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@CollinsofYork You need some classes on geopolitics and plus history

The only thing that concerns Trump is Iran giving up its nuclear ambitions and enriched uranium. If I were the Iranians I would give this up in return for massive concessions. The ballistic and drone program has showed to be effective, and especially in targeting regional gulf countries. Iran can be richer than Saudi Arabia.

@MDJD2 @jonkarl Long wish

@jonkarl The tolls will be collected in US dollars. Iranian oil will be sold in US dollars. Huge boost to petrodollar. This brings Iran to Western table which over the long term away from Russia/China. And US will jointly control the Strait. Not a Trump fan but this long term is a win.

This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls: “We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.” “It’s a beautiful thing”

@RetsonTedheke01 Can we "own" our oil? Peacefully without getting the Gaddafi treatment? Not many nations own their oil. Russia, Iran and no other. Those who tried to get bombed.

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Are Cheap in Iran🇮🇷 Because The Islamic Revolution Under The Ayatollahs Took Ownership of Iranian🇮🇷 Oil From The Americans and British! That is Why The USA Hate Iran🇮🇷! The Oil of Iran is Owned By The Iranians! In Nigeria, The IOCs Own The Oil Not Nigerians. Our Government is Working For The Americans, The British and The West! As Loud As We Can Be, We Are Mostly Very Empty. We Are A Poor Country, The Earlier You Know, The Better!

Dear Zuha, I know you are inquisitive about how our religious days fit into the modern world. It is a brilliant question. I will be breaking this down for you so you can clearly see that Islam is not a copycat. It is a complete system with its own deep, independent roots. Firstly, you asked: if the Gregorian calendar is not real, why do Muslims pray on Friday, and is there a different Friday in the Islamic calendar? To help you and others understand, we have to go back to history. Pope Gregory was the one who introduced the Gregorian calendar, and he introduced it in 1582. However, when you look at Islamic history, you will see that Muslims had been observing Jumu'ah for nearly a thousand years before that Pope was even born. If you open classical books of Islamic history such as the Seerah of Ibn Hisham or The Sealed Nectar, the physical proof is right there. These books documented the very first Jumu'ah prayer held by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in 622 CE. It took place in the valley of Ranuna during his migration from Mecca to Medina. In that same era, Allah revealed an entire chapter in the Quran called Surah Al-Jumu'ah, where He commanded the believers to leave their worldly trades and gather. This proves Yawm al-Jumu'ah was a lived reality in the 7th century, over 900 years before the Gregorian calendar existed in Rome. Now, you might wonder how this connects to the Friday we know today. Frankly, the seven day weekly loop is an entirely different system from how we count solar or lunar months. It is an ancient, unbroken mathematical cycle. You do not even have to take my word for it. Non Muslim historians and sociologists agree on this. For instance, Eviatar Zerubavel in his book The Seven Day Circle confirmed that this weekly cycle has remained completely unbroken for thousands of years across different empires. The day the Western world decided to call Friday aligns seamlessly with the sixth day of that ancient cycle. In Arabic, the days are just numbered. Sunday is Day One. Monday is Day Two. The sixth day is Yawm al-Jumu'ah, the Day of Gathering. This means we do not pray on this day to honor a Roman calendar. That is, it was just a coincidental relationship. We pray on it because Allah established it on a divine timeline. Secondly, you asked: why is Friday night considered so blessed, and what are you missing here? To understand this, we have to look at the foundations of human existence. Friday goes more than just the end of the work week. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught us that Friday is the day Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) was created, the day he entered Paradise, the day he was sent to earth, and the day the world will end. This is why the Prophet had a very profound routine. Every Friday during the early morning Fajr prayer, he would recite Surah As-Sajdah and Surah Al-Insan. He did this deliberately. These two chapters detail the creation of the universe, the biological creation of man, and the intense realities of the Day of Judgment. Praying these chapters every Friday morning is a divine reset. It reminds you of your origin and your final destination, both of which are tied to this specific day. Because Friday carries the heavy weight of the end of times, reciting Surah Al-Kahf is your spiritual shield. The Surah contains stories about the ultimate trials of wealth, power, and faith. Reading it provides a divine light that protects your heart from the materialistic noise of the world and the deception of the Dajjal until the next Jumu'ah. So by this fact, you are not missing anything. You just need to see that we are not following a Gregorian Friday. We are following a divine timeline. Don’t fret. Allah knows best.

