{"id":6727,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/women-vocalists\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:29","slug":"women-vocalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/women-vocalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Vocalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My  question to you is regarding women and music. I see Ghamdi Sahab has  always been a supporter of music being permissible within the limits of  Islam. My question to you is how can a woman pursue music as a career by  remaining within the limits of Islam? It would be great if you can also  define these limits if what I asked is permissible.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>In  this regard, the right approach is to give broad guidelines regarding  the Islamic approach to fine and liberal arts, and the leave the matter  to the person in question to decide how he and she can observe these  limits. The reason is that every person has his or her own style in  following directives in their applied form. <\/p>\n<p>If the sense of <em>haya<\/em>  (modesty) is fully grounded in a lady, she will be very careful and  cautious while pursuing such a career. So perhaps the real thing is to  make this innate trait strong in her and let it take its own course in  each individual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-21<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6727\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My  question to you is regarding women and music. I see Ghamdi Sahab has  always been a supporter of music being permissible within the limits of  Islam. My question to you is how can a woman pursue music as a career by  remaining within the limits of Islam? 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