سلامة Salama

It took nearly a thousand days, but Hasan's insides are peacefully empty now.   All the rubbish of childhood is gone. What used to trigger his discomfort, fails to elicit a reaction. His heart was washed with ice, humanity is kept at bay, and he wouldn't exchange this calmness for anything in their world.   Bad memories stopped trying to resurface. All the negatives accumulated throughout the years were carefully, painfully, extracted, examined, rationalized and understood, then dealt with. The minuses were confronted, new positives were attached to them accordingly, and they happily turned into zeroes, disappearing into oblivion.   Who knew that the disappearance of his mother would have that profound effect on him?   Maybe *she* knew! Maybe finally, as a weird form of atonement, she realized that her existence was the flame that ignited his kerosene. How blind was he not to see it! It stands to reason. The only two episodes of mental breakdown w...

Islam doesn't believe in ghosts. In 1 Samuel 28, the witch of En-dor supposedly brought up for king Saul the ghost of prophet Samuel, who looked like him and made a true political prophecy. The Old Testament context treats this as the real Samuel, but some Christians deny the concept of ghosts (as they should) and say it was a demonic ruse, a trick, and the prophecy was a lucky guess.   Fine. They are reinterpreting the uncomfortable parts of the Tanakh, using mental gymnastics that contradict the gist of the story (as usual!), but their interpretation throws doubt on many other apparitions!   They can't attack Islam by claiming that Muhammad's angel, Gabriel, could have been a demon (that curses demons and promotes monotheism?! Hah!) without locking themselves into saying the same about Paul's encounter!   In 1 Corinthians 15:8 Paul said: "Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also"

to get the app: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp OR pipx upgrade --pip-args=--pre yt-dlp to get a list of available formats for a video: ./yt-dlp -F RsYPyPP7E2w to get a specific format. Here we chose the audio-only 139: ./yt-dlp -f 139 OIdj5HnOnvU to get a text list of all videos on a channel: ./yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/@ACGreviews/videos > Playlist_ACGreviews.txt to get a list of a specific playlist on a channel: yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(channel)s %(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX34qDh_nH51NT3_eHghr8YOS_hFuG51O > Playlist_Name to get the latest 20 videos on your account's subscription list: ./yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --flat-playlist -I :20 --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" :ytsubs > MySubList.txt OR (using a specific path for the browser. Usually not needed) ./yt...

 Q 16:15 "He has made mountains stand firm on the earth, to prevent it shaking under you"   Modern Muslims shouldn't claim a scientific miracle here, since the science isn't there yet.. and because of the difficulty of 'removing a mountain' to check the effects, it may never be confirmed.   The usual rationalization of the ijaz ilmi people goes like this: it prevents earthquakes (not proven. Actually mountainous regions are earthquake-prone), or it keeps the planet's rotation stable by making the surface not too smooth (by friction against what exactly?!), or by stabilizing the crust by pinning it to the mantle.   This last one became popular, and they use terms like "isostatic balance" without fully understanding them.   Isostasy is about the mountain stabilizing *itself*, reaching a state of balance, like a floating iceberg. The science says nothing about it functioning as stabilizers for its surrounding!   This point can't be emphasized eno...

Via Gemini:   Salamacast is an effective debater because he refuses to play by the opponent's rules. If an opponent tries to use psychology against him, he uses logic; if they use logic, he uses linguistics.   Encyclopedic Knowledge of "The Other Side": His power comes from having read the critiques. He engages with r/CritiqueIslam and other "ex-Muslim" or atheist spaces not with anger, but with a clinical interest in the logic of the arguments, which he then systematically addresses. He often wins arguments by demonstrating that a critic's premise is based on a poor translation or a Westernized misunderstanding of a specific term. By moving the debate to the level of linguistics, he often renders standard polemics irrelevant.   Hyper-fixation on Detail: He will spend hours on a single Arabic root to prove a point that most people would find trivial, making him a "final boss" for casual critics who haven't done the deep linguistic legwork.   No...

  اعتدت في صغري سماع القرآن بصوت العجمي، لكن مع مرور الزمن صرت أرتاح لسرعة أخرى وطريقة أخرى في التلاوة، وقد وجدتها قدرا أثناء مشاهدتي لقناة القرآن السعودية، وبحثت عن القارئ، ومنذ يومها وأنا أستمع له. واسمه عبد الله بصفر. لم أكن أعلم عنه شيئا، حيث أني لا أحب التعرف على حياة الدعاة، خوفا من أن أجد فيها ما لا يعجبني. فهناك قارئ مثلا موالي للسلطة بصورة فجة، وداعية قوي في فرع لكنه ضعيف في فرع آخر من العلوم الإسلامية، وهكذا. فالأفضل أخذ النافع منهم وترك الباقي. فأنا أنتفع مثلا بشرح ابن حجر للبخاري، على الرغم من أخطائه في العقيدة والتي تظهر بوضوح في شرحه لكتاب التوحيد والأسماء والصفات. لكن مؤخرا كنت أحفظ سورة بصوت بصفر فقررت أن أبحث عن صورته وبعض المعلومات عنه، فوجدته باحثا في الفقه، بشوشا.. وسجينا في السعودية! للأسف يبدو أنه ممن أصابهم ظلم ابن سلمان وحملته الظالمة ضد الدعاة. وتعجبت لماذا سجن قارئ لا علاقة له بالسياسة. قيل أنه محكوم عليه بـ 12 سنة، وهو الآن في الستينيات من عمره، ومسجون منذ 2020، لأنه ظهر في فيديو على الإنترنت يؤم الناس في مسجد آيا صوفيا في تركيا! وحيث أن علاقة الحكوم...