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>be North Korea
>1974: order 1,000 Volvos from Sweden
>refuse to pay for them
>2016: attempt to steal $951M from Bangladesh Bank
>2022: steal $625M from Ronin Network
>2024: steal $308M from DMM Bitcoin
>2024: steal $235M from WazirX
>2025: steal $1.5B from Bybit
>yesterday: steal $6.3B from Binance
>crypto hacks now make up 1/3 of the north korea’s foreign currency revenue
>literally boosting the national economy by hacking our dumb ahh industry
>national economy is just #gta and crypto #Hacks
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Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:
Some of the Salaf said:
“Were it not for the trials in this world, we would be arriving bankrupt on the Day of Judgement.”
[Zaad al-Ma’aad | 4/176]
To attain true detachment from the world, is to be constantly surrounded by it, but not letting it enter your heart.
In the west generally speaking there is no nobility in being poor.
It takes a lot of self control when you reach the stage in which you can have anything you want in the dunya, yet abandon it for the akhirah
Most people condemn it solely in theory, I can assure you it’s a lot harder when you’re actually capable of quite easily living most people’s dream and still abandoning it
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The five daily prayers are the most sophisticated anti-elite mechanism ever designed.
Every system of knowledge in human history has been gatekept. You want philosophy learn Greek. You want law go to the academy. You want spirituality find the monastery, pay the priest, climb the hierarchy.
Knowledge as power has always flowed through institutions that could be captured, corrupted, or bought.
Islam said : five times a day, every Muslim on earth stands in the exact same posture, says the exact same words, faces the exact same direction, with zero intermediary. The shepherd in Mali and the caliph in Baghdad are doing the identical act. No priest can sell you access. No institution can revoke your membership. No scholar
can stand between you and the prayer.
The ulema exist, the imams exist but the core transaction between the believer and Allah requires nothing they can provide and nothing they can withhold.
1400 years later every other spiritual tradition is struggling with institutional collapse, abuse scandals, gatekeeping accusations. Islam built the decentralization solution into the architecture from day one.
Arda you beauty
🚨🇪🇸 ARDA GULER OPENS THE SCORING FOR REAL MADRID! WHAT A FANTASTIC GOAL! 🤯
Real Madrid 1-0 Sevilla. teapawt.org/alaskafreezys/status/2…
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The most damaging pressure on Islam today comes from inside. One of the greatest challenges facing Muslims today is not merely the external criticism of Islam, but the growing tendency among Muslims themselves to judge revelation through the lens of a morality they have already inherited from their environment mostly western
Many who reject certain hadiths do not do so because of their knowledge of hadith sciences rather because those narrations contradict their pre-existing moral convictions. Having internalised the values of the societies they live in, they approach Islam with a framework that Islam itself is supposed to shape.
They accept what conforms to their worldview and reject what challenges it, often under the vague pretext of “common sense.”
But what exactly is common sense? What one society considers self-evident, another may consider absurd. Our intuitions about morality, justice and what is reasonable are deeply influenced by our upbringing, culture and environment. What feels universally true to us may simply be an assumption we have never questioned.
The problem, therefore, is not that Muslims ask questions or critically examine hadiths. Islam has its own rigorous scholarly tradition for doing precisely that. The problem arises when personal moral intuitions become the ultimate criterion for deciding which authentic teachings of the Prophet ﷺ are acceptable.
At that point, revelation is no longer shaping the believer’s worldview. The believer is reshaping revelation to accommodate a worldview formed elsewhere.
And the most dangerous part is that this process can happen unconsciously. People may sincerely believe they are defending Islam while gradually filtering it through the moral assumptions of the very societies whose values they claim not to have adopted.
The question is simple: Do we approach Islam willing to have our moral convictions corrected by revelation, or do we approach it having already decided what revelation is allowed to say?
When your morality determines which parts of revelation you are willing to accept, what exactly is your ultimate authority: revelation, or yourself?
Middleweight 🐐
🇵🇸 Israel Adesanya denies rumours that he changed his first name, however his support for Palestine/Gaza remains the same:
“I don’t like, f***ing genoc!d3s. I know my name, and how powerful my name is.”
