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2026-04-19 10:08:15 UTC

https://theiqrafiles.com/warhammer-islamicate-solarpunk/

2026-03-09 01:28:37 UTC

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2026-02-02 11:01:44 UTC

Notes On Epstein's Emails
With the seemingly momentous dumping of what appears to be millions of emails from the infamous Epstein saga by the Department of Justice, we are witnessing a form of large-scale epistemic and cognitive warfare conducted by intel agencies. The sheer volume and unadulterated nature of the release leaves little opportunity to sift, contextualize, or construct any coherent narrative around the material. The zone has been flooded by acid epistemology - corroding any meaningful engagement and robbing the moment of any sense of political course correction.
This stands in sharp contrast to the judicious labor and meticulous archiving of the WikiLeaks saga, which emerged from a disciplined team operating with a clear political and philosophical rationale for the release of dark Amreeki secrets. WikiLeaks represented a deliberate construction of how American power and its imperial vassals operated across diplomatic and intelligence layers. The Epstein emails, by contrast, resemble raw salacious gossip dumped en masse onto an already cograyped population, one no longer capable of reliably distinguishing truth from falsehood under algorithmic ubersaturation and other nefarious cogwarfare machinations.
Indeed, the Epstein leaks function as a Rorschach test. Each faction in the contemporary media market circus extracts only what it wishes to see and projects whatever serves its priors, filtered through a half-baked, podcast peasant understanding of how power actually operates. No unifying narrative exists. Everything is polemical. Everything is tribal. Everything arrives prepackaged within prefabricated storylines designed to serve patronage networks operating behind the curtain. ling phenomenon emerges. Despite the documented acts of depravity and barbarity, there will be no criminal prosecutions. No court cases will follow. Little political change will occur within these so-called democracies, now better described as necropolises of simulated propaganda and parasocial noise. The release of the emails will effect negligible real-world change.
This pattern extends across the post-9/11 era. Once in a generation policy catastrophes in Afghanistan and Iraq produced minimal political consequence. The financial crash of 2008 generated little durable reform. The publication of WikiLeaks yielded scant social or political reconfiguration. The implication is consistent and grim. Once a population is fully sedated by an industrial complex of edutainment and reality-television politics, steeped in acid epistemology, the capacity for correction collapses. Decline, decay, and rot are no longer contingent outcomes but systemically baked in.
Information itself has been commoditized into a product, a lifestyle, a subscription something effervescent, incapable of producing deep, durable cultural reform. Information now resembles buying a new contracted Iphone or moving your music streaming from Spotify to Deezer.
The mantra that journalism safeguards democratic regimes now reads, like so much else, as a complete lie designed to sedate the masses. Since the War on Terror, the American-led global empire has operated as a kind of hyper dysfunctional Soviet clone: oligarchic power, billions if not more "misplaced" in defence spending with a clattering succession of failed Pentagon audits, hyper-financialism, and Big Tech all of which sit beyond reproach immune to populist outrage, public unrest. The system domesticates dissent into the podcast economy, the influencer/attention economy, the creator economy - all economies of fake ghey pageantry. People rent out information and political opinions for revenue, often in ways that flatter elite interests. Information rarely becomes a lever for structural change.
A sharper example sits inside Padishah's regime. MAGA has been exposed as an oligarchic vehicle for Big Tech biometric surveillance, visible in the aggressive growth of paramilitary organizations deploying panopticon technologies to hold whole populations hostage.
What more can be said of the Epstein emails, and what more can be inferred about our present condition? Despite the sheer availability and ease of access to the material, we are already seeing mass-produced LLM-generated replicas, summaries, and distortions of the emails copies that accelerate their conversion into satire and irony. This process strips the leaks of any remaining moral force. The biomass gravitates toward irony and shitposting rather than confronting the weight of what the documents imply: that systemic depravity and entrenched sin sit at the core of the empire itself.
Satire functions here as anesthesia on behalf of depraved elites. Irony becomes a shield as it proves easier to metabolize the revelation of moral rot by flattening it into LLM-generated copypasta, by laundering horror through humor, by hiding behind the posture of detachment. In this form, information never hardens into judgment and judgment never matures into action. Sin becomes tolerable once rendered ironic.
And can one even blame the biomass? After successive, catastrophic failures to produce real change despite the empire’s open hypocrisy and brittle foundations since the 2008 crash, despite the horrors and fiascos of the War on Terror, despite the subsequent buildout of an American surveillance state run through contractor ecosystems and platform oligarchs such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel - irony starts to look less like decadence and more like the last refuge of resigned and extinguished souls. Anonymous posting into the abyss becomes a kind of consolation prize: maybe dissent survives somewhere as a joke, archived for humorous posterity.
Democratic regimes have mutated into something more dysfunctional than the Soviet Union ever managed. Citizens receive a mirage of choice and freedom; the system delivers stasis. Nothing changes. Nothing happens. The same party logic has governed for a quarter-century, perhaps longer, with the same dogmas embedded in the ruling class whether they dress up in populist costume or in sober technocratic internationalism - the style best exemplified by the Obama era.
There will be no riots. No revolutions. No guillotines. Elites will not be thrown from buildings. Government halls will not burn. Flags will remain in place. Power will not be reclaimed. None of this was ever plausible. None of it was ever available as a path.
Algorithmic panoptic systems now sustain regimes of pre-crime surveillance and hyper-financial manipulation that foreclose any organic restoration of civic order or moral renewal. Everything has become a subscription. Everything has become spectacle. Everyone occupies the role of voyeur, suspended in anticipation, waiting for a turn that never arrives.
Each passing crisis further entrenches Jean Baudrillard’s diagnosis of politics as simulation. We now inhabit the simulacra of populism. Public outrage circulates as rhetoric while policy remains untouched, because most of the population lacks even the conceptual tools required to interrogate the deeper layers and substrates of power. Reality itself has become Baudrillardian in structure.
We can now register another working hypothesis, articulated with particular clarity in Tiqqun’s Cybernetic Hypothesis, that contemporary power no longer needs ideology, legitimacy, or even consistent competence to reproduce itself, because it governs through regulation, feedback, prediction, and continuous modulation of behaviour, and in that regime the Machine God names the horizon in which rule migrates from persons and parties into an integrated apparatus of measurement, incentives, risk-scoring, attention control, and automatic correction, so that what older political grammars treated as moral failure - depravity, corruption, stupidity, cruelty no longer appears as a contradiction within the system but as a set of inputs that the system can metabolise, route, and redeploy to preserve continuity.
In that light, the central takeaway from the emails is less the revelation of particular sins than the demonstration of an operational fusion, in which depravity supplies leverage, blackmail, and spectacle, incompetence supplies plausible deniability and bureaucratic fog, and corruption supplies the liquidity and contractual plumbing that keeps the whole machine running, with each element reinforcing the others inside a cybernetic loop that treats outrage as noise, treats scandal as content, treats exposure as another data-stream to be managed, and treats political consequence as a variable to be dampened, which means that the moral register remains trapped at the level of disgust while the system quietly compiles the event into its own self-knowledge, updates its thresholds, and continues.
In this frame, the Epstein emails effectively never happened. That verdict will harden in retrospect. Within a year, the media circus will have migrated to the next manufactured catastrophe, the previous one quietly discarded, its moral charge neutralized. The system will continue its recursive self-reorganization under the Cybernetic Hypothesis, optimizing control and feedback while awaiting the arrival of the Machine God.
And truly God knows best

2026-01-17 06:18:37 UTC

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-state-as-service/

2026-01-14 09:17:53 UTC

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-four-parasites-of-linkedinfication/

2026-01-05 08:29:05 UTC

Iqra 024 - On Venezuela
https://theiqrafiles.com/iqra-024/

2025-12-28 11:42:08 UTC

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2025-12-24 09:31:47 UTC

This is a long piece that has been in the works for a while (amongst others), trying to flesh out what is the central animating conflict in the Western bloc in the 2020s - The Great Splinternet Civil War https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-the-great-western-splinternet-civil-war/

2025-12-18 07:46:37 UTC

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-conflict/

2025-12-03 09:53:11 UTC

New Iqra File - https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-synthetic-content/

2025-12-02 05:45:09 UTC

Vectoralism oackaged through the attention of economy is the medium through which the vast majority of the world are interacting with Technology - but vectoralism need not be synonymous with technology

