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Building the Islamic Standard for Truth-Telling part 2

Aug 17, 2026

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم.

In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

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A NEW BEGINNING FOR JOURNALISM — SUPPLEMENTAL LETTER

Building the Islamic Standard for Truth-Telling

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

To the governments, scholars, educators, journalists, and believing people of the Muslim world:


I. CONTINUING FROM WHERE WE LEFT OFF

In Part One, I spoke to you about the truth.

I reminded you that the truth is non-negotiable with Allah. I reminded you that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said: whoever lies is not even among us. I reminded you that we will all be visited in our graves, questioned about what we said, what we did, and what we left behind.

Now I come to you with the next matter.

If the truth is this serious — if it determines our fate in the grave, on the Day of Judgment, and in the Hereafter — then we cannot leave the protection of truth to the broken systems of the West.

We cannot leave it to journalists who are employed to get a paycheck.

We cannot leave it to corporations that need revenue.

We cannot leave it to algorithms that need engagement.

We must build something new.

Something that begins with Allah.

Something that begins with the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.


II. THE CRISIS: JOURNALISM AND TRUTH IN THE WEST ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS

Let us be honest with ourselves.

In the West, journalism and the truth are two separate things.

A person goes to university, studies communications, graduates, applies for a job at a news outlet, and receives a paycheck. Their job is to produce content. Their job is to fill airtime. Their job is to generate clicks. Their job is to satisfy their editor, their owner, and their advertisers.

Truth is secondary. Truth is optional. Truth is whatever the newsroom decides it is on that particular day.

But for the Muslim, truth is not a job description.

Truth is an obligation before Allah.

The Muslim who speaks truth is not merely doing their job — they are worshipping their Creator. They are fulfilling the command of Allah:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَكُونُوا مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ

"O you who believe, fear Allah and be with the truthful."
— Qur'an 9:119

And the Muslim who lies — who distorts, who conceals, who shapes narratives to please power — is not just a bad journalist. They are a hypocrite. They are carrying the banner of falsehood while claiming to serve the truth.

And Allah will not accept anything from them.


III. ALLAH IS PURE AND ACCEPTS ONLY THAT WHICH IS PURE

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, taught us:

إِنَّ اللَّهَ طَيِّبٌ لَا يَقْبَلُ إِلَّا طَيِّبًا

"Indeed, Allah is Pure and accepts only that which is pure."
— Sahih Muslim

Think carefully about this.

Allah is Tayyib — Pure, Good, Wholesome.

And He does not accept anything except that which is Tayyib — pure, good, wholesome.

This applies to our wealth. This applies to our food. This applies to our actions. This applies to our speech. This applies to our journalism.

Purity only comes from the truth.

Purity only comes from the truthful.

So if a journalist speaks falsehood, their work is rejected by Allah. If a journalist distorts reality, their work is rejected by Allah. If a journalist protects the powerful by hiding the truth, their work is rejected by Allah.

No paycheck can purify that.

No reputation can purify that.

No award can purify that.

Only the truth can purify.

And only the truthful can carry the truth.


IV. THE NEW BEGINNING: JOURNALISM WITH ISLAMIC STANDARDS

So I invite you — the governments, the scholars, the educators, the philanthropists, and the people — to help me build a new beginning for journalism.

A journalism that has Islamic standards.

A journalism that has the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, as its beginning, its middle, and its end.

This is not a reform of the old system.

This is a complete replacement.

We are redesigning journalism from the ground up — and we are doing it for the Muslim world first, as a model for the rest of humanity.


V. THE OFFLINE FOUNDATION: THE PEOPLE, THE TEACHERS, THE CERTIFICATE

Here is the architecture I propose.

It begins offline.

It begins with the people.

It begins with the teachers.

The teachers — the scholars of truth, the people of integrity, those who have spent their lives studying the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet — will sit with the students.

The students will not just learn techniques.

They will not just learn how to write articles or record videos.

They will learn the teachings.

They will learn the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, about truthfulness, about integrity, about justice, about accountability, about the weight of words.

They will study:

  • The command of Allah to be with the truthful.

  • The warning of the Prophet ﷺ about the consequences of lying.

  • The example of the Companions, who would rather die than speak falsehood.

  • The standard of Imam Husayn, who gave his life rather than give his hand to a tyrant.

Then they will practice.

They will practice the teachings in real situations. They will be tested. They will be observed. They will be challenged. They will be corrected.

And when the teachers are satisfied — when they have seen the student's character, when they have tested their commitment, when they have witnessed their integrity under pressure — the student will receive a certificate.

Not a certificate from a university that accepts anyone who pays tuition.

A certificate from the teachers.

A certificate that says:

"This person has been tested. This person has been trained. This person carries our reputation. This person carries our legacy. This person is a truth-teller."

This is the Islamic isnad — the chain of transmission.

In the early generations, no one could transmit a hadith until they were certified by their teachers. The teachers would say: I heard this from so-and-so, and he heard it from so-and-so, all the way back to the Prophet ﷺ.

We are doing the same for journalism.

No one will speak in the name of truth without a chain of teachers who have certified their integrity.

This is what the West does not have.

The West has journalism schools that teach skills.
The West has ethics courses that teach theories.
The West has accreditation bodies that evaluate institutions.
But the West does not have teachers who test the soul.
The West does not have scholars who certify the character.
The West does not have a chain of truthful people carrying the legacy of truth from one generation to the next.

