THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaumul Ahad, 22nd day of Shăbaan, 1440, (Sunday, 28th April, 2019).
Understanding Television. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem.
The entire world today especially in the middle east, the murder and mayhem have been going on for years. "The only social activities left in the cities are those related to death," wrote a Karachi newsmagazine editorial some few years ago. "Funerals, burial, mourning." When you leave the home in the morning, you don't know whether you'll return safely that evening. Wherever you look, you can see fear, uncertainty, and depression. Yet, among all the fearing and grieving that accompanies the tragedy, the dish antennas on the rooftops has been flourishing.
In the past at times of catastrophes people would turn to ALLAH, would stop going to the cinema houses, and would repent from sins, even though temporarily. Today, there is an ever-increasing appetite for the television fun. On days when a strike is called to protest Indian atrocit,ies in Kashmir, the video stores in Karachi run out of videos of Indian movies. AstaqfirulLah.
In Saudi Arabia, one can find the imprints of Hollywood only a few yards away from the Haram, the most sacred of all sanctuaries of Islam. Videocassettes are easily available at stores. A hotel attendant, at a walking distance from the Haram al-Sharif in Makkah can be found busy watching English movies on the television in his office. At the Jeddah airport, the Umrah pilgrims can watch a European beauty contest courtesy of an Egyptian TV channel being broadcast to the airport television sets. What kind of Islam are we witnessing today?
Throughout the world religious, moral and social values have been drastically undermined by this great "technological gift" of the century. And entire nations seem to be helplessly "enjoying" the invasion. When people are doing nothing, they watch television. When they are doing something else, they still have television in the background. The device has contributed to the addition of a new space in the architecture of the private home: the TV lounge. It is a space where perfect strangers come to pedal nudity, immorality, etc. This is the space, which increasingly controls the entire house. If you choose to gave TV then please make it a duty to supervise what you and your family watch on it especially through the channel boxes.
Understanding Television. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem.
The entire world today especially in the middle east, the murder and mayhem have been going on for years. "The only social activities left in the cities are those related to death," wrote a Karachi newsmagazine editorial some few years ago. "Funerals, burial, mourning." When you leave the home in the morning, you don't know whether you'll return safely that evening. Wherever you look, you can see fear, uncertainty, and depression. Yet, among all the fearing and grieving that accompanies the tragedy, the dish antennas on the rooftops has been flourishing.
In the past at times of catastrophes people would turn to ALLAH, would stop going to the cinema houses, and would repent from sins, even though temporarily. Today, there is an ever-increasing appetite for the television fun. On days when a strike is called to protest Indian atrocit,ies in Kashmir, the video stores in Karachi run out of videos of Indian movies. AstaqfirulLah.
In Saudi Arabia, one can find the imprints of Hollywood only a few yards away from the Haram, the most sacred of all sanctuaries of Islam. Videocassettes are easily available at stores. A hotel attendant, at a walking distance from the Haram al-Sharif in Makkah can be found busy watching English movies on the television in his office. At the Jeddah airport, the Umrah pilgrims can watch a European beauty contest courtesy of an Egyptian TV channel being broadcast to the airport television sets. What kind of Islam are we witnessing today?
Throughout the world religious, moral and social values have been drastically undermined by this great "technological gift" of the century. And entire nations seem to be helplessly "enjoying" the invasion. When people are doing nothing, they watch television. When they are doing something else, they still have television in the background. The device has contributed to the addition of a new space in the architecture of the private home: the TV lounge. It is a space where perfect strangers come to pedal nudity, immorality, etc. This is the space, which increasingly controls the entire house. If you choose to gave TV then please make it a duty to supervise what you and your family watch on it especially through the channel boxes.
May ALLAH protect us and our offspring from any satanic influences. Aameen.
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