@SkyNews @marthakelner Ignorance is universal.

Sky News visits the US's reddest state, where some conservative Christians believe the Iran war is divinely ordained, amid concerns that Christian nationalism is increasingly influencing US policy.  Sky's @marthakelner reports

The US have shifted from the petrodollar to the LNG-dollar, or the petrogas-dollar. They're now viewed as the only stable source of LNG on the planet, and already its #1 supplier after Ukraine/Nordstream (what a coincidence). By attacking Iran, taking Venezuela, and setting the region alight, they're attempting to move the world's main energy corridor away from the Middle East and to the Western Hemisphere. Very cunning.

@hell_line0 "Nice guys " are not really husbands but man with feminine trait. You can be nice and make your stand when it matters. Husbands take the driver seat no matter how powerful and great the wife is.

For 12 years, I was married to a conventionally “nice guy.” He never hit me. Never cheated (or at least I didn’t know and we never had infidelity issues), he never even argued much. He was calm. Quiet. Agreeable. In the beginning I thought that meant I was safe, and I felt lucky to have him. Because other women had worse right? But this is exactly why the marriage eventually failed… His “good guy” image meant he never led. He never decided. He never carried weight. So I did. I had to step in and keep the boat rowing and afloat. Financially. Emotionally. Strategically. And eventually I was left tired, exhausted and resentful. Because “nice” without initiative is passivity. And passivity turns a wife into infrastructure. I wasn’t married to a monster. I was married to a passenger. And I had to step off that car that was leading me to oblivion.

@Theholisticpsyc Learned this just last week...

"Nervous system breaks" allow partners to give each other 15-20 minutes of space before coming back together to actually meet each other needs. Do you agree? Share in the comments...

Men's nervous systems are more reactive and focused. Women's nervous systems are more responsive and social. What this means in relationships:

@Karigwe Peace ✌️

@haskay86 Yeah a divinely guided life like fcuking a child of 9yrs old and snatching his son’s wife.

Christianity reduced religious violence not because its scriptures became peaceful, but because it found an escape route. The Old Testament is full of divine violence, ethnic cleansing, genocide, slavery, and brutal punishments attributed to Moses and other prophets. Christianity gradually sidelined those texts and rebuilt the religion around the softer image of jesus. “Love,” “forgiveness,” and selective preaching became the brand, while the violent foundation was quietly ignored rather than removed. Another convenient factor is that christianity has very little information about jesus’s life between the ages of 12 and 30. That silence makes it easier to project a sanitized moral figure onto him. There is no long, detailed adult record to defend or explain. Nothing concrete to justify violence, conquest, or sexual misconduct. That gap helped christianity retreat from literalism. That retreat worked politically and socially. Churches stopped demanding strict obedience to ancient laws. Context, symbolism, and reinterpretation replaced enforcement. Extremism declined because obedience declined. Islam does not have that option. The life of Muhammad is fully documented and treated as a perfect, timeless moral example. His words and actions are not symbolic or optional. They are held up as standards to imitate. Pedophilia is defended because he did it. War mongering is justified because he did it. Wife appropriation is excused because he did it. When he took his adopted son’s wife, instead of accepting accountability, adoption itself was abolished and a revelation conveniently appeared to legitimise the act. God suddenly spoke, as usual, right when Muhammad needed cover. That is not divine guidance. That is power protecting itself. Christianity escaped extremism by abandoning strict obedience and exploiting ambiguity. Islam preserves extremism by demanding obedience to a fully exposed example. The problem is not misunderstanding. The problem is taking the text and the prophet seriously. There is no escape when the violence is the model. There is no reform when criticism is blasphemy. And there is no moderation when obedience is worship. That is the difference.

@TheLaurenChen Colonialism doesn't end at independence. Neocolonialism is still in place. Any African leaders who tried to break from York met their death. African resources have still been actively looted. Your reasoning direction is part of mental colonialism used to loot formal colony brains

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources. The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned. Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources! Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all? It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no. All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep. Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!" But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful. Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa. Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

@HauwaAllahbura What you're missing is the unconditional submission to the will of Allah. No negotiations, no conditions and certainly no doubt in his divinity and worship. Be sincere in your quest and Allah will guide you to Islam.

