Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can You Destroy Harām Music in the Workplace After Advising Patients?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can You Destroy Harām Music in the Workplace After Advising Patients?
English:
Question #1059:
I work in a hospital in the sacred profession of nursing. Occasionally, during my work I encounter some patients who listen to cassettes of unlawful and degenerate music. I advise them twice to stop it. And if it does not work, I take the cassette out of the player, erase its content, and then return it to its owner. Please explain if such conduct is permissible?
Answer #1059:
It is permissible to erase the perverse contents to prevent the cassettes to be used in a ḥarām way provided it is done with the permission of the cassettes’ owners or the authorised religious authority.