Is unislamic or blasphemous music haram? | Mufti Abu Layth
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis haraam forbidden mubah mubaah sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice shirq mushrik mushrikin polytheism imaan eemaan eeman faith ilm al-kalam kalaam theology koran quraan al-quran ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadatvideo · 5:49 · 5,700 views · 4 Oct 2020 · Open on YouTube
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossarythe adele froze is speaking dilla froze bashi it has super chat you do in it with the super chat deal of rose uh thoughts on music which includes apparent blasphemy or shirk intel phrases like what's the other one
that i see the lord in you the shahrukh khan song the famous one or compliments to the lord son song it's permissible to listen to this kind of music it's not haram you know there's uh you see you have to understand that when people say like the song what's the lyric man that
that i see the lord in you this is not necessarily all where people say things like oh i would want to worship you in poetry and things like this this is not a kind of shirky kalam i mean people are going to say you're blagging a bit too much here this bring it no it is
in its apparent form there's words of shirk being used but that does not make something it comes down to the usage of words um the usage of terms and the the kind of social culture that exists so things people use things that they don't mean so people will say oh my god that ice cream was divine now that doesn't mean that they start worshiping the ice cream
but in in our culture this um people use things there's a culture there's a usage and in urdu as well there's this huge usage of the the beloved the beloved being kind of addressed as though they are the divine there is this hence in urdu they would in poetry they would refer to them as but especially the women refer to them as goddesses
and this is why the old classics of poetry you know the the dawns of uh like mead and even the harley abuses it but not as much but mead and soda and you know you're gonna get all of those clash uh the classic even allama iqbal will use it to some extent but they will use this term but or bhutan to mum in han moomin and these people to refer to beautiful women as goddesses but it wasn't really like statues of divinity
but everybody you know it doesn't mean that they're worshiping them and they knew that and everybody knew that and so it doesn't make it haram then because language is a it's a social construct you see words are how they are understood by people so similarly the term sanam in which refers to like deer or darling comes from the arabic word sonam idol which is worshiped aslam like in the quran sunnah the word in the quran is that word which is in urdu
means you know like somebody dear and and beloved to you like a darling so this it doesn't make it silk that oh my god that's kufur that's kufa so when people say oh look i see the lord in you as in i see his manifestation of the beauty that he has created in this world look at the iman at what the person is saying he's he's doing tadab he's like contemplating regarding the creation of god he's like he's doing
if this is the creation what must the creator be like [Laughter] that's what's uh that's what's really going on people that's what's really going on let me find it [Music] that's what's going on people so it's not shirk many of the ole man might say it is but that's just these control freaks who want to forbid everything you know if it's up to them everything but if you look at the hadith if you look at the hadith
uh the person the prophet says a person in exodus in an ecstatic state says to allah you are my slave and i am your lord you know life he says this out of this ecstatic jewish but it doesn't make the person having committed a sin or anything it's just that people say these kind of things cool all right let's move
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