presents the end
ofd the end of Music this is a message
for our believing brothers and sisters
in Iman who are afflicted with listening
to music or were confused by statements
of Scholars who said that it was
permissible this is a message for our
brothers and our sisters who listen to
music and their hearts have become
attached to it and their emotions were
moved and they were swayed by it but we
have no doubt that there are believers
who long for paradise and love Allah and
want to come closer to
Allah they are our brothers and our
sisters our uncles and our parents who
have been temporarily defeated by the
shatan but we know that they inshallah
can defeat him multiple times what can I
say about music and where do I begin it
has affected the hearts and swayed
people away from the straight path and
has caused the religion to take the back
seat it has caused people's addiction to
the point where they left the Quran and
abandoned the mass what can I say about
music if you ask someone the simplest
question about the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam they cannot respond if
you ask them about the mothers of the
Believers their own mothers they could
not even tell you you their names if you
ask them about the prophets of Allah or
the
companions they cannot respond to your
questions but they can tell you about
individuals who sing and curse all day
and produce the worst messages for our
youth offering nothing positive to their
communities or to the environment they
can tell you about those people and
their childhood and where they grew up
and who they married and who they're
dating and what year they put out their
albums there is one study that says the
youth from between the ages of 15 and 20
they listen to about 26.8 hours of Music
per week about 27 hours of Music per
week and those who are 55 and older they
listen to about 13 hours of Music per
week and now with it being available
online for free and many devices that
can carry thousands and thousands of
songs you can expect these numbers to
increase the sad part brothers and
sisters is that anytime someone commits
a sin he is using the blessing given to
him by Allah to disobey
Allah and the sad thing is that we're
going to be asked about all the
blessings and how we use them on this
Earth and hearing is one of the greatest
of the blessings given to us and Allah
will ask us about what we listen to on
this Earth Allah subh says in the
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Quran here Allah subh says verily the
hearing and the sight and the heart you
will be questioned by Allah about all of
these things and so the righteous then
they have recognized that the shatan is
their enemy and they stayed away from
the path that lead to the
shatan when Allah Asel
commanded to prostrate to
Adam refused and disobeyed Allah subhana
tala and then he vowed that he's going
to misguide all human beings so then
Allah subhana mentioned to some of the
ways that in which he's going to use
people and to take people away from the
path of Allah subhana tala so Allah
tells
him in this verse Allah tells thean and
be them gradually Those whom you can
amongst them with your voice so what do
you think would be the voice of the Shan
and right now these verses that we're
going to mention they do not say
anything about music being Haram but you
start to see kind of music being put in
a bad light but these verses are not
saying that it's Haram so far but so far
now we're seeing that Allah is telling
the Shan guide whom misguide whomever
you can from Humanity with your voice so
what is this voice it includes songs and
music and anything else it's very
general term anything else that calls to
the Disobedience to Allah or calls
anything away from Allah so not just
music but this is a general term and
make assaults on them with your Cavalry
and infantry and this also Inc includes
when someone is walking with their own
feet to something that is Haram or
something that's prohibited and share
with them wealth and children wealth
meaning tempt them to earn their money
in illegal and Haram ways and their
children by getting people to try to
commit illegal uh or illicit sexual
activity and make promises to them but
Shan promises them nothing but deceit so
we're still not saying or showing aat or
evidences that it's Haram but we're
starting to show that it's one of the
tools of
thean and before we get to the sayings
of
the and the evidence from the Quran and
the Sunnah and the great Scholars and
the imams we want to look at some
logical evidence that will tell you
there is probably something wrong with
music and that it's probably not Hal
just from looking at it from a distance
and analyzing it we're going to see that
it's something that's not surrounded
with good and it's probably something
that's not Halal because I believe that
every good Muslim knows deep down in
their heart that music is Haram perhaps
some of us don't want to face that
reality but deep down they know that
it's
Haram and this is
Illustrated in this story where a man
came to the companion
abdah and he
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said this music this singing is it Halal
Oram and here specifically is singing so
what is he asking about he is asking
about the the singing of the the bedin
Arabs and their singing This is singing
that does not include talking about
fornication or homo sexuality it does
not show people dancing or videos people
wearing um I'm ashamed to say it but we
know wearing bikinis or things of that
sort or using bad words so he's asking
about this is this permissible so Abbas
tells
him he says do you see the truth and
falsehood when they come forth on the
day of judgment which side do you think
music will be on you think it will be on
the side of Truth on the side of the
prophets on the side of the Quran and
and and Salah and Allah or it will be on
the side of falsehood so the man
said that it will be with falsehood so
says he tells him what is be besides the
truth meaning if it's not the truth it's
falsehood go you have answered your own
question by yourself
so the man knew the answer by himself
and I believe that we all know the
answer so let's look at just some of the
logical evidences we find that Halal
things and good things they generally
have good descriptions and good
attributes when you look at prayer you
look at fasting reciting the Quran when
people gather to pray generally good
things happen in these gatherings it's a
good Gathering when people gather to
recite the Quran it's a good Gathering
and you don't find it being surrounded
by things that are
Haram but things that are Haram are
usually surrounded with things that are
Haram and look at the things that
surround music whenever people gather
around music there are typically not
Gatherings of righteous people you don't
typically see the Imam of the Masjid in
that Gathering and the mash and the MU
of the of the city you don't find
