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From Moezzi’s book The Divine Guide in Early Shiism: 
There is also astrology (al-nujtim); the efficiency of this divinatory “art” is recognized by the imams. Mu‘all'a b. Khunays412 asks Ja‘far whether astrol ogy istrue, to which the imam replies affirmatively.513 In a conversation about astrological calculations, the same imam states: “ ...This calculation is actu ally true, but only he who has the Knowledge of the horoscope of allcreatures [that is, the imam] can know it.”514 And Ja‘far al-Sadiq also says: “Only one family from among the Arabs [ahl baytin min al-‘arab—that is, the family of the Prophet, the imams] and one family from among the Hindus [ahl baytin min al-hind] know the Science of astrology.”515 ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Siyaba516 says to Ja‘far: “People [al-na‘s, that is, the Sunnites] have said that astrology is illicit,butIam attractedtoit;isitprejudicialtomy religion?Ifso,Iwillgive upmy study,butifthisisnotthecase,Iwishtolearnit.”Theimamreplies, “It is not as they say; astrology does no harm to religion. However, you are studying something about which you know very little, and the least amount that you grasp will do you no good, since your calculations are based only on the trajectory [MW] of the moon; do you know how many minutes there are between Jupiter [aI-mushtari] and Venus [al~zuhra]?” “No.” “How many minutes there are between Venus and the moon? Between the sun and Virgo [al-sunbula]? . B.etw.een Virgo and the Well-Guarded Tablet [al-lawh al mahfuzl?” “No, for heaven’s sake, for no astrologist has spoken of these things.” “In each case there are 70 minutes. ‘Abd al-Rahman, who knows thesecalculationsthoroughly,couldtellyouexactlyhowmanyreedsthereare in a field of rushes.”5'8
There are, however, other statements where the imams appear to wish to warn their disciples against purely magical applications of astrology, astrol ogy that has been “profaned,” separated from a Science that has been acquired through divine intervention, since it would otherwise tend toward “black magic.” ‘Ali says: “0 people [ayyuha l-nas, although we are not sure whether he is speaking with disciples or with “ordinary” people], beware of learning astrology, except where itassists you in finding your way over land or sea.519 Astrology leads you to divination; the astrologist is like the diviner, the diviner like the magician, the magician like the impious, and the impious are destined for Fire. Undertake your actions [by relying] on the Name of God.”520 Elsewhere the same imam, after rejecting the predictions of an astrologist,finisheshisstatementwiththewords“MyGod,thereisnodivina tion other than Your divination [al-tayr, lit. “omithomancy,” although the word here means techniques of divination in general, including astrology], there is no bad omen other than Your bad omen, there is no good omen other than Your good omen, and no god other than You.”52l

