 لا تو السلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبي إله العالمين بالقاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين الذين أذهب الله عنهم الرجسة وتهرهم تطهيرا قال الله تعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ومن الناس من يشتري له والحديث ليظل عن سبيل الله بغير علم ويتخذها هزواً أولئك لهم عذاب مهين أهل بيته الطيبين والمرسلين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله will be continuing the discussion and the commentary of Surat Luqman chapter 31 in the Quran and after pointing out who are the ones who are worthy of receiving receiving the guidance and the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the Quran and those are the victorious ones the ones who pray the ones who give alms and the ones who believe in the afterlife the verses move on to discuss a segment in society who go after speech that is only for amusement and this brings up a very important topic since we're talking about the story of Luqman Luqman who was a wise man and these verses teach us that if we want to be wise if we want to have the wisdom that Luqman had we have to be very careful in what we consume a lot of us when we talk about consumption we think of food, we think of what we're eating and we're very careful with what we eat we're very careful what we place in our bodies the food that we eat we make sure it's clean we make sure sometimes it's organic and we have very strict requirements for the food that we consume well there are other things that we consume that are not food and الله سبحانه وتعالى wants to bring that to our attention one thing is in this verse in this verse 6 of Surah Luqman الله سبحانه وتعالى brings to our attention what we consume with regards to hearing what are we taking in? what are we listening to? this is a very important subject what are we taking in and listening to in our daily life a lot of us we're very careful when it comes to food but we're not very careful when it comes to what we listen to with what we look at and these are very important things that have an impact on our lives الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us in the Quran that we are going to be held accountable for everything that we see, that we do, that we hear, that we say الله says in the Quran ولا تقف ما ليس لك به علم إن السمعة والبصر والفؤاد كل أولئك كان عنه مسؤولا be very careful and do not say what you don't have knowledge of because إن السمعة والبصر والفؤاد كل أولئك كان عنه مسؤولا your hearing and your sight and your heart الله سبحانه وتعالى is going to hold you accountable for this is why when we fast in the month of Ramadan a lot of us we think that we're only fasting from food we don't eat but that's not only fasting fasting is when you have to control all of your organs you control all of your desires this is why the hadith says إذا صمت فليصم سمعك سمعك وبصرك when you fast let your hearing fast with you and let your eyesight fast with you what does that mean? that means just as you have to control what you put in your stomach the food that you eat you also have to control what goes into your ears what you listen to and what you look at what you allow yourself to look at to look at this is very important when it comes to what we're listening to throughout our whole lives we're constantly listening to things we're constantly being fed information we're constantly hearing things all around us you go outside you turn on the TV wherever you're at school wherever you go you're constantly listening to things a lot of the things that we listen to are perhaps not healthy for us perhaps they have a negative impact on our lives Allah says إن القرآن فلينظر الإنسان إلى طعامه every insan every human should look at their طعام should look at their food one of the companions of Imam الباقر عليه السلام the fifth Imam of أهل البيت he tells the Imam what is it that we should look for so the Imam عليه السلام the fifth Imam of أهل البيت so the Imam عليه السلام he gives a تفسير he gives an interpretation a deeper interpretation of the verse in the قرآن he says every person should look at their knowledge and where they take their knowledge from we have food for thought and we have the food for our stomach the food for thought can influence you and impact you either in a positive way or in a negative way so this is why we have to be very careful what are your sources of information and where you're getting it from just two days ago Donald Trump he casually suggested that people could consume hand sanitizers and Clorox and these cleaning agents and as a result of that as a result of people listening and hearing things without filtering without using their intellect to filter a lot of people are hospitalized there are people that are hospitalized because they're consuming cleaning agents they're consuming Clorox so this verse in the قرآن it brings to our attention the fact and the importance of paying attention to what we allow our ears to consume and the information that we are consuming so Allah says in the قرآن ومن الناس ومن الناس من يشتري له والحديث ليظل عن سبيل الله and there are from amongst the people who buy يشتري who buy or who who subscribe to له والحديث حديث that is له that is wasting time that is distracting from الله صبحانه و تعالى ومن الناس من يشتري له والحديث ليظل عن سبيل الله the purpose of it is to distract themselves from Allah صبحانه و تعالى and distract themselves from the قرآن بغير علم without having knowledge without knowing