Watching Sports on Television and the Ruling on the Thigh
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on watching some sports on television if watching them distracts one from prayer? And what is the stronger position regarding the thigh: is it an awrah (part of the body that must be covered) or not?
Answer:
That which distracts one from prayer is forbidden (haram), there is no doubt about it. And that which does not distract one from prayer is disliked (makruh) because it is idle play. What is the benefit of watching sports? It is idle play, a waste of time. You should protect your time from such matters. As for the thigh, it is an awrah. The awrah of a man is from the navel to the knee; all of this is an awrah, and the thigh is included in that, so it is an awrah. In the hadith:Sunan Ibn Majah 1460Da’if (Darussalam), so the thigh is an awrah.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on watching some sports on television if watching them distracts one from prayer? And what is the stronger position regarding the thigh: is it an awrah (part of the body that must be covered) or not?
Answer:
That which distracts one from prayer is forbidden (haram), there is no doubt about it. And that which does not distract one from prayer is disliked (makruh) because it is idle play. What is the benefit of watching sports? It is idle play, a waste of time. You should protect your time from such matters. As for the thigh, it is an awrah. The awrah of a man is from the navel to the knee; all of this is an awrah, and the thigh is included in that, so it is an awrah. In the hadith:
Do not show your thigh, and do not look at the thigh of anyone, living or dead.
لا تبرز فخذك، ولا تنظر إلى فخذ حي ولا ميت
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 002 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / مقدمة المؤلف / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:12:53)
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