righteous people typically and you find
intermingling and women with their hair
uncovered and women who are poorly
dressed and you will find alcohol and
dancing and smoking and that night
usually ends with the sin of Zena
fornication so this is the first
indication then that it's Haram because
it's always accompanied and surrounded
with things that are Haram the second
indication then and still without going
into any of theith is the feeling that
you get from music it does not bring you
closer to Allah even the biggest music
lover get a Muslim who is the biggest
music Lover he will not be pleased if he
hears rap music in the Masjid why
because he knows this is not a feeling
you're supposed to get in the Masjid
we're talking about someone who is the
biggest music lover in the community if
he enters the jum and he finds the Imam
EP on the member with a big uh boom box
then the Imam hits play and then a funky
beat comes over and then the Imam starts
to
Freestyle
yes the biggest music lover in the
audience will become upset and offended
why because they know this is something
that is totally opposite of the feeling
that he came to get he came to be
reminded of Allah and to listen to the
aat and the Quran and the which take him
in One Direction but the feeling that
you get for music takes you in the
opposite direction and that's why many
many years ago the early Scholars of
Islam they used to say that music and
the Quran cannot be combined in the
heart of the believer there's not enough
room in heart for both of them you
either love one or the other and like I
said you try that and test that when you
get in someone's vehicle you find they
either have music tapes or they have
Quran tapes they listen to one or the
other and the Quran takes you in a
direction where it prevents you from
following your desires and it commands
Chastity and it commands modesty and it
controls these desires and prevents you
from following the steps of the Shan and
music takes you in a Direction that's
totally opposite so of the feelings that
music causes it causes people uh to feel
less shame they feel a lack of Shame and
they're less shy and they're not
embarrassed male or female you see when
there's loud music played they're not
very embarrassed to jump up and down and
twirl and fall on the ground and get up
again they're not embarrassed to do that
and the women are not embarrassed to do
that have you ever heard of a female
dancer who is too shy because there were
men in the room she said I don't want to
dance there's too many men watching me
or I'm not dressed properly and not
covered right rarely is it associated
with you rarely is it associated with
these feelings of IM but you find these
people they don't care and notice how
when people repent and they come back to
Allah they usually stop going to
nightclubs and parties why is that
because they know these are bad places
and these places are also associated
with music the second thing concerning
the the feeling that you get from music
is that it causes this fitna it causes
this uh it arous arouses desires the
sexual desires in people and even the
FNA of the voice of women and so it's
not just enough that the voice of woman
is enough to stir emotions in a man but
now these female singers They're
purposely making their voice softer and
they're dancing in ways that are
sexually suggestive and they're not
wearing proper clothing so what do you
expect except that the man heart is
going to be moved by that and his
feelings are going to be moved by
that and this is something that even
Christians are aware of there's a church
called The Church of Christ that's it
that's the name of it and they don't
have they don't believe in music in
church they don't believe in dancing
they look at it as sexually suggestive
and it's so surprising and shocking when
Muslims see that there's absolutely
nothing wrong with this type of behavior
when we look at the Quran Allah says for
the women
here Allah is saying to the women that
they should not strike their feet in
order to draw attention to their hidden
ornaments so forget the voice the soft
voice of the woman while she's shaking
her hair from left and right and dancing
and singing and jumping up and down
Allah is forbidding the Muslim women who
are covered from from head to toe to not
strike their feet in a loud way to on
the ground so that their ankle bracelets
and whatever ornaments they're wearing
will shake and make that sound and men
will just know they will not see
anything they will just know that this
woman is or adorned with these things if
Allah is preventing this voice what
about then the woman coming and telling
you know saying sweet things and sweet
words yeah
so the music also then the effects of it
it can move you in various ways there
was an an Arab musician his name was
alabi this is from the early Muslims or
from the past generations and it is said
that he would play his instrument and
sing in a certain way and the listeners
would cry and then he would play and
sing in a certain way and then the
people would laugh and then he would
play and sing in a certain way and the
people would sleep and then he would
walk out so do not tell me that it does
not affect people's behavior or how they
act and on a final note on the feelings
which is better for you and brings you
closer to Allah subhana tala and is
better for your heart and strength
strengthens your
IM definitely it's the Quran and it's
not listening to something like music so
how can it be the case and how can we
know this answer and yet people listen
to more music than they do to the
Quran what about then the message that
you get from songs and now here
specifically I'm talking about things
that you hear like the the MTV type of
mainstream pop culture music and even
you know if you want to consider the
musics played in the Muslim lines
generally we're not talking about uh
nids that calling you to Allah we're
talking about the things that the
majority of young men and women listen
to predominantly this type of music that
they listen to what are the messages
that come out of that have you ever
heard one of these singers warning from
alcohol or calling people to hijab or
calling to righteousness but they sing
about Z and when they sing about love
are they talking about a man loving his
wife they're always talking about a love
that is forbidden and this is
from Allah says
in here Allah is saying those who love
to see Scandal published or broadcast
cast amongst the Believers will have
Grievious penal penalty or punishment in
this life and the next so again let's
think about what this Ayah is saying
Allah is saying those who would love not
those who do it not those who are
pushing for it those who would love for
the evil Deeds to spread they are the
ones getting this punishment and they
just wanted to see that not those who
were actively
involved so what are these messages from
these songs telling us
and for that
