Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 18 The Sixteenth Greater Sin : Singing Singing and music during weddings
Singing and music during weddings
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Singing and music during weddings
Subject to the following Three conditions some of the Mujtahids have allowed women to sing on the occasion of marriages.
1. The first condition is that no grown-up men should be able to hear the singing. Not even those who are mahram (under the prohibited degree).
2. Secondly, the songs must not be loud and also must not be based on false statements.
3. And lastly, the singing must not be accompanied with any kind of music.
A few scholars have permitted playing of the small tambourine (tambourine is a drum with skin on only one of its sides). Shahīd al-Thani and Muhaqqiq al-Thani say that tambourine could be played in a wedding if it does not have tinkles around it.
However, precaution is desirable and hence on the occasion of weddings also women should avoid singing; the playing of tambourine should also be avoided. Shaykh Ansari (r.a.) quotes ShahÄ«d al-Thani in the book, Makasib and Sayyid Murtadha says in his book WasÄ«la that, “Precaution is the way to salvation.”
