Zakir Naik – Watching Television and its Harmful Effects
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A doctor discusses the harmful effects of television on children and young adults, citing multiple negative consequences such as causing problems for parents, children, and others. The speaker also discusses the health consequences of television, including problems for children and young adults, as well as negative lifestyle consequences such as bribery, violence, drug addiction, and alcoholism. While acknowledging the health consequences of television, the speaker hopes that people should be on the straight path to achieve their goals, even though media may deviate from the Bible.
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Next question, doctor Zakkia,
relates to
the fact that now, of course, Ramadan is
over
and the devils are set free,
many of the youth,
not to mention other people,
adults as well, will revert to their bad
habits of watching
television. Could you shed some light on
the issue of watching television and its harmful
effects?
Television
does multiple times more harm
than good.
It harms a person spiritually,
morally,
socially
and economic wise.
There are various you can give a talk
only on the ill effects of 1 on
television.
Number 1
is that
I call it rather
it's a.
It's the footstep of the devil for many
reasons. Number 1 is
that
it many a time
prevents a person from offering salah. A person
gets addicted to the tea. So Muslims,
though he realizes the time he's okay after
5 minutes after 5 minutes, and he watches
the program, the soap, or the opera, whatever
it is, and he misses salah.
Number 2,
there is too much of obscenity
on the television.
Normal channels that you see, then in which
channels you find so much of obscenity, and
Allah says in the Quran in Surinur chapter
number 24, verse number 30. Say to the
believing man that he should lower his gaze
and guard his modesty. Whenever a man looks
at a woman, if any unashamed thought, any
bathed thought come, then a man should lower
his gaze. The next verse speaks for the
woman, Surinur chapter 24 verse number 31. Say
to the believing woman that she should lower
the gaze and guard her modesty.
That when she looks at any man and
any unashamed thought comes, she should lower the
gaze. So now, how can a Muslim watch
television
on which you find ladies
without hijab,
immodest.
Many of them, the clothes that they wear,
they expose more of the body than cover
the body.
So but natural,
most of the channels
that you see
more than 99% you can safely say,
more than 99% are haram as far aslam
is concerned.
People give excuses, oh, why not news live
in news channels. The ladies that they come,
you know, they dress up, they're not having
hijab, etcetera.
And the obscenity that is there,
it is tremendous. And there are many reports,
which if time permits, I'll tell you later
on. And the second is obscenity on the
television.
Number
3 is the extravagance,
that when we see any channel, the advertisements,
they entice a person to buy things which
are not required. You may see a latest
car that is launched in the market, and
your desire will be there to buy it.
You may want a very big house or
thing which aren't required of, like, extra wagons
as Allah says in the Quran in Surah
Isra,
chapter number 17, verse number 26 and 27.
There do not be extra wagon, do not
be a spendthrift. For verily, the person who's
a spendthrift is the brother of the devil.
The 4th point is
that
it leads
unnecessary.
There's too much of glamour
and fame. The person tries to get involved
in that glamorous world, seeing the
actors and the other people, and the time
imitate them, the time immolate them. They become
the idols and they become the heroes
rather than Muhammad
and the Sabas.
Number
5
is that there's too much of violence on
the television,
and that really
influences the person's lifestyle, and there are several
reports on that too.
Furthermore,
there's too much of drug addiction, there's too
much of fighting,
etcetera, which a person gets involved, you know,
oh, some people know it's nice to have
drugs. When a person, a young person see
that, he tries to at least try it
out. And that's how drug addiction increases, alcoholism
increases, and there are various. Just to culture,
I'll just give you some of the reports.
The special report done only on the effect
of television on children.
And
since 1950, more than a 1000 surveys and
researches were done on the effects of television
on children and young adults.
And according
to a survey which was present in the
senate committee of judiciary in USA in 1999,
it says
that because of young children
and young adults watching television,
it makes their lifestyle violent,
they're aggressive,
and they're unsocial.
According to the report of
Houston,
a service conducted in 1992,
And by the time a child reaches the
age of 10, and if he watches television,
the average hours that a person in the
USA watches, he would have viewed 200,000
violent acts on television
and 40,000 murders. Imagine what impact it will
have on that young mind.
According to report of
the American
Council of Pediatrics
in the year 2,001,
it says that death in children
and young adults and adolescents only due to
violence,
that is homicide,
suicide,
and trauma is much more
than the diseases,
much more than cancer,
much more than congenital
heart disease, the deaths caused by these volumes.
And furthermore, going to research done by the
Kaiser
Foundation in the 2,005,
it said that on an average,
an average American child
watches television every week for 44 and a
half hours. That means every day he watches
television
and sits in front of the computer game
or in front of the computer screen all
put together for about 6 and a half
hours every day.
That is there's no the activity does more
than sitting in front of the television screen
or the computer screen more than sleeping. Sleeping
is the only thing where you may sleep
more. Otherwise, any activity that it does, maximum
is this. And the impact it has on
the lifestyle, on the
behavior
is drastically negative. There were research done on
what effect
does
a video
album has. You know, you have a lot
of video albums coming up and dancing and
singing and music. It takes a person away
from an Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Therefore I
say it's.
There are researches on
the * shown on this television.
It's tremendous.
Maximum number of channels on the satellite
TV. In America, it's * channels.
In UK, it's * channel. The maximum profit
the percentage of profit made by any channels
are the * channels.
And the cheapest to run a channel is
the * channel, and even the entertainment channels
have started getting obscenity on it to attract
the people.
And people get slowly and slowly alluded towards
it. And India, which is the
conservative country, the eastern part of the world,
maybe a few decades back when we
see the way the movies were made in
India, if they're to show a love scene,
they used to show 2 flowers. That's it,
indicating love scene. Later on, we had the
hero heroine,
They're running around the tree to show a
love scene.
Now
you see them openly kissing on the street
in the movies,
Even sleeping in bed,
and it's very normal. So that's how I
know it started
with just showing a symbolic
* of flowers. And then we see today
that open
openly sleeping and showing all the scenes and
all. And it's even getting into the normal
film television channels. Then you have the fashion
TV and all these, you know, therefore,
we are very particular that in our school,
all the children who are studying in our
school,
in their house, in the family, there should
be no cable TV. Even if they want
to see PEACE TV,
if they have a private dish where only
PEACE TV comes, it's permitted. But if they
have the cable TV along with PCH TV,
if another 100 or 80,
Haram Chan has come, we said, don't see
PCH TV. While the Islamic sharia says, let
a small loss take place to prevent a
big loss. So the bigger loss is the
haram channels. The small benefit
is the PEACE TV, but best is to
have only peace TV. Have a decoder, see
the channel, that's fine.
And there are very few channels which Islamic
and getting people
to the straight path. Very few. The percentage
will be less than 1% of the channels.
So we pray to Allah that we have
more channels. And even the Islamic channels should
see to that down the Quran sunnah that's
important. Whether they get deviated with
this media, the film industry, you know, trying
to get more popular, slowly slowly, the time
deviate. So we pray that we be on
the straight path.
So this is just in short the fuel
effects of TV and you can give a
talk on this.