The Ruling on Bringing Children’s Channels and Animated Cartoons into the Home
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Do we bring into our homes the conservative channels specifically for children so that they can benefit from them and watch the animated cartoons on them? This is because we find it difficult to keep our children occupied during their free time with something that contains no evil or waste of time?
Answer:
You have now occupied them with something that contains evil, namely images, images, moving images. These are even more severe: images that move, and some of them are recorded so that they speak. This is severe. It is not permissible. These children need to play with things that are permissible. Give them these things and occupy them with them: permissible things that contain no images and nothing forbidden.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Do we bring into our homes the conservative channels specifically for children so that they can benefit from them and watch the animated cartoons on them? This is because we find it difficult to keep our children occupied during their free time with something that contains no evil or waste of time?
Answer:
You have now occupied them with something that contains evil, namely images, images, moving images. These are even more severe: images that move, and some of them are recorded so that they speak. This is severe. It is not permissible. These children need to play with things that are permissible. Give them these things and occupy them with them: permissible things that contain no images and nothing forbidden.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني في ذكر حقيقة مرض القلب — islamhouse.com (1:00:06)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.