 في بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لا سيما بقيّة الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب الشرح لي الصدري ويسر لي أنري وحل الأقدة من لساني يفقه قولي أقول الله في محكم كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وجتي نبقول الزور الأüne ب weighed is on حول صلاوات محمد room Shebe the Qาม ع事ه العلم of the greatest lady to walk this earth and the third with yourilled This person is an on owner أمام صاحب العصري والزمائم الأسئلة الأولى يريد أن نتحدث about a very vital aspect in the western society and a very vital aspect that we can relate to nowadays even in the countries that we were brought up in our backgrounds and the topic for tonight is إن شاء الله we will be discussing which will be very infiltrative of the concept of music first and foremost many people have asked the question and have requested that we talk more about the aspect of music because on a 21st century level we know that our fathers and our forefathers have told us what music is haram music is unacceptable in Islam however we haven't heard many lectures about why music is haram what is the jurisprudence behind the fact that music may be unacceptable within the school of thought of Ahle Al-Bait and indeed the Islamic principles so إن شاء الله tonight we will be looking at particular aspects in which we will be able to look at why music is haram through jurisprudential arguments through the Quran and through the Ahadith first we will be discussing how it's taking a large part of our lives and the western culture how it's infiltrated many aspects in which we live in whether it be work whether it be universities whether it be study even primary school and so much so to go even further and say even before that people are always acquaint with the aspect of music every time they open the TV there may be something that's not necessarily PG and that person doesn't have a particular age that we can say that you know what this is PG when you open the TV he sees what he sees and that's imprinted into him and that's why we have to look at during the lecture tonight إن شاء الله how that has an effect on the youth how that has an effect on us as adults and how that may be effective of our belief so maybe questioning yes we understand it's haram but how can it have an effect of how you may think your عقيد your particular inclination towards one person whether it be rightly guided or not and that's all we discussed tonight إن شاء الله the effect of music in all these particular parameters but before we start إن شاء الله request a loud Salawat على محمد و آل محمد when we open the TV nowadays amongst the many things that are being looked at to be very famous very trendy things that you may be discussing at schools at universities and in the workforce are particular shows of popularity namely to do with obviously the topic of music namely especially in the Australian society stuff such as the X Factor in which people come forth and produce let's say arts that they have mastered over the years whether it be instrumental or vocal and they either are embarrassed by saying that you're not very good or if they are good they'll go on to the next stage eventually going up for the title other shows such as The Voice such as Australian Has Talent Australians Got Talent so these shows we find are very popular within our Western culture however they've actually formed a very large portion of the lives of Muslims and it's sad to say that many of our Muslim brothers and sisters do accompany these ideologies within their daily lives watching the shows learning from the shows and having a lot of pleasure when watching these particular shows and listening to particular sounds or vocals or music in that sense now someone may come forth and ask the question and it's very familiar why is it that music is haram in Islam what are the main factors that make it haram where in the Quran does it say that music is haram the first of which I want to look at before we'll discuss the Islamic principle to do with music first and foremost I want to look at a particular doctor we find that the sad thing is that if you bring forth Quran to the normal person even a Muslim when we tell him this is the hadith he says I want more proof as to say that it's not enough proof from the Quran the word of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the person that created everything and their hand picked messengers and the imams that Allah has hand chosen they say no that's not enough give me more so I start off by saying first and foremost let's look at a doctor and this doctor was a professor at Columbia University and he had a study to do with how music or the famous music clips may have an effect on the human body is it a positive effect is it a negative effect what exactly is this effect so he says after my research my lengthy research I have deciphered that music especially the popular music nowadays and he refers to particular two particular aspects or genres of music one of which being the aspect that they call the genre such as hip hop and the other known as R&B otherwise known as rhythms and blues he says these particular genres of popularity have such a significant aspect of deteriorating the human body that the nervous system will go up to a state where it will be deteriorating he says well I've even discussed this with the senators of the time he says people actually wanted to vote against having music to the general public because it has such a negative effect on the human body and the deteriorating of their