The Ruling on Dealing with Social Media
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Question:
This questioner says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, what is the best way to deal with social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, and the like?
Answer:
By Allah, this is a great danger, and this is one of the great trials, these networks and communication. But use them for good and for calling to Allah the Exalted, and in permissible matters. As for using them to promote deviant ideas, misguided calls, and doubtful matters. Beware of this. Beware of the falsehoods that are promoted in them, and of the call to falsehood, and of lying, lying about the people of Islam and the scholars of Islam. Beware of this. Yes.
This questioner says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, what is the best way to deal with social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, and the like?
Answer:
By Allah, this is a great danger, and this is one of the great trials, these networks and communication. But use them for good and for calling to Allah the Exalted, and in permissible matters. As for using them to promote deviant ideas, misguided calls, and doubtful matters. Beware of this. Beware of the falsehoods that are promoted in them, and of the call to falsehood, and of lying, lying about the people of Islam and the scholars of Islam. Beware of this. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-03-وإنه لكتاب عزيز\صالح الفوزان\كبار العلماء — youtube.com (35:49)
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