The Ruling on Recitation and Singing in Forums
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Question:
Finally, we conclude this session with a question from one of the brothers, who insisted and requested that the program present this question to Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan (may Allah preserve him). He says: Your Eminence, may Allah keep you safe, in our current time, people have turned to recitation (inshad) in forums and in various places, and in this era, what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, given that few of them recite the Qur'an and recitation has become a source of livelihood?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This recitation is singing, and singing is the voice of Satan.[Al-Isra 17:64]. The voice of Satan is singing, so it is not permissible to use singing in gatherings, or in celebrations, or in what they call shilat (group chants); it is all forbidden and not permissible.
Finally, we conclude this session with a question from one of the brothers, who insisted and requested that the program present this question to Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan (may Allah preserve him). He says: Your Eminence, may Allah keep you safe, in our current time, people have turned to recitation (inshad) in forums and in various places, and in this era, what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, given that few of them recite the Qur'an and recitation has become a source of livelihood?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This recitation is singing, and singing is the voice of Satan.
And incite [to senselessness] whoever you can among them with your voice
وَاسْتَفْزِزْ مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ مِنْهُم بِصَوْتِكَ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/104 — archive.org (12:42)
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