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117 out to the world. To him, exposing means even to upload nude pictures, and if someone invites others to comment on these, it is justified. Similarly, anyone may write anything about anyone. Is this not the limit of moral downfall and degradation? In this state of moral decline and degradation, it is an Ahmadi who has to tell the world about higher standards of morals and virtues. ” (Concluding Address, Jalsa Salana Germany, June 26, 2011, Al- Fazl International, July 3, 2015) In a Question & Answer session, a girl asked Huzoor Anwar atba about his saying that Facebook is not good and his having prohibited its use. On this Huzoor Anwar atba replied: “I did not say that if you do not leave it, you will be the sinner. Instead, I said that the harms of Facebook are greater and the benefit is little. The boys and girls who have Facebook accounts may come to a point where the vices tend to propagate. The boys make contacts and sometime girls get trapped and upload their immodest pictures on Facebook. You may have sent a casual picture to your friend and she may upload that on Facebook and from there it may reach Hamburg and then New York and Australia and so on. And then contacts develop from those countries. Then groups of men and women are formed who distort the pictures inappropriately and blackmail further and vice propagates on. Therefore, it is better not to indulge in such vices. ” (Waqfaat-e-Nau Class, October 8, 2011, Germany, Al-Fazl International, January 6, 2012) Similarly, on one occasion Huzoor Anwar atba warned girls and boys of the adverse consequences of unrestrained contacts and unlimited freedom on social media. He said: “Allah the Almighty says not even to go near such obscenities, meaning that restrain yourself from everything which tends to lead to obscenity. In the current era, there are a variety of ways that lead to it. There is the