Friday, September 30, 2011

Re: (Attock VU Group) FACEBOOK, TWITTER, SOCIAL NETWORKING, HARAM OR HALAL IN ISLAM?

Yes u r right

On Sep 29, 2011 6:04 PM, "mc090402279 Muhammad Mushtaq" <mc090402279@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
> FACE BOOK IS JUST A RUBBISH. IT IS PLANTED BY ENEMY. THE ENEMY OF *YOU*, *YOUR
> COUNTRY* AND *YOUR RELIGION*. THEY ARE JUST BLACKMAILERS. PLZ AVOID YOUR
> PERSONNEL, COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL INFORMATION AND SECRET SHARING WITH ANY
> PEOPLE ON THIS SITE.
> BE ALERT AND BE CARE FUL
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Stylowinkie <mc090406505@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
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>> *Nice infomation.......
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>> On 28 September 2011 15:55, <bc110200682@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
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>>> What is the ruling on signing up for and participating in Facebook?
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>>> Praise be to Allaah.
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>>> Firstly:
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>>> The website Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard
>>> University in America, at the beginning of 2004 CE. Use of the website was
>>> initially limited to students of the University, then the network expanded
>>> to include other universities in Boston, and eventually to include the
>>> entire world at the end of 2006 CE.
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>>> The aim behind the founding of this site was to enable people to get to
>>> know one another and build social relationships. This site is regarded as
>>> the most important virtual community on the Internet. The number of users
>>> runs to tens of millions and is constantly increasing. It is widely accepted
>>> in the Arab and Muslim world and is available in more than forty languages;
>>> the people in charge of the site are planning to add further languages.
>>>
>>> Secondly:
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>>> The world of Facebook is a world in which one may communicate in writing
>>> or verbally (chat), in which there are both major sins and benefits for
>>> people, but this site is distinct from others in many ways, including the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1.
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>>> Availability of detailed personal information about users, which has
>>> already resulted in negative consequences such as:
>>>
>>> (a) It has led to reviving old relationships between lovers which led to a
>>> resumption of those (illicit) relationships, leading to betrayal and
>>> divorce.
>>>
>>> A team from the National Centre for Social and Criminal Research in Egypt
>>> prepared a study on Facebook which took several weeks, from which it noted
>>> serious consequences (of using this site). Among other things it noted:
>>> "many visitors to the website succeeded in finding their first love and
>>> former relationships, and rebuilt destructive relationships outside the
>>> family, which is threatening marriages and Muslim family life."
>>>
>>> (b) Some foreign spy services have recruited some Facebook members by
>>> looking at their details, their economic situation and standard of living,
>>> and they have exploited that to recruit them to spy for them.
>>>
>>> A foreign newspaper discovered a Jewish spy network that was working to
>>> recruit Arab and Muslim youth to spy for them.
>>>
>>> On the Muheet website – dated 25 Jumaada al-Oola 1431 AH – they quoted
>>> from a French newspaper the story of Jewish exploitation of Facebook to
>>> recruit agents:
>>>
>>> Gerald Nero, a professor in the college of psychology in the French
>>> University of Provence and the author of the book Dangers of the Internet,
>>> says: "This network was discovered in May 2001 CE; it was a group of
>>> networks run by Israeli specialists in psychology who were recruited to work
>>> on youth in the Third World, especially those living in Arab states that are
>>> hostile towards Israel, as well as South America."
>>>
>>> In fact, this recruitment began before the founding of the Facebook site,
>>> which offered more opportunities for this network – and others like it – to
>>> find youth who were suitable for recruitment by looking at their details and
>>> by chatting with them.
>>>
>>> (c) Hacking into bank accounts and stealing the identity of a Facebook
>>> member by looking at his personal information.
>>>
>>> 2. The spread of this website has made it a global chat site which brings
>>> together people from all parts of the world; they made matters worse by
>>> giving the users of their site a program that makes it easy for these
>>> conversations to take place without entering the site, such as that which
>>> was produced by Hotmail and Messenger. Chatting results in negative
>>> consequences that are known to everyone who has any experience of that on
>>> the Internet, especially if the program takes it possible for people to see
>>> one another as well as writing. Among the negative consequences of chat and
>>> sinful relationships are the following:
>>>
>>> (a) Wasting valuable time in trivial talk and getting to know people.
>>>
>>> The wise Muslim should realise that his lifespan is limited and that he
>>> will not live on earth for ever; he is going to meet his Lord, may He be
>>> exalted, Who will ask him about his youth and how he spent it, and about his
