Tahrim Alat al-Tarab - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (170)

Tahrim Alat al-TarabNasir al-Din al-Albani

Likewise, the ḥadith master Imam Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ⦗1⦘ issued a detailed fatwa in reply to a question put to him about people who deem it lawful to sing to the accompaniment of the frame-drum and the reed flute, together with dancing and clapping, and who claim that such behavior is permissible, a means of drawing close to Allah, indeed one of the finest acts of worship.

He—may Allah have mercy on him—answered, and the substance of his response that concerns our subject is as follows:

“They have lied against Allah, exalted is He. By their statement they have sided with the esoteric heretics and have violated the consensus of the Muslims. Whoever defies that consensus comes under Allah’s words: ‘And whoever opposes the Messenger after guidance has become clear to him and follows a way other than that of the believers, We shall leave him on the path he has chosen and roast him in Hell—an evil destination indeed.’⦗2⦘”

Among those who spoke in the same vein is Imam al-Shāṭibī, may Allah have mercy on him, who was asked about a group affiliating themselves with Ṣūfism: they gather, pronounce the remembrance of Allah aloud in a single voice, and then proceed to sing and dance. He replied:

“All of this is part of the newly invented innovations that run contrary to the way of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, the way of his Companions, and the way of those who followed them with excellence. May Allah cause whomever He wills of His creatures to benefit from this.”⦗3⦘

(1) He is the eminent Imam, Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din, author of the celebrated Muqaddima fi ulum al-hadith. Al-Dhahabi states in Siyar that he was among the foremost scholars of his age in tafsir, hadith, and fiqh. He died in 643 AH. (2) See Ibn al-Salah, Fatawa, pp. 300–301 (he too died in 643 AH). A more extensive version of this passage is quoted by Ibn al-Qayyim in Ighathat al-lahfan, 1/228. (3) This is the distinguished scholar and critical editor Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Lakhmi, Abu Ishaq al-Gharnati, author of several valuable works; he died in 790 AH.

وقد أفتى بنحو هذا الإمام الحافظ ابن الصلاح١ في فتوى له مسهبة جوابا على سؤال من بعضهم عمن يستحلون الغناء بالدف والشبابة مع الرقص والتصفيق ويعتقدون أن ذلك حلال وقربة وأنه من أفضل العبادات؟ فأجاب ﵀ بما خلاصته مما يناسب المقام قال: لقد كذبوا على الله ﷾ وشايعوا بقولهم هذا باطنية الملحدين وخالفوا إجماع المسلمين ومن خالف إجماعهم فعليه ما في قوله تعالى: ﴿وَمَنْ يُشَاقِقِ الرَّسُولَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ الْهُدَى وَيَتَّبِعْ غَيْرَ سَبِيلِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ نُوَلِّهِ مَا تَوَلَّى وَنُصْلِهِ جَهَنَّمَ وَسَاءَتْ مَصِيراً﴾ ٢. ومنهم الإمام الشاطبي رحمه الله٣ فقال إجابة عن سؤال وجه إليه عن قوم ينتمون إلى الصوفية يجتمعون فيذكرون الله جهرا بصوت واحد ثم يغنون ويرقصون؟: إن ذلك كله من البدع المحدثات المخالفة طريقة رسول الله ﷺ وطريقة أصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان فنفع الله بذلك من شاء من خلقه.

١ هو الإمام العلامة شيخ الإسلام تقي الدين مؤلف مقدمة علوم الحديث المشهورة قال الذهبي في السير: كان أحد فضلاء عصره في التفسير والحديث والفقه. توفي سنة ٦٤٣. ٢ انظر فتاوى ابن الصلاح ٣٠٠- ٣٠١- توفي سنة ٦٤٣. ابن القيم في إغائة اللهافان ١/٢٢٨. مقطعا أوسع مما هنا وفيه بعضه. ٣ هو العلامة المحقق إبراهيم بن موسى اللخمي أبو إسحاق الغرناطي صاحب المؤلفات الجليلة النفيسة مات سنة ٧٩٠.