Would Rental Money From Wedding Salons and Halls be Permissible If Music and Dance is Done?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
My family and I plan to open a wedding salon. However, before we proceed, I have an important question to ask. In today’s modern age, weddings often involve music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment. So, my query is whether the profits earned from this business would be considered halal or haram.
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
At the onset, make an intention to open up a multi-function hall to seek Allah’s pleasure, earn halal, charge reasonable rent, and serve people, including Islamic and cultural events and celebrations. Also, draw up guidelines in rental contracts for the use of the hall.
Allah (Most High) said, “Cooperate with one another in goodness and righteousness and do not cooperate in sin and transgression. And be mindful of Allah.” [Quran, 5:2]
- Please observe sharia guidelines
- Do not serve forbidden foods
- Do not disturb the surrounding neighbors
Rental Income from a Wedding Salon
When a hall is rented, and non-sharia activities occur, it will be a sin for the people who rented and not for the owner. The act of sin will be attributed to those who commit it and not the owner.
Degrees of Assisting in Sin
In the Hanafi School, the degrees of assisting another in sin are:
a. direct assistance in sin
b. indirect assistance in sin
c. possible cause for a sin.
It is impermissible (haram) to do something that directly assists in sin, slightly disliked (makruh tanzihan) to do that which indirectly assists in sin, and better to avoid something that may be a possible cause for sin. However, the earnings will fall into the latter two categories and will remain halal.
[Taqi Usmani, Fiqh al-Buyu‘; Nahlawi, Durar al-Mubaha]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
