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A brother in our Telegram chat group reflected on the victory of Morocco over Portugal in the World Cup tonight, and I wanted to share his comments:

"There are clear geopolitical signs of the new world order that is going to come in football. Until lately, there were only Western European teams + Brazil and Argentina that could go far in this competition and host them too. Now the BRICS are hosting the event (South Africa - Brazil - Russia before Qatar) and the gap between the countries I cited and the other teams around the world is decreasing.

FIFA now finds money in the BRICS and Arab countries and they want to deal with them, young players who were born in Europe chose more and more to play for the African countries of their parents (which could be called a "foot drain" instead of a "brain drain" haha)"

Book recommendation:

https://archive.org/details/captainsofconsci0005ewen

The internet has collapsed the natural barriers that used to exist in real-life society that kept serious people in one area, and clowns in another, and they never interfered with each other's conversations. Now, like that one disruptive kid in class who ruins the classroom for everyone, we have absolute idiots chiming in loudly whether we like it or not, so serious people end up having to address clowns as if they are serious people, and thereby everyone becomes a clown

Because of the subject, I expect this video to be suppressed on tiktok and YouTube

Hilariously, this video was removed by tiktok

Rasulullah said that the material rights of the children of Adam include food for subsistence, shelter from the weather, and clothes to cover your aurah. That does not mean that whatever you have in addition to that is haraam, but whatever you have in addition to that should be appreciated with gratitude, and there should not be a sense of pride, ennoscriptment, or superiority, and certainly not a sense that it is NOT ENOUGH such that you are continuously pursuing more and more. When what you are consuming leaves you continuously hungry, and your appetite is perpetually dissatisfied, to me it is an indication that your wealth is a fitnah and a punishment for you, not a blessing

From "Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims" by Dr. Shaikh Abdul Rahmaan al-Luwaihiq; for your reference

The people who hold onto the idea of revolting against the rulers are operating within a false dichotomy that presumes the only response to oppression is either to topple the state or to suffer in silence. This exposes to me their lack of any real world experience with genuine social and political movements, as well as their unfamiliarity with power dynamics in society.

The prohibition of revolting against the ruler in Islam does not in any way curtail your ability to oppose oppression effectively and positively if you are serious about improvement and not just interested in destruction and chaos.

https://youtu.be/l8ThRZwh6CE

It is also worth considering that many of the people of influence are unworthy of that influence, and it is granted by people who choose to value triviality and the entertainment value of toxic spectacles and simplistic opinions; as well as people who have power simply because we make them rich by our absurd self-enslavement to brands, to unnecessary consumption, and so on. If religious scholars and the Saliheen are not esteemed appropriately, we...no one but ourselves...have drained the Ahl al-Hal wal-'Aqd of righteous people

Muslims living in the West, at this point, remind me of those characters in zombie movies who are the few survivors navigating a terrain populated by savage, ravenous, infected zombies; constantly at risk of getting infected themselves while they wander through an apocalyptic wasteland

You know everyone...I realized that I have been using this Telegram channel wrong. Old guy, what to do? I should be sharing news, links, and so on, with my thoughts and comments; but I have almost only ever used it to share links to the Youtube videos whenever I post a new one...which is dumb. I appreciate that you bothered to follow this channel, and that you have stayed here despite it being essentially dormant. Insha'Allah, I will be more active here, since I always preferred writing to making videos anyway. Jazakum Allahu khayran all.