From Moezzi’s book The Divine Guide in Early Shiism: 
There is also astrology (al-nujtim); the efficiency of this divinatory “art” is recognized by the imams. Mu‘all'a b. Khunays412 asks Ja‘far whether astrol ogy istrue, to which the imam replies affirmatively.513 In a conversation about astrological calculations, the same imam states: “ ...This calculation is actu ally true, but only he who has the Knowledge of the horoscope of allcreatures [that is, the imam] can know it.”514 And Ja‘far al-Sadiq also says: “Only one family from among the Arabs [ahl baytin min al-‘arab—that is, the family of the Prophet, the imams] and one family from among the Hindus [ahl baytin min al-hind] know the Science of astrology.”515 ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Siyaba516 says to Ja‘far: “People [al-na‘s, that is, the Sunnites] have said that astrology is illicit,butIam attractedtoit;isitprejudicialtomy religion?Ifso,Iwillgive upmy study,butifthisisnotthecase,Iwishtolearnit.”Theimamreplies, “It is not as they say; astrology does no harm to religion. However, you are studying something about which you know very little, and the least amount that you grasp will do you no good, since your calculations are based only on the trajectory [MW] of the moon; do you know how many minutes there are between Jupiter [aI-mushtari] and Venus [al~zuhra]?” “No.” “How many minutes there are between Venus and the moon? Between the sun and Virgo [al-sunbula]? . B.etw.een Virgo and the Well-Guarded Tablet [al-lawh al mahfuzl?” “No, for heaven’s sake, for no astrologist has spoken of these things.” “In each case there are 70 minutes. ‘Abd al-Rahman, who knows thesecalculationsthoroughly,couldtellyouexactlyhowmanyreedsthereare in a field of rushes.”5'8
There are, however, other statements where the imams appear to wish to warn their disciples against purely magical applications of astrology, astrol ogy that has been “profaned,” separated from a Science that has been acquired through divine intervention, since it would otherwise tend toward “black magic.” ‘Ali says: “0 people [ayyuha l-nas, although we are not sure whether he is speaking with disciples or with “ordinary” people], beware of learning astrology, except where itassists you in finding your way over land or sea.519 Astrology leads you to divination; the astrologist is like the diviner, the diviner like the magician, the magician like the impious, and the impious are destined for Fire. Undertake your actions [by relying] on the Name of God.”520 Elsewhere the same imam, after rejecting the predictions of an astrologist,finisheshisstatementwiththewords“MyGod,thereisnodivina tion other than Your divination [al-tayr, lit. “omithomancy,” although the word here means techniques of divination in general, including astrology], there is no bad omen other than Your bad omen, there is no good omen other than Your good omen, and no god other than You.”52l

From Moezzi’s book The Divine Guide in Early Shiism: 
There is also astrology (al-nujtim); the efficiency of this divinatory “art” is recognized by the imams. Mu‘all'a b. Khunays412 asks Ja‘far whether astrol ogy istrue, to which the imam replies affirmatively.513 In a conversation about astrological calculations, the same imam states: “ ...This calculation is actu ally true, but only he who has the Knowledge of the horoscope of allcreatures [that is, the imam] can know it.”514 And Ja‘far al-Sadiq also says: “Only one family from among the Arabs [ahl baytin min al-‘arab—that is, the family of the Prophet, the imams] and one family from among the Hindus [ahl baytin min al-hind] know the Science of astrology.”515 ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Siyaba516 says to Ja‘far: “People [al-na‘s, that is, the Sunnites] have said that astrology is illicit,butIam attractedtoit;isitprejudicialtomy religion?Ifso,Iwillgive upmy study,butifthisisnotthecase,Iwishtolearnit.”Theimamreplies, “It is not as they say; astrology does no harm to religion. However, you are studying something about which you know very little, and the least amount that you grasp will do you no good, since your calculations are based only on the trajectory [MW] of the moon; do you know how many minutes there are between Jupiter [aI-mushtari] and Venus [al~zuhra]?” “No.” “How many minutes there are between Venus and the moon? Between the sun and Virgo [al-sunbula]? . B.etw.een Virgo and the Well-Guarded Tablet [al-lawh al mahfuzl?” “No, for heaven’s sake, for no astrologist has spoken of these things.” “In each case there are 70 minutes. ‘Abd al-Rahman, who knows thesecalculationsthoroughly,couldtellyouexactlyhowmanyreedsthereare in a field of rushes.”5'8
There are, however, other statements where the imams appear to wish to warn their disciples against purely magical applications of astrology, astrol ogy that has been “profaned,” separated from a Science that has been acquired through divine intervention, since it would otherwise tend toward “black magic.” ‘Ali says: “0 people [ayyuha l-nas, although we are not sure whether he is speaking with disciples or with “ordinary” people], beware of learning astrology, except where itassists you in finding your way over land or sea.519 Astrology leads you to divination; the astrologist is like the diviner, the diviner like the magician, the magician like the impious, and the impious are destined for Fire. Undertake your actions [by relying] on the Name of God.”520 Elsewhere the same imam, after rejecting the predictions of an astrologist,finisheshisstatementwiththewords“MyGod,thereisnodivina tion other than Your divination [al-tayr, lit. “omithomancy,” although the word here means techniques of divination in general, including astrology], there is no bad omen other than Your bad omen, there is no good omen other than Your good omen, and no god other than You.”52l

I believe ww3 have already begun many years ago and it is a degeneration of human spirit and moral values till it reached to spiritual death that is worse than physical one. It is so painful to even see this spiritual death everywhere while people think the life is actually normal, when in reality it is not. Only a spiritually death person fears the futuristic illusion of physical Armageddon and don't even realize that what is actually worse than that is your current life that will end very soon and you will be asked in your grave of how did you spend it.

