Night 25: What's the Issue With Singing? - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:07]muham and his Immaculate progeny of the B peace be upon them

[0:15]especially the leader of our time the awaited Savior may Allah hasten

[0:24]his reappearance and make us all amongst his sincere and dedicated servants

[0:29]respect Ed brothers and sisters Allah subhana wa taala states in the

[0:40]Holy Quran inah verse 224 and The Poets they are followed by

[1:08]those who are deviant do you not see that they enter any

[1:17]Valley any field whether it's beneficial or not and do you not

[1:23]see that the poets they do not practice what they say illuminate

[1:30]your hearts and Minds with a salawat muhamad music and the world

[1:42]of singing It's ubiquitous it's everywhere it is absolutely inescapable these days

[1:50]wherever you go you're bombarded with the music industry you're sitting at

[1:59]a restaurant owned by a Muslim Halal restaurant that music is on

[2:05]top of your head you're in the airplane going to your destination

[2:09]there's music you go to the mall you're exposed to music people

[2:13]around you are listening to music you open the news you want

[2:18]to see a few minutes of news they bombard you with music

[2:21]music music music singing singing singing everywhere we're surrounded with this IND

[2:30]with this world today that has infused us with all types of

[2:36]music and in fact it has become so widespread and pervasive if

[2:43]you don't listen to music and G and singing You're the Oddball

[2:48]you're the abnormal one you're the one who's missing out welcome to

[2:56]2024 that is the era that we are experiencing in one of

[3:03]the biggest challenges today that our community our society is going through

[3:08]is the Dilemma of G singing and music in our discussion this

[3:15]evening I would like to examine music in the following stages number

[3:19]one what is the Islamic perspective let's know the law does the

[3:23]Quran say anything about music do we have any hadiths that clarify

[3:30]what the position of Islam is towards music secondly what are the

[3:34]consequences of listening to music does it really have harmful effects that

[3:40]we can prove by science by studies or no does it have

[3:46]some good benefits or no because there are those who will tell

[3:49]you that music actually can be good for you it can change

[3:55]your mood it can get you out of depression it does a

[3:57]lot of good a brother once told me say when I listen

[4:01]to music I can stay focused I can do my work better

[4:05]does it really have such effects or no and finally let's take

[4:09]a quick look at what's happening today in the world of popular

[4:13]culture and how much people are investing their time their money and

[4:18]their emotional energy in the world of Music let's begin with the

[4:26]first discussion what is the position of Islam when it comes to

[4:28]music is is there any reference to it in the Holy Quran

[4:33]absolutely we have a number of verses that have addressed singing and

[4:38]music and when we say singing G we are referring to entertainment

[4:43]singing the entertainment type of music the one that you find in

[4:47]concerts for instance that type of singing and that type of music

[4:53]for instance you have verse 30 Allah states in the Holy Quran

[5:05]avoid the speech of Zur what's the definition of Zur the general

[5:14]definition of Zur is anything that's false falsehood now when you come

[5:20]to the prophet sallallahu alai who's authorized to do the of the

[5:25]Quran and when you come to the of the have explained to

[5:29]us that what is meant by the speech of falsehood in this

[5:39]verse is singing and let's say the music industry so we have

[5:42]a Hadith that explains this verse in the Holy Quran and the

[5:48]Quran commands us you Believers avoid this false speech which is music

[5:55]which is singing that's one verse in the Holy Quran another verse

[5:59]in the Holy Quran is verse 72 Allah describes the qualities of

[6:04]the pious ones and the Believers and Allah says amongst the qualities

[6:12]of the Believers they don't attend the Gatherings of Z they don't

[6:18]witness Zur the Imam was asked what is meant by Zur over

[6:24]here falsehood the Imam said and now we have a much stronger

[6:27]Hadith brothers and sisters at the end of the day I as

[6:34]a religious scholar I'm obligated to convey to you the teachings of

[6:37]even though we might find some of them to be harsh because

[6:42]they are addressing our reality according to onei from he stated listening

[6:56]to singing or engaging in Haram singing is something that Allah has

[7:05]promised the punishment of fire for it the IM was asked can

[7:08]you prove this from the Quran the IM cited verse 6 there

[7:25]are some people who buy and purchase the D diversion of speech

[7:33]the IM was asked what is what's the diversion of speech the

[7:39]IM said music singing that's what the verse is referring to they

[7:48]shall have a humiliating punishment on the day of judgment so the

[7:53]Imam said these verses in the Quran are commenting on singing and

[7:59]music therefore there is no doubt in the religion of Islam that

[8:04]entertainment singing is Haram engaging in it is Haram participating in it

[8:10]is Haram listening to it is Haram there is no doubt about

[8:13]that and when you come to the world of hadiths we have

[8:18]countless hadiths that tell us listening to singing leads to NF it

[8:23]leads to hypocrisy meaning it weakens your faith listening to and singing

[8:32]reduces your appetite to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala like one brother

