a painful punishment.”Tribes or extended families are, to a large extent, responsible for the actions of individuals. This is a much more sustainable form of governance, because it provides a low resource means of policing and social support based on the ties of kinship. Periods of civilizational decline like the one we live in are typically characterized by political fracturing, whereby larger political structures break up into smaller pieces. As blocs of power break apart, the small bits in between them are filled by tribes and gangs. With time, gangs become tribes.
Western individualism tries to portray punishing an individual for a crime committed by another member of their group as immoral. Yet in the US, for example, it is well understood among prison gangs that if someone from one gang kills someone from another gang, retaliation can be carried out against any member of the offending gang. This dynamic is visible throughout creation, and it is a natural tendency toward equilibrium.
The liberal worldview propagates the idea that we have somehow “evolved” beyond this perfect equilibrium, and no longer need it. This is a false promise from Satan, who promises that we can be free from hunger, poverty, and disease. Yet it is through hardship that we sense our weakness and become aware of our need for Allah. In other words, Satan wants to remove from us that which causes us to turn to Allah, so that we neglect the remembrance of Allah and think of ourselves as self-sufficient.
The idea that modern norms entail less violence, illness, or hardship is an illusion. The liberal world order has not reduced violence, poverty, or hunger. They have simply shifted to larger forms of organization where violence and misery are either hidden, transferred or deferred. Collective punishments still exist, but they have only been abstracted to the level of nation-states, as most tribes have now been subsumed by nations.
For example, Europe can be militarily weak because it is in a very tight alliance with America. Europe, for its part, focuses on social aspects of securing continued Western dominance on the global level, and so it seems to be less violent. The United States and Europe are two organs in the world system, each with its unique function.
The NATO treaty which formalizes the alliance between Europe and the US states that “an attack on one member of the treaty will be considered as an attack on all.” Multiple NATO members attacked Afghanistan in response to the destruction of the two towers of New York, and engaged in violence on a massive scale against people who, for the most part, had nothing to do with the attack. This was retaliation against the Muslims of Afghanistan and a clear punishment based on association.
Like international treaty organizations, khilafa is a form of superorganization. Zakat is the blood of the body of this organization, and the bait al mal (treasury) under the administration of the khalifa is the heart through which the blood flows. With no heart, there is no life in the body. We can see the reality of this in the hadith:عَنْ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي تَوَادِّهِمْ وَتَرَاحُمِهِمْ وَتَعَاطُفِهِمْ مَثَلُ الْجَسَدِ إِذَا اشْتَكَى مِنْهُ عُضْوٌ تَدَاعَى لَهُ سَائِرُ الْجَسَدِ بِالسَّهَرِ وَالْحُمَّى
The Messenger of Allahﷺ said, “The parable of the believers in their affection, mercy, and compassion for each other is that of a body. When any limb aches, the whole body reacts with sleeplessness and fever.”
Sahih al Bukhari, 6011The deception of individualism is thus the idea that the foot of a transgressor may not be punished for a crime committed by his hand. Allah describes exceeding the boundaries in the sacred months:
فَمَنِ ٱعۡتَدَىٰ عَلَیۡكُمۡ فَٱعۡتَدُوا۟ عَلَیۡهِ بِمِثۡلِ مَا ٱعۡتَدَىٰ عَلَیۡكُمۡۚ
2:194
And who exceeds the boundaries against you, exceed the boundaries against them as they exceeded them against you.وَلَكُمۡ فِی ٱلۡقِصَاصِ حَیَوٰةࣱ یَـٰۤأُو۟لِی ٱلۡأَلۡبَـٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَتَّقُونَ
And there is life for you in qisas, O you who have understanding, that you may have taqwa.
2:179The use of the word tattaqun is very interesting here. It points to the link between the hudood and taqwa. For example, when we think about committing a sin like zina, we are aware of the hadd. We also know it is an expiation for the sin. This gives us a limited but visceral understanding of the severity of the sin, since we know the punishment in the akhira is more severe than in dunya.
When we contemplate this, it imparts a sense of taqwa to us, as it gives us a feeling for the severity of the consequences of the sin, and the power of Allah’s justice. Every instance of the implementation of the hadd punishments increases our awareness of this reality. There is tremendous benefit and reward associated with carrying out the hadd punishments, and the taqwa that can result from witnessing it is an indication of this blessing.
