Sports, Entertainment and Music

QUESTION: Is it permissible to take pictures with actors/singers? What if they are of the same gender?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

17 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all! Taking photos with them endorses their evil and vice. You will be resurrected with those whom you love and associate yourself with on the day of judgement.

QUESTION: I have been collecting and selling sports cards, like hockey, basketball, and soccer stickers. I just now was looking through and noticed that these cards are just photos of players and are flat like a sticker, but in the photo some of the team logos on the players shirts are drawings of animals, some are not, and some of them have a crown as their logo

Sports, Entertainment and Music

09 Jul

ANSWER: It is not permissible to deal with such cards and sell them.

QUESTION: Sheikh, I am from Pakistan and here we have a custom in marriages that on barat when groom Comes to sit with his wife, bride’s sisters blocks his way and demand for money and he sit after paying, is it permissible to do so?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

25 Jun

ANSWER: Of course not! This is totally prohibited as it comes under free mixing.

QUESTION: You said selling on itch.io (previous question) was not permissible. What part of it makes it impermissible to use? The platform has no submission fee. The minimum amount for payout is because it is too expensive to process payments for small amounts of money. I want to make sure this is haram and not due to misunderstanding before I give up making video games for selling.

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

12 Jun

ANSWER: It is not permissible to pay such subscription that would allow you to sell things as you may not be able to sell anything and the money would go to waste. Besides, selling games would most likely include a lot of haram elements such as music and excessive violence in addition to wasting people’s […]

QUESTION: In my country, on marriage day, the cousins of the bride blocks the groom on ceremony gate untill he pays them some cash. They do it out of fun. This has become a culture now, even sometimes the groom comes prepared to give them money. In my sisters marriage, eventually the groom gave money and I received a portion from that without realizing this could be wrong. Can I keep the money?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

25 May

ANSWER: No problem in this as long as its not something exclusively done by non muslims and there is no music, free mixing etc.

QUESTION: Is it permissible for me to listen/post songs but after removing instruments and checking that there are no cuss words? It will basically be only vocals and it’ll not contain any musical instruments.

Sins, Sports, Entertainment and Music

09 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible to post songs that were done with musical instruments and striping it from it. People would always want to listen to original with music and you would be endorsing it.