I listen to lots of Hip Hop and watch
MTV Cribs hey MTV Cribs just talked
about that I can't seem to focus on
getting close to God what's your advice
stop watching MTV Cribs and don't listen
to hip-hop uh it's probably a good start
um okay I don't have uh bias against any
particular culture or uh genre of music
etc etc though I have you know strong uh
objections to music per se though
there's some scholarly discussion about
it but I will show you what I'm
convinced of I think nowadays music is
probably one of the easiest means to
lose your moral
sense it is music is audio pornography
today that's what it is it's explicit
it's Shameless it's vulgar it takes your
sense of humanity away from you it makes
you look at women as objects worse than
objects worse than animals just as and
these people are talking about women
like they're talking about you know uh
an animal really it it objectifies women
and especially I've noticed a lot of the
brothers that I know of Muslims that are
really into the hip-hop scene and
they're kind of doing the hi of the the
song right they're memorizing the song
and they're really good at reciting it
with perfect T too right and so they
they do that and it's just horrible
language horrible horrific horrific
language you know the only simple
response I have to that if you have any
regard for the book of Allah that you
really think it's from
Allah even the name the mention the word
word of something the word for something
bad is terrible once you have faith even
the mention of something terrible is is
horrible for you it's harmful for you
after you have faith you have to have a
clean tongue you have to say
what tell my slaves to say that which is
the best say what is the best say good
things from your mouth so this is the
first thing when you say horrible things
and you say things that are in direct
contradiction to the moral gauge Allah
gifted us with then obvious L you're
you're you're deviating from your
natural F your predisposition to turn to
Allah and when you constantly you know
listen to garbage like that then you get
deviated and you don't find pleasure
except in Disobedience to Allah and
that's the sign of a sick heart so one
has to distance themselves from this
this is the first step and I I'll tell
you what this is my personal measure
this is not a fatwa this it's my
personal analysis you don't have to take
it but if a person finds listening to
the Quran annoying after they've been
listening The Hip Hop and this and that
for a long time and as soon as somebody
puts the Quran on in the car you know
what they say oh man turn that off man I
don't want to I just want to talk and
they immediately they they get a little
annoyed when they hear the Quran that
actually means the sh have taken over
and they're constantly making Wasa to
this person cuz what do the hate the
most they hate the Quran they hate the
word of Allah they they Fleet it hurts
them so you know what they do they
because this person has let the the
Devils into his heart they start
pinching at his heart when he hears
Quran and he says I don't want to hear
this right it's like Sur it's like
pulling a tooth for this person this
happens when you try to give this person
a reminder from Allah's word they get
annoyed by it like agitated like an
allergic reaction why because they've
let the in to let them out the first
thing you got to do is stop supplying
them with fuel this is fuel this useless
wasting of time this is fuel for Shan
they love that you waste your time they
love it because the the one asset the
one piece of wealth Allah gave every
human being this time and what is music
and TV and YouTube and Facebook and
Myspace and like Twitter and whatever
else if you're spending hours and hours
and hours on this stuff what is it
except destroying your time it's taking
that one asset away from you Shan would
love nothing more may Allah subhana T
give you the strength to get away from
these Temptations my advice that I keep
going over I can't get enough of giving
this advice find better friends find
company that is not into these things
and try to spend more time with them and
in you'll wean yourself off of these
abits