the poison of music by sheikh maulana abdus sattar (hafizahullah)

7/31/2019 The Poison of Music by Sheikh Maulana Abdus Sattar (hafizahullah)

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The Poison of Music

Wamina alnnasi man yashtaree lahwa alhadeethi liyudilla AAan sabeeli Allahi

bighayri AAilmin wayattakhidhaha huzuwa. Al-Quran-31:6

But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or

meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path)

The music grows nifaaq as the water grows the crops

Hazrat Abdullah bin Masud, Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar, Hazrat Jabir binAbdullah, Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas (Radhiyallahu anhum), all these great

personalities told that the above ayat was descended on the blasphemy of kuffaar.There is a word here, lahwa alhadeeth. Relating to this, these great Hazraat told

that it refers to songs and music. Our beloved Prophet said that he was sent to

this world to eradicate musical instruments. Our Prophet told that the music sogrows hypocrisy in the hearts as the water grows the fields. When a doctor saysthat a certain food will give rise to a certain disease and even though the doctormight be a Hindu or a Christian, one will trust his skill and give up that foodimmediately. He wont even ask how that food is related to that disease and thedoctor being a Hindu or a Christian, he will so trust his skill that he wont evenhave any dispute with him. He was addicted to that food for forty years but he leftthat in a moment. He believes what a Christian say and in fact when his child is

addicted to that certain food, to save that child from that food is considered asshakkat. He thinks that as wishing well as per the rights of that child and tells thechild with loving words that the particular food will cause disease and the motherwont give the child that food even though he cries and screams.


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Are we the well-wishers or the enemies of our children?

And here is the Prophet of the universe, behind whose truthful words the

knowledge of Allah is and behind whose truthful words the establishment ofwahi (revelation) is, he is saying that nifaaq (hypocrisy) is created through music,and the ignorant Muslim asks how? He can trust the skill of a Hindu and a Jewishdoctor, he can trust the knowledge of a Christian doctor, but this ignorant muslim

in spite of calling himself a Muslim, he doesnt trust the words of the Prophet !Even after being a Muslim, he asks how is this and why? When a certain food issaid to cause some disease by a doctor, the child is prevented from that food and itis thought to be good but today when the child cries, he is left to hear the music to

make him calm! A strange scene! Give him the instruments of music and he wouldbe calm! Is this enmity or well wishing? On one hand, the child is prevented fromtaking certain food and the food is kept away from him as per the advice of aChristian doctor and it is interpreted as well wishing while on the other hand, thechild is equipped with musical instrument to keep it calm and in fact they areadmitted in a school where this is arranged. Is this well wishing or enmity? Eitherhe is not wishing good for the child or he does not trust the words of the Prophet

. Either of the two should be correct. If he really wishes good for the child and

if he trusts the Prophet then definitely he will keep his child away from these , instruments and he will keep his house clean from this dirt. If not, then he does not

trust the words of the Prophet that it will create nifaaq. If he trusts the words

of the Prophet then he is not wishing good for the child for he is creating ,

nifaaq in the child. If he really trusts the Prophet and he cares for the child andhe is his well wisher, then definitely the music cannot be heard in his house.

The two sounds most hateful to Allah The Prophet of Allah said that two things are extremely hateful to Allah1 : )The music that is raised during singing and 2) The moaning during a calamity.


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There are only two phases in the life, the time of happiness and the time of beingsad. The Muslim goes into playing music in the happy moments and during his

moments of grief he moans, screams, cries and laments. The Prophet says that

both these sounds are extremely hateful to Allah If there is an epidemic of . cholera and it is been announced that the cholera is spread by a certain fruit and if asmall vendor crosses one with the same fruit, what will he tell him? O theheartless, what are you doing, why have you become the enemy of humanity, whydo you want to kill the human beings, the plague is spread through this fruit andwhy you are selling this fruit? This is what will be said. In case, by mistake whatwill happen if a child gets that in the house? Wont one be shocked and stop himexplaining to him that the plague is spread through that fruit. There is so much of

trust that the plague is spread through that food and the seller, the buyer, the lessintelligent and everyone is told off. Now the vehicle in which my child goes hasthe sound of the music, the van in which he goes has the sound of the music, thevan in which he comes has the sound of the music, if he goes to school there is thesound of the music, if he goes to a wedding there is the sound of the music andwherever one goes, one gets to hear this filth. This sin has been so widely

established that none thinks it as a sin, and the Prophet is calling it to be thenourishment for nifaaq.

