About Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei from Mashhad, Iran, born 1939. Shia Online Community holds 200 albums of recitations credited to Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei. Recent releases include Is it permissible to charge money for making copies of cassettes that contain ḥarām material?, Which instruments are considered as lahw and therefore not permissible to use at all?, Is it permissible to: (a) work in manufacturing the dulcimer, a musical instrument, in order to make a…. Every track can be played online, and members add corrections and context over time.

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei

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Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei

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👤 People & biographiesBorn (year): 1939Birthplace: Mashhad, Iran#khamenei #marja

Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei (b. 1939, Mashhad) is a marjaʿ and the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His office publishes practical laws and answers to religious inquiries at leader.ir. The Q&A entries on this platform that credit him as the answering authority are imported from those public books and link back to their original source.

Questions answered by Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei(200)

Is it permissible to charge money for making copies of cassettes that contain ḥarām material?Satellite Television Equipment Which instruments are considered as lahw and therefore not permissible to use at all?Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to: (a) work in manufacturing the dulcimer, a musical instrument, in order to make a…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of musical instruments used by groups of chanting composed of school…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on beating on drum in birthday parties and similar occasions?Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to recite Qur’anic verses while playing music using instruments other than those usually…Satellite Television Equipment Is listening to music alone ḥarām, or is hearing also ḥarām?Satellite Television Equipment A person works as a trainer and an international referee in some kind of sport. His work could require his…Satellite Television Equipment

