Social media in the balance of the purposes of Islamic law

Abstract

Today, the world is experiencing a very big technological revolution in all fields, including the field of social communication, which has entered all areas of life, and the citizen has become in direct contact with it until it entered the bedrooms, so provisions had to be controlled so that people would not be embarrassed. The problem of the issue is: First: the speed of its spread so that the number of subscribers to it in 2019 reached (4.54) billion, and second: that every person can enter into dealing with it, regardless of his culture, education and scientific degree, which entails his responsibility for everything he watches and hears or shares his opinion on. In this sense, he is responsible for what he makes. In his research, the researcher used the descriptive and analytical approach, and the study reached a set of results, the most important of which are: social media is a double-edged sword, so we must know how to deal with it, and that the origin of the fatwa is to facilitate for people, and that knowing the purposes of Sharia and being able to them reduce the error in the fatwa And getting to know people’s conditions and ways of living is an indispensable asset for the mufti, and the mufti, when prohibited or prohibited, must find alternatives for people in light of the legal constants, so that people do not fall into embarrassment.