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abdulmājid
Jazakallah! I thought I could justify the act of listining to music as I was not much into the inter-mixing thingy and many things such as smoking, drinking...:ermm:
Asalaamu Alaikum wr wb, Jazkallahu khayran for sharing your issue with us. What we must realise is that one just has to look into the lives of those who create music, rap and sing and one will clearly notice what pathetic and miserable lives they really lead. We should think to ourselves "Why should i listen to the music of scum like that? When all they are talking about in their songs is about their desires and how others should also follow their desires." Once we have internalised in our minds what Music is really about and the evil that goes on in the industry then it will prevent one from going near Music.
Most of these singers, rappers etc end up getting rehabilitation because of the kind of lifestyle they lead. They sell their souls to shaythan for money, women, cars etc and Shaythan helps them in their music because shaythan was the first to sing. Once shaythan gives them success in their music he ends up gradually ruining them! He promises them everything and when they have achieved worldly success then they end up feeling suicidal and trapped.
We should NEVER Don't think to ourselves that these people are happy, because only Allah knows what they are feeling in their hearts and reading and hearing the stories from a lot of these singers, rappers and celebrities lives they lead a life of misery, anguish and depression because they end up not knowing who they really are and lose their identity.
They become like products of their industry who does not care for them at all. When they hit this all time low Shaythan then suggests that they turn towards intoxication and that is when the downhill spiral gets worse and many of them feel suicidal and unable to help themselves out of ther situation they have got themselves in.
My brother what you should realise is there is no cure in anything that is haraam. Some people say that a cigarette relieves stress. I say it gives you more stress because if you don't have a cigarette then you feel even more stressed. Allah tells us in the Qur'an how to find peace in our hearts:
"Those who believe, and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of Allah! " Behold in the Remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction." (
13-28)
Therefore without a doubt the cure to whatever stress any of us go through in life is through the remembrance of Allah. Remembrance of Allah could be through listening to beautiful Qur'anic recitation and if one listens to Qur'anic recitation then one will actually gain similar rewards like one is reciting the Qur'an Subhanallah!
If you are ever feeling stressed then you can do the dhikr of Allah and imagine the greatness of Allah and you will feel your stress seeping out of you like water comes out of a bottle. Here are some Dhikr you can do everyday wherever you are no matter what you are doing:
Easy Dhikr which is light on the tongue but heavy on the scales!
http://www.islamicboard.com/showthre...-on-the-scales!
Nowadays you get these catchy tunes of rappers and singers talking about haraam and forbidden evil and you see a lot of our own brothers and sisters repeating those evil words and blasting it in their cars with pride and arrogance, singing wholeheartedly the evil words of the song not realising that they are in fact singing about evil and that which is contrary to the teachings of Islam.
Nowadays there is also a craze of our youth walking around with music pumping from their mobile phones. We as Muslims need to try and prevent this from happening and the best way to do this is spread the message that Music and the music industry is pure evil and it should be rejected by Muslimms. So let us not listen to the Music of shaythan for he is our eternal enemy.
Remember if we were to die whilst hearing evil words from Music what would our fate be? We have to think reality and we have to gain hatred in our hearts for ALL evils especially Music because music causes hypocrisy in the heart and a person who listens to music will have shaythan in thir blood stream! Those people who love music will also be the followers of the AntiChrist Dajaal who will play beautiful music and the lovers of music will follow him like a swarm of bees!
So let us listen to the beautiful recitiation of the words of Allah and give up the evil Music of shaythan whose words are ONLY of lies and deception for our ears and who's words are contrary to the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah. Shaythan only wants to make people follow their desires and music is his most powerful weapon. Therefore let us build hatred in our hearts for music and let us build love in our heart for the remembrance of Allah.
May Allah save us from ALL evil and surround us with goodness and may we do eevrything to please Allah and everything to refrain from that which Allah has forbidden! Ameen