The Ruling on Actors Portraying the Roles of Disbelievers and Women
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: Some actors play the role of a Christian, or that he is married to another wife,
The Shaykh:
What does he play?
The questioner:
Some actors play the role of a Christian, or that he marries another woman, and he says that this is acting. Is what he said correct?
The Shaykh:
Imitating the disbelievers is not permissible. Whoever imitates a people is one of them. The actor who portrays disbelievers imitates them, so the hadith applies to him. Likewise, the one who portrays a woman: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the men who imitate women and the women who imitate men. So the one who imitates a woman’s voice or movements, or wears a woman’s clothing, is cursed by the explicit text of the hadith regarding the one who imitates a woman. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: Some actors play the role of a Christian, or that he is married to another wife,
The Shaykh:
What does he play?
The questioner:
Some actors play the role of a Christian, or that he marries another woman, and he says that this is acting. Is what he said correct?
The Shaykh:
Imitating the disbelievers is not permissible. Whoever imitates a people is one of them. The actor who portrays disbelievers imitates them, so the hadith applies to him. Likewise, the one who portrays a woman: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the men who imitate women and the women who imitate men. So the one who imitates a woman’s voice or movements, or wears a woman’s clothing, is cursed by the explicit text of the hadith regarding the one who imitates a woman. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [496 -954] يقوم بعض الممثلين بدور نصراني، أو أنه متزوج بزوجة أخرى، ويقول: إن هذا تمثيل... — youtube.com
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