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Islam And Acting
Is income from acting halal
The actors touch each other, theres dancing etc also, according to the role the woman have to wear heavy jewellery for acting etc
(If the content is not vulgar)
Will income be halal?
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Islam And Acting
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I’m Islam it is the problem of being ethical or unethical, moral or immoral which determines a thing to be halal or haram. Vulgarity and obscenity is is haram. Acting in the given ethical parameters is allowed. The person has to decide at some point whether a certain act is vulgar or not.
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So if a person plays a role of someone who drinks alcohol or if someone plays a role of someone who is evil etc.. will his income be halal?
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Playing a role of a sinful person for sake of entertainment does not make one sinful. Therefore income will indeed be halal.
Also kindly watch Ghamidi Sahab video explaining this here at the time mark:
13:00 – 19:45
https://video.dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/pv/Ilm-O-Hikmat/6893/ep-21256/ALL/2019-02-17?page=6#.YhzII-hBzIV -
If someone has to perform a character who uses abusive language/double meaning language or is vulgar then?
Where to draw the line?
Same is the case with all other art forms
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Or characters who wear a bit indecent dressing?
Will the income still be halal?
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This is more determined by personal and cultural sensitivity as well as intention.
One should not use vulgar or abusive words in e.g poetry. Similarly it should not be used in acting either. If one does end up using abusive language or wear indecent clothes for the sake of acting (and their intention is not to promote such things) then we would advise them to stop but the sin isn’t committed until they make an intention to commit sin.
If a Muslim’s intention is to promote abusive language and indecency through any means then it is sinful and so the income is not halal. But if the intention is to simply act and not sin, in that decent intention he makes any mistake and crosses the line, then it is forgiven and the income is halal.
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Or if a vulgar story is shown in a decent way? Is it allowed
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A story shown in a decent way is not vulgar. You must understand what fawahish means and ensure this does not exist in any art you make:
35:10 to 37:13
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There are many films whose topic is vulgar but they are shown in decent way
Where ever they needed to show vulgar scenes they just showed a sign that this or that happened
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You didn’t understand the concept of fawahish. Fawahish is showing explicit sexual content like nudity, sexual acts, genitals, all for the sake of promoting sin.
As soon as you cut off explicit sexual content, it is not vulgar anymore. The films you are talking that imply that an affair happened or sexual relations happened but does not show it explicitly are not being vulgar as long as the purpose is to entertain. Unless the purpose of those films is, foremost, to promote vulgarity, not entertain, then they are not acceptable even if the scenes are not explicit.
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