The Great Pyramids have always captured our imagination. For medieval Muslims, they were a relic of a ancient age of knowledge; an edifice of magic, astrology, and the jinn.

A thread-

By the 9th century there were several theories for who actually built the pyramids.

One stated they were built by the last jinn king, ibn Jann who ruled in the age before humanity.

In this narration, the jinn were the original inhabitants of the world. They filled the earth with wonder and corruption in equal measure.

Eventually a great jinn war broke out in which the angels sided with the goodly jinn and drove out the wicked ones.

Though the jinn king died in the war, mighty ifrits and ghuls guard the pyramids still.

The ifits arrive as mighty zawbaa, or whirlwinds of sand while the ghul lead unwary humans into the desert so they may eat them.

The jinn use phantom fires, sights, and sounds to drive the visitors mad.

A THREAD detailing the daily routine of Hindu emperors of the past during peace time. Once we are done through with the thread, one will realize what a contrast the present day secular state is to the Hindu Samrajyas of the past. As to how far we've moved away from tradition (1)

As an example we'll have a look at the life of Vijayanagara samrat Vira Narasimharaya. He was the elder brother of the great Shri Krishnadevaraya. Each aspect of Narasimharaya's life has been chronicled in detail in the Raayavacakam (2)

The day of Narasimharaya started with him waking up during the auspicious Brahma muhurta time (between 4:30 am to 6 am). First thing in the morning he'd listen to reading of books both on Dharma & statecraft. He'd then proceed to look at his own reflection in the mirror (3)

He'd then proceed to the gau-shala & touch a cow to seek her blessings. This is followed by performing of daily ablutions. He'd then put the the urdhva pundra (tilak) on his forehead. Before proceeding to the audience hall, he'd have a darshan of learned Brahmanas. (4)

While seated on the throne in the audience hall, the very first thing Narasimharaya would receive is the tirtha and the prasada of 108 Vishnu temples (divya desams), the sacred vibhuti, sandal paste and prasada of the 72 Shiva temples of the empire. (5)

Story of Mahaperiya -
We also need to restore the name of River Purna - which is called in the name of stooge 'Periyar" now

One day a very reputed Geologist happened to visit Kanchipuram to have darshan of Mahaswamigal.
After enquiring about his family
#SaturdayMotivation

Swamigal asked him if he would do Him a favour. The geologist was overwhelmed he wondered what it was that he, a mere mortal could help the Saakshaat Deivam with. He immediately agreed. Mahaperiya asked him if he knew about Kaladi.
He replied even as a young child

he knew that it was the birth place of Adi Shankaracharyar
Periyava then told him that the river Purna ran through that place and that Shankarar's mother used to bathe in it every day. He then requested him to arrange for a diver

to dive and take out sand from two different locations of the River Purna (presently called River Periyar).

One location, He said, should be where the River Purna enters Kerala before it diverts into entering Kaladi and the other location should be at Kaladi, where the river

makes a small U-turn and reaches Shankarar's home itself. Swamigal asked him to use the technique of carbon dating to ascertain the age of the sand at these two locations. The geologist promised to return with the results at the earliest overjoyed that he could actually

The greatest modern Urdu poet and scholar Allama Iqbal called Sri Ram 'Imam-e-Hind’. Imam-e-Hind means religious head of India.   #RamMandirNidhiSamarpan Shri Ram JanamBhumi

Kabir who founded the Nirguna School of Bhakti conceived Rama as a formless God whereas Tulsidas and his followers worshipped Rama as Saguna God taking into account His divine qualities and achievements.   #RamMandirNidhiSamarpan  Donate 4 Ram

To Ramananda it was irrelevant whether the devotee was a Nirguna or Saguna Bhakta so long as he followed Ramananda’s preaching and had religious fervour. 
 #RamMandirNidhiSamarpan  Donate 4 Ram

Tulsidas was the most important poet of the Rama Bhakti school. The wave of the Bhakti movement spear-headed in the North by Ramananda may have influenced Tulsidas.    #RamMandirNidhiSamarpan Donate 4 Ram

