Layer Of Social Media, A Layer Of Whatsapp And Facebook And
Twitter And Instagram And Whatever Else They Got Going On,
Add On To That The Next Level Of Disconnect That We Have
Where We'Re Still Interacting With Each Other, But We'Re
Not Interacting With Each Other As Human Beings Anymore.
We'Re Not Interacting With Each Other As People, But Just
Like That Person Was Isolated From You From, The Windows In
The Car, From The Vehicle, The Layer Of Protection
And Disconnect That The Vehicle Place Between You And Someone
Else, Now That Person Has Become A Picture On A Screen, First
They Were A Picture Behind A Glass, Now
It'S A Picture On A Screen And Now You Are Literally Going
To Forget All Basic Human Etiquettes.
All Basic Courtesies, All Adab, All Akhlaq, All Characters
All Morals All That Goes Out The Window.
Because You Can Say More Hurtful Things When You Forget That
The Person That You'Re Talking To Is A Human Being. You Can
Be More Aggressive.
You Can Throw Certain Words. Think About The Dynamics Of A
Husband And A Wife.
That Would Not Dare To Say Certain Things To Each Other But
The Husband Leaves Or The Wife Leaves And They Start Texting
Each Other.
And Things Get Wild Over Text. Things Become Escalated, Naturally
Amplified Because You Forget That The Person That You'Re
Talking To Is A Human Being Even Though It Could Have Been
Someone As Close As Your Spouse That You Were Just With. Sometimes
You Read An Email
Sometimes A Whatsapp Message Goes Out, Sometimes Something
Happens Online And You Have A Hard Time,
You'Re Like ... The Computer Mess Up And Put Somebody
Else'S Name On This Because You Could Not Imagine That Thing
Being Said From Someone'S Mouth In Person When Two People
Are Standing In Front Of Each Other, No Way That A Person
Would Be Able To Bring Themselves To Say Something So Nasty
To Someone Else In Person.
But Again, Once You'Re Online, It'S No Longer Two People
Talking To Each Other, The More Distance That'S Created Between
You And Someone Else The More That That Sense Of Brotherhood
And Sisterhood And Basic Courtesy And Dignity Goes Out The
Window. But Now Here'S The Problem.
Abdullah Bin Abbas (Ra) Said
Describing The Ayah In The Quran Where Allah (Swt)
Mentions That You Don'T Say A Word Except That There Is Someone
That Writes It For You That Documents It For You That An
Angel Has Been There To Document Everything.
He Said The Documentation Of Allah Is Every Expression,
Every Word And Every Signal Whether It Is Expressed Written Or Spoken.
That'S The Way That Allah Documents And He Said If Someone
Rolls Their Eyes At Someone Else In The Midst Of A Conversation,
It Is Written, Someone..Uff.. That Uff Is.. People Then Used
To Say Uff To Their Parents.
Like Literally.
Uff..., It Was Bristling, Looking Away, Signaling In A Certain
Way. He Said If You Write Something In A Letter, Back Then
They Didn'T Have Texts.
They Didn'T Have Social Media, If You Write Something In A
Letter Expected To Be Just As Written With Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala As A Word That You Speak In Vain Or An Ignorance Or In Haste.
It Is All Captured And Written By Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala,
Now The Very Basic Rule We Can Take From This,
It Should Be A Simple As Can Be If You Would Not Bring Yourself
To Say It To Someone Don'T Write It.
And Then You Add The Different Layers Of Cowardice.
Of Where It Becomes .... Where It Becomes An Evil
Suspicion And Then It Becomes .... Mocking One Another
And Then It Becomes Backbiting Because Then Groups Are Formed
And People Start To Talk To Each Other About Other People
Quoting That Which Everybody Can See And Then That Becomes
An Entire Dimension Of Gheebah, Which Is Only Meant To Lead To
Some Point To Slander As Well. All Of These Diseases
That Start To Come Out Because Layers And Layers, Layers And
Layers Are Put Between Us And The People. As A Result Of That
Layers And Layers And Layers Are Put Between Our Hearts And
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And As A Result Of That Layers
And Layers And Layers Of Testimony Against Us Are Being Gathered
For The Day Of Judgment.
