Social Media & Capitalism: Turning Digital Distraction into Islamic Duty
Everything is Being Recorded — By Angels and Algorithms “And the record ˹of deeds˺ will be laid ˹open˺, and you will see the criminals in fear of what is ˹written˺ in it. They will cry, ‘Woe to us! What kind of record is this that does not leave any sin, small or large, unlisted?’ They will find whatever they did present ˹before them˺. And your Lord will never wrong anyone.” — Surah Al-Kahf “Not a word does a person utter except that there is a vigilant observer ready to record it.” — Surah Qaf Fifty years ago, the idea that every word, every action, and every fleeting moment could be recorded in excruciating detail would have been nearly impossible to grasp. As believers, of course, we have always had complete imaan in the unseen — in the reality of angels recording our deeds in the preserved tablet, al-Lawh al-Mahfuz. But what has changed today is not the truth of this divine record — it is our own lived experience. Today, I can scroll back fifteen or twenty years and read the exact ...
