I listen to lots of hip-hop and watch
MTV Cribs. Hey, MTV Cribs, just talked
about that. I can't seem to focus on
getting close to God. What's your
advice? Stop watching MTV Cribs and
don't listen to hip-hop. Uh, it's
probably a good start. Um, okay. I don't
have uh bias against any particular
culture or uh genre of music, etc.,
etc., though I have, you know, strong uh
objections to music per se, though
there's some scholarly discussion about
it. But I will show you what I'm
convinced of. I think nowadays music is
probably one of the easiest means to
lose your moral sense.
It is music is audio pornography today.
That's what it is. It's explicit. It's
shameless. It's vulgar. It takes your
sense of humanity away from you. It
makes you look at women as objects.
Worse than objects. Worse than animals.
Just ask. And these people are talking
about women like they're talking about,
you know, uh an animal. Really? it it
objectifies women and especially I've
noticed a lot of the brothers that I
know of Muslims that are really into the
hip-hop scene and they're kind of doing
the h of the the song right they're
memorizing the song and they're really
good at reciting it with perfect too
right and so they they do that and it's
just horrible language horrible horrific
horrific language you know the only
simple response I have to that if you
have any regard for the book of Allah
that you really think it's from Allah
Even the name, the mention, the word of
something, the word for something bad is
terrible. Once you have faith, even the
mention of something terrible is is
horrible for you. It's harmful for you.
After you have faith, you have to have a
clean tongue. You have to say what
tell my slaves to say that which is the
best. Say what is the best. Say good
things from your mouth. So this is the
first thing. When you say horrible
things and you say things that are in
direct contradiction to the moral gauge
Allah gifted us with, then obviously
you're you're you're deviating from your
natural fra your predisposition to turn
to Allah. And when you constantly, you
know, listen to garbage like that, then
you get deviated and you don't find
pleasure except in disobedience to
Allah. And that's a sign of a sick
heart. So one has to distance themselves
from this. This is the first step. And I
I'll tell you one this is my personal
measure. This is not a fatwa. It's it's
my personal analysis. You don't have to
take it. But if a person finds listening
to the Quran annoying after they've been
listening to hiphop and this and that
for a long time and as soon as somebody
puts the Quran on the car, you know what
they say? Oh man, turn that off, man. I
I don't want to I just want to talk. And
they immediately they they get a little
annoyed when they hear the Quran, that
actually means the have taken over and
they're constantly makingwas out of this
person. Cuz what do the hate the most?
It's they hate the Quran. They hate the
word of Allah. They they flee. It hurts
them. So you know what they do? They
because this person has let the devils
into his heart. They start pinching at
his heart when he hears Quran and he
says I don't want to hear this. Right?
It's like s it's like pulling a tooth
for this person. This happens when you
try to give this person a reminder from
Allah's word. They get annoyed by it
like agitated like an allergic reaction.
Why? Because they've let the in. To let
them out the first thing you got to do
is stop supplying them with fuel. This
is fuel. this useless uh wasting of
time. This is fuel for shaitan. They
love that you waste your time. They love
it because the the one asset the the one
piece of wealth Allah gave every human
being is time. And what is music and TV
and YouTube and Facebook and MySpace and
like Twitter and whatever else? If
you're spending hours and hours and
hours on this stuff, what is it except
destroying your time? It's taking that
one asset away from you. Shatan would
love nothing more. May Allah subhana wa
ta give you the strength to get away
from these temptations. But my advice
that I keep going over, I can't get
enough of giving this advice. Find
better friends. Find company that is not
into these things and try to spend more
time with them. And inshallah, you'll
wean yourself off of these habits.