When and how did you give up Music?

[Barzakh]

Alhumdulilah for me its been 10 months since I gave up music. The transition has not been so bad considering i really used to be in to music once upon a time. I try to listen to nasheeds every now and then but havent really found too many that I like. One thing is for sure though there is a definite difference i have felt in my life ever since I quit. Music seems to amplify and exagerate situations in your life to ridiculous proportions sometimes making it that much more harder to deal with, Alhumdulilah i've found my life to be much more drama free ever since I quit. I was wondering if more ppl had similar stories to share.

[x Maz x]

When? Well when I reverted back to my good ways Alhamdilullah..I started realising that it was bad a couple of years ago but Astaghfirullah didnt really take heed Sumin i regret alot but as erm i kinda loved my rap/hop-hop/r'n'b and erm the lyrics say enough right? well Yeh and all they really talked about is gun culture/sex/drugs/violence and had no real meaning behind it so it was inevitable in a way i would open ma eyes and stop listening to it cause when you think bout the lyrics well 'nuff said!...Listenin to lectures and reading through articles Wallahi made meh see how bad it was...There were occassions in the last year that I return to ma nawty ways but Alhamdilullah I got over it now ...I hope i didnt speak to soon


...Must say its been a rocky journey getting there but Alhamdilullah I made it Wohooo! Now inshAllah next task is giving dawah to peeps about it, erm recoverd music addict speakin LOL...K thats jus tacky

Okey dokey kareoky WalaykumAsalaam x

[mohamedislam]

music clouds your iman and i never really listen to it. my parents don't let me and i'm glad about that because many music albums have naked women in it. it is haraam. well done for giving it because i know it's not easy. Mashaallah

[Angel]

me wel my friend always listens to it and i sometimes listen wit them no actually used to listen wit them now i try 2 tel em dat music is not good and dat dey should listen 2 nasheed one of them listens wit me 2 nasheed now but da rest stil listen 2 normal haram music but of corse i cant tel them to listen 2 nasheed dey are not muslims i ahvent got much muslim friends cuz we live in non- muslim area so most of my friends are not muslims but dey r not horrible now dey understand me y i dont listen wit them 2 music and dey dont try 2 persuade me alhamdulilah

[Ghazi]

Music is silly you don't benifit you just gain sin.

[seek.learn]

Music seems to amplify and exagerate situations in your life to ridiculous proportions sometimes making it that much more harder to deal with...

Salaam o alaikum,

That is so true.
Alhamdulillah, left music two years back. The first year wasnt perfect, but now, I actually cant stand it for too long (when outside the house).

May Allah guide us all and forgive us our sins. Aameen.

Alaikum Salaam

[Umar001]

Personally been wierd, I left it then when back to it then left it then back.

Prolly because of the differences of opinion on it wasnt as set upon leaving it.

[afriend]

I was a real fool a few months after last year Ramadhaan...I think in December, or November, when my Grandparents left the country, I really felt, kind of depressed. So then the only thing I could do was turn to Allah, and it worked, I finally left my evil and m wrong acts, not just music, but a lot of other things too

Do not despair of the mercy of your Lord

[Angel]

da best of us can be fools al we can do is turn 2 allah and ask for his forgiveness and mercy and try 2 mend our ways and go on da straight path

i was a fool too beforebut now i mended my way an ask for allah's mercy and forgivenesss and i dont intend 2 go bak 2 my ways no matter wat iam out of da darkness and i am glad alhamdulilah

[Woodrow]

I never had to give it up. It gave me up years ago.

Severe hearing loss, have not been able to hear musical tones for nearly 30 years. Live in a mono-tone world. I can not tell if a music instruement is being played or if somebody dropped a stack of dishes.

Second thought maybe I don't have a hearing problem and that is actually what music is these days.

[julie sarri]

i would lisern to music all day every day from the age of 13 i was a very depressed teenager i had a lot of problems back then anyway when i reverted to islam i gave up i was worried it would be hard but it was easy with the help of allah swt alhamduilillah i dont even lisern to nasheeds i feel much better in my self

[Al-Hanbali]

alhumdullilah allah guides who he wants to the straight path

[Hussein radi]

Quran is much better then Music. Here is my favorite Sura

http://download.al-islaam.com/audiov...jibrien/02.mp3

[hinda]

alhamdulilah, i gave it up 3 years, but still have problems convincing my sisters but inshallah they'll realise it.
congratulations to all of u, i knw its.

[SirZubair]

I gave up last year during ramadan,then a couple of months later i started listening to it again.

As for Nickelback song goes....

Someday,
somehow,
im gonna make it alright,
but maybe not right now,
i know you're wondering when..

[glo]

Wow!
For me as a non-Muslim it's a very stange concept, not ever to listen to music!

Don't get me wrong, I understand what Islamic teaching says about it.
It's just, that to me the concept is totally alien.

Peace.

[Halima]

Well, it's extremely hard the first time, but when you keep yourself preoccupied with other things..then insha'Allah..you'll eventually forget about music.

Also, if you listen to music, it clouds the mind.

I listen to recitings instead.

[Bint Abdusattar]

I gave up music when i left home to study islam. I had reached Surah Isra in the Qu'ran and was studying verses numbers 61 to 64 (for which we had extended tafseer expaining what the voice of satan is)- I immediately instructed my family to get rid of all my CDs ( approx. 300 of them).

I firmly believe that to get rid of something in your life - especially something like music - you need a replacement. My repalcement was listening to recitation of the Qur'an by different Qaris.

[snakelegs]

like glo i find this a very strange concept.
especially so because music is one of the things (the other being all the miracles in nature) that connects me to god.
funny thing is that i pretty much only listen to religious music - qawwali (sufi music from pakistan and india). i've haven't listened to popular music since i was a kid. (long, long ago).

[Sohrab]

I always loved Music and Dancing. But about 7 years ago, I started a serious effort to quit it...then for about 3 years it was really not working for me...then again i tried to stop...couldn't really for another two years. God is certainly mysterious...one day i got myself an mp3 player to listen to music...dunno, may be Allah liked my effort, he gave me the push (tofeeq)...and the mp3 player was never used for music at all. Instead i started listening to quran recitations, speeches, debates and so many other constructive audio, it literally transformed my life. Plus I had other benefits too...I realized that my ability to memorize and understand the quran and hadith increased dramatically...My arabic was getting better...Instead of humming songs etc, i would hum quranic verses, nasheeds etc...My perspective of life broadened so much...Increase in General and Islamic Knowledge and so many other benefits, mashAllah.

For a Long time i believed in the saying that Music is the food for soul. I realized it's not actually food for the soul...it's food for the Nafs (the devil inside). Music is like smoking...passive smoking can be as dangerous as actively smoking. In many ways it holds true for music too. Quran is actually the food for soul (rooh), medicine for the diseases of the character, remembrance, guidance and blessing for Momineen. And Quran is the symbol of Allah's blessing and graciousness , and Quran is something we should be cheering about, it's better than what others are accumulating.

"the beauty of one's islam is that he/she would give up every meaningless/useless activity" (al Hadith)

May Allah give us all tofeeq to give up Music. Ameen