Making Use of Social Media

Question:
This is Abd al-Rahman from Riyadh, from Harim. He says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, how can a Muslim benefit from the important means, especially the modern means of social communication, since some people have benefited from them or exploited them for bad matters in their religion and their worldly life?

Answer:
There is no doubt that these means, which are called means of communication and modern means that have appeared to people, are a trial. So the Muslim should guard against the trial and not use these things except in what is beneficial and useful, and he should leave what is harmful or contains fear from the enemy, or contains, I mean, contains terrorizing, and what is in it. Indeed, they are full of these matters: terrorizing Muslims, frightening Muslims, inciting, and lying. They are full of these matters. So the Muslim should guard against them, take what he benefits from, and leave what is harmful. Yes.

The presenter:
Yes, may Allah bless you.