The israeli air force as has been pointed it out before, is limited in distance and scope of operations and a huge number of potential targets to try and degrade Iran's defenses, petro- infrastructure,   hardened military or nuclear targets. 
Hence the continued success of the Ansarullah. 
It would require hundreds to thousands of sorties,   to even have any more than a negligible effect on iran's military capabilities.
The israelis don't have B-52 or B2 bombers, and even if they did, the would be hesitant to use them unless the anti aircraft artillery and missile defenses were degraded . 
Understand to destroy defensive anti-aircraft positions, those hundreds of sorties will need to expose those limited aircraft and pilots,  to artillery and missile fire. Again not feasible. 
Hence,  the Israelis had to fire from 400 km away from Iran border, most of the largest strikes were on Western positions, with very limited effect.
Without long-range bombers, heavy  airstrikes into iran are not possible. You would need in air refueling with stratotankers, which while possible is very risky, depending on where the location of the refueling is done.
The israelis have small aircraft , F-15, F16 or F35 with limited capability to handle launching large range heavy payload missiles. The more missiles or heavier payload they pack on, the more visible they are to ground and air radar. The F35, which is the lone stealth jet, becomes very visible to radar with the more missile capability added.
Israel , without an  American huge resupply effort,  has a very limited number of ballistic missiles, which could be used to attack long-range targets. The ukraine war has already severely degraded america's resupply capabilities. This would require thousands of flights of transport aircraft delivering ballistic missiles, this would take at least a year.
Additionally, most of the military targets and nuclear targets are in hardened positions, deep in the ground or surrounded by mountains, which would require unlimited bunker buster type  ammunitions, and these are not highly or readily available.  Also to use guided ammunitions, the israelis would need significant special forces on the ground, which could laser direct bombs. Good luck getting israeli special forces into iran. Having forces on the ground for the israelis is again not feasible.... ever.
What is most amazing to me is that Israel has been training for more than 10 years for this type of air attack.  If this is the result after ten years of training, it's pitiful and laughable. In fact, before we heard of the deaths in Iran, there was multiple jokes going around that IRGC had suffered casualties,  and a battalion had died from laughing.
I mean, it takes three years to properly train a pilot to go up against anti aircraft artillery fire and missile batteries and conduct an attack. If this was all their pilots were capable of then the israelis are in for hell of pain.
The simple fact that they didn't even cross into Iranian territory with their stealth aircraft tells me that they are very scared of the iranian response, and hence only showed a performative attack. Something that was done more for domestic consumption and international PR and less of a serious attack. 
Now,  I'm  not saying that israel cannot attack Iran with aircraft and cause damages, But again, that damage is going to be very limited and depends on how much risk they're willing to take..... from what i've seen, the israelis are not big risk takers and are not willing to make any real sacrifices.
According to Lao Tzu's Art of war, such people can never win a real war. The israelis of the fifties and sixties, maybe.... the israelis of the two thousand twenties, no way  .... They're only good at tiktok war or killing women and children. Hence, their total failure at the lebanese border.
This inability to make the self sacrifice, fight a long war of attrition and have depth of armaments and deterrents limits and sentences israel to a slow death.
For there to be any major change to this above military Calculus, would require boots on the ground and the US is not willing or able to supply those boots on the ground. And even if they were, we've already seen the pitiful results in Iraq, Afghanistan and even Somalia.
Even boots on the ground means very little unless they're willing to fight a ten year war  and willing to absorb a huge number of casualties. That is not possible for the americans of the twenty twenties either.
 So the Americans and Israelis are left with a stalemate with the iranians. And the nuclear option, even with  small tactical nukes, is also really not an option, given the inability to control post nuclear consequences. 
 So it looks like the israelis are either left with a Samson option or a Samsonite option.
 
