Oh who cares, it's for a good cause!

Assalamu Alaykum,

I am typing this post in hope that everyone who have been gathering email addresses from other forwarded emails just to mass email them reads this.

I will not mention who is doing this or what topics they email about. This is a general concern and request.

To the bulk mailers:

Firstly, please have some respect for people's privacy. If they did not request to be emailed, DO NOT email them. Although it might be for an ISLAMIC cause, the email is still known as 'junk mail'. Not because of what it contains but because of the method they were sent.

If you wish to send bulk emails, do it professionally. Have a website, give a subscription option and if they want to be emailed, they will subscribe.

Otherwise you are in clear words forcing your email into their inbox. There have been hundreds of posts, arguments, unislamic quarrelling, hurtful messages to one another while accusing sisters of 'mingling' with brothers on this site (Astaghfirullah). Yet I find the SAME brothers mass mailing a bunch of sisters as well as brothers making all the email addresses visible to each recipient. Worse, they mass email the opposite gender despite their arguments from a personal email address (hotmail, msn, yahoo, gmail etc). If hypocrisy is too harsh of a word to assign here, please let me know what other word can be used in this case?

This is growing by the day. Before the emails were limited, now it's a daily problem. [email protected] email address had to be removed due to this problem. Now the replacement email address is being flushed into public along with hundreds of other email addresses.

To all the mass mailers, please have some dignity, professionalism, respect of peoples time and privacy, respect for the contents of the emails and mostly, respect for yourselves.

If anyone finds the above offensive, please think twice why you are feeling offended and for those who understand and accept, may Allah reward you.

No one should doubt any individuals if they have received similar emails. My target audience of this message is not any single person, but everyone who have resorted to this method of Da'wah. My concerns in this matter is not light, I truly believe these actions are wrong.

The title of this topic 'Oh who cares, it's for a good cause!' was indirectly stating that even if it's Islamic, it just does not make it right.

Wassalam

Although it is a good way to go about, blaclisting is it not better to not do it?

Reason being, do we want to be from those who openly announce the faults of others? Can we not just have sabr and deal with the people themselves on an individual level rather than post email addresses here.

Correct me if i am wrong in thinking this way.

Jazakallah for this beautiful and informative post. Lots to learn from it.

Alhumdulillah, even though I was sending out mass emails to friends/ family, I have been putting all email adds on the bcc line since near the beginning. I also make sure that they arent always long reads and no more than one email a week is sent to them.

Wasalam

No they are not mine through requests and subscriptions as such, they are email adresses of people with whom I have had communication with before, ie not just for the purpose of sending out mass emails).

They definitely have not been grabbed from forwarded messages. Like you i detest this sort of thing.

Wasalam