On 9/28/11, Stylowinkie <mc090406505@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
> *Nice infomation.......
> *
> On 28 September 2011 15:55, <bc110200682@vu.edu.pk> wrote:
>
>> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oFQ2ST0aGLA/ToGToHCJsWI/AAAAAAAAAbw/q-IyvZuvmn4/s1600/socialnetwork1.jpg>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the ruling on signing up for and participating in Facebook?
>>
>> Praise be to Allaah.
>>
>> Firstly:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>> ██████████████████ Basic Group Rules ███████████████████
>> Immoral & Rudish talk, Earning program links, Cell number for friendship
>> purpose, Websites/Groups Links, Adult contents, Criticize-able Islamic
>> stuff, Spreading disruption, Spamming are strictly prohibited and banned
>> in
>> group.
>> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>>
>> Follow these detailed Group Rules, otherwise you will be banned at any
>> time.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJxA8x3_U7C1lRc0EXfLrJpco4A1XkB1vDxOTqOd3Jg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNDy9tkJ
>>
>> Group Email Address:
>> Attock-VU-Group@Googlegroups.Com
>>
>> Join group by sending a blank email from University ID at:
>> Attock-VU-Group+Subscribe@Googlegroups.Com
>>
>> ████████████ Click here to Join this group at Facebook:████████████
>> ♥ ♥ ♥ https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_111877855568034 ♥ ♥ ♥
>> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>>
>
> --
> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
> ██████████████████ Basic Group Rules ███████████████████
> Immoral & Rudish talk, Earning program links, Cell number for friendship
> purpose, Websites/Groups Links, Adult contents, Criticize-able Islamic
> stuff, Spreading disruption, Spamming are strictly prohibited and banned in
> group.
> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>
> Follow these detailed Group Rules, otherwise you will be banned at any time.
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJxA8x3_U7C1lRc0EXfLrJpco4A1XkB1vDxOTqOd3Jg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNDy9tkJ
>
> Group Email Address:
> Attock-VU-Group@Googlegroups.Com
>
> Join group by sending a blank email from University ID at:
> Attock-VU-Group+Subscribe@Googlegroups.Com
>
> ████████████ Click here to Join this group at Facebook:████████████
> ♥ ♥ ♥ https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_111877855568034 ♥ ♥ ♥
> █████████████████████████████████████████████████
>
--
MBA (HRM) 4th Smstr
0307-7400677
Shah.vu.pk@gmail.com
--
█████████████████████████████████████████████████
██████████████████ Basic Group Rules ███████████████████
Immoral & Rudish talk, Earning program links, Cell number for friendship purpose, Websites/Groups Links, Adult contents, Criticize-able Islamic stuff, Spreading disruption, Spamming are strictly prohibited and banned in group.
█████████████████████████████████████████████████
█████████████████████████████████████████████████
Follow these detailed Group Rules, otherwise you will be banned at any time.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJxA8x3_U7C1lRc0EXfLrJpco4A1XkB1vDxOTqOd3Jg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNDy9tkJ
Group Email Address:
Attock-VU-Group@Googlegroups.Com
Join group by sending a blank email from University ID at:
Attock-VU-Group+Subscribe@Googlegroups.Com
████████████ Click here to Join this group at Facebook:████████████
♥ ♥ ♥ https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_111877855568034 ♥ ♥ ♥
█████████████████████████████████████████████████
No comments:
Post a Comment