Wael Ibrahim – Unplugged on porn addiction
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The world is experiencing issues with online pornography causing devastation for children and teenagers, as well as the success of Free Unplugging. Many countries are blocking websites and creating phone videos, creating a " Free Unpluggeded" environment. The importance of changing environments and addressing addiction is emphasized, along with the need for costless companies and a focus on productivity to improve one's chances of recovery. Traffic rules and avoiding isolation are also emphasized as ways to prevent addiction.AI: Transcript ©
How are you brothers and sisters?
Today, this is a mini unplugged.
I'm gonna interview
Wael Ibrahim, my friend.
And I have a very,
simple and quick question after greeting you and,
asking Allah to
bless you and your family. Why? Because
shows you for a very, very important mission.
Apart
from,
the crisis which is happening in Gaza as
of today, what is the biggest
problem that is facing the world as of
today?
Online, Sheikh, on a daily basis, the main
problem that I receive, whether by emails, text
messages,
or other social media accounts that I have,
is that either
a brother will contact me, tell me that
he is he's been addicted to * for
many, many years For how long? Or his
wife will contact me telling me the same
thing and that the marriage is falling apart.
Or even kids as young as 12,
13, 14 are actually and and the good
thing is that about the kids is that
they have realized
that it is actually
causing them,
devastation in terms of the studies, the memory
retention, and so on and so forth. So
for a kid like at 12 years old,
14 years old to realize the the damage
and the consequence of * addiction, it's something
big.
And, to me, there is nothing there is
nothing bigger than this in our in our
time. And it has not Lehay, how do
you It did not discriminate against any segment
of the society.
Any,
age group. Follow-up questions. The first is,
is this what the so called free world
has introduced to us?
I mean, if you happen to post anything
about Gaza,
you will be shadow banned, your accounts will
be suspended,
and you will not be able to go
live maybe for a year or more.
You know? And now it's Our sister, Fatima
Behnam, one of the senators,
the youngest Muslim hijabi senator in Australia Uh-huh.
She spoke her heart out. She spoke against
the atrocities that's happening
in Palestine,
recently, and the whole world is against her.
The whole media, the whole so called freedom
of speech
advocates
are against him. But as far as I
know,
awfully,
the West produces
every minute
hundreds of movies and clips, *
movies.
USA,
Canada,
Europe.
Is this what the free world benefit in
the world wins? I believe I Poisoning the
minds of our youth, of our children because
you're just fighting me right now when you
say
as early as the age of 12.
Even younger, sir? Younger. Even younger. So the
the now in one of the latest statistics
is 1 in 10 born users on the
Internet is under the age of 10. Yeah.
How And how many are there, Sheikh? How
many users just to give you an idea,
there is one website that boast about how
many
users
been, you know, visiting their websites in the
year 2019 alone.
He said there has been 42,000,000,000
visits that occurred on their website. That's one
single website in the year 2019 alone. So
God alone knows
how many 1,000,000,000
other views elsewhere
occur on different websites. And you said only
on one single website? Yeah. That's one single
website. Do you have an estimate as how
many websites?
By the Chetna, millions of pages are created
every single day. Millions. Because because many governments
are also, like, working working towards the effort
of blocking these pages. Mhmm. So as soon
as a page is blocked, 10 are created.
Okay. Yeah. 10 are created.
And the problem, Sheikh Mansory, to interrupt, the
danger of corn industry is now no
longer pertaining
to big producers and studios and big cameras
and all that. With the phone.
Yes. There are people who are creating phone
from the digital on this cell phone. And
and those are usually the young generation. As
we're talking right now, we create their own
videos.
To draw more attention and viewership, and and
obviously, they earn money on that. Sometimes, even
young young kids, and this is a message
to all young kids who are listening,
that it unintentionally, they share this imagery with
so called, you know, my boyfriend, my girlfriend,
only to find that these these imagery find
its way to on-site.
My second question for the sake of time
that
I see once was talking about, you know,
when somebody asks you, like, you know, the
ultimate solution
for,
* addiction and how to get rid of
it. And, you phrase it very well and
you said there is no magical state of
1,
strike that the person will quit. But you
give an advice
or you said, lower your game. That's the
beginning.
Basically,
indeed, that is the ultimate solution, but it
isn't easy. Why?
Because the more you feed your eyesight,
the more you starve. It's not only about
the dopamine release and, getting excited. It's about,
you know, getting used to the sin, which
is in Arabic, we call it
and how the messenger of Allah peace be
upon him said,
everyone's heart will be exposed continuously to sins.
And then
when you let go one sin,
it will leave a black spot,
a black dark. If you repent and seek
forgiveness, it will be erased. But if you
leave it, another one will be added. And
3rd,
then there will be like a thick layer
of rust on top of the heart, which
the almighty Allah referred to in the Quran
as a run.
How to scrub this run?
I think this was, you know, the definition
of addiction
in in in in in, in its actual,
you know, meaning. And how to get rid
of this election Sheikh or that realm is
number 1, the environment must change. The environment
must become conducive to iman driven activities.
You know, I always say masjid is not
called masjid
unless
salah is performed in it. That's why masjid,
you know, comes from sujud. Right? So a
masjid without salah, it's just an empty space,
you know. So environment must be very conducive
to iman driven activities, productivities. Number 2, the
structure that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the do's
and don'ts, the halal and halal must be
always in place. And the 3rd and the
most important tip to, you know, begin the
journey to of recovery is good company.
Righteous company. And in Surah Al Kahf, Allah
told us very clearly stick, you know, hold
fast onto those people who worship their lord
day and night. What
And and guess who's being instructed?
The prophet
sallallahu alaihi. So, I love I love the
description.
Don't let your eyes stray away. Meaning, stick
with those righteous company. Because by definition, a
righteous friend is the is the one that
when you meet, when you see, it reminds
you of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it reminds
you of your duty
towards
him. And and you can't you can't be
alone. Mhmm. Avoid isolation at all cost. If
you're really if you're really serious about recovery,
you can't be alone.
You mean that being alone,
initiates?
Yeah. Open the doors for, of course, a
lot of things. Number 1, Shaitan knows your
weakness. Mhmm. Number 2, you're addicted already, so
the dopamine level will rise once you are
comfortable behind closed doors. 2 enemies against 1,
you will never win. You will never win
the battle. So you have to have a
righteous company system in place. The fear factor.
Would it help raising the fear factor? The
fear of Allah, the fear of being caught,
the fear whether active or passive fear. The
active fear is that you wasted plenty of
time already of your life. It's time to
recover. It's time to be productive. It's time
to study. It's time to graduate.
It is time to start making money. It's
time to be a successful person.
This is like, you know,
fear of the future. And the passive fear
such as,
being afraid of being caught. Like, you just
mentioned that many sisters are calling to complain
about their spouses. Called their husbands. Yeah. So
no matter how much,
careful you are,
you might have How many times you deleted
the history
of your you would be caught at one
point. Mhmm. And, the ad that if you
remember Sheikh
I always give I always give the example
of even CCTV camera. When when you're driving
a car and you know that you're watched
by camera, you respect the traffic rules. True.
But once the traffic's, you know, it's not
happening. To be continued because we need to
catch a flight, we got some guests here.
Assalamu alaikum. People that we've had. Guess what
you're talking about?
I
don't know. Popcorn is this We'll continue with
the
maybe in the flight. See you soon.
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