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My first installment of the Salaf Renaissance series, a concise letter of advice written by Sheikh al-Islām, Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161), to ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād. Physical Copy: Free PDF:
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Who would have thought?. The Amir of Qatar, Tamim ibn Hamad, maintained his principled stance against Assad, even as his regime was on the verge of being rehabilitated. Now, he is the first Arab ruler to visit Damascus since 2009 (excluding the ousted Sudanese Al-Bashir).
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@kunley_drukpa This is bullshit btw. Aisha bint Uthman ibn Affan is not the daughter of Ruqayya (Allah be pleased with her). She is the daughter of Ramla bint Shayba. I’m sure the rest of the diagram js riddled with other errors.
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Western Muslim professionals, we all have the chance to actualise this video. Observe this poor Syrian man, his faith in Allah, and how a meagre ~500 dollars, which many of us can casually toss without concern, covered a WHOLE YEAR of his finances. May Allah use us.
An #Australian man's car broke down in the #Damascus countryside, so he came across an elderly #Syrian man and paid his rent for a whole year.
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One of the greater offenses toward the Syrian people and the greater Ummah is that the Assad Regime had al-Buti’s corpse buried beside Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi’s grave.
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women have to deal with pregnancy, periods, and menopause. what do men have to deal with?.
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Big development: The Syrian foreign minister will be participating in the ministerial meeting of the GCC foreign ministers in Mecca. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the new Syrian state will have strong ties to the Saudi heartlands.
وزير خارجية الإدارة السورية الجديدة سيشارك في اجتماع وزراء خارجية دول الخليج في مكة. (العربية).
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Al-Buti believed that the past Islamist uprisings in Syria in the 80’s against the Nusayri regime and Hafez Al-Assad constituted an act of حرابة, which is a legitimization of the Assad Regime’s slaughter of those people and his brutal crackdown against them.
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Huge development if true.
The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will visit Damascus soon.
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If Salafism in Syria is to thrive, it must not fall into the error of having boisterous young men become the poster boys of the movement. Optics, signalling, and academic strength all must be taken into consideration. Despite the Assads’ crackdown on Salafism, it flourished.
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@muslim_anonn This sounds more like OCD tendencies than the byproduct of Salafism. Fyi, various Salafi scholars talk about the negative impacts of ghuluw in tajwid with respect to layman audiences.
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At the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, al-Buti regularly slandered the peaceful protestors and the Revolution as a conspiracy les by foreign powers to destabilise and undermine Syria under the “false pretence of reform.”. Such slanderous claims are the precursor to the
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@MarinaMedvin Congratulations, you just discovered that neighboring human populations generally tended to intermix via commerce, migration, and shared histories. If anything, it illustrates how the native Palestinians were well-integrated into the region and part of a functioning mosaic.
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One great life change you can make in 2025 is to frame your errands around congregational prayers at a mosque. As an example, an errand at noon would start with Dhuhr at the masjid, etc. Let the masjid iqama times be a main factor in determining your errand timeline/schedule.
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Revisionist fans of al-Buti attempt to sanitize and whitewash his tainted legacy, but it is all futile. This sheikh reports that Sheikh Wahbah al-Zuhaili informed him that Buti gave Bashar Al-Assad the greenlight to kill members the protestors who he alleged were from the Muslim
الدكتور #أسامة_الحموي يكشف عن الدكتور العلامة #وهبي_الزحيلي كيف أفتى الدكتور سعيد رمضان البوطي عليه من الله ما يستحق بقتل الإخوان في الثمانينات، وقتل المتظاهرين خلال الثورة ضد #بشار_الكيماوي بحضور علماء أحياء، نتمنى أن يُدلوا بشهادتهم….
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@alieforza Bukhari does not have one isnad per se. He, like the rest of his peers, had hundreds and thousands of isnads for many hadiths. The utility of Bukhari is not in the preservation of prophetic traditions, as virtually all of Sahih al-Bukhari can reproduced from other.