[8:36]was telling me say what's the problem with music I don't really

[8:38]find that it distracts me from God was on a Thursday night

[8:44]I told him Habibi if you're listening to your favorite music track

[8:48]for like 30 minutes do you really feel right after it you're

[8:50]in the mood to do Dua you're in the mood to get

[8:56]up and pray you're in the mood to remember the you're in

[8:59]the mood to remember death and the day of Judgment of course

[9:05]not it deflates you from genuinely worshiping Allah subhana wa taala most

[9:10]of the times so we have numerous hadiths my dear brothers and

[9:15]sisters that clearly State singing is Haram and that singing is one

[9:19]of the tactics that Shan uses to pull people Allah states in

[9:24]the Holy Quran in the Holy Quran tells us Shan has tools

[9:32]he's got an army he's got the Infantry Division he's got the

[9:37]Riders read the Quran and then one of the tactics of Shan

[9:43]Allah says he pulls you with his voice what's the voice of

[9:47]Shan how does he pull you with his voice through singing in

[9:52]the music industry and this is very important for us to know

[9:55]my dear brothers and sisters that if I'm sitting in my house

[10:00]and I'm listening to music and singing I am attracting and devils

[10:04]and demons do you really want to do that to your room

[10:09]imagine you're in the privacy of your room you're listening to music

[10:14]and you're attracting shtin and you are repelling the Angels We Have

[10:19]authentic hadiths that state the Angels do not enter a room in

[10:23]which there is singing singing and music is being played or listened

[10:26]to so I'm pushing away the Angels I'm attracting ing the is

[10:32]that something I really want in my life so there's no question

[10:39]that Shan uses music and singing as a tactic to deceive people

[10:44]and we have a Hadith that tells us when Prophet Adam died

[10:51]his sonil came he was joyful because he was evil and he

[10:54]hated his father for favoring some of his other good brothers so

[10:58]on the day that he died he actually had a party had

[11:03]a party when his father Adam died and the Hadith tells us

[11:10]Shan appeared to him and he taught him how to party by

[11:13]teaching him musical instruments by teaching him singing and musical instruments so

[11:19]there's no doubt if you look at the religious perspective music is

[11:24]Haram it's discouraged and it takes the Baraka away from your life

[11:30]but now let's get to the pressing question why like someone once

[11:35]said say it why does Islam have this problem with music it's

[11:39]just music for God's sake what's the big deal or like another

[11:43]brother said I'm not harming anyone I'm just listening to harmless music

[11:50]and the comfort of my room I'm not bothering anyone say it

[11:55]it's not like I'm killing somebody or backbiting or causing in any

[12:02]FNA or damage in society what's the big deal and that is

[12:05]a question that runs through our minds seriously what is the big

[12:09]deal with music why is it considered a big sin in the

[12:11]religion of Islam why do we have so many narrations warning us

[12:16]to stay away from the world of Music whenever we want to

[12:25]make sense of something being harmful or healthy to us it's always

[12:31]helpful to look at the reality of our lives and in doing

[12:36]so we consult science we consult research and we consult the field

[12:42]of psychology I will share with you several dimensions and studies that

[12:48]demonstrate that the world of singing and music is harmful to us

[12:54]my dear brothers and sisters Allah does not prohibit something if there's

[12:59]goodness in it if there's something good in it Allah would have

[13:02]recommended it there's nothing good for the human being except that Allah

[13:05]either made it waj or must so if something is Haram or

[13:09]discouraged it means it's harmful for us and modern science has proved

[13:15]that music and singing does a lot of damage to us my

[13:21]dear brothers and sisters I'll share with you some dimensions of that

[13:26]the First Dimension numerous Studies have demonstrated that when people constantly listen

