Prohibition of the mixing of men and women in parties and treatment with music

Q: What is the ruling on mixed-gender farewell parties, and what is the ruling on treatment with music?


A: Parties should not involve the mixing of men and women; rather, it is obligatory that men’s parties be for men alone, and women’s parties be for women alone. As for the mixing, it is an abomination and a practice of the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance; we seek refuge in Allah from that.
As for treatment with music, it has no basis; rather, it is a practice of the foolish. Music is not a cure, but rather a disease. It is one of the instruments of amusement, and all of it is a disease for the hearts and a cause for the deviation of morals. The beneficial and soothing treatment for souls is to have the patients listen to the Qur'an, beneficial sermons, and beneficial hadiths. As for treatment with music and other instruments of pleasure, it accustoms them to falsehood and adds to their illness, and it decreases their listening to the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and beneficial sermons. There is no power and no strength except with Allah.