What is the ruling on using "video cameras" for recording?
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The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with video cameras, and I am conveying to you what was presented to the Council of Senior Scholars. Most of them said: there is nothing wrong with it. In fact, they wanted to issue a fatwa that lectures in mosques should be recorded, but they saw that it was in the public interest not to do so, and not to introduce them into the mosques, because they feared that the common people might revolt. So they left it. Otherwise, they did not have any issue with it; they see that there is nothing wrong with it. So if one records things that have benefit with them, there is no blame.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with video cameras, and I am conveying to you what was presented to the Council of Senior Scholars. Most of them said: there is nothing wrong with it. In fact, they wanted to issue a fatwa that lectures in mosques should be recorded, but they saw that it was in the public interest not to do so, and not to introduce them into the mosques, because they feared that the common people might revolt. So they left it. Otherwise, they did not have any issue with it; they see that there is nothing wrong with it. So if one records things that have benefit with them, there is no blame.