The Effect of Music - Hamza Yusuf 

My father- 57 years without music 47 years without missing a single salath. 40 years without cussing. Alhamdulillah. My father,my mother and myself are evidence for the said statements.

Music is the alcohol of the soul - ibn taymiyyah

On top of all you mentioned, I find that the more we listen to music, the less we listen to and read Quran sadly... May Allah guide us all and help us find the right way.

I was going to listen to a song, I thought that one song would do nothing, but then SubhanAllah this video got recommended to me. Allah saved me from doing a sin, SubhanAllah❤

One week without music 💪

Innalillahi wa innaa ilaihi raaji’oon indeed this age are the age of fitnah where the bad becomes good and the good becomes bad, we should always protect our iman by keep learning and learnig about islam itself and step away, a huge step away from makshiyaat, especially zina, insyaAllah it’ll take you nowhere else than towards fatal destrucrtion of the heart and iman

For anyone looking to replace music with something else. I'd suggest listening to audiobooks or nature sounds. Like rain or other nature sounds. There are other interesting sounds in our planet as well besides rain or other nature sounds. For example the sound of earth, when it moves in the universe. The sound coming from beneath the ice. There are other things as well. Or you can listen to lullabies without music. Traditional lullabies. If you fall asleep listening to music.

A GOOD WAY to cut down on music is to find a Qur'an reciter whose recitations toy really like: there are many who aren't well known but try using hash tags to find them. A couple of personal favourites: Omar Hisham Al Arabi and Maghfira M Hussein. Try to memorise very short (three line) surahs of the Qur'an. The easiest way is to listen to it on repeat. But if you don't want to do either of those things at least get rid of 98% of dirty songs in your playlist (I would say all but it could be you have one or two favourites and aren't ready for that step yet.) Remember, we don't HAVE to do things cold Turkey. Even before alcohol was completely prohibited first you just weren't allowed to be intoxicated during salah. Doing things in steps usually makes giving up habits or sins easier. I was a massive music addict. I decided in Ramadhan I wanted to cut down and also wanted to start memorising Qur'an. It was 2 months (Ramadhan and the month after) before I listened to music again. I have my moments but I can't believe how much I've cut down. If you want to stop a sin Allah will help you - And don't think you can't ask Allah to help you stop.

When I was pregnant I can't really listen to music because it made me dizzy and headache. And now alhamdulillah don't need music anymore.

Mashalloah this gives a good message I just hope we can go back to a time where things where much more simpler

Ya Allah please forgive all of us ameen. Have mercy on us and admit us into paradise ameen Edit: I edited the comment, guys please don’t expose ur sins.

People say "Music is life" or "Music is a medicine for healing" But for me it gives me anxiety, it's a headache, like somtimes my ears hurt, so I've cut down my time listening to it and pray in namaz to reduce my time of listening to music and then end it! Sometimes the stress and anxiety from your brain might also come from to much listening to music, Moreover when you're praying some random songs start playing in your head, which makes your focus loose on namaz, pray to Allah and ask for His guidance, Insha'Allah Allah will help us all!

So we must alway keep the cleanliness of our heart

"There will be among my Ummah people who will regard as permissible adultery, silk, alcohol and musical instruments".- Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.

The last line freaked me out. Alhamdulillah, it's been two weeks i haven’t listened to any music intentionally.

Two years without Music and I’m 16

I'm really addicted to music. I got this bad habit from my father. May Allah save me from this haram addiction.

The day if judgement is getting closer each day. For muslims (may allah grant us happiness in the afterlife ameen) the afterlife the Akhirah is a rewardubg day for others things dont go the way thry would want to.. may allah forguve us all and make as aware of bad deeds ameen.