the consequences of actions some people they go and they listen to things that are harmful for them ويتخذها هزوا أولائك لهم عذاب مهين and they make a mockery of the remembrance of Allah and the قرآن those are people that will have a severe punishment by Allah صبحانه و تعالى إمام الباقر عليه السلام في حديث في تفسير القمم و it is also narrated by others he says that a merchant who was living in Makkah by the name of This man was a merchant and he was a traveler so he used to go and travel to other empires he used to go and travel to the Persian empire and when he comes to Makkah he sees that رسول الله صلى الله عليه و عليه is reciting the Quran and in the Quran there are some stories Allah صبحانه و تعالى talks about the people of the people of the the people of the prophets there are some stories in the Quran but of course the stories in the Quran their purpose is not for storytelling and entertainment the stories in the Quran their purpose is for us to learn lessons to learn from and to be inspired by so this man he sees رسول الله is telling stories and our رسول الله is reciting the Quran and within the Quran there are some stories so in order to distract people from the Quran what would he do he would go and he would sit and he would tell them let me tell you the stories of this empire and that empire and his whole purpose his all aim was to distract people from the Quran and some people they're easily amused some people easily they'll leave the Quran they'll put the Quran which has the best of stories الله says in the Quran and Surah Yusuf نحن نقص عليك أحسن القصص the best stories are in the Quran because these stories have lessons of morality lessons in our lives they have values principles which make us live better lives but some people they leave these and they go and they'll read a fiction they'll go and they'll read a story that will not help them and they're easily distracted and they go to these له له is something that distracts you away from الله سبحانه وتعالى ومن الناس من يشتري له والحديث ليظل عن سبيل الله بغير علم ويتخذها حزوًا أولائك لهم عذاب مهين and they do it بغير علم they do it without knowledge this refers to both the one who's telling the story they say stories that have no foundation because as we mentioned previously yesterday we mentioned that the stories and whatever the Quran mentions it's all wisdom the Quran does not say anything that is not truth everything that the Quran says is absolute truth and it will remain to be truth and this is the sign of a wise person but someone who's not wise they'll talk gibberish they'll say things that have no meaning they'll say stories that are made up and this is without علم without knowledge and this also refers to the ones who consume knowledge some people they're being fooled some people they see someone talking and they'll go and they'll listen to this person without having knowledge that they're being misled without having knowledge that they're being fooled and then Allah says in the Quran وإذا تتلع عليه آياتنا ولا مستكبرا كأن لم يسمعها كأن في أذنه وقرا فبشره بعذاب أليم and when our verses when our signs when our verses are recited to him he turns away see sometimes someone does not listen to the Quran but it's not because of arrogance maybe they're distracted but there are some individuals that arrogantly because of their pride they refuse to listen to the Quran and they act as if they have not heard the verses of the Quran they act as if their ears are deaf this is what the people of the prophets used to do the people of prophet Nuh the people of other prophets they used to pass by the prophets and they used to put their hands their fingers and their ears so that they don't listen to the معظة to the admonishment of the prophets similarly the people of Quraish whenever someone would come to Mecca someone who's new coming to Mecca رسول الله would be by the Ka'bah reciting the Quran and they would tell the people they would tell the people cover your ears don't listen to what this man is saying and they don't want people to hear what the prophet is saying so they start making up they start ridiculing like this man he goes and he ridicules and he makes a joke and he starts telling other stories they say that Abu Jahl he used to also ridicule the prophet he used to tell the prophet he used to tell the people and trying to mislead people away from the prophet so Allah says in the Quran the one who does that give this person glad tidings because the person is joking the person is laughing so now in a laughing way come and tell him you're going to be punished as a result of your arrogance as a result of what you're doing now this is now this verse has several interpretations and as we mentioned there is no problem with the Quran having more than one meaning the Quran is an eternal book the Quran is a book that is alive until today the meanings of the Quran and the precise exegesis of the Quran is not confined to 1400 years ago the Quran is always alive it's always relevant so this is why the Quran could have more than one meaning it could have layers of meanings so one of the one of the ways that we can understand this today at that time that man was telling stories today how are we wasting our time today we see so many people wasting their time on social media what are we getting out of social media of course I'm not denying that there's a lot of good in social media but there's also a lot of bad you go and you look