Muhammad
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — the model of direct guidance against liberal "ethics," and the origin of the transmission problem.
From the streams
- On guidance vs. ethics (FBI AFTER ME! | IRAN CEASEFIRE stream): "When Prophet Muhammad attempted to guide people on how to live, that was not some made-up second-hand concept [called ethics]... He guided people directly through inspiration based on his virtues, his actions, him as a role model." Ethics as a compartment of the mental division of labor is a liberal abstraction; the Prophet is a total example (sunna), not a theory.
- On revelation and succession (COMMUNISM WINNING | INFRAWOKE stream): "The original revelation of Islam associated with the Prophet Muhammad was revealed in one generation. Then following this generation you had the immediate fitna — the split between Shia and Sunni — where the betrayal of the prophet's family called into question... the ability to properly transmit the word of the prophet across generations."
How a revolution survives its founder: the same problem communism faces after Lenin. The Shi'a-leaning reading makes authority and lineage constitutive (Revolutionary Dynasty, Communism is Islam).