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Now, a third witness, Sh Wehbe Zuhaili’s own son, corroborates the account from Sh Wehbe that al-Buti told Bashar Al-Assad regarding the revolutionaries, “You are Allah’s khalifa in the land, so kill them if you wish.”. The poster who shared this post on FB now officially
Revisionist fans of al-Buti attempt to sanitize and whitewash his tainted legacy, but it is all futile. This sheikh reports that Sheikh Wahbah al-Zuhaili informed him that Buti gave Bashar Al-Assad the greenlight to kill members the protestors who he alleged were from the Muslim
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My hometown, Damascus, a city that hosted tens of Sahaba who took it as their homeland. The Umayyad Mosque in the center of this image was the site of a Quranic renaissance led by Abu al-Dardā’ (Allah be pleased with him). Historical traditions mention that he would sit in the
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Syrian president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, will be making his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia tomorrow.
مصادر العربية: الرئيس السوري أحمد الشرع يزور السعودية غدا #العربية_عاجل.
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With the looming ceasefire in Gaza, I am joyful that the Gazan people can finally rest after 15 months of carnage. Though the Israelis lost, it is difficult to describe this bittersweet event as a victory.
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Your clean slate of 2025 starts with a sincere tawba: (1) wudu, (2) two rak’as of tawba, (3) a substantial charity with the intention of repentance, and (4) a serene session of istighfar.
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If there is one thing to be learned in Syria, it is that an artificially propped and overextended minority in a hostile region will inevitably collapse if it does not eventually secure its hegemony through means beyond brute force and might, which typically are transient.
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Two-story houses existed in Medina during the Prophet’s ﷺ life.
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These shameless turbanheads who worshipped Assad assumed that life will go on as usual. They casually intermix with other clerics and are even welcomed and defended by a few without even apologising to the Syrian people. My Allah replace ex-Assad clergy with righteous scholars.
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@IbrmAnsari What is the evidence that a diplomatic gesture like this toward a political rival is haram and misguided?.
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While this song sounds like a standard Islamic combat nashid, its lyrics are a poem attributed to the pre-Islamic warrior-poet, ‘Antara ibn Shaddad al-‘Absi. This song was heavily used in the recent Syrian rebel offensive that ultimately liberated Syria.
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@D1mashqi Nothing said here is surprising to anyone following the developments of Syria over the past years. Once again, the real and new development here is that Salafis now have a new seat at the table of Syrian religious institutions. That is what was celebrated by many who rejoiced at.
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Normalize not having to invent honorary titles before speakers' names. Instead of adding, "ustadh" or "brother," before a name, why not just place their first and last name like normal people?.
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Horrific footage of Assad’s bombing of Eastern Ghouta in the Damascus suburbs. Never forgive, never forgets.
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Al-Hasan al-Basri reportedly said, “Every day in which a slave does not disobey Allah is an eid.”. It would be nice for a person to set personal challenges for himself where he attempts to navigate throughout a designated day without sinning. (1) prayers on time, (2) no ghiba,
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When my late grand-uncle proposed to the niece of the Sheikh of the Ḥanābila in Damascus, Sheikh Muḥammad Jamīl al-Shaṭṭī, the sheikh began to inquire about our family. He was informed that the suitor's grandfather (my great-great-grandfather) was an Azhari graduate and an
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Some of my takeaways from this interview:. 1. Secular modernity, alone, is an existential threat to Batini faiths that rely on insulation for self-preservation. I can only imagine what the effects of a just and pro-Islam epoch would be. 2. Despite the sectarian tensions and.
Important interview by @ahmad_dadoosh with an ex-Nusayri convert to Islam about the Nusayri faith.
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It is reported with a decent mursal isnād that ʿAbdurraḥmān ibn ʿAwf, upon entering his dwelling, would recite ayat al-Kursi in its corners. Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shayba (15/468)
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In this era of fitan, it is important that we routinely remind ourselves of the warnings mentioned by the Prophet ﷺ. Perhaps it is time that we speak of them as events that we and our children may imminently witness, as opposed to some mysterious events of the distant future.
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@ModernDayDebate @lilyjayofficial @ApostateProphet Stop trying to beg for debates, you charlatan, and stop acting like a Dollar Store debate pimp.
