The Ruling on Filming the Washing and Shrouding of the Dead for Educational Purposes
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on filming the washing and shrouding of the dead through practical explanation so that the benefit is widespread, knowing that the filming is by video only?
The Shaykh:
This filming is not permissible, it is not permissible, this filming is forbidden, and education is not to be done by a forbidden means or method; it is not permissible. And the washing of the dead, praise be to Allah, is learned by the Muslim without filming and without [it], he learns it from speech or from action, he attends when the dead is being washed, he knows how to pray or recite and he knows, but people now strain themselves so much that even for the prayer they have to film the one who is praying, bowing, prostrating, placing his hands, and so on, and how to perform wudu they have to film him while he is performing wudu, meaning people have become like animals who do not know anything except that they watch everything to this extent. I said that the remaining two sessions will be added to the hadith lesson in al-Umdah, in al-Umdah it is not a new hadith lesson, no, in al-Umdah, yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on filming the washing and shrouding of the dead through practical explanation so that the benefit is widespread, knowing that the filming is by video only?
The Shaykh:
This filming is not permissible, it is not permissible, this filming is forbidden, and education is not to be done by a forbidden means or method; it is not permissible. And the washing of the dead, praise be to Allah, is learned by the Muslim without filming and without [it], he learns it from speech or from action, he attends when the dead is being washed, he knows how to pray or recite and he knows, but people now strain themselves so much that even for the prayer they have to film the one who is praying, bowing, prostrating, placing his hands, and so on, and how to perform wudu they have to film him while he is performing wudu, meaning people have become like animals who do not know anything except that they watch everything to this extent. I said that the remaining two sessions will be added to the hadith lesson in al-Umdah, in al-Umdah it is not a new hadith lesson, no, in al-Umdah, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/141 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:02:10)
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