The Ruling on Popular 'Aradat

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What is the ruling on the popular *al-‘Ardah* performance, which is accompanied by the *zayr* and Nabati poetry that is not free from invective, romantic verse, praise, and criticism? May Allah reward you with good.
The popular *al-‘Ardah*, if it has no cause, is a form of frivolity and amusement. If it has a cause, such as the days of the festival, then there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with people playing with swords, rifles, and the like, or beating the hand drum. However, the drum, the *zayr*, and songs that contain invective and cursing are forbidden, and it is not permissible for a person to attend such performances. It is obligatory to forbid them and to advise people not to attend them, because if a person attends gatherings of what is wrong, he shares in their sin even if he does not do it himself.By the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He):

And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them. Indeed Allah will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers in Hell all together -

وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ يُكْفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلا تَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذاً مِثْلُهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَامِعُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْكَافِرِينَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ جَمِيعاً

[al-Nisa: 140].

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