The advent of the internet was a major breakthrough; it brought a great revolution along with it and has been a helpful tool for preachers, seekers of knowledge and workers in all areas of human benefit. It also proved to be a useful means for the idle, small-minded and irresolute people, enabling them to arrive at the object of their quest as well. However, our focus here is on the benefits gained by the workers in the field of Da‘wah (calling to Allah), acquisition of useful knowledge and good-doing.

The internet has been a blessing, and so was the introduction of social media platforms as a culmination of this blessing for those who made the best of them and harnessed them to achieve their objectives, disseminate their useful knowledge and promote Da‘wah.

It is painfully unfortunate though that we find that some virtuous people and influential workers in the Da‘wah field have fallen into the trap of social media and became addicted to them until they have become their main concern; they cannot keep away from their social media accounts, compulsively check them for new posts and cannot break free from their chains. They have become like someone who has slipped in mud, the more he tries to get out, the deeper he sinks.

Disaster

Some good people have turned into social media addicts, and this – as Mr. Muhammad Al-‘Awshan says – is a disaster. What a terrible disaster indeed when positive impactful people, seekers of knowledge, callers to Allah, and people we turn to for advice should be diverted from knowledge and scientific production, practical application, realization of sublime objectives and serving the community to succumbing to consumerism!

It is a disaster that these elite individuals should swerve from minimizing wasted time and taking advantage of every moment in order to benefit thereof to wasting long hours on trivial internet activities!

It is a disaster that people who are able to create an impact and make a change should settle for following social media, retweeting, and adding likes and comments here and there!

It is a disaster when those people, whom Allah endowed with a share of knowledge or understanding or awareness, become preoccupied with checking their WhatsApp, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram accounts to catch up with what is trending online!

It is a disaster that such people should spend more time on their mobile phones than they do reading, studying, helping their students, performing prayers, reciting Quran, tending to their families, and striving to realize their goals.

It is heartbreaking that these “role models” should be a bad example for others in wasting time, giving things the wrong order of priority, and addictive use of technology.

It is a disaster when the noblest and meanest of people alike, and their cultured and commoners alike are all equal in their passive attitude and vulnerability to the goings-on on social media.

It is a disaster when those people think of themselves as influential actors with perceptible impacts simply because they echo the voices of others and react to their initiatives.

It is a disaster when one of them thinks that such waste of time (on social media) – which is condemned by the Sharee‘ah – is a means to construe current conditions or a manifestation of caring about Muslims’ affairs, whereas it is nothing but an addiction in the full sense of the word, and an actual implementation of the Hadeeth of the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) about the three prohibitions (that Allah disliked for us): “… idle talk, asking too many questions (about matters that yield no real benefit), and wasting wealth.”

It is disastrous when those people collude to turn a blind eye to such internet addiction because they themselves are afflicted with it; so they legitimize it instead of counteracting it and treating themselves and others.

Revolution against Internet Addiction:

We stand in dire need for a revolution against this dangerous internet addiction, to be led by the repentant role models against this blind passive drifting behind technology and social networks and what goes on therein!

We stand in dire need to set up parameters, fences, and warning signs against this pathological attachment, infatuation, and losing oneself to social media, even if it is disguised as good and as a means for crowding out evil and triviality!

We stand in dire need to continue denouncing this addiction, developing the tools for denouncement, diversifying its methods, not accepting the status quo under the pretext of ‘Umoom Al-Balwa (i.e., permissibility due to unavoidable necessity; when a matter becomes widespread and is difficult to avoid)!

Important Reminders:

1- This previous speech is addressed from me to you – dear reader – in person, and not to a third person whom you think to be the addressee.

One of our problems lies in the fact that a person feels that what is said applies to “others” only and not to “him”, akin to the third-person effect hypothesis about the media impact, and the illusion that he is an epitome of moderation and balance when it comes to the use of technology, whereas it is contrary to the truth!

2- Beware of assuming that my speech is addressed to the famous Shaykhs and Daa‘iyahs. My speech is rather addressed to you; for great are the roles, tasks, and actions that require your potential, time, and resolve; and vast are the areas of making an impact that need someone like you to fill them and impact others through them. You are not too small to have an impact, and perceiving yourself as not the right person to have such an impact is another problem that you need to address.

3- The scope of the problem is measured by considering the alternative opportunities. How much time do you spend on your mobile phone? What are the tasks that you could accomplish if the internet shuts down in the entire world for a week?

4- I would like to exclude those whose Da‘wah and educational projects are based on harnessing technology to convey their message in a serious, continuous and systematic manner. These people are entrusted with a serious task, through which they can save what can be saved and employ technology to serve their goals instead of being exploited by technology to serve its goals.

5- This reminder does not mean that I am perfectly safe from this peril, but I am simply a man who sensed the danger and wanted to warn of it, hoping that we would be from those about whom Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah} [Quran 3:110] and the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) said: “By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, you will enjoin good and forbid evil or (else) Allah will soon afflict you with a punishment from Him, then you will call upon Him and He will not answer you.”

