by Asma bint Shameem
This is a VERY IMPORTANT message to all those who have WhatsApp or other social media.
🔺 We MUST VERIFY what we say or teach or forward to others
That’s the DUTY that Allaah Himself has placed on us.
🍃Allaah says:
“O you who believe! If a Faasiq (evil person) comes to you with any news, VERIFY it, lest you should harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful for what you have done”
[al-Hujuraat 49:6]
Here Allaah is telling us that we should VERIFY any news before accepting it and spreading it.
Otherwise we’re GUILTY of promoting LIES and FALSEHOOD.
🍃The Prophet ﷺ said:
“It is enough LYING for a man to speak of everything that he hears.” (Muslim 5)
🍃And he said:
"How BAD it is for a man to keep saying,b(al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 866)
🍃 Al-‘Azeemabaadi said:
"Saying ‘they say…’ is akin to conjecture, i.e., the WORST HABIT of a man is to use the phrase ‘they say’ to serve his purposes.
So he tells of something, merely repeating what others have said without verifying it, and thus he transmits lies …".
🍃 Imaam an-Nawawi said:
“Usually a person hears truth and lies, so if he speaks of everything that he hears, he is lying by telling of things that did not happen, and lying by speaking of something other than the way it happened….”
🔺So DO think twice and check the authenticity before forwarding any message about the Deen.
That’s because talking about the Deen of Allaah without verification is a very SERIOUS SIN
🍃 Allaah says:
"Who is GREATER IN EVIL than he, who, without knowledge, invents a lie about Allaah to mislead people?
Allaah does not guide the evildoers." (Surah An'aam: 144)
Just look at the words Allaah uses!
“Who is greater in evil...!”
Yaa Allaah!
Do we even understand these words?!
🍃The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Verily, the WORST of LIES are for a man to claim... that he saw a dream he did not see, or to say the Messenger of Allaah said what he did not.” (al-Bukhaari)
🍃 And he ﷺ said:
“Whoever attributes words to me that I did not say, let him take his place in HELL.”
(Muslim)
🔺 Such messages are counted as spreading CORRUPTION in the land
🍃 Allaah says about such people:
“ and (those who) spread corruption in the land, on them is the CURSE of Allaah (i.e. they will be far away from Allah's Mercy);
And for them is the unhappy (evil) home (i.e. Hell).”
(Surah ar-Ra’d :25)
The CURSE of Allaah!
For forwarding everything we receive on WhatsApp and social media without verifying?!
Is that really worth it?!
🔺 SIN upon SIN
If people follow false information about Islaam that WE have spread, ANY bid’ah, ANY false belief, ANY wrong interpretation, then WE will get the SIN of EVERY SINGLE PERSON who does that wrong thing, without taking away from the sin that’s upon us as well.
And we will carry this burden on the Day of Judgment!
Astaghfirullaah!
🍃 Allaah says:
“They will BEAR their own BURDENS in FULL on the Day of Resurrection, and ALSO of the BURDENS of those whom they misled without knowledge.
Evil indeed is that which they shall bear!”
(Surah an-Nahl: 25)
🍃 The Prophet ﷺ said:
"Whoever starts a bad thing in Islaam, and others do likewise after him, there will be written for him a burden of sin like that of those who followed him, without it detracting in the least from their burden.'" (Muslim)
So we must THINK before we forward that message.
We must VERIFY the news;
whether it’s related to the Deen or dunya; whether it’s to do with religious knowledge or medical information or to do with public interest or ANY THING ELSE.
We must ASK the people of knowledge if we want to confirm something.
If the information is correct and backed by authentic proofs, then we can go ahead and share it.
But if there’s ANY doubt of its authenticity or if there’s NO proof of it from AUTHENTIC sources, then we CAN NOT FORWARD IT.
This is an OBLIGATION placed on me and you as a responsible Muslim.
We will be asked about it.
May Allaah guide us and enable us to say only that which is true and proven.
And Allaah knows best.
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