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On the face of it, some songs give the impression that they are revolutionary, and the common view suggests…Satellite Television Equipment As a requirement of the curriculum of a major subject, students of the college of education have to take…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible for a man to listen to a non-maḥram woman’s ghinā’ in order to enjoy being with his wife?…Satellite Television Equipment If the criterion for ruling that a music is ḥarām is its being lahwī and suitable for gatherings of lahw and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of a woman singing in a concert with a women orchestra in the presence of an…Satellite Television Equipment If listening to ghinā’ stimulates man’s sexual desire for his wife, what is the view on that?Satellite Television Equipment Nowadays, music is used to treat a host of psychological diseases, such as depression, anxiety and sexual…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to recite the Holy Qur’an, supplication, and adhān, in a ghinā’-like manner?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of buying and selling musical instruments? And what are the limits of their…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to recite poems which are being sung but without the music?Satellite Television Equipment Some Arabic broadcasting stations air musical tunes. Is it permissible to listen to such tunes for the love…Satellite Television Equipment Is traditional national Iranian music ḥarām?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of listening to a woman's declamation, regardless of whom the audiences are,…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to learn to play music, especially a dulcimer? What is the ruling on encouraging other…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of playing music to serve sensible lawful aims in a holy place like a masjid?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of men or women singing in the way of ghinā’ on radio or cassettes, and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of listening to Western lahwī songs and music and working as a distributing…Satellite Television Equipment From time to time radio and television broadcast music that, I think, is suitable for gatherings of lahw and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of music that is broadcast from the radio and television of the Islamic…Satellite Television Equipment I work for an employer who made a habit of listening to ghinā’ played from a cassette recorder. I find myself…Satellite Television Equipment What is the definition of music and ghinā’?Satellite Television Equipment Some youth, who recently became mature, follow in taqlīd some mujtahids who are of the opinion that music is…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to listen to ghinā’ at home? And what is the ruling if one does not get affected by such…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of women using the tambourine in wedding parties?Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible for women to rap on things, other than musical instruments, such as kitchen utensils, in…Satellite Television Equipment How do you define ghinā’? Is it just the human voice or does it cover the sound of musical instruments?Satellite Television Equipment Is lahwī nature of a particular type of music the only criterion for judging that it is ḥarām or should one…Satellite Television Equipment Do such things as the personality of the musician, the place where music is conducted, and the aims of the…Satellite Television Equipment What is meant by lahwī music which deviates people from the way of Allah? And how best can one recognize it?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling on the issue of listening to cassettes sanctioned by the organization of Islamic…Satellite Television Equipment What are the criteria by which one can distinguish ḥalāl from ḥarām music? Is classical music ḥalāl?Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to listen to news bulletins or scientific and cultural programs broadcast by foreign radio…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of buying, selling, and renting video films showing explicit sexual scenes…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to buy or sell television cameras?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of buying, selling, and keeping magazines of women’s fashion, which normally…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of distributing and showing films, which are passed by the ministry of…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on watching Iranian films that were produced after the triumph of the revolution, showing…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of watching films that contain material showing irreverence towards that…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of secretly watching films and pictures banned by the Islamic state if it…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible for married couples to watch pornographic films in their own home? And is it permissible…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on watching video films which contain unsavory scenes for the purpose of censorship and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on the work of the officials of the ministry of guidance which involves checking films and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of married men watching films which give instructions about how best they…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to watch films that are bound to excite one’s imagination and sexual urge if the person is…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to look at the hair of a female newsreader that normally appears with make-up and without…Satellite Television Equipment Satellite television stations broadcast soap operas that deal with social problems in Western societies.…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of reading obscene books and poems arousing one’s sexual passion?Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of printing and selling the pictures which ostensibly portray the Prophet…Satellite Television Equipment Given the nature of movies — be they foreign or local — and music which are broadcast from the television of…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on attending wedding parties for filming, knowing that there would be music and dancing?…Satellite Television Equipment Some youth look at obscene pictures. They put forward a number of justifications for doing so. What is the…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of taking pictures for women mingling with their maḥrams? And what is the…Satellite Television Equipment In a wedding party, should the bride cover her head with a light, transparent veil, is it permissible for a…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible for a woman to watch men wrestling?Satellite Television Equipment In wedding parties, is it permissible for a woman to arrange for taking pictures of herself without the…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to look at pictures of semi naked or naked women, unknown to us, such as those appearing on…Satellite Television Equipment Is there any problem for us, as women, in kissing the pictures of the late Imam Khomeini (May his soul rest…Satellite Television Equipment In my wedding party a number of photographs were taken of me without my wearing ḥijāb. These pictures are…Satellite Television Equipment Is there any problem in watching or listening to comical programs broadcast from radio and television?Satellite Television Equipment What is the view on watching satellite programs? And is it permissible for the people living in the provinces…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of looking at pictures of non-maḥram women who are not wearing ḥijāb? What…Satellite Television Equipment I repair television and radio receivers. Of late, many customers have been approaching me to install and/or…Satellite Television Equipment What is the ruling in the matter of installing satellite television equipment to receive scientific