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Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen رحمه الله said:
“There are magazines—we ask Allaah to keep us safe and sound—that promote promiscuity and corruption, either with their indecent words or their indecent images. It is not permissible for anyone whom Allaah has put in charge of his family to keep these newspapers in his house at all. He must oppose them fiercely and fight them as he would fight a fire with water. He should tear them up in front of his children, so that they will know that they are haraam and represent falsehood. But if he brings them to his family, or sees them buying it and approves of that, by Allaah he is not taking care of them properly.
It is very strange that people spend their money on these magazines that contain material that affects morals and beliefs. Is there any greater waste of money than this?
If a person were to walk though the marketplace and scatter money on the ground, that would be better than buying these magazines and giving them to his children, because by buying these magazines he is doing something haraam and supporting falsehood and promoting the spread of evil among his family. If he were to scatter money on the ground, perhaps a poor person would pick it up and benefit from it.
So we must advise one another to shun these indecent magazines.”
[Al-Liqa’ al-Shahriyyah no. 39, question no. 6]
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz رحمه الله said:
“The newspapers of this type, i.e., those that publish indecent pictures or revile those who seek to spread Islam, or seek to prevent da’wah, or which publish heretical articles and the like – such newspapers should be boycotted and should not be bought. The state – if it is an Islamic state – should ban them, because they harm the society and harm the Muslims. The Muslim should not buy them or distribute them, and he should call upon others to boycott them too and encourage people not to keep them or buy them. The authorities who are able to ban them should do so, or tell them to do good things and give up evil.”
[Majmoo’ al-Fataawa 8/176]
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