Is it permissible for women to sing at weddings?
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The questioner : ... they hold celebrations ... meaning they allow their women to sing, citing the hadith of the maidservant, saying: "Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ... the maidservant with the permission of Allah?"
The Shaykh : What? What?
The questioner : They mean that singing is permissible for women.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Based on the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, no, of course, the last word I said ... .
The questioner : The last word I said was that, God forbid, (peace and blessings be upon him) would command ... .
The student : God forbid, God forbid, God forbid.
The Shaykh : God forbid.
The student : Here, in our Shaykh's inclination.
Another student: In our Shaykh's inclination, yes.
Another student : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So now, what is your opinion, meaning ... singing for women, some of them for others, meaning?
The Shaykh : We say if the women consider themselves maidservants in any sense, then let them sing.
The questioner : Meaning, is this a matter specific to maidservants?
The Shaykh : Is the answer understood?
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : What Allah willed...
The student : The term "maidservant" in the language is used for the young girl, meaning the newborn, and it is used for the young woman in age, and it is used for the slave woman, and all of this came in the hadiths.
The Shaykh : So I do not think that free Muslim women would be pleased to consider themselves maidservants, slaves, or maidservants of young girls.
The student : And so, we were meaning ... specific to maidservants, not to free women.
The Shaykh : This is what we understand from the totality of what came in this topic.
The student : But there are people, teacher, something new came out, a religious women's group.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, what Allah willed.
The student : For a fee.
The Shaykh : ... .
The student : Eighty dinars, nasheeds.
The Shaykh : Nasheeds.
The Shaykh : What? What?
The questioner : They mean that singing is permissible for women.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Based on the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, no, of course, the last word I said ... .
The questioner : The last word I said was that, God forbid, (peace and blessings be upon him) would command ... .
The student : God forbid, God forbid, God forbid.
The Shaykh : God forbid.
The student : Here, in our Shaykh's inclination.
Another student: In our Shaykh's inclination, yes.
Another student : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So now, what is your opinion, meaning ... singing for women, some of them for others, meaning?
The Shaykh : We say if the women consider themselves maidservants in any sense, then let them sing.
The questioner : Meaning, is this a matter specific to maidservants?
The Shaykh : Is the answer understood?
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : What Allah willed...
The student : The term "maidservant" in the language is used for the young girl, meaning the newborn, and it is used for the young woman in age, and it is used for the slave woman, and all of this came in the hadiths.
The Shaykh : So I do not think that free Muslim women would be pleased to consider themselves maidservants, slaves, or maidservants of young girls.
The student : And so, we were meaning ... specific to maidservants, not to free women.
The Shaykh : This is what we understand from the totality of what came in this topic.
The student : But there are people, teacher, something new came out, a religious women's group.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, what Allah willed.
The student : For a fee.
The Shaykh : ... .
The student : Eighty dinars, nasheeds.
The Shaykh : Nasheeds.
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