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Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 370

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#	Subject	Question	Status
119	listening to music, Sistani?	Whats the ruling to listen to music according to Grand Ayatollah Sistani's fatwas?	Answered
156	listening to music without sin	Is it possible to listen to music without enabling sin or losing one's thoughts per se?	Answered
221	ruling on ghina	What is your ruling on ghina or song according to Sayed Sistani?	Answered
222	reciting salaams with music	Some people recite salaams on the tune of some songs. Is it haram or halal ?	Answered
312	if it is then why is music haram?	Salam Sheikh, I'm tired of people saying that music is haram - could you please say WHY it's haram? if it is?	Answered
317	means of entertainment according to Islam	What can be the means of entertainment according to Islam?	Answered
436	classic music, is it halal?	Classical music is believed to soothe excited nerves, and is also prescribed at times for treatment of some psychological ailments. Is it permissible for me to listen to it?	Answered
506	learning music instruments	Salam Alykum On behalf of a number of brothers and sister that seem confused on the issue regarding permissible songs I would like to ask whether learning and then playing musical instruments such as drums, piano etc is haram. Also are songs such as those of the islamic artist Sami Yousif Haram as they use some tunes suitable for gatherings of entertainment	Answered
606	teaching music to my children	What is the permissibility of teaching music to one's child, for example, tar, setar, ney, or keyboard?	Answered
695	sublime messages	i have recently found out that the song for little kids ' twinkle twinkle little star has a bad sublime meassge. my question is do every music have sublime message and how do we know? also can u explain more on sublime messages. with prayers	Answered
823	what is music	please can you define what is music like how much long a voices is considered music or singing how much long a word is considered music or singing etc etc ?	Pending
900	Gatherings and Music	Is it permissible to go to a family or friend wedding ceremony of whom are playing music ?	Pending
1440	Music	Which kind of music is permitted/allowable to be listened to in shariah? Few days earlier I asked a question about music to some scholars, in its reply they said that some type of music is lawful while the other is unlawful! So which is lawful and which is unlawful? They also said that the music which is suited for the gatherings of amusement and entertainment is unlawful, what do they meant by that? Do they mean that the music which is played and listened to now a days is unlawful, and the music which was played in old times (romantic/classical music) is lawfull, though there were some fast songs in old times too! Please elaborate all this with examples!	Pending