nervous system that's number one if that's not enough proof that music may be haram because it has a negative impact on your body let's move on towards the Islamic principles that teach us why music is haram why is it that it may be affecting my life without even knowing it how does it subconsciously find its path within my thought process and what I lean towards and who I hold onto and who I let go of we look at a particular principle which is from the fourth Imam Imam Ali ibn al-Hussain which he writes a treatise of rites 50 rites in a book and arguably the best rites will ever read he gives everything a rite in that book starting from Allah every single aspect in your lives your hands your tongue your ease your sight your stomach your feet your companions your mother your father 50 rites he named in that book and he teaches us what Islam says about each and every rite and how it has a rite on us and he mentions in reference to the aspect of music he says even your e has a rite over you what is that rite he says the rite of your e over you is that you know for a fact that your e is a gateway to your heart now listen carefully to this one he says your e is a direct pathway to your heart so whatever you he especially at a young age will be instilled and cultivated in your heart then he says it's your rite to ensure that only that which is noble enters your heart and anything that's ignoble should not find its way in that particular path to your heart when Ali ibn Abi Talib teaches us and he tells his son Imam Hassan he says I tried to cultivate your heart before it heartened I want to cultivate your heart he says to him before it heartens at an older age it begins to hearten and hearten once the trials and tribulations have come forth once you've already made up your character it's hard to teach someone something new after he's already made up his character that's why Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib says I tried to cultivate your heart at a young age Imam Zain el-Aabidin teaches us this when he sees the rite of the e he says it's a direct path to your heart if you listen towards that which is ignoble that which doesn't necessarily have the best language doesn't necessarily teach us the best morality stuff that the Ahl al-Bait would look down upon stuff that when you listen and you cultivate your heart Imam Sahib el-Asr Imam al-Zaman would look down upon Imam says it has a rite over you this e that you hear with when you listen when you're backbiting your heart craves towards that when you listen towards that which is pure your heart will levitate towards that when you listen towards Quran your heart will crave Quran when you listen to the words of Ahl al-Bait your heart will crave the words of Ahl al-Bait when you listen to the tragedy of Imam Hussain your heart pulsate towards that but when you listen to music instilling in the fact that it teaches within its particular rhymes and rhythms not the most noble of characters not the most noble of teachings that cultivates your heart that finds its path towards your heart and that's how your heart will pulsate that's what's content within your heart within your heart and that's why when علامة writes a book تستغيب الشراز he writes a book instilling 50 of the greatest sins people come and I say it's in that particular book listening to music is in that book and would you believe it he ranks each and every particular sin in order of the greatest sin and he moves downwards do you know which one is music number 15 in that book he writes as music one of the greatest sins music why he says we have a hadith and we'll get to them very shortly of how it may affect us our lives the verse in question which we stated when the Holy Quran states to us in صورة الحج chapter 22 ayah 30 he says do not and beware make sure you move from قولة الزور what's قولة الزور he says what does that mean make sure you remove yourself from that particular قول what is that when you look at that hadith the first informer says to us قولة الزور and many other traditions he says قولة الزور refers to the words of the musicians number one the words of the musicians in the Quran yes it says make sure you stay away from that words make sure you stay away from music why why do you stay away in other narrations the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم states he says الله سبحانه وتعالى has brought me as a mercy to mankind and part and partial of that mercy is that I came to eradicate the idea of music being part and parcel of your lives the prophet of Islam وما ينطق عن الهواء إن هو إلا وحيون you are doesn't speak of his own accord therefore when we find that people come forth and say that music why is it haram let me listen to this it doesn't affect me in any negative manner عليب نبي طالب states he says know very well that any household that has music in it or plays music in it what's the effect he says make sure and know very very certainly that no angels will come around that household and he says do not be surprised if your prayers look at the look at the particular calamity which is playing music in your households he says don't be surprised if you pray your prayers are not accepted because if you have music playing some people come and say well it's just a small sin أستغيب الشراز puts us at the 15th 15th most or the 15th greatest sin that you may commit ممزين العبدين has a beautiful statement beautiful statement if we apply just that statement in our lives look how much we will change he says never look at the size of this sin someone