Consider this : A bat man jumping from hundredth floor and getting up unscratched, Superman flying in the sky faster than a plane. Tom and Jerry are run over by a heavy roller and they get up unhurt, Micky mouse dressed up for a party and smelling excellent. Now compare them with a young healthy man who falls from just third floor and dies of injury, the fastest runner in the Olympics panting after 100 meters and that irritating dirty mouse squeaking in your bedroom.
The products coming out from the minds of writers and directors are displayed as superior quality product than the man made by the Creator. These Supermen, Batmans, Micky mouses, are ‘decorated scripts’ inspired by men and Shaytan to deceive, says the 112 verse of Surah al- An’am. The Arabic term is “ Zukhrufal Qoulo goorora ” “Decorated scripts of deceptions”
Then Allah cautions the Believers in the very next verse, “The hearts of those who have no faith in the hereafter, are inclined towards (such stories) and let them delight ( get entertained ) from it and let them earn ( haram )..”
The introspective question is : Do you have faith? Do you incline towards such decorated scripts? Well, the above verse says both the things are not possible to be together. . If you have faith you shouldn’t be inclined towards such stories nor get delighted by them nor earn from it. Otherwise your faith is in danger. Most of us who are fond of movies fall in either of the three categories.
The message then reaches verse no. 116 and declares “ If you follow the common run of those on earth, they will lead you away from the way of Allah. THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURES, they do nothing but lie…
If you read the above verse again : movies, animated entertainment and cartoons are followed commonly. These imaginable characters are conjectures they are falsehood. Yet people take them as stars. This attitude can lead you away from Jannah. You may be still Abdul and Ayesha in the list of your Government but in the list of Allah?
The business of this Decorated scripts and conjectures is : Hollywood is a, 88, billion dollar industry, Bollywood is a 3.3 billion dollar Industry a year
Proceed further to verse 151 of the same Surah where a list of forbidden acts is put forth. These are called “Kabair” sins. Big sins. .. One such phrase is “ wala taqrabool fahisha… do not go close to immodesty, whether open or secret. The term used here is Fahisha. It means any form of immodesty. So everything that leads to immodesty is haram. No second opinion required.
Consider this : Will you ever keep your bedroom windows open for people to see what you do with your spouses in private moments? Will you like to peep into the windows of others ? No! But people are peeping together while watching movies.
So we are reading the verses and studying it. Right? Or are we just passing by the verses and just reading ? If we fall into haram after reading and understanding it then we are passing by the signs of Allah. No protection from Shaytan guaranteed, says verse no. 175 of Surah al Ar’af. Relate to them the story of the man to whom we sent our signs , but he passed them by , so shaytan followed him up and he went astray. It means even you pray regularly, and recite Qur’an but if you just pass by those verses then you are gone…..
The next verse says “ he chose to incline to the earth and followed his vain desires..” This ayat is simple to understand. ‘Inclining to earth’ means bartering your akhera with worldly goods and ‘vain desires’. Movies and TV programs incite our desires which lead us to vanity and vanity leads away from the path of Allah… May Allah protect us..
Author Nisaar Nadiadwala can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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