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@Farid_0v I had a similar experience with a Shi’ite polemicist when I shared a book of MiAW with him, and he came back and asked for more of his books.
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The Baath party, alongside a coalition of leftist and nationalist parties, are all officially disbanded and banned in Syria moving forth. This includes various communist and socialist parties alongside the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, amidst others.
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@Simsimiyyah Is it fair to repost this video if the man stated that he (1) detested it , (2) was pressured to do it by his employer, and (3) it was eventually taken down.
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My neighborhood within Old Damascus adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque is named القيمرية. Its name is Kurdish in origin and likely based off the name of some Kurdish general who established some awqāf in the neighborhood. This name, however, does not exist in earlier classical
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This video is the most comprehensive video on al-Buti, his horrendous politics, and his utilization by the Assads. Fans of the sheikh, in response, scrambled in a desperate attempt to dispel it with their usual gibberish and nonsense.
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@ArslanianGaro I’m visiting my homeland soon la3yoonak 😘. Let me know if you need anything from Damascus, habib. I heard it gets cold in Canada.
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@Al_Qadriyya There are some Hanafi works transmitted by Mutazilites. Theological differences between a student of the madhab and some of the madhab’s middle transmitters is not unusual or necessarily problematic.
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@charqala My issue is not personal with him at this point now that he is dead. We cannot allow this tainted legacy to become sanitized and overlooked, lest we should expect dozens of Butis to re-emerge in the ensuing generations.
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@MercifulMessage Tawhid can embody blemishes and impurities, and a reviver of the faith who renormalizes the pure tawhid of the Salaf in a time when it is ridiculed and disregarded should be supported and aided.
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As a major metropolis of Islam, Damascus' history was extensively documented. Not only were histories of the city compiled, but some villages and districts adjacent to the city also had their own formal histories collected by early authorities. Dārayyā.> Tārīkh Dārayyā by
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The goal of the Salaf Renaissance series is to provide a holistic and well-serviced series of publications that span the creed, zuhd, and history of the Salaf. These topics, ideally, are inseparable, so the aim is to devise a balanced semi-curriculum.
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Hafez Al-Assad's brother and orchestrator of the 1982 Hama Massacre, Rifaat Al-Assad, was exiled from Syria after his failed coup in 1984. In 2021, he reconciled with Bashar and returned to Syria. Only 3 years later, the Regime collapsed, and they were re-exiled as refugees.
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@WestSemitic I have the same phenotype, and I’m J1 Syrian Arab. In Syria, I believe it’s probably due to Anatolian and Balkan admixture, which was accelerated by the Ottomans. There’s a lot of Kurdish influence throughout the Levant as well.
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My brother, @D1mashqi , when will you and your camp repent from your defence of this man? Do you need 5,000 eyewitnesses to corroborate Sh. Wehbe Zuhaili’s account before you wake up and smell the coffee?.
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Past sympathizers with al-Buti are beginning to let it sink on and realize that Sh Wehbe’s account does, in fact, fit with al-Buti’s positions articulated elsewhere. This sheikh, after 14 years of silence on al-Buti, now affirms that he fully believes the account irrespective of
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Truly one of the stranger eras of Islamic history. The Athari Shāfiʿī scholar, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī (d. 576), praising the Fatimid Ismaili judge of Alexandria in Muʿjam al-Safar.
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@AvdullahYousef I don’t believe much of a response is warranted. I am perfectly fine accepting the prospect of occasional transgressions occurring with respect to his politics, and I see no reason to dispute that in detail. My primary interest is in his works and formulations, which I find.
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Important interview by @ahmad_dadoosh with an ex-Nusayri convert to Islam about the Nusayri faith.
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Reports that the Syrian Ministry of Awqaf has issued a law prohibiting the conduction of events / celebrations inside mosques without prior authorization from the ministry.
