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There is a hadith that has never felt more prophetic than it does today. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said:
"A time will come when holding onto your faith will be like holding onto a burning coal." Jami at-Tirmidhi 2260
For generations, this was understood as a spiritual metaphor-resisting temptation, remaining steadfast amid moral decay. But today, the coal is no longer abstract. It is literal, digital, and searing.
It is the smartphone filming a massacre.
It is the cloud server storing forbidden evidence.
It is the social media post that disappears without explanation.
To hold onto faith in this age is to hold onto truth-the Haqq-while it is being deliberately and systematically set on fire.
Islam begins with Shahadah-testimony. I bear witness.
The entire project of Islamic civilization rests upon Hifz: preservation. The Sahaba did not merely memorize the Qur'an; they preserved context, history, treaties, betrayals, and injustices. They understood a timeless rule of power:
If you do not preserve your narrative, your enemy will write your history.
Today, we are witnessing the Gaza Genocide-the most documented atrocity in human history. Every airstrike, every shattered home, every martyr recorded by the victims themselves. Children filming their own last words. Journalists livestreaming their deaths.
This is the ultimate Shahadah.
And simultaneously, we are witnessing the most aggressive campaign of digital erasure ever recorded.
A report by Sada Social documents over 25,000 violations against Palestinian content in a single year. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X have deleted footage, suspended accounts, and shadow-banned journalists. 86.8% of censored posts involved Palestinian martyrs.
This is not moderation. It is obstruction of justice.
Evidence is dangerous-because evidence leads to accountability.
The Qur'an commands believers to meticulously record financial debt (Qur'an 2:282). What, then, is our duty regarding a debt of blood? A people's right to exist?
The platforms burning this testimony are not neutral actors. They are active participants in silencing truth.
The erasure is not only virtual-it is economic and systemic.
A landmark 2025 United Nations report, "From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide," exposes over 1,000 corporations complicit in sustaining Israel's war machine.
Among them:
Behind them stand global banks, pension funds, and investors-the financial arteries of genocide.
This is Qarun reborn.
The Qur'an warns of Qarun: wealth so vast it becomes a false god, overriding divine law and human conscience. Today's Qaruns have turned Palestinian land, lives, and deaths into balance-sheet entries.
Islam does not permit despair. It demands action-principled, intelligent, and targeted.
What is required now is not performative outrage, but a Jihad of Truth.
The Jihad of Digital Testimony
Allah commands:
"O you who believe, stand firmly for justice, as witnesses for Allah..." (Qur'an 4:135)
Preserving evidence is now a Fard Kifayah-a collective obligation.
Initiatives like Evidence Archived are building secure, decentralized digital repositories using blockchain and global servers to preserve testimony that platforms erase. This is not charity-it is 'ibadah. It is funding the witness stand for history, for courts, and for the Akhirah.
The Jihad of Economic Purification
Allah says:
"Do not consume one another's wealth unjustly." (Qur'an 4:29)
This demands self-audit.
Where is our pension invested?
Which banks do we use?
Which technologies are built on Palestinian blood?
Boycott and divestment are not trends. They are acts of Tazkiyah-purifying our wealth and souls from complicity. This is changing evil with the hand through economic withdrawal.
The Jihad of Clarification
Knowledge must be spoken.
We must name the companies.
Explain Project Nimbus.
Expose Lavender.
Translate UN reports into accessible language.
As the Prophet ﷺ said, "The believer is a mirror to his brother." We must reflect truth-again and again-until it becomes impossible to ignore.
They tried to erase the Prophet ﷺ by calling him a liar.
The Sahaba responded by becoming living libraries.
Today, they try to erase Gaza by calling it a "war zone" and deleting its evidence.
We must respond by becoming a global, networked, unerasable archive.
This is the burning coal of our time.
To hold onto faith today is to:
The algorithm of man can be manipulated.
The algorithm of Allah-divine justice-cannot.
Our testimony is its fuel.
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May Allah make us among those who hear the truth and follow it. May He accept our testimony. Ameen.
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