The Ruling on Selling Cartoons and Using Them to Call Children to Islam
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The questioner:
And I have seen what I know of the people of Islamic da'wah (calling to Islam); they know that they are introducing what is required in it, that they know they are entering the land, and that they are entering the land.
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 for the bad films. If you show them cartoons and call it calling to Allah, it leads them to a love of films, and they slide into films that are not desirable. So it is obligatory to keep the children of Muslims away from all these films. Calling to Allah, and praise be to Allah, is in no need of these means. Calling to Allah, education, upbringing, and discipline are the lawful ways. We understood by the pens and in the images and in these traditions that have reached us that calling to Allah is done through the lawful ways: upbringing, education, and enjoining good and forbidding evil, and discipline if there is disobedience. This is how calling to Allah is done: the upbringing of children. As for raising them on the pens, that is something that is not permissible.
And I have seen what I know of the people of Islamic da'wah (calling to Islam); they know that they are introducing what is required in it, that they know they are entering the land, and that they are entering the land.
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 for the bad films. If you show them cartoons and call it calling to Allah, it leads them to a love of films, and they slide into films that are not desirable. So it is obligatory to keep the children of Muslims away from all these films. Calling to Allah, and praise be to Allah, is in no need of these means. Calling to Allah, education, upbringing, and discipline are the lawful ways. We understood by the pens and in the images and in these traditions that have reached us that calling to Allah is done through the lawful ways: upbringing, education, and enjoining good and forbidding evil, and discipline if there is disobedience. This is how calling to Allah is done: the upbringing of children. As for raising them on the pens, that is something that is not permissible.
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