The Ruling on Attachment to Singers and Sports Clubs
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Question:
The questioner says: There are some people, or rather most of them, who love some of the singers, and some of the sports clubs and players, with a crazy love that may reach the point of defending them with their hands. Is this not a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah), and diverting some of the types of obedience to other than Allah?
Answer:
This is fitnah (trial, discord or temptation); this is from the fitnah, and from the amusement, play, and preoccupation with other than the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). It is obligatory for these people to repent to Allah and leave their attachment to these trifles. If these trifles occupy them from the prayer and from the remembrance of Allah, then they will be in great danger.[Al-Munafiqun 63:9] If it is not permissible for a person to be occupied with wealth and children from the remembrance of Allah, how then with amusement, play, singers, and the like? The danger in this is great.
The questioner says: There are some people, or rather most of them, who love some of the singers, and some of the sports clubs and players, with a crazy love that may reach the point of defending them with their hands. Is this not a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah), and diverting some of the types of obedience to other than Allah?
Answer:
This is fitnah (trial, discord or temptation); this is from the fitnah, and from the amusement, play, and preoccupation with other than the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). It is obligatory for these people to repent to Allah and leave their attachment to these trifles. If these trifles occupy them from the prayer and from the remembrance of Allah, then they will be in great danger.
O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تُلْهِكُمْ أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يُعدُّ حب المغنين، وبعض الأندية الرياضية واللاعبين حبًّا جنونيًّا نوع من الشرك... #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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