[Nfvzjvcl]

I think youtube is a very good way to call people to Islam outside the Muslim community.

Is anyone here an active member of SF and also does youtube videos and dawah.

Muslims who have an audience are on youtube unfortunately for entertainment purposes and not engaged in dawah.

Its the most underutilized dawah platform. I had read that the youtube audience numbers a billion people now.

Do people here, many of whom seem to be quite confident in their Islamic knowledge intend to propagate Islam on youtube. If not why not - when its an open channel where millions of non-muslims come.

There are ofcourse hundreds of channels where Islamic scholarly videos and speeches are posted. But what about individual da'ees. They also make great impact.

As an example brother

Converted2Islam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HydX9kkYaU does a very good job and I am sure he is making a very good impact on the youtube dawah scene.

Other channels of individual da'ees - very very limited amount - A shame for Ummat e Rasul


http://www.youtube.com/user/Newf2islam

http://www.youtube.com/user/aboayoub

http://www.youtube.com/user/SamiZaatari

http://www.youtube.com/user/dawahaddict

So its been 8 years since sunni forum emerged and seven years since youtube emerged. It seems after nearly 722,000 posts no sunniforum member has participated in this dawah platform of nearly a billion people audience. Why is that when many members here posting are quite confident and sure about their Islamic knowledge?

[orison]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_QU...hannel&list=UL
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This video for example demolishes patcondell's arguments in a wonderful way. If you dont know patcondell. He is one of the most virulent anti-saudia and generally anti-Muslim british vlogger. He has quite a significant sway on a lot of people.

[Adollobdeb]

Not to mention some of us follow the opinion that recording video of ourselves/others is haram...

Our View:

Yes, in a mirror reflection, the image is not permanent and is not captured, however, in the instance of a video tape and live broadcast, there exists “particles of an image” creating the potential of the broadcast being captured and printed; the broadcast could be printed to form a picture or photo resulting in it becoming Haram. Hence, due to this potential, especially in this age of technology, broadcasting and video conferencing will ultimately be considered as Taswir, and Haram. Hazrat Mufti Taqi Uthmani Sahib (Madda Zilluhu) is also of the opinion that a printed image is Taswīr.

Furthermore, this potential does not exist in the case of a mirror reflection. A mirror reflection does not contain particles, etc. creating the potential of it being captured and printed, hence, the analogy of the mirror reflection and live broadcasting and video recording would be an oversight and incorrect.

http://www.askimam.org/public/question_detail/18830

[KraskiNetu]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mo987665?feature=mhee

Feel free to re-upload whatever ive uploaded inshallah

[U2DnBGFE]

You make a lot of assumptions and clearly aren't paying attention to other conversations on SF. If you had been, you would have noticed some efforts by now.

Besides, where is your youtube channel? Perhaps you meant to 'lead' by example and show us what you have done?

What assumptions? Just chill sister. You are behaving strangely and obstructive. I am not on sunni forum to argue ok inshAllah.

As you can see I am relatively newly active on sunni forum. I have only 200 posts or so. So if I have missed something on sunni forum its probably because I am new here.

I am just saying what a waste of a dawah platform. If you have seen the atheist community on youtube you will be surprised. Its one of the most prevalent ideological community there discussing religious issues.

So, some people consider making videos haram? I have seen alot of deobandi Ulema on youtube.

I just think the individual du'at make great impact. They destroy and shatter misconceptions.

So if people are so confident in their ISlamic knowledge as it shows in many posts here why dont they propagate Islam to a better audience - the audience ignorant about Islam.

If you ask me, my Islamic knowledge is not that good as most people here have said so I shouldnt be pressed forward to do that. However I still do intend to start one probably early next year. I had a youtube channel for two years discussing evolution and atheism. Closed it down for various reasons. But it was a great dawah platform.

Again there is a billion people audience - mostly non-Muslims. We have probably less than 20 good individual du'ats - why dont some sunni forum members engage and call the world to Islam?

[halfstreet]

So, some people consider making videos haram? I have seen alot of deobandi Ulema on youtube.

I don't know about making videos, but some consider appearing in them to be haram. There is a very wide range of opinions on it, though.

[KimLinbert]

I don't know about making videos, but some consider appearing in them to be haram. There is a very wide range of opinions on it, though.

Thats cool if you really believe in that appearing in videos is haram. However what do you think of the suggestion. That youtube is still untapped by people willing to do dawah. Sunni forum members have excellent passion and ideas. They are also quite well - researched.

If we just sit back and say that videos of scholar speeches will make an impact. I am afraid those are watched mostly by Muslim viewers. However if you can title your video to attract non-Muslim or engage with the virulent atheist community on youtube you would be doing great service for Islam.

The problem is its not a one man job. We need several members researching a topic and presenting and challenging an idea. I remember when I was doing anti-evolution videos. No one was there on youtube and the atheists would flock and ridicule, mock and demoralize every video I used to make. And I couldnt respond to all because to make a good quality video takes ALOT of time and effort esp. if you are a slow thinker like me. Unless you are there for viewership only making one video is tremendous efforts with all commitments you have.

So if you have ten strong brothers for example tackling evolution we will be doing a great service for Islam. Because once you start challenging a irreligious idea then a counter response begins and several anarchic atheists will come knocking at your channel. So the brothers can all make response videos to counter attacks and in that way support each other so that you dont feel despondent about the response.

So evolution is one thing, maybe another topic could be the irreligious economic systems. Alot of brothers are particularly concerned about the nature of current economic systems and have great ideas. Maybe they can propagate those.

I am just suggesting, because sunni forum members seem to be comfortable in their own little world of arguments when there are bigger things out there awaiting.

[forextradinginfo]

[I personally like the idea, masha'Allah. I would not want to be in a video but I do watch lectures where the speaker is videotaped however, those who do not want to show in videos could make videos without videotaping - could be the reading of a script (audio) alongside relevant slides (visual) supplemented by written words (textual). There are SF members who make these types of videos - no videotaping; videotaping without showing the person; and videotaping with the person giving a talk.]

[Cwvnyfsj]

[I personally like the idea, masha'Allah. I would not want to be in a video but I do watch lectures where the speaker is videotaped however, those who do not want to show in videos could make videos without videotaping - could be the reading of a script (audio) alongside relevant slides (visual) supplemented by written words (textual). There are SF members who make these types of videos - no videotaping; videotaping without showing the person; and videotaping with the person giving a talk.]

To be honest any video without face and a naturally style of talk will do generally less well on youtube. Most people dont want to hear audio alone. You saw that saudi guy. His style of talking. Basically its the first video which probably will irritate the old senile condell.

Converted2ISlam is doing one of the greatest dawah on youtube. His style has improved alot and his videos are very high quality. To make those videos will take alot of effort, time, thought and morale.

I think that SF members still are not enthusiastic to use that platform as yet even if they are well equipped about Islam. Its a platform which for years now has been underutilized. Its a good resource for recorded speeches of scholars. But still as I said custom made videos have their own niche and they are great dawah supplements to the scholars videos.

Anyways can you direct me to the SF members who make youtube videos on Islam which you mentioned.

[myspacepro]

Just a few days back, brother J.A. Abdullah posted about his youtube efforts. Here's the link to his most recent post: http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...-my-next-video.

[Avaindimik]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mo987665?feature=mhee

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