Abu Taymiyyah – Q&A {Funny} A Child Asks Why Do You Warn Against Tiktok
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Very good question.
Very good question.
Our young man here is asking why shouldn't
we have TikTok on our phones?
Let me ask you, what's your name?
Abdul Aman. Abdul Rahman. You have one of
the best names.
May Allah reward your father for naming you
that.
The most beloved names to Allah is Abdul
Rahman
and Abdullah.
Abdul Rahman, let me ask you a question.
Is it allowed to play music?
Yes. No. You're not allowed to play music
because it's not.
No. No. Very good.
That taught you well.
So now, when you go on to TikTok,
what's the first thing that you normally see?
So does that make it allowed for you
to use TikTok?
No. But but my money is TikTok for
Islamic
things.
For that.
I'm sure there are other apps.
If one needed Islamic reminders can revert
to. I really want everyone to understand this.
There are certain apps
that you could use
when coming into that which is impermissible is
far less
than apps like TikTok.
Can you really afford
to see, like, 10 haram things before you
come across something that is maybe what?
Allowed?
By that time, your heart has already become
what?
Really badly affected.
Right. Can we put Twitter, for example, in
the same category as Instagram?
Can we
because there's Tabakat. Right? There's levels.
I remember the Instagram account that I have
that you see now. Right?
It was given to me when he only
had something like 800 followers or something like
that.
The brothers, they all said to me, listen.
You have to be on Instagram. I was
like, brothers, I don't. I always thought that
was an app for young kid young kids.
Never thought that elder people have used it.
They were like, you have to have it.
If you wanna be able to get to
the youngsters in the youth,
you have to post Islamic reminders on that.
So then I agreed. I took it.
Right.
But they said something to me. You know
what they said?
Don't ever press the search button.
Would you guys agree to that?
Don't ever press
search button
because of what your eyes might be exposed
to.
You
know brothers and sisters. Right?
What was he, like, really known for? Does
anyone know?
Poetry.
Poetry.
Jameen, anything else?
Health.
Health.
That's like I thought somebody would say fiqhaza,
which is also true. It was also known
for his memorization.
Later on down the line, his memorization became
effective. He began to suffer from loss of
memory.
And
then he complained to Waqiya.
But do you, brothers and sisters, know what
affected his memorization?
What did he look at that affected the
memorization, they say?
He looked at
some bangles that were bangling around a woman's
ankles.
Imagine that.
She was fully what? Covered and clothed.
But
her ankles were uncovered,
and there were bangles on there.
And he said that affected his memorization.
His memorization was so powerful. If there was,
like, a book that was open, he would
have to cover one
side like that just so the other side
doesn't get mixed with it.
I know a lot of us, mashallah, we
want to memorize the Quran,
Right? We wanna learn our religion. We wanna
taste the sweetness
of the Quran in this month.
I'm sure every single one here wants that.
Then let me ask you guys an honest
question. When you go now on this when
you click on the search button on Instagram,
or you have these apps like Snapchat or,
and TikTok. As soon as you enter you
are what?
It's like shoved in your face. Look at
this.
Can we really afford that?
Can our hearts really afford that?
Afford to become affected by that?
May Allah
help us all in today's day and age.
It's becoming worse and worse and worse.
And today, subhanAllah,
normally, we would tell our children,
don't hang around with the wrong crowd outside.
It's become much more than that now. Them
days when we thought that the only way
that our children would become corrupted is by
them hanging around with the wrong crowd,
them days are long over.
Today, our children are inside of the house
and outside at the same time,
and they might be exposed to that which
is more worse
inside of the house than outside. Do you
guys agree?
Because of what they are exposed to.
Even one might leave the fold of Islam
without ever going outside.
Allah one sheikh, Sheikh Abdelkader,
He really put it nicely. He said, today,
the world has become like a little village.
The whole world
has become like a little village
that everyone is living in because of social
media. But the point is, today, because of
this small little village that we live in,
due to social media,
right, one's exposed to everything. He's exposed to
doubts.
Right? I remember many, many years ago, the
scholars would say, don't expose the students
to certain types of innovation.
Why? Because, you know, now they might become
exposed so they might start reading on it
when they really don't need it and it's
very far fetched that they will ever run
into something like that.
Can we say that in today's day and
age?
Can we?
With everything at your disposal.
Does that answer your question, Abdulham?
Yes. Hamdulillah. Are you happy with that? Yes.
You're gonna delete TikTok?
Yes.
I'm going to tell my mom my mom
to stop TikTok
forever.
Thanks, Evelyn. Guys.