I have gone through: music is haram, it's not! It's only not liked, It's haram! Constantly in this community. I wanna know the TRUE deal.
Right now, my current view is: It's not haram. It doesn't explicitly state it in the Qur'an but rather Sunni hadith interpretations. In which, Muhammad literally stopped Abu Bakr from scolding 2 girls playing a drum.
Hanbalis believe that the drum-type they were playing isn't haram since Muhammad allowed it but it was still making "music".
That would be a contradiction of Sunni hadith, but do I or we follow Sunni interpretations? No! We are ones with Ali.
I know immediately you are rushing to the comments, but let me get my points straight:
No. 1 Quran 31:6
"And among the people is he who buys idle talk (lahw al-hadith) to mislead from the path of Allah…" Many state that this verse is why we shouldn't listen to music, but it quite literally does not state anything about music explicitly. Rather it says we shouldn't listen to blabber talk that misleads us from Allah.
No. 2 I don't believe All music is Halal.
Some of the music I've heard makes me feel disgusted and distracted from Allah, and therefore, I don't listen to it. It's that simple.
TLDR;
- not all music is equal
- Qur’an is not explicit
- context matters
- spirituality matters
- Shi’a methodology differs from Sunni methodology
- Hussain