The name “Ram” was used by Guru Kabir and other classic or early Sants such as Namdev. “Satya-Ram” is the sacred name used by the followers of Sant Dadu Dayal of Rajasthan.   #RamMandirNidhiSamarpan  Donate 4 Ram

Khatm-e-Nubuwwat means that Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is the Last of the Prophets.
#OurFaith_Khatam_E_Nabuwat

The process and routine of appointing Prophets and Messengers by Almighty Allah has been terminated, finished, ended, stopped, and sealed.
#OurFaith_Khatam_E_Nabuwat

None will be appointed as prophet after Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H).
#OurFaith_Khatam_E_Nabuwat

His prophet hood will continue until the dooms day and even afterwards, only that person came claim to be a Muslims who has belief in Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and confesses
#OurFaith_Khatam_E_Nabuwat

“None is worth of worship except Allah; Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is apostle of Allah”
#OurFaith_Khatam_E_Nabuwat

Radical Muslim political advocacy orgs are celebrating the election of 62 Muslim Americans who won races at all levels of government. Their victories mark another banner year for Islamist groups that seek to train, fund, and elect their favored politicians

Among these winners are a handful of Islamist politicians who espouse radical views and associate with extremist groups.

Many of these newly elected officials belong to the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, but others have even more troubling resumés, leading Islamist student movements and nonprofits or owing their political fortunes to Islamist underwriters.

Chief among these is Democrat @akoabdulsamad, who was reelected to the Iowa state legislature’s 35th district. Since 2015 Abdul-Samad has been the chairman of the American Muslim Alliance, a controversial political action group whose leaders have promoted violence against Israel.

“The statements that are attributed to the organization and some of its members are offensive and outrageous,” Hillary Clinton said in 2000 after returning a $50,000 political donation to AMA.

II ऋग्वेदीय सूर्यसूक्तम् II
Đ Essence of Sūrya in Vedas :

The Vedas worship the Sun, Surya, as the source of light for the entire world. But for the Vedic people, light is not a material force but a power of life, love & intelligence. Nor is the Sun a

#Thread

distant entity unrelated to us. It has a presence on earth through the power of its rays, which not only pervade our environment but also touch our very hearts. By the Sun the Vedas don’t simply refer to the outer luminary, the central star of our solar system. They mean the

principle of light & consciousness on a universal level, of which the Sun is our local representative.

ऋग्वेदीय सूर्यसूक्तम्
Rig-Veda
Mandala 1, Sukta 115.

चि॒त्रं दे॒वाना॒मुद॑गा॒दनी॑कं॒ चक्षु॑र्मि॒त्रस्य॒ वरु॑णस्या॒ग्नेः ।
आप्रा॒ द्यावा॑पृथि॒वी अ॒न्तरि॑क्षं॒ सूर्य॑ आ॒त्मा जग॑तस्त॒स्थुष॑श्च ॥ १.११५.०१

A group of bright golden or zodiacal deities is emerging as a solarium. These

are Mitra, Varuna, Agni and Jyotirmaya Eye, the publisher of the entire world. They have risen and filled the Dulok, Earth and space with their resplendent glory. The Sun that is in this circle, because they are transcendental, they are the inspiring Gods of all and are the

There is nothing "secular" about New Year's Day. It is based on the Gregorian Calendar, named for Pope Gregory. The change from Julian Calendar was made due to the shift in Easter. Motivation for this New Year date was also religious.

#SayNoTo31December
https://t.co/SkhSy86UOe

The New Year was shifted 10 days to account for Easter. Why was this particular day chosen? After December 25 for (fake) Jesus's Birthday, they counted forward to when Khatna happens.

"New Year's Day" is about the foreskin.

New Year's Day is actually Jesus' "Feast of Circumcision" secularised into the Calendar.

No surprise, since "secularism" itself largely means secularised European Christianity. We have holidays on Sunday (Church holiday). Tuesday would be

You can wish #JesusKhatnaDivas on "New Year's." The bizarre Christian superstitions about the "Holy Prepuce" included the theory by a Christian theologian that it ascended into heaven to become the rings of Saturn. Till it was "found" in Italy. No joke.

