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How do we make sense of what seems to be a contradiction on the one hand, in the minds of

some of us, that Islam is the correct religion?

We are people whom Allah has blessed with the Quran, with belief in the Prophet of Allah a ali wasslam, we do seem to have a great history, great legacy, and yet as we

currently see our situation, one finds humiliation from the east to the west. One finds negatives from China and what's happening to our Uyghur brothers and sisters,

working our way through the complete destruction of the Middle East,

the complete dismantling of the entire infrastructures that existed there, the invasions that took place

through the civil war in Syria that has uprooted at least 10 million people devastated the

entire country through the realities of our alleged mini superpowers being controlled by corrupt regimes

through the current situation with our brothers and sisters of Gaza

were about to enter almost two years of the conflict.

Unbelievable.

Two years have gone by.

This October, two years would have gone by,

subhanna-allah.

And in some aspects the situation

really seems completely bleak

even when the bombs stop what is the way forward for the people

left there and we keep on going and going all the way to the ends of the world, all the way to where we are, beginning from China, all the way to our situation here, and the rise of the current administration and its blatant Islamophobia. And across the Western world, what is happening? So how do we reconcile the supposed iza of our face with the absence

of that iza in our actual existence? That is a very difficult question. How do we reconcile

the reality of our faith being from Allah, and the reality of our faith being from Allah,

and the fact that we don't seem to have a manifestation of political strength and stability in our day-to-day lives?

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