[13:32]to many types of music and they get addicted to singing and

[13:37]music it impacts their brain just as some drugs impact your brain

[13:42]I invite you all tonight to go to go online and look

[13:47]up this study done by Migel University in Canada it's the top

[13:50]school in Canada the top college or university in this study they

[13:58]show that many types of music especially the heavier types of music

[14:03]they cause addictions like drugs do and there is an area in

[14:11]the brain that you can actually see in a device right they

[14:14]have all these types of devices like a special type of an

[14:19]an MRI scan that they put on the head to monitor the

[14:23]activity in the brain you see the activity of the neurons in

[14:28]the brain there's an area in the brain that lights up when

[14:35]people do drugs that same area lights up when these people listen

[14:40]to music so the study concluded that many of the harmful effects

[14:44]of drugs are actually found in several types of music is that

[14:52]really something that I want myself to be exposed to now I'm

[14:56]not saying here that if you listen to music it's like you've

[14:59]done heroin of of course there are degrees of harm but the

[15:02]idea of the study is that it does damage to your brain

[15:07]and it causes an addiction just like drugs and that is why

[15:14]people who are addicted to music when they listen to music initially

[15:19]they feel good there are some youth tell me say w I

[15:22]feel good I'm not lying I agree with you Habi I don't

[15:26]dispute that you do feel good but the reason why you're feeling

[15:29]good is because you're addicted just like the guy who's a drug

[15:34]addict of course when he needs his dose and he takes his

[15:37]dose he feels so good he feels like he's flying on Cloud9

[15:42]obviously you'll feel good because you're addicted that's a sign of addiction

[15:46]and the proof is the one who's not addicted to music the

[15:52]one who doesn't listen to music when music and singing is played

[15:54]to them they don't feel good it doesn't change their and make

[15:59]their mood better or as you guys say why why if music

[16:08]is something that makes you feel good it changes your mood those

[16:11]people who don't listen to music how come they don't get that

[16:16]effect because they're not addicted it's an addiction my dear brothers and

[16:20]sisters and that's why you think you feel better initially you do

[16:23]feel better like drugs but then once you get to the withdrawal

[16:29]state it does its damage on your psychology on your mind on

[16:32]your mental health many Studies have demonstrated that and I invite everyone

[16:37]to go and verify this I'm not asking you to accept what

[16:41]I say just because I'm saying it here on the pulpit go

[16:46]and verify this and see all the studies that have shown that

[16:48]many types of music are harmful to the brain and they have

[16:52]the effect of drugs that is the First Dimension that shows us

[16:57]the harms of listening to music music The Second Dimension many Studies

[17:03]have shown that listening to certain types of music leads to substance

[17:11]abuse and alcohol abuse a famous study was done by the National

[17:18]Institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism they found out that those people

[17:25]who listen to many types of music especially like the heav heavier

[17:31]one you know the one that gets you to dance and forget

[17:33]like the world exists those types of music they increase the likelihood

[17:43]of people trying drugs and getting drunk and suffering from alcohol abuse

[17:47]this is empirical data that I'm sharing with you many people in

[17:54]society it's because of their addiction to music that they ended up

[17:58]drinking and they ended up trying drugs there's a correlation between these

[18:03]two so when Islam comes and tells you stay away from it

[18:06]this is not good Islam is saving your life Islam is saving

[18:11]your mental health Islam is protecting you from all these negative consequences

[18:16]that's the second dimension the third dimension my dear brothers and sisters

[18:20]I invite you all if you really have doubts about whether music

[18:26]is harmful or not I invite you to do what is called

[18:30]content analysis of the lyrics sometimes I go and I read the

[18:34]real lyrics online because I want to see what's the content of

[18:42]the music according to studies that analyze all the lyrics out there

[18:47]in the world 70% of all lyrics cover the following topics they're

[18:57]about drugs violence crime aggression and Haram relationships 70% of all the

