The extent of the validity of the consensus on the prohibition of shaving the beard and listening to songs
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Did scholarly consensus establish the prohibition of shaving beards and listening to songs?
No, there has been no consensus, neither on shaving the beard nor on listening to songs. But does every ruling that binds us have to be one on which we are in consensus? No.
If there is a dispute, our reference is to only two things: the Book and the Sunnah.because of His saying, the Exalted: [Al-Nisa: 59] As for what some of the people of desires do, when a matter in which there is disagreement comes to them;He said: This is a matter in which there is disagreement, even riba (usury or interest) — they now consider it permissible —They say: saying, “There is nothing wrong with it because there is a disagreement in it,”Songs and musical instruments, if he says: “It is haram (forbidden),” he says, “but there is a disagreement in it,”Shaving the beard, he says: “There is a disagreement in this.” This is not correct, and this excuse will not benefit a person on the Day of Resurrection before Allah, because Allah has specified what He will ask a person about: [Al-Qasas: 65] If we were to go around making permissible every matter in which there is disagreement, following our desires, we would slip out of the religion.
No, there has been no consensus, neither on shaving the beard nor on listening to songs. But does every ruling that binds us have to be one on which we are in consensus? No.
If there is a dispute, our reference is to only two things: the Book and the Sunnah.because of His saying, the Exalted:
