What is the ruling on clapping and stamping for the purpose of cheering and the like?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is the ruling on clapping and stamping for the purpose of cheering and the like?
Answer:
This is not permissible; this is the practice of the polytheists, this is the practice of the polytheists, and we are forbidden from imitating the disbelievers and the polytheists. Also, clapping involves imitating women, because clapping is for women, and a man does not imitate a woman. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursedSahih al-Bukhari 5885 Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is the ruling on clapping and stamping for the purpose of cheering and the like?
Answer:
This is not permissible; this is the practice of the polytheists, this is the practice of the polytheists, and we are forbidden from imitating the disbelievers and the polytheists. Also, clapping involves imitating women, because clapping is for women, and a man does not imitate a woman. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) cursed those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners) of women and those women who are in the similitude (assume the manners) of men.
صلى الله عليه وسلم المتشبهين من الرجال بالنساء والمتشبهات من النساء بالرجال،
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [627 -858] ما حكم المكاء والتصدية من أجل التشجيع وغيره؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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