[19:10]lyrics out there they are centered around these topics now imagine what

[19:14]you're doing to your soul and mind and intellect when you expose

[19:20]yourself to that has a beautifuli he says says I am shocked

[19:37]at the one who thinks of his food whether it's hygienic or

[19:43]not whether it's clean or not but he doesn't think of what

[19:47]he feeds his mind and soul if today someone gives you a

[19:53]plate and let's say you're starving at the time of okay you

[19:57]really want that food and you see some uncleanliness in the plate

[20:03]any type of uncleanliness a a fly falls in the plate there's

[20:06]a strand of hair in the plate would you eat it especially

[20:11]the sisters I don't know maybe some brothers would would you eat

[20:14]it you would not eat it why you're not going to die

[20:19]the the the chances of you dying are very low Habibi if

[20:21]you eat that plate of food that has a strand of hair

[20:25]in it okay it's not going to kill you but you will

[20:28]not eat it because you don't want to put that in your

[20:32]system and IM says I'm shocked that the one who's very meticulous

[20:36]when it comes to his food but when it comes to his

[20:41]soul his mind his intellect he feeds it anything people who listen

[20:45]to music regularly whether they like it or not they are exposing

[20:48]themselves to the 70% because someone can come and tell me say

[20:55]I only listen to the very clean lyrics the very good music

[20:57]that's the only only thing that I'm addicted to say it I

[21:02]can try to buy that but sorry I don't know if I

[21:06]can when you're addicted to music and you listen to it and

[21:10]it's a regular part of your life you will venture into that

[21:14]70% you will fall into that 70% you will be listening into

[21:23]that 70% so Islam is protecting you Allah is protecting you close

[21:29]this door 70% % of all the content there is damaging to

[21:31]your NFS and your soul and your intellect it's negative content I

[21:36]invite you today my dear brothers and sisters go and take the

[21:40]names of the top I don't know what chart they call them

[21:45]Billboard 100 200 5,000 go and see the top songs and then

[21:50]Google the lyrics just see the content of these top songs that

[21:55]people are listening to Well if they have something beneficial to say

[21:59]come and share it with me you think those top Billboard songs

[22:04]they teach you Allah how to be a good person be charitable

[22:07]go and donate W sponsor an orphan think of your grave think

[22:14]of Allah think of the day of judgment be good to Mom

[22:16]and Dad maybe out of 10,000 songs one would probably have some

[22:21]of these references but that's not the music world Habibi people who

[22:24]are going to concerts that not that's not what they're listening the

[22:28]singer is not dancing so you go after the concert and kiss

[22:32]your mom's hand and be more dutiful to your parents when you

[22:36]leave that concert you're not going to go and sponsor an orphan

[22:39]that's not what they're teaching at these concerts 70% of all lyrics

[22:45]is destructive negative content that defies your humanity and it's just pure

[22:51]entertainment without a goal just do content analysis that is the world

[22:56]of Music my dear brothers and sisters yes there may be some

[23:02]people who really only listen to clean lyrics but that's very rare

[23:06]that's very rare most people who are addicted to music they're not

[23:09]listening to those clean lyrics all day long you know sometimes when

[23:16]someone ask you say the type of songs and music that I'm

[23:18]listening to is it Halal Oram you want to know right I

[23:24]can already tell you right off the bat that type that you're

[23:26]listening to and you're addicted to must be cuz if it was

[23:31]the Halal type you would have found something else productive to fill

[23:34]in that void and GAP content analysis tells us what's going on

[23:40]out there in popular culture so this is one concern with the

[23:45]music industry now let's come to the fourth dimension which is the

[23:49]most important Dimension my dear brothers and sisters do you know the

[23:54]effect of the world of the MU of music and singing on

[23:56]your mental health those who tell you music is good it uplifts

[24:02]your spirit it gets you out of depression I want them to

[24:05]consider this and think about this the highest rates of depression anxiety

[24:14]and suicide are found among who among Who doctors doctors are stressed

[24:24]out because if you're a doctor you work at a hospital sure

[24:26]you can get stressed out it could impact your mental health but

[24:28]no doctors don't have the highest rates of depression and suicide who

[24:35]has the highest rates of depression anxiety and feeling of loneliness and

[24:42]Society okay teenagers they're suffering definitely yes someone said it artists musicians

[24:51]and singers have among the highest rates of depression and anxiety in

[24:59]society these are official statistics done in Sweden 2019 I saw a

[25:03]Swedish report that confirmed this they said 73% of independent musicians suffered

[25:10]from chronic depression what's a national average 20% three times more three

[25:16]times more amongst musicians and singers another study was done in the

[25:23]UK by the British government they looked at rates of depression amongst

[25:28]populations now the national a average was 19% which is significant I

[25:31]mean one out of five people is suffering from depression that's a

[25:35]sad reality that we are experiencing these days with all of our

[25:38]technology and science our mental health is getting worse it's not getting

[25:41]better but then they looked at subcategories of people doctors Engineers lawyers

[25:48]and then they looked at musicians and singers what did they discover

[25:54]they discovered that 73% of musicians and sing in the UK they

[26:00]suffer from depression or anxiety or loneliness how many times more than

[26:07]the national average more than three times can you imagine now the

[26:13]question is why are these guys poor Haram they're sleeping on the

[26:17]street they don't have food to eat they're the richest people they

[26:19]are the richest of people in society the musicians the singers the

[26:23]famous singers they have millions if not billions of dollars there are

[26:29]billions iire musicians today and artists in our time and you know

[26:33]their names it's not money so what is it then har nobody

[26:36]gives them the spotlight they have the greatest Spotlight there are the

[26:42]most followed people in the world on social media they're the most

[26:47]followed people what is the problem then Subhan Allah 14 centuries ago

[26:57]stated IMI famously stated prolonged exposure to singing leads to Poverty what

