My daughter will be turning 3 soon and i really wanted to enroll her on bollywood dancing classes, which to me it seems does not go against islamic teachings however my husband thinks otherwise.

My view is she'll really enjoy it and learn something which could make her proud of herself in future, also kids love music and dancing and it is a great pasttime. Surely before puberty she can do it??

My husband thinks this is not right for a girl and it'll make her turn into a prostitute. A bit extreme view?

What do you guys think, what does islam say in regards to young girls doing dancincing, sports, etc ...

I obviously will educate her on islam its teachings and its practices so she knows how to seperate the right from wrong.

A very extreme view.

Sister I would advise You to listen to your husband

Music is forbidden in Islaam.

Check out this link:

http://www.islamicboard.com/fiqh/202...an-sunnah.html

rather not, as it will influence her to follow the bollywood actors, etc..perhaps leading her to rebel against you in the future.

Does bollywood dancing truly lead someone into rebelling against one's parents? How you figure?

Just look at some of the morals Bollywood films have Subhaan Allaah

Basic Outline: guy n girl fall in love, run away get married blah

But isn't that in all love novels you read, and movies, cartoons, Alladin, blah blah blah? All of them shows girls go against their parents wishes in name of love. They leave their parents house to run away with their boyfriend to live happily ever after. I mean I saw a movie where a Muslim woman who fell in love with a non-Muslim man, she married him and before she married him she went about and showed her body to him as she is taking a shower to a non-mahrim man. She showed him her chest and is naked for him...he of course..got...aroused he found her appealing and fell in love with her. They end up getting married. Would a Muslim woman really do this in real life? But more girls will watch this and emulate it. Disney cartoons are the worst, the girls there have no morals (cartoon girls) showing their body wearing nothing almost and defying parents wishes for her passion and emotion. Girls emulate this and end up having babies out of wedlock and sometimes they raise the children alone (single mother) or they abort the fetus.

Also Allah (SWT) have commanded the wife to obey her husband and these cartoons and movies and sitcom teaches the women to raise above her husband and she be the man of the house. What happens is that the husband is miserable, divorce raises and the wife herself loses respect to her husband she end up leaving the house, end up cheating to her husband, or start seducing other men or walking in the street immorally.

We live in a major fitnah world, so I agree. Bollywood should also be one of those things that you should not have your girls do. There are enough fitnah and immorality in this world it is EXTREMELY hard to raise children, boys and girls alike are extremely difficult.

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Nearly everything on television these days is irrelevent and absolutely disgusting unless you are watching educational programmes that are not aired very often.i think all these love stories that usually involve two rebels that run away from parents or whatever is stopping them loving each other, i think these sort of things are targetted specifically at girls to brainwash them about fairy tale love while another more obscene aproach is used to brain fry the lads namely the use of pornography

I switch on the television with the certainty that i will see a half naked woman,it looks like modesty is gone out of the window exposing their flesh for every one to see and view like a piece art in museum or even worse like a piece of exposed meat being heckled by a bunch of vultures.this is in the west ofcourse im not forcing any1 to change their lifestyle to suit my beliefs all im saying is where is the dignity and shame??

sister, it is obligatory for you to obey your husband in everything except of those matters that go against Islaam. So I advise you to listen to your husband inshaAllah.

Also, do you really want your daughters role model to be a bollywood actress?

As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“They ask you (O Muhammad) about the spoils of war. Say: ‘The spoils are for Allaah and the Messenger.’ So fear Allaah and adjust all matters of difference among you…” [al-Anfaal 8:1]. But using music is the opposite of this idea of taqwa and it would distract them from remembering their Lord. Thirdly, using music is one of the customs of the kuffaar, and it is not permitted to imitate them, especially with regard to something that Allaah has forbidden to us in general, such as music. (al-Saheehah, 1/145)

The many Muslim actors and actress’s are not only involved in the encouragement of fornication, bigamy, rebellion to parents but even idol worshipping, roles which they are only too happy to play. Even though Allah says :

“Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgives anything else, to whom He pleases; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed” (4:48)

The Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” Indeed it is the saying of the companions of the Prophet (SAWS) : “Whoever imitated the idol worshippers will be raised with them on the day of Judgement.”

I'd suggest that you should listen to your husband.

Allah Hafiz
Sister Fatima

While I think its pretty exaggerated that it will make her a prostitute, I don't think she should go to dance classes... As already mentioned, music is haram,

She is young now, but what happens when she gets older, if she wants to continue the classes and start dancing in front of men?

If you want her to do something, go for a sport, it is much more innocent!