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The Message
This is a film portraying the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the birth of Islam in 7th century Mecca and Medina. It depicts the early opposition faced by the Prophet ﷺ and his followers, their migration (Hijra) to Medina, and the subsequent conflicts and eventual establishment of Islam in Mecca.
The Beginnings in Mecca: The film introduces a time of idolatry in Mecca, where Prophet Muhammad ﷺ begins receiving and preaching the message of one God. This message is met with severe resistance from the wealthy ruling class, leading to persecution of his early followers.
Migration to Abyssinia and Medina: Facing increased threats, many followers seek refuge in Abyssinia, while Prophet Muhammad ﷺ eventually journeys to Medina to mediate between warring factions, an event that marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
Early Battles and Conflict: Tensions lead to the battles of Badr and Uhud, depicting the struggle for survival and the establishment of Muslim community laws and ethics, including the treatment of prisoners and the emphasis on equality.
Truce and Conquest of Mecca: After a period of truce, the conflict culminates in the peaceful conquest of Mecca. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ enters the city, grants forgiveness to his former enemies, and cleanses the Kaaba of idols.
The Final Message: The film concludes with Prophet Muhammad's ﷺ final sermon before his passing.
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This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
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Fermented foods lowered inflammation over 17 weeks. Adding more fiber did neither.
That's the finding from a Stanford randomized trial, and it should reframe how we think about feeding the gut.
Researchers assigned healthy adults to one of two microbiome-targeted diets, high-fiber or high-fermented-food, and ran deep immune and microbiome profiling across 17 weeks. The expectation going in was intuitive: fiber feeds your bacteria, so more of it should mean a healthier microbiome and lower inflammation.
That's not what happened.
The high-fiber group's inflammatory markers stayed flat. Its primary immune outcome, a composite cytokine response score, was unchanged from start to finish. And microbial diversity, one of the more reliable markers of gut resilience, held steady rather than rising.
The fermented-food group moved both. Inflammation declined steadily across the trial. Diversity climbed.
Fiber feeds bacteria the substrate they can digest. The study captured a signature of exactly this - i.e., the microbiome's glycan-degrading enzyme capacity rose while overall diversity stayed flat, consistent with the existing community upregulating rather than broadening
Fermented foods appear to do something structurally different. Live microbes plus the metabolic byproducts of fermentation seem to expand diversity directly, rather than by feeding what's already there. Greater diversity tracks with lower inflammatory load, and the fermented arm moved that lever while the fiber arm did not.
One detail worth sitting with: fiber wasn't inert for everyone. High-fiber consumers split into three distinct immune trajectories, and which one you landed in tracked your baseline microbiome diversity. Fiber's effect was contingent on the gut that received it. People starting with more diverse microbiomes likely respond differently than this average suggests.
Limitations:
Eighteen people per arm, healthy adults, 17 weeks. Inflammatory markers are intermediate biology, not clinical endpoints. Fiber's metabolic and cardiovascular benefits are established on separate, far larger evidence, and this trial doesn't touch them.
But for the specific job of moving the microbiome and inflammation, piling on more fiber wasn't the lever. The fermented foods, however, moved the needle.
Wastyk, Sonnenburg et al., Cell 2021.
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Allah ﷻ removes fear and grief from His servants, He welcomes them into Paradise with their loved ones, surrounds them with everything their souls desire and their eyes delight in, grants them eternity, and then reminds them that none of the good they did in this world was forgotten.
This gives meaning to every sincere act of obedience. There may be moments when righteousness requires sacrifice and when worldly alternatives appear more attractive. But the believer remembers that the sacrifice is temporary while the reward is eternal. Nothing surrendered for Allah ﷻ is truly lost, and nothing sincerely done for Him is ever wasted. Ultimately, the deeds of this short life become the means, through Allah’s mercy, to an everlasting reward. A few decades of faith, worship, patience, and obedience are exchanged for a Paradise in which every desire is fulfilled, blessings are abundant, and life never comes to an end.
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One point the film NAZA makes, which may be obvious to some, is that one of the reasons Israel decided to strike Hamas fighters in their homes with family asleep rather than when they assembled outdoors is spelled out by one intel official:
“There are only so many military sites in Gaza — hundreds? But there are lots of private homes. There are 40,000 operatives, so that’s nearly 40,000 homes.”
The goal was to maximize the carnage and the destruction of civilians infrastructure and the killing of non-combatants.
The AI used for targeting also identified many civilians as Hamas operatives — an official gives an example of a baker who has customers in Hamas; the AI would flag that he had been in contact with Hamas members and kill him and his entire family at home.
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I recently watched the famous lecture by the late MIT professor Patrick Winston, titled ‘How to Speak.’
He opens by saying: “Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.”
Freaking brilliant.
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Secondly, there seems to be a phenomenon of feminists complaining about the direct effects of feminism.
