If you have been on Facebook lately you are probably tired of receiving invites to applications that are haraam (forbidden) or even pointless. You know what I’m talking about, when was the last time you used “Superpoke!” for a halal reason? There so many Facebook apps revolving around poking other people: foreign poke, office poke, kinky poke, karma poke, naughty poke, poke pro, desi poke, dive poke, gift poke, pet poke, poke stats, poke wars and the list goes on for a total of 177 applications. Yes, that’s right, 177 applications dedicated to poking.
Well, here’s some good news. Believe it or not, there is a small but growing trend of Muslims creating Islam related Facebook applications that can actually benefit other Muslims. At the moment there are about 20 such applications. Twenty applications sounds like a lot and can really cramp your Facebook profile, but lucky for you I have compiled the top four Muslim Facebook apps here for you in no particular order ;).
1. Islamify.com by Islamify.com
This app is the number one Muslim news application on Facebook. The Islamify team set up this application so that the top stories from Islamify.com, a Muslim Social News site, show up on your Facebook profile. This gives you instant access to the hottest Islam related news right from an automatically updated application.
2. Quran Verses by Abdullah Arif
Add verses from the Noble Qur’an to your profile from over 23 languages! This application offers great flexibility in choosing the suras (chapters) from which to choose the verses, the number of verses to display, among many other options!
3. Hadith by Khaleel Mughal
This application will display a random Hadith (saying of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on your profile, allow you to search for hadith and bookmark your favorites, its also in English and Arabic!
4. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Quotes and Teachings by ByteSize
This application allows you to get the words and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad on your profile and phone!
There you have it. Now you can use these apps to enrich yourself or for dawah through your Facebook profile. Inshallah these apps will become as viral as “Superpoke!” and spread like wildfire through Facebook. It’s all in your hands. I’ve linked the above list directly to their corresponding apps, so don’t forget to click on the ones you want!
Are there any other Facebook apps we might have missed? Comment and share them with us.
