Is watching TV Haram?

Question

Is watching TV Haram?

Answer 1

depends on watcha watchin

Answer 2

Hello,

Yes and no; it all depends on what channels you watch. You can choose the Vision network and see Islamic programming or get seduced by the Playboy and other x*x channels. In fairness all movies post their ratings a minute before beginning.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 3

islamic programs and news is not haram i dont think watching football is haram and all the bad channels such as movies and rude stuff and stuff like that is

Answer 4

are you actually being serious?!

what next is going to be forbidden for you people, going out?!!

Answer 5

No its not. It depends on what channels u put on it. ;)

Peace

Answer 6

Not entirely but its real easy to slip once you start. There more productive things to do with your time in Ramadan. Remember. every second counts.

Answer 7

which are the bad channels? because Discovery & History channel show a lot of things on there that dispel many myths about religion.  doesn't that send you into some sort of Fatwa or something?

Answer 8

yeah, just skip the bad channels, and bad scenes! and dont watch it at the time of Adhaan, and first say your prayers then watch TV.

Answer 9

“Do you feel them laughing at you,

Through the TV? I know I do

And do you wonder how they get away

With that **** they say?”

  -- Osker, “Strangled”

“When you trust your television

What you get is what you got

Because when they own the information

Oh they can bend it all they want”

--  John Mayer, “Waiting on the World to Change”

Where I live, TV is run by the prophets of profit.  I try to watch very little but occassionally to see what my country is tuned into, I view a little bit.  I am usually quite appalled at what I see.