Music and Ghinā’: Can One Listen to Musical Arabic Broadcasts Just for Language Learning?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Music and Ghinā’: Can One Listen to Musical Arabic Broadcasts Just for Language Learning?

English:

Question #1141:

Some Arabic broadcasting stations air musical tunes. Is it permissible to listen to such tunes for the love of the Arabic language?

Answer #1141:

It is absolutely ḥarām to listen to lahwī music which deviates people from the way of Allah and is suitable for the gatherings of lahw and sins. Yearning to listening to the Arabic language per se is not a shar‘ī justification for such an act.

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