Guidelines for Dealing with Modern Social Media
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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. Many and varied questions have been received. Ah, ah. Among the questions, there is a group of questions where the questioners ask, Honorable Shaykh, about the guidelines for dealing with modern social media, and a specific piece of advice for students of knowledge regarding dealing with this matter and what is related to publishing religious messages, or unverified news and rumors.
Answer:
There is no doubt that modern social media have diversified and developed, and they are a double-edged sword. Whoever uses them for good benefits from them, and whoever uses them for evil is harmed by them and harms others. So they are a double-edged sword. Now, who distinguishes for us the edge? Who distinguishes the bad edge?
So it is necessary to return to the people of knowledge. We do not interact with these means without fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and without knowledge, so that we take from them what is beneficial and leave what is harmful, because there is much deception in them, there is defamation and cursing of Muslims in the name of zeal and in the name of forbidding evil. So whoever has knowledge and insight should take from them what benefits and leave what harms. And whoever does not have insight, let him avoid them. Let him stay away from them, preferring safety over gain. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
May Allah reward you and bless you. Many and varied questions have been received. Ah, ah. Among the questions, there is a group of questions where the questioners ask, Honorable Shaykh, about the guidelines for dealing with modern social media, and a specific piece of advice for students of knowledge regarding dealing with this matter and what is related to publishing religious messages, or unverified news and rumors.
Answer:
There is no doubt that modern social media have diversified and developed, and they are a double-edged sword. Whoever uses them for good benefits from them, and whoever uses them for evil is harmed by them and harms others. So they are a double-edged sword. Now, who distinguishes for us the edge? Who distinguishes the bad edge?
So it is necessary to return to the people of knowledge. We do not interact with these means without fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and without knowledge, so that we take from them what is beneficial and leave what is harmful, because there is much deception in them, there is defamation and cursing of Muslims in the name of zeal and in the name of forbidding evil. So whoever has knowledge and insight should take from them what benefits and leave what harms. And whoever does not have insight, let him avoid them. Let him stay away from them, preferring safety over gain. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-002-أثر طاعة ولي الأمر على الفرد والمجتمع|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (40:14)
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