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Daniel Haqiqatjou Is a Shi’a Sympathizer?
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He's always been a weirdo who repeats typical Christian conservative Republican talking points but with Islamic terminology sprinkled on top. Calling people "cucks" and "simps" as a grown man who was a teen well before the advent of social media when these words were trendy.
His smug way of speaking and content on YouTube is transparently obvious ragebait still rooted in the anti-SJW era of 2016. Boring to watch.
His smug way of speaking and content on YouTube is transparently obvious ragebait still rooted in the anti-SJW era of 2016. Boring to watch.
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Can’t take him seriously after these mental gymnastics for cursing the Sahaba
even his approach to Islam- "let's put aqeedah to the side and unite with all traditional (ie conservative) Muslims".... it's like he doesn't care about your aqeedah as long as you're conservative.... unity is on that basis... and attacking people is on that basis as well- he doesn't unite or refute on a basis based on aqeedah- it's based on whether you are "liberal" or "conservative"...
anyways, my point is- doesn't this seem to be rooted from people like Republicans, 4chan, etc.?
I think it is foreign to an actual classical approach. an authentic classical approach I think will be socially conservative when it comes to things like lgbt, feminism, etc.... but the primary focus I think would be on things like aqeedah, it wouldn't be where you forget about aqeedah and make everything about "owning the libs".
He says he promotes "traditional Islam" but I believe his approach is not actually traditional- to me it seems rooted in modern right-wing politics rather than authentically traditional.
I agree with some of what he says and I disagree with some of it. I'm not for or against everything he says and I'm not out to talk bad about him but I don't agree with his approach.
You're absolutely spot on here about his approach to his content. It's very politically driven rather than theologically driven (like from the Quran and authentic hadeeth). I first noticed this when his seemingly one-sided beef with Omar Suleiman was trending. He was going in on him more for "trying too hard to fit in" than for his actual sins like that ritual that some might classify as shirk.
I'm not qualified to refute him altogether as my own Islamic knowledge requires more work plus I avoid his content because of his hostile tone towards a Muslim sister he debated on women's education for being a "liberal trying to change the deen". It left a poor taste in my mouth.
But I don't even think he's a scholar to be takfir-ing people like Mufti Menk & Omar Suleiman. His only qualification, if I remember correctly, is a physics and philosophy at Harvard.
this woman's education topic I think is a good example.
I am sure the right way of approaching the topic is based on Quran and Sunnah.
but on any of these topics... people go by "based," "red-pilled"- "conservative," "left-wing," "progressive," whatever.
Allah said (translation of meaning): "hold firmly to the rope of Allah". (Al 'Imran 103)
There are also the very beautiful ayat (translation of the meaning):
Say, "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited to you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with Him, and to parents, good treatment, and do not kill your children out of poverty; We will provide for you and them. And do not approach immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed] except by [legal] right. This has He instructed you that you may use reason."
And do not approach the orphan's property except in a way that is best until he reaches maturity. And give full measure and weight in justice. We do not charge any soul except [with that within] its capacity. And when you testify, be just, even if [it concerns] a near relative. And the covenant of Allah fulfill. This has He instructed you that you may remember.
And, [moreover], this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways, for you will be separated from His way. This has He instructed you that you may become righteous.
-Surat Al-'An`am [6:151-153]
this is a very beautiful part of the surah. "There are in the Quran certain aayaat (verses) which some scholars call the verses of the Ten Commandments, because they include ten important commandments given by Allaah to mankind. These aayaat are to be found in two passages of the Quran."
Al-'An`am [6:151-153] is one of the two sections referred to.
there are ten things ordered- don't associate partners with Allah, goodness to parents, do not come near fahisha, etc.
and one is- this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways,
then it says
for you will be separated from His way
I am not some expert of tafsir but wouldn't this mean that following other ways will make you be separated from the way of Allah? based on this verse, I believe very much that we should only follow Islam and not follow other ways. I see people all the time try to mix Islam with some other way and I believe it seems to always lead people away from following Quran and Sunnah. DH trying to mix Islam with "red pill", people like Gaddafi trying to do "Islamic socialism" type ideologies, "Muslim philosophers" in classical times trying to mix Islam with Plato and Aristotle, etc.
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