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The life of this world is but play and amusement: and if ye believe and guard against Evil, He will grant you your recompense, and will not ask you (to give up) your possessions [Muhammad 47:36]
The television represents one of the biggest forms of corrupting the ummah today. After looking at the moral degradation of the ummah, we need to address a major source of this degradation. The western values and the values of the kuffar are invited daily into Muslim homes. These values (via television) are being invited by us Muslims and not by the kuffar. We have an option of refusing to watch these satanic values. We, as Muslims spend hours watching television and neglect our basic duties to our Creator (S.W.T). We choose to watch television in preference to our obligatory duties like Salaah. We also choose to spend hours watching things that do not benefit us and also makes us unmindful of Allah (S.W.T) and we become reluctant to listen and participate in Islamic activities.
Continued activity of anything makes one accustomed to it and abstinence from certain activities makes one reluctant to action it. In the same context Television has become part of our daily life and slowly Islamic way of life is being neglected and even being ignored. Some Muslims have complained about not having time to perform their salaah on the excuse of not having enough time in their busy schedules, yet they spend an average of at least 21 hours a week in front of the television.
Due to the prolonged exposure of viewing television, the love for things shown on Television enters the heart of a Muslim and the actions and behaviour become the norm. One of the biggest fitnas of television is the way women are paraded and dressed up with the deep-seated sexual messages present in them. The Nabee (S.A.W) has forbidden looking at non Mahram females in a narration as follows:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
I have not seen a thing resembling 'lamam' (minor sins) than what Abu Huraira 'narrated from the Prophet who said, "Allah has written for Adam's son his share of adultery which he commits inevitably. The adultery of the eyes is the sight (to gaze at a forbidden thing), the adultery of the tongue is the talk, and the inner self wishes and desires and the private parts testify all this or deny it." (Bukhari Volume 8, Book 74, Number 260)
Allah (S.W.T) commands us in the Holy Quraan:
Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is an indecent (deed) and an evil way. [Al-Isrá 17 –32]
In this verse Allah (S.W.T) prohibits us from even approaching adultery, thus any action that leads up to a haraam act is also haraam.
The content of television shows is nothing short of destruction for a Muslim’s Imaan (faith). The movies on television contains anti Islaamic values and behaviour that amounts to watching haraam. Although the viewer is not involved in the lewd behaviour, the viewer nevertheless watches the haraam activity.
We could justify these activities all we like but we must remember that we present ourselves to the kuffar and ask them to serve us with their corrupt and godless values. We have now become consumers of corrupt values and a mind that is developing to one that is similar to that of the kuffar. We, as Muslims are people that invite others to the beautiful lifestyle of Islaam and not us being invited to Kufr and Shirk that is presented by television programmes.
The watching of television is used to waste our time in mundane activities. Sport on television will get us addicted for hours to satisfy our appetite for consuming a sporting spectacle. These spectacles and activities are televised to instill a behaviour and character that promotes a lifestyle that is anti Islaamic. The sport personalities have become superstars to us, our children and the whole ummah. These people are now more dearer and beloved to us then Allah and his Messenger (S.A.W.) Our children know more about the sporting personalities, actors and politicians on television than the personalities of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali (R.A). These so called super stars and heroes display a lifestyle that is displeasing to Allah and the Nabee (S.A.W). How can we as Muslims watch these enemies of Allah (S.W.T).
The Television is also a major inviter of MUSIC into our homes. The musicians with their satanic rituals give a visible expression of their satanic agendas.
The most dangerous instrument that is being used today to prepare mankind for the coming of Dajjal, is the television. The television networks announce their viewer ship for all major events to be in the billions, which indicates the ability to influence so many people all at once. This shows the ability of disseminating information (true or false) to billions of people. We cannot allow ourselves as Muslims to be influenced or corrupted by television if we wish to be able recognize the fitna and fasaad of the Dajjal.
What should we, as Muslims, be doing?