reason the
companion he used to
say what does it mean it means it is the
way and the facilitator of fornication
of Zena and this is him speaking about
the songs and and the music in his time
when a servant girl would sing and she
would not dance and she would not do it
publicly and she would not call to
fornication nor talk about it but yet it
is called
it is me mentioned by The
Scholar he mentioned in a that a
righteous man passed by a house and he
heard a woman singing inside and so what
happened he was walking by but he slowed
down a little bit so he can hear this
woman and so the owner came out and he
said do you want to come in to listen so
the man
said he
said we seek Refuge from Allah so the
man tells him he insisted come inside
and just listen so the man says he let
me sit in a place where I can't see her
and she can't see me so there is now a
hijab between them U like a partition
between them so then the man entered and
she sang for him and she beautified her
voice and she softened her voice and she
used the weapon of the shatan so then
the owner of the house tells him would
you like me to remove the sit the
partition between you and her so I said
the man said no because he was a
righteous man so he insisted until he
removed the partition until he saw her
and so he combined the FNA of hearing
and the FNA of
seeing and that continued until he was
completely overtaken with her and so
this righteous man then would come every
day to listen to her until one day she
told him W I love you so he said I
couldn't keep a straight face there she
said I love you so he said and I also
love you you see and she called him to
Zena and she said what would prevent you
the place is empty and he was shaken and
he said he said yes the place is
empty and I I am not I do not feel safe
that I would not be surprised with the
of Allah the decree of Allah that I
might die right now
so he starts to mention the punish
punishments of the day of judgment he
says I'm not sure that that won't happen
to me and he went away weeping and he
never
returned but look at how the shatan
almost destroyed this
man and how many young men have become
attached to female singers and when they
hear their voices or see their pictures
their hearts begin to race and how many
young women have posters of men in and
pist in their pictures in their bedrooms
and in their rooms and so we see the
effect of singing on women in
particular he used to say he's giving
advice to
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so he's
saying you
know stay away from singing because it
will take the modesty the shyness away
from people and it will increase the
desires of the lusts of
people will take away like the like the
manlihood of
people like it can replace it can take
the place of of alcohol meaning it can
cause this kind of toxication in the
mind and it can do what alcohol can do
to
people if you're really going to do it
there's no other
way then keep it away from women at
least go and do not let the women hear
this singing this is one of the the
callers to
fornication also Theif ABD Malik he
heard someone singing so he was upset he
heard someone singing at night so in the
morning he had the person or these
singers gathered and they brought them
to him so he tells
them that meaning that when the male
horse makes his sound the female horse
prepares to
mate and the camel also he makes the
sound and the she camel gets ready for
him
and the the the same thing also with the
sheep or the goat the male the male goat
makes the sound and she the the female
also gets prepared for
him and the man would sing and then the
woman would long for him and then he
ordered them to be taken away from the
area but actually he actually first
ordered them to be punished most
severely
on the scholar was there and he told him
that that is not like a a prescribed
punishment so he had them only sent away
to another area this is the effect that
male singers can have on the women he
had a very nice voice and he would
recite poetry in a very nice rhythmic
and melodious way and this would also
help the camels as they would travel and
it would make the for the for the camels
it would make them easier for them this
beat this Rhythm that they would walk to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
told anasha just to begin to to make
these like this singing or this
recitation and it was a very nice voice
and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam feared for the women at the end
of the Caravan so he
said he said it's time to stop it's
enough now out of fear for which are
which are glass bottles but he he he
likened the women to that because
they're delicate so why did the prophet
stop him because it would have a bad
effect on the hearts of women when they
hear this man with the beautiful voice
because it affects people like
that also there was a man his name
was he narrates about the
poet uh his name was and he was
traveling with his daughters and he came
near to a people from bani the tribe of
bani so they feared and that he would
dislike something he sees from them and
he might attack them with his poetry so
this man he was known for attacking
people with his words and his poetry and
if he attacked you it became popular and
it was kind of recorded against
you and he was so famous for this that
one day he found nobody to attack he
attacked his own mother in his poetry
and it gets worse than that one day he
really wanted to attack somebody he
couldn't find anybody so he looked in
the mirror and saw the reflection of his
face and started to write poetry cursing
his own face so you can imagine now why
they were so afraid of this man so they
came to him and they said tell us what
you like so we can do it and what you
hate so we can stay away from it we
don't want to make you upset so this man
he said to them do
not and so do not visit me too much you
get bored of
me he said do not let me hear the songs
of your young men and women because
singing is one of the the facilitators
to Zen and what he meant was I have my
daughter with me on this trip and I
would not like her to hear
that and I'm not going to read you the
examples of lyrics uh from contemporary
music today or from Hip Hop or rap
whatever they call you the reason I'm
not going to do that is I'm too ashamed
to do that because they really talk
about extremely extremely filthy things
and bad words left and right and even if
there were no sisters in the room I
would be too ashamed to recite to you
some of the lyrics that are being said
in today's music but the people know a
lot of people are very familiar with the
explicit type of music and the themes
that they're talking about and we as we
mentioned they're never righteous things
it's always the worst of behavior that
they're calling you to so then what
about now we discussed the message so
what about the the writers of this
message what is the message that the
writers of Musical lyrics are trying to
