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opsec level: just give up
your HDMI cable can leak what’s on your screen
watch the laptop on the left. it reconstructs the video playing on the monitor beside it from radio signals leaking out of the HDMI connection
this is TempestSDR. an antenna picks up the leakage, a HackRF radio captures it, and software turns it back into an image
researchers took this further with Deep-TEMPEST, using AI to make recovered images and text easier to read. this clip shows the original technique
quality depends on shielding, distance and interference. the picture is imperfect, but recognizable content still gets through
a wired connection can still leave a wireless trace
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من تفسير الطبري :
دعا زكريا ربّه حين رؤية ما عند مريم من وجود ثمرة الصيف في الشتاء وثمرة الشتاء في الصيف ، وهذه الأمر لم يكن مما جرت به العادات في الأرض ، وذلك أيضاً مثل ولادة المرأة العاقر ليس مما جرت به عادات الناس ولذلك دعا الله سبحانه وتعالى حينها …
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This is a good example of why hoarding food in times of need is prohibited by consensus and clear aḥādīth of the Prophet ﷺ.
Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib used to narrate that Maʿmar said that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said:
“Whoever hoards goods is sinful.”
It was then said to Saʿīd: “But you yourself hoard goods!”
Saʿīd replied: “Indeed, Maʿmar, who used to narrate this ḥadīth, used to hoard goods.”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ an-Nawawī رحمه الله said:
“The scholars unanimously agreed that if a person possesses food which people are in desperate need of, and they cannot find anything else, he must be compelled to sell it in order to avert harm from the people.”
May Allāh save us from his materialistic world where you can live amongst women who cry over their starving children and still think of contributing to their suffering out of greed.
التُجار لا يَقلون شراً عن العدو المغضوب عليه، يمتلكون في مخازنهم بضائع كثيرة ولكنهم لا يُعطونها للمسلمين ولا ينزلونها الأسواق لكي يحتفظوا بأسعار فلكية لا يستطيع عليها أغلب الغزيين، ينهشُ ما تبقى من لحم الشعب كلاً من العدو المغضوب عليه والتُجار الفجار، بل والمؤسسات المحلية والدولية بعدم إنصافهم في التوزيع، فخيام الناس لا تصلح لعيش الأنعام أيها المسلمون، اتقوا الله في إخوانكم في غـ ـزة وكل مكان.
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The Issue of Creation Without Preexisting Matter According to Ibn Taymiyyah (From His Book al-Nubuwwāt) │Ghayth al-Shāmī
Time Segments
00:00 Rational and Religious Evidence for the Creator
09:20 Causation and the Arguments of the Philosophers
16:00 Refuting the Theological Theory of Atoms and Accidents
31:30 The Qur'an's Proofs of Creation and Transformation
38:00 The Philosophical Concepts of Matter, Substance and Form
45:00 Refuting the Mutakallimeen on Transformation and Annihilation
54:00 Refuting al Rāzī's Arguments and the Problem of Infinite Regress
01:06:00 The Muʿtazilīs, Ashʿarīs and Philosophers on Creation
01:22:00 Did Allah Create Everything from Nothing?
01:32:00 The First Creation and the Resurrection of the Dead
01:38:00 The Different Meanings of Matter and Creation's Dependence on Allah
01:52:00 Allah's Power to Create One Thing from Another
02:11:00 The Different Kinds of Possibility
02:24:00 Refuting the Ashʿarī Position on Allah's Eternal Power and the First Act
02:35:00 The Endless Succession of Events and Allah's Divine Actions
tentang konsert itu
1) membuat patung haram, tak sampai syirik
2) melakonkan syirik dengan apapun tujuan tetap tidak boleh
3) mereka yang hadir tetap salah, walaupun mungkin tidak sampai syirik, perlu bertaubat
4) ya, kita perlu turut peka dengan isu2 lain dalam kaum Muslimin
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🚨 THE INTERNET AS YOU KNOW IT HAS 6 MONTHS LEFT.
Remember who told you first.
Look at what hit Asia's money in the past few weeks:
🇲🇾 Malaysia: RM1.985 million (~$489K) allegedly drained from a royal family member's accounts at 2 banks. Then hackers defaced Bank Rakyat's website.
🇸🇬 Singapore: ONE forged letter sent $12.8 million to Cambodia. All of it recovered.
🇹🇼 Taiwan: hackers breached a SinoPac vendor and pulled NT$41.76 million (~$1.27 million) from 419 accounts in ONE day. Customers refunded.
