Beating the drum and wedding parties featuring poets
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Question:
The questioner says: You know that in these days, occasions are frequent, and wedding parties are held where a group of poets is brought in, and the drum is beaten. What is the ruling on beating the drum and attending these parties?
Answer:
This is amusement and play, and it is not permissible. Amusement, play, singing, and dancing are not permissible, and even worse than that is boasting between tribes, cursing others, and praising others. All of this, all of this, is among the harmful matters for society. So one must avoid this. The wedding feast was not established for poets, nor for these matters. It was established only to announce the marriage. It was established to announce the marriage so that people know that so-and-so has married so-and-so. So it is a means of announcing the marriage, no more and no less, and it must not be exploited for forbidden matters, amusement, play, and falsehood. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: You know that in these days, occasions are frequent, and wedding parties are held where a group of poets is brought in, and the drum is beaten. What is the ruling on beating the drum and attending these parties?
Answer:
This is amusement and play, and it is not permissible. Amusement, play, singing, and dancing are not permissible, and even worse than that is boasting between tribes, cursing others, and praising others. All of this, all of this, is among the harmful matters for society. So one must avoid this. The wedding feast was not established for poets, nor for these matters. It was established only to announce the marriage. It was established to announce the marriage so that people know that so-and-so has married so-and-so. So it is a means of announcing the marriage, no more and no less, and it must not be exploited for forbidden matters, amusement, play, and falsehood. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب ما جاء أن سبب كفر بني آدم وتركهم دينهم هو الغلو في الصالحين — islamhouse.com (1:16:16)
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