Rasūl Allāh
(
ṣallā
Allāh ʿalayhi wa-sallam
). That is what you and I carry every single day, whether
we admit it or not. And when we don’t do something about that burden, and we
don’t show humanity what it is, we’re in trouble. Not just with the authorities, or
with the media, we’re in trouble with Allah.
I pray that Allah (
ʿazza wa-jall
) makes us a people of Qur’an once again.
That we learn to think the way Allah wants us to think, and that we are able to
represent in our character, in our communities, in our business dealings, in our
personal lives, in our speech, in our demeanour we are able to depict what makes
this
dīn
so perfect, what makes it so beautiful. May Allah (
ʿazza wa-jall
) shine
the light of this guidance into all of our hearts, and keep it strong, and make it
stronger and stronger; and may Allah make the generation of young people real
leaders for this community who are going to bring an age of light out of this age
of darkness.
* This reminder was given after the 7th January 2015
attack which took place in the offices of the French
Satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Twelve people lost their lives in this attack.
CHAPTER 10
Naṣīḥah
in Brief: The Dangers of
Listening to Music
I
don’t have a bias against any particular culture or genre of music, but I have
strong objections to music per se, though there is some scholarly discussion
about it, but I will show you what I am convinced of. I think nowadays, listening
to music of certain kinds is probably one of the easiest means to lose your moral
sense. Some music is audio pornography, today. It’s explicit, it’s shameless, it’s
vulgar and it takes your sense of humanity away from you. It makes you look at
women as objects—worse than objects—worse than animals, just assets. These
people are talking about women like they are talking about an animal really. It
objectifies women and especially I’ve noticed a lot of the brothers that I know
of, Muslims, that are really into the hip-hop scene and they are kind of doing the
‘ḥifẓ’
of the song. They are memorizing the song and they’re really good at
reciting it with perfect ‘
tajwīd
’ too. And so they do that and it’s just horrible
language. Horrible, horrific, horrific language. The only simple response I have
to that, if you have any regard for the Book of Allah, that you really think it’s
from Allah—
bi’s al-ism al-fusūq baʿd al-īmān
(
al-Ḥujurāt
49: 11)—even the
name, the mention, the word for something bad, is terrible once you have faith.
Even the mention of something terrible is horrible for you, is harmful for you,
after you have faith. You have to have a clean tongue, you have to say what’s
best—
qul li-ʿibādī yaqūlū allatī hiya aḥsan
(
al-Isrā’
17: 43)—tell my slaves to
say that which is the best; say what is the best, say good things from your mouth.
This is the first thing, when you say horrible things and you say things that
are in direct contradiction to the moral gauge Allah gifted us with then obviously
you are deviating from your natural
fitrah
, your predisposition to turn to Allah.
When you constantly listen to garbage like that then you get deviated and you
don’t find pleasure except in disobedience to Allah and that’s the sign of a sick
heart. So one has to distance themselves from this, this is the first step. And I’ll
tell you, this is my personal view; this is not a fatwa, it’s my personal analysis,
you don’t have to take it, but if a person finds listening to the Qur’an annoying
after they have been listening to hip hop, listening to it for a long time, and as
soon as somebody puts the Qur’an on in the car you know what they say? ‘Oh
man, turn that off... I don’t wanna…I just wanna talk.’ Immediately, they get a
little annoyed when they hear the Qur’an. That actually means the
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