The situation with qisas is similar. Before a tribe engages in fighting, they all understand that the death of the one from the other tribe could mean the death of any one of them. This is a collective, yet very personal, responsibility. Ultimately, it acts as a very strong and clear deterrent to unnecessary violence.
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The Christian Origins of Democratic Peace Theory
It’s strange that the narrative of eternal peace among nations is still pushed by the United Nations. It’s as if people believe that nation-states are not subject to the laws of nature; that they do not grow old and die like the individuals that comprise them.
The idea of working towards universal peace is rooted in a Christian doctrine inspired by Bible verses like Isaiah 11:6:
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”The verse goes on to describe “lions eating straw” like cattle. This is part of the inspiration for some Christian and Jews who believe in a thousand year long messianic age, characterized by peace and prosperity. This is the origin of the term “millenarianism.” A related Christian scriptural interpretation which implies a similar negation of the laws of nature is an American invention called “the rapture,” which holds that it’s possible to enter paradise without actually dying. Praise be to Allah, who revealed to us the truth:
كُلُّ نَفۡسࣲ ذَاۤىِٕقَةُ ٱلۡمَوۡتِۗ
“Every soul will taste death.”
[3:185]There was never even consensus among Christians and Jews on the coming of the “kingdom of God on earth,” because the prophecies are difficult to interpret, but millenarian ideas have had a huge influence on the trajectory of Western civilization. Post-millenarians believe that a golden age of peace will occur before ‘Isa, alaihi asalam, returns to earth. Pre-millenarians, on the other hand, believe that the prophesied golden age will occur after the second coming.
George Bush Jr., for example, could be described as a post-millennarian. In his view, the war against Islam was an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil in which America would bring about an era of peace and prosperity before the return of ‘Isa, alaihi asalam. US President Woodrow Wilson also held similar views, and this is part of what influenced him to push for the formation of the League of Nations, which eventually became the United Nations.
By contrast, pre-millenarians believe that it is only after the return of ‘Isa, alaihi asalam, that this period of peace and prosperity can arrive, so post-millenarians like Bush are more likely to try to bring about the era of peace by their own efforts. This kind of thinking was one of the driving forces behind “democratic peace theory” which is one of the most common justifications for American imperialism. The theory states that no two democracies have ever gone to war with each other, so theoretically, if the whole world was ruled by democracy there would be no more war.
Marxism can also be seen as a vision of a post-millennial utopia achieved through the abolition of classes and private property.
Likewise, Nazi ideology proposed to bring about utopia by engineering a master race imbued with all desirable human qualities.
All of these ideologies have in common a rejection of the command of Allah, and a desire to make a “better world” on the basis of human power and ideas, rather than accepting the creation of Allah as it is.It’s possible to see analogues of this kind of thinking in other human relations with nature. One example is attempts to eradicate forest fires, and another is the elimination of predators like wolves and lions. In the case of forest fires, suppressing naturally occurring fires leads to a buildup of dry, dead wood. With each year that passes without a fire, the risk of a devastating and uncontrollable blaze increases. When an artificially suppressed fire finally does occur, it is far worse than what would occur naturally if forest fires were accepted as a natural part of the forest’s life cycle.
Likewise, the outright rejection of predators killing livestock and the total elimination of predators disturbs the balance of ecosystems, leading to an excess of grazing animals, damaging plant life and causing erosion. In both of these cases, a desire to prevent some specific harm inherent in nature eventually leads to a greater generalized harm.
While the kuffar are willing to recognize their mistakes in ecology, they have great difficulty accepting that these same rules apply to humans and human societies. This is partly because they are following their desires, but they have also lost the conceptual division between the human and the divine, and as such, they strive to achieve divine power and immortality through technology and the manipulation of nature. This is the main force driving the popularity of democratic peace theory.
The theory is simple enough to debunk for the one who is willing to use reason. Democracy is not viable for all of humanity, because it is highly resource intensive. This higher consumption rate relative to authoritarian systems is due to the amount of surplus resources required to educate a political class and enable them to engage in slow, complex and elaborate democratic political processes.
