{"id":16656,"date":"2020-09-23T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=16656"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:55:10","slug":"is-nasheed-like-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-nasheed-like-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nasheed like Singing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 04098<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana&nbsp;Muhammad Asadullah Anwar Adam<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">As Salaamu Alaikum,<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">I would like to enquire as to what the term nasheed means. Having understood that musical instruments and singing are impermissible apart from the exception given to women to sing (to females only or Maharam) on occasions such as Eid and Weddings. I would like to ask if nasheed is technically &#39;singing&#39;? I have yet to fully understand if the term nasheed means to sing songs of good content or recite poetry rather than &#39;sing&#39; and so I would like to enquire as to what is meant by the term nasheed and also understand the evidence behind this?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">&nbsp; <strong><span dir=\"RTL\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0652\u0645<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span dir=\"RTL\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0645\u0646\u0650<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span dir=\"RTL\">\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0650<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span dir=\"RTL\">\u0628\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0645\u0650<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">In Arabic, nasheed means raising the voice when reciting and making the voice sound beautiful and gentle.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">There are clear narrations which support the fact that to recite poetry and to listen to it is permissible as long as the reciter is not a woman, the subject of the poetry is not vulgar or indecent, and there are no musical instruments involved. [1]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Allah in the Holy Qur&rsquo;an has said<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">&quot;And there are among men, those that purchase idle tales, to mislead (men) from the path of Allah and through ridicule.&nbsp; For such there will be a humiliating punishment. &quot;[2]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Most of the scholars have interpreted &ldquo;idle talk&rdquo; (Lahwe-hadith) as meaning singing, musical instruments, and every voice that diverts people from the truth. [3]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Written by Maulana Muhammad Asadullah Anwar Adam<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">[1][Maariful Quran p.35 &#8211; 36 v.7]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">[2][Surah Luqman v.6]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">[3][Maariful Quran p.33 &#8211; 34 v.7]<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 04098 Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana&nbsp;Muhammad Asadullah Anwar Adam &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; As Salaamu Alaikum, I would like to enquire as to what the term nasheed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}