We should be spending our precious time in an environment that promotes the consciousness of Allah (S.W.T) and fulfilling our object of our existence on earth. As Allah mentions in Quraan:
I created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me. [adh-Dhariyat 51:56]
We should abstain from leading a lifestyle that promotes all sorts of corruption including the corruption of the Deen-ul-Islam. If we wish to be able to recognise the fitnah of the liar, Ad-Dajjal then we should refrain from the activities and pastimes of his followers.
Only true believers will be able to recognize the fraud and deceit of the Dajjal. So we should strengthen our imaan and also be vigilant of the plots of Shaitaan, who wishes to distract us from the remembrance of Allah.
There are many methods and schemes employed by Shaitaan to distract Muslims, to lead us astray. Initially it is to distract us and thereafter to lead us to commit shirk and kufr. The Quraan exhorts us with the following:
"Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises them nothing but deceit. [bani Isra'il 17:64]
"As for My servants, no authority shalt thou have over them:" Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of affairs. [bani Isra'il 17:65]
Allah (S.W.T) describes this world in the Quraan as follows:
What is the life of this world but play and amusement? But best is the home in the hereafter, for those who are righteous. Will ye not then understand? [al-An`am 6:32.11]
Allah (S.W.T) warns us of being heedless of our religion Islaam, and being deceived by this world as follows:
Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except God: if it offered every ransom, (or reparation), none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting God. [al-An`am 6:70.13]
Let us not be of those who Allah (S.W.T) has blessed with five senses (i.e. sight, hearing, speech, touch and smell) for the disobedience of Allah. We should be using these blessed senses in the pleasure of our Creator (S.W.T). It would certainly be a sign of ingratitude if we were to use our senses, time and our wealth in the disobedience of Allah (S.W.T). In this regard Allah (S.W.T) mentions in the Holy Quraan:
Verily the ear, the eye and the heart – with regard to each of these it will be questioned. [Al-Isrá 17 –36]
It is clear that that this verse indicates towards the great responsibility attached to the correct usage of the senses.
Muslims are urged to change our ways and to make sincere taubah (repentance) for our past sins.
Allah has granted us choices of good and evil in this world, let us use it for the good. We should try and refrain from entertaining ourselves with television and enjoy the HALAAL activities that is pleasing to our Creator (S.W.T).
May Allah Guide us, and Forgive us all. Ameen
The television represents one of the biggest forms of corrupting the ummah today. After looking at the moral degradation of the ummah, we need to address a major source of this degradation. The western values and the values of the kuffar are invited daily into Muslim homes. These values (via television) are being invited by us Muslims and not by the kuffar. We have an option of refusing to watch these satanic values. We, as Muslims spend hours watching television and neglect our basic duties to our Creator (S.W.T). We choose to watch television in preference to our obligatory duties like Salaah. We also choose to spend hours watching things that do not benefit us and also makes us unmindful of Allah (S.W.T) and we become reluctant to listen and participate in Islamic activities.
Continued activity of anything makes one accustomed to it and abstinence from certain activities makes one reluctant to action it. In the same context Television has become part of our daily life and slowly Islamic way of life is being neglected and even being ignored. Some Muslims have complained about not having time to perform their salaah on the excuse of not having enough time in their busy schedules, yet they spend an average of at least 21 hours a week in front of the television.
Due to the prolonged exposure of viewing television, the love for things shown on Television enters the heart of a Muslim and the actions and behaviour become the norm. One of the biggest fitnas of television is the way women are paraded and dressed up with the deep-seated sexual messages present in them. The Nabee (S.A.W) has forbidden looking at non Mahram females in a narration as follows:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
I have not seen a thing resembling 'lamam' (minor sins) than what Abu Huraira 'narrated from the Prophet who said, "Allah has written for Adam's son his share of adultery which he commits inevitably. The adultery of the eyes is the sight (to gaze at a forbidden thing), the adultery of the tongue is the talk, and the inner self wishes and desires and the private parts testify all this or deny it." (Bukhari Volume 8, Book 74, Number 260)
Allah (S.W.T) commands us in the Holy Quraan:
Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is an indecent (deed) and an evil way. [Al-Isrá 17 –32]
In this verse Allah (S.W.T) prohibits us from even approaching adultery, thus any action that leads up to a haraam act is also haraam.
