Fariq Naik – Is It Allowed to Follow Celebrities on Social Media Platforms
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The speaker discusses the importance of following celebrities on social media for their professionality. They caution against following celebrities who are directly involved in a sport or a culture that is macro-equ monetary. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following a person for their professionality and their influence on society.
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Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh I'm from Pakistan. My
name is Mahmoud Fatima. Is it okay to follow celebrities on Instagram
or on other social media platforms just following them, not liking or
sharing their posts, but just merely following them. As far as
following celebrities is concerned, it can be divided into
three categories. The first is whose profession it involves in
things that are haram. For example, we have the Bollywood
stars, the Hollywood stars, and unfortunately many Muslims, they
are in the Bollywood industry in Mumbai, and they are famous and
they run behind and they are concerned about fame and the
compromise and the religion of Islam. Many of these celebrities,
they are involved in intermingling touching of the opposite gender,
many unfortunately even though there are Muslims for the purpose
of acting, they even do shake they will do certain actions wherein
they worship idols. So, we realize that unfortunately many Muslims
because of film they do things that are haram following such
celebrities, it is not right. And this should totally be avoided.
Because these celebrities their main thing, what they do is haram.
Many of them they are involved in music, for example, a celebrity
who's a musician or a celebrity who's a dancer, a female dancer,
this is totally haram in Islam, female dancer, but natural she's
breaking the rules of hijab. So her profession is haram. So how
can we follow such a person, the second category of celebrities are
those who are indirectly involved in Haram. For example, a person
who is a football or basketball player, they may be playing
football and football per se, it is not haram, but they are
indirectly involved in haram for example, they may be wearing
shorts or their lifestyle is such that they may be in Haram
relationships, etc, many of them they drink alcohol. So, this also
following them, it is macro or it can even be haram. So, this also
should be avoided, but if we are merely following them for their
particular sport, for example, a footballer or a basketball player
and it is only limited to this than inshallah this should not be
a problem best is but natural to white, but this it should not be a
problem. But unfortunately, many times when a person follows a
sports star or football or basketball player or any other
sports stars, this increases and a person starts reviewing this
person, a person starts considering this footballer or
this basketball player as a role model and starts following his
lifestyle, his hairstyle, the way he dresses, all of this, it should
totally be avoided, merely watching them as far as the sport
is concerned. There is no problem. But these people should not be a
role model. They are involved in things that are haram. And
unfortunately, we find many of the youth today. They look up to these
football players. For example, a person if he's a massive fan, or
if he's a Ronaldo fan. He will know the number of goals that
Ronaldo has scored. He will know for which clubs Ronaldo and Messi
have played. He will know how many times Messi has won the FIFA World
Player of the Year he will know all of these things. These details
but when you ask the same youngster regarding the lifestyle
of our beloved Prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon
him. Regarding the Sierra formula Prophet Muhammad may peace and
blessings be upon him. When did the Battle of battle take place?
And other questions related to the life of the Sahaba the qualifier
Rashi dune they will not be aware regarding it.
Are these sports stars are role models? Or is our role model our
beloved Prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon him? Allah
subhanaw taala says the Glorious Quran in surah Al Kalam chapter 68
was the merfolk were in Nicola Allah, who are the four when you
aren't in the highest standard of character Allah subhanaw taala
says into the HAZOP chapter number 33 was Psalm 21 Look at the
candela confederacy Losartan Hassan wearily in the Messenger of
Allah, you have a beautiful pattern of behavior. So, the
Beloved Prophet Muhammad peace be upon he should be a role model.
And these sports stars or celebrities should not be our role
models. And in fact, that reminds me of an incident where in a
Muslim he was taking part in a show that is known as KBC. Kaun
Banega karate, and the host is Amitabh Bachchan, and in this
show, a person is asked the host that is Amitabh Bachchan, he asked
questions to the participant and the more answers that you give
correctly the
More than human. So this person he gives answers regarding worldly
aspects regarding the Hindu scriptures as well regard and he
answers all these answers correctly. And then later on
Amitabh Bachchan asked this Muslim, a question out of these
four individuals who is not a prophet of Almighty God, who's not
a prophet in Islam, Adam Musa, Mohammed, Angie, Brian, what was
the response of this Muslim? Can you believe it? This Muslim? He
said he wants to flip the question. What does it mean? It
means that he does not want to respond to this question as he is
unsure of the answer, or he does not know the answer. So the
question is flipped, but Amitabh Bachchan asked this person this
Muslim, that if you would have answered this question, what would
your answer have been? What did this Muslim say? He said, The
person who is not a prophet of God, the person who is not a
prophet in slab is Musa, can you believe it? He knows things
regarding the Hindu scriptures and he does not know regarding the
prophets of God, the Prophets in Islam. It is such a pity. A person
should be aware regarding the religion of Islam, and we Muslims
we should give priority to the religion of Islam. It is very
important that we as believers know the importance of our deen.
That is the religion of Islam. We pray to Allah subhanho wa Taala
that May He keep a steadfast on the throttle Mr. P on the straight
path and may admit all of us into the garden of paradise into
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