MUSIC IS PROHIBITED IN ISLAAM

 

Music is prohibited in islaam

 

Haram is an Arabic word which means “Forbidden”. Haram is the things which are prohibited in the Quran and the Sunnah, MUSIC is one of them.

 

PROHIBITION OF MUSIC IN QURAN AND AHADEETH

 

Proofs from Quran:

 

1) Allah Ta’ala mentions:

 

 وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن یَشۡتَرِی لَهۡوَ ٱلۡحَدِیثِ لِیُضِلَّ عَن سَبِیلِ ٱللَّهِ بِغَیۡرِ عِلۡمࣲ وَیَتَّخِذَهَا هُزُوًاۚ أُو۟لَـٰۤىِٕكَ لَهُمۡ عَذَابࣱ مُّهِینࣱ 

 

[Surah Luqmān: 6]

 

“There are some who purchase futile discourse to deviate from Allah’s path without knowledge and they mock it [the path of Allah, Islam]. There shall be a humiliating punishment for these people”

 

(Surah Luqman, verse: 6)

 

Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud,, Abdullah Ibn ‘Abbas, Jabir ‘Ikrimah, Sa’id ibn Jubayr,(may Allah be pleased with them) Mujahid, Makhul and Hasan Al Basri (rahimahumullah) were all of the view that ‘futile discourse’ refers to music/ musical instruments.

 

‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (radiyallahu ‘anhu) took an oath that this verse is referring to music.

 

[Refer: Tafsir Ibn Abi Hatim, Tafsirul Baghawi -Ma’alimut Tanzil- and Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Surah Luqman, Verse: 6. Also see Al Adabul Mufrad of Imam Bukhari, Hadith: 1265 and As Sunanul Kubra of Imam Bayhaqi, vol. 10 pg. 221]

 

2) Allah Ta’ala said, while addressing Shaytan:

 

 وَٱسۡتَفۡزِزۡ مَنِ ٱسۡتَطَعۡتَ مِنۡهُم بِصَوۡتِكَ وَأَجۡلِبۡ عَلَیۡهِم بِخَیۡلِكَ وَرَجِلِكَ وَشَارِكۡهُمۡ فِی ٱلۡأَمۡوَ ٰ⁠لِ وَٱلۡأَوۡلَـٰدِ وَعِدۡهُمۡۚ وَمَا یَعِدُهُمُ ٱلشَّیۡطَـٰنُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا 

 

[Surah Al-Isrāʾ: 64]

 

And incite [to senselessness] whoever you can among them with your voice and assault them with your horses and foot soldiers and become a partner in their wealth and their children and promise them. But Satan does not promise them except delusion.

 

(Surah Al Isra, verse: 64)

 

Mujahid (rahimahullah), who was known as a leader in Tafsir and was a student of Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas (radiyallahu ‘anhuma) explains ‘with your voice’ to mean music, musical instruments and all futility.

 

[Tafsir Ibn Abi Hatim, Surah Al Isra, verse: 64]

 

3) Allah Ta’ala when describing his true bondsmen says:

 

{ وَٱلَّذِینَ لَا یَشۡهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِٱللَّغۡوِ مَرُّوا۟ كِرَامࣰا }

 

[Surah Al-Furqān: 72]

 

“And those who do not engage in acts of deceit and when they pass by futile acts, they pass be gracefully [without participating]”

 

[Surah Furqan, verse: 72]

 

Muhammad ibn Al Hanafiyyah (rahimahullah) states that ‘acts of deceit’ refers to futile acts and music

 

[Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Surah Furqan, verse: 72]

 

Proofs from Ahadeeth:

 

1) Messenger of Allah peace be upon him said:

 

قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَامِرٍ ـ أَوْ أَبُو مَالِكٍ ـ الأَشْعَرِيُّ وَاللَّهِ مَا كَذَبَنِي سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ ‏ "‏ لَيَكُونَنَّ مِنْ أُمَّتِي أَقْوَامٌ يَسْتَحِلُّونَ الْحِرَ وَالْحَرِيرَ وَالْخَمْرَ وَالْمَعَازِفَ، وَلَيَنْزِلَنَّ أَقْوَامٌ إِلَى جَنْبِ عَلَمٍ يَرُوحُ عَلَيْهِمْ بِسَارِحَةٍ لَهُمْ، يَأْتِيهِمْ ـ يَعْنِي الْفَقِيرَ ـ لِحَاجَةٍ فَيَقُولُوا ارْجِعْ إِلَيْنَا غَدًا‏.‏ فَيُبَيِّتُهُمُ اللَّهُ وَيَضَعُ الْعَلَمَ، وَيَمْسَخُ آخَرِينَ قِرَدَةً وَخَنَازِيرَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ‏"‏‏.‏

رواه البخاري

“Soon there will be people from my Ummah who will regard adultery, wearing silk garments, wine and musical instruments as lawful…’

 

[Sahih Bukhari -Ta’liqan- بصيغة الجزم, Hadith: 5590, Sahih Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 6754 and As Sunanul Kubra of Imam Bayhaqi, vol. 10 pg. 221]

 

2) Another hadith Prophet peace be upon him said:

 

وعن أنس بن مالك رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: صوتان ملعونان في الدنيا والآخرة: مزمار عند نعمة ورنة عند مصيبة

رواه البزار ورواته ثقات

- ابن حجر الهيتمي، قال في الزواجر: ورواته ثقات

 

“Two types of sounds are cursed in this world and in the Hereafter, Musical instruments when expressing happiness over a bounty and wailing when a calamity befalls”

 

[Musnadul Bazzar, Hadith: 7513, with a reliable chain. Refer: Targhib, vol. 4 pg. 350 and Majma’uz Zawaid, vol. 3 pg. 13]

 

عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، قَالَ سَمِعَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ، مِزْمَارًا - قَالَ - فَوَضَعَ أُصْبُعَيْهِ عَلَى أُذُنَيْهِ وَنَأَى عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ وَقَالَ لِي يَا نَافِعُ هَلْ تَسْمَعُ شَيْئًا قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لاَ ‏.‏ قَالَ فَرَفَعَ أُصْبُعَيْهِ مِنْ أُذُنَيْهِ وَقَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَسَمِعَ مِثْلَ هَذَا فَصَنَعَ مِثْلَ هَذَا ‏

رواه ابو داود صحيح الالباني

 

3) And Once Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) heard a musical instrument being played. He placed his fingers in his ears and veered off to one side of the road. He then asked Nafi’: ‘Can you hear anything’? Nafi’ replied: ‘No’. He then took his fingers out of his ears and said: I was with,Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), and he also did the same when he heard a musical instrument being played.

 

[Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith: 4924. Declared authentic (sahih) by Hafiz Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 693]