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How Does Watching TV Affect Fasting? ------ 11/7/2004 ------

TV is an entertainment tool that can be used for good or bad purposes. Basically, any medium, like press, radio and TV, tries to convey special messages. So, these media can be good or bad, and a Muslim must have the ability to differentiate between what\'s good and what\'s bad, whether he/she is fasting or not. 
During fasting days, a Muslim should be more careful to sustain his/her fasting from spoiling, thus Allah\'s reward of fasting does not vanishe.
Watching TV can not be regarded totally forbidden or permissible. It depends on the watcher and how he/she uses TV. If a watcher rightly uses TV, like watching the news, the religious programs and the like, he/she is doing well. Otherwise, if a person watches the immoral works, like dancing and singing, he/she is doing badly. This rule is applied in particular to Ramadan. Any medium preventing you from remembering Allah is forbidden.
If an entertainment medium distracts you from fulfilling Allah\'s duties imposed upon His servants, like performing the prayers, it is totally forbidden. Allah prohibits drinking alcohols, for instance, because of their bad and harmful effects. In this meaning, Allah says, \"Satan\'s plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?\"      (Al-Maidah, 91). 
To respect the sacredness of Ramadan and to help people to obey Allah, the responsible officials for the TV programs should fear Allah, presenting what\'s good to the audience. Otherwise they will share the others\' sins, as Allah says in the Glorious Quran, \"Let them bear, on the Day of Judgment, their own burdens in full, and also (something) of the burdens of those without knowledge, whom they misled. Alas, how grievous the burdens they will bear!\". ( Suarh Al-Nahl, 25)

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