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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Singing and the Interpretation of "Lahw al-Hadith" (Frivolous Talk)

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Question:
In my opinion, I heard the Shaykh addressing the audience, saying to a group: "Do not conclude..." If this Shaykh is speaking about poetry or age, and I have a tape from the beginning, I do not see a hadith.

Answer:
It is not a single thing missing from the books; his book by al-Ghazali, his book by al-Tarawi, and his book by Jama'ah, and among them are the Sufis, but this is not correct. This is a wrong fatwa (scholarly legal ruling) that is not permissible to act upon, because singing, singing, singing is haram (forbidden), including what is in it, for it diverts hearts from the remembrance of Allah the Exalted. There is
he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allahمَن يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ
[Luqman 31:6]
without knowledge, to take it as a weight. A group of the Companions interpreted idle talk as oppression, and he swore by the famous oath three times that it is oppression. Yes.
Source شرح العقيدة الطحاوية [1] — alfawzan.live (1:14:25)

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