2025-11-24 08:03:31 UTC

Financial nihilism is accepting that humans can no longer enrich themselves through physical labour or meritocratic efforts but must rely on the happenstance of capturing mimetic virality by fluking algorithmic literacy - you barter for meatspace survival by arbitrage in cyber. In this respect with the creation of instruments in digital finance, crypto online betting etc hyperfinancialist magick flows from cyberspace into meatspace more deterministically in terms of value creation whereas before meatspace mastery was more predictive of cyber success

2025-11-22 07:05:51 UTC

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2025-11-22 06:34:33 UTC

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2025-11-22 06:29:34 UTC

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/five-moments-in-the-history-of-chinese-cybernetics/

2025-11-21 07:11:11 UTC

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2025-11-21 06:55:59 UTC

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2025-11-21 06:54:20 UTC

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2025-11-21 05:31:59 UTC

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/

2025-11-21 05:16:56 UTC

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2025-09-27 10:39:41 UTC

The charge of privacy fetishism is illiterate because the underlying tech and protocols clearly work hence the gargantuan state machinery being deployed to desperately try and stop it - spiritual opsec demands it.
The charge is usually levied because of a misdiagnosis - there is too much cultural inertia to overcome to move people away from Megacorp Tech options to practical FOSS options that can become daily drivers.

2025-09-27 10:26:56 UTC

There is actually no need whatsoever for there to be a Cloud apart from maybe enterprise - storage has evolved to the point >95% can be sovereign - goes to show accelerationism does not mean tech supremacy but corporate domination

2025-08-06 15:31:31 UTC

https://open.substack.com/pub/iqrapost/p/iqra-019?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lg3io

2025-06-10 18:37:39 UTC

In the long run for sustainable virality, an anchor state with background Intel agencies working in concert is a necessary precondition because of the architecture of convential social media platforms - Arab Spring & Iran's Green Movement relied on external tech orgs as partners.
Virality in this context,wl especially after COVID and the social media revolution becomes a holistic cognitive bioweapon deployed to acheive certain ends and so far it seems online virality is inherently deconstructive because of its primary use as sabotage.
The Arab Spring and Green Movement were an interesting episode of experimentation between local grassroots actors & large tech firms in democratic engineering that ultimately faded because virality is inherently more volatile as an anti-trust force that acts as cog war weaponery.
The Chinese particularly under Xi in the 2010s understood this and accelerated splinternet formation that was a firewall to protect the integrity of its national projects away from inherently malignant and malicious forms of virality injected by external actors and rivals.
In India, virality for Modi-ism did deliver electoral short term gains but another issue with this type of politics that is addicted to virality is the production of idiocratic subjects that no longer have the ability to reason that has ripple effects in democratic regimes.
Rich authoritarian states ride out virality by gaming algorithmic feeds to other domains that seem to have inherently more powerful viral properties - see sportswashing, fashion and entertainment in the GCC.
The drawback for all these experiments (although the data from China is conflicting) is the problem of mental health contagion and cognitive decay.

2025-06-02 18:12:51 UTC

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2025-06-02 14:53:23 UTC

Data ownership is key to Web3 being a viable successor to Web2 in any meaningful fashion beyond the sloptrain of Balaji and co. Data must be held by the individual, and sold and exchanged in thousands of markets online. At the moment most platforms can steal and lock you out. Splinternets and national ecosystems backed by stablecoins and CBDCs are in effect feudalizing the data economy and weaponizing the attention one (distinct but interlinked economies). What would these economies of data and attention look like in the New Islamicate? What is coming out of Turkey and its satellites as they financially implode and effectively enter into debt diplomacy with GCC actors particularly the UAE is not encouraging - abysmal and grim.
One of the most peculiar projects is Kaspa, developed in partnership with Israel's formidable info-spooks with admittedly brilliant coders which has developed something of a cult following in Turkey. Kaspa is emblematic of the brokenness & poverty of vision in the Old Islamicate. Until nation-states act to provide cognitive and neurological immunity to their citizens - innoculating them without creating prisons of their own the question of the future of the web will continue to be dictated by weaponized interests.

2025-05-31 18:51:21 UTC

Part of the forecast for Cybernetic State formation is going to be about charting the development of true breakthrough populisms and terrorisms that revolt against the logic and circuitry of the Machine God - until that happens and is resolved, the next century cannot start. Nowhere has there been successful populism that violently rejects Ellul's Technique. These are not prescriptive predictions or necessarily hyperstitional but observations about resolving latent tensions for the next century to kickstart.
MAGA, Wilders, Le Pen all kind of sort hint at what's behind the resentment and angst but none have been truly able to get to the heart of the matter, and this has led to a cycle of cultural buffering where we are waiting for the next phase to load. It also speaks to a larger question about what dissent properly looks like in an era where state sponsored splinternets, predictive policing and blockchain surveillance chains with neurological surveillance are increasingly probable in a 10 year window.

2025-05-27 19:53:51 UTC

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2025-05-27 16:51:45 UTC

Cognitive enclosures (splinternets) with constant neurological surveillance (BCI) creating loops of reinforced illiteracy will render the Enlightenment dead - deterministic social engineering via cybernetic governance will threaten to overwhelm any cosmotechnic project. AI search engines like Perplexity is the first crude prototypical iteration of what such a structure could look like; coupled with new device interfaces that fuse silicon and biology, digested snippets bereft of deep context and literacy presented in neat bullet points beamed in. OpenAI has given up any pretence of its original mission statement offering the GCC potentially nationwide subscriptions with undoubtedly editorial priveleges on the responses through the blackbox. China competes on the same trajectory with Deepseek.

