Re: Has the internet been beneficial to your life?
Without the internet, I would not have a very good grasp of what Islam is all about. Seriously. It has had a huge impact on me.
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
Re: Has the internet been beneficial to your life?
If it were not for the internet I would have contact with perhaps 6 Muslims at the most. I would have no source for Da'wah materials, I would have no way of getting exact prayer times, I would have a very restricted communication with any Brothers.
I suspect that for many reverts in America the internet is our primary if not only contact with Islam.
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yes it has Alhamdulilah just registered with an online islamic course today.. so should keep me busy for the summer inshallah. however i do tend to waste time too on internet but internet over all is good. i suppose its like a sword, it can harm you too if you don't use it correctly.
also meeting muslims on the internet has made me aware that other brothers and sisters badly need our duas and i realised that how blessed i am too. i think it has made my love grow strong for my brothers and sisters.. i love them all for the sake of Allah.
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Salams...
its benefits me especially the online shopping thing...huhuhu now i don't have to walk to all the shops...and go out of the house lol huhu
25:36 And the true servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk the earth with humility and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.
Re: Has the internet been beneficial to your life?
Yes. It's broadened my knowledge on most things, including Islam. It's also broadened my knowledge on religion in general, including my own, and without it, I would not have a clue on various world views.
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Has it helped you learn about Islam?
YES I LEARNED ISLAMIC STUDIES BY SCHOLARS IN INTERNET BASED ISLAMIC INSTITUTES
Has it helped you learn about other things?
YES ESPECIALLY WHAT IS RELATED TO MY WORK AND OTHERS WHICH ARE NOT AS DESIGNING
Has it helped you connect with Muslims from all over the world, and share your love of Allah and his Messenger
YES MY DEAREST SISTERS ARE THOSE i KNOW FROM INTERNET AND THIS WAS A GREAT GIFT FROM ALLAH WE MEMORIZING QURAAN TOGETHER AND STUDYING ISLAM TOGETHER
Has it helped you connect with respectful non-Muslims?
NOT YET
GAZAKOM ALLAHU KHAIRAN
Re: Has the internet been beneficial to your life?
format_quote Originally Posted by Supreme
Yes. It's broadened my knowledge on most things, including Islam. It's also broadened my knowledge on religion in general, including my own, and without it, I would not have a clue on various world views.
I agree with that.
The beauty of the Internet is that it gives you access to information from different sources.
No longer do we have to rely on one source of information - be that about news events, politics, religion etc - but we can find out what different sources say and how other people interpret and perceive the same events.
I have learned that there is rarely only ONE answer or ONE suggested solution, but that different people have different views altogether.
Hopefully we can learn from each other that way ...
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
Come, let us worship and bow down •
and kneel before the Lord our Maker
[Psalm 95]
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as-salam alaykum
I voted no because the internet only exposed alot of bogots and hatred not just towards muslims but sometimes towards ethnic minorities including somalis. I even read stuff from so called muslims attitude towards black in particular. The internet is a like heaven for these idoits. But all this was before I started spending more time on this forum and news and message box, I think in time I will change my mind towards internet benefiting me.
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The internet bascially almost made me lose my faith in humanity. Not to mention I knew a lot fights in my early teens and late teens organised via internet. Not me of course but from people I knew. Also the videos of those fights, and I used to watch it!
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format_quote Originally Posted by sweet106
The internet bascially almost made me lose my faith in humanity. Not to mention I knew a lot fights in my early teens and late teens organised via internet. Not me of course but from people I knew. Also the videos of those fights, and I used to watch it!
When i first started reading the comments sections of news items, i became very disturbed by what i read.
And i had a similar reaction that you did. It's difficult sometimes to read arguments online, knowing that would hardly be how they treated each other in real life.
i'm really limiting my internet to work (required), required communication (email) and Islam (required).
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I agree that you have to be very selective in what you read and look at on the Internet.
There must be a huge amount of trash out there, which is either not beneficial or downright harmful, false, inappropriate or disgusting!
Still, with a little care and self-control the Internet is immensely useful and beneficial.
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
Come, let us worship and bow down •
and kneel before the Lord our Maker
[Psalm 95]
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It is fast becoming a necessity for those of us who live far from any cities. Much of our shopping is done online. I also need it for current weather reports as there are no local forecasts, but I can go on line and look at the satellite images of the weather conditions in the 4 state region, get a rough idea if any storms are heading this way. Also it is very good for finding prayers online on the days we can not get to the Masjid. Not quite as good as being in the Masjid, but much better than not having it. Up here in the winter time it is nearly the only contact we have with the outside world for 6 months.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow
It is fast becoming a necessity for those of us who live far from any cities. Much of our shopping is done online. I also need it for current weather reports as there are no local forecasts, but I can go on line and look at the satellite images of the weather conditions in the 4 state region, get a rough idea if any storms are heading this way. Also it is very good for finding prayers online on the days we can not get to the Masjid. Not quite as good as being in the Masjid, but much better than not having it. Up here in the winter time it is nearly the only contact we have with the outside world for 6 months.
You live in North Dakota, correct? Do you have a Masjid nearby? SubhanAllah, that is amazing.
I don't know much about North Dakota except that it is windy and cold. Islam would be one of the last things to come to my mind.
Weather reports and radar (real-time) are a huge benefit of the internet.
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format_quote Originally Posted by espada
You live in North Dakota, correct? Do you have a Masjid nearby? SubhanAllah, that is amazing.
I don't know much about North Dakota except that it is windy and cold. Islam would be one of the last things to come to my mind.
Weather reports and radar (real-time) are a huge benefit of the internet.
The closest actual Masjid is nearly 400 miles away. The nearest one with over 100 Muslims that attend it is nearly 600 miles away. North Dakota is very sparsely populated, there are no large cities in fact the entire population of the state is smaller than many cities.
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