Kategori: 2.4- Nation-States
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In Defence of Sayyid Qutb Against the Charge of Communism
A Man Hanged by Socialists and Accused of Socialism In the early hours of 29 August 1966, the Egyptian state hanged a sixty year old man who had memorised the Quran as a village boy, who had finished his tafsir of the Book of Allah inside a prison cell, whose…
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The Burning Child and the Silent Pulpits
Look at her. A little girl from Gaza sits wrapped in a blanket while fire swallows the walls around her, and in the next frame she lies in a hospital bed with burns across her face, staring into the camera with eyes that ask the whole Ummah one question. Where…
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Palestine Belongs to the Whole Ummah
For more than a hundred years the land of al Masjid al Aqsa has been bleeding in front of the eyes of almost two billion Muslims, and for more than a hundred years those Muslims have been taught to watch it like spectators watching a match in a foreign league.…
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Boycott Without a State is a Wound Without a Body
Boycott is obligatory. Bukhārī records a Companion cutting Makkah’s grain, no ruler’s command needed. Ibn Taymiyyah names trading with the enemy’s economy as aiding sin. Fifty Jordanian scholars, the IUMS, Indonesia’s MUI all ruled it wājib. But sincerity without structure isn’t a weapon. Quraysh’s siege of Banū Hāshim worked through…
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Palestine is Not a Foreign Policy File
Nine months in, Gaza faces seventy seven percent food insecurity and eighteen thousand patients denied treatment. The Muslim world responds with communiqués. Palestine has been reclassified from an obligation into a foreign policy file. Classical fiqh has no such category. Ibn Taymiyyah treated Muslim lands as one land. Al-Qurṭubī ruled…
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If your country’s football team conceding a goal hurts you more than a child being shot in Gaza, then it’s time to question your faith!
There is a particular kind of pain that the Muslim heart feels when the national football team concedes a goal. Hands go to heads. Men who have not prayed Fajr in years suddenly shout at the sky. Group chats explode. The emotion is raw, immediate, and unfiltered. Now ask yourself…
