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Is cheating permissible in a music exam when one does not listen to music during distance learning?

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Learning and listening to music are forbidden, due to the hadiths that indicate the prohibition of musical instruments, such as the hadith of Abu Malik al-Ash'ari, which mentions that some people will legitimize musical instruments, and the hadith of Anas ibn Malik about "two sounds that are cursed in this world and the hereafter: a wind instrument during a blessing, and wailing during a calamity." Furthermore, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade alcohol, gambling, and the kubah (drum). Scholars have unanimously agreed on the prohibition of listening to music due to its effect in arousing souls and enticing them to the forbidden, and because it is a symbol of people of immorality and alcohol. If music is imposed as a subject, there is no impediment to cheating in its exam because it is a forbidden subject imposed by coercion.

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