These services cover all fields, including fatwas (religious ruling), supplications, recorded Qur’an recitations and Fiqh (jurisprudence). We can safely call this religious entertainment!

Trading where religion services are concerned has reached a level that cannot be imagined.

Who can believe that Qur’anic verses, supplications and fatwas have become commodities, subject to market laws that call for pricing them according to the principles of supply and demand?

Who can believe that our society has become so naive to the extent that some of its members will subscribe to these services, thus consolidating this phenomenon of trading in religion?

Is it the fault of the religious scholars who are responsible for these kinds of services, or the fault of a society that believes that the road to obtaining the satisfaction of God passes through the vibrations of the mobile phone and that learning religion can be achieved through telephone-advertised services?

Until a few decades ago, people were seeking knowledge about religion in books. With the emergence of the so-called service economy, they have abandoned the books to learn religion from text messages!! This is a serious phenomenon that will distort the purpose of religion.

More perilous than this is subjecting religion to the laws of consumption and the market culture. This can ultimately lead to turning religion into a commodity and marketing it as a consumer service to make profit.

Just imagine if our conservative society was satisfied with text messages as tools for learning religion? What then will be the effect on current religious thought?

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