TV’S HARMFUL EFFECTS
Today the subject of my sermon shall be on the harmful
effects of television. TV in itself is a favour for us from Allah (swt). You
shall notice that in all good favours that Allah gives man, little by little
Satan makes his way in them, leaving his mark, thus spoiling the favours which
Allah have enabled us to have, especially in this past era and the actual era
in which we are living with the introduction of television. There are programmes
on TV which are essential for viewers, to learn from the given information,
such as documentaries, news, educative programmes and others.
Now attraction to all the good effects of TV has
disappeared, especially among the youths. Are you people now pondering over the
arrays of TV Channels which are available today? I recall the past when there
was only one television channel in Mauritius and there were interesting
programmes, educative ones (such as documentaries etc.) which started around
3.00 pm and ended at 10.00 pm. Even the radio ended early just like for
television. It was years later that a second channel was introduced and today
there are a whole lot of TV channels besides the basic national TV channels.
Now there are TV stations such as CANAL + proposing new programmes and channels
and there is also the MY.T which proposes different new channels. Recently MY.T
through publicity done have given viewers 3 months (till October 2015) free
viewing of all its channels (more than 73 channels), with the hope that this
attracts more and more people to subscribe to these usually paid channels. From
what I have learnt, all kinds of Hindi and other serials are being broadcast,
one after the other.
Now, what one sees is that all people are before the
television, morning and evening. And there is even the option now to get to
view the missed programmes and films of the past days.
So the believers need to ponder a lot over the harmful
effects of television. Nowadays, a TV in a house has become for the people like
a dangerous enemy. It has become such an enemy which is destroying your Iman (faith), time and money when you go
to have paid subscriptions to get to view such channels which are dirty. At the
same time, you are inviting your wives and children to partake of the harmful
effects of these immoral movies and as a result, they also get to be negatively
affected by these.
