Advising a father who plays music on the television
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
This questioner says: When I sit with my father in the sitting room, the television is on, and sometimes music comes from it. When I tell him to stop, he says, "Do not order me," meaning, "Do not order your father." For the record, most of his sitting time is with the television on. What is required of me?
Answer:
Tell him that this is part of enjoining good and forbidding evil. No one is above enjoining good and forbidding evil. He should have said, "May Allah reward you with good." As for saying, "Do not order me to play music on the television," that is ignorance. That is ignorance, and there is no power or strength except with Allah. So you are doing good in this.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This questioner says: When I sit with my father in the sitting room, the television is on, and sometimes music comes from it. When I tell him to stop, he says, "Do not order me," meaning, "Do not order your father." For the record, most of his sitting time is with the television on. What is required of me?
Answer:
Tell him that this is part of enjoining good and forbidding evil. No one is above enjoining good and forbidding evil. He should have said, "May Allah reward you with good." As for saying, "Do not order me to play music on the television," that is ignorance. That is ignorance, and there is no power or strength except with Allah. So you are doing good in this.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، باب قول الله تعالى: {حَتَّى إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ — youtube.com (48:07)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.