In Search of Sincerity I was born a Muslim, but faith did not arrive in my life as certainty. From an early age, the structure of practice, the five daily prayers and Islamiyya, felt heavy rather than intuitive. I learned the motions and followed the form, yet something inside me remained unconvinced. I carried that quiet dissonance for years. After secondary school, belief collided with desperation. I wanted admission badly and did not think my results were good enough. In that moment, I made a covenant with God that was raw and deeply human. I asked that my parents be blinded to my results and that I be granted admission. In return, I promised to become a Christian. I received exactly what I asked for. At the time, I was living with my stepmother, a deaconess. Church became my new world. I attended regularly, served diligently, and believed fully. I have never been someone who does anything halfway, and Christianity was no exception. Over time, something began to fracture. I noticed an obsessive focus on money, the idolisation of pastors, and guilt framed as doctrine. These were not isolated moments but systems. My spirit grew restless. I felt managed rather than guided. Eventually, the discomfort became impossible to ignore. I stepped away, not from God, but from form. I became agnostic, not out of rebellion, but honesty. I knew there was a higher power. I simply did not know how to worship that power with sincerity. That season brought a quiet peace. It did not last. When I returned to my original home, I returned to a Muslim environment of family, community, and expectation. Gradually, almost mechanically, I went back to Islam. If I am honest, it was shaped by proximity and the desire to be spiritually identifiable. This return felt more sincere than Christianity had. Islam carried a depth and discipline that resonated with me. Still, I held onto other practices that grounded me, including spiritual intuition and manifestation. Tarot helped me at different points until it crossed into dependency, and I learned to step back. In 2025, curiosity led me to Umrah. Everyone spoke of answered prayers and clarity. I wanted answers too, not from obligation, but openness. I arrived first in Madinah, and unexpectedly, it was the place that moved me most. I entered the Prophet’s Mosque without intention or plan and found myself near Rawdah. As I approached, a calm settled over me. It was unforced and quiet. I left with chills, not from intensity, but from peace. Makkah was different. I made my niyyah, rested, and later went out for Umrah. The experience was overwhelming. Crowds surged. People pushed and reached. I saw devotion etched with urgency. While I understood the longing, some gestures unsettled me. God is not contained. God is everywhere. Still, I did not reject the experience. I touched the Kaaba. I reached the golden door once. I felt joy, not tears. Sa’i between Safa and Marwah took hours, and when it ended, I felt a quiet, complete fulfilment. Illness followed. As my body slowed, my thoughts grew heavier. I questioned my prayers. Was I asking sincerely or negotiating. Was I worshipping or trying to control outcomes. Because I was sick, I could not return for Tawaf, though I plan to. What remained undeniable was this. I felt God. Not through spectacle, but through presence. I also noticed something uncomfortable. Those closest to the Kaaba cheated, lied, stole, and discriminated. It reminded me that sacred proximity does not equal inner alignment. I acknowledged it and continued. Where I stand now is simple. I love God. I believe in God. I worship God. I know God exists. What I am still learning is how to worship without betraying my own sincerity. How to practice faith without performance. How to offer devotion without pressure. This is not doubt. It is discernment.

@jeffphilips1 Christians are given asylum. Isn't that their aim?

Northern Nigerian Muslims are kuku the least number of us who visit or relocate to the US. We'll see who will suffer the consequences of the foolishness you amplified for the past two months. I'm hoping Riley Moore will leave words for you people at the embassy. You're free to drop your tears here

@Faridatu001 Car key

What's this pocket for?

@yenyenpurehoney I will just close my eyes and choose anyone

Men only, you can only pick one🤔

@honeeybuch Firdaus

If she's your daughter, what would you name her?

@Faridatu001 B definitely

Men only….. A or B ???

@Faridatu001 Happy birthday 🎂

@yenyenpurehoney I did not cry but my heart is not a stone

Did you cry after watching this movie or your heart na stone?

@Surayyah__ahmad @AfDB_Group @nsia_nigeria @DevBankNG @FinMinNigeria Congratulations

I’m pleased to share that I’ve taken on the role of Taskmaster, leading the operationalisation of the Youth Entrepreneurship Investment Funds (YEIB), a $300m blended-capital initiative backed by @AfDB_Group, @nsia_nigeria, @DevBankNG and the @FinMinNigeria This complements my work at @SabouCapital, where we focus on adaptive financing for SMEs in underserved regions. YEIB allows this mission to scale nationally for youth-led enterprises. We’ll be engaging stakeholders in the coming months to shape YEIB’s design and ensure it reflects the real needs of young entrepreneurs across Nigeria.