Selling video tapes and replacing them with Islamic programs
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The questioner:
And a person whom Allah has afflicted from the beginning, who has approximately seven hundred video tapes, and he wants to sell them to someone who replaces the tapes with Islamic programs and takes a sum of money.
The Shaykh:
If there is no evil in them, he erases what is in them and sells them. He knows the erasing, the erasing of what is in them. They erase them, O Shaykh.
The questioner:
They go around replacing material, material, they encourage it. Demonstrations and seminars, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
But I am afraid they will not be truthful, so let him erase it himself.
The questioner:
Are you sure, I mean?
The Shaykh:
Or he does not erase it himself.
The questioner:
But it is costly, I mean, between devices and such, erasing is costly between special devices, so they are specialists, I mean.
The Shaykh:
If he trusts them, there is no harm; if he suspects them of wanting to display the evil in them, there is no harm.
The questioner:
They are not programs specialized in programs.
The Shaykh:
If they are people of good and they erase them, there is no harm, if Allah wills.
And a person whom Allah has afflicted from the beginning, who has approximately seven hundred video tapes, and he wants to sell them to someone who replaces the tapes with Islamic programs and takes a sum of money.
The Shaykh:
If there is no evil in them, he erases what is in them and sells them. He knows the erasing, the erasing of what is in them. They erase them, O Shaykh.
The questioner:
They go around replacing material, material, they encourage it. Demonstrations and seminars, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
But I am afraid they will not be truthful, so let him erase it himself.
The questioner:
Are you sure, I mean?
The Shaykh:
Or he does not erase it himself.
The questioner:
But it is costly, I mean, between devices and such, erasing is costly between special devices, so they are specialists, I mean.
The Shaykh:
If he trusts them, there is no harm; if he suspects them of wanting to display the evil in them, there is no harm.
The questioner:
They are not programs specialized in programs.
The Shaykh:
If they are people of good and they erase them, there is no harm, if Allah wills.
Source
التعليق على رياض الصالحين، تابع باب استحباب صوم ثلاثة أيام من كل شهر : الأحاديث : [ 1265 - 1267 ] — islamhouse.com (4:01)
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