Entertainment in muslim media : unsettled problem

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the “unsettled problem” of entertainment in the discussion of Muslim media. The status and legality of music, song, dancing, theatre, films and other aesthetic pleasures are always confused in the mind of Muslim masses due to the different arguments hold by Muslim jurists. Their argument on halal and haram (lawful and forbidden) entertainment in Islam, Muslim attitude towards entertainment and the experiments of implementing “Islamic entertainment”, both in Malaysia and Iran, will be discuss in this paper. Lack of nurturing Islamic entertainment and inability to provide alternatives Islamic aesthetic pleasures are among the problems facing Muslim communities in the era of globalisation.