Watching soap operas! (Daily Serials)
Question: What is the ruling regarding watching soap operas/serials which are
transmitted on television?
Response: It is upon the Muslim to safeguard his time (involving himself) in
that which will benefit him in his life and the Hereafter because he is
responsible for his time which he spends: How did he spend it? Allaah
(Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala) says:
{Did We not give you lives long enough, so that whosoever would receive
admonition, – could receive it?}, [Soorah al-Faatir, Aayah 37].
And in a hadeeth, a man will be asked about his life and in what he spent it,
(at-Tirmidhee). Watching soap operas/serials is a waste of time so it is not
befitting for the Muslim to busy himself with it. If the soap operas involve
anything that is forbidden then watching them is haraam; such as overt and
beautiful women, music and singing, and soap operas and serials which convey bad
thoughts far from religion and good manners. Also, like soap operas/serials
which include shameless (actions and speech) which badly affects good manners.
So these types of soap operas/serials are not permissible to watch.
Shaykh Saleh Ibn al-Fawzaan
al-Muntaqaa min Fataawa Fadheelatush-Shaykh Saalih Ibn Fowzaan – Volume 3, Page
346, Fatwa No. 516
Aboo ‘Ubaydah Ahmad Nishwan ibn ‘Alee al-Maldeefee
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