Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Social Media and the Scattered Brain Syndrome

right not to be distracted. The problem is that we are a

distracted generation. Have you ever seen in history? Right in

history? Have you ever seen somebody? Very few probably ever

done what we're doing today? That's probably why there's holes

in brains. According to some research, our brains have become

like Swiss cheese with holes inside. Why? Can you imagine just

just thinking about this today, actually,

a guy sitting there, and he is holding 10 conversations at once.

There's 10 people sitting around him. And this guy is saying

something. So he's part of that, then this guy saying then has to

run here, then he has to run there. This is what we do on

WhatsApp, and Twitter and everything. We're constantly

checking, we give a response, then we go somewhere else, we give a

response, or we just learn what they're saying. We just read what

they're saying, we go back, he said something, can you imagine

the hard work that your brain has to do? Just to do that, and it's

not natural. Never in history has it probably been natural to speak

to probably more than two people at once, even a hips class teacher

who probably is the most proficient in this regard, who can

listen to two students at once. But that's kind of by alternating

and filling in the gaps because they're half is, that's probably a

way they can do that three people is impossible, you're gonna miss

out something, and it's much other students are going to get very

excited.

For people, it's impossible, they've actually done, they've

done, I remember, one once went to a science and economy, there was

Ontario Science Center, or it was somewhere else in the world. And

just to understand how the brain functions actually gave you two

headphones, and they had different sounds coming from both different

voices. How can you process that information? You can't, this is

exactly what we're doing. Can you imagine what that's going to do to

your brain when you're doing this for hours on end every day, when I

say I was on a you don't do it, you may not do for three hours

together. But you will probably do it five minutes, 10 minutes, 15

minutes, and then do a bit of work and then do it again, your mind is

constantly jumping from one place to the other is so bad for you.

Because because of this whole COVID thing. I've had to get more

online, because I'm dealing with a lot of questions, a lot of

feedback on things, a lot of comments, because it's an ever

changing situation. You know, people said hostile is, you know,

impossible. Some people still saying that, I'll say no, it's

completely safe, or it is safe. And so it's just constant. So I'm

having to get more on there respond to people, people want

questions. And I was like, What's going on here? You know, just five

groups of five different questions. I call you juggling

between them. That is so bad for your brain. Like, it's just no

doubt about it.

Now, if you've got that, how are you going to have concentration in

your prayer? When you're in prayer, your brain is addicted

now. Not because you want it to be? Believe me? Nobody even thinks

of this as an addiction addiction. They don't want it to be an

addiction. They say it's not an addiction, but it is an addiction.

So even when you're praying, how can you concentrate? How can you

continue to work this productivity has gone down, because we're just

constantly jumping from one place to the other the mind is as used

to jumping, jumping, jumping,

as seriously something that we really need to think about. I just

thought about this today. I was like, Man, this is detrimental. I

have to get off this.

So that's the way to get concentration and to ask ALLAH

SubhanA wa Tada.