The ego is indeed stirred to life when debating, and people tend to take a side with which they identify or against a side with which they have grown to be suspicious of - except when Allah has mercy.
Let's try and rise above it and judge by what Allah has revealed, or we may find ourselves digging deeper in a marsh.
We must always remember to try and cobsider how Allah judges it and be careful of fake firefox browsers at the same time.
Thing with the situation in shaam is that the lines are purposefully confused, distorted and blurred, and that too is a test of Allah, regardless of whether dajjal is the fitnah stoker.
O servants of Allah, adhere to Allah, the fitnahs will only strengthen us and make us wise, and if we die in the process, we reach judgement in a state of contentment.
Sometimes i want to go to syria to see what's happening.
And sometimes i think, why fall into the trap of dajjal?
And other times i despair of the situation around me and envy the people there who are able to live in a land where the Laws of Allah are implemented.
But i need to cast out the log in my own eye before accusing my brother of nifaq, who knows, maybe he too has had a logs inserted in it against his will.
Consider these verses where Allah warns us against the plots of shaytaan, bearing in mind that some enemies of truth wrongly want us to abandon Islam by rejecting the concept and requirement of a genuine Islamic State, and in the name of abanoning evil actions of certain labelled people.
Isn't it amazing how Allah gets us wondering by putting the verses of caution next to the verses of Jihad?
Certainly makes us evaluate on a higher plain.
105.*And say: "Work (righteousness): Soon will Allah observe your work, and His Messenger, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did."
106.*There are (yet) others, held in suspense for the command of Allah, whether He will punish them, or turn in mercy to them: and Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.
107.*And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and infidelity - to disunite the Believers - and in preparation for one who warred against Allah and His Messenger aforetime.
They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; But Allah doth declare that they are certainly liars.
108.*Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and Allah loveth those who make themselves pure.
109.*Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety to Allah and His good pleasure? - or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? and it doth crumble to pieces with him, into the fire of Hell. And Allah guideth not people that do wrong.
110.*The foundation of those who so build is never free from suspicion and shakiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to pieces. And Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.
111.*Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah. then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.
112.*Those that turn (to Allah. in repentance; that serve Him, and praise Him; that wander in devotion to the cause of Allah,: that bow down and prostrate themselves in prayer; that enjoin good and forbid evil; and observe the limit set by Allah.- (These do rejoice). So proclaim the glad tidings to the Believers.
Quran chapter 9, At-Tawbah, Verses 105-112
Allah also tells us to travel through the land and see what was the end of those before us,
We have left it as a sign for hearts that ponder,
Have they not passed by the land on which was rained a shower of evil etc etc
The prophet pbuh passed by the wells of thamud, he left both in tact
Umar (ra) left the pyramids in egypt.
Even the sphynx survived for some confusing reason
Not that we should be against the destruction of idols of men's making.
Apply the law with sincerity, justice and truth.
It is wrong to carry out a conspiracy to remove all traces of the early period of Islam and delete history in order to hide goodness and promote sin in an attempt to turn it into a myth in the minds of future generations. (there was a memory hole in orwell's 1984 which they used to destroy evidence and distort facts).
The enemies of Allah will lose anyway, isn't that obvious by now?
I once heard Anwar Awlaki say that 'umar (ra) was informed of the discovery of the pristine body of a prophet (possibly daniel), and he ordered that a swarm of graves be dug, and had it buried at night in order to prevent people from venerating it, and that he (ra) had the tree at hudaybiyyah under which the oath of allegiance took place cut down when he (ra) saw people were going to it for blessing.
When you put that into the correct context, you notice that he (ra) was attempting to save the people from shirk,
It is not the same when history is deleted and then denied in order to propound a falsehood and make people disbelieve the truth.
I noticed that the house of the prophet pbuh has been obscured in makkah, does it stand to reason when a monstrousity has been erected over the residence of the uthmani caliph by one who rejects the implementation of the law of Allah, a monstrouity which makes the ka'bah look insignificant?
