AdamMuslim
Junior Member
Besm Allah,
Assalamou Alikom Wrahmatou Allah,
Dear brothers and sisters,
The quality of any website is judged by its usefulness and also by the reliability of information that it provides. A very good website is supposed to provide the audience with information with very high quality. The high quality information means that the materials collected and gathered are absolutely reliable and true. These are universal criterion regardless the subject or the purpose of the website.
When we write or when we talk about Islam, there is an additional responsibility. Indeed, when we talk about Islam, we are obliged to provide the audience with the truth otherwise our good intention of doing a good deed will turn into a sin. Consequently, all of us are invited to be extremely careful and to look searchingly to what we gonna post. The purpose of this thread is to remind you (and myself) how to check the Islamic information that we intend to publish and share with the community.
I guess that the starting point of any thread concerning any Islamic subject is a question. But also, I think that there is a tendency to start a thread every time we randomly find some “apparently” good materials or information and we think that it would be very beneficial to share it with the community. Unfortunately, all information available on the Internet are not as reliable as they seem to be. That’s why we need a kind of check list or methodology to be able to distinguish between good and bad stuff to put on a thread.
1. The first thing would be to use the TTI searching engine to check if the subject already exists.
2. A quick glance at the homepage of any website is always helpful before starting copy/past
. This allow us to grasp the main idea of the website and what it is actually preaching.
3. Don’t just copy and past some Quran or Hadith from the first website after googling a few key words. Check and compare the result from, at least, two or three trustful sources.
4. If you are multilingual try to find the same information using as many language as you can (two would be great).
5. When you find some amazing stuff (video, photo, etc) just cool down, take a deep breath and ask yourself this simple question: is it really true? This is very important since the most amazing information are also the most likely to be fake.
6. Did you know that books still exist? Don’t let internet be your unique source of information. Personally, I still prefer books (real books) rather than the websites in Internet to find reliable information. If you don’t have any Islamic book, you can go to the nearest Masjid or library and consult Islamic ones there.
Assalamou Alikom Wrahmatou Allah,
Dear brothers and sisters,
The quality of any website is judged by its usefulness and also by the reliability of information that it provides. A very good website is supposed to provide the audience with information with very high quality. The high quality information means that the materials collected and gathered are absolutely reliable and true. These are universal criterion regardless the subject or the purpose of the website.
When we write or when we talk about Islam, there is an additional responsibility. Indeed, when we talk about Islam, we are obliged to provide the audience with the truth otherwise our good intention of doing a good deed will turn into a sin. Consequently, all of us are invited to be extremely careful and to look searchingly to what we gonna post. The purpose of this thread is to remind you (and myself) how to check the Islamic information that we intend to publish and share with the community.
I guess that the starting point of any thread concerning any Islamic subject is a question. But also, I think that there is a tendency to start a thread every time we randomly find some “apparently” good materials or information and we think that it would be very beneficial to share it with the community. Unfortunately, all information available on the Internet are not as reliable as they seem to be. That’s why we need a kind of check list or methodology to be able to distinguish between good and bad stuff to put on a thread.
1. The first thing would be to use the TTI searching engine to check if the subject already exists.
2. A quick glance at the homepage of any website is always helpful before starting copy/past
. This allow us to grasp the main idea of the website and what it is actually preaching. 3. Don’t just copy and past some Quran or Hadith from the first website after googling a few key words. Check and compare the result from, at least, two or three trustful sources.
4. If you are multilingual try to find the same information using as many language as you can (two would be great
).5. When you find some amazing stuff (video, photo, etc) just cool down, take a deep breath and ask yourself this simple question: is it really true? This is very important since the most amazing information are also the most likely to be fake.
6. Did you know that books still exist
? Don’t let internet be your unique source of information. Personally, I still prefer books (real books) rather than the websites in Internet to find reliable information. If you don’t have any Islamic book, you can go to the nearest Masjid or library and consult Islamic ones there.
