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.
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Peace be upon you.
ReplyDeleteLife is a struggle. As muslims, we face Jihad in our everyday lives and i see the temptations of the world wide web to be in vast volume.
It as a test. Life, is a test. If we can hold a knife for the right purpose, lets try to do it with a pc. After all, truth be told, there are many benefits that can come about from this modern technology. Howeverso, people tend to not utilise it to its full potential; or may I say to its great positivity.
I totally understand why you may contemplate on getting a facebook account. Honestly, there are individuals who just go online, checking people out, either just stalking them online, flirting here and there or sometimes maybe just making it a broad platform for gossip. HAHA. But in this modern day, you never know how many people you may reach out to. One, is better than none. And through that one, InsyaAllah many more will soon to come. For it is in Gods grace for us to have come across each other and come together through this thing called the internet and blogging, and that in just a week may I let you know you have at least reached out to one person, ME! =) With sharings and discussions, we both may learn a lot from one another, and hopefully to the masses of muslims or non-muslims out there, you never know in what many other ways would they benefit from any of our intentions of good will. Many times people change their minds about committing suicide just because of a few phrases or sentences being conveyed to them. This may just be another way of changing lives, or even SAVING LIVES!
If we were to be swayed to the ill and wrong, may Allah swt save us and guide us back to the right path. And if we get to bring about good through this device, doing dakwah and spreading the teachings of Allah swt, then Alhamdulillah. InsyaAllah, He will know our true intentions and guide us to the right path.
Hopefully, this has given you the spur to write on and if you may ever need any help in your battles with "online evil", may you know that a fellow brother is here to aid you. Lastly, apologies if i was a little too "abrupt" or too "in-your-face" on your blog or if this was rather lengthy for your liking.
Peace be upon you. Regards,
A Brother.
p.s. my blog may not be as holy nor islamically inclined as yours but hopefully maybe one day we all may change for the better. InsyaAllah...
Peace be upon you and may Allah gives you His Mercy and Blessings.
ReplyDeleteAlhamdulillah, Jazakaallahu Khairan for writing to me. I certainly appreciate you being here and supporting me in writing.
No apologies is required from you and insyaallah i will continue updating my blog with verses from the Quran for us to share and ponder on a weekly basis. And i've selected to do so on every Saturday morning.
I hope we could both learn and share from one another. Insyaallah.
Assalamualaikum brother.