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الله اكبر May even more from these people be guided to Islam اللهم امين

Old stuff is the best imo. You can enjoy an entirely different perspective than your own because it’s so far removed in time. Helps you recontextualize things in the modern day. Plus, I like history.

Of course it has. A small example is that if you ask your sexually active non-Muslim (don’t mean to imply all Muslims are angels though) female friends if they’ve ever done anal, a sizable percentage of them will say yes (at least in the West). Then, if you ask them how many of them enjoyed it...

I was thinking the ‘Gallic Wars’ by Julius Caesar but it’s too late to add it in now... maybe next time. Go vote in the poll though there’s a few that meet your specifications still.

Join the anti- movement. We just nuked Hub a week or two ago and inshallah many more to follow!

We have a word for that in my second language that means “damaged by ” to describe that mental condition. A lot of women do want to be beat up and choked though because, they, just like men, can be damaged by as well.

Haven’t read any of his books myself but I hear he draws you in by combining sound psychological advice like ‘clean your room’ (which has shown to have tangible positive effects) with some weird utilitarian Jungian pseudo-religion. His fans were basically a cult a few years back but that’s died...

Idk about reading a self help book by a man who got himself tricked by his daughter into eating only meat (wtf) who then got addicted to benzos lol but alright

Well, here’s the poll for the first book selection of the Somalispot book club! Once we’ve decided what book we want to read we will come back here in 14 days to discuss our thoughts on it. I think if everyone gets two choices of what book they want to read we can all arrive at the most...

I think your critiques of my suggestions are on target they’re not really suitable for this book club. Except your critique of Plato’s Republic but I’ll spare you my objections. O.K I think I’ve got it, something that is anti-liberal, non-fiction, philosophical but not cumbersome-to-read, what...

Brother, you are wasting time arguing about wasting time. Plus, even reading a vapid and insubstantial book and then discussing it with others can have a positive effect on ones communication skills, reading comprehension, increasing ones vocabularic capacity and so on.

They’re not in the same category at all. Just because he had some kooky ideas in this or that direction doesn’t mean you can categorically dismiss his work. Isaac Newton mostly worked on his occult studies (& probably considered it more important than his scientific work) and his heterodox...

Agreed. But wasting time isn’t haram nor is reading books purely as an exercise in consumerist entertainment either.

He had some beliefs that ventured into the occult but that isn’t the primary purpose or content of his work as the piece you suggested we read instead by Mr. Crowley. By the way, Do you only read works by Muslim authors? Mashallah sheikhul Islam Omar der sul, your piety surpasses the sahabaah...

Haha, Evola’s opponents sometimes call him a secret Muslim ironically. He borrows from Hinduism (more so in his later work) but also from Islam, Christianity, Judaism and European paganism. His school of thought, Perennialism (more narrowly called Traditionalism, capital t), does engage in a lot...

Whoever wrote that has good intentions, but reading fiction is not haram. Saying so is baatil and should be avoided since on the other hand making what is lawful, unlawful, is a grave sin. However, I agree we should try to avoid fiction for entirely different reasons!

Uploading an e-book you mean? Just go into google and type the books name followed by “epub” or “pdf” and I’m sure you’ll find it. I was just gonna use the books app on my phone but I’ll put a link up for the book once we’ve decided what it’ll be.

Nice, now we’ve got a few people that are interested. I’ll wait until the end of the day (my time) and then post a poll with the book recommendations thus far

You know how that old proverb goes; the best time to start planting a tree was 20 years ago the second best time is yada yada. Cool that you’re in, feel free to recommend something else if you want!

You guys want to commit to reading a book a week (or two weeks if you prefer) & then we come back here to discuss our thoughts? Hard rule: No two weeks in a row of fiction (otherwise it will devolve into us reading Harry Potter or some dumb multi-volume sci-fi novel, I’ve seen it happen) Perhaps...