Rihanna has apologised to Muslims after an uproar over the use of sacred Hadith on a song during her 2020 Savage X Fenty fashion show.
She said the usage of those texts, which were part of a song played at her Amazon-prime streamed event, was an “honest yet careless mistake.”
Rihanna’s fashion show included a section in which lingerie models danced to the song Doom by Coucou Chloe.
The 2017 track includes a passage from the Hadith. In Islam, it is considered haram or forbidden, to use Allah’s name or the words of the Qur’an or the Prophet Muhammad impolitely.
The hadith is a record of Prophet Muhammad’s words and actions.
Rihanna’s followers on Instagram flooded her with comments to point that out, urging her to educate herself and issue an apology.
“I’d like to thank the Muslim community for pointing out a huge oversight that was unintentionally offensive in our Savage x Fenty show,” she wrote.
“I would more importantly like to apologize to you for this honest yet careless mistake. We understand that we may have hurt many of our Muslim brothers and sisters, and I’m incredibly disheartened by this!
“I do not play with any kind of disrespect toward God or any religion,” Rihanna continued, “and therefore the use of the song in our project was completely irresponsible!
Moving forward we will make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. Thank you for your forgiveness and understanding,” she wrote.
Coucou Chloe had tweeted an apology as well. “I want to deeply apologize for the offense caused by the vocal samples used in my song Doom,” the tweet said.
“The song was created using samples from Baile Funk tracks I found online. At the time, I was not aware that these samples used text from an Islamic Hadith.”