The Indian Constitution actually adopted the Shalivahana Shaka calendar (and also limited English for 10 years). We did not expect the colonial dynasty ruling India to actually implement all this. But what about "cultural nationalist" BJP? @narendramodi

Brahmins are the Jews of India. I say that as a non-Brahmin. People have been fed on propaganda of rich and powerful Brahmin. Then why all stories start with - Once upon a time, there was a poor #Brahmin.

Wast vile propaganda was created against Brahmins by the British to my mind, for two reasons, most potent forces they fought against were Maratha Brahmins and the role of Brahmins in 1857.

As always the seculars, Hindu Brahmins were the most staunch opposition to the British, trying to put Bahadur shah on the throne, who while a Muslim was Indian. Muslim fought to bring back Zafar, whose return would be to them, well, return of Islamic rule.

More of an army, less of a faith, men like Sir Syed, immediately aligned themselves with the British after 1857, and India became playground of missionaries. Brahmins were the intellectual guardians of the faith they planned to attack. The Polytheists.

When Pagans were demolished in Rome, it was plato’s academy which was attacked first. Kashi and Prayag was India’s academy.

THREAD ON HINDU-BUDHIST SHARES OF SOME AREAS ON ISLAMIC INVASION
@tweetsofshino @porbotialora @56Dtweets @

1. Pushkalavati-Kabulistan
Cutoff Date-971
Budhist-60
Hindu- 15
Zoroastrians- 25

2. Zaranj-Makran(East Balochistan)
Cutoff Date-710
Budhist- 40
Hindu- 20
Zoroastrian- 40

3.Khost-Pishin-Gandhara(Quetta Region)
Cutoff Date- 1004
Budhist- 75
Hindu- 25
Animist/Others- 0

4. Gilgit Baltistan
Cutoff Date- 1299
Budhist-60
Hindu- 34
Animist/Others- 6

5. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Cutoff Date- 1091
Budhist-84
Hindu-11
Zoroastrian- 5

6.West Punjab
Cutoff Date- 1090
Budhist-36
Hindu-64
Animist/Others-0

7.Vale of Kashmir
Cutoff Date- 1310
Budhist-78
Hindu-22
Animist/Others-0

8. Jammu Division
Cutoff Date- 1410
Budhist-8
Hindu-92
Animist/Others-0

9.Sind
Cutoff Date-690
Budhist- 65
Hindu-34
Animist/Others-1

10.Gujrat
Cutoff Date- 1320
Budhist/Jain- 6
Hindu- 94
Animist/Others-0

I just made a short write up on "INSURANCE IN ISLAM" for my WhatsApp group "HOUSE OF FIQH" and also posted it on Facebook.

My brother @TasiuAl saw it and urged me to share it here, i have to obey him 🤣

INSURANCE IN ISLAM

A SHORT THREAD:

1. Insurance is also known as takaful (in arabic), just that there are some few differences between the conventional insurance and Takaful.

2. How takaful works: All participants (policyholders) agree to guarantee each other and instead of paying premiums, they make contributions to a mutual fund, or pool. The pool of collected contributions creates the Takaful fund.

3. The amount of contribution that each participant makes is based on the type of cover they require, and on their personal circumstances. As in conventional insurance, the policy (Takaful Contract) specifies the nature of the risk and period of cover.

4. The Takaful fund is managed and administered on behalf of the participants by a Takaful Operator who charges an agreed fee to cover costs. These costs include the costs of sales and marketing, underwriting, and claims management.

After seeing the role that civil religion Christianity played in Wednesday’s events, I am all the more convinced that religious liberty is absolutely urgent for us as Baptist and evangelicals to prioritize. Why?

Religious liberty is much broader than just about the freedom to believe or act. It is about the relationship between eternal authority and temporal authority. Thus, in discussing religious liberty, we have to get to questions of jurisdiction. Jurisdictions assign roles.

The role of government is not to act as an instrument of salvation. At best, it indirectly serves the mission of the church. The state is a temporal, prudential, and pluralistic arrangement that restrains human ferocity for obtaining whatever common good can be negotiated.

Religious liberty is thus foundational to public theology because it helps clarify the jurisdiction and role of eternal and temporal authority. This is why in every class I teach, I make religious liberty an essential component to our engagement. It’s our Baptist heritage.

