Letters to the Editor

Q: I am a new subscriber of your magazine and am very pleased with its contents. In the May 1999 issue on p. 5 you have stated that “TV itself is prohibited in Islam: unless the programme will follow the Islamic rules but since there is not a single TV station that follows Islamic rules, we might generalise and make an unconditional statement that TV is not allowed in Islam”. But in the same issue you have carried an advertisement of BPL TV on the back cover page. Please clarify.

Shafat Qadri,
On Email

YMD

The T.V. is an instrument. You can put it to whatever use you wish. If you put it to the uses that the great majority of people do in our time, then, that is on your responsibility. But, if you wish you can put it to good uses too.
We advertise for the instrument and not for the programmes.

Q: Also, please answer the following: In what other circumstances apart from Jihad can we say our prayers with our shoes on.

YMD

Jihad is not a condition for one to do Prayers with the shoes on. One might pray in his shoes anywhere, anytime, any class of Prayers, so long as the shoes are clean.

However, one may not enter a mosque without removing the shoes. No matter how clean, they will make the carpets dirtier, and enrage other devotees. Nor should one with the shoes on lead in Prayers, unless specifically asked by the congregation.

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