[27:08]type of poverty was Imam Ali referring to spiritual and psychological and

[27:14]mental poverty you can have millions but you're poor why because you're

[27:18]not enjoying your life you're not happy you have the highest rates

[27:22]of depression and suicide and anxiety now I'm not here to judge

[27:27]anyone my dear brothers and sisters I'm not here to judge the

[27:30]musicians and the singers and the artists I am just sharing with

[27:33]you the reality statistics the world out there don't look at social

[27:39]media they're smiling and they're acting happy most of them are not

[27:43]happy 73% these are official statistics that means out of every four

[27:47]musicians and singers three of them they're not happy they're stuck in

[27:53]depression in 2006 there was a very famous singer in France by

[28:01]the name of diams I invite you to read her story it's

[28:04]all on YouTube you can see the interviews many articles about this

[28:10]very fascinating diams in 2006 became the most famous artist and singer

[28:16]in France when she released her first album that year 50,000 copies

[28:22]were sold within a week the top artist in France during that

[28:27]time now all this Fame this recognition the commotion the social media

[28:35]she was not feeling happy she would go to the concerts people

[28:39]are cheering people would die to get a photo with her but

[28:44]she would not be feeling at peace she would suffer from depression

[28:49]from anxiety loneliness subhanal look at the irony you're surrounded by millions

[28:54]of fans but you feel lonely is is it isn't that something

[29:00]to think about why she got so depressed she she left the

[29:04]world of music she just took some time off and depression is

[29:09]a very destructive disease so at the height of her depression one

[29:14]day she goes to visit her Moroccan friend she had a Moroccan

[29:18]friend who was Muslim her name is Susu look up her story

[29:25]it's very fascinating so at the height of her depression this French

[29:28]singer diams she goes to visit her friend suzu in her apartment

[29:33]for the first time in her life diim sees something unusual she

[29:42]sees suzu her Muslim Moroccan friend pray and prostrate on the floor

[29:46]that was her first time seeing anyone prostrate on the floor that

[29:52]grabbed her attention after suu finished her Salah the French singer told

[29:56]her what is it that you were doing you were prostrating on

[30:01]the on the ground why she told her I was worshiping my

[30:04]Lord I was thanking Allah this is sujud it's part of our

[30:08]prayer diam asks her Muslim friend I'm not Muslim is it okay

[30:15]for me to also do suud she told her of course any

[30:20]human being can fall into prostration and worship Allah you don't have

[30:25]to be Muslim in order to worship God or to do s

[30:29]sure diim says for the first time in my life I fell

[30:36]into suud and prostration and the feeling the Comfort the serenity the

[30:42]peace I experienced is something never in my life had I tasted

[30:46]I never got that piece in my concerts and all my fame

[30:52]my wealth nothing gave me that peace that this sujud gave me

[30:54]know the value of your sujud my dear brothers and sisters know

[30:58]the power of your sujud that sujud changed her life after a

[31:03]while she converted to Islam and she left the music world and

[31:08]the singing world I saw an interview that a French journalist did

[31:13]with her now by the way you know France very anti-religious Society

[31:19]especially they're very islamophobic when she became Muslim that was an alarm

[31:24]in France because now she was going to inspire many youth to

[31:28]become Muslim so what is the French media do character assassination let's

[31:32]call her crazy she's insane she's got problems she's a terrorist she's

[31:36]Isis she's this she's that at the time there wasn't Isis Al

[31:40]Whatever She's a terrorist so they really destroyed her reputation the French

[31:46]media this French reporter this is on YouTube you can Google it

[31:52]the French reporter asks her diams I have a question for you

[31:56]you had everything that anyone can dream of you had the dream

[32:00]life money Fame reputation all the spotlight and France respected you when

[32:06]you were a famous singer now you're nothing now the French media

[32:14]has destroyed your character how do you feel about that you know

[32:19]what she said you know what was her response she said I

[32:25]don't care about any of that when I had all of that

[32:29]I did not have Allah now I have Allah in my life

[32:33]I couldn't care less about what you said now I have my

[32:38]relationship with Allah that's something you can only get from your relationship

