Is Listening To Music Haram Or Maqruh?
Surah Aaraaf – 7:33 describes prohibitions except food (edible). In edible items, alcohol is prohibited by name in Quran. From there we derived that anything edible, injectable or breathable, such as drugs is prohibited because it gives the same or worse impact as alcohol. Fast music is consumed through skin and ears and have similar impact as alcohol in terms of impacting clear thinking. Why would this not be prohibited?
Last question on this matter from me I promise (I apologize if I’m getting on anyone’s nerves by asking too many questions 😅):- What if there is a purely polytheistic song or a song with a bad message which would clearly forbidden and we were with the help of software or somehow remove the lyrics and just enjoy the instrumental tune. That should be fine right? There is that one Sahih Hadith where the prophet (saw) stopped some girls singing as they said something along the lines “and there is a prophet among us who knows what will happen tomorrow”. He just stopped them from saying things along those lines and told them not to convey such messages again before telling them to play on and continue singing.