Music 🎵🎶 traps you in the past and your current situation, and makes you think about them It interferes with emotional situations you do not need. A total waste of mental space. The more you immerse in it, the more you get thirsty. It drains you, leaves you as an empty void constantly needing more and more supply just to get going. It is a recipe for addiction, an eventual mental bancruptcy. Look at the most accomplished musicians, did they attain peace? Most will end up befriending vices of liquors, drugs and untamed desires. The essence that makes their music successful is the same thing that destroys their inside. Even after such self-sacrifice act, their music label and management are the ones who reap the most profit. In the giant machinary of music industry, a musician is one tiny replacable screw in abundant supply, always prone to exploitation and abuse. If you have conscience, you do not want to be part of such system, not even as a consumer. Music competes with the Qur'an in the real estate of the mind. Just like water and oil, music and the Qur'an do not mix, a gain in one is a loss of the other. The Qur'an gives you freedom and makes you think about the future, a supply of regenerative happiness from the Ultimate Source. The best medication. If only you understand. I don't think everyone will understand me.

Skalian blajar bahasa Inggris. Makasih. Smoga sll dpt ridlo Allah SWT dan kian berkembang

Ya Allah i did not know that types of music effect us like this in america

I have been watching this channel for a while now and I have to say it is one of the best education channels I have ever seen not only that the way of explaining the topic is nice but the animation is very cool too but it would be nice if they would talk about how to deal with gender dysphoria and what are the limits that I can reach or things that I have to avoid because I have been searching for answers ALOT but haven't found much hope you have a good day :)

Quitting music addicton is so good. I never listened to hear music which contains zina, but they were simpe musics like imagine dragons and onerepublic. But still it contradicted me. And today i am more productive without music and i love my life. Alhamdullilah.

this is a reminder for me, who is like into music again

I was WAITING for this video Thank you so much 🌸

Masha Allah. Proud of FQE. May Allah SWT bless us all.

This is so true. I remember my classmates, specially females, they are fans of BTS and it was too much effect them, they just talk about them all the time. This is madness Oh allah give hidayat to our ummah.

You are so right, and to prove your point even more, any genre with musical instruments in this day and age will enhance your brain for something immoral, like epic orchestral or heavy metal, they make you feel like you can be a hero, but at the same time, you feel like you would be awesome if you took someone's life, and when the song has lyrics, immoral lyrics always find a way into the song, there's a song about beautiful elves in the forest, it may sound like a song okay to listen to, but there's a line in it that says "stay and break my heart", it takes mental instability to believe that this is normal.

“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.” - Imam Al-Ghazali. Of course todays music is not permitted, but if you like classical music and it benefits you instead of harming you, it's okay. But Quran is the best - There's nothing like it. No matter how much you search, there's something missing in the sound of music.

Agree 🙏🏻. Same for Italian music . Not only in explicit and disruptive contents , also romantic music is always about breaking up , loss , pain , revenge .. Is very dis- educational because makes you believe that real love should be instantaneous and based on passion and not patience . We want all immediately. We have no patience to build, to know the other . We want to consume . Infact marriages don t last . I now understand how much romantic / “ love “ songs influenced me . At the end the right man was a friend I have from 15 years and he is really committed to long term relationship. 🙏🏻❤️ I love this channel even if I am actually Christian .

Mashallah my daughter maryam has seen 100 times you make great videos and make eid series for maryam after Ramadan please

heard this clip on rational believer channel. my fav 😌💓

Now I understand the hadith about most of the diseases coming from the stomach. This video provided more context. No wonder stress and anxiety can also cause diarrhea.

It's been almost a month I've quit music Alhamdulillah and tbh it wasn't easy especially as a 15 y/o music addict girl..... I've faced several depression episodes in the past few months no one was by my side not even my parents, But Allah swt showered his mercy upon me and guided me to the correct path... Alhamdulillah. Ik i'm not there yet, i have to do a lot more better....

I also listen to music but not for hours for few minutes in a week but I am praying that inshallah I will stop listening to it very soon. Ameen

#1: music itself isn't bad. It's the message that it carries that needs to be monitored.

