Fariq Naik – How Should the Youth Use the Social Media

Assalamu alaikum I'm Tofik Omar from India, please advise our

youth, how to use the social media in an Islamic way and what is

prohibited in it especially Whatsapp and Facebook, social

media, it has a huge reach the most popular among the social

media, it is the Facebook, it has more than 2.5 billion monthly

active users.

After that, it is YouTube, which has 2 billion monthly active

users.

So social media it has a huge reach and social media per se, it

is not haram there are various social media platforms for

example, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Social media can be used for the good purpose or can be used for

the bad purpose.

For example, a knife it can be used for cutting fruits, whereas

the same knife can be used for killing human beings. It depends

upon how you use the knife. Similarly, social media it depends

upon how you use it. But unfortunately, majority of the

people they use social media for non beneficial things rather than

beneficial things, majority of the people they use social media for

non productive things rather than productive things.

Whenever we are using social media, we should see to it that we

do not break any rule of the Sharia. It should be within the

purview of the Islamic sharia and we should not break any rule of

the Sharia, this is very important.

On YouTube, you have the advertisements and more than 95%

of these advertisements, they have something that is haram they

either have woman without hijab or they have music

even Facebook, it has things that are haram woman without hijab

music, obscenity, *, etc all these things they are available on

Facebook woman dressed in inappropriate clothes. So we

should abstain from watching all of this.

So whenever we are using social media, we should see to it that it

is within the purview of the Islamic sharia and that we do not

break the rules of the Islamic Sharia.

And as you ask your question regarding WhatsApp, WhatsApp

is a messaging application which is a substitute for the telephone,

email, fax etc.

And it is more used for Halal rather than haram.

It is used for the Haram things for example chatting with the NAMA

haram chatting with people of the opposite gender

also

it is used for dating. So it is used for things that are haram.

But whenever we are using it we should see to it that we abstain

from these things that haram and we have several channels on

YouTube. In fact majority of the channels they involve in something

that is haram.

We have the example of T series, which is the most popular YouTube

channel.

It has no less than 120 3 billion views. Not million billion.

But it is used for the Haram majority of the things on this

channel. They involve in things that are haram woman without hijab

music woman dressed inappropriately, they have huge

popularity. And if we use it for propagating the message of Islam

Inshallah, we will get reward for this we can have daily videos, we

can have monthly videos, we can have weekly videos.

Because social media it has a huge reach. So we should use it for our

benefit. And we should use it for conveying the message of Islam to

the non Muslims to those who are unaware of it, and every person

who embraced Islam. After hearing your lectures or after seeing any

of your videos, you will get huge rewards for this. Whatever good

deeds that person does, you will get a share of His rewards.

So it is a very good opportunity for you to use the social media

for conveying the message of Islam, whether it be YouTube,

whether it be Facebook, even WhatsApp can be used for conveying

the message of Islam. You can share good Islamic videos among

your friends, among your colleagues, on groups etc.

So in this way we can get

ready we'll use the social media for our benefit and use it for

conveying the message of Islam to the non Muslims to those who are

unaware of it