The ruling on keeping a television in the home and children and women watching it
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, I bought a television and brought it into the house, and the children and women watch it, because we were told by one of the viewers that there is no harm in it, and that the Saudi television has more good than evil.
Answer:
May Allah keep you safe from it. There is no doubt that nothing is better than being safe from it. So whoever is safe from it and keeps it away from his home and keeps his children and women away from it, there is no doubt that this is safer and purer for his conscience. But if he is afflicted with it, it is obligatory for him to be careful with it and not leave it in the hands of women or in the hands of children. Rather, he must be careful with it and keep it away from them and not let them have access to it. He is in danger; he is in danger that he will be affected in his own self. So being safe from it is better than anything.
Honorable Shaykh, I bought a television and brought it into the house, and the children and women watch it, because we were told by one of the viewers that there is no harm in it, and that the Saudi television has more good than evil.
Answer:
May Allah keep you safe from it. There is no doubt that nothing is better than being safe from it. So whoever is safe from it and keeps it away from his home and keeps his children and women away from it, there is no doubt that this is safer and purer for his conscience. But if he is afflicted with it, it is obligatory for him to be careful with it and not leave it in the hands of women or in the hands of children. Rather, he must be careful with it and keep it away from them and not let them have access to it. He is in danger; he is in danger that he will be affected in his own self. So being safe from it is better than anything.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب العدة والإحداد — islamhouse.com (1:07:21)
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