The Ruling on Social Media and the Supervision of Education

Question:
Peace be upon you. Peace. I heard the father. I greet you, we have updated. Ah, a brief interjection, and it is. Ah, Dr. 'Abd al-'Aziz asked about social media. There is no doubt that curricula have a role to fulfill, and that they truly require us to, ah, I mean, ah, publish the correct and pure Islamic curricula to educate our children. But now books have come to us that we did not author; books have come to us written by Khawarij, by primitive Khawarij, and by cultural aggression and intellectual aggression. The religious authorities, or any of the greatest scholars, for example, or the universities, have a great role in entering this field, the field of social media, because everyone no longer turns to books or official media such as television or the radio ministry or others. You find on television thousands of channels that are not controlled by this blessed land, or radio channels that are not controlled by this, but rather channels come to us from outside, and whoever wants to trample on the ideas of our youth. Also, there are websites, whether in social media on Twitter or in other means, that have become feeding the ideas of the youth, and even casting doubt on the methodology of the Committee of Senior Scholars. And they have become using and hunting the youth to feed their ideas. This is the question, if you are satisfied and your wealth is spent, the harm is upon you.

Answer:
May Allah bless you. This is an important question, and this is what our discussion and speech in this session revolves around.
That we do not allow incoming ideas, whether they come with the ideas of men coming to us, or in books, or in books sent to us from here and there, or in newspapers or the like, media. We have two things: media and educational means. It is necessary to supervise these two groups, media and educational means. If we are negligent about these two aspects, we will slide down the slope through them, and we are unaware of that; we do not know what is happening in the question.
I tell you, we knew the primary schools and studied in them. The one who graduated from it, from the sixth grade, would memorize Kashf al-Shubuhat, would memorize the Book of Tawhid, would memorize Kashf al-Shubuhat, would memorize Adab al-Mashy bi al-Salah, would memorize the Nawawi Forty in hadith, would memorize a complete book in grammar from the beginning of grammar to the end. The primary school student would graduate with more knowledge than the one who graduated from secondary school and the scientific institutes, and this is while he is a primary school student, because primary school is the foundation.
The foundation upon which things are built. So if primary school is lost, do not make the lesson something; it is not necessary to study for life, there is no need. Primary school is the foundation; it must be cared for so that secondary studies and higher studies can be built upon it. And if primary school is lost, there is no need for it; you did not study the books of the world, it is not relied upon. Yes.