get across to you what are they writing
about and who writes these words are
they Scholars upstanding individuals
righteous men and women you look at
heavy metal it's you know usually sex
drugs devils and killing yourself and I
know I'm generalizing rap it's sex drugs
murder garden tools and how many garden
tools that you have you understand
degrading women talking about you know
pimping and things that are so
embarrassing to mention Blues it's about
hard times broken hearts and being broke
yourself country music my truck broke
down my dog ran away and I
have and I have a broken heart as
well so are the writers of these songs
people that you would like to get advice
and words of wisdom from what what is
Puff Diddy attempting to tell you in his
lyrics what would you get advice from
someone whose name is Snoop Doggy K
Snoop Doggy
KB
so and would you take advice from me
today Kamal if I was sitting here
dressed in baggie and sagging pants and
I had a grill in my mouth and I was
cursing would you accept advice from me
any kind of advice from me so why do
people then listen to the lyrics of
these people and accept their advice so
someone might argue that this doesn't
affect me you know I listen to this
music it's just entertainment and it
doesn't affect me and someone like that
I would ask have you ever been to a high
school when you enter a high school
today and you look at people can you
just from how they dress identify those
who listen to heavy metal and punk rock
just from how they dress and those who
Listen to Hip Hop just from how they
Dess dress and who are the people who
are called the Goths or listen to isn't
that a subculture that is related to
gothic music and and cases of suicides
from listening to songs you may remember
in the'80s there was a a lawsuit against
a man aie Osborn because uh you know
some kid listened to his song and he
shot himself he committed suicide I mean
whether or not he told him to do so but
the point is some people are affected by
these kinds of
things he wrote to the MU the the tutor
of his sons the MU would teach poetry
and refined manners and things of that
sort so he wrote to him saying let your
first lesson to them be the hatred of
musical instruments that begin with the
shatan and end with the wrath of Allah
for it reached me from the people of
knowledge that listening to music and
songs grows hypocrisy in the heart the
same way water causes plants to
grow so with that we say to the one who
listens to music oh Muslim lawful things
have good attributes where is the good
in singing dancing and listening to
flutes can we compare the words of
singers and sounds of musicians to the
Glorious Quran its lessons wisdoms and
admonitions how many singers do you know
and give admiration and how many do you
know of the Companions and the following
generation how much do you spend on
singers from your dollars compared to
how much you know of Islamic scholars do
you see how much is memorized of music
songs while you ignore the book to which
memorization belongs how much do you
memorize of these incant ations and sway
back and forth in intoxication have you
not seen those who follow the misguided
and increase the loudness of the music
when they should hide it and who writes
these songs thinger thinkers or men of
Academia or maybe Scholars like Ahmed
Malik or maybe IB Tamia or you who
listen to music don't you see that all
the songs of the world and all the
lyrics You've seen wouldn't compare in
reward to Al
L it replaces the Quran brothers and
sisters it replaces the Quran in
people's
hearts said to his son his
sons I warn you of singing Three
Times Quran no one listens to it except
that Allah will cause him to forget the
Quran and people listen to music and
they can cry and they listen to the
Quran and they don't cry and they can
stand for hours on their feet at a
concert
but if the gets a little bit too long
they cannot bear
it one scholar asked someone which does
Allah Allah love more Quran or music and
the man said Quran he said then why do
not you why don't you love what Allah
loves more what is your reason for
that there's a question from the
greatest website in the world anyone
know what that is islam.com you've heard
that before huh look at this question
I'm not going to read the answer
anything but just look at the way this
person framed this question he said I'm
a person who believes in the existence
of Allah no matter how far I Stray From
Allah I turn back to him with humbleness
but I listen to classical music and I
think that it is the best thing in my
life it does not provoke desire rather
it helps me review myself and my
mistakes I felt that is I feel that
Islam is a backward religion when I hear
those who say that all kinds of music
are Haram just look at this question and
the tells him you said it's the best
thing in your life and you didn't
mention Allah and you didn't mention the
Quran and you didn't say Islam was the
best thing in your life look at how it
takes over people's lives people and he
says it helps me review myself and my
mistakes so the she said to him you
obviously it didn't help you review this
mistake when you wrote
it and he told me you feel Islam is a
backward religion just because of this
so you see how much now it takes over
people's lives and their hearts and so
they defend it and they tell you well it
calms you down and it relaxes your
nerves so which calms you down and
relaxes your nerves that or when you
have a Calamity you listen to a music or
you run and you rush to Allah and you
beg and you cry to Allah subhana tala
didn't Allah subh say in the
Quran those who believe and whose Hearts
find satis satisfaction in the
remembrance of Allah for without doubt
in the remembrance of Allah do hearts
find
satisfaction and as some Scholars argue
if music really made you you know a more
refined person and more gentle and calms
your nerves and so on and so forth if it
did soften the hearts then the hearts of
the musicians would be the best of
hearts and their attitude and behavior
would be the best but what do we find as
a reality that they are the people who
behave the worst so that means it can't
be something that gets you to behave
better
so before we even started to look at the
aat and had we saw that it was
surrounded with Haram the people
involved with it and the people who
write it are not amongst the righteous
and many times they're from the
dissolutes and their messages are not
good and the effects of Music are not
good and the effects of Music bring do
not bring you closer to Allah and the
worst thing is that it replaces the
Quran and it takes up so much of
people's time as we looked at the
numbers
and generally Allah subhana tala will
make Halal for us everything that is
good and he will make Haram for us
everything that is
bad and so you'll find anything that is
anything that is bad or impure will be
at some point or another prohibited or
