What is your opinion regarding Sheikh Faisal Mawlawi's statement that the original ruling on music is permissibility, and that the prohibition of some instruments was due to an unforeseen circumstance, and that "what deviates from analogy cannot be measured against other things"?
The rule "the default state of things is permissibility (ibaha)" is correct, but it is not valid to use it to argue for the permissibility of all types of musical instruments (ma'azif), because the evidence has excluded musical instruments from this principle. For example, the hadith: "There will be people from my Ummah who will legitimize unlawful sexual intercourse, silk, intoxicants, and musical instruments." This includes all ancient and modern musical instruments. Therefore, all musical instruments are forbidden, except what the evidence has excluded, such as the tambourine (duff). It is not permissible to use the general rule of permissibility to justify the permissibility of musical instruments due to the existence of a sound hadith prohibiting them.
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