In Athens, the original democracy, this process depended on support from a huge, politically marginalized slave class. When Europe went into an extended period of relative resource scarcity after the fall of the Roman empire, democratic structures largely disappeared and did not reappear in the West until the advent of colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
This is why trying to build democratic governments in places like Afghanistan or Somalia is the height of stupidity. It’s like planting a swamp tree in the desert— these governments are unequivocally doomed.
This rejection of nature is not desirable in any way— rather, those who reject the natural order are following false promises from Satan. A perpetual state of peace and prosperity leads to stagnation and weakness. Humans, deprived of hunger and difficulty, become soft and complacent, and bereft of meaning and purpose.
An absence of lions leads to degradation of the breeding stock of gazelles, as it is no longer only the strongest and healthiest that
reproduce. Forests without fires are dominated by large trees which prevent light from reaching the forest floor, leading to a decline in biodiversity and a general decay of the forest ecosystem.More importantly, when this logic is applied to the human condition, it diverts people from the remembrance of Allah. With no hardship or difficulty, people have no reason to cry out to Allah and ask for His help. The Prophet ﷺ said:
سَلُوا اللَّهَ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُسْأَلَ وَأَفْضَلُ الْعِبَادَةِ انْتِظَارُ الْفَرَجِ
“Ask Allah for His favor. Verily, Allah Almighty loves to be asked and among the best acts of worship is to wait in expectation
[Sunan at Tirmidhi, 3571]
of relief.”And he ﷺ said that the majority of the inhabitants of jannah are poor.
The presence of poverty is a test by which some may excel and draw nearer to their Lord, and part of the purpose of our existence. Trying to eliminate the hardship with which Allah promises to test us is nothing less than rejecting the true purpose of our lives and the bounty of our Lord, subhanahu wa t’ala.
So with this “improving” the kuffar are doing, they are really corrupting the earth spiritually and materially in every way, and this is an apparent example of the same phenomena mention in the ayah:
وَإِذَا قِیلَ لَهُمۡ لَا تُفۡسِدُوا۟ فِی ٱلۡأَرۡضِ قَالُوۤا۟ إِنَّمَا نَحۡنُ مُصۡلِحُونَ
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Scientific Deception
The handling of kohl by Western medicine is a good case study in the politicization of medicine and science. A number of studies published in Europe and North America warn about the dangers of traditional kohl eyeliners, saying that they contain toxic substances. It’s also common for medical professionals in these countries to advise their patients against using them.
Using kohl is a confirmed sunnah, so this is actually a very serious issue.
The Prophet ﷺ said “The best of your kohl is ithmid, for it makes the vision clear and makes the hair grow.” [al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 633]If the kuffar can convince the Muslims that kohl is toxic, it means convincing them to believe that the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ is
harmful. If we break down their arguments, however, the truth of Islam and the falsehood of their scientific methods becomes apparent.The strongest opinion is that the ithmid kohl explicitly recommended by the Prophet ﷺ is the mineral galena, a naturally occurring lead ore. It has a number of well documented health benefits, including stimulating the production of nitric oxide in the eyes, which has antitumor, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties, is a vasodilator, and decreases inter-ocular pressure. These properties mean it is effective in fighting a number of eye conditions, including glaucoma and macular degeneration, as well as promoting general eye health.
Western researchers themselves have documented many of these properties, so they can’t deny them, but they still want to attack Islam and secure their monopoly on medical treatments, so they claim that the use of ithmid kohl can cause lead poisoning.
There are some cases of lead poisoning caused by kohl preparations, but most of these cases were in India, and caused by kohl made from substances other than ithmid. There are no documented cases of such negative effects when using the ithmid kohl prescribed by the Prophet ﷺ.
However, one widely circulated study in the US claims to link unsafe blood lead levels to the use of Ithmid kohl (galena). A healthy Nigerian boy was brought to a doctor, who noticed the boy was wearing kohl. The doctor measured the boy’s blood lead levels and conducted a lab analysis of the kohl. The kohl was made from galena, and the boy’s blood lead levels were well above the levels determined by health authorities to be safe.
The doctor instructed the parents to cease use of the kohl, which they did, and then tested the boy’s blood some time later. After stopping the use of kohl, the lead levels went back below the safe threshold. Western medicine had saved the day and freed the Africans from their superstitious, backward, and dangerous medical traditions! Or at least the study tried to make it seem that way.
