Music and Entertainment
1,388 questions
Is a person sinful for entering shops or riding means of transport that have music if they are compelled to do so to fulfill their needs?
Is the money of a television director halal or haram if his programs contain musical and mixed segments, and is it permissible to marry him?
Is the sin of one who openly commits a sin greater than the sin of one who secretly commits it? What is the ruling on someone who listens to music loudly, such that those around him can hear it? Is he sinful for listening to it and for those around him listening to it? Does this fall under inviting to evil and misguidance?
Am I sinful because my brother did not respond to my request to stop playing music in the same room after I forbade him and informed my parents beforehand, and what should I do, and is it obligatory for me to leave the room when he plays music?
Is it permissible for children to participate in end-of-year parties that include dancing and singing with music in international language schools?
Is downloading religious songs by Al-Afasy and Naqshbandi, without music, and putting them in short YouTube videos with the intention of benefiting people and providing value without seeking profit, considered a violation of copyright?
What is the ruling on participating in a graduation ceremony that includes music, with the intention of staying away from the music and disapproving of it in one's heart, merely for the sake of joining friends and celebrating graduation?
Is playing video games that include sorcerers or skeletons, with the prohibited music removed, considered a sin?
Is it permissible to sell a game account that contains accumulated superiority points?
Is it permissible to attend an engagement party where there is music and singing, while playing the Quran loudly through speakers to avoid hearing the music, in order to please one's mother and avoid her intense anger, knowing that attempts to advise them have failed?
Is expiation (kaffarah) obligatory for someone who swore not to go to a party with music, then intended to go, but did not actually go?
What is the ruling on money earned from producing video advertisements that contain music and shots of women, and from giving photography courses?
Is it permissible for a woman to accept invitations to weddings, engagements, graduation parties, birthday parties, or marriage celebrations, if these occasions involve intermingling, music, ostentatious display (tabarruj), and dancing? And what should she do if she fears people's displeasure for not attending?
Is what I did toward my uncle – who asked me for the computer to watch a movie containing music, so I refused, and he became angry with me – Islamically correct, and what should I do now and in the future, and is it permissible to reconcile with him?
What is the ruling on sitting with one's mother when she watches channels that show movies and series containing music and seductive images, and what is your guidance for repelling ostentation and obsessive thoughts when hearing praise, and is refraining from sitting with cousins who backbite considered a severing of kinship ties?
Is it permissible to work on a project for a famous search engine that relies on listening to specific words (such as: songs, music, movies, and obscene language) and verifying their correct spelling to link the sound of the letter to its written form, knowing that the declared goal is to link the sound of the letter to its written form and not the word itself? And is it permissible for a Muslim to overlook hearing obscene language in this work?
What is the ruling on a woman working in editing TV series that are free of pornographic scenes and anything below that? Is it forbidden or permissible?
What is the ruling on paying a sum of money for a university cultural program that includes poetry and music? And is this considered participation in sin, even if the money is for food? How should one respond to them? And is it permissible to donate to them despite the predominance of inappropriate things in the program?
Do the following actions lead to disbelief: preferring to listen to music over the Qur'an, praying to get it over with, feeling hatred towards a Qur'anic verse due to the obsessive fear of disbelief, and saying about a Qur'anic verse, "If one of humanity had said it, I would not have believed it, but since Allah is the one who said it, I believe it"?
Is it permissible for a mother to watch cartoon films with her children if they are free of music and unlawful things?
What is the ruling on one who says that some matters are permissible, which the scholars have unanimously agreed are forbidden, such as music?
What is the ruling on electronic games that contain ghosts with whom the hero speaks strange words, and does playing them constitute disbelief, even if the player knows that it is false and dislikes the scenes?
Is it permissible to listen to foreign songs to strengthen the English language?
Is the questioner sinful when images of unveiled women appear or music is heard from the television which he helped his father set up, or is he absolved of responsibility by advising his father?