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Now that the dust has settled, was he right?

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (10/129):

>Love is a psychological sickness, and if it grows strong it affects the body, and becomes a physical sickness, either as diseases of the brain, which are said to be diseases caused by waswaas, or diseases of the body such as weakness, emaciation and so on. End quote.

And he (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (10/132):

>Loving a non-mahram woman leads to many negative consequences, the full extent of which is known only to the Lord of people. It is a sickness that affects the religious commitment of the sufferer, then it may also affect his mind and body. End quote.

>It is sufficient to note that one of the effects of love of a member of the opposite sex is enslavement of the heart which is held captive to the loved one. So love is a door that leads to humiliation and servility. That is sufficient to put one off this sickness.

Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (10/185):

>If a man is in love with a woman, even if she is permissible for him, his heart remains enslaved to her, and she can control him as she wishes, even though outwardly he appears to be her master, because he is her husband; but in fact he is her prisoner and slave, especially if she is aware of his need and love for her. In that case, she will control him like a harsh and oppressive master controls his abject slave who cannot free himself from him. Rather he is worse off than that, because enslavement of the heart is worse than enslavement of the body. End quote.

What's some good dystopian fiction that isn't 1984, or BNW?

There is a neurosis concerning reading great books. It is elevated to some spiritual undertaking but when we look at people like Harold Bloom how much do we want to be that? It amounts to a hobby, like stamp collecting except far more pedantic. Reading just to read is a bourgeois perseveration like working just to work or consuming just to consume, the action has eclipsed the purpose so far it becomes a purpose unto itself. Similarly there is a fetishization for books themselves as sacred objects which in fact their abundant and cheap production means a better consideration would be staunching them, much more good could be done by scrapping writings which are poison and yes a lot of that is philosophy. Now perhaps book burning is too tricky and difficult to control but hypothetically we would be much better off without Freud and Hegel and Nietzsche and maybe even Darwin (I mean we are taught to believe zebras can be bred into human beings but also Guns, Germs, and Steel says they can't even be bred to be domesticated)

>>14794199
Our women have more courage than your men

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9viemJwvVrM

In fact we do oppose the Jews. Look up the Muslim American Society

>In 2019, Middle East Media Research Institute unveiled a video of children in a Philadelphia MAS center singing about the "blood of martyrs", "We will defend Palestine with our bodies. We will chop off their heads", and "We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture". The Anti-Defamation League said that portrayed events were "extremely disturbing"

Or the Muslim Council of Britain

>Between 2001 and 2007, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) expressed its unwillingness to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony and associated events. In a press release dated 26 January 2001 the Council listed two points of contention that prevented them from attending the event, which were that it "totally excludes and ignores the ongoing genocide and violation of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere" and that "It includes the controversial question of alleged Armenian genocide as well as the so-called gay genocide."[27]

>>14651239
>tribute
This is literally synonymous with taxes and every government demanded them then and now. Women, children, the elderly, monks and clergy are all exempt however, so all-in-all pretty fair. “But Muslims don’t have to pay it!” Correct, a Muslim empire obviously accords a preferred status to Muslims. Muslims do however have to pay Zakat, which Dhimmis don’t.

>IslamQA
Again, this is an explicitly Salafi site. It’s a really good site but obviously isn’t always indicative of general Sunni jurisprudence.

>it’s given out at mosques

It’s definitely considered a classic of Shafi’i fiqh. It’s also definitely not handed out to new converts who are typically told not to worry about particular schools of fiqh until they have basic practice down. They are given little booklets on ablution and prayer, maybe ones on the Qur’an or Hadiths.

>behind a screen (hijab)
The way hijab is used today tends to refer what is indicated in Abu Dawood 4104. The screen is used for gatherings all the time though, yes, and in education if women and men need to mix in a class for some reason. Covering the face with the niqab is mostly considered a rewarded deed, not obligatory for anyone but the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, but still praiseworthy and recommended in every school.

>>14309296

Kind of gross how some people think philosophy and reading can be a substitute for theology. Philosophy will never form communities or families

Hans Kelsen wrote in Pure Theory of Law that law is a coercive order based on norms, so why is "coercion" used as a criticism of theocracy when all legal orders are by definition coercive?

>>13934110
>What are you even trying to rationalize here?
That it is simply and blatantly incorrect to say he had a pathological fixation with children

>>13934121
Yes because Islam doesn't accommodate

What are good books or studies about modern American Catholicism?

https://twitter.com/IncolaEgoSum/status/1161622329010655232?s=19

Is Plato pro, or anti pederastry? It seems like he is but then shifts his opinion later in life. You think his turn influenced Aristotle's disgust with pederastry?

Anyone else get a Lovecraftian vibe at certain points in Blood Meridian, especially at the end?