Please i need urgent help!! guitar in islam?

Question

Please i need help. i want to buy a guitar, but i want to know if it is haram. Most muslim scholars say it is haram for the reason that it takes you away from religion. If it doesn't, then is it haram? Are there any quranic verses that say it is haram?

Answer 1

i dont think so,  

Answer 2

i have islamic but im not sure to this subject

Answer 3

peoples in indonesia are playing guitar freely, no matter islam or christian.

halal and haram...

makes me confused.

Answer 4

The guitar is a descendent of the Oud - a Middle Eastern instrument from antiquity and played by many, many devout Muslims.

Music is one of the ways to reach the holiest of holies.  Play guitar, make music and rejoice!

Answer 5

Just play your guitar and dont worry about it.

Answer 6

Proof from the Qur'an and Sunnah

1st Proof from the Qur'an

"But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a humiliating Penalty." [31:6]

Ibn Abbas (radhi Allahu anh) said idle tales in this verse "lahu al hadith" is evil and music.

Mujahid (rahimahu Allah) said idle tales in this verse "lahu al hadith" was the drum.

Hassan AlBasri said this verse was revealed about music and musical instruments. Alsady included in this evil talk and musical instruments.

Ibn al Qayyim (rahimahu Allah) said, "The interpretation of the sahabah (companions) and Tabi3een (their followers) of idle tales in this verse "lahu al hadith" is sufficient in that it means music.

Abu Alsahbaa' said I asked Ibn Masoood about Allah's verse. He said, "Wallahi the one and only one its music - repeating it three times." (this is authentic in being attributed to Ibn Masood and Ibn Abbas)

Ibn Umar (radhi Allahu anh) also said it means Music.

Therefore, if you take time to observe around you you will see that music is a path to adultery and fornication. It plants the seed of hypocrisy, the seed of polytheism. When people turn to music, like it and get addicted to it, it becomes the alcohol of the mind. One turns away from the Qur'an more than anything else once their hearts become addicted to music.

Allah says, "..for such there will be a humiliating Penalty ." for those who replaces the Qur'an with idle tales.

2nd Proof from the Qur'an

"Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice, make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them. "But Satan promises them nothing but deceit." 17:64

Mujahid (rahimahu Allah) said, "..and his voice is music and evil."

Ibn al Qayyim (rahimahu Allah) said, "everyone who speaks in disobedience to Allah and or user of musical instruments, flute, haram duff, drums is the voice of the shaytan."

3rd Proof from the Qur'an:

"Do ye then wonder at this recital? And will ye laugh and not weep. Wasting your time in vanities?" 53: 59-61

Ikrimah (rahimahu Allah) said Ibn Abbas said Sumood in the verse mean music; when you say "usmud lana" it means sing to us.

He said they used to when they heard the Qur'an sing, so Allah revealed the verse.

Ibn Katheer (rahimahu Allah) said in his tafseer under this verse, Sufyan Althawry narrated that his father heard Ibn Abbas say "usmud" for us means sing for us.

Proof from the Sunnah

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1st Proof from the Sunnah:

The prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) said "There will be in my Ummah those who make it halal (permissible) adultery/fornication, silk, alcohol and musical instruments."

This hadith shows that music is haram through two avenues:

a. The prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) mentioned that they will make permissible, meaning it is haram/prohibited and they will make it permissible. Note all the examples in the hadith are issues that are haram.

b. The prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) combined the musical instruments with that which is decisively haram like adultery/fornication and alcohol. Had music not been prohibited then it would not have been combined to that which is prohibited.

Had there not been other than this hadith to show music was haram it would have been enough.

Sheikh Al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahu Allah) said this hadith proves musical instruments to be haram and "ma3azif" (the term in the hadith is a term used for all musical instruments.)

Then, he went on to say of those who play music or listen to it in the name of Islam, "And know that in the first three centuries whether in Arabian Peninsula, Sham, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, or Khurasan there were none of those who were religious and righteous of worshippers who gather to listen to music whether with a duff, clappings or flute. And, it was done after the first three centuries, when the imams saw this, they refuted it."

2nd Proof from the Sunnah:

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Nafe3 (rahimahu Allah) said Ibn Umar heard a musical instrument so he (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) placed his fingers in his ears and walked away from the area and said, "Nafe3 can u hear anything?" I said, "No!" He took his fingers out of his ears and said, "I was with the prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) and he heard like this and did as I did."

Some claim this hadith is not proof on the prohibition of musical instruments because had it been haram the prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) would have plugged his ears and ordered Ibn Umar to do so, and Ibn Umar would have ordered Nafe3 to do that as well.