Nifaaq and its consequences

As this nourishment is available everywhere, the man has become two faced andthis is the reality of the nifaaq that a person is different from how he is seen. Whilehis look is something, his inner is something very different. This is called nifaaq.As this nourishment is available everywhere, the man is double faced and hisreality is entirely different from how he looks. One thinks how come this canhappen from a person when he used to pray, fast and what sort of things he did!

This is because of the presence of nifaaq as the music was playing in his housewhich clashes with his ears every day. Our beloved Prophet told once thatfaces of some people of his ummah will become deformed and when they wake up

in the morning they will look like monkeys and pigs. Abdullah bin Umarasked


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O Prophet of Allah , wont they be Muslims? The Prophet said, No no,they would have uttered the shahaadah bearing witness that they believe in Allah

and His Messenger and they would even fast. It was then asked, Why

would this happen to them then? The Prophet replied, They would beplaying music and drinking alcohol during the night and in the morning, their faceswould be deformed. So music is the nourishment for nifaaq and is present

everywhere. Abdullah bin Nafi narrated that once as Abdullah bin Umarwas going with him and the pipe was heard, he immediately placed his fingers inhis ears and he walked far away and asked him, Nafi, are we hearing anymore?

He replied, No. Abdullah bin Umar then told him that once he was going

with the Prophet when pipe was heard and he immediately placed hisfingers in the ears so the music doesnt enter the ears.

The music will shower calamities on the people

The baatin (inner) of a person is dirtied with this music for one gets the nifaaq andthat is why his outer is different from his inner which is accustomed to the soundof shaitaan and he couldnt get rid of the filth as it has become his habit. And today

this filth has spread everywhere. Our beloved Prophet said when musicbecomes so common and widespread like from house to house, then the trials andtribulations will so befall people one after another just like the beads will fall offwhen the string is cut off. When a voice of one disaster stops, the other one starts.When a voice of one calamity doesnt even stop, the other one comes. The Prophet

has spoken the truth. Our beloved Prophet told that a time will come whenthe public treasury will be used as a personal money, people will breach the trust,

they will consider zakat as burden and tax, they will gain religious knowledge togain the worldly benefits, the wife will be obeyed and the mother will beabandoned, the friends will be made close considering them to be well-wishers andthe father will be hated, voices will be raised inside the masaajid, the music will becommon in every single place. When one opens the door of the driving room, themusic is heard and it is heard when one sits in a vehicle and when he sits in the


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airplane. And the music is heard everywhere when the Prophet of Allah is

saying that to be the most hateful sound to Allah and he is saying that themusic creates nifaaq in a person.

Hazrat Fuzayl bin Ayaz (RA) used to say that the songs and music is the mantar(charm) of zina (adultery, fornication) because of which the sexual desires getkindled and slowly and slowly the man gets impure and his chastity falls intodanger. This is the mantar of zina. So the music will be wide spread, the alcoholwill be drunk, people will wear silk, the worst man and the most filthiest will betheir leader, people will honor him just because they be saved from his evils whilethere wont be any respect in their hearts, the people of lowest rank will speakworst of those of higher ranks, the women will imitate men and the men will desire

to be like women. The Prophet continued that the calamities will then befallpeople like beads will fall off when the string is broken. Today the voice ofcalamities is heard from every single direction. The calamities are falling one afteranother. There is adversity in whole of the society. Two sins are so established inour society that we seek refuge from that: 1) In every single place, one can findthose who do not pray (benamaazi) and that too the sin is very open and 2) In everysingle place, one can see obscenity (behayaai) very open. These have made the

whole environment disastrous. Benamaazi and behayaai have brought disaster inwhole of the environment.

