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