How Do We Think Islamically about Conspiracies?

Delivered by Imam Omar Baloch (H.A.). In our personal life, when Khuda na khaste, we have difficulty seeking employment or a spouse, our families humiliate us, or face a myriad of other challenges, we should acknowledge the hidden meaning and that this is a test from Allah. Generally, in this world when seeing people from afar, however, we ought to judge according to external manifestations. If someone says he or she is a Muslim, we assume that individual to be a Muslim. Please, please, please, be careful when you judge what is in a man or woman's heart! We should be wary of the news, but that is because the source of the news himself is a faasiq (evil doer, e.g. corporate spokemouth), which we should independently confirm. For example, 9/11 and COVID-19 are undoubtedly conspiracies. However, the way some non-Muslims make everything a conspiracy (some of them say some very Islamophobic things), we need to avoid acting like that. Modernity has promoted the idea that personal problems should be questioned and broad social, economic, and political conditions are whatever the Dajjal system dictates. Islam is the middle path, however, As-Siratul Mustaqeem. Uploaded to Server 18. How fascinating that Surah Kahf is the 18th surah of the Qur'an, which will be discussed here, Inshallah.