Until recently I didn’t know that music is not HARAAM in Islam. For the past 23 years of my existence I used to think or rather I was made to think that music is forbidden in Islam (excluding Nasheed with the usage of ‘thabs’ or ‘tabla’ like stuff). There were many reasons why I used to think so. They are as follows…
1. Music is a waste of time i.e idle talk and time wasting activities are not encouraged in Islam.
2. Music tends to take you away from being God conscious.
3. I remember hearing a hadith were people who listen to music will have molten iron poured into their ears in the hereafter. (I know you guys must be laughing like crazy… Comon I was only 9yrs old).
4. Whatever money one earns making or selling music is haraam!
5. Not only do you waste your time but also make others waste their time.
6. That there was a prophet (amongst the 124,000) who was sent specifically to forbid music.
Recently I had a discussion with an Islamic scholar who was trained in the traditional madrassa system in Pakistan and also went on to further his studies and complete a PhD in UK and later lecture in Yale. He told me that there is no explicit ayath(statement) saying music is forbidden. According to him music is the crown of any civilization . An old article that I read about a documentary that was made by BBC which concludes that there needs to be more debate. Anywayz my point is why not ?? As long as you don’t miss your obligatory duties because of listening or producing music, why not ?? What do you think??
AbDdU! said
salam there ..
well the issue of Islam and Music was never dealt with correctly …
They just bring u some ahadeeth and tell OK, this is the truth and u dont need to know the logic behind it …
Just because belly dancing existed with music during the old times that doesnt mean we ban music to stop the dancing entertainment thing … i see it like this .. they tried to stop entertainment and thought that music was the root cause .. so by all means some Ulamas tried to stick to that and ended up banning the whole thing …
C’mon … i see no logical point in this … if a knife can kill someone … should we ban the usage of knives????
sarahlya said
God manifests Himself in many forms, many colors,… i believe, music is one…
ch00bits said
AbDdU – W/salam, can’t disagree with u ! The problem is not just for music, the prohibition is for anything and everything that the Mullahs don’t like (which ofcos is nt forbidden in d Quran or Sunnah).
sarahlya – True, many mystics believed that they could get closer to God thru’ music. For e.g the dancing dervishes.
mich said
i think anything excessively done would be haraam even if initially it isn’t forbidden. music is one of those unmentioned stuff in the Q&S, so it’s a permissible thing. but when it’s indulged in excessively, it probably becomes haraam. i think.