2025-05-24 18:01:00 UTC

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-cognitive-hacking-and-algorithmic-corruption/
Notes On Cognitive Hacking and Algorithmic Corruption
There is a peculiar silence that descends once it becomes clear that the war for narrative has been irreversibly lost by the institutions that once governed truth through the slow machinery of peer review, editorial authority, and credentialed gatekeeping. What we have now is not merely a proliferation of falsehoods but something altogether more unruly, more ontologically destabilising, a situation in which the very conditions for the possibility of shared meaning have eroded under the weight of globally networked cognition. In this world, where data is sovereign and perception is weaponised, cognitive hacking is not an aberration but the logic of the system coming into view.
To call it “misinformation” is to misunderstand the nature of the event. This is not simply a problem of wrong facts being spread by bad actors. It is a paradigmatic shift in the structure of belief itself. What cognitive hacking really names is the emergence of a new modality of conflict, one in which the target is no longer military infrastructure or industrial capacity, but the epistemic infrastructure of the subject—their capacity to know, to interpret, to believe. The battlefield is now internal. The psy-op is ambient. The victories are not marked by territorial conquest but by algorithmic virality, by the successful rerouting of attention toward engineered affective outcomes that precede rational reflection and short-circuit deliberative faculties.
The classic Enlightenment subject, the one who reasons, deliberates, weighs evidence and arrives at conclusions through the exercise of judgement, is no longer operative. In its place has emerged a reactive, dopamine-conditioned figure whose sense of reality is increasingly authored by feed architecture. Social media platforms, far from being neutral tools, function as distributed cognition systems, constantly shaping and reshaping the contours of inner life. The feedback loops are tight, the inputs invisible, the outputs increasingly indistinguishable from belief.
And it is here that algorithmic corruption completes the circuit. The term “bias” does not even begin to capture the depth of the issue. These algorithms are not merely reflecting existing social hierarchies and prejudices; they are operationalising them, encoding them into the infrastructure of the real in ways that cannot be traced back to intention or ideology in the conventional sense. What we are seeing is the automation of soft power through infrastructure. The distinction between content and context collapses, and with it, the distinction between persuasion and coercion.
The algorithm, in this schema, does not care what you believe, only that you continue to produce data that confirms its model. It is not that the algorithm is evil or good. It is simply that it is indifferent to the ontological health of the subject. And in this indifference lies its power. For when belief becomes a byproduct of engagement, when political identity is an emergent property of clickstreams and predictive taxonomies, the question of truth gives way to the question of relevance. What wins is what circulates, and what circulates is what triggers. The rational is buried beneath the affective. What is left is pure signal processing.
What follows is the emergence of a cybernetic state form that no longer governs through laws or norms but through architecture. Control is no longer exercised through decrees or legislation but through interface design, data schema, and behavioural nudging. The liberal democratic order, which once prided itself on the sovereignty of the individual, now finds itself reterritorialised within a matrix of platform logics that govern not through explicit coercion but through predictive feedback. Governance, in this context, becomes indistinguishable from user experience design.
And yet this emerging paradigm does not announce itself openly. It arrives camouflaged as efficiency, as convenience, as customisation. The biometric identity system is not framed as a disciplinary mechanism but as a way to reduce friction in service delivery. Predictive policing is not presented as a form of racialised control but as data-driven reform. Central bank digital currencies are sold not as programmable constraint but as financial inclusion. Every instrument of control is reframed as a technological solution to a social problem, and in this reframing the horizon of resistance narrows until it disappears entirely. The Anarcho-Tyranny program is being repackaged through corporate-techno Sam-Altman mumbojumbo transhumanist speaking in tongues brainwashing.
The Right, presently, is the most willing to fuse political rhetoric with infrastructural innovation. Not because it has some deep affinity with cybernetics but because it has correctly intuited that the culture wars, as presently waged, will only ever be won through technological sovereignty. The immigration crisis, especially in the Anglosphere and its borderlands, has created the emotional substrate required to normalise the expansion of state surveillance infrastructures. The rhetoric of existential threat enables the implementation of control mechanisms that would otherwise be rejected as authoritarian overreach. This is not new. What is new is the speed and scale at which these systems are being built, and the extent to which they are no longer anchored in law but in code.
At the same time, the private sector is positioning itself as the true inheritor of sovereign functions. One does not need to speculate, these patterns are already visible. Microsoft and Palantir are embedded in defence, logistics, and in the near future welfare systems. Google is not merely indexing the world’s information; it is shaping the categories through which that information is understood. Meta, through its metaverse ambitions, seeks to become the jurisdictional substrate of digital life itself and is also looking to create a monetary identity once more riding the crypto wave. These are not corporations in the classical sense. They are prefigurative state forms, already carving out extralegal zones of operation in which new logics of control and value extraction are being trialled in real time.
The global order is thus moving not toward integration but toward fragmentation. The dream of a single, unified internet has already collapsed. What we are seeing instead is the construction of discrete information blocs, each with its own epistemic protocols, infrastructural standards, and regulatory frameworks. The American bloc, still hegemonic but decaying, will persist through a combination of military power, platform reach, and financial primacy. China’s techno-authoritarian model offers a closed, vertically-integrated alternative that fuses state and machine with extraordinary discipline. The EU, lacking both vision and sovereignty, will become a legalistic vassal trapped in proceduralism. The BRICS coalition, if it coheres, will likely orbit around a Sino-Russian core, offering a monetary and infrastructural alternative to dollar dominance. Everyone else will be forced to pledge allegiance to one or another data regime, paying rent in the form of access, interoperability, and silence.
The future is no longer assured to be a theatre of global universalism but rather will be host to a innumerable tragedies - a planetary system of incompatible ontologies, loosely connected through trade, espionage, and temporary diplomatic truces. The dream of a shared reality is over. What remains is the long, slow war over who gets to build the portals through which future populations will see, think, and feel.
And truly God knows best

2025-05-23 12:49:13 UTC

Japan proves so many assumptions wrong - a country stuck with the macroeconomic conditions of the 80s was not able to sustain the social mores of that era. Material ossification due to faltering capital acceleration with technological bottlenecks leads to demographic fatigue. Cultural optimism in our lifetimes is downstream from promethean techno-solutionism - our parents and grandparents were assured of the promise that technocratic solutions deployed by the State would bring untold prosperity and progress and rightly so.
What have current generations seen apart from enshittification, intel agency manipulation, algorithmic capture by cog war forces, institutional collapse and the end of modernity? There is nothing to sustain cultural optimism because capital is cannibalising itself.
And in the West, this is the certainly the case this has created huge techno-bottlenecks where breakthroughs in the theoretical sciences are not delivering any substantive real world benefits. Crypto is a scam, genomics failed, CRISPR didn't democratise medicine - all failed gods. Which is why China is so unique. The EV revolution is a clear example where capital and techno-bottles were marshalled ruthlessly by the State with the Five Year Plans delivering results time after time.
The West has abandoned cosmotechnic mastery - something that to be very honest it innovated and reached first at the peak of American Primacy for gheys like Altman and Thiel to push shit algorithms, institutional/regulatory capture and security state expansion. An Islamicate Cosmotechnics would have us believe that technology is the means to realise our Adamic potential in the Iqballian sense - inevitably the line between blood and silicon will blur, as we move forward to fulfil this promise and potential

2025-05-17 15:53:19 UTC

“The need to become completely autonomous and aware of all the consequences of everything we're doing before the consequences occur is where we're heading."
Marshall McLuhan
‘The Future of Man in the Electric Age’
1965

2025-05-17 15:52:41 UTC

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2025-05-14 07:56:56 UTC

The Saudi-US deal is much more beneficial for the Americans, if one reads through the details. Congress alone has the power to lift sanctions and Padishah's rule by Executive Order at some point will meet with resistance.
There is little about an understanding around Saudi nuclear ambitions and also again little to suggest an ironclad security arrangement with GAE. The danger here is that lifetime Indians, the Saudis are paying way above market value for Western tech
Most of the deals are around hyperfinancial commercialism and AI - the outcome of these deals will need to be tested against a longer timeframe of a decade or two so no immediate transformation there.
The exuberance of the Saudi-US engagement seems disproportionate likely for cogwar purposes for both MBS and Padishah who need good news. Unless Padishah's EO decisions translate into the machinery of the Deep State, the jury is still out on what has actually been agreed upon
MBS is in danger of greater financial recklessness - his reign so far has shown someone not in control of the numbers, too obsessed with flashy megaprojects that end up collpasing - Saudi's budgetary problems will not be helped by pumping money into a dying Empire
Where MBS thrives is the showman diplomacy of walking the China-GAE tightrope which few others can skilfully manage - his talents should be focused more on soft power projection. Someone needs to take away the purse strings from him though before he bankrupts the petro-casino
Already the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund (PIF) is in dire straits recently announcing a series of difficult decisions around hiring, restructuring and "optimization" which is euphemistic corporate-speak for things are burning up in flames

2025-05-14 05:08:30 UTC

‘Sufic Cybernetics’ offers a cosmotechnic reconstruction of cybernetic theory, unshackling it from its secular moorings as envisioned by Norbert Wiener and his successors, and rooting it instead within the moral psychology of tasawwuf.
In such a schemata, the recursion of cybernetic systems becomes a shadow of the soul’s journey toward divine unity, illuminated by the radiant example of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
The Prophet, as the Insan al-Kamil (the Perfect Human), embodies the ultimate mirror of divine reflection, his heart a polished surface that gazes upon the Creator with unblemished clarity. This act of receiving and transmitting divine guidance mirrors recursive loops, where feedback refines and elevates a system toward equilibrium - ultimately going back to the Source.
Cybernetic recursion is not merely a technical process but a faint echo of the soul’s ascent through the maqamat, each cycle of reflection bringing the seeker nearer to fana in the Divine Presence. The Mi’raj serves as the archetype of this journey, a recursive ascent through layers of divine proximity, where each heaven reflects a higher truth, culminating in the vision of the Divine Essence beyond the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary (Qur’an 53:14-18).
Al-Ghazali and many masters mention the well known Prophetic habit of retreating to Hira. Hira serves as the archetype for tafakkur, a recursive turning of the heart toward God before the revelation of the Qur’an. This mirrors the cybernetic principle of feedback, where each cycle of reflection refines the soul, purging it of worldly distortions until it becomes a clear mirror for divine light.
In Sufic Cybernetics, the algorithmic loops of modern systems are but a shadow of this prophetic practice, a mechanical vestige of the heart’s eternal turning toward its Creator. This continuous turning encapsulated by tawbah; a way of returning back to equilibrium.
This aligns with the Sufi understanding of creation as theophany, a continuous outpouring of divine names and attributes. The recursive nature of cybernetic systems reflects divine manifestation, where God’s light unfolds through creation in cycles of revelation and return. The Prophet, as the Rahmatan lil-‘Alamin stands at the center of this cosmic recursion, his sunnah a guiding algorithm for humanity to navigate the infinite loops of existence back to their divine source. The Qur’an (3:31) speaks of this, a recursive invitation to align one’s being with the prophetic model, each act of emulation a more faithul return to the One.
In this framework, cybernetics becomes hidden remembrance, a circuit of reflection that mirrors the relationship between the Creator and the created.
Contemplative retreat and its most distilled form uzla is a dim and clumsy reflection of the initial impulse of creation itself, where God, in a hadith qudsi, declares, “I was a hidden treasure and loved to be known, so I created the creation to be known.” Cybernetic recursion, then, is a vestigial trace of this divine desire for self-revelation through the wastelands of exile, a rippling echo of the soul’s yearning to return to its origin, its home.