>>> life and what he did. So let the wise one look at the early generations of
>>> this ummah and its scholars, and think about how they thought about time and
>>> their lifespan.
>>>
>>> Ibn 'Aqeel al-Hanbali (may Allah have mercy on him) said of himself: It is
>>> not permissible for me to waste an hour of my life. When I stop discussing
>>> issues of knowledge and debating them (with others) and when I stop reading
>>> in a book, I would start pondering and thinking when I am resting and lying
>>> down, and before I get up, I will have already an idea that I should write
>>> down and I am very keen to increase my knowledge now I am in my eighties and
>>> more keen than when I was twenty years old.
>>>
>>> Quoted from him by Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Muntazam, 9/214
>>>
>>> Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man's time is in fact
>>> his life, and his eternal life, whether it is eternal bliss or eternal
>>> suffering, is based on how he spent it. Time is passing quickly; whatever
>>> time he spends for the sake of Allah and by the help of Allah, this is his
>>> true life; any other time is not counted as part of his life, even if he
>>> spends it doing what animals do. So if he spends his time in heedlessness,
>>> idle entertainment and false wishes, and the best of what he spends his time
>>> in is sleep and idleness, then his death is better than his life.
>>>
>>> Al-Jawaab al-Kaafi, p. 109
>>>
>>> (b) Establishing sinful relationships between men and women, which may
>>> cause the destruction of a stable family.
>>>
>>> In a study by the National Centre – mentioned above – it says:
>>>
>>> One in every five cases of divorce came about when one partner discovered
>>> that the other was having a relationship through the Internet, and through
>>> Facebook.
>>>
>>> Thirdly:
>>>
>>> It cannot be denied that there are a number of benefits in this site,
>>> which are attained by wise people who are keen to guide people to goodness.
>>> These people have done well by using modern means of communication – such as
>>> the Internet, mobile phones and satellite channels; they have entered the
>>> world of those people to serve their religion and call people to their Lord,
>>> especially activities that are done collectively, because that makes it less
>>> likely that the one who does this type of work collectively will fall into
>>> the temptations of that world. Among the benefits of that website are the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1. Personal pages for some shaykhs and daa'iyahs, in which they offer
>>> advice to the people and answer their questions, especially those who have
>>> groups. The leader or founder of the group benefits when a number of people
>>> who are part of that group get together and send out messages to the group,
>>> open up topics for discussion, and post a large number of high-quality video
>>> clips.
>>>
>>> 2. Global campaigns to alert users of that site to global Islamic events
>>> that are suppressed and ignored by the kaafir media, or to support oppressed
>>> peoples, or to close a website or personal page.
>>>
>>> 3. Spreading useful and beneficial books, articles and websites among
>>> visitors to that site.
>>>
>>> 4. Communication between friends and relatives, especially those who live
>>> far apart from one another. Communication has a good impact in maintaining
>>> bonds and encouraging one another to remain steadfast in Islam.
>>>
>>> Fourthly:
>>>
>>> With regard to the shar'i ruling on signing up for Facebook, it depends on
>>> the intention of the one who wants to sign up. If he is a man of knowledge
>>> or a seeker thereof or a member of a da'wah group, then it is permissible
>>> and good, because of the benefits they have to offer to the people. But for
>>> the one who joins it for evil purposes or for whom there is no guarantee
>>> that he will be safe from temptation and may easily slip, especially young
>>> men and women, it is not permissible for them to sign up for it.
>>>
>>> The one who knows the reality of our times and the temptation and turmoil
>>> that is knocking at the door of all of our houses will not object to any
>>> faqeeh or mufti who disallows anything in which there is harm, whether it is
>>> totally or mostly harmful. The fact that there is some small benefit does
>>> not encourage one to say that it is permissible because there is still fear
>>> for the one who embarks upon it. If what is good and beneficial is great and
>>> the evil and harm is small or non-existent, then we may with a clear
>>> conscience say that it is permissible. Hence some of our scholars were very
>>> strict about satellite channels at first, because of the pure harm and evil
>>> in them; but when there started to be some great good in them and completely
>>> Islamic channels were founded, and receivers that only accepted those
>>> channels became available, the view that they are permissible became valid;
>>> indeed we see that many scholars have contributed to these channels and have
>>> useful programs on them.
>>>
>>> The one who cannot control himself on Facebook and similar sites should
>>> refrain from joining them. Joining them is permissible for the one who acts
>>> in accordance with the shar'i guidelines by controlling himself and not
>>> following his whims and desires, and who joins them so that he can benefit
>>> himself and others others.
>>>
>>> We ask Allah to keep us safe from temptations both visible and invisible,
>>> for He is the Guide to the straight path.
>>>
>>> And Allah knows best.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
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