anonymous
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Some time ago in my life something terrible happened, I got involved with a boy who I would never ever have imagined I would get involved with due to his age, his looks, his personality, his family, lack of education, his culture, attitude to women, everything.
Things with him got really messy in a short time and ended on really bad terms and to this day I am scared of him. He turned extremely nasty towards the end and I realised he was never the person I imagined in my head all along and how could I have been so blind.
It dawned on me that there was a romantic Indian song that was huge at the time and that I listened to a lot, everyday in fact, and that filled my head with romantic dreams and rose tinted views on everything. There was also a few other songs I listened to which would help confirm that and also help me forget my worries/doubts which I did briefly have on a very small scale sometimes. I was also in a bad environment at the time where people had no morals or much religion, so all of this combined made me lose my senses and see this person as amazing and that I was in "love". The thought of it repulses me now and I remember one day having a moment when I was back to my normal life and he was trying to scare me into being back with him and it literally "clicked" and all those feelings for him went away and I realised how stupid and crazy I had been and deleted all my music. It was like I was literally under a spell, and subconciously had romaticised my connection to him through that song and other songs.
I am not saying it can/will happen so clearly with everyone, with every song. But music can and definitely does affect what we feel, and sometimes makes you think you feel something you don't, and in a situation like mine it can go out of control and subconciously take you into situations you would never otherwise do. I never realised it was happening to me afterall, it happens so slowly, so subtley, and yes it wasn't just the music that made it happen, but it played a huge part in the background, unknowingly, secretly.
It is having a huge effect on everyone all the time. Sad songs make you cry afterall, upbeat songs make you happy and want to dance, romantic songs make you feel loved up, songs with bad lyrics and image, makes people want to emulate that. It's a perfectly simple and acceptable theory, but it shows one of the reasons music is banned in Islam and the harm it can do.
May Allah save us from sins and harmful effects like these. Ameen
Things with him got really messy in a short time and ended on really bad terms and to this day I am scared of him. He turned extremely nasty towards the end and I realised he was never the person I imagined in my head all along and how could I have been so blind.
It dawned on me that there was a romantic Indian song that was huge at the time and that I listened to a lot, everyday in fact, and that filled my head with romantic dreams and rose tinted views on everything. There was also a few other songs I listened to which would help confirm that and also help me forget my worries/doubts which I did briefly have on a very small scale sometimes. I was also in a bad environment at the time where people had no morals or much religion, so all of this combined made me lose my senses and see this person as amazing and that I was in "love". The thought of it repulses me now and I remember one day having a moment when I was back to my normal life and he was trying to scare me into being back with him and it literally "clicked" and all those feelings for him went away and I realised how stupid and crazy I had been and deleted all my music. It was like I was literally under a spell, and subconciously had romaticised my connection to him through that song and other songs.
I am not saying it can/will happen so clearly with everyone, with every song. But music can and definitely does affect what we feel, and sometimes makes you think you feel something you don't, and in a situation like mine it can go out of control and subconciously take you into situations you would never otherwise do. I never realised it was happening to me afterall, it happens so slowly, so subtley, and yes it wasn't just the music that made it happen, but it played a huge part in the background, unknowingly, secretly.
It is having a huge effect on everyone all the time. Sad songs make you cry afterall, upbeat songs make you happy and want to dance, romantic songs make you feel loved up, songs with bad lyrics and image, makes people want to emulate that. It's a perfectly simple and acceptable theory, but it shows one of the reasons music is banned in Islam and the harm it can do.
May Allah save us from sins and harmful effects like these. Ameen