Leaving Social Media and Its Relation to Exaggeration
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some people say that leaving social media is considered an exaggeration (ghuluw). What is the answer to that?
The Shaykh:
My brother, it is not an exaggeration in manufactured items or inventions. Exaggeration is only in religion. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
And these things are not part of the religion. Leaving them is not called leaving something of the religion. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some people say that leaving social media is considered an exaggeration (ghuluw). What is the answer to that?
The Shaykh:
My brother, it is not an exaggeration in manufactured items or inventions. Exaggeration is only in religion. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
And these things are not part of the religion. Leaving them is not called leaving something of the religion. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل ومن كيده الذي بلغ به من الجهال ما بلغ : الوسواس — islamhouse.com (57:48)
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