Fellow Muslims! One thing that saddens the zealous Muslim is to see his brothers in faith seeking happiness through means other than Islam, thereby treating their disease with poison instead of medicine and deluding themselves into believing that satiating their lustful desires will cure them of their ailments. An example of this is the obsession of many people today with listening to music and musical instruments; they justify this unenviable habit of theirs with baseless arguments and excuses. This evil deed is only promoted by those who are already afflicted with the blind following of their lustful desires and listening to shameless female singers. Our prophet Muhammad told us about these people when he said, "There will be some people among my nation who will regard fornication, wearing of silk (for men), drinking of intoxicants and stringed instruments as lawful." (Al-Bukhaaree and others)"Brothers in faith! Beware of things that lead to Allah's wrath. Appearance of music and stringed instruments is a cause of Allah's wrath and His chastisement. Aboo Maalik Al-Ash'aree narrated that the Messenger of Allah said, "There will be a group of people among my nation who will drink alcohol calling it by other names and upon their heads stringed instruments will be played and in their presence songstresses will sing, Allah will cause the earth to swallow them and He will turn them into monkeys and pigs."
“An example of this is the obsession of many people today with listening to music and musical instruments; they justify this unenviable habit of theirs with baseless arguments and excuses.”
Their argument is anything but “baseless,” for they had John Paul Jones.
yeah, yeah, but when Muslims start rappin’, I’m not listening. (not that I listen now)