“I know who I am. These European
z!on!$ts, who are double-tapping hospitals, and k****ng kids and whatnot, I don’t support that.”
Mad respect to Izzy. ❤️❤️❤️
( via. precision podcast )
They’ll do the same for lindsay clancy too
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It's called the circular economy, it's when you sell weapons to Ukraine and buy diesel from Russia.
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Ibn ʿAbbās said: “Procrastination married laziness, and poverty was born from their union.”
Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Ḥadāʾiq (3/228).
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When you look at the history of Islamic civilization, you realize that the early Muslims understood something that modern societies often struggle to admit: people are equal in dignity, but they are not equal in ability, competence or what they can bring to a particular task.
Look at Khalid ibn al-Walid and Abu Ubaida. Abu Ubaida was a great companion and a better man in many respects, but when it came to warfare, Khalid was simply more capable. So Abu Bakr gave Khalid command in yarmouk. This was not an insult to Abu Ubaida, nor was it about pretending that one person was inherently worth more than another. It was about putting the right man in the right position.
That is how a serious civilization functions. You don’t give someone a responsibility simply because “everyone is equal.” You give it to the person who is most capable of carrying it, while also looking at his character and trustworthiness.
Equality before God and equality in basic rights do not mean equality of talent, intelligence, courage, discipline or competence.
Sports openly accepts that birth hands out unequal bodies, and builds its whole structure around that fact. Outside the stadium, people today act as if minds and aptitudes are interchangeable, and treats anyone who says otherwise as a heretic. The fiction survives because a scoreboard punishes denial within ninety minutes, while institutions fail slowly, spread the cost across millions, and let the blame land elsewhere.
The problem today is that people confuse these things. They think recognizing differences between people is somehow unjust. But hierarchy exists everywhere. The real question is whether that hierarchy is based on merit and responsibility, or on arbitrary privilege.
The companions رضوان الله عليهم understood this distinction. And perhaps part of what made their civilization so strong was that they were not afraid to act upon it.
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Be Joe Rogan:
> Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967
> Parents divorce when you’re five
> Lose contact with your father at seven
> Move from New Jersey to California to Florida to Massachusetts
> Grow up scared of getting beaten up and terrified of becoming a loser
> Find martial arts
> Discover something you can get good at by putting in the work
> Become a four-time Massachusetts taekwondo champion
> Your friends think you’re funny
> They tell you to try stand-up
> Spend six months preparing for your first set
> Finally get onstage at a Boston open mic in 1988
> Nearly chicken out
> You can fight people, but telling jokes in front of them is apparently terrifying
> Start chasing comedy anyway
> Deliver newspapers
> Drive a limousine
> Work construction
> Teach martial arts
> Keep working on the act
> Head to New York in 1990
> Stay with your grandfather in Newark for the first six months while scraping together money
> Move to Los Angeles in 1994
> Land a sitcom called Hardball
> It gets canceled
> Land NewsRadio
> Finally have a steady television paycheck
> Keep doing stand-up
> Get hired to host Fear Factor
> Become nationally recognizable for watching people make terrible dietary decisions
> Turn your love of martial arts into a UFC commentary career
> Comedy, fighting, television
> A pretty good career already
> Then, at 42, start a podcast
> Christmas Eve, 2009
> Sit down with Brian Redban and start broadcasting online
> Spend part of the first episode figuring out the equipment
> There are animated snowflakes on the screen
> This is the beginning of your future media empire
> Keep talking
> Bring on comedians, fighters, scientists and people with very elaborate theories about aliens
> Let conversations run for hours
> Build an audience that comes back for the next one
> Sign with Spotify in 2020
> Renew in 2024 and expand distribution back across other platforms
> Presidential candidates start showing up for interviews
> The guy from Fear Factor has become a campaign stop
> October 2026
> Renew your Spotify partnership on terms reportedly worth around $250 million
> Keep the show available on competing platforms
> Keep editorial control
> More than 18 million followers on Spotify
> More than 21 million on YouTube
> Thirty-eight years after nearly backing out of your first open mic
Hell of an overnight success!
