Is Music Haram? | Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan

7,335 views·Jun 27, 2026

📌 In this beneficial fatwa, Shaykh Salih al Fawzan explains the Islamic ruling on listening to music and musical instruments. The Shaykh affirms that listening to music and musical instruments is haram by consensus (ijma), as stated by Shaykh al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. He further explains that it is not permissible to listen to them because they are instruments of idle amusement and diversion. Question: What is the ruling on listening to music and musical instruments? Answer: It is haram. Listening to music and musical instruments is haram by consensus (ijma). This is as stated by Shaykh al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH). Therefore, it is not permissible to listen to music or musical instruments because they are instruments of amusement and diversion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Hadith #Tawheed #Aqeedah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #AhlusSunnah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #Fiqh #Shariah #SeekingKnowledge #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #SalafiDawah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #IslamicGuidance #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Reminder #Knowledge #Truth #Guidance #Muslim #MuslimYouth #ScholarsOfIslam #ScholarsOfSunnah #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #ShaykhFawzan #LajnahDaimah #Music #MusicIsHaram #Entertainment #Amusement #Bidah #Shirk #Kufr #Iman #Refutation #Clarification