The imamate of the husband of a woman who sings and plays music

Question

(a) Hafizes who lead the prayer in various mosques, and whose dwelling houses adjoin one mosque very closely; but their women, in their very presence, distract the thoughts of the worshippers with their dancing, singing and indecent melodies — whereas Muslims immediately come to blows with non-Muslims if they pass by a mosque playing music. (b)

Answer

If those imams are able to restrain their women and still do not restrain them, then they are sinful; it is wajib upon them to forbid the women from unseemly and impermissible acts. If they are unable to restrain them, or they do restrain them but the women do not obey, then there is no sin upon those imams for these acts of the women, and in that case this does not harm their…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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