Now Some Of You Are Saying Alhumdillah I Don'T Use Social Media.
Do You Group Text?
Do You Whatsapp?
Do You Use Other Things? Most Of Us Are Communicating With
Each Other Digitally Now Or You'Re Communicating
At Each Other Digitally Now. The Things That You Write Would You Say?
So The Very First Thing Is This Idea Of Courtesy Or This
Idea Of Thinking To Yourself As A Filter Would I Say This
To A Person In Front Of Them Or Not?
Because The Shaitaan Is The One Who Disconnect. Got A Group
Involved, That'S The Basis Of Fitna, That Two People Start
Fighting And Then It Becomes A Whole Bunch Of People Fighting,
A Whole Bunch Of People And No One Knows Why They'Re Fighting.
One Of The Most Insightful Things That I Read From Ibn Qayum (Rah)
Though It'S Talking About ...
It'S Talking About Murder.
It'S Really Interesting.
He Said That The First Murder Was One Person Killing Another
For A Personal Reason, He Said But As Fitnah Grows, It'S
A Bunch Of People Killing A Bunch Of People For No Reason
And You Could Usually Trace It Back To A Personal Conflict
Between Two People That Didn'T Get Worked Out, Those Are Super
Insightful. Subhanallah, That The First Thing It Was Very
Simple, Cain And Abel Didn'T Send Texts To Each Other. There
Weren'T Many Other People To Involve In This. It Was Two
People, One Person Overtaken By The Disease Of Hasad/ Envy
And He Goes And Kills Another Person. As Time Goes On As More
People Get Added To The Equation, As More Means Of Communication
Get Added To The Equation Suddenly It'S A Whole Bunch Of
People Getting Involved And How Many Wars Were Fought Over
A Conflict That Started Out With Two People Not Getting Along
Or Two People Expressing Something With Each Other And Then
You Got All The Foot Soldiers And They'Re Killing Each Other
And They Don'T Know Why They'Re Killing Each Other.
Neither The Person Killing Nor The Person Being Killed Has
Any Idea What This Is Really All About. Transfer That From
...From Murder To Everything Else,
From Everything Else.
So How Many Times Have You Seen Threads Go Right? Where People
Start To Comments And Things Actually Get Solved And Get
Put Back Together Then The Likelihood Of It In A Personal
Communication Between Two People, If It Stays Written It'S
Most Likely Going To End Nasty.
Then It Gets Reduced When You Actually Talk To Each Other
Because You Can At Least Hear Someone'S Voice.
And That Should Soften You Up A Little Bit.
And What'S The Difference Between That And When Two People
Actually Sit With One Another?
And They Come To Each Other And When The Prophet Salallahu
Alaihe Wasalam Said You Shake Hands With Someone And The
Sins Start To Fall From Your Hands That From The Very First
As Salam O Aleikum,
Peace Be Unto You, Salam
The Solution Does Not Be, Does Not Become That You Go Back
And Get On The Phone Call Again Or Let'S Get Back To Writing
No, The Solution Becomes.. Bring A Third Person In There Who
Can Make Things Better.
If You'Re Not At A Point, But This Is If It'S Not Going To
Be Solved With Two People Sitting With One Another And With
Sin Falling And With Shaiteen Being Expelled Then
It'S Not Going To Be Solved The More You Distance Yourself
From One Another Because You Know What Happens, When People
Write To Each Other And They Write Things About Each Other
Guess Who The Narrator Is, The Voice When You'Re Reading,
You Know, When You Read You Read In A Voice, The Devil
Is The One Narrating To You.