If we get religious liberty right, we actually get the proper distinctions between church and state and church and world right—which counteracts the confused outworkings of civil religion vis-a-vis Christian Nationalism.

HOW THE AREWA HOUSE WAS BURNT DOWN IN 1966

“Hands up, turn around, and face the wall,” Nzeogwu ordered, raising his gun. One of them quickly complied but the three others were defiant. “Kpruuuuuu, kpruuuuuu, kpruuuuuu.”

#Thread

Nzeogwu opened fire on them and the three constables laid dead instantly in a pool of their own blood. Some of Nzeogwu’s men became terrified. The “revolution” had actually begun.

“Adebiyi, Manga, Oyegoke,” he called out to his sergeants who were of the NMTC.

“Load the Gustavs and set up the projectiles here.” Oyegoke and Manga quickly got down with the projectiles while Adebiyi was with the two 84mm Carl Gustav guns. Manga quickly loaded while Oyegoke crouched in fear as they set up the projectiles awaiting Nzeogwu’s orders.

“Fire,” Nzeogwu screamed.

But they fired timidly without hitting the main target nor giving the noise Nzeogwu wanted. Sensing danger, Adebiyi got down quickly to help Manga to reload while Oyegoke who didn’t shoot at all was twitching with his weapon.

“Fire, you bastards, fire,” he screamed again, this time approaching them with his SMG.

As Oyegoke sighted Nzeogwu coming towards them with his SMG, he made a quick dash for the dark.

That court, "from the evidence before them, are of opinion that the Sikhs and Mussulmans of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Native Infantry are trustworthy soldiers of the State, but that the Hindoos generally of that corps are not trustworthy."

#1857_Mutiny

the report of a Court of Inquiry, which sat upon the disturbance at Barrackpore. #1857_Mutiny

(Cawnpore - The Station, The Outbreak, The Siege, The Treachery, The Massacre - by G.O. Trevelyan)

While at one end of Northern India stout Sir John was fighting his province in the interests of the general weal; denuding himself of British soldiers, and committing his existence and reputation to the faith of Sikh allies....

(Cawnpore - The Station, The Outbreak, The Siege..)

another gem:

Then came the Highlanders, and the bulk of the artillery; followed by the Sixty-fourth, the Eighty-fourth, and the Sikh battalion. For some time the mutineers seemed to be unconscious of what was going on...

#1857_Mutiny (Cawnpore - The Station, The Outbreak.....)

one more:

The rocks coated with frequent films of lead, and the wreck of a small temple, testify that this is the famous post, known in military history as the "Sammy-house picket," which Briton, and Sikh, and Ghoorka, fighting shoulder to shoulder.

#1857_Mutiny

16 Different kinds of people you'll meet in Yoruba Churches

A thread

#DNA #Simi #Timini #FindJoshua #DangoteSideChick #Bitcoin #DangotesBumbum

THE BABY CARRIERS

These ones won't even let nursing mothers get a sit in the church before they stretch forth their arms to carry their baby.
They don't mind standing at the back throuout the service.
They hardly listen to sermon as they're busy playing with baby

THE WEEKLY THANKSGIVERS

These ones will always have something to say every Sunday.
Ranging from escaping accident, recovering from sickness, celebrating the 50years demise of their late Grandfather
They can even thank God for buying a new clothe
They always shout 21 hallelujahs

THE BIBLE READERS

These ones are faster than the person in charge of projector.
It's like the Preacher has given them the text before mounting the pulpit.
Pastor: e si iwe Mathew, Chapter 20..Verse
TBR: Jesu si wipe , emi ni ona tooto
As in, let the pastor say the verse first na

THE FIRST TIMER WELCOMERS

These people will always stand up to shake First Timers.
"You are welcome into the city of joy, we are always happy people, yes we love you, you are welcome"

But once they get home, they turn to Mike Tyson. They can fight their neighbors ehn

@Sotherans AMEN... yet as I found one of my dearest friends & guides in life via a sticky note found in a library book that I FELT drawn to borrow.

Is that God's algorithm for those who choose to listen, see and feel ~ upon the higher road?

Path of least resistance, yet most satisfaction?

In engineering, there is a very precise term for this type of

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