Lukgaf:


https://www.islamweb.net/en/article/234430/social-media-addiction

Lukgaf:



https://www.islamweb.net/en/article/234430/social-media-addiction

Terrence99:
What is social media addiction and its impact on Islamic terrorism?
Be here writing long stories when Muslims in Afghanistan are being killed by fellow Muslims.
Be writing nonsense when Sunnis are killing Shittes in Abuja and the fool called Zakzaky is also saying nonsense.

Ibkhaleel01:
Your duplicitous nature isn’t surprising considering you’re a Christian. Maybe it’s a mental illness.

Terrence99:


Allah has promised you 72 virgins in the afterlife. What will your mother get in the afterlife? Or she will suffer here and suffer there also.

FIRDAUS3:
Shuk'ran Jazeelan.
May AlLaah rewards you abundantly

Ibkhaleel01:
The xtian never change their nature...lies upon lies.... following conjectures from haters of Islam

They know they cant face us with the lies...but rather hide online and disgrace themselves here...


Lemme disgrace you


Virgins Matthew 19:29 says Christians will be given 100 wives to make love with:

"And every one that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife (ἤ γυναῖκα), or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred times more, and shall inherit everlasting life."


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 29. - ....." Some manuscripts, followed by some modern editors, omit or wife, the omission being probably first made by some critical scribe, who deemed that a wife should never be left. The Lord enumerates the persons and objects upon which men's hearts are most commonly and firmly fixed. He begins and ends the list with material possessions - houses and lands, and between them introduces in gradation the most cherished members of the family circle. "Forsaking wife and children" may be understood as abstaining from marriage in order the better to serve God. For my Name's sake. In consequence of belief in Christ, rather than do despite to his grace, or in order to confess and follow him more completely........ An hundredfold. Some read "manifold," as in Luke 18:30. The spiritual relationship into which religion would introduce him largely compensates for the loss of earthly connections. He shall have brothers and sisters in the faith - hundreds who will show him the affection of father and mother, hundreds who will love him as well as wife and children. .......... The hope of future happiness is in itself sufficient to lighten and dissipate all earthly troubles, and to stimulate severest sacrifices."


This verse is a proof that the bible is altered according to scribes' own desires.

More and more we hear of ignorance from Christians who criticize Islam for claiming that Paradise will have physical pleasures in it similar to the ones that we have here on earth.  Personally, I've heard cheap comments before about the 70 Houris for men in Heaven and how the Prophet, peace be upon him, "promised Hot desert men" sex in Paradise.

Bashing is easy, and believe me, nothing is easier than bashing the gospel of porn bible for claiming that women's vaginas and breasts taste like "wine", and that sisters can look lustfully at their biological brothers and wish to have sex with them in bed.  All of the quotes from the gospel of porn are locate at:  X-Rated Pornography in the Bible.

Note:  The exact number of 70 Houris is not mentioned in the Noble Quran.  It is only mentioned in the Hadiths (collections of the Sayings of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him).  But Houris were mentioned in the Noble Quran.  So the number is most likely true, even though the Hadiths were collected centuries after the natural death of the Prophet.  In other words, the possibility of the Hadith being corrupt (most of the Bible is mostly corrupt), is slim because the Noble Quran supports the narration by mentioning the Houris as shown at the end of the article.  Please visit:  What parts of the Hadiths and Bible do Muslims believe are closest to the Truth, and Why?

Now having said all of that, let us now get technical here. 

x123xlolls:
Religion that was build on lies... Thats why a CHRISTIAN WILL SWEAR he is a muslim just to enter a thread and unleash madness..

Christianity was build on lies and deception, they can lie about anybody, even xtians of centuries back know that our Prophet was truthfully accepted by non-muslims, yet some hoodlums are here on a friday saying rubbish

https://www.nairaland.com/2963312/pastor-hacks-banker-wife-death

https://www.nairaland.com/6032467/imo-police-parade-kidnappers-traditional

https://www.nairaland.com/2772342/nigerian-cele-pastor-us-arrested/2

https://www.nairaland.com/4433656/ogun-pastor-kills-lover-buries

https://www.nairaland.com/1031836/police-arrest-pastor-human-skull

https://www.nairaland.com/5698523/pastor-arrested-after-prophesying-location

https://www.nairaland.com/4576360/pastor-arrested-killing-sex-worker

chuose2:


No make us laugh oh

Allah is the greatest deceiver, that is greatest lier

Surah 3:54
Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers

The God of the bible cant lie

Titus 1:2
God, that cannot lie

While allah is the greatest lier & the bible says that the father of lies is satan

John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.


You do the maths

olarid01:
Honestly, the most unaccommodating set of people I've ever met are Christians, but they pretend as if they are. Since you don't believe in what is being posted, why on earth will you ALWAYS come here and post unfounded and deceitful replies. A quick view on Christians posts on Sundays shows that Muslims hardly care in what they posts.

I understand that you guys are trying to discourage real Muslims from actually reading beneficial posts on the platform, but sit down and tell yourself, if this is all you can do in your so called Religion, isn't it time for you to reconsider and face the truth?

Terrence99:


Allah has promised you 72 virgins in the afterlife. What will your mother get in the afterlife? Or she will suffer here and suffer there also.