As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
You cannot escape it at many supermarkets or garages, in buses or taxis. Stop at a red traffic light, and your ears are bombarded from the car next to you. However, the last straw is ... the PHONE. Dial a number, ask for Muslim Brother so-and-so, and if he is busy, you are put on hold. Then, out of the blue, the silence is shattered by sin, by music from the receiver. You cannot switch it off — unless you slam down the phone. If you just have to talk to so-and-so, you have no option but to involve yourself in listening to that sin to some extent.
HEAVY ROCK
"But they don't play 'heavy rock music' on the phone," one person protested. The reality of the matter is that a heavy rock should be thrown at ALL music and it should be silenced for ever. After all, Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is reported to have said:
"I have been SENT to DESTROY musical instruments." (Mishkaat, v.2 p.318)
In one hadith Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is reported to have said:
"When my Ummah will become involved in 15 actions, calamities will befall them. (Among these 15 is)...when dancing girls and musical instruments will become rife." (Mishkaat) How much more rife can it become when you are not safe even on a private telephone line. When it has become this rife, the constant calamities that befall us should come as no surprise.
SIN FOR FREE
By playing music on the telephone one will have to bear the burden of the sin of all those who listen to it, due to becoming the means of their involvement in that sin. This is what you can call "sin for free." The person who played it on his phone perhaps did not even hear it himself , but he is reaping the sins of all those who have to listen to it when they phone him.
Every Mu'min is supposed to pass on the message of Islam at all times, by word and deed. He should be a means of guiding others towards noble and righteous actions. It does not behove of him to become a means of involving others in sin and do the job of the shayateen. May Allah protect us!
Advice: Before you Dial
The Glorious Qur'an is explicit with regard to the injunction of seeking permission before entering anyone's home. However, by means of the telephone, one enters to some extent right into the persons house, whether he likes it or not. Therefore, it is important to observe certain etiquettes when intending to telephone someone.
It is not proper to phone a person at such a time when it is known that he is generally sleeping, eating or engaged in some other necessity at that time. An emergency is excluded.
If a person has to be telephoned regularly, enquire of him as to which time will be suitable to phone him. Then be punctual upon that time.
If one has to conduct a lengthy conversation, enquire of the person whether he has the time. (Ma'ariful Qur'an)
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