[32:42]with Allah subhana wa ta'ala so look at the studies my dear

[32:45]brothers and sisters all of that is not helpful to your mental

[32:49]health let's not be fooled by our society that tells us music

[32:54]is good for you it changes your mood it gets you out

[32:56]of depression for most categories of music that is not true it's

[32:59]doing the exact opposite and the proof is the people who work

[33:05]in this field the people who constantly exposed to this it is

[33:08]a type of addiction that's not helpful I've known brothers and sisters

[33:11]in this community who had the courage and strength to say no

[33:17]to music and they stopped the first month was very difficult for

[33:20]them a brother once at a retreat he told me say that

[33:24]first month was hard I admit but then month two and month

[33:27]three came and they were the most peaceful months in my life

[33:32]I never knew how music was damaging me and how it was

[33:37]addicting like a drug when Islam says keep away from the world

[33:41]of music and singing Islam is actually protecting you it's protecting your

[33:46]mental health it's protecting your values because these studies are showing people

[33:52]who are prolonged they they they have prolonged exposure to music it

[33:58]affects their character it affects your moral compass is that something that

[34:04]I really want to expose myself to and then we come to

[34:07]the last Dimension my dear brothers and sisters which is all the

[34:10]emotional and financial resources that we're spending on this world that does

[34:19]not benefit us let's start with the emotional waste of our emotional

[34:24]resources when you look at these top singers to today like the

[34:31]number one singers right what are they singing about even those who

[34:36]are clean okay relatively clean what are they singing about go do

[34:41]content analysis to see how much emotional energy our society is wasting

[34:46]in these days when you analyze the content of many of these

[34:53]songs they're mainly about what relationships that broke your heart that relationship

[34:57]that guy that girl he broke my heart she broke my heart

[35:01]he backstabbed me she backstabbed him and we spend 20 years of

[35:05]Our Lives going through 50 relationships okay one relationship after another faded

[35:13]relationship after another failed relationship that's the reality today what is society

[35:18]teaching our teenagers you're 12 years old you start your world of

[35:22]relationships and then you get into all these different heart breakups and

[35:26]that lasts until your 30s before you get married into your 30s

[35:32]now when you tell them what is the benefit of this this

[35:34]is what they'll tell you yeah this is part of life that's

[35:39]how you experience life that's how you navigate through all these relationships

[35:43]so that finally you can find the one so that finally you

[35:47]can find your soulmate so I go and I burn 20 years

[35:54]of my youth trying to land on that soulmate there's a few

[35:57]problems with this Theory that Society is trying to brain is is

[36:01]trying to brain brainwash us with my dear brothers and sisters first

[36:07]of all the whole concept of having a soulmate where did that

[36:11]come from no Prophet no scripture No Quran no Hadith supports this

[36:16]idea that there's a soulmate out there for you this is not

[36:22]an Islamic concept my dear brothers and sisters there is no concept

[36:25]that there's only one perfect human being out there for you first

[36:28]of all there is no perfect human being last time I checked

[36:32]the only perfect human beings after the prophet are the okay no

[36:36]one is perfect so this superficial unreal idea that there is someone

[36:40]out there perfect for you and you have to go through all

[36:46]these relationships until finally you land on that perfect relationship that's just

[36:51]a mirage that does not exist Allah subhana wa ta'ala has created

[36:55]partners for us Allah says in the Holy Quran when Allah has

[37:03]created partners for you so you can find peace and Tranquility in

[37:08]do your job do research marry someone decent who's known to be

[37:15]decent that's it but for you to try 20 years of your

[37:16]life to arrive at that and figure out who your soulmate is

[37:23]no such thing exists and sometimes my dear brothers and sisters it's

[37:27]the trial of Allah that you live with someone who's difficult this

[37:31]is something we don't acknowledge in our era yes you try to

[37:36]marry someone good but is it guaranteed that you're going to live

[37:39]with a Heavenly spouse an Angelic spouse no look at the prophets

[37:42]and the imams they ended up with bad spouses doesn't the Quran

[37:46]tell us about Prophet n Prophet L both of their wives went

[37:50]to hell according toah that was their trial sometimes it's it's it's

[37:55]your trial to experience a disease sometimes it could be your trial

[38:01]to experience a financial crisis sometimes it's your trial to end up

[38:05]with a difficult spouse Allah wants to train you to see your

[38:11]patience to see your Iman Allah wants you to build your through

[38:13]this trial so this whole superficial idea that there is a soulmate

[38:18]out there who's going to give you the perfect life that doesn't

[38:24]exist and the proof look at these people who spent 20 years

[38:27]through these relationships okay finally they're 35 they think they got settled

