My teacher, if the anthems were free of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and all these matters, is the impermissibility due to prohibition or due to being disliked?

The questioner : My teacher, if the anthems were free of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and all these matters, is the impermissibility due to prohibition or due to being disliked?

The Shaykh : My brother, we do not have a bid'ah (religious innovation) that is merely disliked and not forbidden. But the important thing is that a person believes, above all else, in this principle supported by numerous hadiths of the Messenger (peace be upon him) that Second, he knows that if the Salaf (the earliest generations) did not do a certain thing, then it is not forbidden, but rather disliked. Yes.

The questioner : I have a question on this topic. The anthems themselves, in all their types, except for what is now called religious, do not contain anything forbidden in their essence. I mean, when the Arab would chant with his songs about something, that is lawful. But if he chanted about something and there was a religious matter in that chanting, you say that no examples have come from the actions of the Companions or the people of the Salaf that this was practiced.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : But does this mean that it was not practiced? Is there evidence that it was not permissible?

The Shaykh : I am answering you from your question. First, what you are asking about is different from what we are discussing. We were discussing something called religious anthems. As for your question now, I will tell you: what do you think of someone who says, "Listen to this, it is religious poetry, a religious anthem, or is it not?"
"Abandon the mention of songs and love poetry *** And speak the clear truth and avoid those who joke.
And leave the mention of the days of youth *** For the days of youth are a star that has set.
And forsake the wine if you are a man *** How does one pursue madness who has reason?
I do not choose to kiss a hand *** And there is nothing more beautiful than that kiss."
If you exempt me from what I don't know, if you exempt me, and there is nothing more beautiful than that kiss, what do you think of this poem? Is it permissible or not permissible?

The questioner: It is valid.

The Shaykh : It is permissible. If it were not permissible, I would not have memorized it when I was in the prime of my youth.

The Shaykh : But this is not from the religious anthems. First, it must be composed according to musical laws, and then there must not be anything that suggests softness and laxity, like the Sufis (the Sufis) in their anthems and the like. As for this that gives you strength and gives you courage, that exists in Islam, but this is not religious anthems.

The questioner : O you who was sent to us, you came with the obeyed command.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : You came and honored the city.

The Shaykh : This is what has no basis, I mean.

The questioner : Welcome, O best caller.

The Shaykh : No, no, look, this is a sincere example of what I said earlier. Those who call out to the Messenger with this call, what do you think of them? Are they Salafis (a follower of the Salaf)?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : So it is finished.

The questioner : They are innovators.

The Shaykh : The problem comes from here: whoever wants to compose religious anthems must first set a title that is not usually permissible to take, and they establish a status for them like the status of the Qur'an and the status of the Sunnah (the Prophet's way).

The questioner: Correct.

The Shaykh : Second, there is no harm in that sometimes to drive away boredom from a person and to remind of good morals, courage, and heroism, and so on. No one denies this. But we...

The questioner : Perhaps some of this was included in his question.

The Shaykh : And we now distinguished for him. First, his question was, "What do you think of anthems?" I gave him the answer, and I know that he does not mean anthems absolutely, but rather he means religious anthems. And therefore I spoke about religious anthems, and it appears that there is a bit of this still.

The questioner : My teacher, my teacher, he says, "I will tell you, the poetry intended is, if... I mean, for example, on some meters we might sing, I mean, a verse of poetry, for example, truly, truly, truly, truly, sincerely, sincerely, sincerely, on the meter, for example, al-Mutaqarib, it remains a bit close to poetry. But if it is an anthem as the tapes do now that are distributed, I say this is the intention.The Shaykh : from .

The questioner : He says, he says, poetry and religious anthems with permissibility, I mean, is it permissible?

The Shaykh : You say, may Allah forgive you, as he says about you.

The questioner : I have known your opinion for years.

The Shaykh : I don't know, perhaps it is like that.

The questioner : We are not saying anything, for example, now, young men are going for 'Umrah (the lesser pilgrimage).

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.

The questioner : And they are on the way, they started talking anthems, for example, the caller's ear and he announced when he called, "Allahu Akbar (Allah is the Greatest)," a shout that destroyed Kisra and bent, falling upon Caesar.

The questioner : I mean, just with a melody a bit more.

The questioner : With a melody, I mean, is there something wrong with this?

The Shaykh : No, there is nothing wrong with it.

The questioner : That is it.

The Shaykh : But allow me, listen to me a bit. Is this type of melody imitated by the melody of the female singers and male and female singers, or not?

The questioner : No one imitates it.

The Shaykh : If it is not, then say there is no objection.

The questioner : Ah, I mean, the religious anthem.The Shaykh ... .

The questioner : I mean, this condition in this issue, or is there something else?

The Shaykh : No, there is something else as well, and it is taking it as a custom.

The questioner : Custom, I mean, these two things.

The Shaykh : Ah.