Some prominent Ulama in our country provide services to various 'Islamic' radio stations by answering Deeni questions.

Answer

All of these radio stations without exception are the appendages and the media of Iblees. They come within the scope of the Qur'aanic aayat in which Allah Ta'ala tells shaitaan to do his best to waylay and trap people into his snares. Cursing and expelling shaitaan, Allah Ta'ala said:

"Destroy whomever you can among them with your voice, attack them with your cavalry and your infantry, and you be a partner in their wealth and their children, and make (vain) promises to them. And, shaitaan does not promise them, but deception." (Al-Israa', aayat 64)

"Verily, you will have no domination over My servants. And, your Rabb suffices as a Protector." (Al-Israa', aayat 65)

The timeless nature and the inimitability of every aspect of the Qur'aan Majeed testify to its divinity and miraculousness. The voice of shaitaan stated in the context of this aayat categorically refers to music and singing, to even the engrossment in na'ts and nazams which have become occupations and profession in this era. Whilst there is Nass of the Hadith to indicate that in the first instance Sautush Shaitaan (The Voice of Iblees) explicitly refers to music and singing, the panoptical meaning of the Qur'aanic term (Sautika – your voice) is all-embracing and is not restricted specifically to music, singing, na'ts, nazams, nasheeds and the like which detract from Thikrullah and which give impetus to the base and hypocritical emotions of the nafs. Every sound and every human voice which have the effect of music and singing, or which deflect from Thikrullah, or which produce acts and attitudes in conflict with the Shariah are all within the scope of Sautush Shaitaan.

Thus the woman's voice broadcast with seductive tones for which the prostitute female presenter has been specifically trained in order to enrapture and capture the minds and hearts of males, and the voices of even the males broadcasting haraam and propagating baatil in which these Shaitaani Radios specialize, are all different dimensions of the voice of Shaitaan. How then will it ever be permissible to recite the Qur'aan through Shaitaan's mouth?

One form of the Voice of Iblees is these haraam radio stations. All of them are the Voice of Shaitaan. Just as it is not permissible for the Ulama or for any Muslim to sit inside a brothel or a bottlestore or a casino to give da'wat, so too is it haraam for them to utilize the voice of shaitaan for delivering Allah's Message. The Haqq is not in need of baatil and haraam methods for its propagation. There are many avenues for propagating the Deen, and even if we should hallucinate that there are no longer avenues for propagating the Deen, except the voices of shaitaan, then too, it will remain haraam to pollute and de-sanctify Allah's Name by echoing it through the mouth of the devil. It will be just as vile and haraam as giving Sadqah or Zakaat with haraam money, or writing the Qur'aan Majeed with urine or washing garments with urine.

The preponderance of haraam, fisq and fujoor in these voices of Iblees prohibits the Ulama from the utilization of these evil media. The Ulama who make use of Shaitaan's voice should reflect and understand what exactly they are doing and in what are they becoming entrapped. When Ulama utilize haraam ways and media, they are guilty of misleading Muslims. They confer respectability and acceptability to the evils which emerge from Shaitaan's voices. Just look at the zina, liquor, music – fisq and fujoor – the mercenary molvis were involved in when they had participated in the zina radio awards function. They practically denuded themselves and sat with semi-naked faasiqaat and faajiraat. They are among the worst kind of ulama-e-soo' – worse than the ulama -e-soo' of even Bani Israaeel who had not sunk to this degenerate level of immorality, scraping the very dregs of the barrel, as these ghutha NNB molvis are perpetrating. Never is it permissible for Ulama to offer their services to the various Voices of Iblees operating in the country as 'islamic' radios.