August 2, 2023, completely left music and my guitar, alhamdulillah❤ One thing that left to me is the ear worm, it's song that stuck in my brain, i can still remember the lyrics melodies, etc i used to listen to them. Music is really dangerous for us muslims tho. Always make dua to allah subahanahu wa ta'ala to overcome something ❤

Change from listening music to listening murrotal quran and meaning. You will sense different and touching heart

ma sha Allah... i was waiting for this a long time

I don’t listen to explicit songs I choose the songs I listen to carefully

Na'udzubillah min dzalik YaRabb 🤲🏻

Subhan Allah ×3 Astagfirullah ×3 Alhamdulillah ×3 Subhan Allah wa bi hamdihi Subhana Allah al adheem ×3 Allahu Akbar ×3Allah bless us and grant us janna tul firdus ( don't hesitate to SHARE this)

Very true

I rarely listen music before but since i dwonload tiktok that make me often to hear music. Alhamdulillah thankyou for remind me again. May Allah forgive me and give hidayah to me and all of you. Aamiin

I used to listen to music with inspirational lyrics or ones that made me feel "more positive". So I always thought it's ok if I don't listen to songs with filthy lyrics. But recently I noticed I'm less focused on my salah, felt like I can't live without music, it was really hard to study too. That's why I decided to not listen to music and I hope Allah will give ease to give up on this bad habit

I need to change myself for the sake of Allah. Listening to such music is not a good thing.

Subhanallah, I always listen to lirycs ,I’ll stop from know on🤲🙂

There's alot of good things you can listen either than this bad type of music.

I am 15 years and I do admit that I have listened to songs but what u said about drugs and alcohol and all these haram stuff I agree. This is exactly why I hate raps and most songs that involve all of this filth. I barely listen to music and only listen to probably a few that are clean.

This channel surely need subtitles to be a global so everyone can understand

I personally believe that music is halal as long as it doesn't lead you away from Islam and as so long as it doesn't have dirty, immoral lyrics and has good meaning.

True speech. Governments should banned song lyrics that contains references to explicit sexual behaviour, and drugs or alcohol.

Alchamdulillaah.. finally someone talk about the haram of music

I listen to inspirational songs that motivate me to do work, especially when i work out. Like 'Believe' by Eminem. 2pac is also a good artist who has rapped about real problems of the society. I don't listen to artists who rap about drugs, sex and money.

Stopping of listening to musics doesn't feel that bad once you're used to it :)

I mostly listen to lofi-hip hop it helps me focus its basically beats set on a certain frequency

1:06 this is actually very true, i dare you try to read the lyrics of the music and understand them with no music out loud, well you cannot because, the words they started using are so filthy, when listening to music you literally pay no mind to the lyrics and just vibe with the music because of the beat, and you are analizing the lyrics subconsciously and then your brain after a while strats normalising many things, that is why if you just listen to the quran it is gonna be good, even better if you try to ACTUALLY understand

You stop one slowly the entire nation stops, if we start stopping many more will also stop Inshaallah and our next generation doesn't have to face all these futile and disgusting things. May Allah grant us understanding. Ameen.

Astagfirullah, I just opened RU-vid to listening some music but this video appeared on top of my homepage😔 Bismillah I want to get out from this habit

Alhamdulillah... this video was made.

I like listening to music, it makes me happy. There’s no way I’m abandoning it.

I once accidentaly listened to a terrible song and I got an insane headache. It was fixed after listening to quran.

I was a kpopper . I really liked to listen music of kpop.But recently I have realised these all are wasting my time though the meanings of those songs were not much bad. So i tried to get rid of it and then I realized how addictive it is. Since then many days have passed. I am not listening music. but still when I wake up in fajar , my favourite songs automatically starts playing in my mind . May Allah protect us from this satanic ritual.

ALLAH BLESS You keep trying to teach ISLAM....in america and euorpe people really dont know what islam teach us... love from PAKISTAN

You can watch channels without music such as - Al-Majd Network

Salam from India

JazakAllah khair...

Ohmygod the things i learnt in this video ✨

May Allah guide us and protect us form all those bad things. Thank you :)

Alhamdulillah glad I stopped listening to garbage. Instead listening to Quran gives me more of a fulfilling appetite. Alhamdulillah

Unfortunately that's why the western people losing their faith and values. and the east is being influenced by them as well 😥

Didn't know this before! Thanks

I am a devout Hindu and i am surely not converting to islam. but .. i am surely also gonna make change because ultimately these things are also given in our texts to avoid pornography and bad speech. it was an eye opener. made me believe in becoming a better person, a better hindu

Always Recite Sallallaho Alaehi Wasallam whenever our Prophet's Sallallaho Alaehi Wasallam name call..

