Answered by Sheikh Abu ‘Amr Abdul Kareem Al
Hajooree حفظه الله of Yemen
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 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 in some of the newspapers and news reports that cases of kidnap, adultery
and fornication have directly increased 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?
Answer:
Our Lord The Most
High says in His Noble Book,
وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ الزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا
بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِرَامًا
'And those who do not witness falsehood,
and if they pass by some evil play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity.'
(Al-Furqan 25:72)
And from the meanings of to witness is to
take part in or to be present for. Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى says,
“So whoever of
you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadhan 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 Allaah
to use this website and partake of it. This is 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.