The content of television shows is nothing short of destruction for a Muslim’s Imaan (faith). The movies on television contains anti Islaamic values and behaviour that amounts to watching haraam. Although the viewer is not involved in the lewd behaviour, the viewer nevertheless watches the haraam activity.
We could justify these activities all we like but we must remember that we present ourselves to the kuffar and ask them to serve us with their corrupt and godless values. We have now become consumers of corrupt values and a mind that is developing to one that is similar to that of the kuffar. We, as Muslims are people that invite others to the beautiful lifestyle of Islaam and not us being invited to Kufr and Shirk that is presented by television programmes.
The watching of television is used to waste our time in mundane activities. Sport on television will get us addicted for hours to satisfy our appetite for consuming a sporting spectacle. These spectacles and activities are televised to instill a behaviour and character that promotes a lifestyle that is anti Islaamic. The sport personalities have become superstars to us, our children and the whole ummah. These people are now more dearer and beloved to us then Allah and his Messenger (S.A.W.) Our children know more about the sporting personalities, actors and politicians on television than the personalities of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali (R.A). These so called super stars and heroes display a lifestyle that is displeasing to Allah and the Nabee (S.A.W). How can we as Muslims watch these enemies of Allah (S.W.T).
The Television is also a major inviter of MUSIC into our homes. The musicians with their satanic rituals give a visible expression of their satanic agendas.
The most dangerous instrument that is being used today to prepare mankind for the coming of Dajjal, is the television. The television networks announce their viewer ship for all major events to be in the billions, which indicates the ability to influence so many people all at once. This shows the ability of disseminating information (true or false) to billions of people. We cannot allow ourselves as Muslims to be influenced or corrupted by television if we wish to be able recognize the fitna and fasaad of the Dajjal.
What should we, as Muslims, be doing?
We should be spending our precious time in an environment that promotes the consciousness of Allah (S.W.T) and fulfilling our object of our existence on earth. As Allah mentions in Quraan:
I created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me. [adh-Dhariyat 51:56]
We should abstain from leading a lifestyle that promotes all sorts of corruption including the corruption of the Deen-ul-Islam. If we wish to be able to recognise the fitnah of the liar, Ad-Dajjal then we should refrain from the activities and pastimes of his followers.
Only true believers will be able to recognize the fraud and deceit of the Dajjal. So we should strengthen our imaan and also be vigilant of the plots of Shaitaan, who wishes to distract us from the remembrance of Allah.
There are many methods and schemes employed by Shaitaan to distract Muslims, to lead us astray. Initially it is to distract us and thereafter to lead us to commit shirk and kufr. The Quraan exhorts us with the following:
"Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises them nothing but deceit. [bani Isra'il 17:64]
"As for My servants, no authority shalt thou have over them:" Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of affairs. [bani Isra'il 17:65]
Allah (S.W.T) describes this world in the Quraan as follows:
What is the life of this world but play and amusement? But best is the home in the hereafter, for those who are righteous. Will ye not then understand? [al-An`am 6:32.11]
Allah (S.W.T) warns us of being heedless of our religion Islaam, and being deceived by this world as follows:
Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except God: if it offered every ransom, (or reparation), none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting God. [al-An`am 6:70.13]
Let us not be of those who Allah (S.W.T) has blessed with five senses (i.e. sight, hearing, speech, touch and smell) for the disobedience of Allah. We should be using these blessed senses in the pleasure of our Creator (S.W.T). It would certainly be a sign of ingratitude if we were to use our senses, time and our wealth in the disobedience of Allah (S.W.T). In this regard Allah (S.W.T) mentions in the Holy Quraan:
Verily the ear, the eye and the heart – with regard to each of these it will be questioned. [Al-Isrá 17 –36]
It is clear that that this verse indicates towards the great responsibility attached to the correct usage of the senses.
Muslims are urged to change our ways and to make sincere taubah (repentance) for our past sins.
Allah has granted us choices of good and evil in this world, let us use it for the good. We should try and refrain from entertaining ourselves with television and enjoy the HALAAL activities that is pleasing to our Creator (S.W.T).
May Allah Guide us, and Forgive us all. Ameen