at the accounts on youtube on instagram on twitter whatever it is most of them the ones that have the most following they're all based on entertainment now I'm not saying that all entertainment is wrong entertainment is not bad there's nothing wrong with being entertained however if that entertainment is going to distract you away from Allah then it becomes problematic then we need to check our sources of information then we need to check what are we listening to what are we giving our ears to our attention to some people they sit for hours and hours these youtubers who are pulling pranks who are doing things that are wasting time what are you going to benefit from this what are you going to get out of this if you're sitting after an hour or two hours or three hours after those three hours are over what did you accomplish did you accomplish something for this dunya if you did then that's good did you accomplish something for the akhirah if you did then that's even better and not the akhirah so that's when it becomes problematic now as we mentioned the تفسير of the Quran the exegesis could have more than one meaning so one of the meanings of this verse is something that is very relevant in our communities and it's something that distracts many people until today it was something that existed at the time of the prophet during the times of the imams and it exists until today and that is the amusement speech what type of amusement speech what is something that people listen to and it's easily people get distracted very easily from it that is music music is everywhere you turn on the tv you hear music you go out wherever you are now there are types of music the majority of the types of music are considered to be حرام are considered to be لحو الحديث because it distracts you away from Allah and the narration another narration it says that this verse ومن الناس من يشتري لحو الحديث ليظل عن سبيل الله and this is accepted by sunni it says that a man from during the time of he purchased a slave who used to sing for him a lady slave who used to at that time people used to purchase slaves so he purchased a slave who used to sing for him and as a result of that that would distract him away from Allah so we have many narrations we have multiple narrations from رسول الله which define لحو الحديث as a general meaning any type of talk that distracts you away from Allah any type of amusement speech that will bring you away from Allah and specifically one definition of that is music and singing and this is from the حديث of the أهل البيت and رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حديث from إمام صادق لا ينظر الله إلى أهله سطيق في سطيق where there is music being played this is a session where Allah سبحانه وتعالى will not look at the people who are sitting how will Allah not look at them with his mercy meaning Allah سبحانه وتعالى these people they will be stripped of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and then the Imam he continues he says ما قال الله عز وجل ومن الناس من يشتري لهو الحديث ليضل عن سبيل الله then the Imam he talks about and singing and that type of session and then he says this is the session that Allah سبحانه وتعالى refers to it as from those who يشتري لهو الحديث who buy or subscribe to talk that is only amusement and that distracts them from Allah سبحانه وتعالى so with this verse we understand there are two meanings anything that distracts you away from Allah is specifically music and singing and these types of sessions now someone might ask and a lot of people they find this really difficult to comprehend why because music is such an integral part of communities of cultures and some people they say how could Islam the religion of Islam why why would it come and stand against music why is it haram what is the proof that it's haram and are all types of music haram these are questions that people ask and I don't blame people because people are you're living in a society when something becomes accepted when something is encouraged you start saying that it's okay after a while after a while you start seeing that it's totally okay this is something that we have to be careful of because we have our own principles we have our own faith we have our own teachings we should not fall in the traps of what society is doing because not everything that's going on in society is correct رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says there will come a time where people will see the what's bad as good and they will see what's good as bad so there's a lot of things that go on in societies today that they were bad they're originally bad and people look at them as good and things that are good people consider them to be bad so we have we have some حديث we have some narrations which talk about music and the تفسير of these verses in the Quran from رسول الله and from the أهل البيت from the correct channels that we're supposed to take our information from they come and they tell us to abstain from anything that distracts you away from الله سبحانه وتعالى the first proof is Surat Luqman speaking about verse 6 the verse that we're speaking about ومن الناس من يشتري له الحديث the تفسير of the imams in the Sunni and the Shi'a they say that the amusement speech is music in another verse in the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى mentions قول الزور الله says in Surat Al-Hajj Chapter 22 verse 30 وشتنبوا الرجسة من الأوثان وشتنبوا قول الزور and refrain and be