     Waryaa | Unrecorded Date
Salama...
Some of you had a great debate over the issues of music. Unfamiliarly, some of you had agreed it is not...prohibited as long as....Hence allow me a bit poem to share with you in an outstanding deal...it is NOT my own words!
(by: Ash Shura)
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The language of frogs, birds and bees,
Or dolphins, crickets, the bristling of trees
Are nothing but praise to Allah.
But us we choose music to soothe ourselves,
And leave the Quran stocked on the shelves.
Without music, the devil will still whisper,
As he promised to bring humans to hellfire,
But with music, he will be much stronger,
And humans will stray furhter and further.
He sings and whispers,
he tells many lies,
And blurs our path to Paradise
Beautiful lyrics are definitely soothing,
Without the guitar and drums banging,
Without the shrieking of a human voice,
And without the sounds of electronic noise.
How many songs tell us to pray?
Or do good, each and every day?
Most of them are but to lead us astray.
Dramas, movies, Hollywood, COOL!!!
But those who follow are ignorant fools.
To waste our time looking at lies,
It's definitely not the choice for the wise.
The Quran was sent with variuos laws,
To remind humans to correst their flaws.
The devil, nay, you shall never follow,
Cos his tricks are abound, to those who know.
The Prophet's life was one so great,
For all of mankind to emulate,
Still why we stray I do not know,
Too much of Prince, or Sheryl Crow???
Some music is good, some make you fall,
But why need them at all?
Why listen to something than can destroy,
When the music of Paradise we shall enjoy
Heaven and Hell is a choice we make,
But why choose the wrong path to take?
For those in doubt in which to choose,
Islam is the choice, you will not lose.
Philosopher, no, I may not be,
But the meaning of life, I always try to see.
What I say, is what I be,
And Allah is Judge not you or me.
Quite Peace!! |
| Ahmad | Unrecorded Date
Asalama Alaykum Muslims!
Warya,
Hiya! I liked the poem...however, I didn't agree with it, entirely! Anyway, i'm enclosing an article from one of Rashad Khalifa's followers...and I don't agree entirely with him, either, but lets see;
[In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Music and Singing in Islam (Submission)The true Islam
One of the most outrageous statements by some of the Muslims who refuse to accept the law of God in the Quran is that music and singing are haram (Prohibited).
The sincere Muslim who is following the Quran will not find in the Quran, the book that God calls COMPLETE, PERFECT and FULLY DETAILED, ANY PROHIBITION OF MUSIC OR SINGING.
God, the Most Merciful, NEVER prohibited music or singing in His COMPLETE and PERFECT book, the Quran, but some people did. They tried to distort the law of God. They used fabricated stories in the books of Hadiths and Sunna that contradict the Quran, contradict the simple human common sense and insult the prophet Muhammed. The prophet Muhammed followed and preached ONLY the Quran. The ignorant and misguided Muslims, unable to accept God and His law in the Quran looked for different kind of laws in the interpretation of Imams (leaders), Sahaba (companions) and Tabi'in (followers). They invented their own law and claimed that "Music and singing are Haram." Those who are confused or diseased at heart chose to follow the interpretation of other human idols and their laws and disregard the clear laws of God in the Quran.
In the following paragraphs, I will show you what the Quran says about this issue. I will also expose the false teachings of those who refused the law of God in the Quran and made their own law to prohibit Music and singing. Understanding this issue is understanding Islam (submission) and what Islam stands for.. There are certain basic understanding that you should know when talking about any laws in Islam (Submission). I will talk briefly about these basics first, God willing;
(1) Quran is a COMPLETE, PERFECT AND FULLY DETAILED BOOK, (as far as this religion is concerned): See 6:19.,38 and 114; 7:52; 17:12; 11:1; 41:3; 12:111, and 16:89. Those who refuse this notion by God Almighty should not go any further. They will not see or understand anything as God promised in His book.
(2) The Prophet Muhammed, lived by, ruled by, preached and followed the Quran alone. See 5:48-50
(3) God is the ONLY source of law, 6:114. No one, including the prophet Muhammed, can prohibit what God did not, 66:1. When the Prophet Muhammed once did, God admonished him in public to remind the believers that ONLY GOD can prohibit. See 66:1 and 33:37.
Many of those diseased at heart quote verse 59:7 as a proof that the prophet Muhammed permitted and prohibited on his own. They are hoping to confuse those who are not familiar with the Quran, as this verse is talking about the spoils of war and has nothing to do with prohibitions.
