AOA guys ..
Who thinks acting in Pakistani Dramas or Bollywood Films is haram ? Just wanted ppl’s different opinions … 
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We also would like to know your views???
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haha cheeky !!!
Umm .. I think its alright as long as it doesnt go over the limits .. Pornography ... Quran doest say anything about it ... Romans used to have theatres in those times .. so if Allah had to say smth about it he would have ... Acting is quite an old tradition .. !
Sorry if i m souding stupid
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First welcome to gupshup 
No you dont sound stupid, but you will get some amusing replies
there can be three view reg- Acting
Not allowed
Allowed for educational/historical purpose
Allowed for all purposes
so … here you go
Acting is part of Art, and art is very controversial topic among muslim, although they excelled in different forms of Art.
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Code_Red bhai is the new omniscient omnipresent observer on GS....his appearances are also very well-timed...playwriting inhoan nai kab ki chorh di laikin :(
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yeah guys .... waiting for the amusing replies ... well I think acting is allowed if u keep in ur limits .. like paki dramas and yeah bollywood films (some though ) .. haha I posted this on some other forum n guess what answer I got ?? haha .. umm acting is haram because non-mahram see you on screen
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Light entertainment is allowed, whereas there are reserved views about love stories.
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well love is natural .. so its not smth bad is it ?
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Sheikhpur (Shakespeare) bhai puts it very eloquently as follows:
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,"
Play: "As you like it"
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Based on the criteria set by Code-Red, I would say that there is nothing in Islam as per laws that would prohibit any one from acting. I will just give one example and I am sure that it will help.
If you look at the society in Madinah at the time of the Prophet (pbuh) one of the biggest social activity was reading poetry. Arabs were very proud of their language and always experimented with it and one of the ways they did that was through Poetry. Pre Islamic poetry traditions like the Muallaqat is an excellent example of the peak of Arabic poetry.
In Quran, it’s a general perception that poetry is looked down upon, but not declared haram or anything near to that. But there are several Ahadith which are related to poetry, and there are several in which the holy prophet (pbuh) is even involved in these social activities where poetry was recited. Now the ahadith are pretty explicit about good and bad poetry and poetry which praises or lead to shirk or praising gods other than Allah.
Now this being said, It’s a historic fact recorded by many literature historians that one of the ways the Qasidah was read, was through two performers reading different parts of the Qasidah at one time. Keeping in mind the oral tradition of Arabic poetry, they use to recite the poetry as if they were not reciting but enacting the event it self. People still read parts of famous poetry in social gatherings in the same way even today.
So, In my limited, knowledge, based on the reading of Qasidah, I would say that acting is totally allowed as long as we know that in the process of acting we do not cross the limits set by Quran and sunnah. It means like you may not kiss a namehrum or so and so. But the bottom line is as long as this acting is going to help Islam, enhance our knowledge and especially if it will not disturb the moral fabric of our society then i think even the JI people will not object on it.
I assume we are all allowed to have our opinions.
Wa Allah u Aalum.
On a side note, we should be very careful in using the word Haram, since its only Allah who can declare anything Haram.
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Minime Bhaijan, is there a database that lists Haram Halal things? Is #2 pencil with eraser halal?
What exactly is the relevance of what went on in 7th century Arabia to what happens today?
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in my view, only one acting is haram....faking Org
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well yea love is natural..but as long as it is in its limit.. for example if they avoid sexual herrasment and kissing and crap… to show “love”
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I don't think acting itself is mentioned but things it involves such as mixing of non-related men & women, guys looking at unrelated women & girls looking at unrelated men and music are things which are obviously forbidden in traditional orthodox Islam, some even go further and are sensual or sexualy explicit.
I'm not saying I do or I don't watch films, I'm just presenting the traditional Islamic perspective.
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Dont mix religion with Arab tribalistic traditions. How about another one, men gawking at unrelated boyzz…??? Its all in the mind…
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exactly .. its all in the mind .. I dotn want to start a debate but no where it is written in the Quran that mixing is not allowed ..
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Well
people can work in movies and dramas as far as they areperforming their associated (social and relegious) duties well and they are not posing any bad impact on the viewers.
Islam just ensures that every one is performing his duties well and is not involved in some activities that have negative impact on the community. Watching or acting in a movie has nothing bad with it, if all duties are performed by that person and movie has no negative impact in it, like pornography for instance. But if some one can manage to spend his time in some other creative and social acticities, then those activities must be preffered over watching or acting in a movie.
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It’s not Arab tradition it’s Islam, segregation is from the Sunnah (the Qur’aan itself tells us to follow the Sunnah so you can’t claim to follow only the Qur’aan). Except in extreme necessity women only interacted with men from behind the veil.
I know nowadays there are all these sects starting here and there saying veil is not from Islam, others even go further and say the head scarf or beard or lowering the gaze (for men) is not Islamic, it’s all down to what suits their fancy. Some ignorant suit-tie disco Imams even claim to be Sunni yet they’ll take the parts of the Sunnah out of context, e.g. pick and choose the abrogated bits prior to the veil being sanctioned by God, these types of Mullahs don’t seem to realise that Islam and Shari’ah was revealed in stages and you have to have a knowledge of the Qur’aan and Sunnah and know everything in context before you start passing verdicts.
Segregation is not only Arab culture, lots of Islamic societies practice it, to women of dignity, and whose men have some honour it’s only natural, but I suppose it’s different for Punjabis, Mohajirs and Indian Muslims such as Gujaratis and stuff (even the religious clerics), their families have never really practiced some aspects of Islam ever since they became Muslim so these customs are as alien to them as they would be to a Hindu.
Islam is realistic, come on how many blokes do you know who’ll do anything like that to another male? Not many, me personally I’d rather put my wotsit through one of those keema (mince) making machine than up a siht hole yukh. There will be some men who are gay and find boys attractive but they’re a small minority, men and women mixing is more of Fitnah (temptation) than looking at boys.
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haha man .. read the Quran .. thats what im telling u ... so u think keeping a beard is compulsory ? I think the whole idea of being a muslim is to be modest in all your actions and please Allah ..