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~41~ • Address to Ladies Jalsa Salana Australia 15 April 2006 • Published AlFazl International 12 June 2015 Many girls use Internet for the purpose of tabligh (preaching) and think that this is safer and more effective as compared to direct tabligh. However, soon thereafter, negative consequences manifest themselves. Therefore, Huzoor (aba) gave an important advice about applying Islamic teachings on purdah to current technology. Huzoor-e-Anwar (aba) said: “Now I would like to say something pertaining to chatting on the Internet, which also comes under the category of non- observance of purdah. Casually, you connect online and start chatting without realizing with whom you are talking to. Our girls are chatting without knowing whether it is a girl or a boy sitting at the other end. Sometimes boys hide their identity and pretend to be girls to talk to girls. It has been brought to my attention that our girls talk to boys considering them to be girls and start introducing the Jama’at to them. Our girl, in her mind, is happy that she is calling them towards Allah. She does not know the intentions of [the boy posing to be] the other girl. Even if you have a good intention, you don’t know the intentions of the boy sitting at the other end. How would you know? Gradually, it goes to the level where pictures are exchanged. Now, showing your pictures is the extreme of immodesty. In some situations, it has even ended up in a marriage. As I mentioned that it has led to frightening results. Most of these marriages failed within a short while. Remember, if you would like to preach, then girls should only preach to girls. Girls don’t have to preach to boys. Leave it to the boys to do that. As I mentioned earlier, this is a societal ill and we are facing very frightening results. ” • Address at Annual Ijtema Lajna Ima’illah UK 19 October 2003 Baitul Futuh Mosque, London • Published AlFazl International 17 April 2015