Comments on: The Digital Dunya: Why I’m OK With Mediocre

By: Zeanah

Zeanah — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:58:08 +0000

Subhanallah!iys very easy to fall into the traps of riyaa on social media!May Allaah protect us all and help us to hide our good deeds from people just as we hide our sins.Ameen!

By: Ubah

Ubah — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:22:31 +0000

In reply to Kirana. Very interesting thoughts and observations - thanks for sharing!

By: Kirana

Kirana — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:41:20 +0000

I was contemplating something like this a while back. There is a clinic local to me which wears its ‘Islamicness’ like a brand – its name is ‘Muslimy’, the waiting room TV only ever shows religious programs, medicine labels bear Islamic quotes, you get the idea. But the service is indifferent – the receptionist doesn’t seem aware of the insurance programs that they take, the nurses are likewise indifferent, the pharmacy is indifferent, the doctors are indifferent (and perhaps also in pious overt care of only minimally interacting with a patient of the opposite gender), the waiting times are lengthy – it’s not terrible, but my impression is they’re just there as a job, and it made me wonder if the Islam is really just used as a brand.

Now there’s another clinic with a name thoroughly in the local language (i.e. not Arabic), small and unassuming, also run by Muslims. However they also have a couple of non-Muslim staff (as a nation we are multi-racial and multi-religious), the nurses and pharmacist are efficient, the doctors pleasant but brisk – it’s not incredible service but you feel you’re among people that made this their profession, not just their jobs. There are subtle indications of the faith in discreet wall hangings and religious opinion on certain medical issues mixed with the more secular medical posters, but it is not in your face.

Now it’s unfashionable here for me to say so, almost heretical to some, but in my heart I feel like the second one is more sincere, and as a patient, more helpful to me.

Both are equivalent in terms of cost, if anyone’s wondering.

By: Fareeh Mouk

Fareeh Mouk — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:54:40 +0000

Jazakhallahu Khair for the most apt article I’ve read that captures my exact sentiment on this topic.
My greatest sorrow in the ‘fame’ of social media da’awah is the perpetrators forget their followers. Many times I see a write up and I have burning questions that need answers. I ask them. Typically, the person doesn’t respond because in the first place its my followership and likes that is the point not my burning need for knowledge and clarification. As such, the aim is lost for me.
May Allah guide and protect us on this journey for achieving His pleasure

By: Isa Abdul Haqq Dixon

Isa Abdul Haqq Dixon — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:52:13 +0000

Excellent article!!!!!

By: Alkanemy

Alkanemy — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:45:37 +0000

Wallahi this article is so on point! It is a reminder for all of us, may we benefit immensely from it.

By: Anchor Keidi

Anchor Keidi — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:35:57 +0000

This is a truly crucial article. Personally, I started a blog to display my religious side while I neglected my other social media haunts. This way, most of my time online is often used more productively than when I had no blog and wasn’t doing any thing productive with the little I’ve learned.

For me, it is a learning process now when I am online; rarely purely social. Alhamdulillah.

By: rma

rma — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:17:38 +0000

Word.

By: Hyde

Hyde — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:29:44 +0000

Hmm what is this Facebook people keep talking about ?

By: Yaqub

Yaqub — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:32:59 +0000

Ubah … firstly; GREAT ARTICLE mashAllah! Before I even read this article; I was discussing the nature of this very article with a few friends. I was telling them how disturbed I am with the amount of time scholars/teachers/imams/people in general spend on social media.

People are infatuated with the attention social media garners them. It’s a disturbing trend. I get even more disturbed by the “superstar/celebrity/rockstar/limelight” attitude many prominent scholars are developing as a result of the attention.

I pray to ALLAH that none of these scholars gain knowledge and share it for the sake of getting more “likes” and “stardom”…instead of gaining and sharing knowledge for themselves first and foremost and in turn for the sincere development of the ummah.

Keep up the great work!