• THE QUESTION OF MUSIC AND SINGING
• THE ARGUMENTS OF THE MODERNIST JUHHAAL
• THE STATEMENTS AND PRACTICES OF SOME AULIYA
• THE ARGUMENTS OF THE LEGALIZERS
• THE MODERNIST ATTITUDE
• A SUMMARY OF THE NARRATIONS OF PERMISSIBILITY
• THE EVIDENCE OF THE QUR’AAN
• THE EVIDENCE OF THE HADITH
• THE STATEMENTS OF THE SAHAABAH
• THE SALF-E-SAALIHEEN, MUSIC AND SINGING
• THE RULINGS OF THE FUQAHA
• MORE RULINGS OF THE FUQAHA
• THE DUFF
• THE YARAA’
• DUFF, MIZHAR AND GHIRBAAL
• SUMMARY OF THE FOUR MATH-HABS
• THE SAMA’ (SINGING) OF SOME OF THE AULIYA
• THE SAMA’ OF THE AULIYA IS NOT DALEEL
• THE SAMA’ OF THE SUFIYA
• THE ARBITRATOR
• THE TAUBAH OF THE AULIYA
• THE SHAAFI PERMISSIBILITY
• THE HANAFI MATH-HAB
• ABROGATION OF THE DUFF’S PERMISSIBILITY
• SINGING AND THE AHAADITH
• THE ONE WHO LISTENS TO SAMA’
• THE SPIRITUAL DANGERS OF SAMA’
• THE DECEPTION OF DHAEEF AHAADITH
• RATIONAL ARGUMENTS
• THE FINAL WORD
• THE WAY IN A CONFLICT
• THE SUMMARY OF THIS DISCUSSION
• CONCLUSION

THE ONE WHO LISTENS TO SAMA’

According to those true Auliya who participated in sama’ without musical instruments, there are stringent conditions for this permissibility. Hadhrat Shaikh Abu Abdur Rahmaan Salmi (rahmatullah alayh) said:“It is essential for those who listen to sama’ that their hearts be alive and their nafs dead. Sama’ is not permissible for him whose heart is dead and nafs alive.”

Commenting on this statement, Hakimul Ummat says:“From the predominance of attributes will it be understood whether the heart and nafs are alive or dead. The life-giving attributes of the heart are Ilm (knowledge of the Deen), Yaqeen (unshakeable faith), Shukr (gratitude), Sabr (patience), Thikr (Remembrance of Allah), Khashiyat (Fear for Allah), Muhabbat (love, Taadhu’ (humility), Ikhlaas (sincerity), etc. The attributes of the nafs are shahwat (lust), ghadab (anger), kibr (pride), bughdh (malice), jaah (love of fame), hasad (envy), etc.

Everyone is able to understand whose heart is alive and nafs dead, and whose heart is dead and nafs alive. One should with justice decide whether the conditions of permissibility to listen to sama’ exist in one or not.”

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