By: Sheikh Saleh al-Fawzaan حفظه الله
O mankind… Know that from the
greatest of hindrances preventing you from being upright are trials and
tribulations that block you from the path of Allaah and cause
you to fall into misguidance.
How great in number they are in this
time, and how numerous are the callers calling to them through their writings,
through their tweets on Twitter and those things like it – through the
various means of communication that are widespread among the people
and have filled their homes.
How numerous are those that go astray
because of these evil channels.
So be weary of them, O slaves of Allaah.
Be cautious of them and don’t look
into them. Don’t bring them into your homes. Don’t leave
them with your children and your wives because they are what
hinder from the religion and from the path of Allaah, and divert them
from being upright and cause them to fall into deviation and misguidance.
How numerous are the ones who were
misguided and deviated. They deviated and their features changed. Their
ways changed and this is evident through their conduct, their sayings and their
actions.
They are stuck to these means day and
night. Their eyes are fixed to these things in these
wicked devices. What came? What happened?
All the time… until they have
become afflicted by using them all the time… they have become afflicted
with addiction…
It is mentioned by the experts that
those that have fallen into this, becoming afflicted
with addiction, they cannot bear to be without it, and this is
something apparent.
You see them staring at these devices
all the time… in his pocket… in his car… all the time… to the extent that he
doesn’t talk to the one next to him, or his family or to his children in his
house.
He’s always with these sites.
Even to the extent that he doesn’t pray – he doesn’t get up to pray! He’s
afraid he’s going to miss something.
He doesn’t sleep because he’s afraid
to miss something or to present something.
This is because he has been
afflicted with addiction so he cannot bear to be without it.
If only he had avoided it from the
beginning, he would have been safe from it.
So, have fear of Allaah, O slaves of Allaah.
Protect your religion from these distractions, trials and evils.
Know
that the best of speech is the book of Allaah and the finest of guidance is the
guidance of Muhammad (صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم), and the worst of affairs are the newly invented ones and
every innovation is misguidance.
Stay with the body of Muslims upon
the truth because Allaah’s hand is upon the Jamaa’ah, and whoever deviated then
he deviated in the hellfire.
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