The societys degradation is linked with the musical

instruments

O the honorable ones! The Prophet has said that the music creates nifaaq andHazrat Fuzail bin Ayaz (RA) is saying this is the mantar of zina. The well wishingfor children is that they are saved from this mantar and they are saved from thisnifaaq. They are only children and they are very innocent. They might not realize

but slowly and slowly they will become addicted to it. If one gets habitual to it and

even if Allah gives him tawfeeq to repent from it, if he hears the music slightly,then he will get inclined towards it and this is because this has Satanism in it. Evenif one hears after years and years, he will still get inclined to it for such is its


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attracting power. The effect of shaitaan is present in it completely. That is why our

Prophet of Allah said that this is the most hateful sound to Allah In fact . the sign of degradation and abjectness of a nation is that these musical instrumentsget in the hands of the youth of that nation. Can I tell you the sign of the loftinessand the honor of a nation? That is when there is arrow and sword in the hands of itsyouth and the sign of degradation and abjectness of a nation is when its youth havetabla (percussion) and sarangi (fiddle) in their hands. This is said by Iqbal. Theyouth is dancing with guitar in his hands and he remains happy with the guitar.And today these instruments are made to be things of honor in our society. Fiftyyears back, the people of this art are considered to be low class people. No onetakes their daughters marriage proposals to them as these people of this art used to

be a very low class people. Their musical skill used to be hated and if they repent,

then anyone can become beloved to Allah One can become even the wali .

(friend) of Allah . Anyway definitely there was a hate for this art. But they werethen so favored with awards and honorarium and they were so brought to the frontthat now they have become the idols for the youth of this nation.

Protect the younger generation from this filth

Today in the educational institutes, there is a determined time to teach this thing.How is it related to education! Unfortunately the hands in which our youth and thenew generation are brought up are not our well-wishers but our enemies. This isthe most unfortunate thing. Those in whose hands our youth are and to whom ournew generation go to study are unfortunately not our well-wishers but evil wishers.So they make only the nourishment of nifaaq available to them from which comesthe nifaaq and the outer and the inner are very different. O the honorable ones! Thewell wishing for the children is that we keep them protected from this filth. Thehouse in which the music is heard, the camps of shayateen are set there as the

shaitaan likes this sound very much. Very much liked. The house then cannot besaved from adversity by anyone. There are only calamities in there and only

darkness is present. Let Allah protect and protect again and again and let it nothappen that our generation gets addicted to it and die in that state. There are some

fortunate ones who return to Allah when they are in prostration and when they


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are reciting the Quran. Some can be so unfortunate that one is hearing the musicwhile driving and dies in an accident in that state. A person dies as he was hearing.There is this same sound everywhere. The vehicles in which our kids go to school,they get to hear this in the very morning. There is no realization today that what

our kids are absorbing inside them. And the state in which a person dies, he will beraised up in that same state.

We will die how we live

Our beloved Prophet said that our death will come just like how we live andwe will be raised up just like how we die. Whatever you were doing while dying,

you will be raised up doing the same. O the honorable ones! Let Allah clean

the houses, business places and institutes of Muslims from this filth for this has abig misfortune. The tabla, surangi, musical composition, drum are all most hateful

to Allah The Prophet . told that he came to eradicate these musicalinstruments. There is too much of courage today, a man is calling himself an

ummati of the Prophet and he is standing against the Prophet He !

came to eradicate and he works to spread it. He came to break theseinstruments and he gives them as dowry for his daughter. He came to end thesethings and he is decorating his house with these things. He is really having muchcourage! Do not know how he will bear the fire! Today the realization of this sinhas come to an end. How big is this very sin! It so happens that a person himselfmight not be an addict but he will go to the wedding where the music is being

played and he becomes a participant as he doesnt realize that to be a sin.

The demand of eemaan

Being a believer, the eeman (faith) demands that he stop the evil and if he doesnthave the strength, he speak against it and if he doesnt have even that strength, thenat least have the despise for that evil. Hate it and at least do not make youassociated with it. When fire is caught, I try to put it down myself and when Icannot, I call for peoples help and if they dont come and the fire is spreading, Itake my things and save myself from the fire. As the realization of this filth is


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removed from one, he gets associated with it. When one goes to a hotel, the musicis heard and if he doesnt have enough courage to tell them with loving words, thenhe can go to some other place but he stays there nourishing his nifaaq. As therealization has ended, this sin has become very common. Neither one cleans his

house with this filth nor do the elders take any responsibility to stop it and it isgetting very common. O the honorable ones! The effect of things that Prophet of

Allah told is very true. Let any skilled person today tell that this will happen

because of this, see how one believes. Now when the Prophet of Allah says,then the trust on him has so weakened that one asks, What is the relation betweenmusic and nifaaq? The noble Companions of the Prophet (RadhiAllahu anhum) so

trusted the Prophet and firmly believed in his words that even if somethinghad a strong base intellectually, they never dared to ask him why and how it canhappen.