disliked in Islam and so under this Ayah
you can easily put something like
cigarettes no one will say you know
cigarettes are from the they're
definitely from the and so they would
fall under this
Ayah the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said in aith in and it is
a he said there will be amongst my um
people who
permit there will be people from my um
who permit four things
means literally they
make which is adultery or fornication
and silk and alcohol and musical
instruments this is in the book of
bukari so the first thing is the prophet
sallallahu alaih wasam said which means
they make Halal which means that the
things he's about to mention they're all
Haram otherwise he wouldn't say they
make it Hal if it was already Halal and
the word used in thei was is which
literally means musical instruments and
this includes it's a general term it
includes all kinds of musical
instruments
and as the as the aat that we
heard and Allah is saying and of mankind
is he who purchases Idol talk to mislead
people from the path of Allah without
knowledge and so by way of mockery for
such there will be a humiliating torment
this is in Surah l so here in this verse
then it is not a clear indication that
music is Haram but again it's being
mentioned in a bad light in the Quran
but then we see what how the Companions
and the early Muslims and the scholars
of Islam understood this
word which could be idle talk so the
majority of the MU they say that in this
verse refers to singing and another
group said that it is every kind of
sound dealing with entertainment and
which includes flutes and stringed
instruments and so on and in the scholar
of theah says that this means singing
and also says this means playing the the
drum the and alas said that this Ayah
was revealed concerning singing and
musical instruments so these are all
great Scholars and this is how they
understood this verse and one of the one
of the more recent Scholars said that
this includes all manner of Haram speech
so we're starting to see in summary that
either it refers to just singing and
music or any false thing that leads you
away from Allah subhana including lying
backbiting or including music and
singing But if the other Scholars also
uh said the interpretation of the S the
Companions and the generation after them
that refers to singing is sufficient
he's saying
and was asked what does it mean and he
swore by
Allah three
times and this
ISD who says
that I took 30 s fresh from the mouth of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and he has spoken the truth even if he
does not swear to us and repeat it three
times and it was also re re uh related
or narrated that with
a chain of narration that also said that
this Ayah is referring to singing so
whether or not you want to argue that
this Ayah now is saying it's Haram or
not it's just mentioning it in a bad
light we find that the majority of the
MU and the early Muslims and and the
companions of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam are saying that this is
talking about music and so look at the
names that the Muslims had for music
they didn't call it mus as they do now
in Arabic they didn't call it art and
all these fancy names that we give it
these are the names that Muslims used to
refer to music they would call it
and they would call it vain talk false
talk falsehood the facilitator of
fornication the way of fornication the
Quran of the shatan the flute of the
Shan the sound of the shatan the immoral
sounds these were the names that people
had for music and when you look at what
people used to call something it gives
you an indication of how they felt about
it when it was first introduced to them
for example now in in a lot of Arabs
they refer to the singer as a fan fan is
a singer the F the word fan literally it
it refers to a donkey it's it's a donkey
that is striped which is like a zebra so
that means when the Muslims started to
see all these singers they gave them a
name that was befitting and they called
them donkeys also like the the theater
in Arabic is referred to as the M the
theater is called the M Mah is the place
where the animals like gather and eat
and and relieve themselves and things of
that sort that means also when the
righteous Muslims first saw people on
stage and acting silly they said well
these people acting like animals and
they called the St the the theater the
stage the M where the animals fool
around and also you find the early
Muslims used to call male singers the
male singer was called a m this is
someone who was an effeminate type of
man someone you know he's you know
flaky the prophet sallallahu alhi
wasallam said two sounds are a cursed in
this world and the next a sound of
musical instruments in a time of
happiness and a sound of wailing during
a
Calamity and we're going to look at some
of these Hadith more uh in in the next
talk inshallah also Allah subh
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mentions and those who do not witness
the like the falsehood and if they pass
by some evil talk or evil play they pass
quiet with dignity meaning it does not
affect them so Muhammad and who can tell
us who is
Muhammad the son of Ali and he was not
his son from FAA so he was referred to
as he was asked what is that we just
mentioned in this verse he
said he said it's singing Because it
diverts you away from the mention of
Allah subhana wa taala
likewise Allah says in the Quran to
the in this verse Allah says like you
Marvel from this speech and you laugh
and you do not
cry said means that you're singing the
Arabs used to say meaning sing for us
and this
is uh you know meaning that when the qur
would the the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam or the Muslims would recite
Quran they would drown out the verses of
the Quran by their singing and Allah
subh rebukes them
here so when we say then that it is
Haram we're accused of being backwards
people who are against Art and
creativity but really in music it has
wasted the time of our young men and
women with hours and hours of listening
to it and following the news of those
who create it and they have not learned
the religion nor have they learned any
other sciences and have not even become
involved in politics I've visited one
country in Eurasia
and the government there part of their
policy is to keep the youth occupied
with music constantly there is
absolutely nothing on their television
except music all night and day and the
only time that is interrupted is to show
them a movie music all the time and so
it is very disheartening and very sad
that all the youth the young men and
women the only thing they care about is
this musician and he divorced so and so
and this one has a new album out and
that's all they think about and they're
not involved in anything that helps them
better their life or their society or
their
country and so music begins with the
Shan and it ends with the anger of and
it moves people to ugly things and it
