Is it permissible to take video tapes of scholars' lessons to the lands of disbelief?
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The questioner : This is a questioner from abroad who says: I am a man from the foreign lands, and I wish to travel and take with me a video tape of the shaykhs' lectures to listen to it there. Is it permissible or not?
The Shaykh : Yes, it is permissible for you to take video tapes of the beneficial lectures of the scholars to show them there, and you will have a reward for this, because you are carrying knowledge to those who will benefit from it. And video tapes, as the people of expertise have told me, do not contain the image of the tape itself; there is no image in the tape, but rather there are particles that turn into an image when displayed on a television screen, for example. So this work that you are doing is a work for which we hope that Allah the Exalted will reward you, because you are transferring knowledge to those who will benefit. And there is no doubt that the viewer is more affected by the hearing with the viewing than the listener without the viewing. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, it is permissible for you to take video tapes of the beneficial lectures of the scholars to show them there, and you will have a reward for this, because you are carrying knowledge to those who will benefit from it. And video tapes, as the people of expertise have told me, do not contain the image of the tape itself; there is no image in the tape, but rather there are particles that turn into an image when displayed on a television screen, for example. So this work that you are doing is a work for which we hope that Allah the Exalted will reward you, because you are transferring knowledge to those who will benefit. And there is no doubt that the viewer is more affected by the hearing with the viewing than the listener without the viewing. Yes.