Satellite Television Equipment: Can Satellite Dishes Be Installed to Access Scientific and Qur’anic Channels?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Satellite Television Equipment: Can Satellite Dishes Be Installed to Access Scientific and Qur’anic Channels?
English:
Question #1209:
What is the ruling in the matter of installing satellite television equipment to receive scientific and Qur’anic programs or the like that are broadcast by Western countries or others?
Answer #1209:
Although the use of such equipment to watch scientific and Qur’anic programs via satellite is not objectionable in itself, programs broadcast by the satellite television stations of Western and most of the neighboring countries often contain misleading poisonous material and misrepresentations of the truths as well as programs of lahw and corruption and even watching [the so-called] Qur’anic and scientific programs could lead to corrupt and ḥarām practices. Accordingly, it is ḥarām as per Islamic law to make use of satellite television equipment to watch these programs unless the programs are useful and pure scientific or Qur’anic ones so that watching them does not entail any corruption or ḥarām act.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Satellite Television Equipment