Is it permissible to bestow the title "martyr of art" on some singers who died on the stages of singing?
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Question:
This questioner asks: Is it permissible to say of some singers who died on the stages of singing that they are the struggler and the martyr of art?
Answer:
This is not a good statement. No one is ruled to be a martyr except the one for whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled him to be a martyr. But we hope for the one who does good and we fear for the one who does evil. And the singer, if he is one who maintains the prayer.
Singing is considered a sin, and playing with instruments of amusement is a sin, and a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam. He is treated with the treatment of Muslims, except if he has something that contradicts Islam, such as abandoning the prayer or something from the nullifiers of Islam, then he is ruled to be a disbeliever. But as long as he maintains his prayer and testifies that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and nothing appears from him that contradicts Islam, then the matter of singing and musical instruments and these things and this art is a forbidden sin and a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam, and it does not prevent supplicating for him and praying for him when he dies.
This questioner asks: Is it permissible to say of some singers who died on the stages of singing that they are the struggler and the martyr of art?
Answer:
This is not a good statement. No one is ruled to be a martyr except the one for whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled him to be a martyr. But we hope for the one who does good and we fear for the one who does evil. And the singer, if he is one who maintains the prayer.
Singing is considered a sin, and playing with instruments of amusement is a sin, and a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam. He is treated with the treatment of Muslims, except if he has something that contradicts Islam, such as abandoning the prayer or something from the nullifiers of Islam, then he is ruled to be a disbeliever. But as long as he maintains his prayer and testifies that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and nothing appears from him that contradicts Islam, then the matter of singing and musical instruments and these things and this art is a forbidden sin and a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam, and it does not prevent supplicating for him and praying for him when he dies.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز إطلاق لقب شهيد الفن على بعض المغنين ممن ماتوا على خشبات المسارح الغنائية؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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