On September 05, 2008, In my Post "Difference of Opinion", I have quoted an article posted by Mr. Muhammad Yusha on "Islamic Channels". I also attached with it a clipping published in one of the daily Urdu Newspaper on the same topic. While putting my comments on Yusha's views, I had disagreed with him on claiming Islamic Channels being Un-Islamic or HARAM. Today, I got a Post of Mr. Mubashshir Shaikh on the subject topic published at ProPakistan.com. I fully support the views expressed by the author of the post. I am reproducing the extract of the Post for your review and comments.
NOTE: (Till date I didn't hear reporting of any Fatwa given by Pakistani Ulemas on Islamic Banking and Islamic TV Channels being declared Un-Islamic or Haram. However, it has been reported in various newspapers and Websites that Darooluloom Deoband, India issued the said Fatwa ).
In support of the topic you may also check the fatwa issued by the eminent Muslim scholar, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, on the issue of watching TV.
Writer: Mubashshir Shaikh
Pakistan also known as “Fort Of Islam” has once again succeeded in keeping alive the tradition of “Giving Unexpected & Strange Decisions regarding Religious Matters”. The scholars of Islam have given fatwa in which Islamic banking and Islamic TV channels have been declared Haram or illegal [in Islam]. On one side some scholars are part of governing bodies of Islamic Banks and on the other side some scholars have declared it as Haram. To whom we follow in this regard, is getting difficult for us.
Regarding TV channels, scholars have said that they show the pictures of scholars [Aalims] and picture taking and showing is haram in islam, I totally agree with them, but there are some rules regarding pictures, which have been made clear by Dr. Zakir Naik in his debates & lectures and Sheikh Abd al-wahhab al-turayri [former professor of al-imam university Riyadh] has also thrown some light on the rules regarding pictures in islam. I would like to quote some of the rules which they have told us in their lectures.
Its written in Sahi Bhukari and Sahi Muslim [Books of Ahadees], that whoever paints or portraits the picture of any living thing [humans, animals, plants] by his hand, will be told at the day of judgment to give them life, to make them alive, and if you failed to do this, you will be punished.
Those pictures which are used by childrens to play and to learn are allowed in islam, and its proof is one hadith of Sahi Muslim and Sahi Bhukari, in which Hazrat Aisha [razi allah tallah anha] says that I use to play with dolls along with my friends in front of Prophet Muhammad [PBUH], and He never stopped me.
Photography [by camera] is also not prohibited in islam, because the pictures taken out from camera are not made by hand, they are the reflections which we capture on paper, if this is prohibited then why we watch in Mirror ? that’s also the reflection. TV channels show the video, and video is nothing but just the pictures which are shown in speed i.e., 24 pictures per second and it looks like live scene.
Way of communication is changed now, there was a time when people use to walk from one city to other to post letters, but if we will do this thing now, we’ll be called fool, because we have the facility of automobiles, and we should use that. Today the best way of communication is Media [TV, Radio Fm], If our adults can copy the movie actors, to whom they watch on TV, if our womens can act and deliver same dialogues which they hear and see on Star Plus Serials, this proves that TV has got power to bring change in people. So if we will show Islamic Programs, Lectures and Debates of Famous Scholars, that surely can bring a change, not to all but atleast few muslims can become Good Muslims. By the help of TV we can tell the non muslims that what exactly ISLAM is, we can portray the correct image of ISLAM, we can prove all those people wrong who are spreading the wrong information in the name of Islam. Every invention has its benefits and disadvantages, but for the sake of some disadvantages we cannot stop using that invention, especially when we are getting a huge benefit from it.
Though our scholars are more educated than us but with sorry I want to say that the recent decision taken against Islamic TV Channels is wrong [In My View].
Note: You may view the latest Post on the topic as well: Islamic Banking Halal or Haram (Fatawa of Prominent Religious Scholars creating confusions)
Note: You may view the latest Post on the topic as well: Islamic Banking Halal or Haram (Fatawa of Prominent Religious Scholars creating confusions)
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You said that T.V. is not haram since whatever is on screen is not a picture since it is in motion and therefore cannot come under the prohibition of animate pictures.The answer is that the illusion of motion in television is produced by showing 30 still pictures, or frames, each second. Through persistence of vision the brain retains each picture until the next comes along. We are not aware of the fact that our eyes are really seeing a rapidly changing sequence of a large number of slightly different still pictures.
T.V. is a medium whose life and existence is dependent on pictures and the institution of picture production. Without pictures there is no television. T.V. is a medium that not only displays, but also produces pictures. By switching on your TV set you are actually assisting in the production of pictures.
Know that pictures are not allowed, whether in T.V. or photograpy, whether they are humans or other creatures, whether they are two dimensional or three dimensional, whether they are printed, drawn, etched, engraved, carved, cast in moulds, etc. The ahadith include all of these types of pictures. Muslims should submit to the teachings of Islam and not argue with them. If we think about just one aspect of the evil caused by the prevalence of photographs and pictures in our time, we will understand a little bit about the wisdom behind this prohibition: that is the provoking of physical desires and the spreading of illicit sex caused by these pictures. Muslims should not keep any pictures of animate beings in his house, because they also prevent angels from entering.
Taking pictures with a camera involves human actions such as focusing, pressing the shutter, developing, printing, and so on. We cannot call it anything other than "picture-making" or tasweer, which is the expression used by all Arabic-speakers to describe this action.In the book Al-I'laam bi naqd kitaab al-halaal wa'l-haraam, the author says: "Photography is even more of an imitation of the creation of Allah than pictures which are engraved or drawn, so it is even more deserving of being prohibited… There is nothing that could exclude photography from the general meaning of the reports." Among the scholars who have discussed the issue of photography is Shaikh Nasir al-Deen al-Albani, who said: "Some of them differentiate between hand-drawn pictures and photographic images by claiming that the latter are not products of human effort, and that no more is involved than the mere capturing of the image. This is what they claim. The tremendous energy invested by the one who invented this machine that can do in few seconds what otherwise could not be done in hours does not count as human effort, according to these people! Pointing the camera, focusing it, and taking the picture, preceded by installation of the film and followed by developing and whatever else that I may not know about… none of this is the result of human effort, according to them!Some of them explain how this photography is done, and summarize that no less than eleven different actions are involved in the making of a picture. In spite of all this, they say that this picture is not the result of human action!
Can it be allowed to hang up a picture of a man, for example, if it is produced by photography, but not if it is drawn by hand?Those who say that photography is permitted have frozen the meaning of the word "tasweer," restriciting it only to the meaning known at the time of Prophet Mohammad and not adding the meaning of photography, which is "tasweer" or "picture-making" in every sense - linguistic, legal and in its harmful effects, and as is clear from the definition mentioned above. By the same token, you could also allow idols which have not been carved but have been made by pressing a button on some machine that turns out idols by the dozen. What do you say to that?
Dear Yusha
In my post "Diferrence of Opinion" I have already quoted your name and referene of the post with a link to the original post at chowrangi.com.
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