decreases your and so you see people
they clap and they move up and down and
they scream and they spin and they're
not ashamed and we seek refuge and the
protection of Allah from these things
some of the early Muslims used to say
singing brings hypocrisy in people and
that they're become stubborn and K lying
and which is which is when the man is
not like you know um manly or like you
know hard anymore become soft and he
becomes softened by this so we look at
some of the opinions and the of the
Companions and the scholars of Islam and
the companions there are some issues
that the sahabah disagreed upon so you
can choose this side or that side but on
the issue of Music they did not disagree
once there is no disagreement of the
companions they have on this issue
consensus that this thing that music
was Haram there was not any companion
who said that it's okay and anyone who
says so we challenge them to bring us
proof of any one companion who said that
it's
okay held that listening to musical
instruments give birth to disbelief and
hypocrisy in the heart said
it's abdah not single a single one of
them said that it's okay and of the four
IMS he mentions the of IM abif is the
strictest in in this regard and his
comments and the comments of his
students are the harshest he says I mean
the the points are his companions and by
that mean that the students of Imam Abu
hanifah they clearly stated that it's
Haram to listen to All musical
instruments and they said the person who
listens to them is a is someone who is a
dissolute someone who lacks moral
restraint or a rebellious evildoer who
testimony should be rejected so just for
listening to Jay-Z We do not accept your
testimony anymore and they also said
that music and listening to music and
enjoying it is kufur now they said it's
kufur but they based that on a weak
Hadith so we're not saying what they say
but it just shows you to what extent to
what extent the hanis
went he said that singing is one of the
the the biggest sins that someone needs
to leave
immediately and Imam Malik when asked
about not when asked about singing he
was asked about people who said singing
was permissible he
said no one would do that except someone
who is a
dissolute and it is only the sin people
sinful people who do that and the
scholars say this was also based on the
view of the people of Medina meaning the
people who lived in the city of Medina
and just a few Generations ago they have
seen the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and or the companions of the
prophet wasallam and how they lived and
behaved so that means they were upon
this view as well because they never saw
the companions or the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam accepting something like
that IM sha said that the person is a f
and his testimony is not accepted he
also has another famous saying he says I
left behind in b
something that the Heretics introduced
which they
called with which they distract people
from the Quran so is saying people
started to come up with something called
a so what is this basically it's the
type of poetry which encourages
aesthetic life Z tells you to leave the
D and it is sung by someone while he
strikes a rod against some kind of drum
or dried skin so this is the comment of
a shf on something like that and until
now no video You Know music videos no
poor clothing no bad words calling
people to leave from the materialism of
the world and yet he called it something
that the Heretics introduced and they
distract people from the Quran with
this used to
say that it creates it sprouts hypocrisy
in the heart and I do not like it and
not one of the four M said that music is
Hal not one of the four and of the other
Scholars Alim he said that singing is
part of falsehood alassan albas said
that if there is music involved in a
dinner invitation in a WIA then do not
accept the
invitation and the other Scholars
IM IM
andah
and and Mak Andi and many
others and and
and and and all of these people all
these Great Men all these big names saw
that it was Haram so who will convince
you if these people do not convince
you
and he said that whoever attributes the
opinion permitting music to any of the
scholars who are respected in legal
issues has surely Ed anyone who says
scholar said this scholar said it's it's
permissible and that was respectable
scholar for sure this person is
mistaken uh so this young boy he's he
was downloading uh music for free online
and as he was downloading he saw the
length of of each song and how long it
was and he thought to himself that for
the for the length of this entire song
every second of the length of this song
Allah is going to be upset with me every
second and so by himself he canell all
of the downloads the thing that that we
want to remind and maybe conclude with
is that death can come at any moment
know that the angel of death overlooked
you and took the souls of your brothers
and one day he's going to come to you
and Overlook others some people would be
sitting and listening to music without
any fear that the angel of death will
come upon them at that
moment he mentions a singer someone who
is a music lover back then in his
generation
and he was dying he was in his death
bed so they told him
say and he started to repeat songs they
told
him and he kept singing and when he
couldn't say the words to the songs
anymore he began to make sounds and he
would say
Tintin the the Rhythm with his mouth
until the soul left his body he was not
able to say ill and in our times today
there's a story told by in one of the
Muslim countries people who are like
doing motorist assistance in the
highways in a Muslim country he says I
got used to seeing horrible things and
injured people along the roads one day
we were making our rounds and we heard a
sound a horrible sound of of two cars
that had collided so we rushed to the
area and we found two cars that were in
head-on collision and were utterly
destroyed we rushed to assist the people
and it was Indescribable in the first
car there were two young men and they
were in a very bad State he says we took
them out as they began to scream from
the pain and we rushed to the other car
and we found the driver had died so we
returned to those two and they were in
the state of meaning the soul now is
leaving their bodies so my partner
rushed to them to say and and would tell
them
say but they would be moaning in
pain and they're not responding so so
then when they started to be in the
pangs of death in the last minutes of
death or they were almost
dead they began to repeat words from
songs and they
remained repeating these voices until
just singing Just Singing constantly
just singing lyrics from songs
constantly he's telling them and they're
only singing from songs and then these
voices their voices started to gradually
decrease then the first one became quiet
and after that the second one became
quiet we put all three in our car and we
