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What is the ruling on returning to Facebook after swearing an oath to Allah to abandon it, and is expiation for breaking an oath obligatory?

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The legal ruling for using Facebook is as follows: if the usage is for permissible and good purposes, there is no objection; rather, the user may even be rewarded for it. However, if the usage is for disliked or forbidden purposes, the ruling ranges between disliking (makrooh) and prohibition (haraam).

- If the questioner swore and covenanted with Allah to abandon Facebook due to its impermissible use, then it is not permissible for him to go back on his oath. - However, if the questioner's use of Facebook is for good and beneficial purposes in his religion or worldly life, then he is permitted to atone for his oath. - The expiation for an oath is to feed ten poor persons from the average food given to one's family, or to clothe them, or to free a slave. If one is unable to do these three, then by fasting three days.

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