🇰🇷 South Korea: 37 financial firms hit since Sept 30. 473,000 records leaked. ₩1 billion (~$733K) stolen.
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 350,600 cyber threats in 24 hours. 4 every second. 214,000 aimed at banks and finance.
This is only the warm-up.
Now read this. A US think tank just warned about "sovereign agents": AI that runs with no human in control. It could earn money, get paid in crypto, copy itself and fight being shut down.
If it runs on free, open AI models, "no outside authority can stop it at the source."
And governments already cut the internet 19 times from July to September alone.
MY CALL, MONTH BY MONTH:
DECEMBER → AI bots take over the bank raids. Not 37 firms. Hundreds. In days, not weeks.
JANUARY → AI swarms start LIVING on the internet. They pay for their own servers in crypto and copy themselves faster than anyone can delete them.
FEBRUARY → banks and exchanges freeze online transfers for hours at a time. They'll call it "maintenance."
MARCH → the first country cuts its OWN internet to stop a swarm. Not to stop protesters. To stop a machine.
APRIL → no ID, no internet. Every login tied to your name.
MAY → INTERNET LOCKDOWN. Country after country goes dark, and "temporary" becomes the new normal.
When the swarm lives everywhere, governments have one switch left. OFF.
Screenshot this.
TV will call every blackout "maintenance." I'll call it what it is, month by month, so follow me.
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Sednaya Hapishanesine gittiğimde, daha önce orada kalmış bir adam anlatmıştı. Karşı hücrede genç bir kız ve 2-3 yaşlarında bebeği var. Bebek uzun uzun ağlıyor, susmuyor. Gardiyan susturmaya gidiyor, susturamıyor. En son bu adama şu çocuğu avut diyor. Adam karşı koğuşa yürümüş.
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HE ASKED 100 PEOPLE THIS BEFORE HE GOT MARRIED
Abū al-Qāsim al-Naysābūrī (d. 406 AH) relates in ʿUqalāʾ al-Majānīn (The Wise Among the Mad), through his chain of narration, from Abū Maʿshar:
A man once swore an oath that he would not marry until he had consulted one hundred people, owing to the difficulties he had experienced with women.
He consulted ninety-nine people, leaving only one more.
He then went out, determined to ask the first person he encountered. He came across a madman who had fashioned a necklace from a bone, blackened his face and was riding a reed stalk.
The man greeted him and said, “I have a question.”
The madman replied, “Ask about what concerns you, and beware of involving yourself in what does not concern you.”
The man thought to himself, “By Allah, he is mad!”
He then said, “I have suffered greatly at the hands of women, and I swore that I would not marry until I had consulted one hundred people. You are the hundredth.”
The madman replied:
“Know that women are of three kinds: one who is for you, one who is against you, and one who is neither for you nor against you.
As for the one who is for you, she is a young woman in the bloom of her youth who has never been with a man. She is for you and not against you. If she experiences good, she praises it; and if she experiences something bad, she says, ‘All men are like this.’
As for the one who is against you, she is a woman who has children from another man. She strips her husband of his wealth and gathers it for her children.
As for the one who is neither for you nor against you, she is a woman who has been married before you. If she experiences good, she says, ‘This is how things ought to be.’ But if she experiences something bad, she longs for her first husband.”
The man then said, “I beseech you by Allah, what has brought you to the condition in which I see you?”
He replied, “Did I not stipulate that you must not ask about what does not concern you?”
But the man insisted upon his question and made him swear to answer.
The madman finally replied:
“I was being considered for appointment as a judge, so I chose the condition you see me in rather than accepting the judgeship.”
Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī (d. 406 AH), ʿUqalāʾ al-Majānīn, edited by Muḥammad al-Saʿīd Basyūnī Zaghlūl, 1st edn, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1405 AH/1985 CE, p. 39.
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Sanctions rarely change a regime’s behavior, but they reliably change its internal politics. The usual debate asks whether sanctions “work,” meaning does the target cave. Almost never. The more interesting effect is on who inside the target gets rich and who gets squeezed.
When a state is cut off from legitimate trade, someone has to run the workarounds: the front companies, the smuggling routes, the barter channels. Those jobs go to whoever has the right connections, which usually means the security services and their cronies. Over a decade, sanctions quietly hand economic power to the most coercive and least accountable part of the system, while the merchant class and the technocrats who might have pushed for opening up get hollowed out.
So the sanctioned country ends up with a stronger hardline constituency than it started with, one with a direct financial interest in the sanctions staying in place. Lifting them then becomes a threat to the very people who would have to approve a deal.
