Some claim that you have retracted your ruling on the prohibition of image-making, citing your appearances on certain satellite channels!

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a question that has been repeated, and this is one of them. He says: Many people, or rather, many people these days, claim that you have retracted your ruling on the prohibition of image-making in all its forms. They argue for this by citing your appearances on some satellite channels and the filming of your lectures.

Answer:
They are lying. I have not appeared on any satellite channel. I have not appeared, praise be to Allah, on any satellite channel. As for them coming and taking from the lecture, they take it, and I did not give them permission, nor did I even know about them. The sin is upon them. The sin is upon them. As for my appearing on a satellite channel, that is a lie. I have not appeared, praise be to Allah, on any satellite channel. Despite the attempts made with me, I did not respond to them with that, so that those who were deceived would be led into error and plunged into calamities. People were set against them. These are deceptive satellite channels. Beware of them. Yes.