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I want to hear your thoughts on this idea.

I think that islam should be much more central in governments, but it should also be highly democratic, especially on a local level.

A parliaments should exist, but limited by new mechanisms.

cities should be organised more like a bottom up democracy, similar to Rojavas democratic confederalism, but its only for governing voluntary cooperqtion between people and districts.

The delegates of each council form a higher council that send their own delegates.

These delegates are recallable at any time, if they dont do what their base wants, to ensure proper representation.

The highest delegates of a city have some advisory role, or can decide certain policies.

Additionally to this, there should be a parallel federation of imams and scholars, that interact with the councils on their level for advice and checking whether everything is within islamic principles.

This federation may extend up to all pevels beyond cities, since imams and scholars are much more honest and god fearing than the average, and the highest scholars will struggle much less to stay away from corruption and things like that.

Elections should have top notch democratic principles like ranked choice voting, mixed member proportional parliaments, multi member districts and so on.

These are good mechanisms to ensure excellent representation, but barely any country uses it, since it endangers the power of those currently in position of power, thats why there is barely any progress, and often even regress.

Where do you agree and disagree, and why?

Al-salamu alaykum wa rahmatu Allah wa barakatuh!

I'm a fluent Arabic & English speaker, and I've been thinking about teaching beginners how to read the Qur’an correctly, in shaa Allah.

I'd like to help people learn the Arabic letters, understand harakat (short vowel marks and pronunciation), join letters together, and practise reading aloud with gentle corrections along the way.

My intention is to help others learn to read the Qur’an while also earning some money to help with university expenses, in shaa Allah.

I wanted to ask a few questions:

1.Do you think this would be a good idea?

2.Would you or someone you know be interested in lessons like these?

3.What would you look for in someone teaching Qur’an reading to beginners?

4. Also, I'm thinking of offering lessons to beginners aged 14 and above. Do you think this is a suitable age range, or would it be better to focus on a different group?

I'd really appreciate your thoughts and honest feedback. Thank you and Jazakum Allahu khayran!

Someone recommended that I read it. Idk what it is. Is it a book. Even if, I know that I cannot finish one, if long. So can someone summarise it up

There's so many muslims who are young and behaving foolishly. I stay away from it all on social media when they promote such nonsense but now it's happening around me, my friends start identifying as feminists. They start rejecting the hadiths saying the Quran is sufficient enough and the hadiths are made by "random men"... that they are "sexist".. saying we can be progressive muslims. We are born in the West, we should accept things that the kafirs also accept. Let's look appealing to them.

I get looked weirdly by them because I agree with the Quran and the Hadiths. I get looked weirdly and insulted for being a woman and not calling myself a "feminist"... I agree with everything about Islam. Its very sad the huge impact social media has on our ummah. Seriously. What even are we doing?? This all is crazy to me. I go online and try to seek knowledge and I just see all these people around my age spread misinformation and try to mix kafir laws with Islam. Its difficult to come back from this. Too many brothers and sisters of ours are getting out of hand. They don't even know the whole purpose of being a Muslim is to worship Allah. We are born for Worship. We weren't put on this Dunya to have fun and mingle around. Believers gotta remember that.