away from the uncleanliness of idols and avoid false statements وثان is an idol and قول الزور is false statements now as we mentioned the Quran can have multiple meanings because the Quran is still relevant in our lives so Imam حدق عليه السلام the sixth Imam of Ahl al-Bayt he says that the the Outhan they were idols at the pre-islamic time when Rasulullah was bringing down the Quran and revealing the Quran to the people the Quran was telling people stay away from idols but now that everyone is a Muslim the Quran does it make sense for the Quran to tell Muslims stay away from idols no here the Imam he says there's something else he says فشتنبوا الرجسة من الأوثان the Imam عليه السلام he says this is chess playing chess and then he says وشتنبوا قول الزور and refrain from قول الزور false statements the Imam عليه السلام he says قول الزور هو الغناء it is singing and music so this is one hadith from the Imam and this is a hadith that is accepted by the scholars now yes regarding chess some scholars they come and they say at that time chess used to be a tool for gambling that's why it was Haram now because it's not considered for gambling there are some scholars that consider it Halal however قول الزور قول الزور غناء we have as if a consensus amongst the scholars especially the Shi'a and many of the Sunni scholars with the exception of some small groups here and there maybe the Sufis or others where where music is allowed but the majority of Muslims they come and they say music is not allowed and it goes back to the Quran and the hadith of Rasool Allah and the Ahl al Bayt and another verse another proof is Surat al-Furqan Chapter 25 verse 72 الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran واللذين لا يشهدون الزور وإذا مروا باللغوي مروا كراما and they are those referring to the believers the mu'minin they are those who do not testify they don't listen to they're not watching they're not listening to falsehood and when they pass near ill speech they pass with dignity here the Imam عليه السلام says الزور قول الزور is singing and in addition to the Tafseer of the Quran in addition to the verses of the Quran we have narrations from Rasool Allah and from the Ahl al Bayt Rasool Allah he says and you find a lot of these narrations in our books of hadith in أصول الكافي and also in وسائل الشيعة you could find them because أول من تغنى the first one who began to sing was Iblis شيطان in another hadith وجاء في حديث آخر عن الإمام الصادق عليه السلام حديث من إمام الصادق he says بيت الغناء لا تؤمن فيه الفجيع ولا تجاب فيه الدعوة ولا يتخلوه الملك he says لا تؤمن فيه الفجيع a catastrophe will fall upon this house ولا تجاب فيه الدعوة and the dua the supplication is not answered in that house in that place where music is constantly being played ولا يتخلوه الملك and the angels will not enter it now what does this mean does this mean that if there is music being played in the house a catastrophe will fall upon this house ولا تجاب فيه الدعوة and the dua the supplication is not answered in that house when there is music being played in the house a catastrophe will fall someone is going to get injured there is going to be an accident no what this verse is referring to and what this حديث is referring to لا تؤمن فيه الفجيع is the fagia when it comes to faith the fagia the calamity in faith not the calamity in your body your body nothing might happen to it but in your connection with God and with your relationship with God that is where there is going to be a calamity because when there is music there is going to be dancing there is going to be mixed gender gatherings there is going to be lyrics that are inappropriate there is going to be a lot of things that bring you away from Allah so it's a place where people are distracted from Allah ولا تستجاب فيه الدعوة and therefore when you are distracted from Allah when God is not in your mind then naturally your dua is not going to be answered and ولا يدخلوه الملك the angels will not enter in a place like that because the angels they are pure the angels they are tahr and they only enter somewhere that is clean somewhere that is pure and that is cleansed so this is what the Imam is talking about a catastrophe will fall a catastrophe in your religion in your faith that is the worst type of catastrophe that is the calamity the greatest calamity that could fall upon someone in another حديث the Imam says the Imam says singing it brings about hypocrisy it will create a sense of hypocrisy and it will bring poverty now also here when someone might ask how is it that if I am listening to music I am going to be a hypocrite where is the correlation between listening to music and becoming a hypocrite I am a truthful person I am honest with people I don't lie to people this is not the hypocrisy that we are talking about here also we have to understand in order to analyze and understand this حديث we have to see my purpose in life my purpose is to reach Allah Allah says we have a goal we have a purpose in life and that is to get closer this is whether we accept that this is our goal or we don't we are all going to Allah we are all headed to Allah Allah says you are striving to your lord until you will eventually meet your lord eventually you are going to meet your lord so if you are going to meet your lord then doesn't that mean that you have to be ready doesn't that mean that you have to be prepared in order to meet your lord yes we have to be prepared this is why we pray