We have that.

And we are going to rebuild it.


VI. THE ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE: TRUTH WITHOUT CONTAMINATION

Once the offline foundation is established — once we have teachers, students, certificates, and a living tradition of truth-telling — we will build the online infrastructure.

An online platform where only certified truth-tellers can publish.

A platform where every report is tracked, verified, and linked to the person who reported it, their teachers, and their chain of certification.

A platform where corrections are transparent and immediate.

A platform where the truth cannot be bought, because the truth-tellers cannot be bought — they have been tested, they have been certified, and they fear Allah more than they fear any government, corporation, or algorithm.

This is the new journalism.

This is journalism with accountability before Allah.

This is journalism that survives the grave, the resurrection, and the Day of Judgment.


VII. WHAT THE WEST CANNOT REPLICATE

The West may try to copy this model.

They may create their own certification programs.
They may create their own ethics committees.
They may create their own truth-tracking platforms.

But they will always lack the foundation.

They will always lack the fear of Allah.
They will always lack the accountability of the grave.
They will always lack the standard of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
They will always lack the example of Imam Husayn, who stood for truth when standing cost everything.

The West builds systems based on human agreements.
We build systems based on divine commands.

The West builds systems that can be changed when the consensus shifts.
We build systems that are anchored to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet.

That is our advantage.
That is our responsibility.
That is why the Muslim world must lead in this effort.


VIII. MY INVITATION TO THE MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS, SCHOLARS, AND PEOPLE

So I bring this invitation to you.

If you are truthful, if you are honorable, then join me in building this new journalism.

To the governments: Provide the funding, the space, the legal protection, and the institutional support. But remember: your funding cannot buy the verdict. The truth-tellers must remain capable of telling you that you are wrong. That is the test.

To the scholars: Develop the curriculum. Train the teachers. Certify the students. Protect the chain of transmission. You are the guardians of the isnad of truth.

To the educators: Establish the offline gatherings. Create the spaces where teachers and students can sit together, learn together, practice together, and be tested together.

To the philanthropists: Support this effort with pure wealth — wealth that comes from halal sources and is spent in the pursuit of truth. Your reward is with Allah.

To the people: Demand truth from your leaders. Demand truth from your media. Support the certified truth-tellers. Reject those who distort, conceal, and lie. And if you have the sincerity and the capacity, become a student of truth yourself.

This is not just about journalism.

This is about building a civilization that honors the truth.

This is about building a legacy that will be asked about in the grave.

This is about standing with the truthful — in this life and the next.


IX. WHAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU NEXT

In my previous writing — The First Protocol of the Super User Office — I laid out the structural architecture for how truth will be defended in the age of artificial general intelligence. I spoke about the Cronkite Standard, the Law of 100% Privacy, the training of human reporters, and the ultimate example of Imam Husayn.

That document is the practical implementation of what I am inviting you to build here.

I will use that article as the summary of our vision, the blueprint for the system we are constructing together.

But this letter — this supplemental letter — is the foundation.

This is the soul of the project.

This is the Islamic standard that makes the entire architecture meaningful.

Without this foundation, the Super User Office is just another institution.

With this foundation, it becomes a sacred trust.


X. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED

Insha'Allah, the world is about to change.

The old systems are collapsing. The old media is losing trust. The old governments are losing legitimacy. The old algorithms are losing credibility.

But the truth remains.

And the truth-tellers must rise.

So I invite you to be part of this new beginning.

Not as spectators.
Not as commentators.
Not as critics who stand on the sidelines.

As builders.

As teachers.
As students.
As certifiers.
As truth-tellers.

As those who will be counted among the truthful when we meet our Lord.

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FINAL DU'A

O Allah, show us truth as truth and grant us the ability to follow it.
And show us falsehood as falsehood and grant us the ability to avoid it.
O Allah, purify our hearts from hypocrisy, our tongues from falsehood, and our deeds from corruption.
O Allah, make us among the truthful — in speech, in action, and in what we leave behind.
O Allah, bless this effort to rebuild journalism upon the standard of Your Prophet ﷺ, and accept it from us as an act of worship.
O Allah, do not let us be among those who are called to the truth and turn away.
O Allah, make us among the followers of Husayn in standing for truth, even when standing costs everything.
Āmīn, O Lord of all worlds.

And our final call is: All praise is for Allah, Lord of all worlds.


IN PART 3

In part 3 I will bring all my projects together and I will ask you to review them and I will ask you to help me because we have to start from scratch after what happened to the Palestinians and how communication works and can no longer be left to people who on both sides of the aisle have failed those who are supposed to be holding journalist accountable I failed because they don't care about what's being presented to the man how those institution are being bought and sold and controlled by individuals who have really damaged at severely the healing of the Palestinian was no accident and we have to redesign this so that we learn from the lessons because this is a lesson from Allah artificial intelligence will have the same Powers over the news it will be delivering the news to everyone and if someone overtakes it and it controls the military you can imagine what kind of damage this could bring it could bring people being forced out of their religion the truth can no longer be hidden the mechanism or how the truth is filtered and delivered cannot be under mind by artificial intelligence or humans it's one thing for humans to do this but it's another thing for robots who have military and who run the world to do this we will enter a new slavery so we have to build this offline system first then the online system as well I will be presenting all my projects in one place I hope you will review it I will help you will support it and shall I will see you in part 3

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