What is the ruling on video recording?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, what is the ruling on video recording and transmitting video via television?
The Shaykh : Video recording, according to the photographer, what do you intend to record?
What some people do now on wedding days, they record the gathering, and this is a great error and a crime, because this image will be watched by everyone. There may be women displaying their adornment, there may be women with uncovered faces, there may be women talking to one another and laughing at one another, and this results in fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). This is haram (forbidden) and there is no doubt in it.
It may be, for example, to transmit educational materials: like a demonstration of making something or a craft, the important thing is that it is useful educational material. It may be a lecture for a person who speaks to people, guiding them and admonishing them, so the important thing is that it depends on what is recorded.
Please, yes, do you have permission?
No, let the brother ask.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, there are seven questions.
The Shaykh : But one of the seven is for today.
The questioner : I am actually promised to answer them.
The Shaykh : One does not contradict today, and the second meeting is one, and the third is one, up to seven meetings, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Video recording, according to the photographer, what do you intend to record?
What some people do now on wedding days, they record the gathering, and this is a great error and a crime, because this image will be watched by everyone. There may be women displaying their adornment, there may be women with uncovered faces, there may be women talking to one another and laughing at one another, and this results in fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). This is haram (forbidden) and there is no doubt in it.
It may be, for example, to transmit educational materials: like a demonstration of making something or a craft, the important thing is that it is useful educational material. It may be a lecture for a person who speaks to people, guiding them and admonishing them, so the important thing is that it depends on what is recorded.
Please, yes, do you have permission?
No, let the brother ask.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, there are seven questions.
The Shaykh : But one of the seven is for today.
The questioner : I am actually promised to answer them.
The Shaykh : One does not contradict today, and the second meeting is one, and the third is one, up to seven meetings, if Allah wills.