The Ruling on Dancing
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Your Eminence! This is a question from some of the sisters asking about the ruling on dancing in general and in detail, particularly regarding dancing in an all-female setting, and what is indecent versus what is not! And is it befitting for a Muslim woman to do this?
Dancing is disliked in principle; however, if it involves Western dances and imitating disbelieving women, it becomes forbidden.By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Whoever imitates a people is one of them), and although it sometimes leads to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), the dancer may be a graceful, beautiful, young woman who tempts the women, even if she is among women, and the women may do things that indicate they have been tempted by her. And whatever is a cause of fitnah is prohibited.
This is the answer regarding the ruling on dancing.
The questioner: And if it is, O Shaykh, in the manner of the display that exists, or something similar to it,I mean: where a group of women line up, then take steps forward and steps back, and sway to the right and to the left?The Shaykh: We mean by dancing the kind where one sways completely, sometimes coming close to the ground, then rising up, then shaking to the right and to the left.
As for mere slight movement, this is not considered like the dancing we are referring to.
Dancing is disliked in principle; however, if it involves Western dances and imitating disbelieving women, it becomes forbidden.By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Whoever imitates a people is one of them), and although it sometimes leads to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), the dancer may be a graceful, beautiful, young woman who tempts the women, even if she is among women, and the women may do things that indicate they have been tempted by her. And whatever is a cause of fitnah is prohibited.
This is the answer regarding the ruling on dancing.
The questioner: And if it is, O Shaykh, in the manner of the display that exists, or something similar to it,I mean: where a group of women line up, then take steps forward and steps back, and sway to the right and to the left?The Shaykh: We mean by dancing the kind where one sways completely, sometimes coming close to the ground, then rising up, then shaking to the right and to the left.
As for mere slight movement, this is not considered like the dancing we are referring to.