took them to to the morg he said my
partner and I on the drive to the morg
we were not speaking and we were both
quiet suddenly my partner turned to me
and he started to talk to me about death
and the good and the bad end on Earth
until we got to the hospital and we put
the dead and we left from that day
onwards every time I attempted to listen
to music I see the images of the two men
as they Bid Farewell to this dya with
the sound of the Shan 6 months later
there was another accident it was a
young man who had a flat tire and he was
fixing it and he got to the back of the
car to take the spare out and a speeding
car came and it smashed into him so I
quickly went with another one of my
co-workers and the young man was on the
ground and he had signs of righteousness
on him but his body was destroyed from
the Collision we put him on in the car
on on our way I said to myself I will do
as my other friend did and I will get
him to say the shahada and then he
started to make sounds that we couldn't
figure out so we were rushing to the
hospital then his speech began to become
clearer he was reciting the Quran in a
beautiful voice we turned to him and he
was reciting with and and his bones were
broken and he was covered with blood on
his clothes and he was on his way to his
death we started to speed up even more
he kept reciting in a beautiful voice I
have never heard a voice of the
recitation of the Quran so beautiful and
he was
saying he was saying those who say look
at what he is reciting and these are his
last words those who say our Lord is
Allah and stand straight and steadfast
the Angels descend upon them from time
to time saying fear not and grieve not
but receive the Glad Tidings of paradise
that you were promised we were your
protectors in this we are your
protectors in this life and the next
Imagine reciting these ayat and these
words where you will have all that your
souls desire and you will have all that
you ask ask for a hospitable gift from
the one that is most forgiving and most
merciful he says my coworker and I
listen to that voice then suddenly I
felt a shiver run through my body and
the voice stopped we turned around and
found him with his finger in the air and
he was
saying we stopped the car and I jumped
and I ran to the back and I touched his
hand and I checked his breath and I
checked his heartbeat there was nothing
and I began to cry my my partner turned
to me and he said what happened I said
the young man has
died and he and he died while reciting
the Quran so my friend exploded into
tears as for me I could not control
myself and I began to cry uncontrollably
and my tears and my tears wouldn't stop
we continued on the way to the hospital
and when we got there we asked his
family about him and they said he was
praying constantly at night and reciting
the
Quran and for that there should be then
there should be an admonition and an
indication for those of us who walk
around with iPods and constantly listen
in their cars and in their and online
and in the PLS and everywhere else so
there should be then an indication and
an admonition in that but a lot of times
when we say stories like this people say
this will not happen to me I mean I
listen to music but this won't happen to
me but the truth is brothers and sisters
this is beyond our control and I will
try to illustrate this to you have you
ever had a song stuck in your head a
dumb song that perhaps you don't even
like stuck in your head all day and you
are conscious and awake and you can't
get it out of your head all day this is
while you're conscious and awake and you
can't control it so what about when
you're in the sters of death sters
meaning like a drunken state if you're
100% awake and you can't control a song
in your head what makes you think you
can control it when you're in the sters
of
death and a song that you love might
come
out and so these T songs they roll off
our tongues easily I'm going to ask you
I'm going to I'm going to give you some
lyrics all right and if you can complete
them you can complete them out loud or
you can complete them internally or you
know whatever you like we will not
accuse you of knowing these songs
because some of them I had to call
friends and got these lyrics from some
of them I heard from commercials and
even even in the newscast I would hear
them so if I say who let
the you know the end and if I say oops
I don't
worry I love you you love
me Born to
Be You got to fight for your right
too so
embarrassing you ain't nothing but
a ain't no
mountain I believe I can you say I'm a
dreamer
but we will we
will r s p c find
out how about some difficult ones Under
My
Umbrella I've never heard this but they
told me you would know it been okay now
for the gangsters been spending most of
their lives living in
a brothers are like
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how about this one then all right all
right all right all
right you know the rest of it it's
Outcast all right all right all right
all right all right all right all
right okay complete the verses
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excellent oh my Lord the prophet say oh
my Lord truly my people have abandoned
the
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Quran so what makes us think we will be
able to say so easily when music rolls
off our tongue and lyrics rolls off our
tongue so easily and the Quran has to
struggle to come out of our mouth
there's a doctor and he's uh a righteous
man inshallah we don't overpraise him he
said in his career in a Muslim land 36
people died in front of him 36 people
and he would tell them
say and in his entire career only one
person was able to
say and he would say that now I
guarantee you can say it a million times
if you want to right now and everyone
thinks they'll be able to say it but out
of 36 he only saw one person able to say
ill so test yourself what rolls off of
your tongue easily when you have a close
call or you drop something and it breaks
what is the first thing on your tongue
do you say Subhan
Allah or is it a bad word oh sugar or
something else or do you start damning
things because something happened or
something broke so if in this dun what
while you 100% awake and conscious the
first thing that rolls out of your
tongue is something bad or a bad word
what makes you think you can
say and it will roll off your tongue
easily and the prophet sallallahu alh
wasallam
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said whoever his last speech is in this
D is he will enter into paradise and so
now the whole point is not to make you
think you will not be of those people
ask Allah that all of us are those who
say is our final word but the point is
to make us afraid of our bad Deeds there
was a man his name was Zan and he was a
singer and he sat with a like kind of a
a guitar type instrument with his
friends on the road and he was singing
and they were clapping and enjoying so
