“But they are astonished that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and the disbelievers say, This is a strange thing.” Quran 50:2
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Every day, someone embraces Islam.
But for many, the day after their SHAHADAH is the loneliest day of their life.
No one should walk that journey alone.
Help us build a future where no new Muslim is left behind.❤️🤲
The Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever relieves a believer of a hardship of this world, Allah will relieve him of a hardship on the Day of Resurrection... Allah helps His servant as long as he helps his brother." (Muslim 2699)
Somebody near you is in the ditch today. Grab a chain.
New converts
DO NOT cut off your family ties
No matter what you’re going thru
You’ll regret it forever if you lose this connection
Even if they’re harsh - give them time
Keep showing up
Don’t water down your Deen
But be Wise and don’t be a jerk
You’ll thank me later
There was a day a Texas boy said the words that changed everything.
Ash-hadu an la ilaha illa Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but God.
I'd been reaching for those words my whole life. I reached for them every time I prayed alone in a truck on a dirt road, and every time I looked up at the stars over a pasture and knew Somebody put them there.
The shahada made sense of my past. It didn't erase it.
I lost some friends and gained brothers all over the earth. I traded a mystery I was told not to question for a God I could understand.
If you're standing at the edge of that same decision, I won't push you. I'll only tell you the peace is real.
I wrote the whole road down in How the Bible Led Me Home. The road you're on is yours.
"There is no compulsion in religion." (2:256)
I won't force anybody, and I couldn't if I wanted to. All I can do is open the gate, tell you what I found on the other side, and leave it open.
If you like the ranch talk, there's more on my YouTube: the character of the Prophet ﷺ, told the way a cowboy tells a story, slow and plain, from the saddle.
Pull up a chair.
"And We have not sent you except as a mercy to the worlds." (21:107)
That covers every person I'll ever meet, online or off. If one of them walks away from me feeling less of that mercy, the fault is mine.
Alhamdulillaah this is Honor
This is Islam
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This video has gone viral on Arabic social media that I monitor...
A Saudi Arabian man whose brother was murdered stands in front of a delegation of tribal elders who came to ask him to pardon the killer. His answer:
“As for my brother, you are turned away on it, by God’s command and God’s law… Either hospitality, the door opens and you come in, welcome on my head and my brothers’ heads. Or, men, my brother’s case is not open for any talk.”
He refused the pardon and still offered them his door, because in that culture a guest is honoured even when his request is rejected.
I have seen this tradition and law being exercised in person in Saudi Arabia and they are powerful moments in the culture and context of the Middle East.
How the law works. In Saudi Arabia "intentional murder" carries qisas ( or retribution), and the right to it belongs to the victim’s heirs.
The family has 3 options:
1. demand execution of the killer or wrong-doer.
2. pardon for free, or
3. pardon in exchange for diya (or blood money).
The killer’s tribe sends its MOST highly respected men to ask, and the WHOLE tribe often pays. Even after a pardon, the state can still jail the killer on its "public" right or if it deems it in the interest of public good.
I have seen this up close in real life across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Iraq calls it fasl, and Pakistan wrote qisas and diyat into its penal code.
Whether it comes through custom, religion or tribal tradition, the goal is the same: pay for one death so the families do not trade 10 more as they may be tempted to seek revenge...
Why does it work? Because it reprices murder.
The tribe pays, so the tribe polices its own. Every family has a cash reason to restrain its hotheads BEFORE anyone pulls a trigger.
It breaks the revenge cycle. Without a settlement, "side A" retaliates, "side B" retaliates back, and 1 death becomes a feud that runs for a generation. A paid pardon ends it at ONE murder.
The victim’s family gets something. A prison sentence gives them NOTHING, the taxpayer funds 25+ years of a cell, and the killer walks out owing nothing to the family he broke and the children of the victim won't get anything in the West.
The killer’s side has to come to the victim’s door and ask, in front of everyone. In an "honour economy" that costs more than time served.
Is it perfect? No. Rich families can buy their way out, sums of tens of millions of riyals have been reported, and this video shows the pressure that falls on a grieving family. Which is why the right to refuse has to stay real, and this man just used it...
The West handed all of this to the State and the Prison system, and mostly forgot how to make an offender face the family he wronged and pay them.
If it were your brother, would you take the diya or demand the qisas?
Signal, not noise!
The Prophet ﷺ told of a thirsty man who climbed down a well, drank, then saw a dog panting from thirst. He went back down, filled his shoe, and gave it water. Allah forgave him. (Bukhari 2363, Muslim 2244)
Water the horses first, boys.
As they do in Gaza by k!lling babies
Randy Fine said
“We must kill it in the cradle”
AIPAC has such a bad image now because 97% of the candidates they support are on the Epstein files and the world sees them for the Genocide they have enacted - they changed their NAME to UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT
Do NOT LET THEM HIDE
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The Prophet ﷺ said: "The best of you are the best to their families, and I am the best of you to my family." (Tirmidhi 3895)
Aisha said he served his family at home, and when prayer came he went out to pray. (Bukhari 676)
So yes, real men do the dishes.
"And He found you lost and guided you." (93:7)
It was revealed to the Prophet ﷺ, and every convert I know reads it like a letter with his own name on the envelope. If you feel lost tonight, you may be closer to found than you think.
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