and…Satellite Television Equipment What is the view if the satellite equipment is programmed in such a way that it receives the channels of the…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible for those who live outside the Islamic Republic to buy and sell satellite television…Satellite Television Equipment Is it permissible to buy, keep and use satellite television equipment to receive programs? And what is the…Satellite Television Equipment A married couple of famous painters make a living of restoring paintings. Most of these paintings depict…Painting and Sculpture What is the view on body tattooing which is usually done by some people and it is a method of obtaining marks…Painting and Sculpture Is returning the parts of a dismantled doll, such as hand, leg, and head to it included in the…Painting and Sculpture What is the ruling in the matter of making jewelry in the form of statuettes? And does the material which…Painting and Sculpture Is it permissible to manufacture dolls and statues of beings having spirits like human beings by using…Painting and Sculpture What is the ruling in the matter of children drawing pictures of Qur’anic stories such as that of the People…Painting and Sculpture In the new curriculum, there is a subject called self-reliance. Part of the subject deals with sculpture. The…Painting and Sculpture What is the view on making dolls and sculpture, or drawing living beings (plants, animals, and human beings)?…Painting and Sculpture What is the ruling in the matter of women wearing make-up for acting purposes in performances which are…Theatre and Cinema What is the view on men wearing women’s clothes and vice versa for the purpose of acting on theatre or in…Theatre and Cinema We intend to make a film portraying the story of the martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn (a.s.), especially the…Theatre and Cinema Is it permissible to use the uniform of the Islamic clerk and judges in making moving pictures? Is it…Theatre and Cinema What is the duty of devout youths in mixed universities in respect of the corruptions which are noticed in…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Some brothers go to places — where improperly veiled women may be available at times — in order to enjoin the…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil What rule applies to alcoholic drinks found with some foreign specialists in some institutions of an Islamic…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Is evil something relative so that one may compare the university environment with some worse environments,…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil There is continuing misappropriation of public assets of Muslims in a government department, and there is…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil What is the duty of employees in official departments and institutions when they occasionally observe certain…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Is it permissible for a girl to guide a young man and help him with his studies etc. while observing Islamic…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil A Muslim man comes to know from circumstantial evidence that his wife, though being a mother of several…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil I got married several years ago. I pay great attention to religious affairs and shar‘ī matters and follow the…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Is it permissible for high-ranking Islamic clerics to visit and associate with tyrants and tyrannical rulers…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil My sister is married to a man who does not pray. Since he is with us all the time, I have to associate with…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil What is the duty of the authorities if it is proved definitely that some of their employees are negligent of…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Is it permissible not to respond to the greeting of someone who commits evil as a way of stopping and…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil Sometimes we see that a university student or employee who commits a sin and does not stop it even after…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil A continuous invasion is going on against Islamic morals by Western culture, and some non-Islamic customs are…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil What kind of relation can one have with persons who formerly used to commit such unlawful acts as drinking?How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil My brother does not observe shar‘ī and moral norms, and advice has not been effective so far. What is my duty…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil How should a son behave towards his parents who do not care about their religious duties due to their lack of…How to Enjoin the Good and Forbid Evil What is the duty of a son toward his parents or that of a wife toward her husband when they do not pay khums…General What is the rule of enjoining and forbidding with respect to women with inadequate ḥijāb? What is the rule…General The sound of music cassettes of uncertain permissibility is heard from some houses and is at times with such…General I work in a hospital in the sacred profession of nursing. Occasionally, during my work I encounter some…General Some bus drivers play singing and music cassettes of ḥarām kinds, without paying any attention to advice and…General With regard to enjoining the good and forbidding evil, should individuals confine themselves to the oral…General If those assigned by the government to prevent corruption do not accomplish their duty well, is it…General At times forbidding a sinner creates negative feelings against Islam due to his ignorance of Islamic duties…General If one comes across evidence of sinful conduct, impropriety and insincerity of a person holding a powerful…General If the good is neglected and evil is common in some academic environments and the conditions for enjoining…General Is it permissible to neglect enjoining the good and forbidding evil for fear of losing one’s job, e.g. the…General If one of our relatives carelessly commits sins, what is our duty with respect to keeping relations with him?General Is it obligatory for someone who wants to enjoin another person to the good or forbid him from evil to have…General If forbidding evil with respect to very important matters, such as protecting the life of a ‘respected…General Is it permissible to forbid evil without the permission of the ruler when stopping someone from perpetrating…General Is it a governmental ordinance or a fatwā that under the Islamic state the people’s duty with respect to…General What is the rule if enjoining the good and forbidding evil compromises the dignity of someone who fails to…General Is it permissible for female nurses to look at a woman’s genitals if their study requires it?Circumcision As a doctor, my research within the Western scientific circles aims at relieving pain by way of music,…Circumcision In the course of the study of and training in medicine, they use plastic models configuring the human…Circumcision What is required of a woman in labor? And what is required of the female nursing staff insofar as the…Circumcision In the course of their study, medical students watch films and look at pictures showing the genitals for…Circumcision Is it permissible to look at the pictures of non-Muslims usually found in the books of medicine, noting that…Circumcision In most cases where examining the genitals, whether by a male or a female, is called for the shar‘ī standards…Circumcision For the sake of medical training and gaining skill and experience, is there any difference between examining…Circumcision In certain situations, we are faced with instances of examining a non-maḥram patient’s body without being…Circumcision It is said that in necessary cases it is permissible for medical students to examine non-maḥram patients.