[mybooboo]

@ Dr. Abu Tamim Sahab are you sure that the article you have posted here written by the Council of Islamic Scholars (Majlisul Ulama) of Port Elizabeth, South Africa because here someone want to show their Knowledge and errors in ulemas(who want to guide and safeguard the faith of muslims).
Please if it wrong then please edit to "One unknown committe".

Check the source:

http://www.albalagh.net/general/hard...levision.shtml

[MontyP@thon]

Check the source:

http://www.albalagh.net/general/hard...levision.shtml

I know that brother, but someone want to show their knowledge even after it is written by ulema.

[Klorissana]

Its such a shame that even after our Ulama tell us that we must refrain from things such as television due to its harmful effects we scrutinize them and what they have said.
Even Kuffar have written books on the harms of tv.In fact i have a book called 'Four arguments for the elimination of television' by Jerry Mander. The 4 arguments are split into many other arguments. There is one particular chapter titled 'HOW WE TURN INTO OUR IMAGES'.(Images referring to the images stored in our brain.) A particularly good chapter as our children are prime examples, wanting to be this so called super hero or this princess etc.
Although i haven't completed the book but so far it has proven to be a good read and raised very valid arguments.
I know of a non-muslim when asked why she doesn't have a tv, she said 'my parents said that tv is bad, it kills the brain cells."
When are we muslims going to realise and give up the harmful that is indoctrinating our minds. When we die!!Wake up.
Ali(ra) once said:"People are asleep and only when they die will they wake up". May Allah not make us from these people.May Allah make us of the intelligent who remember death and prepare for our Hereafter.

[Heopretg2006]

TV is like industrial waste it can only harm your pages of knowledge stored in your brain. leaving it fuzzy scrotched and filled with holes.

In other words guard yourself from it

[autolubitelone]

Do you ppl know this guy?


A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family.

As I grew up I never questioned his place in our family. In my young mind, each member had a special niche. My brother, Omar, five years my senior, was my example. Zakiyah, my younger sister, gave me an opportunity to play 'big sister' and develop the art of teasing. My parents were complementary instructors- Mom taught me to love the word of Allah, and Dad taught me to obey it.

But the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries, and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spell-bound for hours each evening. If I wanted to know about politics, history, or science, he knew it. He knew about the past, understood the present, and seemingly could predict the future. The pictures he could draw were so life like that I would often laugh or cry as I watched. He was like a friend to the whole family. He took Dad, Omar and me to our first major league baseball game. He was always encouraging us to see the movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie stars. The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn't seem to mind - but sometimes Mom would quietly get up - while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of faraway places - go to her room, read her Quran and pray. I wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave.

You see, my dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But this stranger never felt obligation to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our house - not from us, from our friends, or adults. Our longtime visitor, however, used occasional four letter words that turned my ears and made Dad squirm. To my knowledge the stranger was never confronted. My dad was a teetotaler who didn't permit alcohol in his home - as good Muslims should. But the stranger felt like we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us, cigarettes, beer, and other alcoholic beverages often. He talked freely (probably much too freely) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing. I know now that the stranger influenced my early concepts of the man-woman relationship.

As I look back, I believe it was the grace of Allah that the stranger did not influence us more. Time after time he opposed the values of my parents. Yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with the young family on Bangladesh Road. He is not nearly so intriguing to my Dad as he was in those early years. But if I were to walk into my parents' den today, you would still see him sitting over in a corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures...

His name you ask?

We called him TV.
[This article hasn't been written by me. It was passed onto me by a Brother called Ibrahim Ahmed and so please make du'a for him and for the entire Ummah. Pray that we are all protected from the fitnah of our time and future times.]
Don't let the system brainwash you and your children.

[Gometesstem]

http://television-vs-children.blogsp...ldren-and.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...c-success.html

http://news.discovery.com/human/chil...l-effects.html

[Qvqnubpj]

Yesterday I was interviewed by a non muslim lady, who is researching Islam for her thesis.She was interested in the day to day life as a Muslim and to clear the many misconceptions people generally have about Muslims.

