The reasons for the spread of messages containing (if you do not send this, such and such will happen to you)
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Question:
Shaykh Salih, meaning, as you mentioned, may Allah preserve you, regarding these messages, why do these messages appear from time to time, then disappear, and then return?
Answer:
You know that there are crazy people who want to promote bid'ah (religious innovations) and superstitions, and they have found their desired goal in these mobile phones. It is not known who they are, and they spread them. The greedy person takes the promise and distributes them, hoping for the promise they attached to distributing them. And the fearful, ignorant person fears the threat they mentioned. So the Muslim must reject this and that, and disapprove of them, and not distribute them. Yes.
Shaykh Salih, meaning, as you mentioned, may Allah preserve you, regarding these messages, why do these messages appear from time to time, then disappear, and then return?
Answer:
You know that there are crazy people who want to promote bid'ah (religious innovations) and superstitions, and they have found their desired goal in these mobile phones. It is not known who they are, and they spread them. The greedy person takes the promise and distributes them, hoping for the promise they attached to distributing them. And the fearful, ignorant person fears the threat they mentioned. So the Muslim must reject this and that, and disapprove of them, and not distribute them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أسباب انتشار الرسائل التي فيها ( إذا لم ترسلها يحصل لك كذا ) - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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