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Music, Singing, Playing Musical Instruments, Employing Singers and Attending Concerts or Events where Music is Played—in Light of Islamic Teachings

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Inviting non-Muslim singers to Muslim countries, paying for them, organising concerts and festivals, listening to their songs, and free-mixing between the sexes ― Answered by Abdullāh Al-Ghudayān, Sālih Al-Fawzān, Abdul-‘Azīz Ālush-Shaykh, Bakr Abu Zayd

Introduction If a person looks at the advice given by the scholars in the fatwā below, he will notice the method of the scholars in guiding the Ummah and the [read on…]

Fatwa

The Islamic Ruling on Music and Singing ―Ibn Bāz, Al-Albāni, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Al-Qayyim and the Four Madhhabs

Is music and singing permissible in Islam? Listening to songs is prohibited (harām) due to the saying of Allah: وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ [read on…]