Bringing a television into the home

Reference: al-Muntaqaa min Fataawa Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan – Volume 1, Page 225, Fatwa No.127

Question: Some people, of whom we know good, bring televisions into their homes, and [by doing so] they say they do not wish to be accused of being excessive/immoderate. So what is your advice?

Response: Abstaining from television is not being excessive, rather it is taking precautions for the [safety of one’s] religion, family and children. So it is guarding against harmful means because its presence [in the home] is a cause of harm to the children and women, and harmful even to the man of the house.

Who can [possibly] guarantee himself [safe] from [any] fitnah?!

So, the more a person can protect himself from the causes of fitnah, then that is best for him now and in the future; and abstaining from television is not from excessiveness, rather it is from protecting [oneself from the means to fitnah].

- from London, UK. He is a graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having graduated from the Institute of Arabic Language, and later the Faculty of Sharee'ah in 2004.

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