u/Lisan_al-Ghayb

1. Keeping your DMs on

This is a common problem among IMs (Indian Muslims) on social media. They keep their DMs on allowing anyone to destroy their mental peace or to disturb them. Especially given that you'll be on the Indian internet you should be extra cautious with strangers on internet. There are people who are after you just to target you somehow and they're looking for different ways to do so, coming to you as women, as people like you be it politically or religiously, or simply a friendly and curious person, but beware of such scammers. Don't click links that you may get in DMs, the fascist may be trying hack you. Give any political opinion or religious opinion in DMs only to real IMs. If you keep your DMs open, expect it to become like indian subreddits and comment sections of indian social media accounts.

2. Trying to give dawah while being layman themselves

Please do not, neither give dawah nor discuss religion with anyone except IMs or Ms. You'll end up confused and doubtful yourself. Dawah is for experts only. The best you can do is do Tabligh to IMs and help create a better virtual community ecosystem on social media platforms.

3. Giving political opinions to randoms on social media

Don't, you can end up facing some real problems because people are waiting for you to say something which they can use against you. You're not Kunal Kamra who can move to Puducherry. Discuss politics only with your social species, don't comment or put political statuses, and even if you do then do not let it be visible to anyone except with IMs. Do not make political comments on insta/twitter/WhatsApp nor post, appear apolitical on such platforms.

4. Interacting with people religiously

This is a wrong way to interact with people in 21st century as an IM. An IM is not a mere religious group, we are a proper community with a history, culture, cuisine, political history and present, and the most relevant identity to the people today is people's political identity or whatever their social specie is. The politics draws the boundaries, we as IMs are a proper social specie with common faith and common fate like caste groups and political groups such as commies, libs, RW, and recent elections are a proof of this. Talk business with people, don't talk religion and politics with them but do interpret and identify people of different social species politically. Use politics to make friends, people who are aligned with you or they aren't. A lot of you say that i have chaddi friends, but that is an oxymoron, a friend is someone who is politically aligned with you and has no possibility of conflict politically.

Beware of people who say this often or start the talk by saying these -

- I don't hate any religion or any group

- I am secular, liberal and open minded

- I am atheist or agnostic

Most trolls or anti-muslims or chaddis or imposters do this, beware of such people because they're more dangerous than who openly hate. They do this to claim a neutral and moral high ground and then come at you when you're comfortable with them. Most chaddis larp as the above, a chaddi is more like to come to you as an atheist and liberal rather what he/she really is.

“The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the "smiling" fox.”

- Malcom X