TV....to watch or not to watch?

may Allah s.w.t. protect us from the devil himself the shatanic t.v.

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i too agree that tv is a tool of shaytan! One Imaan cannot blossom with tv around!

But then wot do you do with the technology? is it to be discarded?? yes, perhaps we can do that, but unfortunely the world won't...(for at least some time!)

e.g. wot I am getting at is, is there a possiblity of appling the shariah concept of Ahwanul Baliyatain - lesser of the 2 evils?

e.g voting for a person who does not follow Shariah and upholds haram concepts is haram, but many scholars have said that not voting incurs even more haram and harm, so voting is the lesser of the 2 evils as at least we can influence change for the better in some aspects.

If we FEAR ALLAH then that will help us to make the right decsison. But if we incline to our Nafs..then that's it!!...If wish the 4 Great Imaams Rahmatualli alayhim had to deal with some of these present day issues!! It would have made things alot easier for the rest of us.

Asalamualaikum wa Rahmatullah

it's okay if the four imams [and im assuming you mean the Khulafah ar Rashidun radhiAllahuanhu] didn't experience any of these fitnah today, nor did Rasulillah Sal'Allahualayhiwasalam. Subhan'Allah walhamdulillah wallahuakbar this Deen is So complete there isn't/wasn't a need for it, after all Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala did Decree it. Although sister/brother i do understand what you are saying, sometimes we all wish things like that, but Alhumdulillah this deen is so complete that when we look towards the Shariah and the Sunnah the solutions to all our problems lie within those two. We just have to look hard and search, insha'Allah we will find our answers. And insha'Allah may we be united with the Lovers of Allah Subhanahu wa ta 'ala under His Shade at The Fountain of Abundance inshaa'Allah.

duas..

Walaykumasalam wa rahmatullah

As they r da Great Fuqahaa of our times I can c how It would have made things alot easier for the rest of us!

some mothers put t.v on for their child/ren while doing chores. whats worse, there are new 'islamic' animated programmes out specifically for children. they sell them in alot of islamic book shops. i think its pointless and totally going out of proportion. also, there is a dvd out with regards to the story of 'habeel & kabil'. its animated and with faces. ive seen their advertisements over the internet. some people think its allowed because its islamic. thats hypocritical to a mu'min. i say we should avoid, at all cost, the t.v. it brings in arguements, bad thoughts etc in the home. there is no 'haya' between the people who watch it as nudity seems to be a norm in this society. how can mercy descend ones home if there is a t.v displaying silly, nonsense programmes. even news, i say we can check on the net. i pray we can all put an end to t.v full stop before it becomes a norm to watch programmes that display sexual desires/fantasies, kissing etc with our own respected parents and children!! (believe it or not, ive already seen it present in some homes!!)

wslm

We all know picture making is haram - no doubt. This piece of info i read on a fatwa made the whole issue of tv pretty clear (???):

tv is of course 'motion pictures' - i.e. 30 picture frames/sec thus in fact you are seeing loads of pictures in quick sucession - so though it appears moving they are in fact just pictures!

Allah save us from Shaytan and our Nafs Inshallah.

i was expecting people to say...'oh come on, get with the times..stop being a fanatic!!' when i introduced the topic...

...but Mashallah it seems this site attracts steadfast Muimins Alhamdulilah.

A very intresting discussion...with very good points mashallah..

On a personal level I feel the TV is a 'BIG MISTAKE'...unfortunately most of us grow up with it around us so we don't realise how harmful the effects are..we just think its 'normal'...

Initially it's hard to get away from cuz you have your nafs telling you to spnd that spare 5-10 mins sitting in front of the TV instead of doing some voluntray act of ibaadah and that 'its just 5 minutes' but before long those 5-10 mins end up as an hour or two sometimes resulting in missing salah etc...

Our nafs is like a suckling infant, the more we give into it..the more control it will have over us..you just need to break it once and it will begin to crumble...Shaykh asif Hussain Farooqi says that in reality 'it only takes a week to break the nafs' thats when you have true control over yourself...

Stay away from the TV and you'll find yourself feeling so much more content..you'll find yourself engaging in ibbadah so much more readily because your not waiting to watch so and so programme at so and so time...

Subhanallah its amazing how taking out the infulence of one piece of modern thechnology out of your lives can result in so much peace!

Sis OrangeHijab I couldnt have put it any better!

Mya Allah Ta'ala make us all steadfast on the deen and give us the inclination to remove all that comes in the way of becomin close to Him Allah Ta'ala.Ameen.

Duas

Wassalam

Aameen 2 the duas.

Wot da eyes c da heart desires!!!

Hence da TV is a huge Fitna of this day n age!!!

Allah save us all from it.

Ameen.

Salaams

I found this article & thought it would b appropriate 2 b posted here......

Read on n u will c y........

is this article extracted from riyadhul jannah?? coz i have read it b4. & it is a beautiful article.

I've read it b4 in da Riyadul Jannah 2!!!! (ages ago)

But the above article I found on the net!!!

Salaams