 

Secret societies are real...many politicians and high ranking militarymen and international bankers and common people are members of secret societies...these organizations influence mainstream society 

Salam there is another Sunni Hadith which Muslims will be likewise Jews which except few ones who supported prophet Harun (عليه السلام) majority of them will copy cat all sins & disobedience of Jews.
 

There is Sunni Hadith that us Muslims will be many but weak. So by prophecy we cannot and will not be like the Jews.

There is Sunni Hadith that us Muslims will be many but weak. So by prophecy we cannot and will not be like the Jews.

Is Sean stone still Shia?
He seems to be more into the “spirituality” or “new age” stuff these days. 
 
maybe he is an irfani type muslim
of course we assume the best as Muslims.

To those who believe the official narrative that the government has peddled to us, did you believe the official narrative of 9/11 as well?
Fool me once…

Salaam sister,
What this means is that the government is deciding what is misinformation. A medical professional with a contrarian POV is not allowed. This sounds rather hypocritical of a society that seems itself “free” and allowing “freedom of expression”.

Yes but what about long term effects like if a new strain comes 

I think some of the posts were getting repetitive and the brothers / sisters were not bringing any facts to the table.
As for those who don’t believe in any conspiracies and completely trust the government to look out for the people’a interest, they should look into operation MKUltra, Mockingbird, Bohemian Grove etc. They should also learn about Gary Webb, who was found dead with two gunshots on his head after he exposed the CIA’s involvement in Cocaine trafficking.

Very interesting channel. Thanks for the share!

Check out his videos. He’s a twelver Shia expert in the fields you mentioned, especially Ibn Arabi, 
 
here he’s instructing how to actually get started on this path, and prayer and tahajjud is the bare minimum
 

I was raised Sunni but after reading Henry Corbin (a scholar of Islamic gnosis and its various speculative traditions, particularly in Iran), the knot of dogma was loosened in my mind, and the outward form of Islam (its legal and doctrinal elements) felt superfluous compared to the kernel of esoteric wisdom contained in the writings of Ibn Arabi, Haydar Amuli, Mulla Sadra, Suhrawardi, Ahmad Ahsa'i, etc.... I abandoned prayer, I abandoned dhikr, I even abandoned the Qur'an, as I spent months reading the Hebrew Bible looking for some kind of perennial religious wisdom. After reading Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai's exposition on Shi'ite Islam, I want to return to the normative fold but I feel like the structure of my mind is utterly changed now, as in I'm not satisfied by the basic categories of religious thought anymore. Prayer, dhikr, the Qur'an, etc., it feels like the meaning of these rituals has totally changed for me. How can I become a normal Muslim when I've been drinking from the fountain of oriental spirituality for more than a year now, without the rigor of systematic learning which would've probably saved me from what was blatant apostasy on my part?

May Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) save us from the fitnah of Shaytan.

Covid was a start to see how the population would react. The next upcoming viruses will be more severe and harder restrictions will be put on the people.
It might not be the monkey pox, but something it will be.

events slowly unfolding?

Brother is bad taste, you are lucky that this interaction was online and not in person else you might have been left with a handprint on your face lol

I’m a mechanical engineer working in the process, minerals, and oil & gas consulting industries. University was an interesting experience for me - no joke, the Iron Man movies played a big role in inspiring me to pursue this field. I envisioned myself working on F1 cars, rockets, or biomechatronics right out of uni, but the reality turned out to be different. The job I landed isn’t exactly what I imagined, but it’s not too bad either. The pay is alright (standard), so I can’t complain.

When we are kissing the alam which has Imam Hussain’s name written on it, this is a sign of respect to Imam Hussain. Just like when someone kisses the Qur’an he is not glorifying or respecting the covering that it is made from, but the Word of Allah itself. 
I hope this helps.
Wsalam