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Defending Islam online against lies, propaganda and deliberate misinformation is a form of jihad in the modern age. We often reduce jihad to physical warfare alone, even though the modern world clearly operates through narratives, media influence, propaganda and the constant shaping of public perception. States and ideological groups invest enormous resources into controlling opinions because influence over minds has become one of the most powerful forms of control. For decades, Islam and Muslims have faced relentless misinformation, selective framing and organized demonization across media and online spaces. Responding to that isn't extremism or pointless arguing on the internet. We must know that it is intellectual and verbal jihad because jihad fundamentally means striving in defense of truth, faith and the protection of community from falsehood and distortion. The battlefield evolved with time, previous generations faced military invasions, while this generation also faces ideological and informational warfare at a global scale. Remaining silent while Islam is repeatedly distorted only hands the narrative to people who openly spread those distortions and benefit from them. That doesn't mean we should act recklessly or emotionally while defending the deen online. Discipline, knowledge, strategic thinking and careful wording all matter, especially in an environment where statements are constantly monitored, misrepresentedvand weaponized. But Muslims also shouldn't be intimidated into silence simply because defending Islam has become unpopular or controversial in certain spaces. If any Muslim is unfairly targeted, censored, detained or persecuted for defending Islam within lawful limits, that hardship isn't wasted either. Sacrifice made in defense of deen has always carried reward because patience and endurance for the sake of Allah are acts of worship in themselves. Every era has its own frontlines and today the digital space is undeniably one of them. Muslims who sincerely defend Islam with knowledge, clarity, patience and conviction are engaged in a form of jihad on that front. Takbeer.

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Trad™ Muslims do not, and will not, subject premodern modes of production and social organisation to the same level of moral and ontological scrutiny as they do urbanised industrial modernity. At most, they’ll acknowledge that feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism saw it’s fair share of evils, but they’ll never explore how these premodern anthropological systems were innately predisposed to structurally engendering forms of oppression unique to its ontology. But they’ll absolutely refuse to entertain the need for industrial modernity, because it is “ontologically kufri”. It just so happened that Islam was so culturally hegemonic in the medieval age, that it partially sublimated feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism. However Islam couldn’t fundamentally root out the structural evils endemic to it. This is the Dunya; Islam didn’t come to bring utopia on earth, it came to make Allah’s Kalimah supreme on this earth. We can only try to organise society in a way most amenable to fulfilling our duties to Allah. The mode of human organisation must shift to accommodate the needs of the age. Trads™ will pay lip-service by saying that “proper application of Islam” solves the problems of premodern anthropologies, which completely ignores that Islam had to fight the spiritually-entropic tendency of these premodern systems. Reversion to the mean meant reversion to barbarism and oppression. This is just conveniently glossed over. But they’ll prattle endlessly about why industrial modernity is ontologically evil, and how it precludes spiritually healthy society because it emerged from the socio-cultural context of Northwestern Europe in the Great Divergence. Trads™ never stop to consider that perhaps feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism didn’t arise from an “Islamic context” either, nor do they scrutinise the spiritual health of these bygone societies (it wasn’t all pretty, to say the least). This is the psychosis of the traumatised Trad™ who hunkers down in his impotence against colonial forces, unable to envisage Islam’s sublimation of industrial modernity. They hope the world somehow reboots to a time before the Steam Age, where all will be will again. Trads™ throw the baby of industrial modernity out with its bathwater.

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