Analysis of the jurisprudential decrees on the permissibility of singing using the jurisprudential approach of Ayatollah Khamenei

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Lecturer, Department of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and the Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and the Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.

10.30512/kq.2024.21719.3902

Abstract

One of the jurisprudential issues discussed in books such as Forbidden Transactions (Makāsib Muḥarrama) and Testimonies (Shahādāt) is the subject of ghināʾ (singing). Muslim jurists do not agree on the technical definition, scope, and rules regarding ghināʾ. A key reason for these differing views is the various interpretations of the numerous narrations or hadiths that address the ghināʾ issue and its rules. This study employs a descriptive-analytical method and transmitted sources to examine the implications of certain hadiths that some jurists have cited to argue for the permissibility of ghināʾ. The focus of this research is on the interpretation of these narrations by Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, as one of the contemporary jurists. To achieve this aim, the study first defines ghināʾ in its technical sense and briefly explores the evidence indicating its prohibition. Then, the narrations suggesting its permissibility are categorized into four thematic groups: tarjīʿ and taghannī in Qur’anic recitation, income of female singers at weddings, the sale and purchase of slave girls trained in singing, and the use of ghināʾ during festivals and joyous occasions. According to the distinctions made by Ayatollah Khamenei between the general and specific meanings of ghināʾ, these narrations cannot be used to prove the permissibility or even exceptional allowance of ghināʾ in the aforementioned cases.

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