(4) In addition to reminding us repeatedly that the Quran is DETAILED, God told us that He detailed for us what has been prohibited for us, see for example 6:119.
God did not need assistance from any Imams, Sahaba or Tabi'in. God did not expect or wanted the prophet Muhammed to make his own laws. The Prophet Muhammed did not bring any laws other than the Quran, but the fabricators of the books of Hadiths and Sunna did.
(5) God does not forget, 19:64. He did not forget to prohibit Music or singing and waited for someone else to do it. The prohibition of Music and singing cannot be found in the Quran because God did not prohibit them.
(6) Those who believe God in His own book believe that Quran is a COMPLETE BOOK as far as Islam is concerned and it is as well regarding all the prohibition. The list of prohibitions in the Quran does not include Music or singing. God does not play games with us or mean to confuse us. When needed, prohibitions are given straight forward so as to leave no doubt in the minds of the believers, See 39:28.
(7) Many Muslims refuse to believe God in the Quran, when He tells them that He has no shortage of words. God could have used both words, music AND/OR singing or words referring directly and clearly to them, if He so chose, See 31:27 and 18:109. The TRUE BELIEVERS know that the absence of these words from the Quran is because God did not prohibit them and not because God does not use them, forget them, know them or know how.
(8) The Quran teaches us that God is extremely displeased with those who prohibit anything that was not specifically prohibited in the Quran, see 16:112-116.
(9) The upholding of any prohibitions not specifically mentioned in the Quran (e.g., prohibiting Music and singing) is tantamount to idolatry (6:142-152). Such prohibitions represent some other god(s) besides God.
(10) God condemned innovated prohibitions in 7:32
"Say, "Who prohibited the nice things God has created for His creatures, and the good provisions?" Say,"such provisions are to be enjoyed in THIS life by those who BELIEVE. Moreover, the good provisions will be exclusively theirs on the Day of resurrection." We thus explain the revelations for people who know." 7:32 (QURAN)
(11) God condemned any other Hadith than the Quran for religious laws, and called His book, the Quran, the BEST Hadith. God called on the believers to follow only His Hadith, the Quran, and so did the prophet Muhammed. See 7:185, 10:36, 31:6, 39:23, 45:6, 52:34, 68:44, 77:50, 39:29..., etc.
Now and before responding to those Muslims who claim that Music and singing are Haram, let us ponder for few seconds at our universe and the way God created this world.
While we might remember that Galileo once said, "Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe.", it may be fair enough to say that Music is the audible language of that universe.
Any keen observer of the universe will realize that the whole universe was created with music in every corner of it. Our languages are but music. Our crying, laughing, snoring, yelling or screaming are but music. Our heart beats, bowel sounds, breath sounds, the sound of our blood flow or even our brain waves are but music. The birds, the animals, the trees, the oceans, the wind and the clouds are all created with their own music. Those who are blind in the heart and deaf to the truth do not and cannot understand that music is in every corner of their universe. With music in every thing around us, it is naive to think that the One God who created all this music prohibited it. Those who claimed that Music and singing are haram, lied about God and prohibited what God did not.
The human being was created and given one of the most valuable gifts, a voice box, which is in reality a music box. This voice box, or the larynx is one important instrument that allows us to communicate with each other and with other creatures around us. Our arrival and departure to and from this world are celebrated with that special music, the cry of the newborn or the cry for the departing one. The arrival of the newborn to this life is announced by his/her scream, the best music to the mother's ear. For the earlier months of the human being's life, the only way of communication is through the music that his/her voice box makes until he/she learns the more sophisticated music that is called the language. It is not surprising to find out that listening to a foreign language is like listening to music with different tones. Those who prohibit music do not understand their Islam, or the basic gifts in life that God gave them.
A quick look at the life around those who condemn music and prohibit what God did not, will only expose their hypocrisy. Life around these people is full of music, a music they do not understand or appreciate, the music that God put in their life to prove to us how wrong they are.
Examples of such music around them are, waking up in the morning to an alarm clock, fixing the tea after the tea pot whistle, turning the radio on to listen to the news with its preceding music or commercials, watching the TV programs with their music, getting in the car and turn the engine on while listening to any alarm signals, like the car door is open or your seat belt is not connected, blowing the horn of your car to avoid getting into a traffic accident or to warn someone, dialing the telephone to talk to your friend with the telephone ringing, moving between the files in your computer with a special tone at every turn, the fire and smoke alarm at home or in the office, the door bell, the clock, the kids toys, the exotic birds, the lawn mower..., etc. All these are but few of the music producing instruments in our life. Those who missed the true Islam, missed what life actually means, they prohibit what God did not in His complete book, the Quran. They have their own little gods who prohibit for them what God did not.
