Fiqh of Social Media

بسم الله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله

Omar Usman’s book the ‘Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age’ is indeed a timely and timeless gift to the Muslims worldwide. We all know about social media and how it has become a part of our daily life. It so happens that we often lose time and even get distracted due to the pomp and glare of the social media.

This book guides Muslims on how to navigate the Digital Age from an Islamic perspective. I like the section on ‘Takathur’ wherein the author writes:

The paradox of Remembering Selfies and Forgetting the Self!

بسم الله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله

Self, selfie, selfie stick. Self-praise, self-promotion, self-consciousness!

Showing off has become a part and parcel of one’s life in today’s world.

Changing selfies very often and sharing them with everyone is a craze now a days.

Social media has transformed a sane man into a maniac of a sort.

People now take pride in showing and sharing their ‘status’ to others.

The growing madness in the age of selfie-sticks has made man a victim of narcissism. 

From Facebook to God’s Book

Dear sisters and brothers, Assalamu Alaikum. Today I got an e-mail referring an amazing article. I thought it would be prudent on my part to share it with one and all. Read on…

Many of us have an addictive relationship with Facebook. We check our accounts compulsively, multiple times a day. It is sometimes the last thing many of us do before we sleep and the first thing we do when we wake up; time flies when we’re on it, and it is obsessive.

Yet how many of us have an addictive relationship—have any relationship—with the Qur’an? This is the Book that transformed alcoholic, oppressive, baby-girl-burying people into callers for justice, defenders of the oppressed, soft-hearted, humble worshippers of the Lord of All the Worlds. If what is contained in this Book brought eternal peace to the hearts and freedom to the souls who were chained to the whims of their own desires, it undoubtedly can emancipate us from our own problems, heartaches and stresses.