Islamic Stance on Music [🧵]
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Music has been so normalized that “scholars” have even misguided people on it. May Allah forgive us and guide us, aameen.
This will be a long but informative thread on this topic, in shaa’ Allah
Ibn Masud (rAa) said about this ayah: “It is singing, by the one and only God” he repeated it 3x (Tafsir Tabari 11/61)
Ibn Abbas says the same thing (recorded in Adab Al Mufrad), so do Jabir Ibn Abdillah and Ibn Umar. As well as Ibn Abbas’ father (radhiAllahu ‘anhum)
The scholars of tafsir regarding the voice (of Iblis):
Mujahid: It is singing, flutes, distraction, falsehood (Tafsir Tabari 15/81)
Hasan Al-Basri: It’s the duff and the flute (Tafsir Samani 3/258)
Ibn Abbas said: It is singing. Upon hearing the Quran, they (the mushrikeen of makkah) used to sing and play. (Tafsir Tabari 13/82)
Mujahid also says the same thing in Talbis Iblis by Ibn Jawzi (p. 231)