Title: Paintings & Music Question: My question is that,listening to music or singing keeping in mind that it dose not have vulgar words is allowed or not?and is doing paintings and making cartoons allowed with no intentions of shirk.plz answer Answer: In Islam things are made Haram for reasons, when these reasons are no longer applicable then these things are not Haram . Accordingly the activities you mentioned with the assumptions you made are not Haram . Also see: Pictures & Photography Prohibition of Music Abdullah Rahim September 19, 2007