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Q&A: Why are people on falsehood united and Muslims scattered?
Question: “Why are the forces of evil usually loud, somewhat united and confident and the forces of good usually scattered, silent and hesitant. Take an example of Kashmir. All these lgbtq, feminist, atheistic proponents usually share a stage and are well organized, at the same time funded and supported by institutions. But religious intellectuals scattered. I know a lot of people online and offline. If they come together, they can shake the foundations of evil. And common masses also follow where they see potential and power. There is something psychological about it. You should initiate something to unite the forces of good, intellectual warfare is already out there but our…
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Who Put Modesty on Trial?
A civilization reveals its soul in the way it dresses its bodies. Clothes are not innocent fabric; they are moving architecture around the human form, declaring what we think a human being is, what is sacred and what is expendable, what must be veiled and what may be sold. In the Qur’anic vision, garments are described first as a covering for nakedness and as an adornment, but even more profoundly as a “garment of God-consciousness”. That is: the real clothing is taqwā, and physical clothing is meant to serve it. The Qur’an addresses us and explicitly says that God has sent down clothes to cover our nakedness and as a…
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Before the Arguments Begin – Chapter 3 – Culture: Norms and Forms
We have unmasked the lens and drawn the map. We exposed the quiet workshop beneath our “I think”—the pre-argument loom where habits, loyalties, and loves set the hinges on which our certainties swing. Later we walked the streets of that workshop, naming its districts and signposts—how soundscapes, schedules, sanctions, and symbols tutor perception before any syllogism arrives. Now we turn from description to demand: if culture furnishes a world, what teaches a people which paths are permitted and which are profanations? What tells a young heart, “This is fitting,” and with the same breath, “That is shame”? This is the normative dimension—the conscience of a culture, the grammar of “ought”…
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Before the Arguments Begin – Chapter 2 – Cultural Map and Mechanism
We ended the first chapter by naming the backstage machinist that cues our certainty before the arguments arrive. We called it culture—the living operating system that sorts the world into drawers so swiftly that the labels feel like nature. If that is true, then the next honest step is obvious: we must turn from the theatre of examples to the workshop itself. What is this operating system made of? How is it installed, updated, defended, and corrupted? And by whom? We now take up that task. What faces you now is deliberately workmanlike because the aim here is not to soar but to map. Having established that culture does the…
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Before the Arguments Begin – Chapter 1 – The Secret Loom
What persuades a Srinagar café owner to keep, or drop, nun-chai from the menu, and what kind of eatery now owns that cup? What turns the once-sacred Friday bazaar into a selfie-strip of fried snacks where the khutbah fades to background hum? What recasts the neighbourly rite of carrying a bride’s trousseau on foot into a ribboned convoy of rented SUVs built for Instagram? What turns azaan into noise for many? What alchemy makes a blue tick and a quick reply pass for friendship, while silence feels like betrayal? What force lets the same Qurʾānic ayah set one heart ablaze and leave another untouched? And, above all, what chance has…
Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment