Advice from Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan to users of social media sites
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The Shaykh:
May Allah keep you safe.
The presenter:
Please, proceed with the questions.
The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you.
The questioner:
Shaykh, when I enter social media sites, I find some of our Muslim sisters using inappropriate language and attempting to seduce young men. I don’t know, I mean, I want your guidance, Shaykh, for our Muslim sisters and brothers at the same time. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, please go ahead.
The Shaykh:
By Allah, my brother, social media contains things that harm people, and as for what is beneficial, there is no harm in that beneficial social media that has benefit; in fact, it is good. But social media that contains bad tweets, as they say, and has this, it is not permissible to look at it or listen to it; this is wrong.
Except for one who condemns it, warns about it, and rebukes the one who said it. This is a distinction that is necessary in these tweets and this social media, as they call it. It stirs up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), stirs up its evils, and arouses desires, and it has many harms. So its dangers are greater than its benefits. Therefore, the Muslim avoids it and keeps his children and family away from it. Yes.
May Allah keep you safe.
The presenter:
Please, proceed with the questions.
The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you.
The questioner:
Shaykh, when I enter social media sites, I find some of our Muslim sisters using inappropriate language and attempting to seduce young men. I don’t know, I mean, I want your guidance, Shaykh, for our Muslim sisters and brothers at the same time. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, please go ahead.
The Shaykh:
By Allah, my brother, social media contains things that harm people, and as for what is beneficial, there is no harm in that beneficial social media that has benefit; in fact, it is good. But social media that contains bad tweets, as they say, and has this, it is not permissible to look at it or listen to it; this is wrong.
Except for one who condemns it, warns about it, and rebukes the one who said it. This is a distinction that is necessary in these tweets and this social media, as they call it. It stirs up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), stirs up its evils, and arouses desires, and it has many harms. So its dangers are greater than its benefits. Therefore, the Muslim avoids it and keeps his children and family away from it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2220 - نصيحة من الشيخ صالح الفوزان لمرتادي مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (0:18)
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