[38:31]they get married they found the soulmate they found the perfect one

[38:35]2 years later they're divorced when s the soulmate where did the

[38:38]soulmate go you spend your whole life chasing that soulmate and you'll

[38:43]never reach that sometimes Allah gives you the to and you end

[38:48]up with a very decent spouse and sometimes it's your trial it

[38:54]doesn't work out that's trial that's part of Dunya but these songs

[38:58]that's the theme in them relationship after relationship after relationship after relationship

[39:03]heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak and we spend so much of our

[39:08]emotional energy on that 20 years of your youthful life your most

[39:14]productive Time of Your Life your most energetic time of your life

[39:19]it's spent on heartbreaks and this negative waste of emotional energy that's

[39:24]the world today my dear brothers and sisters just last month I

[39:27]was reading an article about a famous singer who I went to

[39:32]a packed stadium and the people were crying for hours in that

[39:36]Stadium listening to their favorite singer say those songs what what are

[39:41]these people crying about my dear brothers and sisters I'm not here

[39:45]to underestimate anyone's pain but most of it is what these failed

[39:48]relationships 10 years of your life got wasted you put all your

[39:54]heart and soul and emotional energy in a failed relationship and that

[39:59]guy backstabbed you and now you're sitting there crying the world is

[40:03]bigger than that my dear brothers and sisters you have extra tears

[40:06]habab you sit and cry over the children who are being massacred

[40:11]in Gaza you've got extra tears cry on the orphans you've got

[40:15]extra tears cry for your sins for the day of judgment for

[40:18]your future for you to sit there an hours and cry over

[40:23]love songs what is that doing to you how is that productive

[40:27]let's just assume it's not Haram forget the sin part and the

[40:30]Haram part how is that building you as a human being what

[40:32]is that doing to you all that's doing to you it's making

[40:37]you more depressed it's giving you more anxiety and more feeling of

[40:41]loneliness that's the reality that's the emotional energy that we're spending and

[40:47]then once you come to the financial resources yeah Allah do you

[40:52]know how much they spend on these concerts one concert 3 hours

[40:58]$20 million and Subhan Allah this is all mentioned in our Hadith

[41:02]one Hadith in describing the end of times it says at the

[41:08]end of times before the reappearance of the IM people will spend

[41:12]money on singing like crazy one concert one night $20 million some

[41:18]of those tickets are going for $10,000 $10,000 can you imagine what

[41:23]you could do with $10,000 for 2 three hours of what of

[41:27]distraction you're just getting distracted about the world of failed relationships a

