What is the ruling on using acting and theater in spreading the call?
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The questioner : Is it documentary or based on independent legal reasoning, and what is your opinion of those who spread the call through acting on the stage and wish to use it in the call?
The Shaykh : This is part of imitating the disbelievers, so acting is not permissible in Islam, because this acting is the work of the disbelievers. We have spoken much about the prohibition by the Messenger (peace be upon him) of imitating them and his command to differ from them. The last thing you heard in this regard was that the word "ala" is brought, and "ala" is foreign, so you must replace it with "ala", this particle of attention is Arabic.
Acting is a Western, disbelieving means. They do not have what the Muslims have of admonitions and stories that our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) narrates in the Qur'an or that our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) narrates in the authentic hadiths, such that this collection of texts depicts many events by which Muslims are satisfied and they become content with them, dispensing with acting. And this acting, in addition to being from the customs of the disbelievers, I am pleased with the saying of one of the Syrian writers who used to say: "That this Islam came detailed according to the beliefs, ideas, and tastes of the Muslims, so these plays performed by the disbelievers do not suit them, because they were tailored according to their tastes, their customs, their traditions, and their disbelief, as the Exalted said in the Qur'an:[At-Tawbah 9:29] So the point is: [At-Tawbah 9:29] ", so these plays were tailored for those people. This Syrian writer gave an example like a garment tailored for a person of moderate height and moderate build, so if a tight garment is brought to him, he cannot wear it, or if a loose garment is brought to him, it becomes a mockery. So Islam is what suits the Muslims with all its rulings. Plays are an imitation of the Europeans, and Muslims should be content with everything of this kind, especially as I mentioned earlier that much falsehood and lying occurs in plays, and they openly admit to it so that the play is cohesive, taking each other by the throats - they claim - and this, as we said, is either free mixing between men and women or at least some men imitating women, and this imitation alone is sufficient to be a reason for prohibiting these plays.
The questioner : The image of the bald one and the leper, and he says: Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) sent this angel to be a lesson, and are these plays a lesson?
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!! And who sent them?!
The questioner : Their Lord.
The Shaykh : This is part of imitating the disbelievers, so acting is not permissible in Islam, because this acting is the work of the disbelievers. We have spoken much about the prohibition by the Messenger (peace be upon him) of imitating them and his command to differ from them. The last thing you heard in this regard was that the word "ala" is brought, and "ala" is foreign, so you must replace it with "ala", this particle of attention is Arabic.
Acting is a Western, disbelieving means. They do not have what the Muslims have of admonitions and stories that our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) narrates in the Qur'an or that our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) narrates in the authentic hadiths, such that this collection of texts depicts many events by which Muslims are satisfied and they become content with them, dispensing with acting. And this acting, in addition to being from the customs of the disbelievers, I am pleased with the saying of one of the Syrian writers who used to say: "That this Islam came detailed according to the beliefs, ideas, and tastes of the Muslims, so these plays performed by the disbelievers do not suit them, because they were tailored according to their tastes, their customs, their traditions, and their disbelief, as the Exalted said in the Qur'an:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
قاتلوا الذين لا يؤمنون بالله ولا باليوم الآخر ولا يحرِّمون ما حرم الله ورسولُه ولا يدينون دين الحق من الذين أوتوا الكتاب حتى يعطوا الجزية عن يد وهم صاغرونand who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful
ولا يحرمون ما حرم الله ورسولُهThe questioner : The image of the bald one and the leper, and he says: Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) sent this angel to be a lesson, and are these plays a lesson?
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!! And who sent them?!
The questioner : Their Lord.