The ruling on listening to songs
Q 1: What is the ruling on listening to songs?
A: Listening to songs is undoubtedly Haram (prohibited), as it might lead to other sins and temptations such as committing the unlawful act of Zina (premarital sexual intercourse and/or adultery), sodomy, or drinking Khamr (intoxicant), gambling, and befriending bad people. Furthermore, it might lead to Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) and disbelieving in Allah according to the content and words of the songs listened to. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says in His noble Book:
And of mankind is he who purchases idle talks (i.e. music, singing, etc.) to mislead (men) from the Path of Allâh without knowledge, and takes it (the Path of Allâh, or the Verses of the Qur'ân) by way of mockery. For such there will be a humiliating torment (in the Hellfire). And when Our Verses (of the Qur'ân) are recited to such a one, he turns away in pride, as if he heard them not as if there were deafness in his ear. So announce to him a painful torment.
He (may He be Praised) says that some people purchase idle talk to misguide others from the path of Allah. The verb "Leyadel",i.e. to misguide was pronounced in two different ways to indicate that those who listen to music may even lead others or be led to misguidance due to the diseases that afflict their hearts and render them hardened. Accordingly, they divert from the Truth because of their frequent sin and abandoning what Allah enjoined to them, so they abandon Salah (Prayer) in congregation, become undutiful to one's parents, practice the sin of gambling and even commit the acts of Zina, sodomy and other evils that they might be dragged to due to their