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Nothing. It is a Song. He is a Singer. Nasheeds are not from Islam. People must remember this.
My advice is to listen to the Quran.
One must remember that these Nasheeds and songs are not "Islamic songs". They are just songs sung by people about Islam or on this theme. Most of whom do so for money and spend their time doing this.
Many "Nasheeds" have problems. Some people concentrate on the music in them, like piano, guitar etc, but this is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem are those songs that contain incorrect lyrics. Those that say incorrect things about Allah and about the Prophet
. Sufi songs.
People often spend a lot of time listening nasheeds and not listening to the Quran.
The Sahaba and early Muslims only listened or read Nasheed when they went for battle or long journeys. Those nasheed were akin to advanced Arabic poetry. The lyrics were those based on Quran and Sunnah.
Infact, they tended to see men who sang songs as effeminate. They were laughed at. Only women sang in those days!!
Basic Nasheed are OK for children to listen to as it benefit them. Many of the scholars would write and read nasheed for their children, such as shaykh Ibn Uthaimeen Rahimahullah.
Today, we have phenomenon of people attending concerts and listening to these popstars singing about their wives etc. You even have grown Muslim women screaming and cheering at male singers on stage. It is ridiculous and very ignorant. Even people place some sort of rank on these singers and compare them to Scholars of Islam. Yet, these singers dont know much about Islam, how can they when they spend all their time singing?
People should read Quran,
memorise Quran (another thing that people are failing to do), busy their time with learning Islam rather than spending too much on listening to songs. Whether Islamic or not. We have A LOT of work to do!! Leave the Nasheeds for children or if you do listen, to a minimum.
A lot of scholars they say it is allowed, but as long as it is without music and without bad lyrics. However, these days people dont know what is and what is not correct in the nasheeds.
Nearly everyone listens to the Sufi Burdah song, which starts like "salli wa salim ala ali muhamadin...
Qasidah Burdah - The Cloak of Love or Ignorance?
NASHEED please READ
Others even say it is totally haram to listen to nasheed.
Even if you do not understand Arabic, LISTEN to the Qur'aan. It is the word of Allah,
nothing can compare to it everrrrr.. How sad it is that people will listen to an effeminate man with such strange English and not to the Quran.
You may not like what I say, but most of these singers (Sami Yusuf) would not have sold any music if it wasnt for the lucrative wishy washy Muslim market. His song have mistakes in aqeedah as he mixes his Sufi teachings into it. For example, in his song he calls upon the Prophet Muhammad
. The Prophet
was the best of mankind and we love him dearly, but, we know that he was human being. He died. He can not hear us or our prayers. We should always direct our prayers to Allah alone! - When someone does not do this and calls upon the Prophet
or to anyone else, this is Shirk. (associating partners with Allah). Mr Sami Yusuf and many other singers do the same mistake.
Asking Help and Calling upon Other Than Allah is Shirk
So, we should be stronger, using each minute of our time to do good. Reading, Learning and telling our family and friends and others around us what we learn and do. For Islam is our life, we are weak because of mishy mashy things like this. Now, we have Islamic conferences and they spend 2 out of 3 days singing songs!!! THe rest of the time spent with people listening to ignorant people, politicians and other nonsense.
Its time for us to do our best as Ummah, education... Look at the time of the early Muslims, how they studied and how we are today. We are so far from that. Allah help us all.
wasalaam