Are nasheeds permissible as a form of worship without evidence from Quran or Sunnah?

In ‘Umdatus Saalik (pg. 775-776), {Ibn Hajar Haytami (ra) states:

As for listening to singing that is not accompanied by instruments, one should know that singing or listening to singing is makruh (offensive) except under the following circumstances:

Some scholars hold that singing is sunnah at weddings and the like. Of our imams, Ghazali (ra) and Ibn Abdus Salam (ra), they say that it is sunnah if it moves one to a noble state of mind that makes one remember the HereAfter.

It is clear from this that all poetry which encourages good deeds, wisdom, noble qualities, abstinence from this worldly things, or similar pious traits such as urging one to obey Allah, follow the sunnah, or shun disobedience, therefore, is sunnah to write, sing or listen to as more than one of our imams have stated is obvious, ‘Since using a means to do good is itself doing good.’ (Extracted from Kaff al-ra’a’ ‘an muharramat al-lahw wa al-sama’ (y94), 2.273)}

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam.

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Binti Zahari