The Effect of Music - Hamza Yusuf

Islamic education

9/9/2024

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00:002.5 Hours Per Day

00:042.5 hours per day for teenagers in the United States listening to music.

00:092.5 hours per day.

00:11And as somebody who grew up in America,

00:14coming from a musical family,

00:16I have so many lyrics that I wish I could sue the people

00:21that took that space of my brain.

00:24Because I would much rather have other things in there.

00:29One in three popular songs now contain explicit references.

00:33You see, songs used to be like,

00:36if you go back to the 1940s and 30s,

00:39listen to the songs.

00:41Most of them were just simple lyrics,

00:43even in the 1950s.

00:46Teach your children well, their parents' hell did slowly go by.

00:50Don't ever ask them why if they told you you would cry,

00:53just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

00:55That's about parents, you know, sometimes you get bad parents.

00:58Just know that they still love you even though they're lousy parents.

01:01Those are the kind of lyrics.

01:03Now, you can't even listen to the lyrics,

01:06because they're so disgusting.

01:09They are so filthy.

01:11And Fakhruddin Al-Razi in his commentary says,

01:15about the verse in the Quran where shaitan is threatened

01:20that you will try to seduce them with your voice.

01:24He says, by giving them foul lyrics

01:27that their children will memorize and repeat.

01:30That's in Mufatih Al-Ghaib.

01:32That was in the 13th century.

01:35So what are we doing now? This is the khutuwat of shaitan.

01:38He's taking people by degrees.

01:40America used to be a relatively moral country.

01:43It used to have moral values.

01:46People used to go to church.

01:48They believed in God.

01:50They didn't use drugs by and large.

01:52It wasn't that long ago.

01:54Now you go there and one out of every four women

01:57has a venereal disease they can't get rid of.

02:01I'm not making this up.

02:03You can see research on this.

02:06HPV virus, it's a major problem in the United States

02:11causing cervical cancer, genital warts.

02:15These are real problems.

02:17And now they're promoting sexual behaviors that are pathogenic.

02:22You know, in America you have all these advertising

02:25against saturated fats.

02:27A Big Mac is not gonna kill you

02:30if you eat one of them.

02:32It'll do some damage, but it won't kill you.

02:35Even if you ate a hundred of them.

02:37It's gonna make you sick, but it's not gonna kill you.

02:40But one time of rectal intercourse

02:44can be a death sentence.

02:47One time.

02:48And yet in America they have all these ads

02:50warning people against saturated fats.

02:53And there's no ads warning them

02:55against deviant sexual behavior.

02:58Why is that?

02:59Because they're lobbies

03:02that say that that is hate speech.

03:06Why is that? It's not right.

03:08You should warn young people

03:10that you can get a venereal disease

03:12that you'll never get rid of.

03:13And as somebody who worked as an RN,

03:17I worked two years with a gastroenterologist,

03:20I saw firsthand the effects of rectal intercourse.

03:25And this is why it's prohibited for males on males

03:28or males on females.

03:30It's haram in our religion.

03:32It's not about homosexuality.

03:34It's simply about this sickness.

03:38Because if you do that,

03:40you will get very serious sicknesses.

03:43Your sphincter loses its control.

03:46One of the things, a miracle of the Prophet

03:48is he said that the people of Lut,

03:50they couldn't control their wind in their majalis.

03:52It's in the hadith that they used to pass wind

03:54because the sphincter is no longer doing its function

03:59because they've ruined the function

04:01by doing something that was never meant to be done.

04:05But they don't teach people this.

04:06They say, oh, it's normal, embrace yourself.

04:10The number of times an adolescent is exposed to

04:13explicit substance references, 35 per hour.

04:16They're listening to 2.5 hours a day, 35 per hour.

04:2184 per day, 591 per week

04:24being told about alcohol and drugs in these lyrics.

04:28These are the khutawat of shaitan.

04:3330,700 a year.

04:38References to drug or alcohol in songs.

04:41Pop, 9%. Rock, 14%.

04:44Hip-hop, R&B hip-hop, 20%.

04:47Country, 36%.

04:49Rap, 77%.

04:55And we've got all these kids listening to rap.

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