Why Are Music and Dance Prohibit in Islam_ Dr Zakir Naik

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00:00Good evening, my name is Nikhila, I'm a dental student.

00:05My information about Islam is really less, whatever I know is because of my friends.

00:10My question is, I've read this poster, they say that music and dance is like not accepted

00:17in Islam.

00:18Why is that?

00:19I mean, you cannot say it's generally also you can, you know, listen to music or singing

00:23or dance or whatever.

00:25You cannot just say like only for Bharatnatyam or for any form of dance we have music.

00:30In general music also we have you, when you praise God, when you show your emotions.

00:34Why is it said that music and dance is not allowed?

00:37Sister, I have a question that why is it in Islam that music and dance are prohibited?

00:44First I'll come to music, then I'll go to the dance.

00:47As far as music is concerned, our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said that the musical

00:53instruments as a general rule, they are prohibited except to give permission for the daf, that's

01:00the one-sided open drum, called as daf or dafli.

01:04Besides that, the Prophet prohibited because if you analyze, it takes a person away from

01:11the remembrance of Allah s.w.t., from the remembrance of Almighty God.

01:15That is the reason when we hear these, you know, film songs, whether it be Hindi, it

01:18may be Malayali or Tamil or whatever it is, you find that in these film songs, most of

01:24the words that are mentioned, they are far away from reality.

01:28You know the hero tells the heroine, I'll get the moon for you, I'll get the star for

01:35you.

01:36We know it's not possible.

01:37No man can get the star or the moon for his lover.

01:41But yet we keep on repeating because of the ambience, because of everything.

01:45So because of this, general rule is that the music does take a person away from Allah s.w.t.

01:52That is the reason our beloved Prophet prohibited musical instruments except for daf or as generally

01:59with your voice.

02:00For example, when a person recites the Quran, if he recites the Quran, his voice is good,

02:06that's permitted because that takes a person towards Allah s.w.t.

02:10The musical instruments along in the background do create a different ambience, otherwise

02:17singing per se, it is muba, optional, as long as the words of the song, they take you towards

02:27your creator Allah s.w.t.

02:29If the words of the song take you away from Allah s.w.t., even that type of song is prohibited.

02:34Now coming to the second part, why is dancing prohibited?

02:39There is no verse in the Quran or no hadith that I know of which says dancing per se is

02:45haram, but normally because people dance to show to the other people, you know we have

02:55dance performance on the stage, we have Bharat Natyam, now you are having Bharat Natyam on

03:01the stage and thousands are watching you, so normally in terms of the hijab reason,

03:05we wouldn't like to expose our ladies, our mothers, our sisters, our daughters on the

03:12stage and thousands of people looking at them, so any profession in which the body is used

03:20as a show, as to entertain the people, it is prohibited.

03:25That is the reason dancing in public or dancing in parties where we have opposite sex mixing,

03:33many a time the rules of dancing, they conflict with the rule of the Islamic Sharia.

03:40Normally when you have a dance, you have pairs, male and female and most of these pairs,

03:47that the girlfriend, boyfriend and you dance in front of other people, so because it breaks

03:52the system of Islamic hijab, that is the reason per se it is prohibited because it goes against

03:59the system of hijab, so you have to realize that many a time when you dance, you dance in public,

04:04you go out for parties and you move around, otherwise with you and your wife, you can

04:08do what you want as long as it doesn't go against the Sharia, alone in closed doors,

04:13husband and wife, what they want to do as long as it doesn't go against the rules of the Quran

04:17and Sahih Hadith, there is no problem, but because most of the time dancing exploits the body,

04:23it includes singing, dancing, you go on the stage and other people are watching,

04:27so it breaks the rules of Sharia, of the hijab and you can hear my video cassette,

04:31Women's Rights in Islam, Modernizing Outdated, which speaks in detail,

04:36why do we Muslims protect, why do we love, why do we revere our women folk,

04:41because we love our women, that is the reason we protect them and we don't want to exhibit them,

04:46that is the reason professions which involve singing in public or dancing or modelling,

04:52these professions are prohibited for a lady, hope that answers the question.

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