وزارة الاوقاف في سوريا: يُمنع إقامة المهرجانات و الفعاليات في المساجد (كهز الرؤوس وضرب الدفوف) فمكانها المراكز الثقافية.ويقتصر دور المساجد على حلقات ومجالس العلم والذكر والصلاة ودورات تحفيظ القرآن
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@Jackson42007496 @kunley_drukpa These types of calculations often fail to acknowledge the extent to which inbreeding occurs in all populations beyond a certain threshold. Your number of ancestors does not continue to exponentially increase as you scale up.
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@OneLifeResults There were respectable scholars in Damascus who just kept their mouths shut fi they couldn’t say anything beneficial. This man went out of his way to pontificate on politics to malign the Revolution.
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@Asw3dF The urban middle and upper classes often have a strong aversion to it, unfortunately. This includes “religious” folks. It is commonly viewed as an extreme and intense form of commitment, which is the wrong way to view it.
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‘Alqama ibn Qays was asked about a man who fornicated with a woman and later married her, and he replied by reciting the verse, “It is He who accepts the repentance of His worshipers and remits the sins.” [al-Shura:25]. [Kitāb al-Āthār]
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Good news: European Union pauses sanctions on air travel, freight, financial market infrastructure, and energy in Syria for one year.
#عاجل | الاتحاد الأوروبي يعلق العقوبات على حركة الطيران والشحن والبنية التحتية المصرفية والطاقة في #سوريا لمدة عام.#تلفزيون_سوريا #أخبار_سوريا
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Cutest video of the week from the Syrian island of Arwad off the coast of Tartus.
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On this note, I once observed a Syrian from Nawā , Hawrān, with the surname, الشعباني, introduce himself to a Yemeni man. The Yemeni shockingly inquired, “You’re from Bani Sha’bān?!” The Syrian nodded with confusion at the Yemeni’s surprise. Fascinating interactions that only
Some Yemenite surnames present among the early ḥadīth transmitters of Syria, most of which were tribal affiliations. Some were more common than others, and several survive till this day in certain parts of Syria:. الألهاني.الخولاني.القتباني.العنسي.الغساني.السكسكي.الكلاعي.الأشعري.
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Some Yemenite surnames present among the early ḥadīth transmitters of Syria, most of which were tribal affiliations. Some were more common than others, and several survive till this day in certain parts of Syria:. الألهاني.الخولاني.القتباني.العنسي.الغساني.السكسكي.الكلاعي.الأشعري.
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The OG and hadith master, Ibn Majah, after transmitting a hadith from Abu Salih, from Ibn Abbas, commented, “I think I erred by mentioning Ibn ‘Abbas, and I think it actually is from Abu Hurayra inshAllah.”. I will comment on its isnad later iA.
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Dr. M Bashir Al-Haddad corroborated Sh. Usama al-Hamwi’s account from Sh al-Zuhayli. He even mentioned that he heard it several times from Sh. Al-Zuhayli and that the sheikh requested that they disseminate it one day. Al-Buti literally sanctioned the slaughter of the Syrian
Revisionist fans of al-Buti attempt to sanitize and whitewash his tainted legacy, but it is all futile. This sheikh reports that Sheikh Wahbah al-Zuhaili informed him that Buti gave Bashar Al-Assad the greenlight to kill members the protestors who he alleged were from the Muslim
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@AbuButtercuts @Simsimiyyah He never publicly repented from his atrocious politics, and his diehard fans whitewash his legacy till this day.
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I compiled Abū Ḥanīfa's traditions in ʿAbdurrazzāq's Muṣannaf (~80 reports). It would be a nice addendum to his traditions found in al-Shaybānī and Abū Yūsuf's Kitāb al-Āthār, considering that ʿAbdurrazzāq transmits directly from Abū Ḥanīfa.
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@fleetinginhaste @IbrmAnsari Answer my question before you direct your own hypotheticals at me.
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The student of Ibn Mājah (d. 273) and the transmitter of his Sunan, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qaṭṭān al-Qazwīnī (d. 345), eventually became a master of ḥadīth in his own right who authored several works. ʿAlī was born in 254 AH, which means he heard Sunan Ibn Mājah from Ibn Mājah
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There is a certain threshold where the brutality and desolation yield diminishing returns and, ultimately, negative returns. Foreign militaries and economies can extend these orders’ lives, but they will never eternalize them.