2025-05-09 07:03:01 UTC

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You must be running multiple darknet nodes, combining Dojo and using Ashigaru

2025-05-09 07:02:21 UTC

Running Knots is part of Bitcoin Futuwwa

2025-05-09 06:59:39 UTC

Notes On Splinternet Formation
https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-splinternet-formation/

2025-02-13 20:55:02 UTC

LLM driven meta-commentaries will kill many potential autodidacts. The authentic autodidact will become an endangered species, cognitive atrophy setting in specifically because attention itself is outsoruced to agentic AI. There are and will be workarounds, to leverage LLM agentic labour without sucumbing to cognitive atrophy. Cog war by intel agencies who are a critical part of the architecture of data-technofeudalism is possible as our faculties atrophy. Atrophy always occurs in the setting of accepting custodianship over sovereignty.

2025-02-10 05:31:26 UTC

Appreciate the Zaytuna College movement a lot in the Anglosphere, but it ultimately set the limit of Muslim intellectual engagement towards Neo-Luddite First Things-style Catholicism - Islam has so much more potential than this.
At the time this was a much welcome contrast to mainsteam corporatized Islamoleftism and simpleton chickenshop Salafism. Since then the landscape has clearly evolved but Zaytuna and largely SHY set the Neo-Luddite megatrend and agenda that even his rivals ended up emulating.
SHY's influence in this aspect has become ubiquitous to the point that a lot of anti-modernity poasting within the Anglosphere is just his legacy but without name - true megatrend dominance.
However now comes the point to contest and overthrow this megatrend - SAIF will dictate the agenda change by forcing many to re-evaluate their Neo-Luddite first principles - this will inspire a range of emotions - it will compel reaction.
SAIF continues to attack the most sacrosanct pillars of Anglo-Islam intellectualism which has now seeped into Dawah Inc too - comfortable anti-modernism, holier than thou Neo-Ludditism and fanciful eschatologies that rationalise defeat.

2025-02-06 04:58:48 UTC

GAE looks after incumbent Big Tech AI (OpenAI, Palantir, Anthropic etc) due to oligarchic interests rather than trying to outcompete Chinese open source - the Chinese know this so will accelerate
Regulatory capture is now hardwired into the soul of American hyperfinancialism. With AI - nationalist forms of doomerism will infect policy. "Chinese AI will takeover" - but lies because they accelerate open source and wreck moats whilst GAE try to do anything to pump Wall St
Incentives utterly wrecked. Trump coalition is made up of Crypto and AI charlatans from Suvreillance Valley - but in order to compete you need to gut OpenAI, Anthropic and slaughter the holy cow of NVIDIA

2025-02-06 04:57:31 UTC

Technofeudalism is not compatible with Iqballian spiritual democracy

2025-02-06 04:57:09 UTC

Muslim contribution to FOSS in a period where there is no anchor state and the need is some degree of independence from GAE and CCP (unavoidable to ignore entirely though) splinternts is the fix here.
Building on already excellent protocols the key - Notesnook an example of Muslim excellence in encrypted notetaking that has become universalist. It is a good product because it is excellent not because it is "Islamic", banking on affinity scamming
SAIF has been spreading the need for FOSS development not just as a technical challenge but one of cultural formation and attitudes. We must reconfigure the everyday cultural relationship Muslims have with Big Tech and in doing so we will find like minded allies
Data is spice - taking this one step further - data and money are increasingly becoming one and the same thing. Important to engage culturally and technically with BTC but also XMR to a lesser extent and avoid the rest of GAE crypto

2025-02-02 08:14:29 UTC

The previous GAE policy of allowing reasonable autonomy to the central provinces (Canada et al) is no longer felt to be in the interest of American primacy - many of the provinces if allowed to exercise sovereignty in a multipolar world would no longer automatically choose the US
In a multipolar world where choosing the US is no longer the default option - protectionism is a way of bolting the doors, locking in allies against their will and holding them hostage.
The pain this will cause in the provinces will of course incite the flames of rebellion and will force many to ask "What is the point of being a GAE vassal anymore?" - when that gains momentum there will be new populisms potentially - GAExit on the cards?
Unlike the EU for all its faults there is no constitutional or political identity here that is being shaped by Trumpism outside of accelerating sovcorp/megacartel raiding of state assets
Populism with oligarchic/plutocratic characteristics by cynically deploying protectionism to keep the USD based Wall Street ponzi scheme going, will unsurprisingly not save the West - it accelerates its death

2025-02-01 17:36:51 UTC

As written recently in the excellent paper by Hornby, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics After ChatGPT" we are at the start of a process where the dialogical interactions between the reader, text and author will become radically altered
Hornby discusses how LLM models when deployed in chatbots or even agents can be thought of as large meta-texts rather than mega-texts per se. The future of literary engagement in an agentic world will be meta-textual - summaries often distilled into more concise summaries
The reader will now have the scope of their literary engagement shaped by various meta-texts offered by competing models - there will be Deepseek meta-texts about Nietzsche and Anthroopic, OpenAI and Alibaba ones.
Recent research of deploying LLMs in pedagogical settings have shown remarkable results particularly a small scale study done in Nigeria in an underprivileged setting. Meta-textual summaries seems to distill understanding?

2025-01-30 09:20:50 UTC

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2025-01-30 08:29:16 UTC

Futurism is the promise those in the present make that all that was, is and will be beautiful and sacred will endure through Time to reach to those yet to be born

2025-01-27 05:48:54 UTC

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SAIF
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2025-01-27 05:22:56 UTC

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2025-01-27 04:51:18 UTC

Technological acceleration will be fought between two different versions - cynical Yarvin technofeudalism promoting data serfdom by American Empire and FOSS self-hosting where everything is so cheap, all have a chance to be sovereign
Technology should end up cannablising capital - the problem with Surveillance Valley is that it ends up being the other way around - China knows this so it will use open source to bleed it out by a thousand cuts in the AI Cold War
FOSS is a great way to disrupt and shrink proprietary rent-seeking - if everyone can run highly robust models locally for basic things like search, text analysis that kills 90% of GAE AI startups
The need for competent strong anchor states is still pressing, but it's no longer a zero sum game, all or nothing - both can happen. A strong New Islamicate state with a grassroots self-sovereign ethic - both must happen
Yarvin Technofeudalism will continue to spread bland and flat monocultural supremacy as a new patch on legacy post Cold War power. Chinese anchored AI localism can allow for multiple technological futures
The great hope from Deepseek is that individuals may no longer have to choose between Empires, but that by removing the guardrails, proprietary moats, rent-seeking monopolies, sovereignty is diluted down to the individual, allowing cultural multipolarity - accelerate.

