When the Radio and TV were Introduced to the Saudi Society
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:15.8 | My own teachers in Medina they tell me that when the radio was first introduced |
| 0:20.0 | in Saudi Arabia and this isn't just in Saudi Arabia in every Muslim |
| 0:22.8 | land the same thing happened. When the radio was first to introduce pretty much all |
| 0:26.5 | the scholars said this is haram and they even said this is sieve magic because how can you have this device and we hear somebody sitting |
| 0:36.0 | in London and Timbuktu and in Geneva and we hear him you know on this radio this must be |
| 0:41.8 | sahad and my teachers tell me this that their |
| 0:44.0 | teachers told them that when the radio came to Saudi Arabia they they |
| 0:48.6 | actually some of them actually went to the you know the transmission towers you know they they actually |
| 0:54.4 | went underneath those transmission towers and ran Quran hoping to destroy the |
| 0:59.0 | Sahir of the radio waves hoping to destroy the khalas there's not going to be any more radio waves and we're going to destroy it. |
| 1:06.0 | Now King Abdulaz is who was a very forward-thinking person in many ways. |
| 1:10.0 | What did King Abdulaziz do? |
| 1:11.0 | King Abdulaziz basically called all of the scholars |
| 1:14.1 | to Amajlis, and he told the Saudi Arabian Radio |
| 1:17.1 | Society that had just newly established, |
| 1:18.9 | he said, recite the Quran on the radio. |
| 1:22.3 | So for the first time the scholars heard the radio. the because if it's sichid then there cannot be Quran and so they change their mind about the radio. |
| 1:35.5 | But guess what happened when TV was introduced? |
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