What is the ruling on buying and selling video? And what is the ruling on owning a television?

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Al-Huwaini:The Shaykh : Muhammad al-Bukhiti.

The Shaykh : No, al-Bukhiti who was the mufti of Egypt.
Al-Huwaini:The Shaykh : Al-Bukhiti al-Mu'ta'i... Muhammad Najib, this one is with a ba and the second with a nun.

The Shaykh : So he issued a fatwa the gist of which is that photographic photography is permissible, and he brought forth philosophies and justifications for which Allah has sent down no authority. This fatwa found acceptance among all the people because it satisfies a desire in their hearts. The masses of Islamic preachers, especially those who have Islamic magazines, adopted this opinion. They used to say that no time passed without them actually placing a photographic image of one of those who wrote articles in the magazine. Then they started publishing a hand-drawn image for him. You have, for example, the magazine Al-Ummah which publishes images of al-Ghazali, hand-drawn images, not photographic images. So what changed them from the dispensation that was presented to them to what they used to declare recently, that photographic images are permissible while hand-drawn images are forbidden? They returned to committing what was forbidden in their view. This is from the deception of Satan, because what is happening now? I say, my brothers, there is no difference between hand-drawn and photographic images. I have a long discussion on this, but we will not waste time now. Desire has overcome them. There is no difference between the photographic image, because this is made by a machine, and they ignore that the machine, first of all, my brothers, was made by hand and many hands of innovators and inventors were involved in its production. Then the one who wants to take a picture must direct this machine to the target, and taking the picture requires pressing the button, and so on. So this image is also hand-made. It is not a photographic image with a different ruling. A time passes and Satan comes to them from another door: "Well, what is the difference? Since the photographic image is permissible, why should not the hand-drawn image be like it, meaning why should it not be permissible?" They return to what they used to forbid. This is from the schemes of Satan. So I want to say regarding acting, it starts as a nascent matter, but step by step, until they come and film the descent of the revelation as light, for example, descending from the sky. Then they might do what the Christians do, filming Jibril as a bird with two wings, and so on. Therefore, this door should be blocked absolutely so that it does not lead them to what is forbidden in their view now. We know from the Shari'ah that forbidden things are of two types: forbidden in itself, and forbidden for the sake of something else. A thing is forbidden not because it is forbidden in itself, but because it may lead, in some time near or far, to what is forbidden in itself. Here I say that acting is not needed by Muslims, because this is European merchandise.

The questioner:....

The Shaykh : I say acting is European merchandise.
In acting, is there not lying? We imitate them. They are, without doubt, in need of such acting in their social life because they have nothing to push them or encourage them to do good except imagination. While we have texts from the Book and the Sunnah that are sufficient to refine souls and purify them from bad morals and lead them to good morals. And so, when we come to something brought by the Europeans that suits them and we transfer it to us, it is as if we are saying that we do not have what they have, that they have nothing to build their societies except with these plays. This is also, in my belief, a type of what leads to making our creation like theirs. And if they, as everyone knows, in my belief, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the Companions, or more accurately to some of the Companions, when they passed by a tree on which they used to hang their weapons in the time of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, they said: If we said this today, they would say these are extremists and strict. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said this merely when he heard one of the Companions say, "Make for us a Dhat Anwat as they have a Dhat Anwat," meaning a tree on which we hang our weapons, in which there is no worship of other than Allah, no shirk (associating partners with Allah), and nothing else. What did he (peace and blessings be upon him) do but say: . How much difference is there between the saying of the people of Musa to Musa ... and these Companions, or some of them, saying "Make for us a tree"? But there is a similarity in the wording with a distance in the intent. Therefore, Islam fights imitating the disbelievers. And I say . So I advise this man, first, to refrain from adopting acting, no matter how much caution he takes, and he will not be able to take caution, especially in keeping the category of women from participating in such plays. Yes... He forgot his state.