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This is an article explaining how and why nasheeds are haraam!! I hope you all understand and stay away from it!! I also hope that no one gets offended by this cuz' it ain't my words!! Its the words of sheikh Salih al Fawzaan!! I know its very long but i believe its worth reading!!
Anasheed
In his Book “Al-Khutab al-Mimbariyyah”(3/184-185, 1411H Edition), Sheikh Saalih Al-Fawzaan said: “What deserves attention also is: The tapes that are being increasingly circulated amongst the practicing youth in which are recorded anasheed, done in group voices. They call them Islamic Anasheed, but they are a form of singing and sometimes they occur with provocative voices. They can even be found being sold at tape exhibitions along with tapes of the noble Quran and religious lectures.
Calling these Anasheed ‘Islamic’ is incorrect, since Islam has not legislated anasheed for us. Rather it only prescribed for us the remembrance of Allah, the recitation of the Quran, and the acquiring of knowledge. As for Anasheed, then they are from the ways of the innovating sufis, those who take their religion as play and amusement. Furthermore, taking Anasheed as part of the religion contains in it imitation of the disbelievers, those who make their religion into collective chanting and musical melodies.
It is an obligation to warn against these Anasheed and to prevent their sale and distribution. In addition to this, these Anasheed contain an incitement towards fitnah with reckless zeal they cause instigation amongst the Muslims. Those who spread the Anasheed use as proof for their claim the fact that poems would be chanted in the presence of the Prophet(Salallahu ‘alayhi wasalam) and he would listen to them and concur with that.
The response to this is that those poems that would be chanted in front of Allah’s Messenger (Salallahu ‘alayhi wasalam), they would be chanted in a group voice in the form of singing, and they would not be called ‘Islamic Anasheed.’ On the contrary, they were just Arab poems, which contained points of wisdom, parables, and descriptions of valor and nobility. The companions would recite these individually due to the meanings they contained. And Sometimes they would chant these poems at the time of doing some laborious work, such as construction, and traveling at night on a journey. So this proves that this type of chanting is permissible under these similar specific circumstances, not that they should be made into one of the subjects of education and da’wah, as is prevalent nowadays, such that students are dictated these Anasheed and they are called: ‘Islamic Hymns’ and ‘Religious Chants.’
This is innovating in the Religion and it is from the ways of the innovating Sufis, for they are the ones who are known to take these Anasheed as part of their religion. So it is obligatory to be cautious of their plots and to prevent the sale of these tapes, since evil at first begins small, and then progresses and increases if it is not terminated at it’s inception.”
The noble Sheikh, Muhammad bin Saalih al-‘Uthaimeen was asked the following question about Anasheed: “Is it permissible for me to chant Islamic Anasheed (Hymns)? And is it permissible to beat the duff along with these chants? Also, are the chanting of these hymns permissible in situations other than ‘Eid and Wedding Festivities?”
So he responded by saying: “The Islamic Anasheed (hymns) are innovated hymns. They resemble that which the Sufis have innovated. This is why we must refrain form them and instead turn towards the admonitions found in the Quran and Sunnah. This is unless, these hymns occur at times of war, so as to encourage and build up courage for Jihad in the Cause of Allah, for this is good. And if these hymns are accompanied by the duff then they stray even further from what is correct.” [Transcribed from the book “The Fataawa of Sheikh Muhammad al-‘Uthaimeen” compiled by Ashraf ‘Abdul-Maqsood(1/134-135); 1412 Edition; Dar ‘Aalam-ul-kutub]
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