My dad is trying to block this site as he thinks this site is making me radical...

Are music classes compulsory in your part of the world? Seems like a strange curriculum.

^ Bro, that video is a wind up. Please see: http://ilmfeed.com/viral-video-effec...han-a-wind-up/

A video purporting to show how music and the call to prayer affects the body has gone viral. It has been shared across social media including messaging services such as WhatsApp.

The video starts with an unidentified man playing music and pointing to graphics displayed on a goniometer claiming that this is how music affects the “the water, the minerals and the salts in the body”.

He then plays the call to prayer and claims it has an opposite effect on the body.

Whilst it’s true that the call to prayer does have a calming effect this video does not provide a scientific proof and is in fact a wind-up (they can be heard laughing at the end of the video).

It’s in fact to do with whether the audio is stereo or mono. One obvious giveaway is that he can be seen switching off one of the channels of the call to prayer in order to make it play in mono.

Several people have left comments on social media pointing to the fact that it’s fake.

Nasar Ishfaq wrote:

“The graph you see is called a Goniometer (he says it at the start of the video). The graph shows a 2D map of an audio recording, it allows audio-editors to balance the left and right channels of the sound to produce Stereo sound – that’s why on some files the graph produced a elipse.
Mono audio files produce a straight line and appear as almost silent on the graph as the audio is not using right and left channels and so is in perfect balance.
It has NOTHING to do with the sound itself only the way it was recorded.”

Joshua Surreal wrote:

“This is a stereo analyzer, The graph your seeing doesn’t even show any sort of frequency, It shows the stereo image of an audio clip.”

Hafiz Hanif tried it himself:

“Downloaded and installed a Goniometer, searched and download an Athan audio, made sure it was a stereo file, and ran the audio in the Goniometer. The wave was everywhere.”

Simon showed a live demo through Facebook live to prove it wrong


So the moral of the story? Don’t believe everything you hear or see on the internet. If you are not sure, ask an expert – in this case, sound engineers. You can also send us an email and we’ll check for you.

Let’s remember the following statement of the Prophet:

Abu Huraira narrated the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “It is enough to call a person a liar that he narrates everything he hears”[Sahih Muslim]

The explanation of the hadith is that a person will hear a mixture of truth and falsehood and if they simply narrate everything without checking what is true and what is false, they will inevitably narrate the lies too.

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there is scientific research to how intention can affect water though bro Ibn Adam, and considering our bodies are mostly water, I think there is some truth to this.

Take for example, the research of Dr Masaru Emoto.

In brief (you'll get the idea) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au4qx_l8KEU

follow up on it, and see for yourself.

Scimi

Yes, this is very true. Words have an effect of the body and soul.

Just saying that particular video of sound is not really a scientific experiment. There could be other true experiments that we are not aware of.

This is a Ted Ed vid that briefly summarizes the main benefits of learning to play music that anyone would want to point to. This vid has literally nothing to do with Islam, but it may satisfy the curiosity of anyone who wants to know what sort of measurable benefits are associated with learning to play music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng
Although it's worth pointing out that a basic, intro-level high school music class is only going to introduce people to the possibilities of truly learning to play an instrument- it's basically an entire course whose purpose is to position a student at the edge of something and find out if they're into it.

It's too bad that you haven't been able to get anything to go your way yet, although I can't say I'm entirely surprised by the requirement for parental involvement in the exemption. That's probably done in order to prevent lazy students from opting out of something that they just don't feel like doing- which is not you, that's not what you're doing at all, but the requirement is probably there with that sort of thing in mind. I'd still recommend talking things over with your imam, your dad clearly doesn't trust this site so you should get your dad talking to him.

I do encourage you to continue to engage, to make a reasoned and well-supported argument and to take whatever steps you have at your disposal to try and make some progress. Please don't react with anger though, this is the exact sort of time and situation in which open displays of anger and frustration will immediately and predictably be interpreted by your parents as signs of extremism and cause for concern.

Again, do talk to your imam with your dad, and it might be a good idea to make a point of checking in with him on an ongoing basis, when you happen to see him and as long as this is going on. As things continue to progress, it may be the case that you have to compromise on something in a way that you didn't really want to. Of course it's not what you wanted, but it may be that you have to. So you'll need a particular type of guidance in terms of negotiating a non-ideal situation.

From your dad, it sounds like the extent of this guidance will be "You have to do this, now deal with it." But....how exactly, Islamically speaking?
It well may be that the guidance you get from this forum is "You shouldn't have to do that. You really shouldn't. That's wrong, you shouldn't have to." But....you do. So what now?
That's where your imam comes in. Even if he's not able to help you reverse direction- which you can ask him about, it's worth a shot- he's definitely going to be your best shot at having a neutral observer, who knows Islamic teaching quite well, who will most likely hear you out without judging you for being frustrated, and will help you find the most proper way forward even if you aren't able to get out of the class.

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say your imam can probably come up with a better course of action than faking sickness. I'm not sure exactly what he would want to say to you, but I cannot imagine that he would tell you go ahead and fake sickness, that's the right idea, do exactly that. I don't see that happening.