Advice for satellite dish viewers regarding the excuse of news
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His Eminence the Shaykh: How do we advise the owner of the satellite dish? And if I come to advise the owner of the satellite dish, he stops me with excuses,So among the excuses, he says: I brought this satellite dish to listen to the news, so instead of listening to the radio, I listen to a device that brings me news like the radio. Also, because most of the news is not true, and European news is more accurate than the news of neighboring countries. As for the forbidden matters, they do not come except at the end of the night, and I do not watch them, and I prevent my children from them as much as I can.And if you say to him: It is forbidden. He knows that this is forbidden, so how can I call him to it?
If he knows that this is forbidden and insists on it, then persisting in a minor sin makes it a major sin, as the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said,And I say: It is sufficient as an excuse against you that you know it is forbidden. So if you know it is forbidden, what makes you possess it?! And as for the issue of news, what is news? If the news is international, we assert with certainty that nothing is broadcast in the news except what serves the interests of disbelief, whether through the satellite dish, or through other radio stations, or through the press or otherwise.
And for this reason, they always talk about real things, and when we ask, we find that they are lies and have no truth. They sometimes talk about the issue of Chechnya and the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and since we follow the news from the brothers who contact us, we find that what is said in the radio stations is all cover-up and concealment, it is not true,So who told you: Is what is said on the satellite dish true, and what is reported in other news is not true?! Then suppose you stayed until twelve o'clock in front of this satellite dish, and it was all news from Morocco to this, what did you benefit? Nothing. Will you go to the president of Russia or the president of America or to the president of the English or to the president of the French,You say to him: O so-and-so! Stop at your limit, it cannot be like this.
If he knows that this is forbidden and insists on it, then persisting in a minor sin makes it a major sin, as the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said,And I say: It is sufficient as an excuse against you that you know it is forbidden. So if you know it is forbidden, what makes you possess it?! And as for the issue of news, what is news? If the news is international, we assert with certainty that nothing is broadcast in the news except what serves the interests of disbelief, whether through the satellite dish, or through other radio stations, or through the press or otherwise.
And for this reason, they always talk about real things, and when we ask, we find that they are lies and have no truth. They sometimes talk about the issue of Chechnya and the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and since we follow the news from the brothers who contact us, we find that what is said in the radio stations is all cover-up and concealment, it is not true,So who told you: Is what is said on the satellite dish true, and what is reported in other news is not true?! Then suppose you stayed until twelve o'clock in front of this satellite dish, and it was all news from Morocco to this, what did you benefit? Nothing. Will you go to the president of Russia or the president of America or to the president of the English or to the president of the French,You say to him: O so-and-so! Stop at your limit, it cannot be like this.