A 15-year-old boy assaulted a young girl until she died. He was treated as a minor, and therefore the punishment was not severe.

Most feminists and many women were angered by the ruling, to the point that some began calling for changes to the law.

What they fail to understand is that responsibility matches capacity. Just as a girl at that age would not be held accountable like an adult, the same applies to a boy.

The matter is not selective or driven by whims and greed. Even if he were 18, international human-rights organizations, without dispute among them, would reject the death penalty altogether. Most likely he would simply go to prison for a period decided by the court.

They treat human-rights conventions the way a believer treats revelation.

And they praise prisons in some countries as if they were hotels.

So the conclusion is this: the rapist-killer will end up in a “hotel” of discipline and reform!

If you said: executing this young man will not bring that little girl back to life,

and this is a minor who was not fully aware of his actions, and he might reform and become a useful taxpayer from whom the state benefits.

It may sound harsh and cold, but this is how human laws are formed under the capitalist system.

And if people are not convinced, the scarecrow of human rights is raised until anyone who disagrees is painted as a monster with no regard for humanity, and in such contexts, matters become as clear as they should.

“and had it been from other than Allah, they would have found in it much contradiction.” [al-Nisā' 82]

Among the proposed reforms, preventing gender-mixing was not even considered; they focused only on the punishment.

Yet early mixing can be extremely dangerous, because many children cross the threshold of puberty while their peers have not, which leads to problems and calamities, including incidents like this one.

Crimes committed by “minors” are many around the world. Recently, a child in Japan killed his classmate at school and stated during interrogation that he was aware he would not receive a harsh punishment because he is a minor!

One of the most troubling issues in this context is the framing of the niqab as a “female choice,” by which a woman who wears the niqab is made equivalent to one who is immodest or even naked.

The correct understanding is that the niqab is an act of worship and a virtue, in accordance with sound human nature. The covering of women is something that people universally agree is virtuous, because a woman, by her physical appearance, can arouse desire in men.

The highest value, therefore, is not “female freedom,” but rather the worship of Allah and the virtue of modest covering.

Likewise, if a woman’s cross were cut off, the matter would not be viewed solely from the angle of freedom. The niqab is more sacred than national dress for women or men, which no one objects to, because national dress is merely a cultural inheritance, whereas this is an act of worship.

India is a country that lives with deep contradictions regarding women: a well-known cultural legacy that involves contempt for women, alongside a brutal legal system put in place by Westernized elites who sought to “balance” matters, but instead only increased tension.

(According to statistics from past years, the National Crime Bureau recorded the murder of one bride every hour, totaling nine thousand brides per year, due to the non-payment of the full dowry owed to the groom’s family.

According to those statistics, women make up 48.2% of India’s population, approximately six hundred million women. However, sociologists have warned of a decline in the number of women compared to men, with the ratio reaching about 940 females for every 1,000 males.

More alarming is what the statistics revealed regarding children aged 1–6 years, where the number dropped to around 919 females for every 1,000 males.

Human rights organizations considered this a real danger threatening the lives of females in India, prompting the central government and state governments to launch various campaigns encouraging the acceptance of female newborns.)

This is taken from an article titled:

“9 Gender-Biased Indian Laws That Are Unfair Towards Men”

All of this exists alongside a strange legal system that is biased in favor of females, yet Indian feminist organizations do not stop complaining.

Among these laws: the mother inherits the property of the deceased, while the father does not inherit.

Among these laws: a son is not entitled to financial support after reaching the age of 18, whereas a daughter continues to be supported by her father until she marries. In truth, this is not greatly objected to from our perspective, since a male child is required to provide maintenance and dowry, and once he achieves economic independence he stops asking his father for support; this is not tied to a specific age.

Among these laws: if a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, he is prosecuted, but if a woman commits adultery with another woman’s husband, she is not prosecuted.

Among these laws: if a man promises a woman marriage and she allows him intimacy, he is considered a rapist and is punished, while she is not.

Among these laws: if a young man aged 16 engages in a consensual relationship with a girl of his own age, he is punished and she is not, because he is deemed a rapist.

If a woman’s death results from burns or bodily injury within seven years of marriage, the husband is considered at fault. This is, in truth, a very strange law.

Thus, man-made laws are either unjust in favor of men or unjust in favor of women, and you will not find the like of revelation.

You hear about Christmas everywhere. People across the entire world celebrate it. The word Christmas comes from the Old English phrase Cristes Maesse. It means the Mass of Christ. Christians treat it as one of their most important celebrations. They observe it on thr 25th of December. They believe it marks the birth of their god, Jesus Christ.

You may hear some Muslims say Christians celebrate the birth of Prophet 'Isa, son of Mary. That is not accurate. Christians celebrate what they believe is the birth of God Himself والعياذ بالله.

