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"O you who believe, if an unrighteous man brings you news, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you did." - Holy Qur'an 49:6

@HipHopSince76_ Ayo he flipped that old Haagen Dazs joint.

#GhostfaceKillah #TheodoreUnit #WuWednesday

@briebriejoy @_whitneywebb Brie's reactions and body language are like moments of clarity around US electoral politics being able to solve anything.

FULL VIDEO of @_whitneywebb's recent 90 min Bad Faith Pod interview has been UNLOCKED. Watch it over at Bad Faith YouTube now: youtube.com/watch?v=O5t5fn…

Halfcrazy was nice and Juslisen had a few cuts but nothing close to the depth of any D'Angelo songs. The acapella demo for Africa smashes Musiq's catalog.

@postallieism One of many reasons Sabr (patience) is stressed as a necessity in Islam. x.com/The_Cxllective…

@Lawyeredup1 The courts have become part of pop culture fandom & noise making it difficult to focus on the facts of an allegation or trial and subsequent outcome.

#ToryLanez. I have been reluctant to do so, but in the next few days I'll discuss the appeal filed by Torey Lanez

@CarlZha Tkyosam got bigger.

Average Westerner thriving in Japan

@ModestyQueen19 Some people are mining our teaching and published works for content. Others are quietly conceding that they take our words more seriously than the general public knows.

The Nation of Islam has been teaching on this for years!! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad did not lie

push through with love

@Atarah48 Been warning abt this for a min. Its not just a twitter thing. US foreign policy often has a domestic equivalent. These diaspora wars are a type of cultural border skirmish used to draw ppl into help setting the stage for bigger conflicts.

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@THEG0DMUTHA Charlie Brown with the cameo before Dave's verse.

A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" • De La Soul feat. Q-Tip & Vinia Mojica [1991]

One of the hardest parts of being productive is ignoring all the loud noise from people who are unproductive.

@commsurreallism Minister Malcolm X from The Nation of Islam.

Malcolm X "why don't you know who you are "

@NuryVittachi Monetary Inception.

YOU can now pay off the US debt. Dig deep. There's a one trillion dollar a year military to maintain

In 2018 I was broke, doing Uber Eats & Postmates. I got invited back to Meow Wolf in New Mexico after the Sango ITCO tour, and one of the openers from that tour asked if I ever did a songwriting camp, or be open to do one. I said no at first but I was open to doing one. Truth is, I was willing to go anywhere if someone flew me out there. A few months later, I got flown to Seoul South Korea. I had never been outside the country before. This camp was on the 3rd floor of a small studio building in Seoul, they had producers, writers, a whole vibe with the craziest snacks, and we pulled all nighters writing K POP. I found out that building was part of SM Entertainment’s HQ. I played a batch of ideas I made months prior, and one of them I had almost scrapped completely. But someone from SM’s team heard it and said: “Out of everything you make this week, you need to finish that one.” That beat became eventually became “Jekyll” by EXO. I remember being on the phone with an old friend just freaking out when i got that news. That was the moment. That trip gave me the confidence to do it full time. That trip changed my life. It gave me a purpose. Chase your dreams fam.

If you're not careful social media can quickly erode your discipline and have you forever chasing that next dopamine high.

@lefty_deniro81 @YouTube Not everything is for public consumption.

@PatriciaNPino Idealised capitalism might be single the greatest expression of the sunk cost fallacy.

I don’t wish to get into that bc there r people here who are better qualified than me at defining these terms appropriately. But I find interesting how emotionally wedded some people r to an idealised form of capitalism even when it’s evident the system is crumbling around them.

