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I made a port of the skill for ChatGPT.
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The most honest thing you can say about Islamic jurisprudence is that it solved problems Western legal theory is still struggling with.
The question of how to derive binding rules from foundational texts without either rigid literalism or unconstrained judicial invention, this is the central problem of every legal system.
Originalism versus living constitutionalism in American law is essentially the same argument that Islamic jurists were having in the 9th century, with considerably more sophistication.
Usul al-fiqh; the science of legal methodology developed tools that are genuinely impressive: the distinction between qat’i and zanni evidence, the hierarchy of legal objectives through maqasid al-shari’a, the role of maslaha in adjudicating novel cases, the epistemological honesty of acknowledging ikhtilaf, legitimate scholarly disagreement, as a feature rather than a bug. The four madhabs were different but equally valid methodological schools, and the civilization was capacious enough to hold all of them simultaneously.
What happened to this tradition is the real tragedy. Colonialism redrew the borders and systematically dismantled the institutional infrastructure that sustained Islamic legal reasoning. The waqf system that funded independent scholarship was seized. The madrasa curriculum was narrowed and ossified. The mujtahid; the scholar qualified to exercise independent legal reasoning became increasingly rare, and the tradition increasingly relied on taqlid, deference to past authority because the human capital to do otherwise had been depleted.
The result is a legal tradition that often presents its medieval outputs as timeless divine mandates, rather than what they actually are: brilliant but historically situated human reasoning applied to divine sources.
Recovering the distinction between the two is probably the most important intellectual task in contemporary Islamic thought. And almost nobody with institutional credibility is doing it seriously.
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Anyone who enters into business should take this advice
-Sheikh Abdur-Razzaq al-Badr
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Pure ignorance, notice how the person frames submission to God as the obstacle to justice which implicitly frames secular humanism as the solution.
What these idiots don’t know is justice without divine grounding has no ultimate foundation. History has shown what “fixing the world” without God looks like. 20th century should have answered that. The most blood spilled in human history came from movements that removed God from the equation entirely; French Revolution, Soviet Union, Maoist China, Nazi Germany. Secular utopians killed more people in 100 years than religion did in 1000. Come back to me about ‘fixing the world.’
They always assume the Enlightenment framework that fixing the world is the human’s job, unaided, through politics and rationality is the default correct one which is not a neutral observation
Islam literally mandates wealth redistribution, outlaws exploitative interest (riba), and commands believers to stand firm for justice even if it’s against their own selves or families. The religion literally gave you a blueprint to a have peace on earth
& the afterlife is exactly what stops people from accepting this broken world as the final score. When you believe there is ultimate, unavoidable reckoning for every atom of oppression, you don’t sell out the oppressed for a promotion. You don’t bow to tyrants because the pension is good. That moral stubbornness is precisely what the powerful have always hated about believers
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You are a rancher, you save in bitcoin. The value you create does not get debased. As your purchasing power increases rather than decreases, you grow your herd. You offset dollar cost increases with increases in purchasing power from your savings. Bitcoin can't eliminate dollar price increases because the Fed will just keep creating more dollars. But as more people opt out of that money printing, they will run their businesses on a bitcoin standard and will align their cost structures to bitcoin as well. When everyone is operating on a bitcoin standard, money won't be created arbitrarily. Rather than having to increase prices because more money is created, ranchers will just be able to focus on increasing productivity, efficiency and quality because the money that they are saving in doesn't get debased. But it starts with one rancher at a time opting out.
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My whole life, I’ve been railing against the riba based fiat mortgage system.
Now, while we search for a new place to live, everyone in my life tells me I should forsake my old views and adapt with the times to get a “solid roof” over my head and just get the mortgage.
Some call it Islamic, others say it’s all the same thing, others still says whatever man you live in the west, what are you going to do, just rent all your lives?
No. None of the above. Rent, until it makes sense to buy. Why buy to live in a particular place for the rest of my life? What if I want a reset?
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I make the case for Bitcoin as apolar money, the only workable alternative to a government global reserve currency and a unipolar world order, and explain how geopolitical developments underscore this role.
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Imagine the shift if Muslims stopped supporting interest-based government currencies and moved to something outside that system.
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I'm an attorney and bitcoiner from NYC. I'm looking to invest in Muslim founders and stories.
If you see this, help me share with a short comment, like, or share.
I may not have a ton of money to invest, but I can offer guidance and legal prowess to small businesses.
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Jason Lowery explains how Bitcoin is being used to project physical power through cyberspace at MIT:
“I think bitcoin is much more than just bits of coin, I think it’s BitPower. I think that civilization has finally figured out how to project power in and from and through cyberspace to secure themselves.”
“If we’re aiming to increase the cost of attacking us through cyberspace… instead of endeavoring to build the most energy efficient state changing mechanisms for our computers... We’re going to have to endeavor to build the most energy expensive.”
“Why?…. Because physical expense is the name of the game. The whole point is to impose a physically prohibitive cost on the transfer of bits or the control over bits.”
This puts an END to the energy FUD on Bitcoin.
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Introducing ´image-taste-mobile´, our first image skill for mobile apps.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is really good at generating UI screens. A lot of people asked for mobile skills so here it is.
Generate clean mobile app screens and give them to your agent to turn them into code right away.
Just add the skill file to Codex or ChatGPT.
github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-sk…
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We out here building on anti-Riba money. This is how we win.
I urge all Muslim to get involved. It's all open source.
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The seventh lecture of Principles of Economics explores technology as non-scarce knowledge that raises productivity and drives long-term growth, explaining why innovation creates new work instead of destroying it, and examining the economic arguments surrounding intellectual property.
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Bitcoin is anti-jew money. Call it anti-zionist if you want.
Figured it out in 2015, talked about it continuously on here shortly after.
15+ accounts. That doesn’t include ones that nuked immediately upon creation.
Hated for it, didn’t care.
Fuck them, it takes away control.
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I talk about it a little bit in my book, but I start from the basic premise that zakat requires saving, or deferring consumption. Since our monetary system is inflationary (money supply expansion) and debt (and Riba) based, it discourages saving, therefore increases our collective time preference. This works against our ability to save wealth, especially for the longterm. We work extra hard to not even be able to save as much.
But there's also the incentive to be in debt and fund projects with debt rather than saving, which seems rational if the money is devaluing. Already we have this counteracting Riba force that discourages saving for the future to even be able to pay zakat to begin with.
And the part that's super important is that we’re paying zakat on “money” that is, at its root, instantiated through interest based credit. That's a structural contradiction in how we handle zakat that we must address first.
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What is Digital Hijra?
"Digital Hijra is the purposeful migration and reorientation of a Muslim away from extractive, corporate panopticon platforms and riba-fueled systems designed to capture attention and shape behavior, into self-hosted, user-owned infrastructure and habits that restore privacy and vicegerency, not as mere zuhd but as engaged praxis, tribe-making, and pattern-aware navigation in service of Allah (swt)."
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“Muslims were sleeping while the West went through the Industrial Revolution,” is an all too common line used to explain why Muslims fell behind, but this narrative is both simplistic and misleading. The West’s Industrial Revolution was not a mere story of waking up earlier…+
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