You should know this date has no basis in the original Christian scriptures. The Gospel never mentions the 25th of December. The details in the Gospel actually contradict a winter birth. In the Qur'ān, Allāh mentions Maryam receiving fresh ripe dates during childbirth. Dates ripen in summer.

Early Christians did not celebrate Jesus' birth at all. They viewed birthday celebrations as pagan and they did not know the actual date of the birth. So, they chose a date already marked by pagan festivals.

The 25th of December comes from a pagan winter solstice celebration. Romans honored their sun god, Sol Invictus, on this day. They believed it marked his birth or his victory over darkness. Church leaders later adopted the date. They wanted to convert pagan communities without fighting their customs. This change became official in the fourth century at the Council of Nicaea in the year three hundred twenty five. That same council established the doctrine of the Trinity and rejected monotheism.

Even today, Christians disagree on the date. Orthodox churches celebrate on the 7th of January. Armenian churches celebrate on the 6th of January.

You also see many Christmas customs that did not start with Christianity. Romans celebrated Saturnalia in December. During it, they gave gifts and lit candles. Europeans decorated their homes with lights and evergreen plants during the winter solstice. They believed this drove away evil spirits. Druids treated mistletoe as a magical plant. They linked it to tree worship and the return of the sun. Decorating trees existed long before Christianity. Pagans did it as part of their worship.

Santa Claus traces back to St. Nicholas. He was a priest who opposed monotheistic beliefs. He attended the Council of Nicaea. Historical reports say he struck Arius, a scholar who argued Jesus was created and not divine. Church leaders later honored Nicholas as a saint. He used to give gifts secretly to poor children around December sixth. The church merged this custom with December twenty fifth to help people accept the holiday. The modern image of Santa looks nothing like the real man. The image of him riding reindeer connects to older pagan gods of thunder and forests. Those gods once received human sacrifices.

The Christmas tree has even older roots. Pagan tribes worshipped evergreen trees because they stayed green all year. Some of them sacrificed children by tying them to these trees. They worshipped a tree after Satan spoke through it. Allāh later destroyed them. In the eighth century, a missionary named Boniface tried to rebrand the tree by placing a star on top. For centuries after that, many churches and governments banned the tree. They saw it as dangerous pagan worship. The custom spread globally after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert displayed a decorated tree in the nineteenth century. When new Muslims once asked the Prophet Muhammad to assign them a sacred tree like the pagans had, he strongly rebuked them. He compared their request to the Israelites asking for an idol.

Now listen carefully to the Islamic ruling. Scholars agree you must not take part in non Islamic religious holidays. You must not congratulate others for them either. Congratulation shows approval. The Prophet once stopped a man from fulfilling a vow in a place used for pagan festivals. He taught clear separation from shirk. Early scholars explained the verse about avoiding falsehood as avoiding the holidays of polytheists. Scholars said any help in their holidays supports shirk.

When the final prohibition of wine was revealed, the Ṣaḥābah abandoned it instantly, pouring it into the streets. Their faith outweighed desire, proving that Imān is stronger than any "addiction". They didn’t delay or make excuses; true obedience means immediate submission to Allah’s command, regardless of habit, attachment or "addiction".

The brother was hit with a catastrophe today, إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُون.

He said:

Wallahi my brother, we are in a very painful situation right now. Our house caught fire and everything inside was burned. We lost all our belongings, and now we don’t even have a place to stay.

My younger brother was sleeping in the room when the fire started without his knowledge. Alhamdulillah he is still alive, but his hand was badly injured and he is in the hospital now. He has not received proper treatment yet, and he is in severe pain.

Wallahi this situation is very hard for us, and I am reaching out to you with humility. If you are able to help us financially in any way, it would mean so much to us during this difficult time. May Allah reward you for every help and kindness you show.

JazakAllahu khairan, my brother.

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“The addict to pornography and masturbation does not benefit from reminder.” A reflection on psychological determinism…

This is a new claim that has begun to spread: that religious admonition and reminders of Paradise and Hell do not benefit such a person because they are surrounded by circumstances that made this behavior inevitable. Therefore, unless those circumstances are treated, your preaching is useless.

This claim contradicts the established principles of the Qur'an and Sunnah, which affirm that every sinner should be admonished and that admonition benefits him. If we rephrased the matter as: “The warnings of the Qur'an and Sunnah do not benefit the addict: "the ugliness of this idea would become clearer. But let me explain calmly: where did this idea come from, and what are its problems?

There is a well-known thesis among many Western psychologists that drug addiction, and any other type of addiction, is a disease and not a personal fault. Just as you cannot blame someone for catching a cold, you should not blame him for addiction.

They criticize laws that impose punishments on addicts and consider them ineffective. This line of thinking can reach an advanced level of absurdity, such as claiming that a serial killer merely has a genetic defect and therefore should not be punished, but simply placed in a cage like a predatory animal. In this view, he is not blameworthy; he merely has a genetic flaw.

