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Khutbah delivered by Sh. Ibrahim Ezghair on Friday 2/12/2010
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• What our youth especially indulge in:
• An average of 27 hours a week of music. Some spend hours with their headphones on, and indeed they are not listening to Quran.
• Exposure to music and all that it surrounds it.
• What surrounds music? Video clips: dancing (such as belly dancing), nudity, lack of shame, getting used to immoral acts, profanity, drinking, fornication (Singing is the prelude to Zina).
• Is it produced by righteous people? Who are these singers? Are they righteous? Do they pray in the masjid? Do they care about Allah? Listen to what some of them say about their own music:
•  David Bowie in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976), stunned the music world, when he stated:
  
  "Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES." (Rolling Stone, Feb. 12, 1976)
• In the song "The Conjuring" by Megadeth, the REAL mission of rock is clearly heard:
  
  
  
  "I AM THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE A SALESMAN, if you will . . .
  
  Come join me in my INFERNAL DEPTHS . . .
  
  I've got your soul!" At the end of the song they chant "OBEY"! 
• Rocker Frank Zappa (who discovered the awful truth December 4, 1993 the second he died) proudly boasted:
  
  "I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called 'groupies.' Girls will give their bodies to musicians as you would give a sacrifice to a god." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 17) 
• The super group, Metallica, in the song "Jump In the Fire", commands young people to jump into hell:
  
  "Follow me now my child . . .
  
  DO JUST AS I SAY . . .
  
  Jump by your will or be taken by force I'll get you either way . . .
  
  So reach down grab my hand walk with me through the land
  
  COME HOME WHERE YOU BELONG
  
  So come on JUMP IN THE FIRE."  
• (You may say but we do not listen to this type of music. But I say don't be fooled. What is there to listen to? All songs have one purpose and that is to stir your emotions and desires in a way that takes away from Allah. 
• Story of the Aabid who passed by a female singer. 
  
   
• What is the message? What are the lyrics saying? What are they inviting you to?
• One singer said: "I hope that after this song that God will be destroyed in their head".
• Lyrics that encourage kufr: Everything I do, I do it for you! "You gave my life to me and set me free".
• Even those who listen to Arabic music or Pakistani music: They encourage you to be daring in your love (which is certainly not the love between a wife and her husband), Taking about missing her lover, or calling to zina. I remember from an early age how daring and shameless one female singer was when she sang "this night is the night when I will meet my lover and he will make it the best of nights." For sure it was not about her husband, even a halfway righteous woman would not say that about her husband in public.
• Profanity and obscenity in the lyrics.
•  Are they reminding you of Allah? What does actually remind you of Allah? Quran and Thikr so if you spend over 4 hours a day listening to music and 8 hours sleeping 8 hours of schooling and 4 hours for your eating and other activities what have you left of your day for the Quran? Ibn Masud said: "Singing brings hypocrocy to the heart." I Know of one brother who used to memorize the Quran, but then he started listening to music and it wasn't long before he had forgotten most of it. He replaced with the songs.
• What did Allah say about it?
•  "And of mankind is he who purchases idle talks (i.e. music, singing, etc.) to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah without knowledge, and takes it (the Path of Allah, the Verses of the Qur'an) by way of mockery.  For such there will be a humiliating torment (in the Hell-Fire).
  
  (The Noble Qur'an - Luqman 31:6)

  "And Istafiz [literally means: befool them gradually] those whom you can among them with your voice (i.e. songs, music, and other call for Allah's disobedience)..."
  
  (The Noble Qur'an - Al-Isra 17:64 )

  "The Day of Resurrection draws near, None besides Allah can avert it, (or advance it, or delay it).  Do you then wonder at this recital (the Qur'an)?  And you laugh at it and weep not, Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.).  So fall you down in prostration to Allah, and worship Him (Alone)"
  
  (The Noble Qur'an - An-Najm 53:57-62)

•  What did the Prophet(saw)say about it?

• Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 7, Book 69, hadith #494v
  
  Narrated Abu 'Amir (raa) or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari (raa) that he heard the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) 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 (from them), there will be some 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 Allah will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection." note: Here Rasulullah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) has mentioned music with drinking of alcohol and fornication (zina) which are a MAJOR (Kabair) sin!

• What did the Sahaabah and the early Salaf say about it:

• The Ruqiya of zina (Ibn Abbas), Flute of Satan, idle talk, falsehood, lies, the Recitation of Satan, the foolish sound, al Fannaan, al Masrah

•  Umar bin Abdel Aziz wrote to the teacher of his children: "the first thing you should teach them is to stay away from singing as it begins with Satan and ends with the wrath of Allah."

• What did the four Imams say about it?

• Ijma'a of the 4 imams:
  
  Music that takes one away from the remembrance of Allah (swt) and music that has other instruments other than the duff is strictly forbidden.

  At-Tabari (RH) and Imam Malik (RH)
  
  Hold the view that all music is unlawful. And should be abstained from.

  Imaam Shafiee (RH) and Imaam Abu Hanifah (RH)
  
  Held the view that most music is makruh.  Some music is lawful (the one with only duff and under certain circumstances) and the music that takes away from the remembrance of Allah (swt) is forbidden.

   

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  Al-Tirmidhi reported in his Sunan (no. 1005) from Ibn Abi Layla from ‘Ata’ from Jaabir (RAA) who said: “The Messenger of Allaah (SAW) went to to al-Nakhl with ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (RAA), when his son Ibraaheem was dying. He took the child in his lap and his eyes filled with tears. ‘Abd al-Rahmaan said, ‘Are you weeping when you have forbidden us to weep?’ He said, 'I do not forbid weeping. What I have forbidden is two foolish and evil kinds of voices: voices at times of entertainment and play and the flutes of the Shaytaan, and voices at times of calamity and scratching the face and rending the garments and screaming.’”

• Brothers and sisters: Have you ever had a song stuck in your head. You remember it everytime and flows out without effort? When such is the case then check your relationship with Allah and ask for His mercy and tathbeet that he keeps you firm until the last minute of your life. How can you guarantee that this song is not going to be the one you end your life upon. Do you want to be reciting Quran when you die? Do you want your last words to be laa ilaaha illaa Allah at that moment? Do  you think if it is easy for you to say now, it will be then? Think about it.