Ruling on Acquiring a Satellite Dish
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There is a device called a dish,For example: a satellite dish, but it is small and brings in external broadcasts. What is the ruling on acquiring a dish for the home?
Acquiring a dish, or an aerial, or (an antenna) as the general public also calls it, is all the same. What is sought from this dish, or this aerial, or antenna? A person might have, for example, a study need, seeking knowledge such as technological sciences or other information that is not broadcast here but is broadcast externally, and he wants to learn, so there is nothing wrong with that. But the majority of the time, this dish, aerial, and television, the majority of what is in them are sins, and the good in them is (10%). For this reason, we advise every person not to have them in his home, neither a television, nor a dish, nor an aerial, nor anything else; he should avoid this, and safety is safer.
The questioner: Listening to the news?The Shaykh: The news is fine, we see nothing wrong with it, but safety from it is safer. If the news is accompanied by music, it is of the same kind as intoxicants, having benefits and sins, so it becomes forbidden; because if the forbidden is mixed with the permissible in a way that there is no distinction between them, it is obligatory to avoid it,As is the rule among the jurists: if a prohibitive and a permissive meet and it is not possible to separate them, the side of prohibition is given precedence.
Acquiring a dish, or an aerial, or (an antenna) as the general public also calls it, is all the same. What is sought from this dish, or this aerial, or antenna? A person might have, for example, a study need, seeking knowledge such as technological sciences or other information that is not broadcast here but is broadcast externally, and he wants to learn, so there is nothing wrong with that. But the majority of the time, this dish, aerial, and television, the majority of what is in them are sins, and the good in them is (10%). For this reason, we advise every person not to have them in his home, neither a television, nor a dish, nor an aerial, nor anything else; he should avoid this, and safety is safer.
The questioner: Listening to the news?The Shaykh: The news is fine, we see nothing wrong with it, but safety from it is safer. If the news is accompanied by music, it is of the same kind as intoxicants, having benefits and sins, so it becomes forbidden; because if the forbidden is mixed with the permissible in a way that there is no distinction between them, it is obligatory to avoid it,As is the rule among the jurists: if a prohibitive and a permissive meet and it is not possible to separate them, the side of prohibition is given precedence.