This study was published by the US Center for Disease Control, and was even used in communications with Nigerian public health
agencies to promote an anti-kohl campaign in Nigeria. There’s some serious problems with the study, however, and apparently no one gave it much critical attention.
Ithmid (galena), unlike metallic lead, is harmless in the human body because it is completely insoluble. Ithmid’s chemical name is lead sulfide, meaning the lead is bonded with sulfur. Much of the Western literature on ithmid uses deceptive wording, saying that it “contains lead, a toxic metal.”If we use this logic we could say that water, H2O, is dangerous because it contains hydrogen, which is explosive on its own. We could also say that Sodium Chloride (NaCl) commonly known as salt, is dangerous, since both sodium and chlorine can be deadly to eat on their own. Lead poisoning occurs when free lead particles bond with hemoglobin in the blood, but this doesn’t happen with lead sulfide, which instead passes safely through the body. So why did the Nigerian boy have elevated blood lead levels after using ithmid? Because the method used to test his blood lead levels was graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy.
In order to conduct a chemical analysis, this method heats a sample to around 3000° C to vaporize it. This frees the atoms in the sample, making them light absorbent. The light patterns can then be used to identify which atoms are present in the sample.
As it happens, if ithmid is exposed to temperatures of around 800° to 1100° C, it breaks the bonds between the sulfur and lead. This is actually the process how metallic lead is extracted from lead sulfide (galena) ore in furnaces. This means that someone with safe, nonsoluble ithmid in their circulatory system would appear to have elevated blood lead levels in a graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy test.
Some try to argue that although ithmid may be non-soluble, if children ingest it, the stomach acids can break down the bonds between the sulfur and lead, freeing the lead and making it bioavailable. However, what actually happens when lead sulfide comes into contact with hydrochloric acid (stomach acids) is that a small percentage of the lead sulfide will break down, but the lead will bond to the chlorine in the hydrochloric acids instead, forming lead chloride, which is also effectively non-soluble. So even if children accidentally swallow ithmid, there is still no risk of lead poisoning.
Unfortunately some Muslims went down the proverbial lizard hole and performed similar tests. In Saudi Arabia, researchers tested a number of kohl users by the same method, and also found “unsafe” blood lead levels. As a result, Saudi authorities began to issue warnings about lead content in traditional ithmid kohl preparations.This is nothing short of a war against the sunnah based on blatantly flawed assumptions and a totally uncritical attitude towards data which supports certain politicized views. Of course, the awliya of Satan also have clear interests here; undermining trust in traditional health promoting products weakens people’s immune systems, making them more reliant on Western medicine, and boosting the profits of the kuffar and their medical-industrial-academic complex. Furthermore, weakening confidence in traditional medicine and pushing people instead to rely on Western medicine also increases the power and prestige of the political structures backing and backed by the medical establishment.
A very small amount of analysis can dismantle this entire propaganda campaign, but because these are supposed ‘experts,’ people treat them as if they are infallible, and ithmid kohl use has dropped dramatically over the past few decades among the Muslims as a result of these campaigns. This is why it’s of the utmost importance to remember the Allah’s command:یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوۤا۟ إِن جَاۤءَكُمۡ فَاسِقُۢ بِنَبَإࣲ فَتَبَیَّنُوۤا۟ أَن تُصِیبُوا۟ قَوۡمَۢا بِجَهَـٰلَةࣲ فَتُصۡبِحُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلۡتُمۡ نَـٰدِمِینَ
“O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.”
Don’t be fooled by the veneer of objectivity and neutrality projected by the kuffar. Science can be used as a tool for deception, just as much as it can be used as tool for investigating reality, so we should always assume that kuffar are lying until trustworthy and righteous Muslims verify any information.
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Parallels between marriage and khilafa in the digital age
It’s interesting that al Mawardi (rahimullah) compares the contract of nikah to the contract of bay’ah.
One of the notable effects of the internet is how much it enables people to misrepresent themselves, or make idealized representations of themselves. This is one of the reasons, at least anectdotally speaking, marriage from the internet seem to be less successful than traditional marriages.
