He has written that music is the sound which irreligious...

He has written that music is the sound which irreligious persons recognise as music. Thus he has thrown it back to the general usage, (which is the proper way of explaining a word to which islam has not given a special meaning). Q 32: DEFINITION OF MUSIC: In your book "Your Questions Answered,. Vol.III, in reply to Q. 56, you have written about Music.

"To recite or listen to the words of a song without any music is permissible provided it is not obscene and/or immoral." Now according to Ayatullah Al-Khui, to recite Munajaat or Marthiyah in tune of a song is Haram, then do you think it is allowed to recite the following Munajats which are indeed film songs.. th- Film Dayare Madina-madad kijie Taajdaare Madina' or nowadays ladies recite of 12 Imam 'madad kijie Ya Imame Zamana'.

nd- Film 'Niaz or Namaz' - 'Ai Momino niyaz dilawo Imam ki' which is recited on the 22 of Rajab on sufra of the 6th Imam, A: Late Ayatullah al-Khou'i had defined the music as the sound which irreligious people recognise as music. Ayatullah Sistani has used another wording to express the same idea. He writes that the haram music is the one which is befitting to the gatherings of pleasure and debauehery.

To identify which sound is haram music and which is not, one has to look how the general public treats it. If they say, "He is reciting the poem (or nawha or marthiyah) in a good voice, then it is halal. But if they say, "He is singing the marthiyah etc. then it is haram. Q, 33: WHY JIHAD IN A RELIGION OF PEACE? Islam is a religion based on the fundamental concept of peace. How do you reconcile this idea with the concept of Jihad?

A: Your question requires some detailed explanation, Islam does not like to exterminate wrong-doers, it wants to remove the wrong. Evil deeds are like diseases. They need treatment, and every doctor wants to cure an ailment with medicine as far as possible. But sometimes the ailment reaches a stage where no medicine can do any good; the doctor feels that surgical operation is necessary, if the life of the patient is to be saved.

Then he decides, not happily but reluctantly, to ampute one or more limbs of the patient. It may cause hardest pain for the time being; but it is not torture, it is mercy. Likewise, this humanity is a compact body.