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Fifteenth Greater Sin: Music
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Chapter 17
Fifteenth Greater Sin: Music
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Playing instruments of music is a Greater Sin. It is HarÄm to play instruments like guitar, piano, tambourine, drums etc. Listening to music is also a Greater Sin. Music as a Greater sin is reported by Fazl ibn ShazÄn from Imam ‘Ali ar-RiÄa (a.s.):
“And to be engrossed in musical instruments is also a Greater Sin.”
All the Mujtahids are unanimous in their opinion that the manufacture, sale and purchase of musical instruments is HarÄm and the income derived from musical activity is also HarÄm. The transactions involving these (instruments) are invalid. It is HarÄm even to keep instruments of music in one’s possession. It is obligatory to destroy them. This is revealed in a lengthy tradition of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) as recorded in the book “Tohafful UqÅ«l”. Similarly, Shaykh Hurr al-Ä€mili records the following tradition from Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.):
“The Almighty Allah has prohibited the manufacture of all such things that are exclusively used in HarÄm ways; and things that only create evil like pipe, flute, chess and all types of instruments of gambling, images, statues. The manufacture of all such articles is HarÄm.”
Imam (a.s.) concluded, “Then even learning to sing or play music and teaching it, to sing and play music, to be paid for these things or to be in any way engrossed in these vices is HarÄm.”
