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What Islam says about Social Networking
A recent study pointed that social networking and good relations between workmates may increase the productivity of a less efficient worker, and that leads to positive effects for establishments where social incentives are not less important than financial incentives.
Islam also says about good relations between people through the following verses and sayings.
1. Islam affirmed the importance of good relationships among people, Almighty says, "O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)."
[Al-Hujraat: The Private Appartments:13]
2. Many verses ask us to build good relations with others e.g. Almighty says,
"O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, ye would abhor it...But fear Allah. For Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful."
[Al-Hujraat: The Private Appartments: 12]
3. The believer is a brother of a believer: This is a great Prophet's saying; The Prophet (pbuh) considered that relationships between believers should be brotherhood relationships, and this is the highest in good relations. Almighty says, “The Believers are but a single Brotherhood…"
[Al-Hujraat: The Private Appartments:10]
4. Allah has ordered us kindness, and that is the finest in human relations, to be kind to others, forgive who did injustice, let go of an insulter unpunished, Almighty says, "…but do good; for Allah loveth those who do good."
[Al-Baqara: The Cow:195]
5. Allah has ordered us to forgive and pardon others, Almighty says, "let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
[AN-Noor: The Light: 22]
and also has ordered us to cooperate for beneficence and piety…
6. The Prophet (SAWW) has been an example of good relations. He did not get angry unless one of Allah's sanctities is violated, he did not insult, hit, or show arrogance, and he was helping others, besides, he was saying, " who relieves a Muslim from the plight of distress, Allah relieves him from one of the plights of distress of The Day of Resurrection,"
7. In a great saying of the Prophet (SAWW), he considered good manners, the heaviest in the balance of man on The Day of Judgment and he said, " The nearest place to me on The Day of Judgment is the one with the best ethics"