In a traditional marriage arrangement, community involvement in the courtship process makes outright deception much more difficult. In discussing with a potential spouse, there doesn’t even need to be evil intent – in many cases, people simply don’t have an honest view of themselves, or they will at least avoid mentioning their negative qualities.
The internet also has the effect of raising our expectations and reducing our patience. Instant gratification is available everywhere, and so are all kind of fantasy worlds like movies and video games. We also can seek out communities of people who agree with our views, thus finding acceptance and validation, but virtual relationships are not a true substitute for real-life relationships, and as the quality of relationships declines, so does mental health. As mental health declines, so does the quality of real-life relationships, which puts even more pressure on the people to seek instant gratification in fantasy worlds.
When someone is conditioned through movies, anime, pornography, (or romance novels in the case of women) and social media to have inflated expectations about what a potential spouse will be like, they will be more inclined to buy into people’s idealized depictions of themselves. This is because they have spent so much time living in fantasy realities, that they have come to expect that the fantasy must be real.
The fantasy is modelled after desire, to create an illusion that molds itself as closely as possible to the ideal of fulfillment. But because it is fake, it is never truly fulfilling, and so the fantasy must always become more exciting and stimulating. This is similar to how a heroine addict has to increase the dose of heroine over time to achieve the same effect.
This pervasive addiction to fantasy also increases the pressure on people to misrepresent themselves in the process of seeking a spouse, because they have to compete with the fantasy realities. After marriage, they will eventually find themselves unable to maintain the illusion, and the fantasy reality will always be calling to divorce, with the promise of a more perfect fantasy world.
So there can be no doubt living in digital fantasy worlds is a major driver divorce, and in this way the Satanic influence of digital media becomes apparent. Likewise, when Harut and Marut taught magic to the people of Babylon, one of the effects of the magic was to separate a man and his wife.
This illustrates the reality of the statement:
إِنَّ ٱلْبَطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًۭا
The basis of a relationship is trust, and it builds slowly, with patience, over time. If a relationship begins with false representation of ones self, it will eventually fail, because it is not built on a sound foundation, and so your partner will be unwilling to continue to build a bond, not knowing if the foundation will collapse underneath the structure or not. Likewise, if a person’s expectations are built on falsehood, they will never be able to accept reality, because they are in love with the illusion, and once the reality becomes manifest, they will leave it to seek the illusion.
When it comes to an Islamic group operating on the internet, it’s possible to use tactics similar to those used by someone seeking marriage on the internet. They can control camera angles, lighting, and use filters to improve their physical appearance, and select specific information to share about themselves. In this way, they can present an idealized version of reality, and offer it to a population with a raging addiction to instant gratification.
Similar to what happens when someone uses this method in marriage, it initially has a very powerful effect, because people are attracted by the idealized image being offered, but it tends to collapse quickly as the reality becomes apparent.
This is the dillemma of using Western media techniques to support Islamic movements – Western media is deceptive by its very nature. The truth of a person or group is known by comparing their actions to the Quran and sunnah holistically, not only by evaluating the actions and speech that they choose to share or display.
As with marriage, such impressions are ideally obtained through networks of real-life, trusted people who have first hand experience with the matter in question. It’s through this process of shura with trustworthy believers that we can best gain a better understanding of a potential spouse or a group. And when it comes to dealing with either potential spouses or groups seeking loyalty and support online – buyer beware.
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Developing Islamic industry
There’s a very simple consideration which can help us to formulate our attitude toward education, yet which is generally ignored:
“Will this knowledge or methodology increase or decrease our dependence on the enemies of Allah?”
The Prophet ﷺ did send some Muslims to ash-Sham to learn about weapons systems, but the capacity existed at that time to manufacture and operate these weapons systems with locally available materials.
The modern arms industry is itself a weapon. This kind of dynamic is not specific to modern weapons systems, but to most industrial production. Many companies will sell a piece of equipment like a car at a loss, knowing that they will earn a profit later by selling replacement parts.
Weapons contracts are used to incite competition between rival powers, forcing them into a perpetual cycle of trying to “one up” each other by purchasing new generations of weapons.
Arms purchases feed the research and development needed to keep the cycle going.
A helpful metric for gauging the extent of dependence generated by knowledge is specialization.
