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Saturday, April 04, 2020

al-Humayd: We Use Our Phones to Follow the Free-Time of Others


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).

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