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The Neo-Zengid Arab Republic. A few noteworthy parallels from that epoch.
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@real_lord_miles When a few hundred people follow your advice and start selling them online, you're not going to be able to easily sell them for 2k+ anymore.
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I intend to publish the second installment soon, which will be a more substantial text by Sufyān al-Thawrī inshAllah.
My first installment of the Salaf Renaissance series, a concise letter of advice written by Sheikh al-Islām, Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161), to ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād. Physical Copy: Free PDF:
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@WestSemitic There are small communities that migrated to the major urban hubs, such as Damascus, during the Ottoman era. Bosniaks often had the last name بوشناق, and Albanians had the last name أرناؤوط. Other Balkan last names exist as well. Coincidentally, in my experience, these phenotypes.
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@Tahir_X_ Yad’una bihim refers to the act of supplicating through them, which al-Maqrizi refers to as shirk. How does this reflect poorly on Jake’s argument? It seems aligned with his position, irrespective of your issue with his translation.
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@OmranAboshaar شيخنا @waelh1399 ، إني أربأ بكم أن تشاركوا المدعو محمد شريف الصواف في مشروع علمي كهذا. فهذه الجهود تحتاج إلى أهل ديانة وصلاح وتقوى، لا المتنطعين الذين تملقوا لطاغية الشام النصيري .
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@D1mashqi What you said really negates nothing from the report from Sheikh al-Zuhaily. It is just a series of irrelevant speculation that does not actually address the account. A person can have individual ties with some people from a group and still call for their general persecution.
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Props to her. When the Syrian cause began to lose momentum and things were looking bleak, many Syrians were disenchanted. She, alongside a few other English-speaking accounts, persevered and continued to cover Syria. InshAllah a well-deserved outcome.
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@Bochuzou Outside the bubble of a small clerical class and its associates (inflated in the online Anglosphere by some accounts), anti-Assad Syrians generally despise him or are silent about him. His ardent defenders usually never were part of the Revolution or non-Syrian fanatics.
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This is true. An annoying but inevitable outcome of the Revolution’s success is that a lot of Syrians who spent the last 14 years twiddling with their thumbs while entire cities were being desolated now suddenly grew the cojones to pontificate as all-time revolutionaries.
حرائر من حي جوبر الدمشقي 😢. بتعرف ليش بتزعل؟ .لأن أنت دفعت التمن غالي وناس عالبارد المستريح عم تحكي باسم الثورة . ؟؟.#دمشق. #سوريا_الان
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@D1mashqi @mahdi_ina This is probably not referring to the tiny pockets of Hanabilah that barely have any scholarship today. Salafism is much more established in Syria than late-stage Hanbalism in one or two villages.
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@AyKarT0 I remember my father very well when he was in his mid-thirties, and I have nothing but respect and admiration for that man. Imagine growing up, only to discover all this crap from your father scattered throughout the abysses of the internet.
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Almost every time a twitter post praising al-Buti is published in Arabic by one of his fans, it gets ratioed by waves of Syrians condemning, insulting and making dua against him. While I do not condone vulgarity, it gives you a glimpse into his real standing outside a small and.
سيدنا الامام #البوطي يتكلم وكانه حاضر معنا اليوم عن اقتراب قدوم النصر.رضي الله عنك يا شهيد المحراب وطيب ثراك
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@thirtyfivemmf2 Whenever you see this much diacritical marks and odd transcriptions, know that you are dealing with a Habashi mutant.
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@D1mashqi These are your excuses. You’re the one who appealed with such speculative assumptions out of thin air, and I am responding to you with similar logic to dispel your speculation. The silence of a speaker does not negate the account of one who speaks up, given the various.
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@OmarMuhammadAr @Aboodalqamari أدلبوا دمشق، ولا تدمشقوا إدلب يرحمكم الله….على سيرة الدمشقة والعلاك المصدّي.
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@AltafPatel I’m not sure I can, as our opposing views are stemming from diverging frameworks. Allah guide him.
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