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The ruling on watching debate and disagreement programs between currents

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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is your view on watching programs that present debates and disagreements between currents, which cause a great deal of doubt?

Answer:
I have mentioned to you that one of the types of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) in this age is the emergence of these channels, satellite stations, and the internet, and the spread of misguidance and deviant ideas within them, because anyone and everyone enters them. If they were limited to scholars and those from whom benefit is derived, they would be good.
But anyone and everyone enters them, including followers of false schools of thought, owners of malicious ideas, and the ignorant. People who are not scholars enter them and issue fatwas, declaring things permissible and forbidden, while they are ignorant. So there is no doubt that it is a fitnah, and the Muslim should stay away from it so that it does not affect him. He should stay away from it and not watch it. Yes.
Source لقاء مفتوح في الحوية — alfawzan.live (59:17)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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