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layout: post
title: "What is the kind of bell that is forbidden?"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da’imah 26/284, Fatwa no.18952, Question 4"
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 27, 1444
category: [fatwas, music]
lang: en
note: false
excerpt: "What is the kind of bell that is forbidden?"
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Al-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
  members:
    - name: Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---

Question: 

What is the kind of bell that is forbidden? Please note that there are electric bells that make sounds like birds, or bells on alarm clocks where one piece of metal strikes another, and other kinds. 

Answer: 

The bells that are used in houses, schools and so on are permissible, so long as they do not include anything haram, such as resembling the church bells of the Christians, or have musical sounds. In that case they are haram for that reason.