Mentioning some anomalous fatwas.
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The questioner : The scholars have started issuing fatwas to people in any manner.
The Shaykh : I have not seen them, no.
The questioner : I saw one of the fatwas that permits music, stating that those who said it is forbidden applied a figurative interpretation to the verse[An-Nazi'at 79:40] and mistakenly interpreted "desires" as music. I said, they forbade music. This is an Azhar scholar, and this is in an Egyptian magazine from about a month ago. Another person, also an Azhar scholar, writes that investment certificates are halal, halal, halal. A third person says riba is forbidden, but what is riba?
The Shaykh : Oh, Allah is the Greatest, we seek help from Allah.
The questioner : These fatwas are numerous in contemporary magazines that everyone reads.
The Shaykh : I have not seen them, no.
The questioner : I saw one of the fatwas that permits music, stating that those who said it is forbidden applied a figurative interpretation to the verse
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوىThe Shaykh : Oh, Allah is the Greatest, we seek help from Allah.
The questioner : These fatwas are numerous in contemporary magazines that everyone reads.
Source
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