2025-01-19 13:50:07 UTC

Notes On $TRUMP
Financial nihilism is breaking through the breaches - its a story of technocapital repackaging what was once transgressive and on the outside as new state policy. The memecoin is no longer a symbol of resistance against the wrongs and injustices of loaded markets heavily weighted in favor of elites. Nor is it decentralized, censorship resistance or dependent on a new type of monetary consciousness. Memecoins instead are the gateway drug to stablecoin dominance in public life and in turn a foundational plank for the establishment of the Crypto-Dollar.
We have seen trial runs of TRUMP before, celebrity coins making waves and sparking controversy. However, celebrity is fickle, transient and not enough to generate the myth-making capital for a mere token to endure beyond the initial moment of virality. Other household memecoins are built on abstractions and symbols, that have been through cultural Darwinian competition to reach the summit. Embodied celebrity alone is not enough to power and stay the dreaded inevitability of exit-capital decay. TRUMP plugs into the mimetic virality of memecoins and fuses it with state power - it is a political abstraction that will displace the absurdist abstractions of its predecessors. Trump is not a celebrity - he is a political myth occupying the most powerful office of our age.
The easy, Occam Razor's interpretation of events is that this marks the delirious and violently febrile peak in a relentless cycle of global meltup not just in crypto but across traditional finance markets. This is the point of no return, the catalyst for violent correction setting the conditions for a global credit event. That may well be the correct take on events, who really knows? However, there is an alternative to consider.
With $TRUMP, hyperfinancial speculation is now directly tapped into the political fortunes of Global American Empire more explicitly, without the mediation or rationalization of corporations, CEOs, stock market politics or trad-fi sensibilities. Consider this - his inauguration, his inevitable departure from office, his death, every scandal, every statement, every policy initiative, every geopolitical tussle is now intimately woven into the the destiny of a token willed into existence. It is the expansion of the speculative realm beyond internet culture, online cults and esoteric culture on the margins into meatspace itself. It is colonization of the meme of our physical space, based not on the frailty of mere celebrity but that of the Presidential Office. TRUMP is the attempted diffusion of Imperial interest by banking on the animal spirits of financial nihilism - the update patch to Weimar cultural politics.
The contemporary architecture of crypto at present is a firm public-private partnership with intelligence agencies examining and auditing transparent chains. On-boarding to crypto is still jealously guarded by traditional finance regulation, KYC and governments. The success of $TRUMP in the long run inaugurates SOL as the Imperial choice for GAE, Trump bestowed upon SOL the Emperor's favor. More unprecedented is the searing domination TRUMP achieved in terms of liquidity, holders (despite the lock-in by Trump insiders no doubt) and marketcap that was achieved just using DEXs without needing the big CEXs. Millions if not billions will be willing to enter the casino of Panoptic Technocapital mediated by Megacorp exchanges and on-ramps. Let us take a moment of silence to remember Satoshi.
In all respects, TRUMP is the Empire's answer to Eric Hughes - the fatal nail in the coffin to "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto". The godhead of the State has extinguished the cypherpunk spirit in less than two decades since Bitcoin first arrived. TRUMP is the very antithesis of Satoshi - anonymous, humble, cloaked in mystique, on the fringes, on the outside offering an alternative network of monetary consciousness to the dollar (well initially anyway). Cryptography has clearly not enabled secure anonymous money, it has given new life to animal spirits as all the tools of the cypherpunks are being actively captured and co-opted by the incumbent American financial elites. Cypherpunks write code but so do empires. ETFs, crypto-adjacent stock offerings, companies and retail products backed by Imperial military might and legislative frameworks will completely smother the original intent of crypto-anarchist politics.
Centralized bureaucracies because of an asymmetry of resources (chiefly information and data because of mega surveillance structures) are starting to outmaneuver organic networks and tribes. Indeed, nation-states are manufacturing (astroturfing) movements for the purposes of waging total cognitive warfare against its own adversaries.
$TRUMP raises fundamental questions about the viability of online organic networks and tribes to raid and wage guerrilla war against nation-state actors. It is becoming apparent that the State can co-opt, manufacture and synthesize swarms at will by entering into cyberspace.
An additional factor to consider is the impending MAGA Wars (HB1ndians was only the first chapter - biometric surveillance packaged as checks on mass immigration, private-public stablecoins sold as rescuing the dollar and "fixing the debt" and mRNA acceleration plus more to come) - as the Trump coalition violently breaks and splinters off internally. Surely, libertarians, the MAGA working class, ethnonativists will not be jumping for joy as Trump starts to favor and indulge the speculative impulses of Surveillance Valley elites. How much longer will this merry band stay together?
$TRUMP could be the peak, the starting of the end of a cycle - or it could inaugurate the birth of something new altogether, a new horror for all those who were once beholden to the promise of the Cypherpunk Manifesto.
Stay SAIF
And truly God knows best
https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-trump/

2025-01-19 03:38:05 UTC

Financial Nihilism is now the official position of GAE - $TRUMP - Keep rugging the American people till they completely crack.

2025-01-18 19:53:54 UTC

Notes On Attention
Attention is a unit of commerce, a commodity and weapon - it is all of this at once and more. In the canon of Islamicate Sufic authors, attention was at the core of spiritual rejuvenation. Attention and the gaze of man was meant to be directed to the Divine alone but man all too soon realized there were many ailments that poisoned the mind and body, preventing access to the Source. The authors of tasawwuf then in one sense were keen diagnosticians, aware of precognitive frames that hindered man to not fully utilize attention and direct it to where it needed to go.
To conquer the ailments and treat them was a far simpler task a century ago, perhaps even a decade or so ago. Now attention is increasingly anchored primarily in cyberspace, contested not merely by traditional typologies of spontaneous sin like lust and greed but well coordinated nation-state actors, intelligence agencies and propaganda machines - well funded, well financed and often well researched.
One recourse for the Muslim is to lean into Luddite retreat. Cyberspace is simply inhospitable to Islam. Cyberspace is not a space that is commensurate with Islamic sensibilities and sentiment. It cannot be conquered, it cannot be redesigned or realigned. However, to concede the loss of cyberspace is for the believer to unwittingly concede the lack of one's own capacity to bear witness to God's Revelation in the Time that he has allotted to us.
It also does not understand that the nature of statecraft, commerce, monetary activity and intellectual generation will primarily be cyber in the years to come. Action will inevitably be local, but the generative impulses for it can be done in online networks that recognize Muslim plurality as a feature and not a bug. Cyberspace will be contested by nation-state blocs, empires, corporations and radical private actors. It seems perplexing that some Muslims choose to abandon this field, nor even consider its utility in terms of formulating new political configurations centered around the Divine.
Another alternative, is to use cyberspace as terrain for rehashing old battles because there is simply no imagination, vision or will to conceptualize New Islamicate futures. These debates in the past were not centrally generative of any real political project, but often relied on patronage from the Islamic Secular who envisioned a civlizational vision much larger than the often parochial concerns of the jurist-class.
In this vision, the mimetic potential of cyber virality repackages marginal concerns of the ancient jurist-class into a mistaken centrality in the project of civilizational anchoring. For example the legality of the Mawlid occupies centrality in cyber-articulations of "Islamicness" - an odd and pathetic use of the potentials of digital discourse. Dawah Inc has catapulted a whole raft of wholly irrelevant concerns and granted them as somehow the be all and end all of civilizational renewal. It creates a class of Muslims who see the negotiation of such question as the be all and end all to the question of how Islam engages today and in the future. It fosters a false sense of a febrile zero sum game that gives rise to interesting psychopathologies.
Both these approaches cocoon the believer from the realities of the age, it creates cognitive dissonance. It leads to a distorted sense of the heritage of all those who labored for Islamicate Sovereignty which if one mines the historical archives were a far more expansive set of actors than just the jurist-class. The Muslim modern is orphaned from the larger chain of those who worked towards Islamicate Sovereignty.
This has created, whether the participants are aware of this or not - a profound sense of alienation for the vast majority of believers who are not invested in Dawah Inc or the ongoing attempts at self-preservation of a failing jurist-class that have been unduly burdened with unreasonable expectations packaged with responsibilities and obligations it is not equipped to deal with. It can be argued that in the past there was no expectation that the jurist-class was meant to be the generative site for renewal and configuration of new novel forms of political and social configuration. Fiqh was never in the business of culture-making the foundations for political order. The juristic class of course were relied upon to be a bedrock of stability in whatever political configuration was hashed out, contested and arrived at.
At a basic level, today the impoverishment, weakness and humiliation of post-colonial Muslim states sparks a transhistorical sense of collective guilt and remorse which forges communal belonging that often boils down to "We can do better, we must do better". However, where do these believers turn to in between Luddites and Dawah Inc?
Those who are not well versed in these arcane debates are somehow made to feel as if they have no real part to play in the story of Islamicate civilizations in this century and beyond. They do believe in the gaze of God, the promises of His Messenger ﷺ and the reality of the Last Day, but there is no sense of network or anchoring either in meatspace or cyber that allows them to labour in this cause without being caught up in baboonery.
Much can and should also be said about other chasms in the Muslim attention-economy - ethno-narcissism, ghettoisation, perplexing nationalisms - perhaps for another time.
So what is the state of the Muslim "attention-economy" so to speak? It is dire. We have lost potential networks of the Islamic Secular within cyber, that could have laboured towards Islamicate Sovereignty, that have as much an authentic role (indeed even more so) than the jurist-class or the Dawah Inc media market merchants. Fixing the attention-economy in cyber is necessary - dragging the timeline towards sanity away from delirium and perhaps most of all denial of the tasks at hand.
And truly God knows best
https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-attention/

2025-01-17 07:28:20 UTC

Alzheimer's Aqeedah - cognitive decline, memory loss (disconnected from the past), unmoored sense of time, odd fixation on aqeedah and other marginal concerns of medieval scholasticism as be all and end all - common prevalence. No cure, just pray.

