The Ruling on Anashid and Whether They Are a Means of Da'wah
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Question:
May Allah be with you. He says: Honorable Shaykh, in this time, the anashid singers have expanded in issuing anashid and excelling in obtaining voices and producing them with microphones, and the matter has even reached imitating the singers by having the anashid singer perform the anashid and then dubbing natural images, which is called video. Is this work permissible? And are plays and dramatizations among the means of da'wah to
Answer:
From the very beginning, from the first time anashid appeared, I have said that they are not permissible, because they are songs, a type of songs that distract from the remembrance of Allah, and they contain harms. From the first time they appeared, I have disapproved of them and written about them. People used to be surprised at that time at how I could say that they are not permissible, even though they are considered a means of da'wah.
I say: No, they are not permissible, and they are not a means of da'wah. They are a means of amusement. A means of amusement and a type of songs. Look now where they have developed. They have reached the extreme that the questioner mentioned. And evil leads to some of its kind. Yes.
May Allah be with you. He says: Honorable Shaykh, in this time, the anashid singers have expanded in issuing anashid and excelling in obtaining voices and producing them with microphones, and the matter has even reached imitating the singers by having the anashid singer perform the anashid and then dubbing natural images, which is called video. Is this work permissible? And are plays and dramatizations among the means of da'wah to
Answer:
From the very beginning, from the first time anashid appeared, I have said that they are not permissible, because they are songs, a type of songs that distract from the remembrance of Allah, and they contain harms. From the first time they appeared, I have disapproved of them and written about them. People used to be surprised at that time at how I could say that they are not permissible, even though they are considered a means of da'wah.
I say: No, they are not permissible, and they are not a means of da'wah. They are a means of amusement. A means of amusement and a type of songs. Look now where they have developed. They have reached the extreme that the questioner mentioned. And evil leads to some of its kind. Yes.
Source
الفوزان - الفتاوى المهمة لعامة الأمة — archive.org (46:44)
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