So You'Re Reading Everything In The Worst Possible Way, Writing
Everything In The Worst Possible Way Because The Voice Is
The Voice Of The Shaitaan Who Knows How To Get To The Heart
Of The Person That'S Being Attacked,
Who Knows Exactly How To Make This The Worst Possible Situation
Whatsoever, So, How Do We Deal With This? Number One, If You'Re
Not Going To Say It To Someone Don'T Write It To Someone.
Certainly, Don'T Write It At Someone And Definitely Don'T
Write It About Someone Which Is The Worst Type Because Then
You Add The Element Of Geebah/ Backbiting, Gossip, Slander And
All Of That With The Bad Adab, That Was Already Employed When
It Was Direct Communication.
The Second Thing Is This:
The Saying Of Imam Hassan.. (Rah) This Is A Very
Scary Saying; One Of The Signs Of A Person Being Abandoned
By God Is That God Busies Them With That Which Doesn'T Concern
Them. They Become Busy With That Which Is Of No Benefit To
Them. They Become Busy With That Which Doesn'T Concern Them.
They Start Following These Things.
They Start Digging Into Them.
They Never Want To Miss Out On The Drama.
Never Want To Miss Out On Where This Is Going To Go. The Worst
Thing The Prophet (Saw) Said The People Farthest Away
From Me On The Day Of Judgment And The People That Will Have
... That Are The Most Hated People To Me Are People Always
Have An Opinion About Everything.
That'S The First Thing That You Actually Express An Opinion,
You Know Hot Takes Is A Big Thing In Social Media.
You Want To Capitalize On The News Cycle?
Make Sure You Get.. You Take In, Make Sure That You Know, You
Can'T Let This Whatsapp Conversations Die Without You Having
Your Input.
Oh, No, The Facebook Thread Is Going To Become Old.
I Need To Make Sure I Get In On That One.
Oh, No, People Are Going To Move On, The Email Threads Going
To... Let Me Make Sure I Get My Hot Take In..So Think Now, Right?
Imam An-Nawawi (Rah) Said A Person Who Has An Opinion
About Everything Whether It Benefits Him Or Not Whether He'S
Qualified To Express An Opinion On It Or Not And Whether He'S
Checked His Heart And Whether He Has An Interest In Its Or
Not, Subhanallah,
How Profound, Do You Have Any Benefit From It? Does It Involve
You In Any Way?
Is There Any Benefit To You Weighing In Number
One. Number Two;
Are You Even Qualified To Offer An Opinion On This?
Do You Know Enough To Offer An Opinion On This Either About
The Area Being Discussed Or The Particular Situation?
Do You Have Any Idea What You'Re Talking About?
Number Two. Number Three:
Have You Checked Your Heart To See If There Is An Interest,
A Deviant Interest In This Because Social Media Is Echo Chambers
Tribes, So Your Guy Is Always Right And Ther Guy Is Always
Wrong And So You Will Always Spin Everything To Make Sure
That Everyone Knows You'Re A Guy Is Right And They'Re Guy
Is Wrong.
Have You Checked Your Heart With It First? The One Who Actually
Weighs In On It, Isn'T A Very Hard Situation? Allah Subhan
Allah Mentions Those Who Negate Idle Speech, Speech That Has
No Benefit Whatsoever
However, Speech That Has No Benefit Whatsoever.
Not Speech That'S Haram, Necessarily Idle Speech Is Just Stuff That
Has No Benefit To Talk About But You Keep Weighing In And
You Keep Weighing In And Abu Hurairah (Ra) Said
About The Man From Bani Israel And His Brother,
He Said One Word That Ruined His Life And Ruined His Hereafter
One Word Ruined His Life, Ruined His Dunya And Ruined His Akirah,
So The First Thing Is Should I Weigh In On? Most Likely The
Answer Is No, Because The Prophet (Saw) Said Whoever
Believes In Allah And The Last Day Say Something Good Or
Be Quiet.
You Don'T Need To Say Anything At All.
The Second Thing Is Why Am I Reading About This So Much?
Why Am I So Interested And Curious And How This Is Going To End Up?
