Spiritual Resistance vs. Performance: When Vision Is Reduced to a March
Why true revolution begins with meaning, not mimicry — and how narcissism derails the legacy of Karbala
1. First, let’s identify the classic narcissistic tactics at play:
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Deflection: They pretend to respond to your point, but twist it to redirect focus back to their “activity.”
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Inversion: They accuse you of the very passivity or ego they’re displaying.
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Hijacking: They take a deep truth (like pain or dhikr) and reduce it to irrelevance to uplift their public effort.
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Emotional Mockery: They imply sacred weeping or pain is “self-serving” — while centering their own voice.
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Moral Grandstanding: They present their actions as superior, while erasing the deeper, spiritual dimensions of the cause.
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Covert Competition: They track your posts, your tone, your language — only to recast them with themselves at the center.
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Mimicry without Meaning: They borrow your cadence, your concepts, your phrasing — but empty it of soul.
This isn’t activism.
It’s emotional theatre.
2. Let’s clarify a deeper point: "Out of the box" is not the same as having vision.
Some of us are using vision — intuitive, spiritually anchored, led by divine insight.
Others are just… unpacking boxes.
“Out of the box” still assumes there’s a box.
It’s reactive, not original.
It reshapes the same content without reshaping the axis.
That’s not spiritual strategy.
That’s just dressing up old forms with louder slogans.
True vision isn’t louder. It’s clearer.
It doesn’t need to rebel against a system — because it never confined itself to one.
3. This is the difference between secular performance and sacred transformation.
Performance asks: Who’s watching?
Vision asks: Who is this for?
Performance calculates optics.
Vision carries legacy.
Performance serves the ego.
Vision submits to God.
4. And when performance tries to mimic Karbala? It exposes itself.
To dismiss pain as “useless” unless it marches is not just insensitive — it’s spiritually blind.
The tears of Sayyida Zaynab (AS), the cries of the captives, the grief of Lady Fatima (AS) — they were not wasted.
They were the fire of remembrance.
The echo that carried Husayn’s (AS) message across centuries.
The entire Arbaeen walk today is not just about walking.
It is about the weeping that still walks with us.
And so we ask:
If you were the oppressed…
Would you want your pain to become someone else’s stage?
Would you want your suffering turned into personal positioning?
Or would you want your pain to mean something?
To rise into legacy — not ego?
5. Let’s be clear.
This isn’t about winning arguments.
It’s about not letting the sacred be mocked by performance.
Lady Zaynab (AS) did not argue. She declared.
She did not posture. She preserved.
We’re not here to outshine the shallow.
We’re here to protect the spiritual axis from being turned into a social stage.
May Allah expose the performative, elevate the sincere, and protect the language of resistance from those who would hijack it for applause.
🕊️ In the name of the oppressed, we raise only truth.
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