says I'm listening to this particular music this particular genre it may not be vulgar mannerisms ignoble words and it's instilling within our hearts because it makes itself in our pathway a mom says do not look at the size of this sin rather look at who you're sinning against which is الله سبحانه وتعالى and on the positive side when he says when you do a good deed don't look at the size of it look at who's judging that particular good deed when we move on and we have a very beautiful story in reference to Imam Al-Qadim it's a very famous story but we don't look at it in the depth that we should he goes past the house this house has music in it playing and when he hears the music there was a servant that comes outside to throw the trash as she's about to throw the trash Imam Al-Qadim asks her a question he says what is it he says is the owner of this house a slave or a free man which one is it he says he's of the aristocrats of course he's a free man so the Imam nods he says you're correct if he was a slave he would not do that which he is doing so he's strange and the Imam walks off she comes back a person by the name of Bishop looks at her and says why did you take so long to throw the trash out she says I had a meeting or I collided an acquaintance with a man outside he says what did he say to you he said he asked me about you he says what did he ask you about me he says is your master a free man or a slave and what did you reply he says I replied by saying obviously he's a free man you're of the aristocrats he says what did he say he says you're right he said if your master was a slave he would not do that which he is doing so Bishop asks that servant he says what did the man look like so she begins to tell him the characteristics physically of Imam Al-Kawam in which Bishop drops everything that he's doing on the floor and he runs outside the narration said he didn't even have a chance to put on his sandals that's why he's known as Bishr Al-Haafi why Haafi means he doesn't wear isn't it any sandals or any footwear if we wanted to look at it in our context runs outside bare foot looking for the Imam when he finds him he throws himself and narration says at his feet other narration say on his lap when he throws himself on the Imam he begins to ask or seek forgiveness he says oh Imam I know I have done wrong straight away what did the Imam say two words is he a free man or a slave us we listen and listen and listen year in year out we hear the call of Imam Hussein but how many of us follow what he teaches us Bishr one word he ran towards the Imam of his time how many of us follow away from the Imam of our time by the actions that we're committing Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib he says this he says be sure and do not be surprised that if a music or if music is played in your house that the angels will not come furthermore your prayers may not be accepted look at the position and the greatness of such a sin Imam رضع عليه وسلام once the Ma'amoon spread a rumor he said the Imam believes that music isn't haram so when the rumor comes towards Imam رضع he begins to ask a question where did you get this rumor from he says well he never said anything about music people play it openly and Imam رضع comes to him and he says I want to ask you a question and this is the question each and every individual should ask themselves Imam رضع begins to question that person he says let me ask you if you had a balance and you were in charge of that balance each and every one of us in ourselves if we had a balance one balance is heaven goodness purity and the other balance is hellfire impurity he says where would you put music which side of the balance so the man straight away he replies he says I would put it in the side of hellfire the side of impurity he says therefore even in yourself without asking you know that this may be a wrong act why is it that you have to question it time and time again and the problem with our society is what is when particular acts in religion are acceptable by us we take it it fits into our roster it fits into our daily routine it fits in with our cultural perspectives but when Islam comes in a clash with our cultural perspectives the western influence we put it aside when a wedding comes people go as far as to say if I don't have music in my wedding I'm not getting married altogether and the problem starts why about a particular act of haram let's put it onto ourselves how may this affect our religion and when I say our religion I mean the religion that we instill when we follow Ali ibn Abi Talib and pride ourselves in saying we are the followers of Ali ibn Abi Talib how can music have an effect on us now everything I've said may be a little bit dry we have to get our head across the Quranic verses the Ahadith and there's many many more but I'm trying to to restrain myself within the time commitments when the Quran in other verses when we look at chapter 23 verse 1 2 & 3 and it states to us about the mu'minoon it says victorious are the believers which believers the people that are or have concentration in prayers which ones it says when they hear music or words of music they stay away another one and there's many more to come but the one I want to look at tonight before I end and the gist of it the importance that we can apply to our lives now when Imam Sadaq says ever so beautifully in Bihar al Anwar he says that listening to music what's its effect and one of the greatest effects in a negative manner on us the followers of Ahli al Bayt in Bihar