Allaah Says in Soorat Luqmaan

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Allaah says in Soorat Luqmaan (interpretation of the meaning):

“And of mankind is he who purchases idle talks (i.e. music, singing) to mislead

(men) from the path of Allaah! "Luqmaan #$:%&

'he scholar of the ummah, n *Aaas (may Allaah e pleased with him) said: thismeans singing. +uaahid (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: this means playing

the drum (tal). ('afseer al'aari, /$012).

Al3asan al4asri (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: this aayah was re-ealed

concerning singing and musical instruments (lit. woodwind instruments). ('afseer

n 5atheer, #016$).

AlSa7di (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: this includes all manner of haraam

speech, all idle talk and falsehood, and all nonsense that encourages kufr and

disoedience8 the words of those who say things to refute the truth and argue in

support of falsehood to defeat the truth8 and ackiting, slander, lies, insults and

curses8 the singing and musical instruments of the Shaytaan8 and musical

instruments which are of no spiritual or worldly ene9t. ('afseer alSa7di, %0$62)

n alayyim (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: 'he interpretation of the

Sahaaah and 'aai7in, that *idle talk7 refers to singing, is su;cient. 'his was

reported with saheeh isnaads from n *Aaas and n +as7ood. Au7lSahaa7

said: asked n +as7ood aout the aayah (interpretation of the meaning), *“And of

mankind is he who purchases idle talks7 "Luqmaan #$:%&. 3e said: 4y Allaah, esides

<hom there is no other god, this means singing = and he repeated it three times. t

was also reported with a saheeh isnaad from n *>mar (may Allaah e pleased with

them oth) that this means singing. 'here is no contradiction etween the

interpretation of “idle talk! as meaning singing and the interpretation of it asmeaning stories of the ?ersians and their kings, and the kings of the @omans, and

so on, such as aladr in al3aarith used to tell to the people of +akkah to distract

them from the ur7aan. 4oth of them are idle talk. 3ence n *Aaas said: “dle

talk! is falsehood and singing. Some of the Sahaaah said one and some said the

other, and some said oth. Singing is worse and more harmful than stories of kings,

ecause it leads to Binaa and makes hypocrisy grow (in the heart)8 it is the trap of

the Shaytaan, and it clouds the mind. 'he way in which it locks people from the

ur7aan is worse than the way in which other kinds of false talk lock them,

ecause people are naturally inclined towards it and tend to want to listen to it. 'he

aayaat condemn replacing the ur7aan with idle talk in order to mislead (men) from

the path of Allaah without knowledge and taking it as a oke, ecause when anaayah of the ur7aan is recited to such a person, he turns his ack as if he heard

them not, as if there were deafness in his ear. f he hears anything of it, he makes

fun of it. All of this happens only in the case of the people who are most stuornly

kaa9rs and if some of it happens to singers and those who listen to them, they oth

ha-e a share of this lame. (ghaathat alLahfaan, $0/6C/6D).

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):



“"Allaah said to lees:& And efool them gradually those whom you can among

them with your -oice (i.e. songs, music, and any other call for Allaah7s

disoedience)! "alsraa7 $E:%1&

t was narrated that +uaahid (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: “And efool

them gradually those whom you can among them with your -oice! = his -oice "the

-oice of lees0Shaytaan& is singing and falsehood. n alayyim (may Allaah ha-e

mercy on him) said: 'his idaafah "possessi-e or geniti-e construction, i.e., your

-oice& ser-es to make the meaning speci9c, as with the phrases "translated as&

“your ca-alry! and “your infantry! "later in the same aayah&. F-eryone who speaks

in any way that is not oedient to Allaah, e-eryone who lows into a Gute or other

woodwind instrument, or who plays any haraam kind of drum, this is the -oice of

the Shaytaan. F-eryone who walks to commit some act of disoedience towards

Allaah is part of his "the Shaytaan7s& infantry, and anyone who rides to commit sin is

part of his ca-alry. 'his is the -iew of the Salaf, as n *Ai 3aatim narrated from n

*Aaas: his infantry is e-eryone who walks to disoey Allaah. (ghaathat al

Lahfaan).

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Ho you then wonder at this recitation (the ur7aan)I

And you laugh at it and weep not,

<asting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing)!

