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MashAllah thats a great article, and coming from a British revert to Islam, can you imagine how hard it must be for people like Yvonne to give up everyday "pleasures" like music and actually speak against it? May Allah reward her, Ameen.
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Greetings,
I agree, it must be hard. Music is usually regarded as something good in British culture, and in Western culture generally.
I'm not thinking of reverting (for many reasons), but if I were, then the prospect of having to give up music would be one of the hardest things about it, I think. I play guitar, piano and violin, and have done for years; I listen to music of all kinds (except chart pop); I regularly attend classical, blues, jazz, dance and rock concerts. I don't think there's anything wrong with any of this - on the contrary I feel it's all been beneficial and actually a huge inspiration in my life.
There is no question of me ever giving up music.
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I agree, it must be hard. Music is usually regarded as something good in British culture, and in Western culture generally.
I'm not thinking of reverting (for many reasons), but if I were, then the prospect of having to give up music would be one of the hardest things about it, I think. I play guitar, piano and violin, and have done for years; I listen to music of all kinds (except chart pop); I regularly attend classical, blues, jazz, dance and rock concerts. I don't think there's anything wrong with any of this - on the contrary I feel it's all been beneficial and actually a huge inspiration in my life.
There is no question of me ever giving up music.
Peace
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Wow, i really felt that. I gave up listening to nasheeds a while ago, as I was kind of addicted! I need to print this out and show it to someone I know who thinks music in nasheeds is all right.
Jazak-Allah for posting that up akhee.
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How can someone like Yvonne Ridley comment on the so-called 'nasheed' industry when she goes to every event where these 'nasheeds' are played. Every event where some artist or other performs she is there, along with all the other british moderates, so she is nobody to comment on the situation. Just pure double standards
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How can someone like Yvonne Ridley comment on the so-called 'nasheed' industry when she goes to every event where these 'nasheeds' are played. Every event where some artist or other performs she is there, along with all the other british moderates, so she is nobody to comment on the situation. Just pure double standards
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Perhaps she's there to critic them akhee?:?
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I doubt it, most of the time she's up on stage congratulating the 'singer'. And most of these so-called events (pop concerts) are free-mixed. Its sad to say, but 'british' muslims are starting to lose that sense of shame that we once had. They are starting to embrace 'british' culture and the 'british' way of life. Im mentioning british because that is where i am and that is what i see. What we have is greater than what the kuffar have, but we don't appreciate it.
May Allah guide us all
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I doubt it, most of the time she's up on stage congratulating the 'singer'. And most of these so-called events (pop concerts) are free-mixed. Its sad to say, but 'british' muslims are starting to lose that sense of shame that we once had. They are starting to embrace 'british' culture and the 'british' way of life. Im mentioning british because that is where i am and that is what i see. What we have is greater than what the kuffar have, but we don't appreciate it.
May Allah guide us all
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Ameen, it may be that Allah showed her the way akhee. May he guide us all!
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Sister yvonne really knows how to say things...I love this sister. May Allah bless her....ameen
Shes saying exactly what the true Muslim population feel about Sami Yusuf.
I hope we can all learn something from her. I know i can - i love her articles and speeches and she surely knows how to put things.
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Sister yvonne really knows how to say things...I love this sister. May Allah bless her....ameen
Shes saying exactly what the true Muslim population feel about Sami Yusuf.
I hope we can all learn something from her. I know i can - i love her articles and speeches and she surely knows how to put things.
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Music definitely has become a central aspect of western culture.
On that topic, I was watching a BBC documentary entitled Turning Muslim in UK (as it turns out, Yvonne Ridley is in it as well). The third person interviewed is John Standing, now Jamal-ud-Deen. He studied music for three years and intended a career as a rock star. After converting to Islam he choose to leave all of that, knowing that it was a controversial issue. Sacrificing three years of one's life is definitely not easy, May God reward Him.
Then there are others like Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) and Dawud Wharnsby Ali who maintain some of their musical interests after their conversion.
There are many Muslims living in the west who grow up just as addicted to music as the non-muslims, if not more. I've found that when giving Da'wah to such Muslims, if you tell them to focus on their relationship with God and learning their religion they will naturally leave music. Once someone becomes more focused on their religion, they abandon these things by themselves.
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Wise words akhee
Jazakallah Khayr
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Wise words akhee
Jazakallah Khayr
Wassalam
There are many Muslims living in the west who grow up just as addicted to music as the non-muslims, if not more. I've found that when giving Da'wah to such Muslims, if you tell them to focus on their relationship with God and learning their religion they will naturally leave music. Once someone becomes more focused on their religion, they abandon these things by themselves.
Asalamu alaikum,
JazakAllah, thats a very good piece of advice. The same happened to me, I never intended to give up music, but once I started learning more about Islam it just seemed to disappear. All the things in Western music just didn't appeal to me anymore. However, I think it is more difficult for people to stop listening to 'nasheeds'. I pray Allah keeps us all on the straight path, ameen.
