User:S Ahmed Mian

Islamic Media

By, S Ahmed

As fast the geographical atmosphere is changing, the ideologies and media needs are changing quickly too. Especially electronic media is playing its leading role in all these circumstances and has total potential to change the ideologies, thoughts and repetitions of the nations and socities.we can easily recognise the role of media in nearest past, how it had effected and how media sources being used to achieve the targets!

It’s a fact since the media sources because the part of necessities in a common every day life its producing the real propaganda by the western world. But now in all these realities Muslim world has been realised the power of media and putting its potentials to be recognised. Although there are some controversies but we can mention the name of “Al-Jazeera” channel (now started his English services from 15 Nov 06).

By Islamic media we mean that the media should be designed in such a way that it will present the true Islam and the structure and the policies of Islamic media should be present the true Islamic education and should educate and guide the general public about the right way of Islam. So it should be design in way such it can educate the public and introduce the modern enlighten vision of Islam.

Same to the basic policy method the function and role of Islamic media is important to be realised and should function to provide general public with the knowledge of Islam through informative programs about religion as it’s able to remove all the misconceptions regarding Islam. The most important role of Islamic media could be to promote religious sectarian harmony among public by showing programs and by calling renowned religious scholars for educating the public. Secondly media  have to play an important role in character building of the public .it have to transmit true Islamic values among the public related to religion. It have to create a positive image of Islam in western world that Islam means peace and Muslims are not Terrorists.

Recent statistics shows that the viewer ship of Islamic channels have increased now. People these days are more interested in getting information about the religion as television is now found in every house in urban as well as rural areas.

One of the most important elements of any programme is its authenticity. as the demand of these programs and the channels are increasing many channels are designing Islamic programs with out taking care of its accuracy. People who don’t know about religion were called and doing programs related to Islam and they are transmitting wrong information about religion, which is not only bad for them but also for the people who are watching and believing on that. People these days are using religion for the fulfilment of there purpose and they are convincing people regarding their point of view by saying that’s its in our religion as the people don’t have the knowledge about their religion they are following them blindly so they are exploiting people in the name of religion.

It is the authenticity and credibility by which any programme gains popularity and if the people concern wont pay attention to it they will lose their viewer ship and also their reputition.special attention should be paid in making programme related to religion because by these programmes people are getting education regarding religion.

There is lake of educated Islamic channels as well due to which people are not getting enough or complete knowledge regarding their religion .for a country like where social problems are increasing very fast the need of an hour is to educate people regarding the teaching of Islam for the purpose dedicated religious channels should come up and guide the common man regarding religion. In order to remove these social upheavals more religious channels should come up with the true teaching of Islam with the aim to provide the public with the full understanding of Islam.

When we talk about the electronic mediums we realise that its not a hidden truth anymore that the most important medium used for communication these days is the internet .the internet have an important role in Islamic media as well but there are so many controversies regarding to the websites related to Islam in Pakistan because people are of the opinion that some websites are not educating people regarding to the true teaching of the Islam and some are doing propaganda against Islam and encouraging wrong concept related to Islam .some people are of the views that there are some websites which are owned by the non Muslim and some websites which are providing the people with the complete knowledge of Islam their main target is the youth but they are very few. Websites have very important role to play, as Internet these days is a very popular medium for interactions. These Islamic websites can play a very important and positive role in order to guide the people with the correct knowledge of Islam but there are only few, which are educating the people with the accurate information about religion. Mostly websites are not playing its due role. As Internet is a powerful media and it is a platform by which these websites can remove all the misconceptions related to Islam and can work for the welfare of the Muslims.

When we compared modern media with the Islamic media we see that it is not representing Islam. These days media is so much influenced by the western and the other societies media that they are neglecting their own values, culture and norms. Currently the basic aim of the media organizations is to earn as much as they can without taking care of the content of their programs. Previously we saw that the media pays much more attention to the content and they showed in their dramas our culture, norms and our Islamic values but recently they paid no attention to these things and design programs inspired by other culture due to which society is facing problems. We see these days the respect of parents and others are diminishing and social problems are now on rise. In these circumstances Islamic media can play a significant role the betterment of the society.

And end of the story is, the control and owner ship of Islamic media should be in the hand of people who have the correct knowledge of Islam rather than those who don’t know any thing about religion. a person with the better knowledge of Islam can able to control the content if any thing wrong in it .those people have the complete knowledge about the religion should be called and the control and ownership should be give to the people having good knowledge about Islam they should be given freedom by the government to talk about the issues which are sensitive but with responsibility and government should keep an eye on the programmes made by them .the government should punish those who are providing wrong information to the people.