{"id":3970,"date":"2015-07-15T04:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2015-07-15T04:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:58:51","slug":"watching-tv-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Watching TV While Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is the ruling of watching TV\u00a0while fasting during\u00a0Ramadhan to past time?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original objective of Ramadhan is to train oneself to acquire taqwa. This state (of taqwa) will only be achieved when a person along with refraining from food, drink and carnal desires also save his\/her tongue, ears and eyes from sins. This is why the Messenger of Allah (\u0635\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645) specifically warned concerning backbiting and lying while fasting. [i]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In TV, for one, there are pictures, and the ahadith have harshly prohibited from pictures.<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> <strong>The second point is that in TV many indecent scenes constantly appear.<\/strong> <strong>And obviously it is a severe sin to look at them.<\/strong> This is why it is compulsory to refrain from watching TV in normal situations, so it is more so necessary while fasting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Hazrat Maulana Mufti) Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (May Allah preserve him)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kitabul Fatawa\u00a0<\/span>Vol.3 Pg.382<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n[i]\u00a0Abu Dawud # 2362<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> Bukhari # 5949 Also see Sunan Nasai Vol.2 Pg.300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is the ruling of watching TV\u00a0while fasting during\u00a0Ramadhan to past time? Answer: The original objective of Ramadhan is to train oneself to acquire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,97,98],"tags":[153,211,216],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-optional","category-ramadhan","tag-fast","tag-khalid-saifullah","tag-kitabul-fatawa","wpcat-52-id","wpcat-97-id","wpcat-98-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}