The Refutation of Those Who Permit Music and Musical Instruments, and a Misinterpretation of the Statement of the Exalted:

The Shaykh : We often hear, as well, fatwas that contradict the path of the righteous Salaf and the four Imams and others, such as what some of today's Islamic writers claim in the name of making things easy and being lenient with people. You must have heard someone explicitly declaring musical instruments permissible, even though the scholars of old and their followers today interpret the saying of the Exalted, , by explaining "leisurely talk" as singing that distracts those who engage in this singing from performing many Islamic obligations, which may include maintaining the prayer. So when some people interpret this interpretation as speech that contradicts the Shari'ah—for example—or speech that incites commotion and noise against the word of Allah alone, and do not interpret it as singing as well, despite the many hadiths from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the prohibition of musical instruments, which supports this interpretation coming from the Salaf that "leisurely talk" is singing.
Among those hadiths—for example, and I am not listing them all—is what al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih as a hanging hadith, and a large group of hadith scholars connected it with a sound chain from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Meaning: fornication. Meaning: animal silk, which is called “local” in some countries, meaning non-vegetable. .
Today we hear many people declare it explicitly, either in writing or in lectures, that musical instruments are permissible, given the many and very many instruments that the European disbelievers have invented today, such that when the listener hears them, his strength collapses and his Islamic meanings and Islamic honor are lost, and he no longer cares about the open sinfulness or lewdness that occurs there. When we hear such fatwas, we must stand before them questioning, and it is not permissible for us to stand before them submissive, saying to them: , how do you expand the meaning of so that it includes building mosques? Then no rich person would volunteer from his abundant wealth to give charity beyond what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has obligated upon him of zakah; so he does no good except within the limits of the obligation, while he has prevented himself from voluntary acts? Because these scholars have found for him a way that any good you spend can be considered part of the obligatory zakah.
And so, the examples multiply in interpreting texts from the Book and texts from the Sunnah contrary to what the scholars of the Muslims were upon in the past.