Music and Ghinā’: Can One Work in Sports Clubs Where Ḥarām Music Is Played?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Music and Ghinā’: Can One Work in Sports Clubs Where Ḥarām Music Is Played?

English:

Question #1152:

A person works as a trainer and an international referee in some kind of sport. His work could require his presence in clubs where ḥarām kind of music and singing are played. Is it permissible for him to carry on with this work, especially, if it provides him with some income where jobs are hard to come by?

Answer #1152:

There is no harm in this person’s work, albeit it is ḥarām for him to listen to ghinā’ and lahwī music. In circumstances where he is compelled to enter places where the ḥarām type of singing and music are taking place, he is allowed to do so provided he avoids listening to them. There is, though, no problem in hearing such singing and music involuntarily.

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