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The Bastardization of Fiqh: Madkhali Manhaj

الحمد لله رب العالمين، وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد  وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين  و بعد  السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته   Clarifying Meanings Madkhali, has two predominant meanings having very little relevance to the topic Im about to embark upon, but I feel must be simplified here. Madkhali on the one hand are viewed by blind followers of Shaykh Rab'ee al-Madkhali who have a end all and be all hujjah of everything pertaining to "manhaj", 98 percent of which have no clue of what manhaj is or what they mean by it. On the opposite end, you have people who likewise fall on the opposite extreme falling into fanaticism based on the fanaticism of the former. This group, generally view anything identified as "salafi" as inexorably "madkhali". These are the two predominant views about nonsensical inter-hizbi polemics of absolute no use to 90 percent of the masses of the Muslim world. Hence this small tract is geared to...

Methods of Propaganda

Propaganda in today's common perception seems rather highly discredited because the public generally have the propagandized view of their local and national media, that being that such outlets are there to inform them with what they like to claim as being " fair and balanced ". Thus this mistaken perception leads to the public's common false conclusion that the employment of this term " propaganda " is problematic and essentially doesn't apply to them. "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers . . . . The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great i...

The Problem of Geopolitics People Find Hard to Accept

The problem that many people will have a hard time accepting the reality of is the nature of geopolitics, more specifically the common trait of international actors outside the periphery of accountability and (s)elected political figures. What does this uncanny situation imply? It implies the element of deception, specifically the fact that a person's own individual ambitions and self determination was or has been part of a by-product of strategic actors who have been trained, payed for, and benefit entirely from the art of utilizing certain segments of populations and their aims and to play them on the international stage for their own strategic interests most notably beyond the peripheral understandings of the people who have essentially been played without their knowledge. Most people do not look favorably at such a reality despite the fact that this is exactly how our current global imperial secular order operates.  The nature of geopolitics is basically a birds eye envisioning...

My Initiative

I've decided to utilize this particular platform to collect my thoughts primarily as a note taking process and so to have established these thoughts in written form and to be used as reference points for further research. The topic of geopolitics is quite expansive and actually necessary for anyone trying to gather a coherent picture of what is taking place throughout the world. I think I will outline the tools that is needed to highlight this topic in detail ان شاء الله