What is the advice for one who loves listening to songs?
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Question:
What advice do you give to one who loves listening to songs?
Answer:
The advice is to repent to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because songs corrupt the heart and beget hypocrisy in the heart. They plant desire; they plant desire in the heart. Especially since most songs, or all songs, in the present time are all lewd, all lewd, and they sing about women and are melodious. So they are lewd songs, and it is not permissible to listen to them.
[Luqman 31:6]. And the hadith, as interpreted by a group of the great Companions, among them Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), that "having the hadith" means wealth. And he swore to that, because it is wealth.
It is obligatory for the Muslim to listen to the Qur'an, to listen to the Qur'an, to read the Qur'an himself, or to listen to someone reading it directly or on a tape, so that his listening is to the Qur'an, and to the dhikr and the sermons, and to what contains good that revives his heart and illuminates his insight. As for songs and false speech, they blind his insight and corrupt his heart, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah.
What advice do you give to one who loves listening to songs?
Answer:
The advice is to repent to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because songs corrupt the heart and beget hypocrisy in the heart. They plant desire; they plant desire in the heart. Especially since most songs, or all songs, in the present time are all lewd, all lewd, and they sing about women and are melodious. So they are lewd songs, and it is not permissible to listen to them.
And of the people is he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allah without knowledge
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍIt is obligatory for the Muslim to listen to the Qur'an, to listen to the Qur'an, to read the Qur'an himself, or to listen to someone reading it directly or on a tape, so that his listening is to the Qur'an, and to the dhikr and the sermons, and to what contains good that revives his heart and illuminates his insight. As for songs and false speech, they blind his insight and corrupt his heart, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما النصيحة لمن يحب الاستماع إلى الأغاني؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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