Salam
dats soo true!! jus recent;y an event was organised on the islam channel and her face was plastered all ova the advert
Pop Culture in the Name of Islam - Yvonne Ridley
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Pop Culture in the Name of Islam
Yvonne Ridley
Article ID: 1261 | 213 Reads
Monday, April 24, 2006
I FEEL very uncomfortable about the pop culture which is growing around some so-called Nasheed artists. Of course I use the term 'Nasheed artists' very lightly. Islamic 'boy bands' and Muslim 'popsters' would probably be more appropriate.
Eminent scholars throughout history have often opined that music is haram, and I don't recall reading anything about the Sahaba whooping it up to the sound of music. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for people letting off steam, but in a dignified manner and one which is appropriate to their surroundings.
The reason I am expressing concern is that just a few days ago at a venue in Central London, sisters went wild in the aisles as some form of pop-mania swept through the concert venue. And I'm not just talking about silly, little girls who don't know any better; I am talking about sisters in their 20's, 30's and 40's, who squealed, shouted, swayed and danced. Even the security guys who looked more like pipe cleaners than bulldozers were left looking dazed and confused as they tried to stop hijabi sisters from standing on their chairs. Of course the stage groupies did not help at all as they waved and encouraged the largely female Muslim crowd to "get up and sing along." (They're called 'Fluffers' in lap-dancing circles!)
The source of all this adulation was British-born Sami Yusuf, who is so proud of his claret-colored passport that he wants us all to wave the Union Jacks. I'm amazed he didn't encourage his fans to sing "Land of Hope and Glory." Brother Sami asked his audience to cheer if they were proud to be British ,and when they responded loudly, he said he couldn't hear them and asked them to cheer again.
How can anyone be proud to be British? Britain is the third most hated country in the world. The Union Jack is drenched in the blood of our brothers and sisters across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Our history is steeped in the blood of colonialism, rooted in slavery, brutality, torture, and oppression. And we haven't had a decent game of soccer since we lifted the World Cup in 1966.
Apparently Sami also said one of the selling points of Brand UK was having Muslims in the Metropolitan Police Force! Astagfir'Allah! Dude, these are the same cops who have a shoot-to-kill policy and would have gunned down a Muslim last year if they could tell the difference between a Bangladeshi and a Brazilian. This is the same police force that has raided more than 3000 Muslim homes in Britain since 9/11. What sort of life is there on Planet Sami, I wonder? If he is so proud to be British, why is he living in the great Middle Eastern democracy of Egypt?
Apparently the sort of hysteria Sami helped encourage is also in America, and if it is happening on both sides of the Atlantic, then it must be creeping around the globe and poisoning the masses. Islamic boy bands like 786 and Mecca 2 Medina are also the subject of the sort of female adulation you expect to see on American Pop Idol or the X-Factor. Surely Islamic events should be promoting restrained and more sedate behavior.
Do we blame the out-of-control sisters? Or do we blame the organizers for allowing this sort of excessive behavior which demeans Islam? Or do we blame the artists themselves?
Abu Ali and Abu Abdul Malik, struggling for their Deen, would certainly not try to whip up this sort of hysteria. Neither would the anonymous heroic Nasheed artists who sing for freedom; check out Idhrib Ya Asad Fallujah, and you will know exactly what I mean.
Fallujah is now synonymous with the sort of heroic resistance that elevated the Palestinians of Jenin to the ranks of the resistance written about in the Paris Communeand the Siege of Leningrad. The US military has banned the playing of any Nasheeds about Fallujah because of the power and the passion it evokes.
If those Nasheeds had sisters running in the streets whooping and dancing, however, the Nasheeds may be encouraged because of haram activity surrounding them.
Quite frankly, I really don't know how anyone in the Ummah can really let go and scream and shout with joy at pleasure domes when there is so much brutality and suffering going on in the world today.
The rivers of blood flow freely from the veins of our brothers and sisters from across the Muslim world. Screaming and shouting the names of musical heroes drown out the screams coming from the dungeons of Uzbekistan where brothers and sisters are boiled alive in vats of water.
How many will jump up and down and wave their arms in the air, shouting wildly for justice for our kin in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, and Iraq? There are many more killing fields as well across the Asian and Arab world. Will you climb on theater chairs and express your rage over Guantanamo Bay and other gulags where our brothers and sisters are being tortured, raped, sodomized, beaten, and burned?
Or will you just switch off this concerned sister and switch on to the likes of Sami Yusuf because he can sell you a pipe dream with his soothing words and melodic voice?
Oh, Muslims, wake up! The Ummah is not bleeding; it is hemorrhaging.
Listen not to what is haram. Listen to the pain of your global family.
Taken from Islamicawakening.com
Pop Culture in the Name of Islam
Yvonne Ridley
Article ID: 1261 | 213 Reads
Monday, April 24, 2006
I FEEL very uncomfortable about the pop culture which is growing around some so-called Nasheed artists. Of course I use the term 'Nasheed artists' very lightly. Islamic 'boy bands' and Muslim 'popsters' would probably be more appropriate.
