In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

All praises be to God, it is He Who created for us all that is on earth. Including these tools, computer, internet, blogging and etc. May He gives us guidance in fully utilizing everything He had created for us.

I was contemplating on blogging and getting a facebook account. Why? Because it can be for good or it could lead to evil doings or rather sinning. I was told, "Dude, it's just a facebook account! Do you even need to pray for guidance for that?"

Now, before i answer that, let me ask you about other things. Alcohol, can it be good or evil? It is good when man uses it as antiseptic or mixes it with perfume. But it’s harmful or evil when man consumes it.

A knife? When man uses a knife to slaughter animals for food or as simple as cutting fruits, that’s making good use of the tool. But, when man starts to kill one another without just dealing and justification, it’s evil!

So now, let's ask ourselves, be it facebook account or blogging or use of internet, how many times have we chose it over the Book of Guidance? How have these tools stole our time? When a friend ask us out for religious classes or talk about God, we'll say we're tired or we're busy or we got something on later. Well, when it comes to updating of facebook profile, blogging or reading materials that would benefit us in this worldly life, suddenly, we've got the energy, we've got the time and we even make the effort for it.

We are just not giving the right amount of time to the world we are all heading to and best of all, its eternity. We are so infatuated and deceived by a world that we are all going leave when the time comes. That is when death overtakes us and it will sure do one day.

May God guide and show us to the straight path, the path on whom He had bestowed His Grace upon, neither the path of those who earned His Anger nor those who went astray.