Now let us look at what these people use to claim that Music and singing are haram. I will specifically quote from the posting in AOL library with the title "Music and Singing" ,posted on 9/2/96.
(1) First, it is interesting to see the inverted logic of these people. After finding no proof in the Quran to prohibit music, by their own admission, they resort to the weaker sources one after the other to prove what they could not find in the Quran. This is almost like failing to have the approval of the president of the country on a matter, so they get the approval of his door attendant. If they fail, then they get the approval of his servant who clean his room then claim that the approval they have is the approval of the president. Those who refuse to accept the Quran as a complete book for this religion, are led by Satan into inventing all kinds of laws from sources outside the Quran.
(2) In every verse they used in an attempt to prove that music is Haram, they ended by concluding that the verse does not really prohibit Music. Despite that, they never got the message that God DID NOT PROHIBIT MUSIC OR SINGING. They also failed to understand that prohibition laws ONLY COME from God. When the prophet Muhammed gave any prohibitions it was FROM THE QURAN ONLY, and was not from his own. When the prophet Muhammed once tried to prohibit on his own, God admonished him publicly, see 66:1. Here are the verses that they claim to prohibit music and singing with few comments from me;
a)Allah addresses the disbelievers of the Quraysh as follows, "Do you marvel at this statement, and laugh and do not weep, while you amuse yourselves (proudly) in vanities? Rather, prostrate before Allah and worship Him." (53:59-62)
Because of the expression "amuse yourselves" these Muslims twisted the words and the logic to make a conclusion that music and singing is what is meant here. They are missing the point and the meaning that is clear to any sincere believer. The word is general and indicates that any kind of amusement that keeps you from paying your duties to God is leading you to commit a sin. It does not make it haram or prohibited. If you amuse yourself by watching Baseball while forgetting to do your Salat-prayers on time then you are committing a sin but this does not make Baseball haram. If you amuse yourself by playing games with your children while forgetting to pray on time you are committing a sin but playing with your children will not be haram. If you listen to music or singing and forget to do your prayers then you commit a sin but music does not become haram. Remember that music is like air and water, it is not haram per se, but the way it is used in certain circumstances will control its status then. I will elaborate on this later, God willing. While God did not prohibit music in this or any other verse, these group of Muslims find in human beings like sahaba, tabi'in, and later scholars of tafseer other gods to prohibit for them what God did not. Al-Qurtubi, At-Tabari , Ibn Abbas, Al-Hasan, Mujahid, Ad-Dahhak, Ibn Jareer ..., etc. are more important to these people than God.
b) Allah SWT addresses Satan thus; "And excite any of them whom you can with your voice. Assault them with your cavalry and infantry, be a partner with them in their wealth and children, and make them promises. But Satan promises nothing but deceit" (17:64)
Using this verse as a proof of prohibition of music and singing shows only how naive and misguided are those who are running after other gods than the One God who gave them a complete book, the Quran. No intelligent human being can accept the voice here as pointing to music and singing. If those confused at heart want to use the voice here to prohibit anything, then may be they should prohibit talking and all these people should not talk because Satan does.
It is clear from this verse that there is no prohibition here. God does prohibit things by saying it without any confusion and without leaving a place for guess. They quote here Ibn Abbas, as saying "the voice mentioned in the verse refers to any form of invitation which calls to disobedience to Allah." If this form of invitation is "talking nicely" to someone to make him/her disobey Allah, this does not make "talking nicely" haram. If the invitation here is accompanied by music or singing, this does not make the music or singing haram but rather it is the invitation to disobey God in any form that is haram. They do not like what God says in the Quran, but find nothing wrong in listening to Ibn Abbas even if they do not know who is Ibn Abbas is.
c) The third verse, and the one most often referred to as evidence of the prohibition of music and singing (according to them) is found is Sura Luqman.
"And there are among men those who purchase idle talk in order to mislead others from Allah's path without knowledge, and those who throw ridicule upon it. For such there will be a humiliating punishment." (31:6)
Again, like the previous verse, using the expression "idle-talk" (lahwal hadeeth) to condemn music and singing is clearly corrupt. It only exposes the confused minds and hearts of those who do not understand that God does not run out of words and that God controls all the languages and will not leave guess work for us to prohibit what He did not.