Look at the data from the West post-WWII (1950s):
• Unmarried adults: 17.3%
• Median Age of First Marriage: 20
Second-wave feminism explosion (1970s–1980s):
• Unmarried adults: 22.5%
• Median Age of First Marriage: 22–24
Third-wave feminism shift (1990s–2000s):
• Unmarried adults: 26.9%
• Median Age of First Marriage: 25.1
Fourth-Wave Reality (Present Day / 2020s):
• Unmarried adults: 31.5%–45%
• Median Age of First Marriage: 28.6 (Historic high)
Now look at the present day reality of Western countries:
• In the US: 46% to 49% of all adults aged 15 and older are unmarried. Among adults aged 30 to 39, the unmarried share has nearly tripled, jumping from 15% in 1960 to 46% by the mid-2020s.
• In the UK: Roughly 40% of the adult population lives as singles.
• In continental Europe: In countries like Germany and France, singles make up roughly 45% of the population.
The percentage of single people, particularly women, across Western countries is currently at historic highs, hovering between 40% and 50%.
Feminism is quite literally one of the main reasons the native Western demographic is dwindling, resulting in a rise of an unhappy, never-married, childless, and ageing population.
The West is an example to every nation on earth of what happens when God is abandoned, gender roles and family units are dismantled, and secular liberal progressives win.
The rise of feminism amongst Muslim women is, you guessed it, leading to the exact same results.
There are over one billion Muslim men on this earth. The issue is not a lack of options. The issue is Muslim men and women abandoning their faith and adopting secular ideologies that Islam explicitly rejects.
The solution is not to defy Islam or pretend something is allowed (halal) when it is not.
The solution is to return to Islam.
Ps. Dr Aaliyah Khan advertises a 'Beginner's Guide to Islamic Feminism'. You cannot market the disease and then whine about the epidemic.
Firstly, the solution this woman is giving is haram (forbidden).
But the issue is real. The enemies of Islam use existing problems that Muslims, especially women, face to offer un-Islamic solutions.
Opposing their harmful solutions is good. But don't forget the issue. If we don't affirm the grievances of our sisters and offer valid remedies, then we leave only the wrong paths for our community to turn to.
The resolutions can't focus only on the women either.
Muslim men are delaying marriage, waiting too long to commit, and becoming increasingly picky. When Muslim men do settle down, they frequently choose younger women or reverts. This should not be overlooked.
However, one factor in this is that men also actively avoid the corporate, material, and individualistic traits that modern liberalism teaches girls to adopt.
This is a two-way street, and if we don't shift both into alignment, then we will lose. If we only focus on one side, the women, then we push them further away from the right path: which is exactly what the enemy is counting on.
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What English Professor Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad (T.J. Winter) reflects on so beautifully here is very important; Islam is a religion of love. Rumi’s beloved companion Shams-i Tabrīzī famously said that the Quran is a “love letter” (ishq-nāma) sent by God to humans. For the Sufis of the Chishtiyya Order, the most important thing is the love of God. Furthermore, Rumi states: Love is the path and road of our Prophet (Muhammad), see: Rumi’s Quatrain no. 49, translated by Dr. Ibrahim Gamard and Farhadi.
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Today a Palestinian State is necessary. Not for moral or ideological reasons, only for pragmatic ones. A portion of America's elite class has gone rogue. They are now dedicating their immense wealth and power into solely one issue. The promotion of the state of israel over the the American people.
This has manifested in Trump's war in iran, censorship, banning artists from stadiums, getting normal people fired, sending politicians tens of millions of dollars in campaign races for israel, making sure congress ends billions of us tax dollars to israel every year.
It's a huge problem. The US political system is not built to handle a rogue elite who puts the interests of a foreign nation over the interests of America.
The only way to stop this group is to get leverage over them. To put a check on their power. A Palestinian state lets the US discipline this group by taking land away from Israel. Right now there is no check on their power. It's a big problem.
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Male depression stems from a lack of purpose and it's crazy how people still can't comprehend this.
Men don't need to 'feel love' because that's for women, they need to feel powerful and respected by tapping into their masculine essence that God designed them for.
This is why going to 'therapy' is useless for men. What you really need is to lift some weights and make money in ways that resonate with your personality and character, and less about following norms or other people who don't share the same paths as you.
Male depression is not female depression.
“Male depression is nearly always a result of learned helplessness, but health providers treat it like female depression and try to make men feel loved instead of powerful.” — @AdamLaneSmith
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The Arabic formulae serves as the anchor to Islam, but besides that; every single culture have synthesised their values with Islam differently.
To strip away this beautiful and amazing feature of Islam is to do away with its universality, which is the entire essence of Islam, namely that it is a religion sent to all mankind.
Ivan Aguéli رحمه الله was one of those people who saw this beautiful manifestation in Islām, which attracted him to the faith.
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