These theses mix philosophy with emotion, preconceived beliefs with certain experimental findings. This is common in Western contexts, yet many people in our societies accept it as unquestionable.

Experimental science has its own dilemmas when it comes to the human sciences, since they do not submit to fixed laws like the natural sciences. Many of them view human beings as mere machines. The majority deny free will. This was discussed by the author of the book Tahrir al-'‘Ilm min al-Awham (Liberating Knowledge from Illusions).

Even Richard Dawkins expressed a similar idea in his book The Selfish Gene, and in his debate with Deepak Chopra he alluded to this meaning. Chopra mocked him by saying: “Then why are we here? If we have no free will, why are we debating?”

Like any sophistic idea, it is used selectively. For example, they say homosexuality is genetic. In reality, according to their own principles, nothing falls outside genetics. Dawkins himself admitted in his book The Science Delusion that even if homosexuality were genetic, it would not be deterministic. Therefore, other influencing factors must exist.

The idea that addiction is merely a compulsory illness that cannot be addressed through guidance, advice, and admonition is no different from the idea that homosexuality is genetic and therefore should not be punished.

It should be noted that in Western contexts, when they speak about drug addiction, they usually link it to the claim that punishment is ineffective. They do not speak about admonition, because it is considered a form of behavioral guidance. Many of them see admonition as mere rebuke and fail to recognize the compassion within it. Thus, their perception of it is negative.

We do not deny that an envious or sick-hearted person may wear the garment of a preacher. But that does not nullify the benefit of enjoining good altogether.

However, those afflicted with arrogance consider every form of admonition to be pure condemnation, so they mentally categorize it as “punishment.” This is one of the problems that has spread among the modern generation. It is among the effects of fathers withdrawing from proper upbringing, since wise correction accompanied by hidden compassion is usually found in fathers. Perhaps this is one of the causes behind the phenomenon sometimes described as “fatherless atheism,” about which some books have been written.

Among the most dangerous matters for the younger generation is reinforcing the idea of being a “victim.” Many of them find in this idea a way to reconcile with themselves after a long period of self-resentment, blaming themselves for not achieving something great, not attaining the grand capitalist dream, or not reaching “success” as it is portrayed on social media.

The victim mindset can itself become another form of addiction, a way to avoid confronting oneself.

For this reason, the inclination toward effeminacy, what they call homosexuality, is seen as an escape from the role of responsibility to the role of victimhood.

Admonition often treats the idea at its roots. It may give a person motivation to strive, to seek the pleasure of Allah, and to remember the purpose of creation.

Feeling guilt is not a defect except in the view of those who live like animals and expect no reckoning. In the Sacred Law there is hope and fear. The mercy of Allah precedes His غضب (anger). He forgives the servant who repents and seeks forgiveness. All of this plants hope and strength, how can its effect be denied?

It is mentioned in the book Al-Awraq fi Akhbar al-Shu'ara' by Abu Bakr al-Suli: Abu Bakr said: 'Awn bin Muhammad al-Kindi narrated to me; he said: Ahmad bin Yusuf narrated to me from his father: When my father arrived in Baghdad, his companions sought him out and invited him, and he stayed with them drinking and listening to music. His mother said to him: “My son, you see our large household and the expenses that fall upon you. If you persist in drinking, you will ruin us and impoverish us, along with the disgrace it brings you in this world and the burden of sin it adds for your Hereafter.” He replied: “Enough! By Allah, it will never enter my head again.” He did not drink until he died.’

This incident is an example of admonition joined with compassion and its effect on souls. The story of Abu Mihjan al-Thaqafi and his repentance from drinking wine after his addiction, due to the kindness shown to him by Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas, is also well known.

It remains to note that the recent legal opinion claiming that one who abandons prayer due to depression is not required to make it up is questionable. It branches from this deterministic outlook, treating psychological illness as if it nullifies free will without a clear standard. Throughout history, people have faced hardships and turned to prayer: {Seek help through patience and prayer}. Yet the psychologist who inspired this idea presents prayer to the patient as a mere burden, like schoolwork, rather than as a connection with the One who created you, exalted is He. Instead, he sees it as necessary for you to return to him, to complain of your worries to him, and not to do so in your prayer. This distorted view of prayer is no different from the distorted view of admonition.

Allah, Exalted is He, has described His Book as a healing for what is in the hearts. Among that healing is the reminder of Paradise and Hell, the pleasure of Allah and His anger.

Audios to Benefit from During Ramadan

al Ikhlas wan Niyyah (Sincerity & Intention) - Ibn Abi ad Dunya

ar-Rida an-illah biqada-ih (Being Pleased with the Decree of Allah) - Ibn Abi ad Dunya

Muhasabat an-Nafs (Holding Your Self to Account) - Ibn Abi ad Dunya