Music and Entertainment
1,388 questions
What is the ruling on watching Gulf and Bedouin TV series?
Is teaching music forbidden, despite its medical and social benefits and its being a source of livelihood?
Is music and singing permissible or forbidden? And does its ruling differ between men and women?
Is it permissible to stand at attention before the military leader, with music accompanying his entrance and exit, knowing that absence leads to investigation, deduction, and imprisonment?
Is it permissible to download videos from YouTube for entertainment or learning, after removing the music from them, with the intention of depriving the content creator of profit or benefit from the views?
Is it permissible to create a website for music and receive an amount for its management, while donating the remainder, with the intention of benefiting the religion with these funds?
Is it permissible to use an ambulance siren as an alarm to wake up for Fajr prayer, knowing that it is very loud?
Is it permissible to sell audiotapes of songs and Islamic sermons?
Is it permissible to sing along to previously heard songs with musical instruments, or just musical instruments, knowing that some of them were sung by a woman?
What is the ruling on acting in Hollywood, especially in films with moral objectives?
Is it permissible for someone who vowed to repent if she succeeded in her studies to be released from her vow, knowing that she did not intend it as an act of piety and is facing difficulty fulfilling it? And is it permissible for her to fast three days secretly as expiation for this vow?
What is the ruling on music in Islam, and is it forbidden if used for dancing and the like, but permissible otherwise?
What is the ruling on marketing as a study and a profession, and is it permissible to use moans that resemble music in advertisements?
Is a player considered a publisher of a war game that contains Sharia prohibitions if the game automatically portrays gameplay from each player's perspective? Is he sinful for playing it? Is he sinful if other players publish video clips of the gameplay with music? And what is the ruling on playing with someone who uses a plane with a cross on it?
What is the reason for the prohibition of music, and is a person sinful for sitting with those who listen to songs in the car if he tries to avert his hearing from it?
What is the ruling on one who works in the field of art?
Is it permissible to interrupt the prayer to silence a ringing mobile phone if its ringing is prolonged, for fear of disturbing the worshipers and disrupting the congregation, especially if its ringtone is music or singing?
Is it permissible to bring a music band to wedding parties based on the fatwa of a mufti who allowed it for wedding celebrations?
What is the ruling on playing PlayStation games that contain music and feature real or cartoon characters who may be nude?
What is the ruling on selling a company to another mixed company that borrows with usury or uses music in its advertisements, and does the ruling on selling grapes to one who makes wine from them apply to this?
Is singing and music unlawful (haram), and how can one help someone who studies music?
Is it permissible to own a store dedicated to renting out films (that are not obscene, violent, horrifying, Western, etc.)?
What is the ruling on publishing video clips that call to Islam and contain women or music, and what is the ruling on publishing the frequency of an English-language religious channel that shows veiled women, with the exception of the face and hands, and contains music?
How do I deal with my 13-year-old daughter who wants to listen to music and follow TV series, given my desire for her to be religiously committed, and should I prevent her completely while fearing her alienation?