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Bringing a television into the
home
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this fatwa to: www.fatwa-online.com, thankyou!*
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).
Shaykh Saalih ibn Fowzaan
al-Muntaqaa min Fataawa Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan - Volume
1, Page 225, Fatwa No.127
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