The Responsibility of Parents Toward Their Children on Social Media Platforms

Question:
This questioner asks Your Excellency the Shaykh. Social media platforms have spread among many segments of society. How do you view the responsibility of parents toward their children in this matter?

Answer:
There is no doubt that parents are the first to be responsible for their children. “Enjoin your children to pray when they are seven years old” — this is an address to fathers and mothers. They are the first to be responsible for their children. After the parents come the teachers in primary, middle, secondary, and university schools. The teacher is the second after the father.
So the teacher is the second after the father, and then the community, through its scholars and its individuals, cooperating to solve their problems and cooperating to resist deviant ideas, because they are one row.
Allah, Mighty and Majestic, described the believers as fighting in one row. Likewise, they resist misguided ideas in one row. Misguided ideas and suspicious intentions do not penetrate them. They do not penetrate them. They are one row. One person is few on his own, but many with his brothers. Yes.