The funny thing about the very emotional responses to this is that I wasn’t advocating for any system in particular. simply highlighting the fact that economists like to make big claims about human nature w/o referencing people outside of their field who specialise on the topic

@RnaudBertrand The unique relationship challenges the west in a number of areas. x.com/_TheEconDev/st…

This is fascinating: China is virtually unique in the Islamic world for having an established, centuries-old tradition of female imams (nü ahong - 女阿訇) in women-only mosques (known as nüsi, literally "women’s temple"). In these mosques, the female imams lead women-only prayers, usually standing shoulder to shoulder with the other women (as opposed to in front, for male imams). They also teach women and girls how to recite the Quran, basic Islamic doctrine, and offer guidance on daily life from a religious perspective. The origins of this tradition date to the late Ming and early Qing period (17th–18th century), when Hui Muslim communities in central China (Henan, Shanxi provinces) began setting up separate spaces for women’s religious education. Initially these were Qur’anic schools for girls, meant to improve women’s basic religious literacy. Over time, many of these schools evolved into full-fledged women’s mosques. The oldest surviving women’s mosque is said to be the Wangjia Hutong Women’s Mosque in Kaifeng, Henan, which was founded in 1820. Today, in Kaifeng alone, there are 16 women’s mosques – about one women’s mosque for every three men’s mosques. It's only recently that “women-led mosques” have started to appear in other countries – for example, the Women’s Mosque of America in Los Angeles (est. 2015). Interestingly, the pioneers of these Western women’s mosques often cite China’s nü ahong as an inspiration. There's so much disinformation about Islam in China when the truth is that China is actually one of the countries in the world with some of the oldest Muslim traditions, older than in most Muslim countries, and with a form of Islam that has evolved along distinctly Chinese lines for over 1,300 years. According to tradition, the Prophet Muhammad’s companion Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas reached the port of Guangzhou in 627 CE, and Guangzhou’s Huaisheng Mosque (the “Lighthouse Mosque”, 怀圣寺) is claimed to have been founded in the 7th century by Waqqas himself. Which means that Islam in China is pretty much as old as Islam itself. This of course makes some of the critics of China and Islam deeply ironical. Many in the West, such as the FT recently (ig.ft.com/china-mosques/), claim that "China is tearing down Islam" because it decided to renovate many of its mosques to make them more Chinese in their architecture. When actually mosques in China have always looked Chinese - the Arabic domes and minarets are a recent post-1980s fashion that represents a complete departure from, not a continuation of, China's authentic Islamic architectural tradition. Far from 'tearing down Islam,' China is restoring thirteen centuries of Chinese Islamic identity by ensuring it remains "Islam of China" rather than a deterritorialized imitation of Middle Eastern styles. The FT and others making this critic are actually the ones arguing in favor in cultural and religious destruction. The real "tearing down" here being their insistence that authentic Islam can only look Arabic - a form of cultural colonization that would erase China's unique Islamic heritage. Another profound irony, perhaps the biggest one, is that when one looks at Islam in China, you find some of the most progressist traditions in the Muslim world, like these female imams. And that many of the actions presented in the West as China "destroying Islam," or even a "cultural genocide," are actually often China fighting to preserve its indigenous Islamic heritage -with all its progressive innovations - against external influence that would replace China's authentic Islamic traditions. Which means that in effect, again, these critics are insisting that Islam should reject its own capacity for progressive innovation and cultural adaptation and conform to their own very stereotypical - and actually insulting - vision of Islam as necessarily inflexible and culturally uniform, incapable of producing traditions like female spiritual leadership or architectural diversity. Which is incidentally a big part of the reason why no Muslim country ever criticizes China when it comes to Islam and the way it treats Muslims - quite the contrary in fact - and why the critics pretty much only comes from the West: because they have a very limited and superficial understanding of what Islam actually is, shaped by their own stereotypes. They think they "protect" Islam and Muslims but in effect they're misrepresenting the religion as incapable of adaptation, progress, or cultural synthesis - exactly the kind of mischaracterization that fuels anti-Muslim sentiment. For more on the history of Islam in China, read this wonderful Substack post from which this quote 👇 is from: open.substack.com/pub/jingyu1623…