XY Problem What is it? The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help. * User wants to do X. * User doesn't know how to do X, but thinks they can fumble their way to a solution if they can just manage to do Y. * User doesn't know how …

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The Scourge Of Photography
@sourgeOfPhotography
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332subscribers
+8 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003397140320 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sourgeOfPhotography |
| Created | Between 1 November 2025 and 31 March 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sourgeOfPhotography |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
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| 7 Sept 2026, 04:41 | 332 | +1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 14:32 | 331 | -1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 09:47 | 332 | +6 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 00:28 | 326 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:18 | 324 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 23:31 | 324 | first reading |
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19 posts held, back to 28 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 3 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
I also advise you to take advice and knowledge from people of knowledge, not beginners sharing quotes and snippets of them. This is your personal life. Just like you don't treat yourself based on online medical articles, but instead ask an actual doctor about your specific case. I highly suspect this stems from false information. You might be able to hear that the sheikh is weirded out by the question and describe…
From time to time we see another mutation of this question. I could only guess there is systematic failure making people put themselves in these situations. I'm craving a rant, because this is not good at all, but, here is a suggestion: You're suffering from what's called the XY problem. You keep assuming a solution, and asking sheikhs why that solution is not working. You should instead ask them about your prob…
Summary: Question: The suitor is far, can we use tasweer since he wants to see the sister before he travels to her? Answer: No.
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. هل تنصحون الأخوات بالتواصل مع الإخوة الملتزمين بالشريعة عبر التطبيقات؟ أحيانًا يكون الإخوة في الخارج يدرسون الإسلام، وتكون الأخوات في بلدانٍ بعيدة. فإذا تواصلوا عبر هذه التطبيقات، فكيف تنصحون الأخوات بشأن الرؤية الشرعية؟ هل يرسلن صورةً، أو يظهرن بوجوههن للإخوة في مكالمةٍ مرئية بوجود وليهن؟ أم ينتظرن حتى يتمكن الإخوة من زيارة بلدانهن؟ وماذا إذا اشترط الأخ النظر إليها اولاً لأنه في بلدٍ…
Summary of the Answer to Question 11: Question: What is the ruling on attending a family member’s wedding when there will be photography and video recording? Should I avoid attending in order to preserve family ties? The issue is not that you may appear in a photograph or video. Rather, the munkar is the act of producing images and videos of animate beings, and this is the wrongdoing that you are witnessing. {وَٱل…
Part 2: Protect Your Time Against the Illusion of Virtue السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته We have to be incredibly careful not to fall into the trap of endless debating. It is so easy to find yourself active in a gazillion groups (WhatsApp, Telegram, and social media) completely convinced that spending hours typing back and forth is daʿwah or defending the Sunnah. But we need to check our intentions, because this i…
Part 1 — The Cord and the Boundary: Knowing Your Audience in Taṣwīr Discourse السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته My advice to myself and to my brothers who are convinced of the impermissibility of taṣwīr is simple: let go and move on from this issue. You seek knowledge to benefit yourself, those around you, and those who ask you. You yourself have benefited, al-ḥamdu lillāh. But those around you? Maybe not. Should y…
I'll Just Follow Ibn Bāz and Use Taṣwīr For Daʿwah Zayd: I'll just follow Ibn Bāz and use taṣwīr for daʿwah. Thinking about it, it only makes sense. Islām is not strict, and this opinion of saying photography is impermissible in all cases is so extreme—it doesn't work well practically. Bakr: But that's ḥarām. You can't use ḥarām for daʿwah; that defeats the purpose... Zayd: Look, akhī, Allāh told us to ask the peo…
Note: We do look for reconciliation between the statements and actions of the people of knowledge, as they often have a reason that we mistake as a contradiction. The books of scholars are full of this, and they're the ones who gather all pieces of the puzzle. The difference between the Prophet ﷺ and them is that there is a chance they are mistaken, but, we don't rush to that conclusion, as that's not from respectin…
A questioner asks concerning the view of Shaykh Al-Fawzān on taṣwīr. How can we reconcile between his action and his fatwa? Answer: As for that which is maʿrūf (known) the Shaykh حفظه الله makes picture-making ḥarām and he speaks very severely about this. He refutes those that make pictures, and he refutes those that make picture-making permissible in many different audios and many different books. This is found a…
Question: Can I share videos after blurring the heads? Answer: Allāh has not made it so difficult to find clean materials. Why would you put yourself in such position? But let's assume you somehow can only find a tainted source: In that case, you could easily use an online converter, just google: "video to audio online". Here's a suggestion: https://www.freeconvert.com/convert/video-to-mp3 You can also use PipeP…
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