2025-01-17 07:26:50 UTC

Can one act conﬁdently in the present only if the matter in question was already preﬁgured in the past? By deifying the past, we disrespect the other siblings of Time - the present and the future plus all that is in between and happening
What drives the need to venture out only if such a step was found neatly packaged in a long forgotten manuscript in the year 1215?
Perhaps it's prolonged grief from all that has been lost and that we continue to lose in the present day

2025-01-17 07:08:14 UTC

Although this comes from the developer of Obsidian (on Twitter @kepano - note taking app) it is a beautiful distillation of the Islamicate attitude towards knowledge in the digital age:
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.
The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.
The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.
Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.
Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:
> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.
You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.
These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (
@obsdmd
), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile

2025-01-16 15:53:47 UTC

Prepare for literacy and archiving with local LLMs on powerful hardware - the issue is data ownership and sovereignty, not artifical intelligence itself. Open source models are eroding the proprietary moat.
This may price some out - doesn't matter, those who can should, those who can't will be left behind
Local LLMs guarantee sovereignty to a large degree - the divide between those who leverage it and those who don't will be a wide chasm by the end of this year

2025-01-14 15:31:44 UTC

Bring to life what was once unthought, unseen and unheard to the stage where it becomes foundational - few can do this because most will spend their days trying to revive the dead and the work of the dead. What passes for normative today is just undead parasitism.

2025-01-12 04:28:28 UTC

Underground nuclear reactors proposed by Deep Fission to power data centres for the AI Cambrian explosion may settle the question about renewables. Nuclear is the future and
Spice (data) it seems will settle many a question in the birth of the new world. Big Tech are considering going nuclear and BTC mining may go in the same direction as nation-states consider strategic reserves.
Vast swathes of the Old Islamicate are about to be left behind yet again as we stand on the cusp of a new horrific birth - there are too few ready to seize opportunity.
The only course is to "leap frog" - abandon current paradigmatic consensus positions on economic and industrial policy, consider data and compute power as the priority to avoid a meagre existence of data serfdom.

2025-01-07 10:28:38 UTC

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From CCOD Archives - https://ccod-archives.org/collection/financial-nihilism/

2025-01-07 10:27:17 UTC

Be algo-driven; not algo-engineered

2025-01-07 10:26:37 UTC

Muslim crypto building needs to be anti-compliant with GAE financial regulation - otherwise its basically a L2 for USD which has short term gain but long term pain.
Stablecoins are planned GAE cryptocolonialism for expansion of UST markets via central providers like Tether that offer short term gain for dilapidated postcolonial Muslim currencies but do not generate a new network effect at the monetary layer because it still relies on USD.
Still subject to unilateral seizure, censorship, shutdown etc - not to mention it offers the illusion of sovereignty when the political economy of the chain is still dependent on GAE primacy.

2025-01-07 08:55:52 UTC

More tech has meant more casinofication of the markets and I think those who argue for more market efficiency with tech are understating the cataclysmic fallout from 2008 which provided the cultural catalyst for financial nihilism that millennials and zoomers now take for granted
Casinofication however is not the same as market efficiency. The wisdom of the crowds model is quickly replaced by algorithmic hijacking of mobs who are inherently financial nihilists. Crypto has taken off (including BTC) because of financial nihilism - not because of utility
These are powerful dynamics - we understate and underestimate the cultural thesis of financial nihilism that spawned the success of the crypto market today including BTC. It was not utility, cypherpunk conversion or anti-state libertarianism that saw its market cap explode...

2025-01-06 18:57:32 UTC

What many fail to understand is that it won't be just particular configurations of liberalism that will fracture, splinter and fragment - much will have to perish to move forward to what comes next, including things we may hold dear now - that's just how it goes.
If you think status quo technocratic managerial liberalism is the only thing being stress tested right now then you aren't paying attention to what's happening out there
Little probably of what we recognize today in terms of political economy, social, political arrangements and so on - the things we take for granted will make it out alive. Trying to put a band aid over these failures makes us much worse than Fukuyaman technocrats

2025-01-04 07:57:28 UTC

Beyond the Silk Roads
Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics Across Eurasia
Magnus Marsden. Cambridge Univ Pr 2021
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2025-01-04 05:28:24 UTC

GAE EU Vassals in 2036 - "There is no energy, demographic crisis is unsolvable, immigration makes everything worse because there is nothing to integrate into, Poland is our greatest power but at least we shake hands with women"

2025-01-04 05:13:30 UTC

New paper on Islam and AI https://send.adminforge.de/download/0d47d11e02667d6c/#T4zp8q9CxlN72_bd-Kjx8A

2025-01-04 04:56:04 UTC

The spirit of Islam is iconoclastic, it moved through symbol and in the hearts of its faithful via created abstractions beyond the material and profane. It relied on inner realities to move men, shape minds and save hearts. Exemplars abounded of course, but in memory they faded into hagiographical mist - transferring from mundane historical record, to legend and ultimately to myth.
This created a distinct form of parasocial culture, relationships were anchored to spiritual poles that in time had accrued layers of myth and embellishment to the point that the person in question had been eclipsed by the legend that had grown around them. These legends and myths pointed to a larger transcendent reality - a form of communication between generations and souls spanning across time and space. In stark contrast to the parasocial patterns today that form around the mundane, the profane and are inextricably tied down to a specific instance and circumstance of iniquity. Parasocial patterns today thrive on an openly transparent hermeneutics of slop. Degraded surface-level mimetics that ends up corrupting the soul and mind.
If however, this same mimetic force could be marshalled towards a spirituality of obfuscation and self-effacement it could be explosive. The mimicry of mediocre celebrity that sought to scavenge off the dregs of peasant capital would be decimated, by emphasizing self-effacement in the hyperdigital there would be the potential for creating new Islamicate myths and legends. Dawah Inc thus would be vanquished not through brute force but by shadow war - by nameless, faceless neo-Malamatiyya who would never conform or give in to the fragile illusory promise of e-celebrity.
The keys to unlocking the mimetic potential of the hyperdigital lie within the archives - there were always souls suspicious of the sunlight, the easy promise of transparent success and public adulation. There have always been those who remained distant from the corrupting influence of a hermeneutics that all too often played to the whims and passions of the masses. Yet, they nonetheless felt compelled to spark transformation through deploying a different form of communication, a different form of art that sought to eclipse the flesh of status and social standing. Islam through its initial iconoclastic spirit lends itself as fertile terrain for this enterprise.
And truly God knows best

2025-01-04 04:53:29 UTC

2025 will be the time to fully Nostr-pill your circle as Elon self implodes which was predicted by SAIF