…Circumcision By virtue of their study, medical students, male and female, are required, as part of their training, to…Circumcision Is girls’ circumcision obligatory?Circumcision A person did not have circumcision. However, there is no foreskin on the penis. Is it obligatory on him to…Circumcision Is circumcision obligatory?Circumcision Is it permissible for someone to masturbate, upon a doctor’s advice, for carrying out a sperm test?Gender Change Is it permissible for women to consult a male gynecologist if he is more efficient than the female…Gender Change Apart from her husband, is it absolutely ḥarām for anyone, including the treating doctor, to look at the…Gender Change Is it permissible for the male doctor to carry out plastic surgery for a woman which entails touching and…Gender Change To take the pulse count of a patient there has to be some sort of direct contact with the body. If it is…Gender Change What is the ruling in the matter of a woman doctor looking directly at the genitals of another woman when she…Gender Change Is it permissible for a male doctor to touch or look at the body of a woman during examination?Gender Change Is it permissible for a woman doctor to touch and look at the private parts of another woman for the purpose…Gender Change We have noticed the recurrence of the use of the word "necessity" as a condition to allow the examining…Gender Change What is the view on undergoing plastic surgery?Gender Change I have expressed my wish to donate my organs after my death. I was told that I should make a will in this…Gender Change Some patients suffer from irreversible brain damage which results in the disappearance of all kinds of…Gender Change Since having a kidney transplant would improve the patient’s condition considerably, there has been an…Gender Change During the war, a person suffered an injury in his testicles, which resulted in their removal. Is it…Gender Change Is blood money payable in the matter of using the cornea of a dead person to be transplanted in the eye of…Gender Change Is it permissible to use the blood vessels of a dead person for transplantation in the body of another person…Gender Change If a person is suffering from a fatal illness and doctors say he will die soon, is it permissible to remove…Gender Change Is it permissible to implant hair on the head of a person who suffered burns so much so that they are put…Gender Change Is it permissible to dig the graves of Muslims or non-Muslims in order to exhume the bones for training…Gender Change Is it permissible to remove expensive platinum pieces that had been implanted in the body of a Muslim after…Gender Change What is the ruling in the matter of carrying out anatomical dissection for histological research on the body…Gender Change Is it permissible to carry out a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death in doubtful cases,…Gender Change Research in heart and vascular diseases could require the physical examination of particular organs of dead…Gender Change What is the ruling in the matter of undergoing an operation for a hermaphrodite person to become either man…Gender Change Some people have the appearance of men. They have female psychological and sexual tendencies though. If they…Gender Change Nowadays it is possible to keep the ova that have been fertilized in vitro alive by certain procedures to be…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Is it permissible to inseminate a woman with the sperm of her dead husband in the following cases? 1) After…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)1) Can a married woman, who has passed the age of ovulation due to menopause or the like, get pregnant with…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Is it permissible for a woman, whose husband is sterile, to be artificially inseminated with sperm from a…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Is it permissible to use the sperm of the husband, after his death, in fertilizing an egg taken from his wife…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Some childless couples get separated mainly because of the strains and stresses put on the marriage due to…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)1) Is IVF or test-tube baby permissible, when the sperm and the egg belong to a lawfully wedded couple? 2)…Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Is it permissible to abort the fetus at the stage of the fertilized egg if the pregnancy has come about as a…Abortion If it is known for sure that the baby will suffer intrauterine death and continuing the pregnancy proves…Abortion On the advice of the doctor treating her, a pregnant woman found it necessary to have an operation for her…Abortion How much is the blood money for deliberately aborting a fetus of two and a half months and to whom should it…Abortion A mother has aborted her seven-month-old illegitimately conceived fetus at the request of the father. Should…Abortion What is the ruling in the matter of abortion itself? Is the ruling different if keeping the baby poses a…Abortion Some couples have congenital blood diseases due to having abnormal genes. They could transmit the disease to…Abortion Is it permissible to abort a fertilized ovum that has implanted in the uterine wall before it turns into a…Abortion With the help of modern technology, doctors can now identify the congenital deformities of the fetus during…Abortion In the early months of her pregnancy the doctor told the mother that continuing with the pregnancy might pose…Abortion Is it permissible to have an abortion because of economic problems?Abortion A man with four children underwent an operation of vasectomy, without the consent of his wife. Is he guilty…Contraception Is it permissible for the woman to use contraceptives without the permission of her husband?Contraception Is it permissible for a pregnant woman, who wants to be sterilized, to have a caesarean so that the procedure…Contraception Is it permissible for a healthy woman for whom pregnancy is not harmful to use any of the contraceptives,…Contraception What is the view on carrying out a vasectomy on a man?Contraception 1) Is it permissible for a healthy woman to use, temporarily, any kind of contraceptive methods that prevent…Contraception The Ministry of Education partitioned a somewhat old cemetery for the purpose of building a school on the…Rules Concerning Graveyards A piece of land has been a burial ground since a century ago. A few years ago, excavations in the land…Rules Concerning Graveyards Is it permissible to build a masjid on the land of a derelict cemetery, especially when it is not known…Rules Concerning Graveyards Is it permissible to open up a walkway for pedestrians through the cemetery where it could lead to removing a…Rules Concerning Graveyards Is it permissible for anyone to buy a piece of land to be used for burial and building a grave over it before…Rules Concerning Graveyards There is a plot of land that is adjacent to an existing cemetery. There seems to be no sign of any graves in…Rules Concerning Graveyards The Water and Electricity Board intends to harness the power of water in generating electricity by building a…Rules Concerning Graveyards The area where we live is in need of a masjid or a health centre. There are no lands available to build any…Rules Concerning Graveyards We have planned to build a medical centre on a piece of derelict land situated on the periphery of the…Rules Concerning Graveyards As a mark of respect for the martyrs, who were residents of our village and are buried elsewhere, it is…Rules Concerning Graveyards Due to the non-availability of a piece of land in the town centre to build an information centre on it, is it…Rules Concerning Graveyards A person donated a piece of land to be used as a burial ground and made it a public cemetery for Muslims. Is…Rules Concerning Graveyards By virtue of a court order, a person came to own a piece of confiscated land. It is situated beside the…Rules Concerning Graveyards Funeral directors prevent the digging of new graves beside some existing ones. Is there a shar‘ī reason for…Rules Concerning Graveyards Is it permissible for the visitors of one of the holy shrines to park their cars inside a century-old…Rules Concerning Graveyards A piece of land was endowed for burying the dead. The cemetery contains the graves of one of the descendants…Rules Concerning Graveyards

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