Music and Entertainment
1,388 questions
What is the ruling on listening to narrative or historical radio series?
ما حكم مشاهدة أنمي بقصص جميلة عن الأمومة والصداقة، إذا كانت ملابس الفتيات فيه فوق الركبة وليست فاتنة، ويحتوي على موسيقى يمكن خفض صوتها؟
Is it permissible to work on a website that publishes various video clips, some of which feature women indistinctly, with the intention of creating a personal website that adheres to Islamic guidelines, yet may contain video clips with musical instruments (ma'azif) to attract an audience and protect them from prohibited content on other sites, and what is the legitimate standard for judging actions that involve minor harm?
What is the ruling on publishing beneficial religious and non-religious video clips that contain music or images of women?
What is the ruling on listening to sheilat that contain modified voices to make them melodious?
Is it permissible to go to a gym where there is music – while wearing headphones to listen to the Holy Quran – for a limited period with the aim of losing weight, due to feeling a necessity and urgent need for it?
Is it forbidden to work as a DJ playing music at wedding halls at night, out of necessity?
What is the authenticity of Sheikh Al-Moghamisi's fatwa permitting light music in news and programs due to it not arousing desires?
What is the ruling on speaking about something permissible in a game that includes something forbidden, such as speaking about winning a race in a racing game that includes music?
What is the ruling on preparing sweets for a wedding that includes music and songs in the marital home? Is the one who does so sinful, even if intending to honor their mother? And is there a sin incurred by refusing to prepare them, thus incurring the mother's anger?
Is it permissible to listen to foreign (non-Arabic) songs with the music removed, so that one only hears the voice of the singer or the band?
What is the ruling on creating a website for uploading videos, and what is the responsibility of the website owner and management?
Is a person held accountable if they post a picture or retweet something permissible from a program that contains something forbidden, like music, and then someone comes to know the name of the program through what was published and watches it?
Is my effort to convince my fiancée not to hold a large women's wedding party—due to its containing forbidden things—considered an act for which I will be rewarded, or am I overstepping my bounds?
What is the meaning of the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: "That which separates lawful from unlawful is the duff and the voice in marriage"? And what is the meaning of "duff" and "ghazal" mentioned in the context of permitting chanting and ghazal at weddings?
What is the ruling on working as a teaching assistant at the Higher Institute of Music and as a violin player in studios for one who seeks lawful earnings and avoids nightclubs and playing music for women?
What is the ruling on wedding parties that are extremely loud, involve mixing of sexes with dancing and indecent clothing, and are held in the street, thus attracting strangers and drunkards? Is the sin for these (actions) upon the organizers of the party? What is the ruling on attending these parties and dancing in them? What if the groom is a brother? What if I am asked to host such a party? What is the ruling on flogging the back or chest at these parties?
Is music the basis for the prohibition of singing? Is it permissible to listen to programs that contain music, such as news, documentaries, and poems? And why did God condemn poets in Surat Ash-Shu'ara (The Poets)?
Is someone sinful for publishing a video clip with the intention of advising and warning against fraud, when it contains intermittent music from a game that he only noticed a month after uploading, and the clip has a large number of views?
Are the mentioned pieces of information regarding the views of the jurisprudential schools of thought (Hanafi, Maliki, Hanbali, Shafi'i, and Ibn Hazm) concerning the ruling on musical instruments accurate, and is music considered a matter of permissible disagreement?
What is the ruling on watching a cartoon series called "Detective Conan," which tells the story of crimes discovered by a young man who transformed into a child?
What is the ruling on listening to Western songs, and what is the ruling on singing them if they do not contain words of disbelief? Do words like "prayer" or "sin" depend on intention? And what is the ruling on one who says "I feel like I am in Paradise" or likens this world to it?
What is the ruling on watching the program "Conan," which contains songs, girls, and music that cannot be deleted, knowing that there is benefit in it?
What is the ruling on someone who rides with a person who plays songs, music, and drums, when he does not wish to hear it; should he remain silent or turn it off, or is it permissible for him to listen because he does not desire it?