Is Anyone Thinking Anymore? A Crisis of the Mind, the Spirit, and the Soul
🕊️ The Cost of Obedience Without Awakening
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| We weren’t created to obey systems—we were guided to awaken. The Imam (ajtf) is not a symbol of control, but of divine life. Don't be a machine. |
There’s something deeper going on — and it’s more than just disappointing.
It’s deeply disturbing.
When I hear some of the rhetoric coming from today’s scholars, I can’t help but ask:
Has anyone actually paused to think?
To reflect?
To remember what we were meant to be?
🧠 The Consequences of What We Feed Our Souls
We are no longer just victims of misinformation.
We are now the scientific consequences of what we’ve fed our hearts, minds, and spirits.
We’ve disconnected from the source — the Qur’an, Allah, and the Ahlul Bayt (as).
And what remains is a hollow, mechanical loyalty — one that does not awaken, but controls.
🕌 Look at Cordoba
Has anyone paused to reflect on how Cordoba rose?
It wasn’t because of blind hierarchy.
It wasn’t because people waited for orders.
It was because of:
✨ Intellectual revival
✨ Spiritual refinement
✨ Direct engagement with divine knowledge
It was awakening — not obedience.
🎙️ The New Narrative: Purify Yourself to Obey?
And when we were discussing the role of spiritual purification — saying, rightly, that it must precede obedience, that no true following can happen without an awakened soul — the response wasn’t just disagreement.
It was mockery.
He reframed our point into something we never said.
He suggested that we believe one must complete their self-purification first and then follow the leader — as if we were proposing a sequential checklist, instead of calling for a principled foundation.
But that was never our argument.
What we were responding to was his hierarchical model — the idea that obedience to the leader exists at the top of a spiritual pyramid, and that tazkiyah is only meaningful insofar as it supports political allegiance.
That’s what we objected to.
And instead of engaging with that critique honestly, he shifted the narrative.
He constructed a parody of our words — quoting me in a distorted way — in order to defend a structure that puts leadership before inner reform.
That kind of thinking is dangerous.
It confuses hierarchy with hidayah, and obedience with awakening.
It attempts to silence seekers by ridiculing them as immature, naive, or disconnected — when in reality, it is this exact dismissal of spiritual foundations that has delayed the return of our Imam (ajtf), not hastened it.
And perhaps most disturbingly, it warns us — not subtly, but clearly — that we can no longer place blind trust in our scholars.
This isn’t a call for rebellion. It’s a call for awakening.
When ridicule replaces dialogue,
When hierarchy replaces hikmah,
When control replaces connection to Allah —
Then suspicion is no longer rebellion. It becomes responsibility.
This is not how the Ahlul Bayt (as) taught. They never told us to suspend our intellect, silence our fitrah, and hand our souls over to anyone — no matter how scholarly. On the contrary, they warned us about those who wear the garments of knowledge but use it to lead people away from the essence of Islam.
We are now living in that warning.
The tragedy is not that people are turning away from scholars.
The tragedy is that the scholars are turning away from the people, from the Qur’an, and from the essence of guidance itself.
🚫 This Must Be Said:
If you place the “leader” at the top of the spiritual hierarchy...
If your system is built on obedience instead of awakening...
Then the Imam will not return.
🌱 Real Preparation Requires...
The return of the Imam (ajtf) depends on a spiritually awake, intelligent, and active ummah —
not a hypnotized one.
So if you want to prepare the world for the Imam:
💡 Awaken hearts
💡 Raise minds
💡 Inspire purification for the sake of Allah, not politics
💡 Encourage love of the Qur’an, not fear of the system
🛑 Because We Are Not a Machine
We are not meant to be cogs in a system.
We are living, breathing believers.
And Allah did not send us a machine.
He sent us a living Imam. (ajtf)
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