[41:33]singer goes up there and she tells you about all of her

[41:38]failed relationships how she got into them and how she got out

[41:42]of them and you're paying $10,000 to listen to that well very

[41:46]strange World 2024 a brother told me in another state he told

[41:51]me say one of my friends came to our state to listen

[41:56]to a famous singer and they had killed themselves to get those

[42:01]tickets was very sold out event he said I told my friends

[42:08]if I were to give you now $10,000 to give up your

[42:14]ticket would you they were three he said one of them said

[42:15]yes two of them said no you give me $10,000 I'm not

[42:20]giving up that ticket I think if the prophet the Imam comes

[42:22]we're not willing to spend that much to see the prophet or

[42:26]the Imam honestly a lot of people AR they don't care what

[42:30]is that contributing to us again I'm not here to judge anyone

[42:35]I'm not underestimating anyone's pain but you live only once you live

[42:42]only once and you want to spend 20 30 years of your

[42:46]life in this type of culture and then suddenly suddenly you see

[42:51]the white hair is knocking at your door telling you the time

[42:57]is near you're going to have to leave one Hadith states that

[43:03]one day Prophet daud was in his castle you know he was

[43:09]a king he ruled after dusk when the gates of the palace

[43:12]were closed he saw someone appear out of nowhere prophet daud got

[43:19]scared he told him who are you how'd you get in that

[43:23]figure told him I am the one who enters anywhere without needing

[43:28]permission Prophet daud realized it's the angel of death so he asked

[43:34]him a question have you come to visit me because sometimes the

[43:42]angel of death would visit prophets or have you come for my

[43:45]soul this time he told him no this time I've come for

[43:48]your soul your time's up daud da told him why didn't you

[43:53]tell me give me a warning I could farewell my family write

[43:55]my final will whatever give me a morning he told him I

[43:59]did he told him when he's like you remember last year your

[44:04]cousin died that was my first letter to you that you're next

[44:06]your time is coming up 6 months ago your other cousin died

[44:13]that was my second letter to you your uncle died a while

[44:16]ago that was my third letter to you I've been sending you

[44:21]all these letters and that is the reality my dear brothers and

[44:24]sisters that is the reality we only live once the month of

[44:30]Ramadan is the the month of Ramadan is the time of reflection

[44:33]how do you want to live I know it's not easy I

[44:38]know we're surrounded with music I know the first people who will

[44:41]give you a headache and problem if you want to stop listening

[44:46]to music are your own family members not the Americans out there

[44:49]your own family members will stand in your face I know that

[44:52]which is a sad reality but try be firm come together collect

[44:57]collectively try my dear brothers and sisters if all of you try

[45:01]together you can make a difference if we can stop the Haram

[45:06]singing and music in our programs and sessions and weddings we can

[45:10]get somewhere if you raise awareness amongst your family members we can

[45:14]get somewhere if we stop sharing those Haram status singing messages we

[45:19]can get somewhere and by the way I have a request from

[45:23]you my dear brothers and sisters now what you do in the

[45:27]privacy of your room between you and Allah you want to listen

[45:29]to music or not I ask Allah to guide us and forgive

[45:34]us but I ask you for one thing never go on your

[45:36]status or your Facebook of your or your Tik Tok and share

[45:42]Haram singing and music with others that is a violation and disrespect

[45:46]to Allah it's one thing to disobey Allah in your own room

[45:52]okay may Allah forgive you may Allah guide us and forgive us

[45:54]but it's another level of disrespect to take something Haram and openly

[45:59]share it out there in the world that means I have no

[46:03]respect for Allah subhana wa ta'ala many many times I hear from

[46:08]people in the community say the minute you go to people from

[46:11]my family from my friends love songs har music they share that

[46:16]on their WhatsApp status on their Instagram on their Facebook you're addicted

[46:20]you want to listen to music don't listen but if you're going

[46:23]to do it at least in the privacy of your own room

[46:28]don't publicly come with the sin and display the sin that's an

[46:31]insult to Allah subhah wa ta'ala at the end of the day

[46:35]that is a violation of God's law that is a request that

[46:40]I have from your friends inshallah ask your friends at least as

[46:44]a first step not to do that something that's Haram don't share

[46:50]it that's the first step that we can take to observe the

[46:52]law of Allah subhana wa tala and respect the law of Allah

[46:55]subhanahu wa ta'ala so in indeed it is it is a trial

[46:59]my dear brothers and sisters but you will be at peace I

[47:01]guarantee you when you're strong and you say no you will be

[47:08]at peace and I conclude with this Hadith on the day of

[47:11]judgment there's a tree this tree generates Spiritual music now what exactly

[47:20]that is we don't know that's something inshallah you'll experience in heaven

[47:24]the Hadith States a breeze comes from from the Throne of Allah

[47:32]subhana tala a breeze comes and moves the leaves of this tree

[47:37]this tree generates spiritual m music by praising Allah the leaves they

[47:43]say Subhan Allah alhamdulillah they glorify Allah it generates such an amazing

[47:50]Spiritual music the Hadith States if the people of Earth would hear

[47:54]that music they would die out of Joy it's it's that level

[47:59]of Joy the Hadith States Allah has reserved this in heaven for

[48:02]those who don't listen to music in d d is 50 60

[48:08]years 70 80 years is it worth it Heaven is infinite infinite

[48:14]now someone can say say I'm doomed I've listened to music you

[48:18]can start start tonight repentance if you repent Allah will erase that

[48:22]if you repent Allah will convert your sins into Good Deeds that's

[48:29]what the Quran says those who truly repent Allah will convert and

[48:33]transform their sins into Good Deeds we just have a few days

[48:38]left from the month of Ramadan it is the month of forgiveness

[48:41]we ask Allah subhana waala to open our hearts to guidance we

[48:47]ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to forgive us our sins we ask

[48:50]Allah to give us the strength and the power and the Iman

[48:55]to rise above these challenges and to always be his obedience raise

[48:59]your hands in Dua my dear brothers and sisters this is the

[49:02]moment of Dua when Believers gather Allah answers their prayer [Music] everyone

[49:39][Music] for [Music] let's recite and dedicate it to all those who

[50:21]have passed away from your to all those who are suffering especially

[50:27]the woman children in Gaza pray for them and we ask Allah

[50:30]subhana wa tala to grant you your by reciting

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