abdah he came and he passed by them and
so they left and he grabbed this man
zadan he grabbed him and he shook him
and he said Yul
he said oh young man what an excellent
voice this would be if only you were
reciting the Quran or in another
narration he tells
him he said if if what was heard from
your voice was the rec recitation of the
Quran meaning you would have been the
one people would turn to people would
look to for leadership and so
zadan then he asked the people who was
that they told him that was abdah he
said that was Abdullah the companion of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
they said yes so he ran to Abdullah and
he began to cry to him and he broke his
instrument and embraced him and he cried
and he
said he said how can I not love the one
whom Allah loves why does Allah love him
because
Allah loves those who constantly repent
and those who purify themselves so the
man repented and that's why cried and
hugged him and zadan stayed with him
until he became one of the imams in the
Quran perhaps some people who listened
to this were angered by some of my
speech because it showed fault in
something that they loved but remember
that we're only calling you to something
that is more beloved to you we're
calling you to Allah subhana wa tala to
the speech of Allah and to the Quran and
no one is offended when he's called to
something that is greater so if you're
going to you're about to eat a meal and
someone invites you to a meal that you
love more you do not become offended and
so that's what we're doing we're calling
people and we're sure that they love
Allah more and that they love the Quran
more we want people to take the position
of Imam Malik when he was a young boy
and he wanted to become a singer and his
mother moved him towards knowledge and
now he's one of the imams of the um
today Islam really and truly needs needs
you to defend it against atheism to
bring people to Allah to teach the youth
and to teach the kids their religion and
the proper role models to have and to
defend it against ideological attacks
and political attacks your Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is being
insulted every month and every year will
you plug up your ears with your iPod as
if nothing happened so take this then
those who listen to music take it as
your first step and go home and delete
your music files and break your CDs and
come back to Allah or turn to him even
more I want to conclude by sharing
something very personal with you when I
used to listen to music and I used to
attempt to learn to play uh guitar and
then I heard that music was Haram but I
didn't want to believe it but I knew
that was the truth because every time I
listen to music the feeling wasn't the
one I was getting now at the classes and
the mass and reciting the Quran so I
became more and more convinced that it
was Haram without reading a single book
or article on the topic and I thought
there is no way I can stop listening to
music but what happened was that once I
was very busy for two or 3 days and I
didn't have any time to listen to music
after the two or 3 days were over I
realized
that I didn't even have the longing for
it and you don't really need to listen
to it there is no addiction there is no
patch or gum involved in quitting music
I just stopped listening to it and and
there there was no shaking or anything
of that sort so it's not that difficult
to stop yourself and one of my family
members I have two brothers and two
sisters and I'm not they don't want me
to disclose which one but one of my
family members was still continuing to
listen to
music and so he or she said that one
day they saw a Rya a dream in which the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
visited us in our house and the person
this F remember said I was very excited
when I came to know that the prophet is
in the rooms in one of our house and he
was talking to you meaning me and my
mother we were with the prophet wasallam
and talking to him and I'm you know
we're from Sudan so in Sudan when a
guest comes you you bring a tray you put
pour some Pepsi and you bring it to the
guest so she said I want to get Pepsi
for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and when I he went to take so
now I'll throw you off when he went to
take the uh the
drink the person stopped by the bathroom
and in the bathroom felt that there was
something there the person felt that
there was something in the bathroom he
found a a baby boy sitting in the
bathtub and he was very cute and he was
singing a song in
Arabic take this little boy away from me
this little boy is going to drive me
crazy the person says I looked at him
and and then I remembered that I have to
take the Pepsi but I was delayed in the
looking at this boy and when I got to
the room the prophet sallallahu Alam was
gone but there was a very strong
beautiful odor in the room the person
says I woke up very happy and days later
I kept thinking about it and I started
to think about the lyrics of the song
and I realized that the child was
adorable and it was alluring and it was
singing and it made me miss the visit of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
so it diverted me from the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam I was
diverted from the prophet because of
singing to the point that I didn't even
see him and didn't show him the
hospitality of offering the drink to the
guest and all was left was the scent of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam I will conclude with the verse
from the Quran Allah subh
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says Allah subh wish for you to turn we
wish for you to turn to him and he wish
that he would forgive you but those who
follow their lusts and desires want you
to turn away from Allah a great deal
with that I ask
Allah and he is to reward those who put
this event together and who will help
distribute this lecture and I would like
to thank you also for being U you know
patient we ask Allah subh to accept the
sincere repentance of all the Believers
who hear this talk and decide to leave
the Haram yeah Allah we ask you to give
them strength and bring them closer to
you and make them from Those whom you
love we ask Allah subh T that he gives
us a good end on this Earth and that he
makes the last thing we say in this
duny and to make the best day the day
when we meet him while he is pleased
with us and he enters Us in into Jenna
while he is pleased with us we ask Allah
subh to show us the truth as clear truth
and make us follow it and show us the
falsehood as clear falsehood and help us
abstain from it I would like to thank
you for being in a entive audience and I
apologize for for going so much over
thank you for being patient and I ask
Allah to make us of those who hear this
speech and follow the best of it and the
best of what was said my apologies if I
used any phrases that were hurtful or
inappropriate