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It's a win-win. The advice giver becomes worth listening to. The advice taker actually benefits.
And سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰه, this is where I see Allah's mercy in Surah Al-Baqarah 2:44.

From my understanding, He's not forcing us to accept advice from hypocrites. He's telling the advice givers: Work on yourself first.
We know good advice is good advice, regardless of the messenger.

But let's be real. When someone who doesn't practice what they preach tries to correct you, something inside just resists.
Honest question: How many times have you rejected good advice just because of WHO said it?

I struggle with this. My nafs fights it every time. #Quran #SelfReflection #Islam
Zohran Mamdani won against billionaires who put politicians on their payroll and ran smear campaigns.

They lost because regular people united.

But they won't stop. New Yorkers - stay vigilant and keep making noise, InshAllah. #ZohranMamdani #PeoplePower #NewYork
Norman Finkelstein on the UN rape investigation:

"This isn't absence of evidence. With 5,000 images and 50 hours of video showing nothing, this is overwhelming evidence there was no rape." #Palestine #Gaza #October7th
Norman Finkelstein breaks down South Africa's genocide case: 700 pages of memorial, 4,000 pages of supporting evidence. That's the weight of what's being presented.
When you submit 4,700 pages of documentation to the International Court of Justice, you're not making a casual claim. #Gaza #ICJ #Palestine
Advocating violent overthrow? Protected. Burning the flag? Protected.

"From the river to the sea"?

A Reagan judge ruled: also protected. Called those who arrested students "cowardly desperados acting like the KKK."

#FreeSpeech #Palestine #FreePalestine
Van Jones claimed dead babies on TikTok are because Qatar and Iran control it.

Norman Finkelstein's response: Maybe because there are that many dead Gazan babies.

October 2023: 20,000+ children. More than all other war zones combined.

#Palestine #Gaza #NormanFinkelstein
That 75% figure alone destroys the illusion that this is just a leadership problem. The evidence is clear. I can't argue back.
The polls: 50% of Israeli Jews support genocide in Gaza. 70-75% say there are no innocents in Gaza. Even Israeli opposition leaders admit the IDF kills children as a hobby.
Netanyahu is the longest-serving PM in Israeli history. Obnoxious, narcissistic, Jewish supremacist. Finkelstein says: that IS Israeli society. When they see him, they see themselves.
I was wrong about Israeli society. I thought they were different from Netanyahu. Norman Finkelstein just destroyed that illusion with hard evidence. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
But Finkelstein disagrees. And I think of Nazi Germany. Was the majority not fine with what was done to a religious group? That's the uncomfortable truth we have to face about collective responsibility.
Netanyahu is not just terrible leadership. He is the reality of Israeli society. I wanted to believe otherwise. Look at Pakistan. We love Imran Khan yet he sits in jail. Leadership doesn't always represent the people.
Norman Finkelstein saw Gaza as a concentration camp before the rest of the world did. Today we call it genocide. But he says something even harder to accept. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Norman Finkelstein wrote "I Accuse" about Gaza. 370 copies sold. He bought half of them himself. He wanted it for an ICC case. Years of trying. 2020: he gave up. Nobody cared. Makes you think: what if Gazans hadn't fought for themselves? #Palestine #Gaza #Resistance
Why do I keep checking if Zohran Mamdani won?

Because people deserve leaders who actually care about them over money. I know that sounds naive. But maybe he's different. Maybe New Yorkers will InshAllah finally get a leader who serves them. #ZohranMamdani #NYC #Election
Today everyone sees Israel committing genocide. Israel and the US, once seen as powerful, are now humiliated globally. The liberal nations lost all credibility by openly supporting this oppression.
For years, the US was the world power. Then they actively supported the bombing of around 100,000 people in Gaza. They went far beyond all limits.
From my understanding of Surah Al-Baqarah 2:251: success built on injustice is temporary. Allah replaces corrupt powers with those who strive for justice. Otherwise corruption would dominate the earth.

#Quran #Justice #Islam
My wife asked if she'd be safe wearing burqa here. I told her honestly: I don't know.

Not just physically safe. The looks. The judgment. The flipped narrative.

Zohran Mamdani gets it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBQwCsIhn0 #Islamophobia #NYC #Muslim
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