Eminent scholars throughout history have often opined that music is haram, and I don't recall reading anything about the Sahaba whooping it up to the sound of music. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for people letting off steam, but in a dignified manner and one which is appropriate to their surroundings.
The reason I am expressing concern is that just a few days ago at a venue in Central London, sisters went wild in the aisles as some form of pop-mania swept through the concert venue. And I'm not just talking about silly, little girls who don't know any better; I am talking about sisters in their 20's, 30's and 40's, who squealed, shouted, swayed and danced. Even the security guys who looked more like pipe cleaners than bulldozers were left looking dazed and confused as they tried to stop hijabi sisters from standing on their chairs. Of course the stage groupies did not help at all as they waved and encouraged the largely female Muslim crowd to "get up and sing along." (They're called 'Fluffers' in lap-dancing circles!)
The source of all this adulation was British-born Sami Yusuf, who is so proud of his claret-colored passport that he wants us all to wave the Union Jacks. I'm amazed he didn't encourage his fans to sing "Land of Hope and Glory." Brother Sami asked his audience to cheer if they were proud to be British ,and when they responded loudly, he said he couldn't hear them and asked them to cheer again.
How can anyone be proud to be British? Britain is the third most hated country in the world. The Union Jack is drenched in the blood of our brothers and sisters across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Our history is steeped in the blood of colonialism, rooted in slavery, brutality, torture, and oppression. And we haven't had a decent game of soccer since we lifted the World Cup in 1966.
Apparently Sami also said one of the selling points of Brand UK was having Muslims in the Metropolitan Police Force! Astagfir'Allah! Dude, these are the same cops who have a shoot-to-kill policy and would have gunned down a Muslim last year if they could tell the difference between a Bangladeshi and a Brazilian. This is the same police force that has raided more than 3000 Muslim homes in Britain since 9/11. What sort of life is there on Planet Sami, I wonder? If he is so proud to be British, why is he living in the great Middle Eastern democracy of Egypt?
Apparently the sort of hysteria Sami helped encourage is also in America, and if it is happening on both sides of the Atlantic, then it must be creeping around the globe and poisoning the masses. Islamic boy bands like 786 and Mecca 2 Medina are also the subject of the sort of female adulation you expect to see on American Pop Idol or the X-Factor. Surely Islamic events should be promoting restrained and more sedate behavior.
Do we blame the out-of-control sisters? Or do we blame the organizers for allowing this sort of excessive behavior which demeans Islam? Or do we blame the artists themselves?
Abu Ali and Abu Abdul Malik, struggling for their Deen, would certainly not try to whip up this sort of hysteria. Neither would the anonymous heroic Nasheed artists who sing for freedom; check out Idhrib Ya Asad Fallujah, and you will know exactly what I mean.
Fallujah is now synonymous with the sort of heroic resistance that elevated the Palestinians of Jenin to the ranks of the resistance written about in the Paris Communeand the Siege of Leningrad. The US military has banned the playing of any Nasheeds about Fallujah because of the power and the passion it evokes.
If those Nasheeds had sisters running in the streets whooping and dancing, however, the Nasheeds may be encouraged because of haram activity surrounding them.
Quite frankly, I really don't know how anyone in the Ummah can really let go and scream and shout with joy at pleasure domes when there is so much brutality and suffering going on in the world today.
The rivers of blood flow freely from the veins of our brothers and sisters from across the Muslim world. Screaming and shouting the names of musical heroes drown out the screams coming from the dungeons of Uzbekistan where brothers and sisters are boiled alive in vats of water.
How many will jump up and down and wave their arms in the air, shouting wildly for justice for our kin in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, and Iraq? There are many more killing fields as well across the Asian and Arab world. Will you climb on theater chairs and express your rage over Guantanamo Bay and other gulags where our brothers and sisters are being tortured, raped, sodomized, beaten, and burned?
Or will you just switch off this concerned sister and switch on to the likes of Sami Yusuf because he can sell you a pipe dream with his soothing words and melodic voice?
Oh, Muslims, wake up! The Ummah is not bleeding; it is hemorrhaging.
Listen not to what is haram. Listen to the pain of your global family.
Re: Pop Culture in the Name of Islam - Yvonne Ridley
Salaalaikm warakh matullahai wabarakatuhu
I just wanted to say that this article is vey true and you can see this kind of behaviour happening all around. Although i have noticed this behaviour before this article, it really opens up a person's eyes.Mashallah this article is truly great and jazakalakhair for sharing this article and its prominent views.
Salaalaikm warakh matullahai wabarakatuhu
I just wanted to say that this article is vey true and you can see this kind of behaviour happening all around. Although i have noticed this behaviour before this article, it really opens up a person's eyes.Mashallah this article is truly great and jazakalakhair for sharing this article and its prominent views.
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i dunno why but hypocrite scares me and i get even more scared when i think i mite hav signs of hipocrisy on myself
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