Using Facebook for Dawah?

The Permissibility of Using Facebook for Dawah



As salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, this is a re-post from Trini Muslims on Facebook.

With that been said, I will be saying good bye to all my sisters in Facebook.

Question:



There is a website called Facebook which has become well known and is widely used all over the world. On this website every person has their own page where they can write in and post up their pictures. Through the use of this website men and women are able to look at one another’s pictures and they often meet up through this website. Furthermore, it has also been mentioned on some of the newspapers and news reports that cases of kidnap, as well as adultery and fornication have increased directly because of this website. Now some of Ahl us-sunnah have started to use this website in the name of Da’wah. So is it permissible for us to utilize this website whilst knowing all of what has been mentioned?



Answers



Shaykh al-’Allaamah Rabee’ Ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee



“The salafee does not visit this type of website. There are enough salafee websites that they can visit.”





Shaykh Abu Umar Usaamah Utaybee of Madinah



“The website facebook is from the immoral and corrupt websites. And it is said that the Jews are behind it, and Allah knows best the truth of this statement. In any case, this does not concern us. That which concerns us is, whether the practices that occur on this website are permissible in the sharee’ah. As for the use of this website to meet women, and the socialisation between sexes as well as the use of this site for other corrupt activities, then this is clearly impermissible.”



And women are weak and naive, so Messenger (ie. msn) and Chat and other similar websites and programmers harm the society, if they are used between men and women. This is completely and absolutely impermissible, due to women being weak and vulnerable. And how many cases of fornication and divorce and sin have come about due to the use of these sites. And this is something clearly recognized.



Face book came to gather between the evil of all of the previous messaging programmers. So all of these programmes were surpassed by Facebook and it increased upon them (i.e. their evil). Therefore it is an immoral and corrupt website. And if you were to use it to set up a page for Da’wah, then women would enter upon your page. And this would

necessitate socializing with women and speaking to them, and perhaps she may even send you her picture and this is something unavoidable in

Facebook. For that reason, the use of this website is impermissible, and I advise the youth that they stay away from it completely, and that they warn against it. And the fact that the sinful people and disbelievers use this website is not a reason for us to also use it, especially when the harm it causes is greater (than the benefit). So I advise you not enter into it.”



Shaykh Abu ‘Amr Al Hajooree of Yemen



Our Lord The Most High says in His Noble Book



“And those who do not witness falsehood, and if they pass by some evil

play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity”.



And from themeanings of to witness is to take part in or to be present for. Allah the most high says



“So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the

month (of Ramadan i.e. is present at his home), he must observe Saum

(fasts) that month.”Meaning is whoever is present for and takes part

in (that month).



So it is not permissible for any Muslim who fears Allah to use this website and take part in it. Especially due to what has been mentioned from the corruption and widespread evil which is present within it from pictures and the meeting of women as well as that which takes place because of this website from illegal sexual intercourse and kidnappings and other than that from the crimes which occur. So it is not permissible to use this kind of website. And by the grace and bounty of Allah anyone can create his own forum in this time which we live in. So Ahl us-Sunnah should create their own websites and forums where there is no aiding one another upon sin and transgression but rather where the people aid each other upon righteousness and piety and where the people can call to Allah to their utmost. As for taking part in these kinds of websites, even if it is thought that there is some good in it, then the evil within it is a lot worse and taking part in this website constitutes agreeing with this evil so it is not

permissible to take part in it.

The following may also prove insightfull

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/now/is-facebook-contributing-to-the-divorce-rate

Is social media ruining real relationships?



According to ABC News , a third of all divorce filings last year contained the word "Facebook."



That number was 20 percent just three years ago.



Many of the references have to do with spouses sending inappropriate messages to Facebook "friends."



Others have to with people saying nasty things about their significant others on the social media site.



Do you think social media is ending marriages that would have survived if it didn't exist?



Or is just speeding along the inevitable?



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