And That'S The Second Sign Of... We Need To Take Into Our
Consideration. We Don'T Want To Be Abandoned By Allah, Why?
Because Your Interest And Seeing How This Is Going To End
Is Directly Correlated To Your Ignorance Of Your Own Interest
In How Things Are Going To End For You.
I'M Going To Say That Again Your Obsession With This Dunya
..Worthless Material Filth
Is Directly Tied To Your Ignorance Of Yourself And Your Ultimate
Place With Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
How Do We Know That You Know Man Came Up To Imam Hanifah (Rah)
And He Said To Him Imam Hanifah (Rah)
He Started Asking All These Questions About
Ali (Ra) And Muawiyah (Ra) About The Fitna?
He Said, You Know This And This And That Tell Me About This,
Tell Me About That, Tell Me About This.
Abu Hanifah (Rah) Responds And He Said, You Know, I Doubt
That On The Day Of Judgment Allah Is Going To Ask Me About Ali (Ra) And Muawiyah (Ra)
He'S Going To Ask Me About Me.
So I'M Going To Focus On Myself And My Own Standing With
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
I Don'T Need To Start Getting Involved In Takes.
I Don'T Need To Have An Opinion.
I Don'T Need To Have A Comment.
I'M Not Even Interested Because I'M Too Concerned With My
Own State. Sufyan Al-Thawri Said
May Allah Have Mercy On A Person Who'S So Busy
With Their Faults That They Don'T Even See The Faults Of
Other People Anymore.
They'Re Too Busy And Consumed With Their Own Faults To Even
Pay Attention To Other People'S Faults.
My Brothers And Sisters A Few Days Ago.
I Received An Email From A Brother Telling Me That His Sister
Had Contracted Coronavirus Covid-19 And She Passed Away A
Few Days Earlier.
May Allah Give Her Jannahtul Ferdous.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Her The High And Lofty
Rank And Make It Easy For Her Family. The Matter He Raised
Was That She Had A Presence Online On Tick-Tock In Particular
Where She Did Some Silly Things And She Was Just As A Teenager.
She Did Some Embarrassing Things As Well.
And Now That She'S Passed On. They Feel She Would Not Have
Liked That Type Of A Legacy.
She Wouldn'T Have Liked Those Embarrassing Short Videos To
Be Something That She'S Remembered For. So They Tried To Get
It Deleted, But Unfortunately, They Couldn'T. They Say They'Ve
Contacted Tick-Tock And Whoever Else To Try And Help Them
But Unfortunately With No Joy.
Now The Point I Want To Raise Is Simple.
My Brothers, My Sisters, My Beloved Children; When We Use
Social Media Use It In A Way That If You Were To Die For
Some Reason You Would Not Be Embarrassed About The Content
That You Have Put Out There.
Sometimes People Do Silly Things Just To Gain A Following.
Sometimes People Do That Which Which Is Very Embarrassing
At Times Even Unacceptable In Order To Gain The Attention
Of People. If That Is The Case Ask Yourself Would I Be Embarrassed
If This Thing Were To Remain After I Have Died?
And Definitely That Would Guide You As A Believer We Should
Do That Which Is Good.
We Should Do That Which Is Not Embarrassing If We Were To
Die And Even If We Did Not Die, But We Need To Be Much More
Responsible When It Comes To The Use Of Social Media. Who
Would Like A Legacy To Be Left After Them Of That Which Is Not Good?
This Message Would Inspire You To Be Much More Responsible
When It Comes To Social Media.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us A
Good Lesson, I Pray For The Sister Who'S Passed On. I'M Sure
The Almighty With All His Mercy And Kindness Would Definitely
Look At Her With The Eyes Of Mercy, But At The Same Time
We Also Pray For The Family Through These Very Difficult
Days With People Messaging Them Some With Very Bad Messages
Yet It'S Not Their Fault At All.
This Could Have Happened To Anyone.
Let'S Use Social Media In A Very Responsible Way And Ask
The Almighty To Grant Us A Death When He Is Pleased With Us.