Tohir Solomons

Blogging as a Sadaqatul Jaariyah (Perpetual Charity)

Posted on the April 30th, 2005 under Uncategorized by Tohir

As a web developer, one of the biggest difficulties is trying to get client to provide decent content. At first I thought it was ‘laziness’ on their part, only to find out, with experience, that it seems to be endemic.

Having developed the website for the Islamic College of Southern Africa (ICOSA), and now busy with the one for the International Peace University of South Africa (IPSA), I’ve always tried to encourage the lecturing staff to allow their research to be published on the web.

But in general, we need to ask how many Muslim scholars have blogs, and can we encourage them to go into blogging. It doesn’t have to be ‘academic’, just valuable interesting ideas that they have to share.

For one, I’ve learnt how much better it is to write down things, and enormous thanks goes to the Blogger.com and Google teams for facilitating this, and giving me the freedom to express myself in a way that is comfortable.

Another thought and perhaps reason for Muslim Scholars to start blogging.

Whatever gets written in the blog remains, the ideas may change over time, they may be criticised, or hardly read. But perchance, the writings can help someone. A blog remains a legacy in a similar way to that of a book. The blog will become a Sadaqah al-Jariyah, a perpetual charity, a gift from yourself to others, many of whom you may never meet, benefitting humanity, even after you have passed on.