His Eminence the Shaykh. . I bear witness to Allah regarding my love for you, and after that, O His Eminence the Shaykh
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The questioner : He says: His Eminence the Shaykh, I bear witness to Allah regarding my love for you, and after that, O His EminenceThe Shaykh : It is reported on the tongues of some common people that you have retracted your ruling on the prohibition of acquiring satellite dishes and selling and buying them. Is this true?
The Shaykh : There is no power and no strength except by Allah! I say: May Allah reward him with good for the love, and we ask Allah the Exalted to make us all among His close friends. As for the rumor that I retracted my prohibition of acquiring satellite dishes, that is strange, strange!! But I say: if they attribute a lie to Allah, then people are even more so. If something is said about one of the scholars, any scholar, that is reprehensible, one must contact the scholar. And we thank our brother who called and asked. So I say: I have not retracted, rather it is forbidden. Acquiring it is forbidden. It has now corrupted people. All the deviations we hear, the great deviations, according to what we hear, exist in this satellite dish. And it has led many people astray, until some people—according to what we ask about on the phone, we do not know about them—according to what we ask, the man is upright and committed, so he puts the satellite dish in his house, and then he deviates, and forgets his family, and forgets the interests of his religion and his worldly life, may Allah protect us. How can a scholar who knows the sources and resources of the Shari'ah issue a ruling that this satellite dish is permissible?! Yes.
The Shaykh : There is no power and no strength except by Allah! I say: May Allah reward him with good for the love, and we ask Allah the Exalted to make us all among His close friends. As for the rumor that I retracted my prohibition of acquiring satellite dishes, that is strange, strange!! But I say: if they attribute a lie to Allah, then people are even more so. If something is said about one of the scholars, any scholar, that is reprehensible, one must contact the scholar. And we thank our brother who called and asked. So I say: I have not retracted, rather it is forbidden. Acquiring it is forbidden. It has now corrupted people. All the deviations we hear, the great deviations, according to what we hear, exist in this satellite dish. And it has led many people astray, until some people—according to what we ask about on the phone, we do not know about them—according to what we ask, the man is upright and committed, so he puts the satellite dish in his house, and then he deviates, and forgets his family, and forgets the interests of his religion and his worldly life, may Allah protect us. How can a scholar who knows the sources and resources of the Shari'ah issue a ruling that this satellite dish is permissible?! Yes.