Guidance on Making Use of Modern Communication Means
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Question:
This questioner says: The preoccupation of our children in our present time, O Shaykh, as well as women and girls, with reading the Qur'an and beneficial literature. In this time, communication means such as the internet and others have multiplied, and what these communications broadcast in the form of clips and tweets has distracted people. So what is obligatory regarding making use of these devices in our present time? And what is the guidance from the Honorable Shaykh?
Answer:
From these devices, one takes what is in them of good, and that is little, and leaves what is in them of evil. The good exists without them, praise be to Allah, for even if there is something of good in them, there is much evil in them, and they affect the person. The person should avoid them, and the good exists, praise be to Allah, without them, and before they existed, the good existed and continued. Also, these communication means stir up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) among the Muslims, so the Muslim should avoid them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
This questioner says: The preoccupation of our children in our present time, O Shaykh, as well as women and girls, with reading the Qur'an and beneficial literature. In this time, communication means such as the internet and others have multiplied, and what these communications broadcast in the form of clips and tweets has distracted people. So what is obligatory regarding making use of these devices in our present time? And what is the guidance from the Honorable Shaykh?
Answer:
From these devices, one takes what is in them of good, and that is little, and leaves what is in them of evil. The good exists without them, praise be to Allah, for even if there is something of good in them, there is much evil in them, and they affect the person. The person should avoid them, and the good exists, praise be to Allah, without them, and before they existed, the good existed and continued. Also, these communication means stir up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) among the Muslims, so the Muslim should avoid them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/294 — archive.org (5:49)
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