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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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On bringing a satellite dish into the home?

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Question : May Allah reward you. He says: It was mentioned in a hadith that
Of the three upon whom it is forbiddenمن الثلاثة الذين تحرم عليهم
the jealous man (diyuth) will not enter Paradise. So my question is: does the one who brings a satellite dish into his home fall under that?

Answer : No, by Allah, he does not fall under that. He does not fall under this. Because the satellite dish has very little good in it, and great and much evil. This is if one looks at the good, but most people nowadays use it for evil.
They take the worst of the evil and fall into destruction. The diyuth is the one who permits fornication in his household. But I have previously warned against acquiring satellite dishes in this place, and in other places, in writing and orally, because the Ummah has changed, especially the young men and women. They have changed in their morals and rebelled because of what they watch on these satellite dishes. Most of the people who watch them have become deviant. Deviant in their morals. And they have come to bad treatment.
So my advice to my Muslim brothers, in this place and on this blessed night, is to fear Allah and to repent from these satellite dishes. But if a person has been afflicted with one, what does he do? Does he give it to someone?
Answer: No. Why? Because if he gives it to someone, the recipient will use it for evil, and perhaps his use of it for evil will be more than the first use. So he would be assisting in sin and transgression. Okay, does he sell it? No, he does not sell it, because that brings back the first problem. So we break it. He breaks it.
So if he says, "How do I break it when I bought it for a sum of money?" They said: When it first became widespread among people, how much did it cost? It cost ten thousand or more. Now it has reached... one thousand riyals. And he says, "How do I break it when it will cost me a loss of one thousand riyals in my money?"
The answer is simple: Is destroying money for the sake of obeying Allah and avoiding His prohibitions a waste of money or a preservation of money? It is, by Allah, a preservation of money. Wasting money is to lose it without benefit or in something forbidden. But to fear the forbidden by doing this, this is not a waste, but it is a preservation of the provision. And he who said that there is a waste of money in this is mistaken, because he did not understand the meaning for which we said it should be broken. May Allah reward you.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[16 من 49] عن إدخال الدش للمنزل؟!! الشيخ ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com

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