A Response to Those Who Stay Up at Night Watching Television Channels
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Question:
The questioner says: You see people staying up late watching the channels, and when we tell them, "O brothers, preserve your fasting," they say, "We are at night, and we are not fasting." Do you want to respond to these people?
Answer:
As you heard from these people. They stay up late in disobedience, and they abandon the Tarawih prayer and standing in night prayer. This also causes them to sleep during the day and not rise for the obligatory prayers at their times and in congregation. So this is staying up late that leads to evil and causes harm. Therefore, they should fear Allah. This is if this staying up late did not contain any forbidden things, but how is it when most of the staying up late is on forbidden things? So its evil is greater, and it is in itself a sin, and it leads to sin. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
The questioner says: You see people staying up late watching the channels, and when we tell them, "O brothers, preserve your fasting," they say, "We are at night, and we are not fasting." Do you want to respond to these people?
Answer:
As you heard from these people. They stay up late in disobedience, and they abandon the Tarawih prayer and standing in night prayer. This also causes them to sleep during the day and not rise for the obligatory prayers at their times and in congregation. So this is staying up late that leads to evil and causes harm. Therefore, they should fear Allah. This is if this staying up late did not contain any forbidden things, but how is it when most of the staying up late is on forbidden things? So its evil is greater, and it is in itself a sin, and it leads to sin. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
Source
مجالس رمضان 1428هـ - 06 — alfawzan.live (33:49)
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