🕯️This Is Not a Community — It’s a Hollow Shell
The heart of Islam is connection —but today’s communities echo with silence, smiles without souls, rituals without spirit, and charity without sincerity. We were told what would happen to our communities. That Islam would become a name without meaning. A body without soul. A shell without heart. And today, we see it. We gather in mosques, but our hearts are strangers. We scroll through posts, but truth is met with silence. There is no pulse, no reciprocity, no real humanity. Only performance. Images. Phrases. Platitudes. We are surrounded by a form of community. But what good is form without function? Smiles without sincerity? Rituals without repentance? Our faith taught us that community is not attendance. It is response . It is heart . It is care that moves, truth that reaches, and souls that meet. But today we see what Imam Ali (as) warned of: that the body of Islam would remain, while the spirit would be lifted. You put out knowledge—silence. You call for sincerity—silence. ...
