The ruling on the drum that is beaten and the ruling on playing with rifles and composing satirical poems
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Your Eminence! In some tribes, they have customs, for example, during the festivals. A group of them comes with a poem, then a group of them gathers around the drum,They bring this drum: which is a copper pot covered with camel skin. They light a fire underneath it until it heats up, then they beat it. A group comes out carrying rifles and circles around it, then they shoot. Then a second group comes, and so on.So we went to the tribes and advised them, and they said: We want evidence from one of the scholars in detail; and we are ready with you to prevent this thing?
May Allah reward them with good. As for the matter of the drum, it is not permissible; the drum is not permissible to use; because it is one of the instruments of amusement that was not excepted in the Sunnah. As for playing with rifles, there is nothing wrong with it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) approved of the Abyssinians when they were playing with their spears in the mosque,And he said: (so that they may know that there is ease in our religion) But what is permitted on the days of the festivals is not permitted on other days. The days of the festivals are days of joy and days of happiness, so there is nothing wrong for people to do this, and to display strength and vitality, and to play with rifles and swords, on the condition that there is no danger. It is not permissible to expose oneself to danger.
The questioner: What is the ruling on the poems?The Shaykh: There is nothing wrong with the poems. What do they say?The questioner: Some of them satirize others.
The Shaykh: As for if some of them satirize others, then this is not permissible; because this falls under the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Cursing a Muslim is open sinfulness) , and even if the majority of the time some of them satirize others by way of joking, but perhaps a word that is a joke for one person is serious for others. It is possible that this person disparages this person jokingly, but this word is taken, even in future generations, as being serious.
The questioner: Do they jump with the rifles?The Shaykh: There is no obstacle to it,Meaning: if they are jumping; because this indicates strength and vitality.
May Allah reward them with good. As for the matter of the drum, it is not permissible; the drum is not permissible to use; because it is one of the instruments of amusement that was not excepted in the Sunnah. As for playing with rifles, there is nothing wrong with it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) approved of the Abyssinians when they were playing with their spears in the mosque,And he said: (so that they may know that there is ease in our religion) But what is permitted on the days of the festivals is not permitted on other days. The days of the festivals are days of joy and days of happiness, so there is nothing wrong for people to do this, and to display strength and vitality, and to play with rifles and swords, on the condition that there is no danger. It is not permissible to expose oneself to danger.
The questioner: What is the ruling on the poems?The Shaykh: There is nothing wrong with the poems. What do they say?The questioner: Some of them satirize others.
The Shaykh: As for if some of them satirize others, then this is not permissible; because this falls under the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Cursing a Muslim is open sinfulness) , and even if the majority of the time some of them satirize others by way of joking, but perhaps a word that is a joke for one person is serious for others. It is possible that this person disparages this person jokingly, but this word is taken, even in future generations, as being serious.
The questioner: Do they jump with the rifles?The Shaykh: There is no obstacle to it,Meaning: if they are jumping; because this indicates strength and vitality.