The Ruling on Repairing Radio and Television Sets

The questioner : Another question: Is repairing radio and television sets by an employee who is a specialist in repairing them considered cooperation in sin and transgression?

The Shaykh : An employee in the state, you mean? Yes. Yes, indeed. This is regarding television and radio. As for the radio, the matter is less severe than with television. That is because television is predominantly used for what contradicts the Shari'ah and what harms the interest of the Ummah. As for the radio, its use and its usage in what benefits people in general is broader. Therefore, I see a distinction between repairing a television set and repairing a radio set. I do not see repairing a television set as permissible, but as for the radio, I see no impediment to it except in one case: if the repairer is repairing it for a person, a group, or an organization, and the repairer knows that that person or the like uses it in disobedience to Allah more than he uses it in what is permissible in the Shari'ah of Allah.