Is it permissible to watch the provocative films and exposures shown on satellite channels?

Question:
He asks: Is it permissible to watch the provocative films and exposures shown on satellite channels? Knowing that some people say this is permissible, how can we convince them that it is forbidden?

Answer:
This is clearly forbidden, and severely forbidden. Watching low-quality serials and obscene films is severely forbidden; because it incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), stirs up desire, and calls for corruption. This is a reprehensible matter, and it leads to the corruption of families. This is one of the great trials that have befallen people in the end of this age. So this is severely forbidden. The one who says that this is permissible is speaking about Allah without knowledge, because Allah , and He has forbidden the means that lead to lewd acts, blocking the paths (sadd al-dhara'i') that lead to what is forbidden. There is no doubt that these obscene films and these low-quality serials are a means to what is forbidden. Homes and families have not been corrupted except by the causes of these matters and these misleading advertisements. It is obligatory for the Muslim to purify his home and his place from these matters, which are the dens of Shaytan and the swamps of fitnah and vile morals. Our enemies have produced them for us to corrupt our morals, our families, and our lands more than they destroy them with deadly weapons. The poet said: "Nations are their morals as long as they remain; if their morals go, they go." And the loss of morals occurs because of these wicked means.