The Leniency in Paying Money to Singers and the Role of the Subjects and the Rulers
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The questioner:
Shaykh, may Allah forgive you. Regarding Shaykh al-Tantawi, a questioner asked on the program *Junnun 'ala al-Darb* that they brought a singer and paid her fifty thousand. Is this lawful or forbidden? The answer was nothing but that he said, "If Umm Kulthum had come and sung, she would not have earned this amount in one night." Is this a sufficient answer?
The Shaykh:
All of this is a type of leniency and is forbidden. It means denying this. It means denying the evil, which is an ugly act, yes.
Another questioner:
The common people are heedless of it. Whether we live in this glory or we walk.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
Another questioner:
Also, the noble Companions, when they embraced Islam in word and deed, did they become the masters of the world? They owned nothing but the mountain, the mountain, and the desert. And we now, we Muslims, mean we speak about Islam and we are ourselves, so Islam has no share in these matters but in ourselves. So when a person embraces Islam in word and deed, Allah is the Greatest, he purifies the situation he walks in. And the West now, which supports culture, may your life be long, if you lift their industries from them, nothing would remain but a society of animals. But they are misguided behind their industries and inventions, and people claim culture behind them, and they are ignorant of their Islamic history and the glory of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And the one who does not understand the biography of the Messenger is, by the permission of Allah, like...
The Shaykh:
These lectures and these seminars are all for explaining the biography of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). These lectures and seminars, my son, are all for explaining the biography of the Messenger, and the call to the direction of Islam. That the shepherd is responsible for his flock.
Another questioner:
And they should understand about them, for they were working at that time. So if we find here in this program of this country the khara' (corruption) in its naked form and its corruption from tools and series and things of corruption that it turns away from in this night, a lost one from the flock prevents this corruption, and they must start with themselves in marketing this corruption.
The Shaykh:
This one is excused, my brother. We ask Allah to guide everyone.
Another questioner:
This country.
The Shaykh:
I say this is known, but what prevents it. What prevents the advice of the subjects, that they warn. And if the rulers prevent the thing, it ends. We ask Allah to grant them success and guide them to the right. But the error of the ruler in something in any place does not justify the subjects to commit a sin. Even if the ruler errs, even if the prince errs, even if the judge errs, it does not justify the other to commit a sin. On that is his sin, and on the doer after that is his sin. May Allah guide everyone.
Shaykh, may Allah forgive you. Regarding Shaykh al-Tantawi, a questioner asked on the program *Junnun 'ala al-Darb* that they brought a singer and paid her fifty thousand. Is this lawful or forbidden? The answer was nothing but that he said, "If Umm Kulthum had come and sung, she would not have earned this amount in one night." Is this a sufficient answer?
The Shaykh:
All of this is a type of leniency and is forbidden. It means denying this. It means denying the evil, which is an ugly act, yes.
Another questioner:
The common people are heedless of it. Whether we live in this glory or we walk.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
Another questioner:
Also, the noble Companions, when they embraced Islam in word and deed, did they become the masters of the world? They owned nothing but the mountain, the mountain, and the desert. And we now, we Muslims, mean we speak about Islam and we are ourselves, so Islam has no share in these matters but in ourselves. So when a person embraces Islam in word and deed, Allah is the Greatest, he purifies the situation he walks in. And the West now, which supports culture, may your life be long, if you lift their industries from them, nothing would remain but a society of animals. But they are misguided behind their industries and inventions, and people claim culture behind them, and they are ignorant of their Islamic history and the glory of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And the one who does not understand the biography of the Messenger is, by the permission of Allah, like...
The Shaykh:
These lectures and these seminars are all for explaining the biography of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). These lectures and seminars, my son, are all for explaining the biography of the Messenger, and the call to the direction of Islam. That the shepherd is responsible for his flock.
Another questioner:
And they should understand about them, for they were working at that time. So if we find here in this program of this country the khara' (corruption) in its naked form and its corruption from tools and series and things of corruption that it turns away from in this night, a lost one from the flock prevents this corruption, and they must start with themselves in marketing this corruption.
The Shaykh:
This one is excused, my brother. We ask Allah to guide everyone.
Another questioner:
This country.
The Shaykh:
I say this is known, but what prevents it. What prevents the advice of the subjects, that they warn. And if the rulers prevent the thing, it ends. We ask Allah to grant them success and guide them to the right. But the error of the ruler in something in any place does not justify the subjects to commit a sin. Even if the ruler errs, even if the prince errs, even if the judge errs, it does not justify the other to commit a sin. On that is his sin, and on the doer after that is his sin. May Allah guide everyone.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 43 — archive.org (18:35)
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