this is why we cleanse our souls this is why we have to purify our hearts this is why we have to prepare ourselves for the afterlife now I ask you a question when you listen to music does music help you prepare for the afterlife does music help you fulfill your purpose and your goal in life and that is to get closer to God unfortunately most types of music the amusement music does not do that the amusement music distracts you away from your purpose it brings you away from your goal and therefore that will create a sense of hypocrisy where your soul is begging it's yearning for something and your actions are giving it something else your actions are doing something else so here there is a a type of inconsistency a type of hypocrisy that is going on so this is why when the Imam says ألغنا music يورث النفاق it brings hypocrisy this is what the Imam is talking about it's going to make you go away from your purpose your purpose is to get closer to Allah your purpose is to connect with God your purpose is to prepare yourself for the afterlife but music does not do that music all that it's talking about is this life this dunya loving cars bling bling here and there this is what's music this is in the lyrics the lyrics are many times inappropriate many times only centered on this dunya and only focused on the entertainment and the enjoyment of this dunya a lot of selfish reasons and the way that it's sung science has proven today that music when it's being sung or a song it has a psychological impact on your brain has an impact on your soul you kind of start getting connected with whatever's being recited with whatever's being said so when that happens then a person will be taken away from their mission and taken away from their goals now is all music haram here some scholars the scholars they say the majority of the music is considered haram as long as it has tarab it has that feeling where it brings you away from Allah and that feeling of entertainment which distracts you away from God this would be considered له الحديث it would be considered قول الزور it would be considered talk that distracts you away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى now some people ask what about classical music things that are soft things that do not bring us away there are some scholars they come and they say classical music or music that fulfills a purpose a type of music which is not considered music anymore it fulfills a purpose of bringing you closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى there's nothing wrong with reciting with a beautiful voice there's nothing wrong with finding entertainment through a means that brings you closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى some people they say but I can't live my life like that I need to listen to something yes you need to listen to something there's so many things you could listen to you could listen to the Quran the Quran it's recommended the Quran it's recommended to recite it in the most beautiful voice so we have to recite it in a beautiful voice and that is something that you just have to get yourself used to reciting listening to reciting in a beautiful voice there's so many things that you could be listening to a lot of people when they're listening in the car going back and forth from work to home back in the days when people used to leave their house now everyone is at home that is hours and hours spent that you could utilize for something that will make you a better person something that will be productive but some people hours they're listening to music listen to something that will help you this is what Allah سبحانه وتعالى is telling us Allah is going to hold you accountable what were you looking at meaning giving it to look at what were you giving your what were you consuming you have to be very careful with that we have to filter what comes in but we allow to enter in our thought process and music is something that is dangerous so we have to abstain from it because it is and we have to refrain from any talk that distracts us and brings us away from Allah and then Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran خالدين فيها وعد الله حقا وهو العزيز الحكيم الله says those who believe those who have iman they will they will immediately accept what Allah سبحانه وتعالى even something that might not make sense to me I will accept it because I know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has in store for me something that is much greater in the afterlife and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to protect us to protect you all والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وعلى آله الطاهرين نسألك اللهما وندعوك بسمك العظيم الأعظم الأعز الأجل الأكرم يا الله يا الله يا رحمان يا رحيم يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلوبنا على دينك اللهم أغفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع لهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيب الدعوات إنك غافر الخطيئات إنك على كل شيء قدير اللهم أدخل على أهل القبور السرور اللهم أغني كل فقير اللهم أشبه اللهم أشبع كل جائع اللهم أكسو كل عريان اللهم أقضي دينا كل مدين اللهم أفرج عن كل مكروب اللهم أردا كل غريب اللهم أفكا كل أسير اللهم أصلح كل فاسد من أمور المسلمين اللهم أشفي كل مريض اللهم سد فقرنا بغناك اللهم غير سوء حالنا بحسني حالك اللهم أقضي عن الدين اللهم أقضي عن الدين وغننا من الفاق إنك على كل شيء قدير نهدي ثواب الفاتح مع الصلوات اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وآله محمد