What is the ruling on prostrating to an idol in plays and series?

The questioner : O Shaykh, what is the ruling on prostrating to an idol in plays and series?

The Shaykh : It is disbelief in two categories. In one of them, it is either practical disbelief or creedal disbelief. If the doer is one who considers it permissible in his heart, as mentioned previously, then it is apostasy. Otherwise, it is open sinfulness and practical disbelief, not creedal. Here the misguidance of these plays becomes apparent. The Muslim brothers, recently, watched a play called, I think, *The Message*. Have you heard of it?

The questioner : The old *The Message*.
The student : It is the same one.

The questioner : Yes, that is right. Yes, that is right.

The Shaykh : Hmm.
The student : A film, a film.

The Shaykh : A film. The important thing, in my opinion, is that if they were not all Muslims, many of them were Muslims. The one playing Abu Jahl and his cursing of the Messenger, and so on, and the one playing the priest holding the cross, all of this is disbelief without a doubt. But as we mentioned in detail... it is not ready. I have an appointment with Dr. Al-Saqt.Abu Layla : With Dr. Al-Saqt.
The student : Yes, my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : So I want the tank that you are installing now.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So that I can be sure about its installation, and then you, the plumbers, continue the work.

The questioner : Okay, our Shaykh, yes.

The Shaykh : How are you? Abdullah, what Allah willed.

The questioner : O Shaykh, why did you consider the following names as names of Allah, even though the texts came without the definite article, and you did not consider them merely attributes, like *Hayy* (The Ever-Living), *Sami'* (The All-Hearing), *Basir* (The All-Seeing), *Muhsin* (The Doer of Good)?

The Shaykh : Excuse me... like this. This will save you. Do not say, "What does the Shaykh have to do with it?" No.
Abu Layla : He has a craft, but what does the Shaykh have to do with it? He has a craft.

The Shaykh : No, but knowledge, I mean, knowledge opens the mind and the brain, and what Allah willed.

The questioner : Muhammad, leave what is in your hand now, because the Shaykh has an appointment. Let him send a tank.

The Shaykh : Put the tank, let us see what will happen...

The questioner : Of course, we need the door. It will come from here, the door.

The Shaykh : Come on, by agreement, you two are not working alone, no, no. What will you do like this? Lift it from your side, Muhammad.
The student : What Allah willed, perfect.

The Shaykh : Regarding what you need now, whatever comes to mind, I will answer you on the way.
The student : Our Shaykh, do not overwork yourself, our Shaykh. What we need, we will go get it and come back.
Another student: I have a car.

The Shaykh : No problem, I am on my way now.
Abu Layla : No problem, our Shaykh, do not waste your time. Now we do not know what will happen with us. So, a line from here to there, and this line now, regarding our Shaykh, our thinking regarding what you told us is the municipal water supply, and if we want the motor to pump.

The Shaykh: Yes.
Abu Layla : Yes, I know, but this Shaykh needs to go down below.
The student : ... .
Abu Layla : I know, may Allah guide you. The Shaykh, no one can go down below.
The student : ... .
Another student: The electricity, the electricity, these are the ones.
Another student: No... I brought them two and a half inches.

The Shaykh : I think you are talking in one valley and your friend in another.
The student : ... our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : The check valves have no relation to the subject.
The student : The Shaykh understood.
Another student: I understood that he wants to run the motor when there is no municipal water, when there is no water coming to the municipality alone. Automatically, he wants that when there is municipal water, the motor does not run and the water comes pumped by the municipality.

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : Is that not what he wants?

The Shaykh : Yes, what does the check valve have to do with the subject?
The student : The check valve, we put it before the capacity.

The Shaykh : Do not specify the place for me.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Tell me what its relation is?
The student : Its relation is that we put it instead of this stopper. This check valve allows water to enter but does not allow it to return.

The Shaykh: Perfect.

The Shaykh: Perfect.
The student : Yes, like that.

The Shaykh : Look, I have a check valve here at the installed tank.
The student : So if we put one after the capacity and before the line that gives to the tank, it will fix the situation. So the check valve means it allows entry.
Another student: On our same line.
The student : Yes, on our same line.
Another student: And the trial, Shaykh.
The student : If we put one, it will fix it, because you do not need to close it. It does not return, it does not allow entry.
Abu Layla : Shaykh, do you want to go to the clinic or the hospital?

The Shaykh : No, to the clinic.
The student : To the clinic.

The Shaykh : Okay, otherwise.
The student : Safe travels, if we need to.

The Shaykh : The issue now is the check valve, according to his opinion.
The student : I do not think we need anything.
Another student: But what we have, he brought it two and a half inches.
Another student: Okay, we will bring three-quarters.
Another student: ... three-quarters.
Another student: We will bring.

The Shaykh : Do you not need pipes?
Abu Layla : We have pipes here, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh: All right.
Abu Layla : We brought two pieces now, but we need something... pipes, O Sami, here.
The student : There are some up there.
Abu Layla : Go up, we brought them all down, the pipes.

The Shaykh : Look, this door is made so that it stops and rises.Abu Layla : Meaning there is a gap.

The Shaykh : No, now here they made a way to put it to close.
Abu Layla : Yes, our Shaykh, correct, you want it to press and come.

The Shaykh : I want it to press.
Abu Layla : Okay, if Allah wills, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Think about it for me.
Abu Layla : If Allah wills.

The Shaykh : Come on, yes.

The questioner : The stopper, if we put it instead of the plug.

The Shaykh : The plug, what did you say?