Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, recently added a new tattoo on his arm that says "كافر" or "unbeliever".

Arabic proverb of the day 🧬 "People resemble the times they live in more than they resemble their parents." an-nāsu bi-zamānihim ashbahu minhum bi-ābāʾihim

“But, for the travelers and wayfarers, each [Qur’ānic] verse is like a message and a love-letter. They know the Qur’ān. He presents and discloses the beauty of the Qur’ān to them.” — Persian Sufi master Shams-i Tabrīzī 📚 Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi

Ryan Grim dismantles a GOP congressman’s fantasy of installing Reza Pahlavi after U.S. strikes on Iran. “It’s just completely absurd… like foreign policy made up by elementary school students,” Grim says. “You’re like, ‘get this bad guy, get this bad guy,’ then ship ‘Reza over

The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud. Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning

Pay attention to what Scott Horton says about blowback for America’s wars for Israel

This is objectively the most Orwellian thing I’ve ever seen

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Matt Kahn, real

“Our religion [Islam] is the same as the religion of the 124,000 prophets and messengers.” — Persian Sufi master Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī, The Unveiling of the Mysteries and the Provision of the Pious (Kashf al-Asrār wa ʿUddat al-Abrār) #sufism #tasawwuf #ramadan

Fill your every breath with dhikr [remembrance] of Allāh.

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"If the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service." — Benjamin Franklin

Your brain peaked musically somewhere around age 16. Everything since then has been a dopamine echo. Between the ages of 12 and 22, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, the same circuit that processes cocaine and sex, fires at levels in response to sound that it will never reach

Imagine speaking this confidently while being this ignorant of the fact that all premodern civilizations were based around traditions of profound introspection, inner reflection, muraqaba, muhasaba and self-scrutiny in the path of self transformation and transcendence.

“A spiritually uneducated heart is raw and cold iron. Giving it a certain shape demands that it be placed in a fire to burn away its rust, and a few, competent strikes to transform its hard, stubborn quality to softness.” ― Shaykh Osman Nuri Topbaş

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

It is not sufficient, but it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise you become no better than what you claim to oppose. And as Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in “War and Murder,” God will not be impressed by those who try to rationalize butchery by saying to him: “We had to break your

The world lined the brow of Eid with the kohl of the crescent — but the crescent of Eid must be seen in the Beloved’s eyebrow. — Hafez