The Ruling on Turning on the Television in the Workplace to Follow the News
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Question:
He says: I work in a government department, and the department has a television set. The employees in the department turn on the set to watch the news bulletin, which sometimes contains some music, and women read the news bulletin. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
The one who is engaged in work is restricted by his work and does not waste it, and he sits watching the news and turning on the television and wasting the work. This is a trust; he performs his work. But if he has no work and wants the news bulletin, it is available on the radio without a television; he listens to it on the radio, reads it in the newspapers, and obtains it, and praise be to Allah, without this. Yes.
He says: I work in a government department, and the department has a television set. The employees in the department turn on the set to watch the news bulletin, which sometimes contains some music, and women read the news bulletin. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
The one who is engaged in work is restricted by his work and does not waste it, and he sits watching the news and turning on the television and wasting the work. This is a trust; he performs his work. But if he has no work and wants the news bulletin, it is available on the radio without a television; he listens to it on the radio, reads it in the newspapers, and obtains it, and praise be to Allah, without this. Yes.
Source
دروس الحرم، درس التفسير من الحرم 10-07-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (51:32)
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