An example of the Companions trust in the words of the

Prophet When Prophet went for the journey of miraj during a short time in the night

and he travelled from mecca to Bait-ul-Muqaddas and from there he went up to theheavens, journeyed through jannah and returned, the man of enlightening thoughtof that time, the intellect, Abul Hakam whose name became Abu Jahl later came

running to Abu Bakr Siddique saying, Listen what your friend is saying. His

thought was that today Abu Bakrwill leave the company of the Prophet for

this is not believable that he travels all the way from mecca to baitulMuqaddas, then to the heavens, journeys through jannah and returns back on the

same night. He was so confident that today Abu Bakrwill proclaim to part from

the Prophet . And so he came running to him saying, Did you listen what your

friend is saying? Heasked, Who? Abu Jahl replied, The same Muhammadbin Abdullah for he is saying that he traveled to baitul Muqaddas, then to the


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heavens, journeyed through jannah and returned back on the same night Abu Bakr

said that if these words were uttered by Muhammad then he spoke the , truth. If it was indeed him who told then for sure it is true and there is no secondopinion. This is eemaan.

The dangerous and shocking environment of our children

O the honorable ones! If our beloved Prophet said that the music nourishesnifaaq, then these words are true. The inner baatin gets ruined. So it is verynecessary that our lives and our childrens lives be saved from this. The truth iswherever our children are going today, those people never claim and there is no

obstinacy in them that your children will become people of Allah and His

Messenger after coming to them and they never claim that the appreciation ofeeman and Islam will become alive in them and their eemaan will becomematured. Rather if we leave our children like this, after some years they will saythat there is nothing called eemaan and kufr, shirk and tawheed (oneness of God),

revelation and the Last Prophet for all these things will become insignificantfor them. This is because the institutes where are our children are studying, there is

no mention of revelation, the azmat (greatness) of Allah Prophethood and , Muhammad . Rather it is more and more tried to eliminate all these things.This is the reason why the generation that comes out of this institute and moves toother countries, they get married to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Qadiyanis.

The respect for islam comes to an end and the distinction between shirk andtawheed gets destroyed. So do not leave these new generations in suchenvironments very freely. There their land is made favorable so the seed of the

nifaaq germinate well. That is why in the whole of that surrounding, the musicalenvironment is given and it is taught properly so that their hearts can easily toleratethe kufr and apostasy. Every sin is made to be tolerated easily and the music levelsthe heart for that and levels the land of the heart. That is why today nothing comeswithout music to make the heart favorable so he accepts every single sin and this ishappening. The sin which will make us nervous twenty or thirty years back today


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has been easily accepted through slow poisoning by making the heart favorable forthat. Everything is accepted because whenever the TV is switched on, the musicfalls on the ears and whenever the TV is switched on, absurd picture comes beforethe eyes. It has all been tolerated, isnt? Today how much ever be the absurdity

along the path, it is tolerated when those who are sticking it are Muslims. And wedo not know what the state of their children is. So the land has become sofavorable that every sin is tolerable. O the honorable one! It is very essential thatwe purify our houses from such instruments and filth. Our last hope is our beloved

Prophet that he will give us water from Rawza-e-Kawthar and throughwhose hand, intercession will be accepted. Now the Muslim is standing against the

Prophet for he came to eradicate the musical instruments and he wants to

sell it. He came to eradicate the musical instruments and he wants to spread it.He came to eradicate the musical instruments and he wants to decorate hishouse with that. Now even the last hope will get removed from ones life.

Replace music with the recitation of Quran

We are having the hope that he will intercede for us and by standing by his

flag, we will get salvation, isnt? So let one get hatred to this sin and one getdespise to this sin and the new generation be saved from this. O honorable ones!Let it so happen that in place of music, the recitation of Quran is heard in ourhouses and in place of becoming addicted to music, one gets addicted to therecitation of Quran. Aforetime in the houses of Muslims, the Quran used to berecited during the tahajjud time. The mothers and daughters used to so recite theQuran that in madinah munawwara, when men go to Masjid-un-Nabawi fortahajjud salah, they hear their recitation from the houses as the buzzing of bees.

The recitation of Quran from every single house! The mothers, sisters anddaughters everyone used to recite. Tell me how much those children would havebecome the coolness of the eyes of their parents and how much noor would be in

that house. That is why our beloved Prophet said with his truthful tongue thatwherever the Quran is recited, the angels get crowded and the crowd gets soextended that they reach the heavens. Those who recite the Quran so shine to the


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dwellers of heavens as the stars shine to the dwellers of the earth. Such is how isthe shine of the houses wherein the Quran is recited for those in heavens.