Then again, maybe they plotted a plot, and Allah planned, makes one wonder at the magnificence of walleed bin talal, and makes another realise that Allah Most High doesn't live in a tiny box.
Mankind is being tested, the results it seems are close to being handed out.
And Pharaoh said, "O eminent ones, I have not known you to have a god other than me.
Then ignite for me, O Haman, [a fire] upon the clay and make for me a tower that I may look at the God of Moses.
And indeed, I do think he is among the liars."
Qarun was doubtless, of the people of Moses; but he acted insolently towards them: such were the treasures We had bestowed on him that their very keys would have been a burden to a body of strong men, behold, his people said to him: "Exult not, for Allah loveth not those who exult.
But seek with that which Allah has bestowed on you, the home of the Hereafter, and forget not your portion of lawful enjoyment in this world,' and do good as Allah has been good to you, and seek not mischief in the land. Verily, Allah likes not the Mufsidun (those who commit great crimes and sins, oppressors, tyrants, mischief-makers, corrupters)."
He said: "This has been given to me only because of the knowledge I possess."
Did he not know that Allah had destroyed before him generations, men who were stronger than him in might and greater in the amount (of riches) they had collected?
But the Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners) will not be questioned of their sins.
Al Waleed is a powerful and highly influential voice within the Saudi and regional business communities Though it doesn’t hurt to be a prince,
al Waleed calls himself a self-made man, who used a $30,000 loan from his father to start his own business and founded a business empire that is valued at around $23bln 28 years later.
13. (S) So effective has US programming been, said XXXXXXXXXXXX, that it is widely assumed that the USG must be behind it. Some believe, he said, that Prince Talal’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and its sister company Twentieth Century Fox has a clear ideological motive behind it, noting that the Fox Movie Channel on “Rotana” is available for free to anyone with a satellite dish. Both XXXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXXXX, liberal-minded supporters of US democracy and society with little use for conspiracy theory, clearly believed this was the case.
¶14. (S) While revenue from commercials on Rotana’s Fox Movie Channel probably matter more to Prince Waleed than the dissemination of western ideas (MBC and Rotana are in a bitter battle for market share) it is easy to understand why XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXXXX believe that this programming is having a profound effect on the values and worldviews of Saudi audiences
Satellite broadcasts of the US TV shows Desperate Housewives and Late Show With
David Letterman are doing more to persuade Saudi youth to reject violent jihad than hundreds of millions of dollars of US government propaganda, informants have told the American embassy in Jeddah.
Broadcast uncensored and with Arabic subtitles alongside sitcoms such as Friends on Saudi Arabia's MBC 4 channel, the shows are
being allowed as part of the kingdom's "war of ideas" against extremist elements. According to a secret cable titled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence", they have been proving more effective than Washington's main propaganda tool, the US-funded al-Hurra TV news channel.
In further evidence of the advance of US media in Saudi Arabia, the same cable revealed that one of Rupert Murdoch's sons held talks with the board of al-Eqtisadiah, a Saudi Arabian daily newspaper, about a deal to publish an Arabic version of the Wall Street Journal. The meeting was said to have been called at the behest of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire businessman and shareholder in News Corporation. The 35% Bin Talal-owned SRMG media group, which owns al-Eqtisadiah, was also trying to win a contract to publish the International Herald Tribune uncensored in Saudi Arabia, the cable reveals.
22. Nay! They say: "We found our fathers following a certain religion, and we guide ourselves by their footsteps."
23. And similarly, We sent not a warner before you to any town but the luxurious ones among them said:
"We found our fathers following a certain way and religion, and we will indeed follow their footsteps."
24. (The warner) said: "Even if I bring you better guidance than that which you found your fathers following?"
They said: "Verily, We disbelieve in that with which you have been sent."
25. So We took revenge of them, then see what was the end of those who denied (Islamic Monotheism).