Enslaved To.
As we progress towards achieving our main goals in life such as getting a good degree whilst finding a could-be-husband/wife material, getting a stable job, living in a comfortable home with a complete set of entertainment system, and of course buying a luxury sports car even though you know two years down the year you will soon realize how a terrible mistake it was and so forth, the majority of us tend to think what the society wants us to think and not how our minds think.
Ever so often, our mind has been shaped into thinking that positive outcomes can be generated when complying to what the society is doing. In contrast however, what the minorities are doing often create somewhat a threat by certain interested parties when in fact, what the minorities are doing is actually helping these individuals, which makes up the whole community moving towards a healthier society.
The inability of people to think outside the normal norm has caused the majority of individuals to be left untouched and unaware of the bigger issues that is causing havoc in the community. Drug lords, junkies, night prowlers, red light hunters, bandits, burglars, rapists, law breakers, devil worshippers and so on add onto the fall of the morale and islamic values of people in the community.
The latter speaks for itself as other methods to fool individuals in the particular nation is uninterrupted. Each and everyone of us is left with a huge, if not, little impact of these more obvious tools. Some cannot even see that they are on the verge of being beheaded by these mind-blowing-eye-watching-profile/data-tracking-mind-manipulating muck that tells us what follow, tells us what to say and tells us how to think.
In all aspects of life, this evil beast, even though unfortunately loved by many, has been able to destroy families, corrupt the young and old, eradicate love and nurture hate, interfere with our daily decision makings, create commotion within the household and so on until it becomes the primary discussion of all ages and groups. And yet lawyers, scholars, family counselors, therapists and other problem solving analyst are unable to pinpoint the cause of problems, issues and dilemmas being hoisted.
We have seen outrage, dissatisfaction, misery, anger, obscenity, immorality, smart-ass attitude, dumbness, uncivilized uneducated characters being imitated continuously in households, workplace, public places, religious ceremonies, sports arena, graveyards, telephone conversation where presence of just one person physically or via image or audio is enough for this "stunt double" to exhibit or mimic what he or she has seen or heard.
What is this evil beast that has the persuasive power to change how we think, what we should wear, who should we go out with, what we should eat and so on? Its none other than, television that sits in every home of every man in this universe. Not only it can cause our minds to be poisoned and being instilled with manipulated facts on certain issues especially on the worldwide agenda and especially on news with regards to islamic issues but it also keeps us busy 24 hours.
Television is able to satisfy and fulfill each and every need of different age groups, classes, race, status and so on. There is no group that is being left out, even for muslims, their eyes will be fixated on islamic documentaries or talks by scholars on DVDs, nasyeed video clips, miracles of Allah clips and so on. The list goes on and on until we become enslaved to this mean machine.
Not to disregard of its importance such as education via television (sesame street? really?), important information IS available on television such as time of solat, time to break sawm and so on but the fact that it brings harm more than good is obvious. Its harm will continue to over weigh its benefits. How? You may have an islamic channel on but whats challenging is avoiding whats in between the show you are watching. Ads?
Usually, it does not go over the duration of 120 seconds but the impact that it makes on our mind can last for years and even until our demise. We might say that we won't be influenced easily by these eenie weenie images such as the upper part of a female torso or a muscular guy showing his abs or a little glimpse of a couple smooching and some crazy guy screaming and so on but did you know that if we let our eyes gaze upon this "mystical images", we will further indulge ourselves into something big (bigger sin?), unknowingly.
In relation, surely we all have heard about the Prophet's hadeeth regarding the heart where it all starts with lil' spots but sooner or later the small spots will form into ONE BIG SPOT. That's when we feel that its ok to watch as long as not touch (or do it). Can we really avoid something that has become a habit? Like picking your nose when no one is around?
These negativities that comes from within television will prove to be true when a person realizes that he or she is wearing what the people in television is wearing, they will think like them, talk like them, behave like them and try to imitate them as much as they can. Heck, we now live in a society based on what has been portrayed in television (media). Indirectly, television is telling us what to do and because of this, most of us just never think anymore.
Therefore because of this annoying and threatening pattern, each and one of us must comprehend that we must not allow this disease to spill over onto the next generation because it will be difficult to shape a generation that will uphold the principles of islam if we are also still enslaved with poisonous external factors. We must try to instill and educate the next generation with the ability to think, the independent to make critical decisions, to read and to develop the necessary skills to avoid social ills and worldly frills.
In conclusion, television will always cause problems and the only way societal problems can be eradicated and the society can upgraded is by removing the habits of having breakfast, lunch and dinner in front television or getting rid of television altogether replacing it with non-celebrity related discussions or maybe issues which revolves around the islamic world at large and how we can do to help change the negative perceptions that has resulted from television.
