The Daʿwah Fiqh Of The Daughters Of Al-Albānī

 بسم الله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله،

To proceed:
Ash-shaykh Māhir bnu Ẓāfir al-Qaḥṭānī — may Allāh preserve him — mentioned, on the authority of his wife — may Allāh have mercy upon her — Sukaynah bint al-Albānī, that she had a blog which she titled: Tamām al-Minnah ("The Completion of the Favor").

We searched for it and found it: The Tamām al-Minna Blog.

Allāhumma bārik — a treasure among treasures, and an extension of al-Albānī's fiqh in daʿwah: a rare and precious fiqh, in an age in which disseminating knowledge has become an end in itself rather than a means. Wallāhulmustaʿān.

Below is the notice she affixed to the front page of her blog:

Notice
I have no page of any kind, nor any name, on anything that is called "social media": Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, WhatsApp, etc. I have never subscribed to any of them—not even for a moment—since they became known. In general, I write only in this blog (Tamām al-Minnah), and in the blog shared with my sister Ḥassānah—who is the same as I am in what I have mentioned—(A Guidebook on How to Teach the Noble Qurʾān).

Whoever imagines that this woman had not heard the statement of al-ʿUthaymīn: "Compete with the people of falsehood on the Internet until the truth manifests", has missed the mark by a wide margin.

What pleased us greatly is that we found ourselves in agreement with her in this approach; for we placed on the front page of our own personal website the following excerpt from our book al-Buzūgh:

A Glimmer of Hope
Yet—wa al-ḥamdulillāh—I am impressed by the course taken by those shaykhs and scholars who suffice themselves with establishing personal websites of their own, over which they exercise full control as they wish. Means have developed, and among the youth we now have specialists in programming, systems, and software that enable us to dispense with sites of immorality. This way of "competition" is what truly serves as a sound interpretation and application of the statement of imām Ibn ʿUthaymīn—may Allāh have mercy upon him and forgive him:

An application that grants Muslims a distinct standing and a space uniquely their own on the internet.
An application that fulfills the command of the Prophet—sallā-llāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam—to differ from the disbelievers and not imitate them.
An application involving no commission of major sins.
An application free of religious innovation.
An application that filters out followers of desire and lovers of prominence.
An application upon the path of the Book, the Sunnah, and the righteous salaf.

Some people—may Allāh guide them—accuse this of rigidity and extremism, claiming that it is a retreat from confronting the people of falsehood, and that it confines knowledge to books and centers.

May Allāh pardon you.

Even if this were our view, we have known the knowledge of the salaf to have spread only through those very two means. In reality, this exposes the true nature of their understanding; it is the same understanding as those who chant slogans about "keeping up with the times" and avoiding "rigidity with old means", though they are unaware of it.

Wallāhulmustaʿān against the trial of tasweer and social-media and video content platforms.