Warning Against Forbidden Series and Films and Guiding the Youth

Question:
Honorable Shaykh. This Eastern region had been completed years ago, before the spread of these things. In these years, and especially in these days, films and series have appeared that call for zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), killing, and for proposing, tabarruj (a woman's display of her adornment), and silence. Many young men and women, students and others, have become attached to these series. These series have become the talk of their gatherings. The committed youth, especially the youth of this region, are harmed by speaking about these series. We ask the Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) to guide us in more than one way.

Answer:
There is no doubt that these are great trials. We ask Allah to protect us and to ward off their evil from us and the Muslims. These are among the trials that will arise in the last times; they are great trials. So the Muslim must beware of them, not bring them into his home, keep them away from his home, and prevent them from entering his home; that is the first thing. Then he must admonish the people, remind them, and warn them against them, so that perhaps Allah will guide whom He wills, and so that his conscience is clear. Their role is to advise their brothers, to warn them of their evil, and he himself must stay away from them in his home and with his family; he does not keep them in his home because they are evil.
It affects him. A person may be upright and good, and he may hate them at first, but then he becomes lenient little by little until they become something ordinary to him. Because it is a trial, a person stays away from it and warns against it.