Social Media

Q: Is it necessary to deactivate the social media account of a deceased person? The person only has a few photos on their account.

Q: Is it allowed for a married Muslim woman to wear makeup and post her pictures on social media platforms like imo, WhatsApp, Facebook and telegram without the consent of her husband? If not what is the Islamic ruling for a wife who constantly do such things by violating the command of her husband despite telling her several times to refrain from posting her photo on social media?

Please I need your advice on this matter. What should I do? I have been telling my wife several times not to post her photo as it is against the sharia of Islam, however after I convinced her, she takes my advice for time being and agrees not to do it again, but after some time she continued to do it again and again.

Q: I have Snapchat but I'm not able to remove my astrological sign and I know it is haraam, what should I do? 

Q: What is the sin for Muslim women who upload photos onto social media without any head covering and are enjoying comments from men?

Q: Is it a sin to upload my own profile photo on LinkedIn or Instagram? I avoid it but almost all modest women upload their pictures. It is so tempting. What is the ruling?

Q: I am currently studying in a medical university. I want to share Islamic knowledge with my classmates. Is it permissible for me to make a WhatsApp group of my classmates, including both male and female, and then share Islamic knowledge on that group. There will be NO personal contact with any female.

There are already many other WhatsApp groups in which the whole class is added for study discussions. So if I use the same platform to spread Islamic knowledge, is it permissible?

Q: Is it permissible for strange men and strange women to belong to an islamic chat group wherein they chat to one another?

Q: On Twitter, there's a social media account where a person anonymously receives and posts stories to his followers of peoples’ samoosa runs. He claims that the stories are anonymous and he has inspired many people. The female fans flock over his stories and get emotional if the story doesn't end well and create fantasies of their own lives when they read a good story. He has posted 128 stories over 3 years. Recently, he posted a picture of a car of someone who saw a girl in a random car and wanted to track her down so he posted that picture for his followers to identify the person. Is it permissible to take pictures of strange women and post them on the internet for such purposes? Is it permissible to continue posting such stories when this is the lengths people will go to?

Q: I cannot choose between using and not using Instagram. Because I'm a female, a private account is better to make so that only women can follow me. I want to make this account so that I can share some short moral stories.

Would it be permissible to do this? Or should a woman stay away from instagram?

Q: Are you allowed to follow Muslim or non-Muslim girls on Instagram or other social media pages?