The Ruling on Watching Series That Incite Tribal Hatred
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Question:
The questioner: A series has appeared that they say is historical, but it has incited tribal hatred. What is our position regarding it?
Answer:
That which incites the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) and stirs up evil among people is not permissible. It is not permissible to watch these series, for the least of their harms is that they take up a person’s time and occupy him. Otherwise, they contain something greater than that, namely inciting evils, suspicions, the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah), racism, and other such things. Most of them—most of the series—are evil. They are an advertisement for evil. So the Muslim is safe from them; he avoids them, does not bring them into his home, and does not turn them on in his home among his children because of the trial (fitnah) and evil they contain.
The questioner: A series has appeared that they say is historical, but it has incited tribal hatred. What is our position regarding it?
Answer:
That which incites the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) and stirs up evil among people is not permissible. It is not permissible to watch these series, for the least of their harms is that they take up a person’s time and occupy him. Otherwise, they contain something greater than that, namely inciting evils, suspicions, the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah), racism, and other such things. Most of them—most of the series—are evil. They are an advertisement for evil. So the Muslim is safe from them; he avoids them, does not bring them into his home, and does not turn them on in his home among his children because of the trial (fitnah) and evil they contain.
Source
مجالس رمضان 1429هـ - 01 — alfawzan.live (22:40)
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