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Finally, I’m here to put down my views regarding an important topic. It’s been a really long time I’ve been thinking of doing this. Before I go on further, I’d want to mention the reason I’ve started writing. Well, I personally think, it’s good to put down your ideas as it motivates you to act accordingly.
I strongly feel I should give up watching TV. You must be wondering, "Oh why?" “There’s nothing wrong with it.” “This is just extremism.” “We have the right to enjoy and entertain ourselves.” …and a lot more.
Well, you know why I think that way? I see TV as a time-waste, and just a useless tool…just destroys our personality and character. Trust me, those things, which seemed pretty wrong to me earlier, after watching TV (though not too much), gradually those things started not to bother me much. Isn’t that alarming? That’s a Shaytan trick. Definitely, it is..! Shaytan tries to make us used-to the minor sins, and then a time will come when even the major sins won’t bother us. Trust me that’s the truth. If you feel that’s not the case with you, then let me ask you something. If you used to wear decent dresses, those which were in accordance to the Shar’iah...and the other kinds of dresses used to bother you much...Do they still bother you much? Definitely, not as it was earlier. Watching TV, with those stuff, makes you get used-to such stuff, and that’s why after some time you stop bothering about, and think it’s just NORMAL.
So you see, even the Quran says so. The things they do are definitely denying Allah’s verses, as they’re going against what Allah has asked us to. Secondly, if doing something is WRONG, then even WATCHING it would be WRONG. As I see it as means of promoting it. On the other hand, Allah tells us: Amr bil-m’aroof, wa nahi ‘an il-munkar...Enjoin that which is good and forbid evil. Would we want to disobey our Lord? Would we want to do something that’ll make our Lord angry? Why should we do that?
And now, let me explain why doing that is wrong. Did you come across this Hadith? The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam) said: “For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle is better for him than to touch a woman who is not permissible for him.” (At-Tabaraani saheeh by al-Albaani). And you’re pretty aware of what happens. That lady is the mother of a guy in one show, daughter in the other, and on another occasion wife of the guy. Both are non-Mehrams of each other, how can you say there’s nothing wrong in all that? We need to re-think. Trust me, it’s so addictive. I mean, it’s hard to resist watching it when you have it playing in front of you. In that case, we have to find out some ways that’d help us to stay away from TV. I’d try to list some of them in my next article InshaAllah. You may share your suggestions too.
Till then, this should be an encouragement for you:
Let us remind ourselves of this Ayah every time we’re tempted to watch TV.
May Allah help us and guides us all and make us among the muttaqeen and saliheen. Aameen.
WasSalamoAlaikum Wr Wb…
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AsSalamoAlaikum Wr Wb...
Finally, I’m here to put down my views regarding an important topic. It’s been a really long time I’ve been thinking of doing this. Before I go on further, I’d want to mention the reason I’ve started writing. Well, I personally think, it’s good to put down your ideas as it motivates you to act accordingly.
I strongly feel I should give up watching TV. You must be wondering, "Oh why?" “There’s nothing wrong with it.” “This is just extremism.” “We have the right to enjoy and entertain ourselves.” …and a lot more.
Well, you know why I think that way? I see TV as a time-waste, and just a useless tool…just destroys our personality and character. Trust me, those things, which seemed pretty wrong to me earlier, after watching TV (though not too much), gradually those things started not to bother me much. Isn’t that alarming? That’s a Shaytan trick. Definitely, it is..! Shaytan tries to make us used-to the minor sins, and then a time will come when even the major sins won’t bother us. Trust me that’s the truth. If you feel that’s not the case with you, then let me ask you something. If you used to wear decent dresses, those which were in accordance to the Shar’iah...and the other kinds of dresses used to bother you much...Do they still bother you much? Definitely, not as it was earlier. Watching TV, with those stuff, makes you get used-to such stuff, and that’s why after some time you stop bothering about, and think it’s just NORMAL.
“And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them.Indeed Allah will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers in Hell all together” [Quran 4:140]
So you see, even the Quran says so. The things they do are definitely denying Allah’s verses, as they’re going against what Allah has asked us to. Secondly, if doing something is WRONG, then even WATCHING it would be WRONG. As I see it as means of promoting it. On the other hand, Allah tells us: Amr bil-m’aroof, wa nahi ‘an il-munkar...Enjoin that which is good and forbid evil. Would we want to disobey our Lord? Would we want to do something that’ll make our Lord angry? Why should we do that?
And now, let me explain why doing that is wrong. Did you come across this Hadith? The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam) said: “For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle is better for him than to touch a woman who is not permissible for him.” (At-Tabaraani saheeh by al-Albaani). And you’re pretty aware of what happens. That lady is the mother of a guy in one show, daughter in the other, and on another occasion wife of the guy. Both are non-Mehrams of each other, how can you say there’s nothing wrong in all that? We need to re-think. Trust me, it’s so addictive. I mean, it’s hard to resist watching it when you have it playing in front of you. In that case, we have to find out some ways that’d help us to stay away from TV. I’d try to list some of them in my next article InshaAllah. You may share your suggestions too.
Till then, this should be an encouragement for you:
“And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out and will provide for him from where he does not expect.” [Quran 65:2-3]
Let us remind ourselves of this Ayah every time we’re tempted to watch TV.
May Allah help us and guides us all and make us among the muttaqeen and saliheen. Aameen.
WasSalamoAlaikum Wr Wb…