The larger a system becomes, the more specialized the functions of individuals within the system become.
Marksmanship, for example, is general to thousands of rifles.
The skills required to operate an S-400 or F-35, on the other hand, are to a large extent specific to that system. Training people to fill these roles takes a long time, meaning they get “locked in” to a relationship with the manufacturer of the weapon system.
A consumer analogue is the iPhone – the Apple ecosystem is deliberately designed to make it difficult to transition away from using Apple products.
Likewise, there’s a clear difference between NATO and former Soviet weapons systems.
Language of instruction, units of measurement, industrial standards, trade law, raw materials, capital controls and other factors define the character of industrial blocs.
Benefitting from an industrial bloc requires a deeper relationship than a simple trade relationship.
Because of the level of specialization required just to operate (let alone manufacture!) advanced equipment, inclusion in such a bloc requires deep political and cultural integration.
This is why Turkey is today the most advanced Muslim country in manufacturing weapons and also the most Westernized and least religious.
Smaller states often try to retain some degree of independence by playing off industrial/imperial blocs against each other, but in such cases the basic nature of their policies are always dictated by foreign interests.
Industrial/imperial blocs are like any structure – they have foundations, and their construction must begin with the foundation.
If you build a structure on someone else’s foundation, the structure will never truly belong to you.
The foundation in this analogy is territorial control and/or influence. This is why the liberal order was destined to defeat the Soviet bloc, and it’s the rationale behind China’s BRI project, and the aim of Turkey’s presence in Somalia.
An educational system is an essential component of an industrial bloc. Most of the educational systems built in Muslim countries over the last century are designed to interface with the liberal order and turn Muslim nations into permanent client states.
Education follows industry, and industry follows the power base. If an educational system is in place that was not built on native industry, it was built to serve an external power base. This is why you find so many graduates in Muslim countries leaving in search of jobs.
In other words, the education they received qualified them to work for other countries instead of their own. The skills and knowledge gained have limited utility in their home context, unless they relate to materials imported from the core of the industrial/imperial base.
A metaphor to help understand this:
You can get much higher much more quickly by renting an office in a tall building built by someone else than you can by building your own.
It is the craftsmen and not the university graduates who are key to building an Islamic economy.
Those who develop practical skills using locally available materials, and THEN condense this experience into theoretical knowledge are building structures which serve the ummah. They are more likely to be machinists or mothers than engineers or doctors.
The lure of easy money and prestige within the liberal order is there to pull us away from the path of building humble structures, but structures that we truly own, and that serve our interests, rather than the interests of our enemies.
This is why sharia and the sanctions that come with it should be embraced. This separation is protection more than punishment.
At the same time, building our own productive base requires expanding the power base, which requires jihad fi sabilillah.
It is possible to wage war against technologically and numerically superior enemies and win, but it requires very high tolerance for casualties, which requires faith.
The majority of the sahaba, radhi Allahu anhum, died in battle.
The number of shuhada offered by a society are a reflection of Allah’s favor upon that society, so it’s clear that the best generation was also the most blessed generation.
These sacrifices are also the source of the foundation on which productive systems are built.
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Beyond “catching up” with the West
It’s necessary to step outside of the mentality of “catching up.”
We are indoctrinated to view the world according to linear metrics of progress, and trying to progress according to these metrics reinforces the dominance of those on top.
In a one on one fight, one fighter may be bigger and more muscular, but have less speed and endurance. This means the smaller fighter is fast enough to avoid getting knocked out, and can dodge blows until his opponent is exhausted and then move in for the knockout.
It’s not a matter of trying to get on equal footing, but rather of knowing the enemy and knowing yourself so that your strengths can be leveraged to exploit the enemy’s weaknesses.
Trying to directly compete technologically in this day and age will strengthen the enemy.
For example, even using cars and trucks means that you will need tires. To manufacture tires, you need access either to rubber plantations or advanced petrochemical industry, both of which are completely under the control of the kuffar.
So trying to “catch up” strengthens the enemy. And yes, there are blessings in the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection.
The flipside of this is that if the Muslims opt out of the liberal industrial order, it will not be necessary to “catch up.”
Western technological supremacy has grown roughly in tandem to the expansion of their political and economic domination of Muslim lands.