al Anwar he states it says listening to music promotes the growth of hypocrisy how does it promote it says it promotes it in such a way that water promotes growth within vegetation imagine that listening to music promotes hypocrisy in a manner of which water promotes growth in vegetation I just want you to envision this some of you may be asking why is hypocrisy such a big thing why is it saying that this may affect us the school of thought of Ahli al Bayt why because we need to join the dots when we have a hadith yes it promotes hypocrisy why is it a danger when we have the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says in reference he says about Ahli a statement which we will know from tonight that we will try our best to stay away from hypocrisy and music what's the statement Oh Ahli only a believer loves you and the only one that hates you or has hatred towards you is a what a hypocrite the one that has hatred towards you is a hypocrite when we listen towards music and Imam Sadiq says that it promotes the growth of hypocrisy what does that mean for us the followers of Ahli al Bayt the Quran states they cannot be two hearts in one body we can't say we listen to music but we love Ali ibn Abi Talib when Ali comes with all these statements against music we love Imam Ali we love Ahli al Bayt and we are not going to take their teachings hypocrisy that's its effect when listening to music one of the effects of hypocrisy and if not the greatest one and that's why we've overlooked it time and time again overlooked this particular aspect seeing that it may be a small sin when in actual fact it may be one of the greatest why about Fawla al-Abbah which we will be discussing on the 7th night and especially in reference to the speech that he had when Imam Hussein was chased from one place to another Imam Hussein was driven out of Makkah Abu Fawla al-Abbah stands on the top of the Ka'bah what does he say in his speech he reminds us the position of Imam Hussein and the position of Yazid the enemy of Imam Hussein he mentions many things Insha'Allah we'll get to that in the upcoming nights one of which and the most important to our topic tonight he says no and remember in whose house or in whose palaces music is being played and dances are dancing and in whose houses the revelation of the Holy Quran came that in its fact should tell us brothers and sisters that in the time of Imam Hussein when we try to differentiate ourselves every day is Ashura and every land is Karbala what does that mean it means Karbala is happening every single day how? when we put ourselves in the balance whether we'd be on the side of Imam Hussein or on the opposition look at it nowadays do we do things that the imams would love or hate on the 10th of Muharram when Imam Hussein comes and he asks the question what's the question he says why is it that you fight me is it because of a sunnah that I have changed is it a particular thing that I have done in hatred towards you have I done injustice look at the reply to tell you that we need to stay away from music and come back towards the school of thought of Ahl al-Bayt the reply that came from the opposition army we have nothing to do with you then what he says we fight you بغضا لأبي isn't it in hatred to your father who? أمير المؤمنين who was أمير المؤمنين when the prophet of Islam says علي ابن أبي طالب if he takes one valley and the entire world takes another valley follow علي ابن أبي طالب into that valley he says about علي ابن أبي طالب that he is with the truth and the truth is with him when the person comes to him after Jamal asks him which side were you on he says it was very unclear for me he says why he says on one side I saw particular personalities that were known to be prestigious at the time of the prophet and on the other side which is your army علي ابن أبي طالب I also saw prestigious figures I was very confused look at the reply of علي ابن أبي طالب and it's a lesson to be learnt علي ابن أبي طالب says look and seek the truth once you seek the truth you will know it's people look at that valuable statement that we need to apply to our lives علي ابن أبي طالب which the prophet says about look at the rank of علي and insha'Allah on the 10th night we want to look at the ranks in the eyes of Allah of our Imam especially Imam صاحب العصر و الزمان when the prophet of Islam says about him he says what do I say about علي ابن أبي طالب he says about him he says لو لأ if I was not afraid لو لأ أن أخاف أن تقول فيك طائفة من أمتي if I was not afraid that apportion of my umma will say about you what the Christian said about Jesus son of Mary لو لأ أن أخاف أن تقول فيك طائفة من أمتي ما قالته النصار في عيس ابن مريم he says I would have said a statement about you that people will take from the dust of your feet and your ablution that which will they find blessing in أخذوا من ترابن عليك و من طهورك ما يستشفون به he says but what is sufficed he says حسبك أنك مني و أنا منك و اشيعتك على منابر من نور مبيضة وجوههم حولي في الجنة وهم جيراني we want to pray to Allah إن شاء الله على هذه المنطقة تعرف جيدا أن تفعل أن الموسيقى يكون علينا we want to pray to Allah على هذه المنطقة لماذا؟ لأن إمام حسين هو أشياء أكثر أنك يمكنك أن تصل و أنك يمكنك أن تصل إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى و أنا أتكلم أولاً و I pray to Allah و نحن جميعا و نحن نتكلم على الطريق right الطريق أهل البيت و إن شاء الله يمكننا أن نتكلم و نتكلم و لا تذهب لك في أي منة و فقط تفعل ذلك و يسعهم في كل منة و أريد أن أقوم بقى الله أن يمكنك أن تقوم بقى هذا من هذه المنطقة و بركة الصلاة على محمد و أولي محمد