2024-11-06 10:51:14 UTC

Notes On The MAGA Wars
He hath returned and vanquished all despite the threat of overwhelming lawfare. Yet now begins in earnest the fierce contest to define what exactly the Last Trump administration will stand for and what will it be its legacy.
Trumpism unwittingly and through organic unrest, leveraged postmodern mimetics online crashing into meatspace to vanquish the late and ailing media fiefdoms of the post-Cold War Administrative State. His uncanny charisma became a lightening rod not just for populist dissatisfaction from the dilapidated and impoverished slums of Middle America but also from within the Imperial elite from New Technocrats like Theil and Musk. Under Trumpian mimetics a MAGA working class coalesced around him, resonating with his promises to rescue Americans from corporate liberalism - mass migration cynically encouraged by traditional business elites and the insincere gutting of the country's workforce which was euphemistically called "free market economics". Sovereignty was demanded to return within the physical borders of the country and to no longer be diffused across the various Imperial nodes and vassals that may indeed benefit the project of Global American Empire but only brought ruin to the average American.
Coming late to the party is the class of New Technocrats from Surveillance Valley who have a long culture of funding both sides and ensuring multiple parallel networks of influence across partisan divides. Lately, they have become disillusioned with the incumbent elites but for entirely different reasons. The likes of Musk and Theil do not believe in the redundancy of American Empire nor do they necessarily disagree with the hyperfinancialism of the American Dollar that has left average citizens poorer, unable to afford a housing but nonetheless expanded the footprint of GAE. They simply believe the incumbent elites are no longer fit to lead, no longer in possession of the tools to guarantee American Imperial supremacy and believe they are now owed the keys to the Empire.
Amidst all of this are the various online meme factions that grew around the counter-cultural appeal of the explosive Banon-variety of Trumpian populism. An anthropology of both cyber and meatspace Trumpism is required and necessary to understand the formations of the Cybernetic State to come in the 21st century. The shattering of the divide between what is "Online" and what is "Real Life".
Beyond gross dissatisfaction around the performance of the Transatlanticist elites and their management of GAE there is little uniting these various trends and networks that have coalesced around Trump.
To take one small example, the MAGA working class are inherently bioconservative, skeptical of scientism, weary of hyper-intellectual utopianism and the optimistic faith in rule by intellectuals. The Surveillance Valley MegaCorp believe the exact opposite - mystical transhumanism, the complete disruption and breakup of biological form, unabashed faith in science and believe in rule by CEO/Founder.
The MAGA working class still cling on to the myths of Old American Republicanism - the mythology around the self-sovereign libertarian ethic of the Founders but the SV MegaCorp believes in Neo-China and it's clearly reflected in their choice of business model- free use in exchange for personal data - "free products" under the Panopticon. Under the SV MegaCorp you will be a permanent data serf, unable to own anything, a constant "subscriber" and must bow to miracles of Big Pharma 2.0. This is just one example of a clear conflict, there will be other areas and fields where there will be open warfare within the new Trump administration.
For the American Muslim, now is a time of chaos but also opportunity. Abandon Islamoleftism, embrace mercenary deal making, positioning, establishing supra-electoral party networks of influence and engage wholeheartedly with the various Trumpist factions for cold self-interest. For the next few years inshallah, enjoy the MAGA Wars.
And truly God knows best
https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-the-maga-wars/

2024-10-14 19:57:51 UTC

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2024-10-14 19:31:49 UTC

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2024-10-12 13:55:51 UTC

Post-Adamic Tasawwuf
Denial alone cannot be the basis of the post-Adamic moment which approaches us. Standalone platforms harnessing LLM capabilities will not be as destabilising as the fusion of biology and dataism.
I mention dataism specifically because most bio-computer initiatives, currently being evolved or developed by companies that have an inherent commercial bias on leveraging behavioral data that can be analyzed and incorporated into business models and algorithms. Dataism is premised on the assumption that biological behavioral patterns through cyberspace are a commodity that can be bought or sold and synthesized into "business models" for optimization and "priming".
However beyond biological data there is the more fundamental question of what happens when man is synthesized with machine and the Adamic form is absorbed by the augmented cyborg. Fiqh can certainly respond and react to developments as they unfold. But it cannot be relied upon to evolve a proactive spirit, an orientation ahead of time. At least fiqh in its current iteration and configurations of political economy and bureaucratic stasis vis-a-vis its orientation and troubled relationships with the nightmare modern states of the post-colonial Islamicate.
Now is the need for evolving post-Adamic Tasawwuf, where cyborg can be tamed to serve God - a sufic taming of the man-machine synthesis that denies biological dataism, panoptic supremacy.
#nostrnotes

2024-10-12 12:15:50 UTC

Cog War Futures
The legacy of gain of research function has clearly been an escalation in covert planning for biological warfare waged amongst unsuspecting populations as part of a larger theatre between nation state actors. It speaks to the expanding theatre of war as conventional military conflcit becomes increasingly a zero sum game with no clear winners, yielding to protracted political conflcits that fester on for decades.
Biological warfare thus forms part of 5GW, as a new shadow strategy of escalation that due to its relative low cost investment becomes accessible to non-state actors as well. It forms as a larger contest of neuro-cognitive conflict that seeks to rot an opponent from within - a slow burn towards decay. What this means is that for future Islamicate polities they must not only be cognisant of such scenarios but gain mastery to wage horrors of their own in order to stay as a "live player". Nature is but a series of conflicts and where there is offence there is also defence. The individual must discern the changing winds of war and raid the archives to biohsck towards greater cognitive fortification and spiritual opsec.
#nostrnotes

2024-10-12 11:53:36 UTC

The Sufic Dark Forest
#nostrnotes
The Sufic Dark Forest is a recognition that in a world built on the cannabalising logic of parasocial monetization which enters into a Faustian bargain with Panoptic Technocapital; virtue is fragile. Virtue is precious. For the good to be enjoined, the Ishmaelite must jealously protect the integrity and beauty of what is good. Obfuscating and evading algorithmic coercion through cryptography and encryption is not so vice can be performed in atheistic anarchic spaces that are doomed for oblivion.

2024-10-02 18:39:47 UTC

Notes On Sufic Rewilding
https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-sufic-rewilding/

2024-09-03 14:24:26 UTC

"The bruddas working to connect Amethyst, Orbot, Citrine, Amber, 0xchat and Cashu to forge salvation from Musk's Intelligence Agency Psy-Op Zio-Hindutva Bot Network (Twitter)" https://image.nostr.build/29319edd4300f36640225b90f843d6c5911a059d75ce11330dcb24558f8a0e85.jpg

2024-09-03 14:00:49 UTC

Citrine works nicely - a relay in your phone that you can onionise with Orbot, even if public relays are knocked out you are still standing

2024-09-01 19:41:21 UTC

To be SAIF is to discern the hikma of strong money - to appreciate which chain can weather inflationary ponzis and which one can afford you the shadows, day and night - each has a purpose for the believer

2024-09-01 10:22:51 UTC

Over the last ten years there is negligible Muslim presence on the Fediverse and similar open protocol ecosystems - massive one on Meta. A people who simply do not want Sovereignty in any shape or form in any domain.

2024-09-01 10:20:17 UTC

The Online Islamicate must increasingly build and plan for an increasingly fractured and hostile landscape of splinternets. Software should increasingly focus less on "democratization" but about security and integrity - the ability to function without State interference.
It means adopting adopting open protocols and money that can survive in adversarial environments. A great challenge lies in creating the cultural conditions for people to embrace Lunarpunk attitudes rather than stick to comfortable dekusions about creating with Solarpunk impulse.
American Surveillance Valley billionaires, the Chinese CCP, Old Islamicate autocracies - the list of enemies is large for the fair minded Ishmaelite - one can no longer depend on the goodwill and charity of others.

2024-09-01 10:14:05 UTC

The Restrict Act will make the Brazilians and Brits look like amateurs - pale imitations of the Original American Panopticon. A consequence of American triumph during the Cold War was the subtle distillation of surveillance into the fabric of liberal constitutional norms away from culture war polemics so that it became the ground on which everyone stands on.
Genius lay in outsourcing and obfuscating nodes of surveillance which the Soviets struggled with - outsourced to private companies, business, enterprise. Musk, Zuckerberg and Gates are the defacto intelligence commissars of liberalism with fans, stockholders, NGOs etc
Third world surveillance states implode because they are inherently fragile - everything is locked up by some configuration of a military junta. The Chinese learnt from the Americans and accelerated to its logical conclusion - techno-national splinternets that sustain commerce
Surveillance is better when done proactively like by Silicon Valley or the Chinese State - private sector partners that offer positive from ecommerce, to media to app based ecosystems and baking the Panotpicon in. If you want to use these "free" products you have to tick T&Cs
Unless your State can develop an Instagram or Google Pay clone, you cannot play the Surveillance Games at the level of the Americans and Chinese - you otherwise end up like Brazil, Egypt or Iran - clunky, heavy ans reactive

2024-08-09 16:24:05 UTC

Been playing around with 0xchat - @nprofile…2uug - good way to bake in encryption on top of the existing Nostr client and relays. Good to protect metadata and to add privacy layers to Nostr. Secret chat allows for encrypted DMs which adds perfect forward secrecy. Also comes with an e-cash wallet.

