spikedcylinder:

Goodluck to you as I figure it might be hard going cold turkey like that.
However, I must ask: what about those movies whose sole purpose is to entertain and educate without the inclusion of anything that allegedly makes you sin? Movies that are thought provoking? Your children, if you have, will they be allowed to watching children's entertainment? Cartoons? How do you intend to keep yourself occupied?

deols:

I understand people view things in different perspectives but the use of cold turkey as a description of my move is not right at all. There are a lot of interesting and at the same time beneficial things to be engaged in-books to read, the Qur'an to recite and listen to,e.t.c.

When i mentioned movies, I was only referring to entertainment movies and any other one without involving the above mentioned unacceptable acts is ok to see. For example,i watch the News but i keep my gaze low as much as i can but i wont watch a wrestling match that involves the guys wearing panties only nor would i expect a muslim man to watch women swin.


Children are allowed to watch children movies.I dont have children now but when i do, i'd rather let them play games, read books than watch movies because i know they'll surely outgrow them and might start to look out for the ones 'befitting their age'.

 

It's not a matter of different perspectives, 'cold turkey' in this scenario is quite apt.
You said:

If you ask people why they see movies, majority will tell you ‘to have fun’, some others, ‘to kill boredom’ and a few others, ’to learn some lessons’ and to people like me, all of the above.
I love to see the lifestyles portrayed in movies, review them and see which I can  fit into mine [/b]among other things.

For someone who is a lover of movies, giving up on watching them altogether [b]is going cold turkey. It's grammar based, not perspective based.

Anyway, as I said earlier, goodluck.

ronkeenuf:

You may have read this story before here http://www.islamcan.com/youth/the-stranger.shtml, I thought I should post here for those who haven't:


The Stranger


"A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small Tennessee town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.

As I grew up I never questioned his place in our family. In my young mind, each member had a special niche. My brother, Yusuf, five years my senior,was my example. Samya, my younger sister, gave me an opportunity to play 'big brother' and develop the art of teasing. My parents were complementary instructors-- Mom taught me to love Allah, and Dad taught me to how to obey Him. But the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spell-bound for hours each evening. If I wanted to know about politics, history, or science, he knew it.

He knew about the past and seemed to understood the present. The pictures he could draw were so life like that I would often laugh or cry as I watched. He was like a friend to the whole family. He took Dad, Yusuf and me to our first major league baseball game. He was always encouraging us to see the movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several famous people.

The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn' t seem to mind-but sometimes Mom would quietly get up-- while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of faraway places-- go to her room, read the Qur'aan.

I wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave. You see, my dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But this stranger never felt obligation to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our house-- not from us, from our friends, or adults. Our longtime visitor,however, used occasional four letter words that burned my ears and made Dad squirm, To my knowledge the stranger was never confronted. My dad was a teatotaler who didn't permit alcohol in his home - not even for cooking.

But the stranger felt like we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often.

He made cigarettes look tasty, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (probably too much too freely) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.

I know now that my early concepts of the man-woman relationship were influenced by the stranger.

As I look back, I believe it was Allah's Mercy that the stranger did not influence us more. Time after time he opposed the values of my parents. Yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with the young family on Morningside Drive.

He is not nearly so intriguing to my Dad as he was in those early years. But if I were to walk into my parents' den today, you would still see him sitting over in a corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.

His name you ask?

We called him TV.

It makes you think, doesn't it,

zayhal:

How come I missed this before now?

Ronke, jazakumullah khayran.

@topic

The evil of TV is undoubtedly more than its gains, especially for the young children. To some, it seem to be a necessary evil, something one can't do without. I've not had a Tv set in my home for the past six years, and I'm yet to feel the disadvantage of it.

ifyalways:

wow,
The first time my husband talked to me abt movies and TV programmes i watch,i was like wtf is wrong with this man.He went to Hajj and brought me lots of audios and dvd's and im loving it and asking for more.
I have in my collection :life of the last prophet,Paradise found,30 days as a muslim,The Hajj: One American's Pilgrimage to Mecca etc.My boys have and enjoy "Muhammad: The Last Prophet" cartoon.
I still do watch the normal TV .

spikedcylinder:

Ify, are you a muslim?

ifyalways:

Yeah Spikes.

And you're igbo? That's rare. Amazing though.

tpia@:
which american movies would an average observant muslim consider ok to watch? Examples, i mean.

obviously, something like aladdin is out of the question even though it has an arab setting.


how about nollywood movies- none or some? I guess the kannywood movies would be considered more suitable for those who watch home based films?