Assalamu alaikum,
Brothers, sisters,
Our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa salam said, "Aid your brother to victory whether an oppressor or oppressed." The companions said, "We understand why we would aid our brother to victory if he were oppressed, but how could we do that when he is the oppressor?"
He sallallahu alayhe wa salam told them to aid the oppressor to victory by stopping him from committing this oppression.
Brothers and sisters, it is not new news to anyone of you that music is forbidden in Islam. The Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa salam said of music and singing, "Verily, singing makes hypocrisy grow in the heart in the same manner that water makes plant grow."
The Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa salam condemned music and singing and informed us that there will be among the ummah those who will be turned into swine and apes because of their engaging in such prohibited actions.
Brothers and sisters, Allah is free from being associated with music, especially that he has repudated singers as those diverted from guidance as stated in the Quran, "
And among people is he who purchases idle talk to become diverted from Allah's path."
According to tasfir of Ibn Katheer, there is consensus that the term 'idle talk' in this verse is referring to singers.
Brothers and sisters,
if you care about Yusuf Islam then pass this message to him. Help him see the danger of what he's doing and the path to which this is leading him to.
Brothers and sisters,
Your love of Allah and His messenger should come before your love for anyone else in this world. Thus, just because you love Yusuf Islam and he has started listening to music again, does not mean that you follow him.
You answer to Allah alone. You imitate the Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa salam.
Just because Yusuf Islam, may Allah guide him, turned back to music, does not mean that you engage in that too.
Fear Allah, brothers and sisters, and help one another in righteousness.
I ask Allah to keep us all in a straight path.
Assaalamu alaikum
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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