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Most people
think that television is Haraam only because
it projects images of living creatures.
Today, tables in living rooms and bedroom
walls are adorned and decorated with family
pictures and other portraits, to the extent
that some students hang the portraits of
their shaikh on the wall for blessings. It
is difficult to comprehend how the mercy of
Allah ta’alaa is going to descend.
Any home that
has a video and television is not visited by
angels. The Holy Prophet of Allah (S.A.W.S)
has informed us that any home which contains
pictures of living creatures is not visited
by angels. However, do you think television
is only haraam because it projects images?
There are many reasons for the ‘T.V.’ being
haraam. Everybody who studies its influences
finds new dangers. Televsion is an
instrument of violating the injunction of
hijaab. We all know that a non-mahram man
cannot look at a non-mahram woman. The
Prophet (S.A.W.S) has said “verily, the gaze
is a poisonous arrow from the arrows of
satan”.
Take heed my
friends! After having seen one woman you
turn to another and then another and are not
satisfied and so you move onto magazines.
But, the lust in your heart remains
unfulfilled so you move onto pornographic
images on the television and video. The
truth is always bitter and hard, but one
does not need to conduct a survey to find
out what people think when they are spending
hours, watching naked women and men on the
filthy ‘box’. The viewing of films that
inflame sexual desires is definitely
questionable. It is reported on the
authority of Hasan Basri (R.A) that the
Apostle of Allah (S.A.W.S) is to have said
“the curse of Allah is on the who sees and
on the one who is seen”. When a man looks at
a non-mahram woman, then Allah’s curse
descends on that individual for as long as
he keeps on looking. We are glued to the
television for 2 to 3 hours, some even more,
at a time. Be cautioned my friends. During
all this time, Allah’s curse is befalling
us.
There is no
doubt that society at large influences
children, but without any hesitation I can
say that the effects the television has are
far greater. It is the television that take
our children on the path of drugs, alcohol,
fornication, disrespect, confrontation,
modernism and many other evils that are
apparent in our society today. Know that
these evils are a direct result of watching
and learning from the television.
Infact,
television is being used to disseminate evil
within the community. You may think that you
are passing time and entertaining yourself
when you are passing several hours in front
of the T.V. You are mistaken my friend! The
television is not an instrument of
entertainment, but an instrument used to
reshape and motivate ones thoughts and
loyalties. Whatever you watch on television
you accept as the truth. If the television
was to announce that Afghanistan was
captured by the USA, no-one would doubt it. |