Idle-talk can be any form of talk and not necessarily singing and music. There is usually more idle-talk that is calling on the people to disobey God in other forms than singing and music. These should be considered first. Hadiths and Sunna books are full of fabrications and lies that should be considered as idle-talk as they contradict the Quran and the true message of our beloved prophet Muhammed.
NOW THAT QURAN DOES NOT PROHIBIT MUSIC OR SINGING, these people looked for other gods to do this for them. They refused the law of the book that God called the Best Hadith (Quran). They refused to obey God in the Quran when He told them to follow no other hadith BUT the Quran for religious law.
A look at what they claimed as hadith of the prophet will show their misguidance and confusion. Here is an example of what these people quote and claimed it to the prophet which is a clear lie. The prophet cannot deviate from the Quran.
* "The Prophet SAWS said, "There will be (at some future time) people from my
ummah (community of Muslims) who will seek to make lawful: fornication, the
wearing of silk(by men), wine-drinking, and the use of musical
instruments(ma'azif). Some people will stay at the side of a mountain and
when their shepherd comes in the evening to ask them for his needs, they will
say, 'return to us tomorrow.' Then Allah will destroy them during the night
by causing the mountain to fall on them, while he changes others into apes and
swine. They will remain in such a state until the Day of
Resurrection.(related by Imam Al-Bukhari in Fat-hul Baari, graded sahih)
FIRST, God teaches us in the Quran that the Prophet Muhammed did not know the future. This will immediately expose the falsehood of this hadith and similar ones and expose the hypocrisy of those who claim to be Muslims but refuse to believe God in the Quran. God told them Muhammed did not know the future.
"Say (O Muhammed), "I have no power to benefit myself, or harm myself. Only what God wills happen to me. If I KNEW THE FUTURE, I would have increased my wealth, and no harm would have afflicted me. I am no more than a warner, and a bearer of good news for those who believe." 7:188
"Say (O Muhammed), "I am not different from other messengers, I have NO IDEA what will happen to ME OR TO YOU. I ONLY follow what is revealed to me. I am NO MORE than a profound warner." 46:9
SECOND, if they would use their brains they will realize that for the past 1400 years there have been millions who listened to music and songs without mountains falling on top of them or turning into apes and pigs. I guess we should rather be afraid that all these millions of people turning to their computers now will turn into pigs and monkeys because their computers have all kinds of music built in them.
As I said before, God created the music in our universe like the air and water and many other provisions. We cannot prohibit the water because someone cooks his prohibited meat in it and we cannot prohibit the air because someone contaminates it with marijuana fumes. Music is as pure as the fresh springs water and the fresh air of the sea. It is the human beings who can use it or abuse it. Music is one of the great provisions from God that we should be grateful for. We should use it and enjoy it like we enjoy all the other provisions from God. If you indulge in eating your favorite food or drinking your favorite juice to the point you do not have time to do all your other duties towards God, then you committing a sin. Your food and drinks would not become haram (prohibited). If you indulge in any kind of music or singing that occupy you to the point that you do not remember God or your duties towards Him, then you are committing a sin but the music itself does not become haram (prohibited). If someone sings a song encouraging corruption or misbehavior then listening to that song intentionally may be a sin but this does not make all singing haram (prohibited.)
Those who really appreciate music and the beautiful voices that God created, are more appreciative of God's creations and closer to God than those who prohibit what God did not and see evil in every beautiful creation of God.
"Say, "Who prohibited the nice things God has created for His creatures, and the good provisions?" Say,"such provisions are to be enjoyed in THIS life by those who BELIEVE. Moreover, the good provisions will be exclusively theirs on the Day of resurrection." We thus explain the revelations for people who know." 7:32 (QURAN)
In conclusion, it is a shame and what a shame that some people call themselves Muslims but they refuse to follow the laws in the book of God, the Quran. Instead, they go look for other human beings to give them laws that have no basis in the Quran and prohibit what God never did. These Muslims have been described in the Quran as idol-worshipers just like the Jews and Christians who rather uphold the laws of their Rabbis or priests, see 9:31. It is these Muslims who will be surprised on the Last Day that the prophet Muhammed will complain to God form them because they deserted the Quran. See 25:30.
MUSIC AND SINGING WERE NEVER PROHIBTED BY GOD. They are part of the most beautiful creations of God. As long as they do not call on the people or encourage them to commit sins, they are for the TRUE BELIEVERS TO ENJOY while remembering God with every beautiful note or rhythm.
La Elaha Ella Allah, There is no god besides God.
Is it time yet to wake up and follow the QURAN, instead of following the man-made laws??!!
Wake up everyone.
