What is your advice regarding the television in the house?

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: What is your advice for the one who has placed a television in his house for his children and his wife?

Answer:
My advice is to refrain from it, not to have it, because it may lead to evil, unless it is a person who stays away from the evil in it, and he does not turn it on except to what is permissible that helps him in the obedience of Allah. In that case, there is no harm if he is blessed and he takes care of this. Otherwise, staying away from it is safer for him and his family, because they may watch in it what Allah has forbidden, and it may lead them to what Allah has forbidden. As for if it is with a person who monitors it and takes care of it, and he does not turn it on except to good, then there is no blame. And more dangerous than that is the infiltration; one must be cautious of the infiltrators with whom people have been afflicted, which lead them to great evil. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.