Music and Entertainment
1,388 questions
What is the criterion for prohibited ringtones (such as a landline phone ringtone, a mobile phone ringtone with indecent singing, a regular doorbell, car horns blown for joy or victory, and a school bell)?
Should one advise someone committing a sin (such as listening to music) while they are engaged in the sin or after they have finished?
Is attending university graduation parties among the forbidden acts?
What are all the prohibited musical instruments, and what are their names?
What is the ruling on exercising in a hall that plays music, knowing that advice to the management was not accepted, and is it permissible to wear MP3 headphones during exercise to avoid the music?
What was poetry like in early Islam? And what were its characteristics?
Is he who publishes edited songs, free of music and obscenities, sinful if someone else searches for them and finds them with music and listens to them?
Is it forbidden to watch men on television without lust when watching the news or any other program?
What is the ruling on a husband and wife listening to music together in their home, and what is the ruling on a woman singing for her husband or children?
What is the ruling on holding festivals to which singers, actors, and poets are invited from within and outside the country, and what is the ruling on spending on them and attending them?
Is going to children's amusement parks, whose games contain pictures or statues of animals, included in the ruling on statues forbidden by Sharia, and therefore is it impermissible to go to them?
What is the ruling on songs accompanied by music?
Is it permissible to provide students with the names of online teachers, even if their lessons contain music that could be avoided?
What is the ruling on using music in radio or television programs as an interlude or as background for a documentary, and is this considered among the types of hearing music, not listening to it?
Should a person who has become religiously guided send cartoon American songs that he had promised to export to someone before his guidance?
What is the ruling on creating short promotional games for a specific product, to be circulated in universities with the distribution of prizes, provided they are free of impermissible elements, music, and images of living beings?
Is it permissible to direct Zakat funds to purchase tickets for a charitable musical concert, knowing that its proceeds will go to patients at the Cancer Institute?
What is the ruling on organizing a fashion show among women?
Is it permissible to work in a shop that sells video game consoles and games, such as PlayStation and Nintendo, and game CDs, knowing that it has been the sole source of livelihood for the past 12 years?
Is it permissible to own wooden decorative pieces that produce musical sounds when struck by the wind?
What is the ruling on contributing to the construction of a wedding hall (lounge) by supplying them with building materials, knowing that some of the celebrations held therein do not adhere to the provisions of Sharia and include Sharia violations?
What is the ruling on gymnastics for males?
Is it permissible for a programmer to produce educational programs for his private use that are similar to programs he produces in his original work, but in a different way?
What is the ruling on remaining engaged and refusing the bride's family's request for singing and music at the wedding, knowing that the girl is religious and the suitor desires her?