Wallahu'alam
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Ever so often, our mind has been shaped into thinking that positive outcomes can be generated when complying to what the society is doing. In contrast however, what the minorities are doing often create somewhat a threat by certain interested parties when in fact, what the minorities are doing is actually helping these individuals, which makes up the whole community moving towards a healthier society.
The inability of people to think outside the normal norm has caused the majority of individuals to be left untouched and unaware of the bigger issues that is causing havoc in the community. Drug lords, junkies, night prowlers, red light hunters, bandits, burglars, rapists, law breakers, devil worshippers and so on add onto the fall of the morale and islamic values of people in the community.
The latter speaks for itself as other methods to fool individuals in the particular nation is uninterrupted. Each and everyone of us is left with a huge, if not, little impact of these more obvious tools. Some cannot even see that they are on the verge of being beheaded by these mind-blowing-eye-watching-profile/data-tracking-mind-manipulating muck that tells us what follow, tells us what to say and tells us how to think.
In all aspects of life, this evil beast, even though unfortunately loved by many, has been able to destroy families, corrupt the young and old, eradicate love and nurture hate, interfere with our daily decision makings, create commotion within the household and so on until it becomes the primary discussion of all ages and groups. And yet lawyers, scholars, family counselors, therapists and other problem solving analyst are unable to pinpoint the cause of problems, issues and dilemmas being hoisted.
We have seen outrage, dissatisfaction, misery, anger, obscenity, immorality, smart-ass attitude, dumbness, uncivilized uneducated characters being imitated continuously in households, workplace, public places, religious ceremonies, sports arena, graveyards, telephone conversation where presence of just one person physically or via image or audio is enough for this "stunt double" to exhibit or mimic what he or she has seen or heard.
What is this evil beast that has the persuasive power to change how we think, what we should wear, who should we go out with, what we should eat and so on? Its none other than, television that sits in every home of every man in this universe. Not only it can cause our minds to be poisoned and being instilled with manipulated facts on certain issues especially on the worldwide agenda and especially on news with regards to islamic issues but it also keeps us busy 24 hours.
Television is able to satisfy and fulfill each and every need of different age groups, classes, race, status and so on. There is no group that is being left out, even for muslims, their eyes will be fixated on islamic documentaries or talks by scholars on DVDs, nasyeed video clips, miracles of Allah clips and so on. The list goes on and on until we become enslaved to this mean machine.
Not to disregard of its importance such as education via television (sesame street? really?), important information IS available on television such as time of solat, time to break sawm and so on but the fact that it brings harm more than good is obvious. Its harm will continue to over weigh its benefits. How? You may have an islamic channel on but whats challenging is avoiding whats in between the show you are watching. Ads?
Usually, it does not go over the duration of 120 seconds but the impact that it makes on our mind can last for years and even until our demise. We might say that we won't be influenced easily by these eenie weenie images such as the upper part of a female torso or a muscular guy showing his abs or a little glimpse of a couple smooching and some crazy guy screaming and so on but did you know that if we let our eyes gaze upon this "mystical images", we will further indulge ourselves into something big (bigger sin?), unknowingly.
In relation, surely we all have heard about the Prophet's hadeeth regarding the heart where it all starts with lil' spots but sooner or later the small spots will form into ONE BIG SPOT. That's when we feel that its ok to watch as long as not touch (or do it). Can we really avoid something that has become a habit? Like picking your nose when no one is around?
These negativities that comes from within television will prove to be true when a person realizes that he or she is wearing what the people in television is wearing, they will think like them, talk like them, behave like them and try to imitate them as much as they can. Heck, we now live in a society based on what has been portrayed in television (media). Indirectly, television is telling us what to do and because of this, most of us just never think anymore.
Therefore because of this annoying and threatening pattern, each and one of us must comprehend that we must not allow this disease to spill over onto the next generation because it will be difficult to shape a generation that will uphold the principles of islam if we are also still enslaved with poisonous external factors. We must try to instill and educate the next generation with the ability to think, the independent to make critical decisions, to read and to develop the necessary skills to avoid social ills and worldly frills.
In conclusion, television will always cause problems and the only way societal problems can be eradicated and the society can upgraded is by removing the habits of having breakfast, lunch and dinner in front television or getting rid of television altogether replacing it with non-celebrity related discussions or maybe issues which revolves around the islamic world at large and how we can do to help change the negative perceptions that has resulted from television.
Wallahu'alam
