The latest fad in the Musjids is so-called nasheed artists demonstrating their talents.

Answer

This trend in emulation of the 'devils of the west' come within the scope of the Hadith: "It is better that your stomach be filled with pus than with poetry." There is no justification for this latest evil trend of singing poetry in the Musaajid despite the fact that some Sahaabah would recite poetry which Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had condoned. The Ahadith and the Qur'aanic verses which condemn poetry are applicable to the new, satanic practice which some of the Ulama-e-Soo' have innovated and with which they pollute the sanctity of the Musaajid.

The Musaajid have been constructed and dedicated for the ibaadat of Allah Ta'ala. It is haraam to convert a Musjid into a venue for stupid, indolent, misguided singers who follow in the footsteps of the devil singers of the west. The Sahaabah did not make a profession or a vocation (mash-ghalah) of poetry. They did not organize poetry and singing sessions. There were no stupid poetry/singing sessions ever organized in either the Musaajid or elsewhere from the era of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to our age. It is only now that evil ulama, slaves of their bestial nafs, have initiated this satanic profession.

It is tantamount to kufr to cite Hadhrat Hassan's poetry as a daleel for the evil which these miscreant molvis are perpetrating in the Musaajid. Reciting even the Qur'aan Majeed aloud in the Musjid is not permissible. Converting the Musjid into the likes of a dancehall or concert-hall where singing, poetry and evil are committed, with sound systems and silly 'oohs and aahs' emanating from stupid people overcome with nafsaaniyat, is an act of capital shaitaaniyat. The holy atmosphere of the Musjid is totally ruined and defiled by the devil singers, the sound systems and the silly 'oohs and aahs' emanating from the stomachs filled with a substance 'worse than pus', for the Hadith informs us that 'pus is better than poetry'. Regardless of the 'good' content matter of the song/poem, indulgence in poetry/singing is haraam. The occasional, unofficial and spontaneous recitation of good poetry is excluded from the prohibition. But the shaitaaniyat which is nowadays enacted in the Musaajid is haraam.

The sheikhs who get transported into nafsaani ecstasy by the stupid praises which their stupid mureeds sing, should go to some Muhaqqiq sheikh for Islaah of their nafs. Their shows of ecstasy are specious. These 'shaikhs' who love aggrandizement and praises, have not even perceived the fragrance of Tasawwuf. They do not have the faintest idea of the meaning of Tasawwuf and of its objectives, hence they squander their time and ruin the morals of their 'mureeds' with singing and poetry. And, tomorrow will follow dancing – the so-called dervish dances which transport the stupid actors into Jahannum via their vehicle of nafsaani 'ecstasy'.

The contention that poetry is Sunnah, and that too in an organized manner right inside the Musjid, is not only a despicable lie, but a lie blasphemed in the name of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). About such deliberate and despicable lies, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "He who speaks a lie on me (i.e. saying something is Sunnah when it is not), should prepare his abode in the Fire (of Jahannum)." The vile molvi who made this slanderous claim has implied that this 'sunnah' was dead right from the time of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), and had remained dead for fourteen centuries, and it is only now in this belated era in close proximity to Qiyaamah that some miserable molvi has unearthed this 'sunnah of singing and poetry' from some buried archives of Satanism. Is there a single instance in the entire history of Islam from Rasulullah's age down the long corridor of Islam's fourteen centuries, that any of the Sahaabah and the Ulama-e-Haqq had organized sessions of poetry and singing in the Musjid? Did they ever invite Muslims to come to the Musjid to participate in poetry and singing? The Qur'aan Majeed said: "The la'nat of Allah is on the liars.' And, the lie uttered in the name of the Deen is an aggravated sin of terrible proportions.

It is haraam to pollute the Musaajid with performances in emulation of the devils of the west. It is haraam to sit in the Musjid to listen to the hypocritical poetry and singing. The Musaajid are Allah's Houses exclusively for His ibaadat.