Is it permissible to buy and sell video and television devices?

The questioner : Welcome, do you have something? We don't want to take the last step, please, sir. Yes, regarding the buying and selling of video. Of course, it means that its ruling appears to differ from that of the television in the sense that I can control the type of tape or the presentation as a recording, exactly. From this perspective, is it permissible for a person to buy and sell?

The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible.

The questioner : The land is not permissible, and tomorrow as well.

The Shaykh : Of course, the language means the language is broader. And why? Because the video is now connected to the television, so in your question there is a nice hint that the video can be controlled, but the television cannot be controlled due to the abundance of corrupt programs. So if we said it is permissible to buy a video, it would necessitate that we say it is permissible to buy a television, and I do not think the questioner means this.

The questioner : Well, if I, for example, bought a television and this condition was met, which is that I do not turn on the television except to display the same video.

The Shaykh : This is not like the video, and you bear witness to that. Can he control the television as I am able to control the video?

The questioner : In the real sense, he cannot.

The Shaykh : This is enough for me from you.

The questioner : But if we assume. Okay.

The Shaykh : It is, we need to return to the hypotheticals. I will tell you something: when the television becomes like the radio, like the radio, yes, so that the owner of this radio can, in one moment, switch from a song, for example, to a Quran broadcast or a scientific lecture or worldly political news, and so on. And this necessitates that there be a broadcast that handles the broadcasting of programs on the pages of the television, which is a very broad scientific broadcast, so that it displays types and forms of things that the people benefit from, or it is something else, which is that the television device covers almost the whole world, as is the case with the radio. Yes. When the television becomes of this nature, I say that in this case it is permissible to acquire a television, just as we say it is permissible to acquire a radio for one who intends not to use it except in what the Shari'ah has permitted for him.

The questioner : Well, here.

The Shaykh : At that time, the permissibility of buying the video comes.

The questioner : Yes, I mentioned a condition regarding the radio, which is that it is permissible to buy it for one who intends to use it in a good way. So if we make this condition for the television, on the basis that I have the full ability and responsibility that I will not turn on this television in front of me except to a religious program or to, for example, what they call the animal world or scientific programs that clarify, with this condition, if it is correct one hundred percent, is it permissible for me to buy the television?

The Shaykh : I believe that this image is a hypothetical one. And it cannot be implemented practically in experience, but I know that people are not satisfied with an answer like this, that this image is hypothetical.

Another questioner : The same movies that are shown usually either come with music, which is common, and sometimes the presenter of this program talks about women and their voices appear, and so on. What is your opinion?

The Shaykh : The ruling on the image, O Shaykh, now when it appears before us, is its ruling the ruling of itself? The image of the television, which means.

Another questioner : It is a tape.

The Shaykh : That.

Another questioner : In the image of the television, let it be a religious seminar.

The Shaykh : We need to limit the discussion.

Another questioner : News, a seminar, any image on the screen, an image of a man.

The Shaykh : Peace be upon you.

Another questioner : How is one of you in the presence of this image?

The Shaykh : When we say with the previous condition, that the television is not used except in topics that are permissible by the Shari'ah, was not this the previous speech? Yes, well, this previous speech includes for every listener that there are images that will be displayed, yes. So your question is, what is it? It has already received the answer very much, and the answer, according to what you want, is up to you, meaning, how is your uncle? That its ruling is the ruling of Lady Aisha's play.

The questioner : Or. Or.

The Shaykh : Because there is support for the Ummah in it, and there is no harm in it. In the name of Allah.