Sharif Khan]
Peace, Ahmad! |
| anonymous | Unrecorded Date
The Fitna of Music
Do you marvel at this statement ?, and laugh and do not weep,while you amuse yourselves [proudly] in vanities {saamidoon} ? Rather, prostrate before Allah and Worship Him. [An-Najm 53: 59-62]
According to Ibn Abbaas (R.A) the word “{saamidoon}” {vanities} refers to the mushrikeen’s habit of singing and playing noisily whenever they heard Quraan being recited, in order to drown out the reciters voice so that others wouldn’t hear it.
And there among men those who purchase idle talk in order to mislead others from Allah’s path without knowledge, and who throw ridicule upon it. For such there will be a humiliating punishment. [Luqmaan 31:6]
Commenting on the above verse Ibn Abbaas (R.A) said, “I swear by the One other than whom there is no God that it refers to singing (ghinaa).” he repeated it three times to emphasize his position.
Sahl ibn Sa’ad reported that Allah’s messenger (S.A.W) said, what means “At the end of the world, the earth will settle, there will be false accusations of unchastity, slander and transformation of people into monkeys and pigs.” It was asked, “When, O Messenger of Allah? ” He said: “When the musical entertainment and singers appear” (Ibn- Majah)
Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari: that he heard the Prophet saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments {ma’aazif}, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection." (Bukhari Volume 7, Book 69, Number 494)
Most commentators agree that the word ma’aazif – according to correct Arabic usage – indicates a specific number of things: (a) musical instruments, (b) the sounds of those musical instruments (music) and (c) singing to musical accompaniment.
Imam Shaafi’ee is reported in the book Aadabul Qadaa, as saying “Verily, song is loathsome [makrooh]; it resembles the false and vain things [al-baatil]. The one who partakes of it frequently is an incompetent fool whose testimony is to be rejected." Al-Haarith Al-Muhaasibi (a disciple of Imam Shaafi’ee) said, “Song is Haraam, just as the carcass {maytah} is.”
Music is a form of entertainment that people listen to every day. It is almost impossible not to hear it these days. More people than anytime in history hear it. The musicians are famous and adored by people around the world. Amongst them are some who openly proclaim their plan to subliminally control their listeners thoughts and minds. Jimi Hendrix said:
“We’re making our music into electric church music – A NEW KIND OF BIBLE, not like in a hotel, but a bible you carry in your hearts, one that will give you a physical feeling. We try to make our music so loose and hard-hitting so that IT HITS YOUR SOUL HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE IT OPEN. IT’S LIKE SHOCK THERAPY OR A CAN OPENER…” Jimi Hendrix (“Scuze Me While I Kiss the Sky” –Henderson, 1978.)
Musicians also promote sexual promiscuity in their songs. The examples of the content of their songs are just too numerous to mention. The singer Prince sings the following about incest “…I was only16 / But I guess that’s no excuse/ my sister was 32 / Lovely and loose… / my sister never made love to anyone but me / Incest is everything it’s said to be…” “Sister” “Dirty Mind” – Prince (1980)
In fact most modern day singers open talk about their craft and the spontaneous composition of their music. Michael Jackson says “ Anyway, I don’t do very many things until A CERTAIN FORCE tells me to do them. THE FORCE tells me when and then I make my move.”
To list the text of some of songs and the reasons for the song are too lengthy to discuss, suffice to say that the content is linked to Shaitaan. There are number of messages reaching the listener from musicians.
1. Subliminal messages that are recorded via back tracking and back masking. Reversing the original song reveals cryptic satanic messages.
2. The use of musical videos to give graphical expression to their music. The images are remembered thereafter whenever the song is heard. The content of these videos have very symbolic gestures that give the viewer the ideals of the musician.
3. Idol worship of these musicians. People often talk of their pop idol and favourite musician. The fans build up a cult like following of their pop idols. The result is generally that the pop idol is emulated in every possible way by the fans (fanatics).
The listening of music by young Muslim teenagers is the reason we have dysfunctional youths in our communities. They have poor communication skills and lack basic Islamic knowledge to recognise the dangers and pitfalls of listening and involving themselves in this useless activity. The listening to music contributes to many social evils within any community. The anarchist type environment can be trace d to many musicians who display and promote anarchy in their music.
As Muslims we should abstain from listening to the music. We certainly know that the Nabee (S.A.W), his companions and our pious predecessors certainly did not listen to music. We should try and replace music with constructive conversation, Zikrullah and propogation of Islamic values in our lives.
May Allah guide us all and save us from the evils of Music. |
