I'm collaborating with a Bosnian brother on this. We have a rough outline so far for a presentation: Making Digital Hijra 1. Why we're here mention Microsoft’s reported support for Israel and the ethical duty to boycott entities that aid genocide. Big tech companies benefit from the status quo, israel is the status quo, they are a huge market. But boycotts aren’t enough if we just jump from one tech overlord to another. We need independence + sovereignty !!! True support for Palestine starts with removing our dependency on oppressive systems, including digital ones. 2. The Problem: Digital Slavery in a Surveillance Empire Explain how proprietary software (Microsoft, Apple, Google) locks us in and surveils us Microsoft Windows has Introduce the concept of “Digital Occupation”, we don’t own the tools we use; we rent access from corporations. mention how our data, movements, even our prayers (Muslim apps!) are monetized and analyzed. If the Product is free, you are the product. Companies make money by collecting your data, categorizing it and selling it to anyone willing to buy (Advertisers, NSA prism, political campaigns, AI trainers, Foreign actors) They own your devices. They own your data. They own your future. Is that how a Muslim should live? 3. The Philosophy: Digital vicegerency Introduce cypherpunk mindset without label yet Ownership over dependency Transparency over black boxes Decentralization over gatekeeping Don't trust, verify What does it mean to be vicegerent in a digital world? It means running code you can read, control, and share, without requiring permission” 4. Linux & Free Software Live demo: install Linux on an old laptop Show how easy it is: walk through interface, installing apps, customization. Introduce essential FOSS replacements for Microsoft products: LibreOffice (MS Office) GIMP (Photoshop) Firefox or Brave (Edge/Chrome) Thunderbird (Outlook) Signal or simpleX (WhatsApp/Teams) Nextcloud (OneDrive/Google Drive) Maybe show them how to run a VPN like Mullvad 5. The Vision: Muslim Digital Sovereignty Talk about long-term goals like: Owning your data. Running your own servers. Muslim Community NAS storage, store community and personal files on Muslim owned cloud Building open source apps by Muslims, for Muslims, that don’t spy on us. Forming open-source guilds to empower our ummah digitally. Reintroduce the concept of “Digital Hijra”: leaving behind corrupted systems for something dignified, transparent, and sovereign. The bare minimum we could do is use FOSS in support of our brothers and sisters in Palestine! View quoted note →

The infiltration of Keynesianism into Islamic Economics has done profound damage. It has replaced a tradition of sound reasoning based on human action and divine law, with a shallow and collectivist faith in state intervention and fiat illusions. Unless this intellectual capture is confronted and overturned, Islamic Economics will remain trapped in the worst of both worlds of offering neither genuine adherence to Islamic principles nor any real economic prosperity.

No one is coming to save you. Not the banks. Not the politicians. Not the scholars. Stop waiting around for the Mahdi. Create the conditions for his arrival. Run a Bitcoin node. Take custody. Opt out of the Riba money machine.

One by one Gradually then Suddenly The Ummah will be bitcoinized

Don’t wait until Bitcoin becomes mainstream before deciding to learn about it. Be proactive! Take the initiative! Become one of the Sābiqūn and start running Bitcoin today. Do it sincerely, for the sake of Allah (swt)

Yesterday at my local masjid, a brother gave a great khutba about the incident that happened at Microsoft HQ with the Muslim woman quitting her job over the company's involvement in the support of the Israeli war machine. I came up to the brother afterwards and asked him about getting off of windows and using linux instead, and why can't we all do our part and boycott Microsoft and all of these other tech corporations. He admitted that he hasn't thought about it, but he suggested that I do a workshop for him and other brothers to use Linux. So I guess I'm being drafted to set up this workshop. I think I'll use this opportunity to get some brothers to think and adopt a cypherpunk approach to not just their OS but software in general. Might call it "making digital hijra". I'm trying to make a draft now. I'll try to get brothers to think more about prioritizing FOSS over using Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. And I think I'll do a quick demonstration of installing Linux on an old laptop, just to show how easy the process is. And I'll also briefly go over FOSS alternatives to commonly used apps. Might even show how to run a VPN. Does anyone have any other ideas for how I can go about this workshop?

As much as I love Hallaq's Impossible State (and I highly recommend you read it as it's part of the Muslim Bitcoiner reading list!), the one thing that annoyed me was the complete neglect of Fiat Money as an essential apparatus of the state. Actually, I'd argue that it's quite impossible to conceive of a modern state without the necessary institution of fiat money, as that's the main way (and perhaps the only way) the modern state funds itself and maintains its bureaucratic machinery. Hallaq even had an aptly titled chapter, "Beleaguering Globalization and Moral Economy" and even starts off the chapter with a quote by Georg Simmel about money. Hallaq understandably goes on and on about capitalism, corporations, and globalization, but neglects to explore the global institution of usurious fiat money and fractional reserve banking and their role in maintaining the state's sovereignty, legislative monopoly, and bureaucratic machinery. It would have made this chapter and the book a lot stronger if he explored it.

Absolute banger by brother @npub19ssw...sl25

SAIF - Digital Orality

Society for an Alternative Islamic Futurology - Digital Orality

Loved the part about digital orality as it relates to tribalism. Very relevant for Muslims trying to spread Bitcoin Dawah.

Neat tool to calculate projected Btc price with regular withdrawals: bitcoincompounding.com As Muslims, if you're paying your 2.5% zakat each year, your savings in terms of purchasing power continue to grow massively by simply just holding btc. No need to borrow against your stack or earn yield.

This is a great podcast episode. I believe that what Sadiq is working on with Evergive is revolutionary Waqfs are (supposed to be) built on a long-term, low time preference ethic, but fiat money distorts that and pushes charitable institutions into reckless short-term thinking. Bitcoin realigns the waqf with its original time horizon and long term outlook that once made this institution powerful and impactful in the first place! Waqfs will be Bitcoinized!

Our mission at @BitcoinMajlis is to communicate this message to all Muslims 👇 "The number one reason Muslims should adopt Bitcoin is to remove ourselves from the global monetary system that's completely rooted in Riba and designed to enable worldwide oppression and genocide."

Transmission from Saif.systems headquarters

I personally see SAIF as the mind of the potential future ummah, and Bitcoin as its spine. Bitcoin is the the non-state, anti-Riba, incorruptible base layer that allows this mind to operate with agency. Saif.systems

The Ummah is waking up. From $6K → $15K → $27K for @OrphansOfUgandaChildrenCenter in just 3 Ramadans. 33.6M sats raised during Ramadan this year — pure, peer-to-peer charity. No room for any middle to censor or take a cut! Bitcoin delivers and orphans benefit. Alhamdulilah!

Posting some images from the recently held Muslim Bitcoin Summit. It was wildly successful and we had way more attendees than I thought we would get. I'm thinking next year it needs to be two days and at a much bigger venue. Lots of good and thoughtful questions from the audience alhamdulilah

Muslim Bitcoiners were boycotting Microsoft long before it was trending. At the recent Muslim Bitcoin Summit, it was common to see attendees already running Linux, de-Googled phones with @GrapheneOS, VPNs across all their devices, and running Nostr. They’ve been leading the charge, technologically and financially, in this boycott movement from the start. And this goes way beyond Starbucks, McDonald’s, or Microsoft. But to see it clearly, you’ve got to fall down the Bitcoin rabbit hole first.

It's time. The Ummah is counting on you.

The nice thing about airplane rides is that I can actually read without having my kids interrupt me every other sentence 😂 Alhamdulilah