The power of Quran

How blessed are those houses from where such a Quran recitation comes! The menand women both used to recite the Quran. The manzil you see in the Quran likemanzil 1, 2, 3.., these seven manzils used to be the custom of Muslims that theyused to recite one manzil everyday and in one whole week, they used to complete a

Quran. Such was the recitation. The kalaam of Allah in houses and the

recitation of Allahs kalaam, SubhanAllah! Let Allah make it so that webecome masters of reciting Quran again. Just like the nifaaq grows with music, the

eeman gets so progressed with the Quran recitation that Hazrat Ikrima says that

the one who is habitual of reciting Quran and reaches old age, Allah keeps hismind very sound. And so let the Quran be more and more recited in the old age sothe light of his mind remains good because of the barakah of Qurans noor andthere is strength and energy in his heart. However old he is, his memory and hismind remains sound. The Quran has its own power. O the honorable ones! Let notthe voices of shayaateen and Satanism be heard in our houses. Rather there be the

recitation of Quran. Half of our adversities and tensions will end as such if wedont have these instruments of sins in our houses because wherever we dont havethese instruments of sins, the Angels start coming and the shayateen say tothemselves that there is no more nourishment for them and they should move outnow. Their nourishment is finished and the man feels rahmath (mercy), affection,love and peace inside the house.

Create a righteous environment in your house

When you visit the masaajid of Allah you will feel a unique attachment and , depending on the worshipping and righteous environment present inside a masjid,one will accordingly feel the attachment. Aforetime the mothers, sisters anddaughters used to so make the environment of the house that as soon as one steps

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and asked him where he can find salvation for there is more fitna wherever he

turns. The Prophet of Allah replied that keep your tongue in control and letyour house suffice you. Let the house be so radiant and religious that as soon asone steps in his house, his eemaan is protected and the eemaan gets progressed. Letthere be the custom of Quran recitation inside the houses and everyday let all thefamily members gather together and read some religious book for ten minutesregularly. There is more barakah in the house because of this in which there ismotivation for the recitation, prayer, and righteousness. Moreover in some caseswhen a husband cannot tell the wife and the wife cannot tell the husband, when thefather cannot tell his grown up son, these things can be explained through the

books. So let there be religious narrations everyday and ten minute be allotted toread religious books like fazaail-e-aamaal, fazaail-e-zakaat and there are many

islaahi (reformation) orations which can be read every day. If you see the family islacking in something then one can encourage them on that particular subject. O thehonorable ones! Aforetime there used to be a very good environment like when thechild goes to his maternal grandmas house, there is good environment, when hegoes to his paternal grandmas house, there is righteous environment, when hegoes to friends, he will find them too righteous and when he goes to educationalinstitutes, there is also good environment and the good was dominant that timewhile today, to speak the truth the evil is dominant. It is very necessary for us that

wherever we have the influence, it is made sure that at least the environment of ourhouses remains religious.

Let us everyday have such narrations and the book is read for few minutes and onehave concern for this. And then every week or every fortnight, make time alongwith the children and family members to come in contact with some reliablereligious scholar and hear the religious things with utmost consideration. Go therewith the thinking that it is very essential for your spiritual well being and to gain

progress in your eeman and deen. Even after this, if things didnt change in the

house, then consult with ones guide and elders about improving the state of theenvironment of the house. When one gives consideration to this, then one gets the

help of Allah and the children and the environment will become the coolness ofones eyes. If we dont have any regard for this, then even though one might bereligious, his religiousness wont be protected tomorrow. At times, because of


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family members, ones religiousness is not protected. There should be some hardwork that the environment should be good and everyone should get this thought of

progressing ones eemaan and religion. That is why there is the duaa of therighteous slaves, Rabbana hab lana min azwajina wa dhuriyyatina qurrata

A'yunin. Our Lord! grant us in our mates and offspring the joy of our eyes. Othe honorable ones, it is very essential to create a good environment in the house.Keep your lives and your houses clean from the musical instruments and

instruments of sins so the Angels of Allah come there and a righteous

environment is created there. Let Allah helps us all to act on what we hear,preach and write. Ameen

the poison of music by sheikh maulana abdus sattar (hafizahullah)

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