The Ruling on Islamic Anthems as a Substitute for Songs

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This young woman says that Allah recently granted her guidance, so some of her sisters advised her to listen to the anthems called Islamic ones, instead of listening to the forbidden songs. She listened to them and found that these anthems are composed, melodious, and distracting from the remembrance of Allah and from the Qur'an; they are melodious, and melodious, and distracting from the remembrance of Allah and from the Qur'an, exactly like the songs. So I ask you to give me and my sisters, who were deceived and led astray by these anthems, and even by the reciters, some advice.

Answer:
We advise our Muslim brothers to stay away from these anthems and to occupy themselves with the remembrance of Allah and the recitation of the Qur'an. We do not take a person out of one sin and put him into another sin. We say this in the context of calling to the truth: we take him out of sin into repentance and obedience, not into another sin.