Salim I. Hassan (Salimullah)
15/02/2017
It is extremely disappointing the way some people invest
their time totally in all kinds of funs, hobbies and entertainment. In Islam Hobbies and leisure must not be
observed excessively. Even if it is permissible it should occupy anything below
2% of your total free time per day. And when such hobbies go contrary to
Islamic norms and values it is then totally forbidden. I was at a place
yesterday adjacent to a CD MAX shop where I beheld a lot muslim youths trooping
like Hitler’s armies just to buy CD Plate movies. I was astonished to see some
coming out with 5, 10, and more CD plates, just to finish them in few days. I
asked one of them how he spend his leisure. He told me all in either watching
movies, football or wrestling matches. I just sought to kid him saying how
would I waste my leisure time in doing what will not benefit me with anything.
He replied: ‘Kai! Entertainment is good for your health. It is a natural
medication against stress and fatigue after work. I just laughed and said: yes
of course agreed. But it will be better for you to cut off your leisure time
and in invest in God-remembrance, supporting my point with quoting of Surah
Al-Asr “ Indeed man is in waste (of time). I further expounded that any form of
entertainment (good or bad) is a waste of time. His replied was also positive
and said: Eh wallahi haka ne. But I was obsessed with this habit. Kawai dai
Allah ya shiryemu.
So, obviously I liked the way he interacted with me. As a
result I never wish to indict him with any grievous wrong-doing. According to
Sura Al-asr, anything that is not an act of belief, worship of sort of righteous
deeds is a waste of time even if it lawful. And when you are obsessed with it
the end result is a loss (Khusr). Unlike as some have a misconception that having
fun or entertainment is Haraam. Fun or entertainment is part of human nature
and Islam is the religion that satisfies that nature, Al-Fitrah. Sadly enough,
despite the fact that many forms of entertainment are Halal, most Muslims opt
to indulge in the Haraam forms of entertainment instead.
To be specific, I refer to in here our excessiveness and
extravagance in watching movies, football or wrestling matches and playing
other games. Many of us have been carried away by one of these obsessions, and
many more not mentioned here. When it
comes to movies and football matches most of us are in the grip of infatuation
that they are powerless to resist. Watching movies, football or wrestling matches
have become the hard core habit and manner of many Muslim youths (male &
female). Not all movies are Haram; but their majorities are. Although, as usual
as I know, some would argue and even claim that this is just entertainment and
a way of passing time as pointed above by a strange friend. But one clear-cut truth is that entertainment
is not permitted in Islam if it is haraam. The contents, messages and beliefs
behind many movies run contrary to Islam.
Football matches detach a large number of its audience from observing
their act of worship properly.
It is not a most to watch movies to entertain one’s own self.
For those who find it difficult to avoid let them watch something Islamic or something beneficial and keep away
from movies which have shameless scenes and teach bad things.
I will close this chapter
with quote from Al-munajjid who writes: “Watching movies includes
looking at things that are haraam, such as seeing ‘awrahs, following immoral
actions, or listening to things that are haraam such as music and obscene talk.
Undoubtedly it is haraam to watch them in this case.
If the movies are free of such
things, then there is nothing wrong with watching them, so long as that does
not distract one from remembering Allaah or keep one from doing something that
is obligatory.
No distinction is made between
documentaries and other kinds of movies.
Watching movies has a bad
effect on the individual and on the ummah. These include the following:
1-
Provocation of desires
2-
Propagation of immorality which is made attractive and easily accessible
3- Teaching
and justification of crime, and making it familiar to young and old
4-
Corruption of married life, by making the wife seem ugly to the husband and
vice versa, by showing images of attractive girls and men
5- Spreading
corrupt beliefs which are based on kaafir theories, such as the theory of
evolution, or attributing the powers of creation and destruction to researchers
and inventors, or propagating magic, soothsaying and claims to know the unseen,
or making fun of religion and religious people, and other things which appear
in movies that are shown to young and old.
6- Wasting
time and draining away energy, living with illusions far removed from
reality.
May Allah guide us and protect us from this evil Fitna of
modern time.
Good Night!
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