The encyclopedic scholar Ibn AlQayyim (may Allah be merciful with him) said in his book ''Ighathat AlLahfan Min Masa'd AlShaitan":
"Whistling, clapping of hands, singing, and music are among the stratagems and plots that Satan uses to allure those who have little religious knowledge and reason. Indeed, he deluded thereby the ignorant and liars. Thus, he diverts people from listening to the Qur'an and gets them involved in deviance and sins. Satan uses singing to make people abandon the Qur'an and vulnerable to committing sins of homosexuality and Zina (premarital sexual intercourse and/or adultery). It is the way for seduction and temptation, as Satan beautifies it in the eyes of the ignorant and makes them inclined to hear it more and more. Their hearts are spoiled and thus they become heedless of the Qur'an... Indeed, the poet puts it in beautiful verses when saying,
The Qur'an is recited and they but inattentively and heedlessly listened not submissively And when singing began, like danced for their own pleasure donkeys they Indulged in sounds of thus absolutely unable to tambourine, pipe, and loud observe devotion rhymes. They felt burdened with the due to its commands and Qur'an prohibitions Its Ayahs seem to them as for they bear threat for the thunder, disobedient They saw the Qur'an as a to their lustful desires, what barrier loss for them! But singing gratifies their thus, it becomes highly elevated wicked selves, What benefit will they attain Alas, if those heedless and ignorant will just know If singing is not the intoxicant surely, it is of minds of bodies, Look to the intoxicated after and look to the jubilant person drinking after listening to music Look how they tear their clothes after they depraved their hearts inattentively of Iman
Now say, what intoxicant more prohibition and punishment deserving of from Allah Another said: We excused ourselves before from people who are sick with Allah singing and music Many a time I said: O people, about to fall into a grievous you are abyss; unfathomable and deep, leading to the abode of the great hardship Many a time we advised them to be excused before Allah But when they mocked our we left our affairs to Allah warnings, Thus, we adopted the while they lived their life to exemplary behavior of the death indulged in tones and Prophet melodies
The advocates of Islam and the guidedImams through ages warned and still warn against the behavior of those ignorant and disobedient. End of Quote.