This is not only because of the cheap resources and labor they obtain by subjugating Muslim countries, but also due to market access.
In other words, the level of development of their arms industry is dependent on Muslim countries buying their weapons. This means that if Muslims regain control of the Muslim lands and resume open hostilities with the kuffar, it will be a severe blow to their arms industries.
So we shouldn’t think of development as a linear process where we have to reach the same point as them.
Not only will our technology likely have a very different character than theirs, their technological production will be crippled by losing a dominant market position.
The focus should be as much on reducing their technological capacity as on expanding our own.
The weakness of the industrial-system of the West is that like most very large systems, it’s highly centralized, meaning it has multiple critical vulnerabilities.
Decentralized systems, by contrast, are much more resilient but usually smaller.
One of the biggest weaknesses of the Western industrial order is its dependence on regional specialization and trade.
To be economically viable, it requires access to a huge range of different resources and specialized production facilities. Every disruption of major ocean trade routes will strain the economic viability of the entire system.
Eventually, a breakdown in the supply of one or two constituent components could lead to a cascading chain reaction where more industries are forced to shut down or become much less productive, in turn affecting other sectors of the economy.
It’s not far fetched to say that if ocean piracy became as prevalent today as it was 300 years ago, it could cause a return to a level of technological capacity similar to that of 300 years ago.
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Citizenship and heresy in liberalism
In the religion of liberalism, to reject citizenship is a heresy which results in being boycotted in every aspect of public life.
To actively support military defense for an identity group other than national identity groups, however, is apostasy.
This apostasy results in nothing less than the total destruction of the life of the person who commits it. Depending on the extent of this support, some may be given the chance to repent.
The Western concept of citizenship originates from Greek mythology, and specifically the Greek concept of autochthony, which literally means springing from the earth.
Some Greeks saw themselves as descended from kings who spontaneously appeared from the earth.
This concept was used to reinforce the distinction between themselves and foreigners, and emphasized an eternal, spiritual connection to a particular piece of land.
Citizenship almost always required that both the mother and father be the children of citizens.
This mythology was used as a fundamental justification for democracy. Since all citizens originated from the earth in the region of the city, none could claim superiority over others, although they regarded themselves as superior to all non-citizens.
This belief system survives today in the legal principle of jus sanguinis, the Roman legal principle that citizenship is inherited by a blood relationship to a parent. This system is in place in most of the nations of Eurasia and Africa.
Practically speaking, this is the legal basis for nationalism, and thus the entire world order, today.
A refusal to submit to and live according to this system is also a rejection of the beliefs (aqa’id) upon which it is based, and thus apostasy.
This is in contrast to Islam, which affirms that earth is the origin of all human beings, and that the entire earth belongs to Allah, and that we are all equally slaves of Allah.
The Greeks also usually ascribed divine parenthood to their ancestors.
Theseus, one of the founding kings of Athens, for example, is often referred to as the son of Poseidon, god of the sea.
This further lays the foundation for exalting some lines of descent above others, and granting them superior rights or privileges based on their parentage.
The Eastern Mediterranean, where Christianity first appeared, was deeply influenced by Greek thought, and Christianity never really took hold until it made the shift to portraying Jesus, alaihi asalam, as a god.
This was surely more acceptable to Greek sensibilities.
It’s interesting that they deified a human prophet from Bani Israel, and that the culture that then grew up around this belief system has ended up with Bani Israel in an elite position of dominance over the entire system.
If a people do not submit to the truth, they will inevitably try to force the truth to conform to their falsehood. False beliefs are often derived in order to serve the interests of the ones inventing them, eventually leading to a war against the truth.
In the case of autochthony, the concept was invented to try to cement the claim of the Athenian elite over their land, prevent an autocrat from taking their influence, and prevent foreigners from encroaching on their political power.
In Hinduism, reincarnation was adopted in order to solidify the dominance of brahmins.
In late Western Christianity, the concept of an ethnically European god helped justify colonialism, which is the basis of the modern world system.
So it must be understood that whoever facilitates the legal normalization of citizenship and nationality is serving as a proselytizing agent for polytheistic ideologies, and supporting the maintenance of the position of the ruling elite, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
Ya Ummati 