During the discussion the topic of family life and instilling moral values in children came up.I was explaining to her the role of the father and mother in the life of a Muslim child and how important it is for parents to sit with their kids and have meals together.Something which is lacking amongst the muslims/non muslims.She agreed as she said she have no idea the last time she sat as a family and ate a meal. She then ask me "so where is the television included in your children life?" I told her its not allowed in Islam for us to watch the TV and we don't believe in having the TV babysit our kids. She was impressed and she said which means there is more time for parents to bond and include constructive activities for a child to do daily. I told her I grew up without a TV as a teen and alhumdulillah found many other stuff to do back then....

She agreed that TV played a major role in influencing the choices a child make and that the media controls the mind of people.Reason why she's doing this research and wants to prove how the media is a bunch of lies and portrays the wrong picture of Muslims.It was an interesting discussion and she was a really nice person....May Allah grant her hidayah aameen..

Many non Muslims are against having a TV in their homes.I once attended a talk given by the head of organization for dyslexic kids here in my country,she was invited to give a talk to teachers at the school I once taught at .She give countless harms of watching TV and she said she have never had a TV in her home and her kids have many other recreational activities to occupy their time.

One reason she said for the rise in kids being dyslexic is they are exposed to the TV from a young age,that time is a very sensitive time for a child and their development.They absorb stuff like sponges and we need, she said,to have them absorb the correct stuff which will help them, not dull their brains.

[Chooriwrocafn]

Audio in Urdu
TV Rakhna Durust Nahi - Mufti Taqi Usmani

Transcript:

Mufti Mohammad Taqi Usmani (Allah preserve him) said in reply to a question about watching television,

‘Contemporary television (programs) are a composite of multiple sins. Almost all of the programs are such that by watching them one indulges in any of these sins. Therefore, it is impermissible to keep a television set at home. I consider it (watching TV) to be inappropriate’

Ulema bayan, Q & A, Chennai, India, 2010

Source: Ashrafiya.com


Chk out this thread for more on this topic
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...ti-Taqi-Usmani

[ImapFidaarram]

Nice story there by azhar, I posted that a few months back, but its always good to remind people

[Gometesstem]

Maybe we should take a poll of how many people have a TV set at home and watch it.....

[MontyP@thon]

Maybe we should take a poll of how many people have a TV set at home and watch it.....

Yes and we should also make how many have tv set but do not watch

[Gometesstem]

Yes and we should also make how many have tv set but do not watch

Is it possible for people to keep a set at home and not watch it?

[vasyasvc]

what about those that dont have a TV but sometimes watch it when at other peoples house?

[MontyP@thon]

Is it possible for people to keep a set at home and not watch it?

depends on their taqwa!

[MontyP@thon]

what about those that dont have a TV but sometimes watch it when at other peoples house?

Includes hotels, shops, airports, hospitals, banks,etc .

[UTHZzJ6f]

Is it possible for people to keep a set at home and not watch it?

Ofcourse , one does not need to switch on a TV to watch it.

[MontyP@thon]

Ofcourse , one does not need to switch on a TV to watch it.

Dr sahab your post is funny
well,
but I found some meaning to the above underlined word.
Look attentively
Follow with the eyes or the mind
Look at and follow all (or part of) something being shown or performed

[UTHZzJ6f]

Dr sahab your post is funny
well,
but I found some meaning to the above underlined word.
Look attentively
Follow with the eyes or the mind
Look at and follow all (or part of) something being shown or performed

Actually i was thinking to add inverted commas to WATCH and write it as ;Ofcourse , one does not need to switch on a TV to "watch" it : but then left it for suspense lol.

[Gometesstem]

depends on their taqwa!

But would the muttaqoon buy a set at all?

[MontyP@thon]

But would the muttaqoon buy a set at all?

Not at all but
Wife, sons, daughters can save themselves from their husband or father