Impermissibility of using Facebook for Da'wah

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.

Audio: Guidelines for the Approach of the month of Ramadhan

This is an address from Sheikh Abu 'Amr Al-Hajoori حفظه الله translated by the Noble brother Abu Mu'aawiyah Mustafa Al-Amreeki - may Allaah have mercy on him. The Sheikh gives us some valuable guidelines as to how the Muslim should approach the blessed month of Ramadhan. 

Sheikh Abu Amr Al-Hajoori حفظه الله is from the Scholars of what was Darul Hadeeth Dammaj. He now resides in San'aa, the capital of Yemen where he continues to teach his lessons at the institution which is now known as Darul Hadeeth Yemen. 

Abu Mu'aawiyah Mustafa Al-Amreeki رحمه الله was from the best examples of a Muslim, student of knowledge and a human being. He was well known for his diligence in his studies and teaching and extreme generosity amongst his other lofty qualities. He and over forty others were left for more than forty days after being murdered by the Houthi terrorist during their invasion on the institution that lasted 104 days in it where the students were brutally attacked in a military type assault. 207 students were murdered and 610 were injured by heavy artillery and relentless marksman like sniper fire. We ask Allaah to accept those students who were murdered oppressively as Shuhadaa and to heal our wounded, ameen!

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