Ep. 37: What Happens Online Stays Online | Road to Return

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Ep. 1: Submitting to God | Road to Return

Ep. 1: Submitting to God | Road to Return

Ep. 2: Finding Peace | Road to Return

Ep. 2: Finding Peace | Road to Return

Ep. 3: Content with God | Road to Return

Ep. 3: Content with God | Road to Return

Ep. 4: What Are Sins? | Road to Return

Ep. 4: What Are Sins? | Road to Return

Ep. 5: Are All Sins Equal? | Road to Return

Ep. 5: Are All Sins Equal? | Road to Return

Ep. 6: Different Types of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 6: Different Types of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 7: Four Dangers: Causes of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 7: Four Dangers: Causes of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 8: Your Inner Voice | Road to Return

Ep. 8: Your Inner Voice | Road to Return

Ep. 9: An Enemy Within | Road to Return

Ep. 9: An Enemy Within | Road to Return

Ep. 10: The World And Its Splendor | Road to Return

Ep. 10: The World And Its Splendor | Road to Return

Ep. 11: Mastering Self-Control | Road to Return

Ep. 11: Mastering Self-Control | Road to Return

Ep. 12: No Good Without Evil | Road to Return

Ep. 12: No Good Without Evil | Road to Return

Ep. 13: Shaytan's 6-Step Plan | Road to Return

Ep. 13: Shaytan's 6-Step Plan | Road to Return

Ep. 14: Resistance & Resilience | Road to Return

Ep. 14: Resistance & Resilience | Road to Return

Ep. 15: Deprioritizing God | Road to Return

Ep. 15: Deprioritizing God | Road to Return

Ep. 16: Resisting the Teachings of Muhammad ﷺ | Road to Return

Ep. 16: Resisting the Teachings of Muhammad ﷺ | Road to Return

Ep. 17: Letting The Qur'an Slip | Road to Return

Ep. 17: Letting The Qur'an Slip | Road to Return

Ep. 18: Good Actions With The Wrong Intention | Road to Return

Ep. 18: Good Actions With The Wrong Intention | Road to Return

Ep. 19: Good Intentions With Wrong Actions | Road to Return

Ep. 19: Good Intentions With Wrong Actions | Road to Return

Ep. 20: Hoping For The Best Without Doing Your Best | Road to Return

Ep. 20: Hoping For The Best Without Doing Your Best | Road to Return

Ep. 21: Going Against The Flow | Road to Return

Ep. 21: Going Against The Flow | Road to Return

Ep. 22: Why Do They Have It So Easy? | Road to Return

Ep. 22: Why Do They Have It So Easy? | Road to Return

Ep. 23: Parents Just Don't Understand | Road to Return

Ep. 23: Parents Just Don't Understand | Road to Return

Ep. 24: Just say Bismillah | Road to Return

Ep. 24: Just say Bismillah | Road to Return

Ep. 25: Does God Really Care? | Road to Return

Ep. 25: Does God Really Care? | Road to Return

Ep. 26: Did You Hear? | Road to Return

Ep. 26: Did You Hear? | Road to Return

Ep. 27: I Do Pray...Just Not Often | Road to Return

Ep. 27: I Do Pray...Just Not Often | Road to Return

Ep. 28: God Knows my Intention | Road to Return

Ep. 28: God Knows my Intention | Road to Return

Ep 29: Marijuana is Not a Drug | Road To Return

Ep 29: Marijuana is Not a Drug | Road To Return

Ep: 30 Always Put Yourself First | Road to Return

Ep: 30 Always Put Yourself First | Road to Return

Ep. 31: It’s Just a Video | Road to Return

Ep. 31: It’s Just a Video | Road to Return

Ep. 32: Everyone is Doing It | Road to Return

Ep. 32: Everyone is Doing It | Road to Return

Ep. 33: The Most Important Thing is Love | Road to Return

Ep. 33: The Most Important Thing is Love | Road to Return

Ep. 34: Isn't Zakat Like Sadaqah? | Road to Return

Ep. 34: Isn't Zakat Like Sadaqah? | Road to Return

Ep. 35: I Will Never Forgive Them | Road to Return

Ep. 35: I Will Never Forgive Them | Road to Return

Ep. 36: I'm Not A Racist, But... | Road To Return

Ep. 36: I'm Not A Racist, But... | Road To Return

Ep. 37: What Happens Online Stays Online | Road to Return

Ep. 37: What Happens Online Stays Online | Road to Return

Ep. 38: Friday Prayer Is Not Practical | Road to Return

Ep. 38: Friday Prayer Is Not Practical | Road to Return

Ep. 39: It's Just a Joke | Road to Return

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Ep. 40: Fake News | Road to Return

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Ep. 37: What Happens Online Stays Online | Road to Return