2024-08-08 14:59:26 UTC

The only outcome from the peasant riots in the UK is a massive expansion of Dark Blairism with the involvement of the 77th Brigade; we will see a tremendous media campaign for pushing forward an extreme version of the Online Safety Act bill with warrantless surveillance as the norm cheered on by millions. The legions of chavs, druggies and broken dysfunctional souls have only laid the groundwork for a more aggressive Panopticon.

2024-07-23 17:28:54 UTC

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Like Amethyst and has TOR built in

2024-07-04 19:21:42 UTC

Very cool and interesting project - privacy conscious messaging app using nostr, signal protocol and ecash in a novel configuration https://www.keychat.io/

2024-07-02 11:12:32 UTC

Very nice using Minibits which has a lightning address and ecash tokens built in one, https://www.minibits.cash/ easy to use as a receiving lightning address with no kyc or details needed.
I don't think custodianship at this scale is an issue for communities that still have reasonable institutional structures in place that have retain trust and reputational prestige so long as they keep a healthy distance from the State.

2024-07-02 07:23:59 UTC

New Iqra Post
https://iqrapost.substack.com/p/iqra-014

2024-07-01 15:11:19 UTC

Looking at ecash as a privacy layer for p2p payments on top of BTC albeit with a custodial element with mints

2024-05-30 16:40:43 UTC

Denial alone cannot be the basis of the post-Adamic moment which approaches us. Standalone platforms harnessing LLM capabilities will not be as destabilising as the fusion of biology and dataism.
I mention dataism specifically because most bio-computer initiatives, currently being evolved or developed by companies that have an inherent commercial bias on leveraging behavioral data that can be analyzed and incorporated into business models and algorithms. Dataism is premised on the assumption that biological behavioral patterns through cyberspace are a commodity that can be bought or sold and synthesized into "business models" for optimization and "priming".
However beyond biological data there is the more fundamental question of what happens when man is synthesized with machine and the Adamic form is absorbed by the augmented cyborg. Fiqh can certainly respond and react to developments as they unfold. But it cannot be relied upon to evolve a proactive spirit, an orientation ahead of time. At least fiqh in its current iteration and configurations of political economy and bureaucratic stasis vis-a-vis its orientation and troubled relationships with the nightmare modern states of the post-colonial Islamicate.
Now is the need for evolving post-Adamic Tasawwuf, where cyborg can be tamed to serve God - a sufic taming of the man-machine synthesis that denies biological dataism, panoptic supremacy.

2024-05-07 11:59:33 UTC

Notes On Cybernetic Uncertainty
https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/51558/notes-on-cybernetic-uncertainty

2024-05-07 10:16:49 UTC

There is an arresting paragraph in Hallaq's Impossible State where he talks about how the paradigm of the modern state finds no overlap or common cause with that of Islamic governance:
"Nor did Islamic governance know anything like the scale of surveillance generated by the modern state’s police and prison systems. These, so normalized and a matter of fact today, would have been horrifying to Muslims as specters of domination and cruelty. Nor, still, did Islamic rule so much as tamper with the sphere of education, which remained not only private but also nonformal and highly accessible, accommodating the entire spectrum of social strata"
There are a few times in the Impossible State where Hallaq touches upon the coercive and pervasive net of surveillance the modern state casts over everything it sees in an effort to shape the moral nature of its citizens. Nearly every time he does so he references Foucault's work which is to be expected given his intervention in this particular facet of political philosophy.
Hallaq though does not reference the Cypherpunks as a philosophical resource even though the two share striking similarities. One of the biggest drawbacks with Hallaq's work is there is not enough translation of how his astute theoretical analysis translates into the modern machinery of the State in terms of how it actually works. This does not detract from the merit of his work at all, but there is an opportunity that goes begging.
The modern State is a parasite that logs everything you do, leaving no sphere for an "individual" to truly emerge, it is a consumptive pathology that leaves no space for autonomy even though it dresses itself up in the rhetoric of High Enlightenment aesthetics. This inescapable fact that is now proven beyond reproach is the ultimate vindication of the Hallaqian thesis.

2024-05-06 14:41:48 UTC

"Exile occurs when society at large becomes estranged from right living and there is an absence of an ethical spirit and voice, when an era lacks a great moral figure or soul"

2024-05-06 14:13:02 UTC

An Islamicate articulation of the surreal and banal horror of machinification cannot begin in the absence of eschatological belief in the heart of the believer. In Sunni cosmology, as time yawns ahead of us and leaves behind the Prophetic era we are in continuous state of moral decay as we approach the Last Day. Sunni eschatology to those who regularly refresh their hearts with the reminders and literature around the topic will be familiar with the visceral and detailed descriptions of complete moral breakdown and decay and the increasing Prophetic advice that in such times we must withdraw, refrain and retire physically away from such evil whilst engaged in a war for spiritual purification by clinging on to prayer with the Qur'an as a shield. With such an eschatological superstructure one should not be terribly shocked or surprised by the accelerationist contentions (they are varied and diverse) about the march of technocapital and the havoc it would wreck. Nor should the Sunni be terribly surprised that the ruling political elites would exert tremendous oppression to expand and cling on to power.

2024-05-05 13:46:18 UTC

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No role but mocking the importance ascribed to him when the his performance on Twitter will bring in new signups handing over data without a second thought - transgression is absorbed and repackaged back as a consumer choice

2024-05-05 06:36:31 UTC

Props to Elon - he's playing a different game. Rile up everyone into a chimp contest of r-tards claiming who is more based/racist etc all the while building the Everything App - monetizing the simulated conflict and keeping it within the logic of the new cybernetic system.
The Eye of Sauron is upon us but wait everyone is holding mock inquisitorial trials of who is more racist and charging peasants $5 a month via their Patreon for the viewing pleasure.
For every peasant the most important question on the Right or Left right now is who is more racist and they charge people and game the algorithm on this basis.
Alex Jones really matters when you'll happily transfer your biometrics, financial statements, bank account and passport ID to Twitter within the next five years.

2024-02-21 15:46:43 UTC

New Iqra File - Notes On Bitcoin Futuwwa
https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/49749/notes-on-bitcoin-futuwwa

2024-02-19 07:30:09 UTC

Yuk Hui who is the author of Cosmotechnics, proposes an idea of technology that tries to bridge the gap between technical expertise and having a cosmological sense of one's place in the world. In effect, it tries to sacralize one's relationship with machinery and technology.
However, it remains to be seen whether cosmotechnics can evolve beyond just a niche interest of those who are privacy conscious and already aware of the metaphysical implications of the hyperdigital and data harvesting decay of American Empire.
Rather, the task for cosmotechnics is whether it can fully sustain itself as a alternative civilization on paradigm to the one that we currently have, which is premised on big tech surveillance, corporate espionage, and state-sponsored spyware.
If cosmotechnics indeed offers an alternative paradigm to the Leviathan-like organism which is big tech, then it has to be grounded in local sacred cosmologies and local ideas about vicegerency and custodianship, which figures prominently in the Islamicate ethical traditions.

2024-02-18 19:11:19 UTC

The inherent fragility with the whole tradition of Islamicate critique of modernity from Guenon onwards, finding its fullest expression in the normative Sunnism of al-Attas is that if were to fully realise their projects on their own terms we would be doomed to extinction. This is not to say they are wrong, mistaken - far from it. They are inherently fragile projects because if you take their projects seriously on their own terms with sympathetic good-faith engagement and try to scale it up, I don't see how you escape becoming Luddite fodder.
This fragility - where success, victory of Islamicate critiques end up cannibalizing the entire project is a recurrent theme and motif not just in these philosophically sophisticated critiques but also the Ikhwanist projects too

2024-02-18 19:10:28 UTC

"Martin Heidegger, in his 1966 interview (published ten years later) with Der Spiegel, was asked what came after the end of philosophy; Heidegger answered: cybernetics. In other words, he announced that cybernetics marked the end of Western philosophy"
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