The Ruling on the Circulation of Islamic Tapes and Anthems

Question:
The last question has two parts. I ask for your opinion on publishing, circulating, and selling Islamic tapes that contain lectures and seminars, and for your opinion as well on the Islamic anthems that circulate among the youth to encourage them toward virtue and attract them to the noble qualities of character and their meanings, or their lofty meanings.

Answer:
The Islamic tape is one of Allah’s great blessings now, which preserves for people the good lectures, seminars, and great benefits, and the Islamic tape is worthy of care, preservation, and circulation. As for the anthems, there is a distinction here. If they are sound Islamic anthems intended to encourage good, activity in knowledge, and the protection and safeguarding of homelands from what harms them, then there is nothing wrong with them. But if they contain something contrary to that which contradicts the Shari'ah, they are like other poems and are prohibited.