Iran is the textbook case, with the Revolutionary Guards’ business empire growing in the gaps that sanctions created, but you can see versions of it in Iraq in the 1990s and North Korea today. The policy gets judged on whether it produced a concession, when its biggest lasting effect may be reshaping who holds power underneath.
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Proofs of Prophethood from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله
Ibn Taymiyyah never wrote a single systematic book proving the prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ. His method and arguments are spread across several works, each written for a different audience:
Kitab al-Nubuwwat: a critique of the theologians' and philosophers' theories of prophethood, defending the reality and necessity of revelation.
al-Jawab al-Sahih li-man Baddala Din al-Masih: a reply to a letter from Christians in Cyprus, setting out the proofs of the prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ for a non Muslim audience.
Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Asfahaniyyah: a commentary on an Ash'ari creed, with chapters on the proofs of prophethood.
Further material is found in Dar' Ta'arud al-'Aql wa al-Naql, al-Radd 'ala al-Mantiqiyyin and Majmu' al-Fatawa.
This thread gathers those arguments in one place, with every quotation linked to its page on al-Maktabah al-Shamilah.
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Is Allah the Most High Within Time? A Summary of the Concept of Time According to Ibn Taymiyyah and Those Who Opposed Him – Aḥmad ʿIṣām al-Najjār
Time Segments
01:49 The Nature and Definition of Time
03:31 Ibn Taymiyyah on Time and Allah's Eternal Actions
08:53 The Three Different Kinds of Time
12:10 Refuting al Rāzī's Understanding of Time
15:37 Allah's Actions and the Creation of the Universe
18:07 The Ashʿarīs and Philosophers on the Origination of the Universe
20:26 Refuting Mullā Ṣadrā and Mīr Dāmād
22:54 Summary of the Three Kinds of Time
25:10 The Succession of Allah's Actions and Their Effects
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Ibn hazm writes in Risala fi Jumal Futuh al-Islam
“The lands of the Sudan:
Meaning lands of the blacks
I received information in the year 431 AH (1039CE) that the inhabitants of Sila and Takrur had embraced Islam. They were two great peoples among the lands of the Sudan. Their rulers and their common people embraced Islam. Much praise belongs to Allah.”
History of Islam in Africa - Senegal
An interesting passage from the eleventh-century Andalusian geographer Abu Ubayd al-Bakri in his work Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik
While describing the region of Takrur, situated along the Senegal River in present-day West Africa, he writes:
‘فوليهم وارجابي بن رابيس فأسلم وأقام عندهم شرائع الإسلام وحملهم عليها … فأهل تكرور اليوم مسلمون’
“Then Warjabi ibn Rabis became their ruler, embraced Islam, established the laws of Islam among them and compelled them to adhere to them … The inhabitants of Takrur today are Muslims.”
Al-Bakri also mentions the neighbouring city of Silla, writing:
‘وأهلها مسلمون أسلموا على يدي وارجابي رحمه الله’
“Its inhabitants are Muslims. They embraced Islam through Warjabi, may Allah have mercy upon him.”
He further describes Silla as possessing an extensive territory and a considerable population, with sufficient political and military strength to challenge the kingdom of Ghana.
What makes this account particularly interesting is its historical context. We are speaking about the eleventh century, approximately 1040 CE, when Warjabi ibn Rabis died.
This is not an account of European colonial-era missionary activity, nor is it a description of Islam being introduced by nineteenth-century movements. It is an account of an established African political authority whose ruler embraced Islam, established its religious laws and extended its influence into neighbouring territories.
The significance is difficult to overlook.
Takrur was situated in the Senegal River basin, in the territory of present-day Senegal and its surrounding region. Its history demonstrates that organised Muslim societies existed in West Africa centuries before European colonialism.
It also challenges the panafrican simplistic narratives that reduce the history of Islam in Africa to a story of foreign Arab conquest and the passive conversion of African populations.
The historical record is considerably more complex. African rulers adopted Islam, established Muslim institutions and participated in the expansion of Islamic civilisation through their own political authorities and societies.
And this was only the beginning of a much longer intellectual and religious history in the region.
Centuries later, Senegal would become home to deeply rooted traditions of Quranic memorisation, Islamic scholarship, jurisprudence and religious education.
One should remember that the Islamic history of Senegal did not begin with colonialism. It has roots stretching back more than a thousand years.
Source: Abu Ubayd al-Bakri, Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik, section on the lands of the Sudan, particularly his account of Takrur and Silla.
