Whosoever has mastered the science of the cures of the heart and the ways in which to make the heart soft knows with certainty that these sorts of entertainment and amusement are things one can not dispense with. And every other kind of instrument remains permissible such as tambourines even with jingles, drums, striking drums with branches, guitars and the like, or any other instrument.
For example the flute, if listening to it is permissible then it is praiseworthy what occurs to a person when listening to it and has left cautiousness in religion by listening to that which has differing opinions regarding. When he did, he allowed her to carry out her vow without any form of castigation. This allowance indicates that what the women did was not an act of disobedience in such a circumstance.
Whosoever does not intend either disobedience or obedience, then this action is simple amusement and it is ineffectual and such an act is pardoned such as a person walking in his garden strolling or one sitting on his doorstep relaxing.
In summary we can say that the issue of singing, with instruments and without, is an issue that has caused scholarly dispute throughout all ages. These scholars have agreed on aspects regarding the issues and have disagreed in other aspects. They have agreed that any sort of singing of music that causes disobedience or aids in disobedience is impermissible as singing is comprised of words so its good is permitted and its bad is impermissible.
The areas of disagreement are whether musical instruments are permissible or not and others mentioned earlier. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah may Allaah have mercy on him said: Concerning music which a person does not intend to listen to, there is no prohibition or blame, according to scholarly consensus.
Hence blame or praise is connected to listening, not to hearing. The same applies to musical instruments which are forbidden: if a person hears them without intending to, that does not matter. The Prophet peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him needed to know when the sound stopped because he had moved away from that path and blocked his ears. Even though the hearing referred to in the comments of the two imaams is makrooh, it was permitted because of necessity, as we will see below in the comments of Imaam Maalik may Allaah have mercy on him.
And Allaah knows best. Al-Qaasim may Allaah have mercy on him said: Singing is part of falsehood. Al-Hasan may Allaah have mercy on him said: if there is music involved in a dinner invitation waleemah , do not accept the invitation al-Jaami by al-Qayrawaani, p. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah may Allaah have mercy on him said: The view of the four Imaams is that all kinds of musical instruments are haraam.
It was reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaari and elsewhere that the Prophet peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him said that there would be among his ummah those who would allow zinaa, silk, alcohol and musical instruments, and he said that they would be transformed into monkeys and pigs… None of the followers of the imaams mentioned any dispute concerning the matter of music.
Al-Albaani may Allaah have mercy on him said: The four madhhabs are agreed that all musical instruments are haraam.
Ibn al-Qayyim may Allaah have mercy on him said: The madhhab of Abu Haneefah is the strictest in this regard, and his comments are among the harshest. His companions clearly stated that it is haraam to listen to all musical instruments such as the flute and the drum, even tapping a stick. They stated that it is a sin which implies that a person is a faasiq rebellious evil doer whose testimony should be rejected.
They went further than that and said that listening to music is fisq rebellion, evildoing and enjoying it is kufr disbelief. This is their words. They narrated in support of that a hadeeth which could not be attributed to the Prophet peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him. They said: he should try not to hear it if he passes by it or it is in his vicinity. Abu Yoosuf said, concerning a house from which could be heard the sound of musical instruments: Go in without their permission, because forbidding evil actions is obligatory, and if it were not allowed to enter without permission, people could not have fulfilled the obligatory duty of enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil.
Imaam Maalik may Allaah have mercy on him was asked about playing the drum or flute, if a person happens to hear the sound and enjoy it whilst he is walking or sitting. He said: He should get up if he finds that he enjoys it, unless he is sitting down for a need or is unable to get up. If he is on the road, he should either go back or move on.
Ibn al-Qayyim may Allaah have mercy on him said, explaining the view of Imaam al-Shaafa'i: His companions who know his madhhab point of view stated that it is haraam and denounced those who said that he permitted it. He said: Singing makes hypocrisy grow in the heart; I do not like it. Then he mentioned the words of Maalik: the evildoers faasiqs among us do that. Ibn Qudaamah, the researcher of the Hanbali madhhab — may Allaah have mercy on him said: Musical instruments are of three types which are haraam.
These are the strings and all kinds of flute, and the lute, drum and rabaab stringed instrument and so on. Whoever persists in listening to them, his testimony should be rejected. And he said may Allaah have mercy on him ; If a person is invited to a gathering in which there is something objectionable, such as wine and musical instruments, and he is able to denounce it, then he should attend and speak out against it, because then he will be combining two obligatory duties.
If he is not able to do that, then he should not attend. Al-Tabari may Allaah have mercy on him said: The scholars of all regions are agreed that singing is makrooh and should be prevented. I say: if it is proven that this matter is not permissible, then accepting payment for it is not permissible either. Ibn Taymiyah may Allaah have mercy on him said: It is not permissible to make musical instruments.
This is the view of Maalik and is the more famous of the two views narrated from Ahmad. And he said: …Ibn al-Mundhir mentioned that the scholars were agreed that it is not permissible to pay people to sing and wail… the consensus of all the scholars whose views we have learned about is that wailing and singing are not allowed. This is our view. And he said: musical instruments are the wine of the soul, and what it does to the soul is worse than what intoxicating drinks do.
Ibn Abi Shaybah may Allaah have mercy on him reported that a man broke a mandolin belonging to another man, and the latter took his case to Shurayh. But Shurayh did not award him any compensation — i.
Al-Baghawi may Allaah have mercy on him stated in a fatwa that it is haraam to sell all kinds of musical instruments such as mandolins, flutes, etc. Then he said: If the images are erased and the musical instruments are altered, then it is permissible to sell their parts, whether they are silver, iron, wood or whatever. The exception to the above is the daff — without any rings i.
This is indicated by saheeh reports. Shaykh al-Islam may Allaah have mercy on him said: But the Prophet peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him made allowances for certain types of musical instruments at weddings and the like, and he made allowances for women to play the daff at weddings and on other joyful occasions. But the men at his time did not play the daff or clap with their hands.
Because singing and playing the daff are things that women do, the Salaf used to call any man who did that a mukhannath effeminate man , and they used to call male singers effeminate — and how many of them there are nowadays! It is well known that the Salaf said this. The commands and prohibitions have to do with listening, not merely hearing, just as in the case of seeing, the rules have to do with intentionally looking and not what happens by accident.
So it is clear that this is for women only. Some of them make an exception for drums at times of war, and consequentially some modern scholars have said that military music is allowed. But there is no basis for this at all, for a number of reasons, the first of which is that this is making an exception with no clear evidence, apart from mere opinion and thinking that it is good, and this is wrong. The second reason is that what the Muslims should do at times of war is to turn their hearts towards their Lord.
Allaah says interpretation of the meaning :. But using music is the opposite of this idea of taqwa and it would distract them from remembering their Lord. Thirdly, using music is one of the customs of the kuffaar, and it is not permitted to imitate them, especially with regard to something that Allaah has forbidden to us in general, such as music. Some of them used the hadeeth about the Abyssinians playing in the mosque of the Prophet peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him as evidence that singing is allowed!
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