Music/Singing and its effects.

`Abdullah b. Mas’ûd – Allah be pleased with him – said:

Singing sprouts hypocrisy (nifâq) in the heart as water sprouts greens and herbs.

Ibn Battah, Al-Ibânah Al-Kubrâ Vol.2 p469, and Al-Bayhaqî, Al-Sunan Al-Kubrâ Vol. 52 p231.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzîyah – Allah have mercy on him – said in Madârij Al-Sâlikîn, Vol.1 p487:

These are the words of someone who fully understood singing and its effects, for no one regularly sings or listens to song except that his heart falls into nifâq without him realizing. If such a person understood the reality of nifâq and its end he would see it in his own heart. Never do the love of song and the love of Qur`ân come together in a person’s heart except that one expels the other. I and others have witnessed how heavy the Qur`ân feels to singers and song-listeners; how they coil when it is recited and how they get angry with a reciter when he recites too long for them (in prayer etc); and how their hearts do not benefit from what he recites: they are not moved to do anything by it. But when the Qur`ân of Shaytân comes, lâ ilâha illallâh! How they lower their voices and settle down! How their hearts feel at peace and how the crying and emotions start, how moved they are inwardly and outwardly and spend on clothing and perfume and staying up hoping for a long night ahead. If this is not nifâq then it is certainly the way to it and its foundation.

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Encouragement to have Affection & Friendliness… [Shaykh Rabee bin Haadee al-Madkhalee]

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Women’s Right In Islaam by Shaykh Yahya Al Hajooree

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If after repeated attempts, a person is not able to apply something that he exhorts others to do, is it still permissible for him to call others to do that action?

Question: If after repeated attempts, a person is not able to apply something that he exhorts others to do, is it still permissible for him to call others to do that action? what if he does so supposing that the person he is calling will be able to apply what he failed to apply himself?

Answer: When one is inviting others to do a good thing that he himself is not capable of doing, then yes, he should call others to do it. An example of this is if someone calls others to pray late at night while he himself is not able to do so. If someone calls others to give charity, but he himself has no sufficient resources to give charity, then we tell him to go ahead and invite others to give charity. But as for him calling to something that he is capable of applying but doesn’t then this is foolish in intellect and astray in religion.

[Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen|Fatawa Islamiyah vol.8, p.56, Darussalam]

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Wealth and Status

Imaam Ahmad, an-Nasaa`ee, at-Tirmidhee and Ibn Hibbaan in his Saheeh report the hadeeth of Ka’b ibn Maalik al-Ansaaree, (radhiyallaahu ‘anhu) from the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) that he said:

 Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful than a person`s craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion) 

At-Tirmidhee said, “It is hasan saheeh.”

It was also said in some narrations from the People of the Book:

 “Provision has already been allotted and the one greedy for wealth is deprived. Son of Aadam! If you spend your life in seeking after this world then when will you seek after the Hereafter?” If you are unable to do good deeds in this world, then what will you do on the Day of Resurrection?”

The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status, by al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee (rahimahullaah)

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Ask like the fools ask…

Ibraaheem ibn al-Mahdi said,

“Ask like the fools ask, but learn and memorize like the smart ones do.”

[Jami’ Bayan al-’ilm wa fadhlihi]

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