"alam 6#:6D%$&

*krimah (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: it was narrated from n *Aaas

that alsumood "-eral noun from saamidoon, translated here as “<asting your

(precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing)!& means “singing!, in the

dialect of 3imyar8 it might e said “smidi lanaa! "*sing for us7 = from the same root

as saamidoon0sumood& meaning “ghaniy! "sing&. And he said (may Allaah ha-e

mercy on him): <hen they "the kuJaar& heard the ur7aan, they would sing, then

this aayah was re-ealed.

n 5atheer (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: Allaah says (interpretation of the

meaning) “<asting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing)! =

Sufyaan al'hawri said, narrating from his father from n *Aaas: (this means)singing. 'his is Kemeni (dialect): ismad lana means ghan lana "sing to us&. 'his was

also the -iew of *krimah. ('afseer n 5atheer).

t was reported from Au >maamah (may Allaah e pleased with him) that the

+essenger of Allaah (peace and lessings of Allaah e upon him) said: “Ho not sell

singing sla-e women, do not uy them and do not teach them. 'here is nothing

good in this trade, and their price is haraam. oncerning such things as this the



aayah was re-ealed (interpretation of the meaning): *And of mankind is he who

purchases idle talks (i.e. music, singing) to mislead (men) from the path of Allaah7

"Luqmaan #$:%&.! (3asan hadeeth)

'he +essenger of Allaah (peace and lessings of Allaah e upon him) said:

“Among my ummah there will certainly e people who permit Binaa, silk, alcohol and

musical instruments! (arrated y al4ukhaari ta7leeqan, no. 66D28 narrated as

mawsool y al'aaraani and al4ayhaqi. See alSilsilah alSaheehah y alAlaani,

D$).

n alayyim (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: 'his is a saheeh hadeeth

narrated y al4ukhaari in his Saheeh, where he quoted it as e-idence and stated

that it is mu7allaq and maBoom. 3e said: hapter on what was narrated concerning

those who permit alcohol and call it y another name.

'his hadeeth indicates in two ways that musical instruments and enoyment of

listening to music are haraam. 'he 9rst is the fact that the ?rophet (peace and

lessings of Allaah e upon him) said: “"they& permit! which clearly indicates that

the things mentioned, including musical instruments, are haraam according to

sharee7ah, ut those people will permit them. 'he second is the fact that musical

instruments are mentioned alongside things which are de9nitely known to e

haraam, i.e., Binaa and alcohol: if they (musical instruments) were not haraam, why

would they e mentioned alongside these thingsI (adapted from alSilsilah al

Saheehah y alAlaani, $0$12$1$)

Shaykh alslam (n 'aymiyah) (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: 'his hadeeth

indicates that ma7aaBif are haraam, and ma7aaBif means musical instruments

according to the scholars of (Araic) language. 'his word includes all suchinstruments. (al+amoo7, $$06#6).

n alayyim (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: And concerning the same topic

similar comments were narrated from Sahl in Sa7d alSaa7idi, *mraan in 3usayn,

*AdAllaah in *Amr, *AdAllaah in *Aaas, Au 3urayrah, Au >maamah al

4aahili, *Aa7ishah >mm al+u7mineen, *Ali in Ai 'aali, Anas in +aalik, *Ad al

@ahmaan in Saait and alMhaaBi in @aee7ah. 'hen he mentioned it in ghaathat

alLahfaan, and it indicates that they (musical instruments) are haraam.

t was narrated that aa97 (may Allaah ha-e mercy on him) said: n *>mar heard a

woodwind instrument, and he put his 9ngers in his ears and kept away from thatpath. 3e said to me, N aa97, can you hear anythingI said, o. So he took his

9ngers away from his ears and said: was with the ?rophet (peace and lessings of

Allaah e upon him) and he heard something like this, and he did the same thing.

(Saheeh Ai Hawood). Some insigni9cant person said that this hadeeth does not

pro-e that musical instruments are haraam, ecause if that were so, the +essenger

of Allaah (peace and lessings of Allaah e upon him) would ha-e instructed n

*>mar (may Allaah e pleased with them oth) to put his 9ngers in his ears as well,



and n *>mar would ha-e instructed aa97 to do likewiseO 'he response to this is:

3e was not listening to it, ut he could hear it. 'here is a diJerence etween

listening and hearing. Shaykh alslam (n 'aymiyah) (may Allaah ha-e mercy on

him) said: oncerning (music) which a person does not intend to listen to, there is

no prohiition or lame, according to scholarly consensus. 3ence lame or praise is

connected to listening, not to hearing. 'he one who listens to the ur7aan will e

rewarded for it, whereas the one who hears it without intending or wanting to will

not e rewarded for that, ecause actions are udged y intentions. 'he same

applies to musical instruments which are foridden: if a person hears them without

intending to, that does not matter. (al+amoo7, $20EC

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