💌 Imagine if you were at a crowded airport. While waiting for your flight, you overhear an authoritative mom clearly instructing her kids to write down on their journals the number of times they're able to listen to an airplane loudly take off within thirty minutes, making sure they can correctly differentiate the sound of a plane taking off from that of aircrafts landing. While two of her children seem to be doing such exercise compliantly, you witness that the eldest of them appears to be attentively listening to the passenger nearby arguing vehemently with somebody on the phone, despite being repeatedly reminded by their mother and siblings to complete their auditory assignment. What adjectives would you use to describe that child? Disobedient, defiant, stubborn, distracted, and perhaps ignorant of the benefits behind the mother's request for their close attention.
Now visualize yourself being a student attending English class in which your teacher instructs the students to draw on a sheet of paper a table with three columns. As the instructor swiftly reads an essay just once, your task is to list all the nouns in the first column, adjectives in the second, and verbs in the third. The prize of getting all the answers right would be a free trip to any travel destination they choose. Passing this kind of test is possible if the examinees try their best to pay attention to the teacher reading, without being preoccupied with other noise.
Allah the Almighty gave His servants the ability to hear in order to serve Him, not to misuse their ears in matters which distract and distance them from Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala.
Undoubtedly a lot of people get so addicted to music that it can become challenging for many to stop. The more a person struggles with music addiction, the more they may find reading from the Noble Qur'an and listening to Qur'an recitations "boring", or the more they feel "annoyed" whenever they hear the Adhaan being called. AstaghfurAllah Al-'Atheem.
📣 Three reasons why listening to music is haraam / forbidden in Islam:
1] Allah the Most Wise prohibited it as a test, to see which of His slaves are determined to obey His Commands, do what He loves and stay away from what He and His noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam dislike, even though a large portion of society wrongly claim that music is effective "therapy" and "remedy".
2] The ears are meant for listening to tranquil recitations from the Noble Qur'an, to the Adhaan, to Islamic lectures, to helpful warnings and beneficial reminders to become better Muslims. From the abominable things which one's ears must avoid listening to include: Music, deliberate lies (particularly untruths regarding religious issues), insincere flattery with a selfish agenda, gossip and rumors.
3] Being obsessed with music, listening to songs as a "pastime", making effort to memorize song lyrics rather than reflecting on the meanings of the verses in the Noble Qur'an, watching music videos regularly to relieve boredom, and singing while multitasking can bring about a significant decrease in one's level of faith/Imaan. The lower one's faith/Imaan level is, the less motivated a person feels when it comes to striving to do good for Allah's sake and applying patience during times of fitna.
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📖 Abu Qatadah RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, you will never leave anything for the sake of Allah the Almighty but that Allah will replace it with something better."
Source: Musnad Ahmed 22565
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani
📖 Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Some people from my nation will drink wine, calling it by different names, and musical instruments will be played for them and girls will sing to them. Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, and He (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) will turn some of them into apes and pigs."
Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 4020
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani
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