The reply to that is there is a difference between "sama3" and "istima3" "Sama3" is to unintentionally hear music and "Istima3" is to purposely listen to music or go in a setting where there is music. Here, Ibn Umar and the prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) did not purposely listen and neither did did Nafe3.

Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahu Allah) said, "What one does not intend of listening to is not haram as all scholars agree. Therefore, the prohibition or reward is based on whether it's istima3 or sama3. Someone who purposely listen to Qur'an "istima3" will get reward; yet another who listens accidentally (or not wanting or seeking) does not get reward. The same applies to musical instruments. Listening to it unintentionally and without seeking it will not hurt him.

Ibn Qudamah AlMaqdise (rahimahu Allah) said that Ibn Umar (radhi Allahu anhuma) did not intend to listen since he was just a passer-by and the prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) walked away from that street. He (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) would not have came back had he not known the music ended and neither would he have taken his fingers out of his ears. Therefore, it was necessary for Ibn Umar (radhi Allahu anhuma) not to place his fingers in his ears to let the prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) know when the music ended.

3rd Proof from the Sunnah:

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The prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) walked with Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf in between pine trees. The prophet (sallah allahu alieh wasalam) then placed his son Ibrahim on his lap and began to cry. Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf said, "Oh prophet of Allah do you cry when you stop us from crying?" He said, "I did not deter you from crying. I deterred you from two evil sinful voices - a voice with musical devilish instruments and a voice at a misery with scraping of the face and shredding of the clothe."

Saying of the Imams Regarding Music

1. The Madhab of Imam Abu Hanifa:

The Madhab of Imam Abu Hanifa is among the most critical and harshest quotes on music. Imam Abu Hanifa's students clearly declared musical instruments haram and anyone who listens to it is considered a fasiq whose testimony is not accepted.

Some went on to say that listening to music is fisq (astray) and enjoying it is kufr. They used weak hadith to support that statement.

They also said one must strive not to listen to it if he passes by it or if its near him.

Abu Yusuf, one of Abu Hanifa's most famous teachers, said, "A house that music is heard from can be raided without permission because ordaining the good and forbidding the evil is fard, and if we require permission for entry in such situation then people would not be able to perform the fard of forbidding the evil."

2. The Madhab of Imam Malik:

Imam Malik (rahimahu Allah) was asked about those who play the drums and flute and those who enjoy listening to it as one passes by.

He said one must get up and leave unless he is sitting for something extremely urgent or cannot get up. If he hears it in his pathway then he should go back or speed forward.

He said music is something the fusooq (astray) do.

Ibn Abdal Bar (rahimahu Allah) said scholars agree by ijma3 on the issue of riba, that the dowry of the prostitution is taking payment for weeping over the dead, forturne tellers those who claim to know unforeseen and news of the skies, musical instruments, and all wrongful play.

3. The Madhab of Imam Shafi'i:

His students and those truly knowledgeable of his madhab clearly declared music and musical instruments haram and denied that he ever said it was halal.

The author of "Kifayat al Akbar", who is a Shafi'i scholar, considered musical instruments an evil that needed to be forbidden upon those who hear or see it. He said that a person is not excused if scholars who go with the flow are present (make a fatwa for it) or if they are poor (meaning the Sufis as that was one of their names back then). Because they are ignorant followers of everyone who barks. They never follow the brightness of knowledge but bend to every wind.

4. The Madhab of Imam Ahmad:

Imam Ahmad's son, Abdullah, asked his father about music. His father said, "It grows hypocrisy within one's heart and I dislike it."

Answer 7

just live your life who cares what other think of you

Answer 8

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Answer 9

whats got to do with having a guitar with islam. musical instruments are not forbidden nor making music also

Answer 10

As per hadith, musical instruments are haram. It does not really matter your perception of whether it takes you away from religion or not.

Answer 11

No of course its not haram. You should know better than to trust muslim scholars because most of them are corrupt.

Music is an art embraced by all religions and those who say its forbidden are crazy. Did you know that the prophet Mohammed used to listen to the oud (Arabic lute)? And in case you haven't noticed, Quranic verses are always recited in an organized musical rhythm. So its almost safe to say that Islam is based on music!

Music is life.

Answer 12

i tell u every thing u don't find in Quran but u find in hadith (true hadith) but u

want to make a reason for guitar it is not permisseble in Islam muisic is haram in Islam if u want to say pop music or sufi music Islam reply music

in music popmusic and sufi music too if u want to buy guitarit is ur wish not Islam wish once prophet(swa) said hajj is farz on u in life time a shahaba

asked every ear prophet(swa) keep silent that shahabi asked three time prophet(swa) keep silent after that he said that if i say this will be compulsary for u and u will have not power and he said to shahaba not for q.more and more so u can not say any thing music is haram so guitar is haram