What goes online doesn’t always stay online. Tech and data agencies have many ways to track our online activity—but more importantly, so does Allah. It’s just as important to practice having taqwa in the digital world as it is in the physical world.

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The dark web, what goes online stays online. And that's an important warning for young people.

I want you to know, and I know that you probably would have been able to go through my series about living online, 30 hadith or more that guide our behavior online and the friendships that we

have and the posts that we put up. So I do ask you to go to that series and re-listen to it, reintegrate with it if you've missed out on it. But the dark web, the dark side of the web,

the sinister side is that it is mind altering and it has an impact on your wealth, on your health,

on your faith and on your physical wellbeing, on your mental wellness and mental state. The dark web is something that I do want to warn you about. And it can be a place where you can

easily transgress the boundaries of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's a place where you can share information that is not verified, where you can be held accountable and liable for defamation

and slander to others by simply posting something that's not true. It can be a place where you upload a picture thinking it's private, but you've shared it in a place where millions of people may

at one point in time be able to access it. If a person's dark heart turns against you and shares your private and private information and private photographs with them. How many times have we seen

people traumatized by the experiences online? And I want you to know that what goes online, what keystroke you put, even just, you know, just the letter T, that isn't just something that's

forgotten. It's a part of your metadata. It is recorded, it is kept, and there are agencies that store it for Allah knows how long. More importantly, there are people whose only business

is selling your data to profit from it. And it becomes really important for you to be very, very careful what you put on your Snapchat, on your Instagram, and on your TikTok. And I want

you to kind of consider why there was such a large kerfuffle with the United States and other western countries saying that they intended to ban TikTok if it remained under Chinese control. Because they

know that mass manipulation can be something that can be used through broadly used apps and services,

and it was a major worry. And it's something for you and I to take caution in. Know that for a fact that your usage and footprint online is not unnoticed, and it's not something that is

forgotten or glossed over or hidden. It is something that at times may rear itself in an ugly way in your life. Be very careful with what you put online. I have personally in my professional

capacity have looked through agencies who have we've used to hire people for positions at universities and in other places. And one of the things they do is they go through a person's social

media to see what kind of behaviors and statements they make. You've seen athletes who were stars brought down and lost their contracts on account of a tweet they sent or an Instagram post they made

or a misstep that they quoted or said or a forward that was wayward. Be very very careful

with your privacy and your data. And as you are younger, maturing, the words you say now will

and definitely will have an impact on how you are seen and viewed by other people into the future. Think about your entrance into university. Think about the job placements that you seek.

All of that is not something that is hidden and people do go through it to find out and vet prospective people. But more importantly, worry about the consequence of the akhira. Worry about

what Allah sees that you can hide from your parents. Worry about what Allah knows that you have deleted from your web search. Know what Allah is aware of that you have shared with people

that you think will keep your trust but may betray you in the future. May Allah keep you protected and allow you to use your social media and the web for that which is pleasing to him

and be thankful to Allah that Allah has protected us and our shame thus far and ask Allah to

maintain your longevity and health in this life, in real life, and virtually. Allahumma Ameen.

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