I have education in the art of music and I can tell you that today's music is bad. Not only is the lyrics vulgar, but also the music is made to be addicting on purpose. If you really have to use music or want to listen to it, then I'd suggest you go for classical music. They're usually long and harder to remember (because of their complexity), which is why it went out of trend in Western society (they got addicted to pop culture and come to dislike complexity). But on the bright side your head won't be filled with music repeating itself constantly with classical music, like you usually do with pop music.

I used to listen to that music. Now I stopped Allhamdulillah. I’m gonna make a reverse and change from music to 2.5 hours a day, to Quran 2.5 hours a day inshallah.

Please make these vdos in urdu plz May Allah give you Ajar Ameen

This is the sad reality of present time :(

A song can a poem put to a melody, or just a melody. It can be used to express joy, sorrow, an anthem of one's country, an event such as a parade or a dance, etc. Music, like anything else, can be used for good purposes or bad. Without God, there is no definitive moral standard. God gave us the ability to write and enjoy music. I listen to music on a radio station while I'm traveling. I still like the old standard hymns. My church minister likes more modern hymns. Singing a new song while learning it can be daunting. I have mixed feelings about Rap because while the melody is catchy, the words can typically be profane.

May Allah (swt) increase his rank

What about horns,ringtones,bell, notification sound etc?

Reminder & This video in nutshell: This video only said about song that have bad lyric, spesificaly and message about how dangerously free sex is

May Allah have mercy ameen oh Allah grant peace and blessings upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad PBUH .

honestly i just started listening to jazz and other instrumentals because i realized how bad most music is these days. i wish that these people who were blessed with beautiful voices sung beautiful songs and not dirty lyrics.

Barak Allahu feekum

Sir, I just have 1 question : what about the music Without bad lyrics or the musics with no lyrics at all ? Can we hear them as long as we don't miss any prayer or do anything bad because of them?

I used to listen to songs every day but one day, I was bored to do it, and then maasyaa Allah there was a video recommended to me where it said "if you listen to songs, you would never enjoy the beauty of listening to the quran" i stop listening to songs ever since. And that's also the first time when I cry during listening to quran recitation. But the problem is wherever i go to places like my office, supermarket, and another public spaces they always have musics.

Dear brother I agree with what you are saying about the direction of our society and I do request in future series you equally mention Male population when it comes to STI/STDs and not just single out Females. Statics shows that more times male passes STI/STDs and do not even know they have it. Especially in countries where it is taboo to mention indiscretions. Again, to me it seemed from this presentation that people outside our communities might take this video as "us Muslims blaming only women for indiscretions hence spreading diseases". Remember it takes TWO. We were made in pairs.

Hamza is correct, the mind is like a sponge and we do not decide what is soaked up and what is left from the things we hear. There is definitely something about music defined broadly to include singing that can play and twist the emotion of man. Be warned, the shaytaan is ever subtle in his approach. I suspect most are not willed enough to be not affected or distracted by music. Certainly, pursuing such an avenue as a career is problematic.

He is so so right now I can't even stand the sound of music nothing but a distraction in a tool from shatian

this is true, if you listen to music every day and never get rid of it and if you leave your important things behind for music. then on the Day of Judgment Molten Iron will be poured into your ear. dear people stop listening to music before it's your last day, -i am a Christian and i am becoming a muslim this week 💗

for now I try to not listen to music and explicit lyrics....rather i listen to NF's acapella InshAllah will get rid of this habit totally step by step! Please make dua for me!

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May allah protect us from fitna

Still some people will tell you that they listen to selected songs only or they listen to instrumental music only and they think that it's not a problem. But brother and sister, it's the door to Shaytan. If you get a food with 99.99% poison and 0.01% goodness will you accept it? Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said correct, at a time there will be some people who will make music halal for them, even though it's haram.

Lyrical music is a huge problem and is haram but what about instrumental music?

Literally was listening to music when this popped up

SübhanALLAH

alhamdulillah. now it became clearer hehe.

I like bts, blackpink, txt, redvelvet, exo, twice and kpop