Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatuLLAH wa barakatuh..I begin with a wide-known Ayah of Allah (SWT) in the Qur'an saying; "And do not spy or backbite each other.Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? you would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed Allah is Accepting of repentance & Merciful"(Q49:12)..

Spying and back biting is likened to the despiseful act of eating the flesh of our fellow brothers, but we have today subconsciously made it a part of our daily lives/routine, subhanAllah! How many times in a day do u pop into your dear brothers' and fellow sisters' profiles and status'? Have you ever asked yourself what it is you gain from such action, in which u spend most hours of your day on? Allah sees and knows your intention when you click on that profile, tweet, picture or status? Is it to gain beneficial knowledge or to spy and find out what your dear brother/sister is in and forward/re-broadcast? So by the above ayah, how many pounds of flesh do u consume in a day?

For most parts of the day, we spend hours on social media but rarely make a dime, impact or increase in beneficial knowledge but end up losing time, money/data and energy.Worse still, we end up criticising government(s) that we can't do better than if tested with those seats..we end up abusing anonymous people that we can't find later on to beg for forgiveness and have to repay on d hereafter, we end up seeing illicit images that are not of our muharrams/siblings..we end up getting closer to Fornication (Zina) from relationships we build that we know are not for marriage..
Let us pause and ask ourselves if the internet on the day of judgement will be a blessing to us or a curse..it is a platform to access billions of people in seconds! What message/impact do u use it to gain? What do you lose?

It has been reemphasized by our religion to mind our business, speak only of good, to not spy or backbite, to not go near to Zina, to not be wasteful,to seek beneficial knowledge, to not hate/envy, to seek but from Allah's 'giveaway' and to be of the pious..so which of these does your social media/internet activities promote? Let us try and filter our activities and gain the most from this technology..
May Allah(SWT) guide us on the straight path, forgive our sins and grant us aljannatul firdaus..

Hmmn
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Ameen..

JAZAAKALLAH