What is the ruling on a woman watching men in religious programs on the screens?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on a woman watching religious programs on the screens, knowing that those who appear on them are shaykhs and scholars?
Answer:
It is not fitting for a woman to watch men. It is not fitting for her to watch men. Especially since on the screens they adorn themselves with the best of their clothes and appearance. The woman is weak. The woman is weak when she sees a man adorned and beautified, and the screen beautifies him even more. This is what causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Yes.
And the woman can obtain good without the screens. The broadcast of the Noble Qur'an contains much good. It has continuous programs. Recitation, lectures, words, fatwas (scholarly legal rulings); it never runs out of good. If she is seeking good, she should turn to the broadcast of the Qur'an, and praise be to Allah. Yes. He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
And the fatwas on the screens contain disagreement and instability, and there are people who are not skilled in issuing fatwas; there is confusion in them, unlike the broadcast of the Qur'an, where only scholars and people who are disciplined in their fatwas and scientific preparation are presented. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on a woman watching religious programs on the screens, knowing that those who appear on them are shaykhs and scholars?
Answer:
It is not fitting for a woman to watch men. It is not fitting for her to watch men. Especially since on the screens they adorn themselves with the best of their clothes and appearance. The woman is weak. The woman is weak when she sees a man adorned and beautified, and the screen beautifies him even more. This is what causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Yes.
And the woman can obtain good without the screens. The broadcast of the Noble Qur'an contains much good. It has continuous programs. Recitation, lectures, words, fatwas (scholarly legal rulings); it never runs out of good. If she is seeking good, she should turn to the broadcast of the Qur'an, and praise be to Allah. Yes. He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
And the fatwas on the screens contain disagreement and instability, and there are people who are not skilled in issuing fatwas; there is confusion in them, unlike the broadcast of the Qur'an, where only scholars and people who are disciplined in their fatwas and scientific preparation are presented. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [919 -954] ما حكم مشاهدة المرأة للرجال في البرامج الدينية على الشاشات؟ — youtube.com
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