As Salamu ‘alaykum

We’re fools for knowing what the cure is for our problems and not taking the appropriate dose.

Is the internet helping you? Is blogging really helping you in your deen? I ask myself this all the time. My blog remains almost stagnant because I’m unsure as to whether it benefits me more than harms me. I’ve had to cut back on responding and reading blogs because of the crap that I’ve uttered in the past, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but all in all it’s my adab that can’t and won’t be perfected online that has hurt me the most. Sometimes we try so hard to perfect our words, other times we hope people don’t look so into them and blow everything out of proportion, but it happens often that when two egos come together… bang!

I encourage you, sidi, as I care for you as your sister in Islam, as someone who appreciates the comments you have left me that have encouraged me to check myself, to ponder over the benefit of blogging and being a part of the blogging world. Is it one more thing that stands in the way of the conquering of the nafs? If so, I say chuck it.