We – Snapchat users – pay attention, I was astounded by this
a great deal. One of its users said, “We fill our own time by following the
free-time of others and the nonsense of the immature…”
This is true, by Allah, the Supreme.
Why?
Because most of the content you find on it (and their phones
and platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter etc.) is devoid of anything
beneficial.
Of course, you have some content on these platforms which
are beneficial [1], however most of what is recorded are recorded in places of
no benefit (such as coffee shops, restaurants, parties, things that kill time,
stories, pranks, jokes etc.).
So where is the problem?
The problem is that the followers of these platforms feel
that they are following something that is worthy of being followed.
They feel that this is (the essence of) life.
But the opposite, it curbs life. It curbs life in every
single manner – such behaviour doesn’t bring a positive impact in the
slightest.
Shaykh Saaleh bin Abdullah bin Humayd (Allah Preserve
him)
Member of Panel of Senior Scholars and Permanent Committee
of Fatwa and Research, Imam and Khateeb of al-Masjid al-Haram in Makkah
[1] Imam ash-Shatibi (may Allah have Mercy on him) said, “If,
whatever you do in your free time has nothing prohibited involved – then it is
permitted. However, it could be that it is still blameworthy and such a state
is disliked by the scholars. Rather, the scholars used to abhor that a person doesn’t
spend his time in doing something which is of no benefit, not benefitting life
or the afterlife – because (time that is not filled with something useful) is a
passing (of time) which he has not used to gain anything by it.” End quote from
al-Muwaafaqaat (1-204/205).
