The Ruling on Selling Films and Raising Children on Them
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The questioner:
And that is what one sees of Islamic dreams, in that the best thing is that the matter, the matter, is to dedicate it to Allah.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to sell films, neither video films nor other films, because they contain moving images, and they also distract people, they distract children, and they train them on obscene films. If you show them films, they will leave this call to Allah, and they will be led to love films and fall into films that are not desirable.
So it is obligatory to keep the children of Muslims away from all these films. And the call to Allah, praise be to Allah, is in no need of these means. The call to Allah is through teaching, upbringing, and discipline. The lawful ways. These traditions that have reached us, the call to Allah is through the lawful ways, upbringing, teaching, enjoining good, prayer, and discipline if there is disobedience. This is how the call to Allah is done, raising children, yes. But to raise them on films, that is something that is not permissible.
And that is what one sees of Islamic dreams, in that the best thing is that the matter, the matter, is to dedicate it to Allah.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to sell films, neither video films nor other films, because they contain moving images, and they also distract people, they distract children, and they train them on obscene films. If you show them films, they will leave this call to Allah, and they will be led to love films and fall into films that are not desirable.
So it is obligatory to keep the children of Muslims away from all these films. And the call to Allah, praise be to Allah, is in no need of these means. The call to Allah is through teaching, upbringing, and discipline. The lawful ways. These traditions that have reached us, the call to Allah is through the lawful ways, upbringing, teaching, enjoining good, prayer, and discipline if there is disobedience. This is how the call to Allah is done, raising children, yes. But to raise them on films, that is something that is not permissible.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 9 من 10/شرح الأصول الثلاثة/رجل شديد بياض الثياب شديد سواد الشعر/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:10:48)
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