بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم
🔹FATWA: people become amazed when they find out there's no TV in my house🔹
Sheikh Abū Muhammad Abdulhamīd Al-Zoukorī -may Allāh grant him success- was asked the following question:
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📝 Question:
Some people, if they realise that there is no TV in my house, or that I do not listen to the radio, they become amazed and ask me: How do you know what's going on in the world?
✅ Answer:
▪️Firstly: it's not wājib to know what's going on in the world.
▪️Secondly: News will reach you without you even searching for it.
▪️Thirdly: There are many news outlets other than having to watch TV and listen to Music on the radio. You can listen or read, and success is from Allāh.
▪️Many people who live with a TV in their house become amazed at our children, our wives, at us, even though there's nothing to be amazed at really; because the Sharī'ah requires us to distance ourselves from TV and satellite dishes, due to what it contains of images, songs and Fitnah.
▪️Just like they used to say, how do you live without qāt? The one who chews qāt is amazed at you, how do live without qāt?
Similarly, the one into music is amazed at you, how do you live without music?
Whereas, their amazement comes only because they are addicted to these things, so much so that they find it difficult to live without them.
▪️And it's true that practising people are the happiest people, because they are with Allāh, with the Book of Allāh, with the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, with the righteous predecessors, with the masjid and with themselves. So, as time passes by, they wish they could have more time, in order to spend it in the obedience of Allāh ﷻ.
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Translated by:
Abū Ishāq Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Bā 'Alawī
🔹FATWA: people become amazed when they find out there's no TV in my house🔹
Sheikh Abū Muhammad Abdulhamīd Al-Zoukorī -may Allāh grant him success- was asked the following question:
🔻🔹🔹🔹🔹🎙🔹🔹🔹🔹🔻
📝 Question:
Some people, if they realise that there is no TV in my house, or that I do not listen to the radio, they become amazed and ask me: How do you know what's going on in the world?
✅ Answer:
▪️Firstly: it's not wājib to know what's going on in the world.
▪️Secondly: News will reach you without you even searching for it.
▪️Thirdly: There are many news outlets other than having to watch TV and listen to Music on the radio. You can listen or read, and success is from Allāh.
▪️Many people who live with a TV in their house become amazed at our children, our wives, at us, even though there's nothing to be amazed at really; because the Sharī'ah requires us to distance ourselves from TV and satellite dishes, due to what it contains of images, songs and Fitnah.
▪️Just like they used to say, how do you live without qāt? The one who chews qāt is amazed at you, how do live without qāt?
Similarly, the one into music is amazed at you, how do you live without music?
Whereas, their amazement comes only because they are addicted to these things, so much so that they find it difficult to live without them.
▪️And it's true that practising people are the happiest people, because they are with Allāh, with the Book of Allāh, with the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, with the righteous predecessors, with the masjid and with themselves. So, as time passes by, they wish they could have more time, in order to spend it in the obedience of Allāh ﷻ.
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Translated by:
Abū Ishāq Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Bā 'Alawī