Music and Ghinā’: Can a Woman Sing with a Women’s Orchestra Before an All-Female Audience?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Music and Ghinā’: Can a Woman Sing with a Women’s Orchestra Before an All-Female Audience?

English:

Question #1147:

What is the ruling in the matter of a woman singing in a concert with a women orchestra in the presence of an all-women audience?

Answer #1147:

If singing is accompanied by deviating lahwī rise and fall of voice or the music accompanying it is lahwī, deviates people from the way of Allah and is suitable for the gatherings of sin, it is ḥarām.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Music and Ghinā’