Re: [IslamCity] OPIN: Yusuf Islam: 'Music is part of God's universe'
Assalama alikum wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Thanks for this nice reply about Yosuf Islam
We badly need to be reminded of this hadith "Aid your brother to victory whether an oppressor or oppressed."
May Allah help us all follow the right path till end.
The thing is that we should follow the right path even ifno body else is following it."F. Saad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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Re: [IslamCity] OPIN: Yusuf Islam: 'Music is part of God's universe'
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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(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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[IslamCity] OPIN: Yusuf Islam: 'Music is part of God's universe'
'Music is part of God's universe' Yusuf Islam was deported from America for being a 'security threat'. How, he asks Nigel Williamson, could they get him so wrong? Tuesday March 29, 2005The Guardian 'Music is a lady that I still love'... Yusuf Islam. Photo: Eamonn McCabeYusuf Islam doesn't look like a threat to anyone's national security. As he bounds into the room dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt, he looks strikingly like a slightly older version of the gentle singer-songwriter we used to know as Cat Stevens. And yet, in September last year he was escorted off a flight from London to Washington and grilled by the FBI, which then deported him as a security threat. Since then, he has been wrongly accused of supporting terrorist groups by the Sunday Times and the Sun, who were last month forced to pay damages. "Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to," he grumbled after the out-of-court settlement. The newspapers apologised, but there has been no contrition or apology on the part of the US government. "They still haven't even given me a satisfactory explanation," he says with a shake of his beard. He was on his way to Nashville to discuss "musical ideas" with a record company when he was refused entry and he would like to return. "But I'm not begging to go back until they sort it out and give me an apology. It's scary how wrong they can get it." Then, with more emollience, he adds: "But all things can be forgiven if we can progress." For fans clinging to memories of Cat Stevens, perhaps the most remarkable thing about this story is that it hinges on "musical ideas". For more than 20 years, Yusuf Islam and Cat Stevens have been estranged. He didn't just stop making records after releasing his 1978 album Back to Earth: he sold his guitars, disowned his past and became the most zealous of converts. It was as if he was trying to deny Cat Stevens had ever existed. Yusuf and Cat first cautiously shook hands in 1999, when for the first time since his "retirement", he endorsed a new collection of his greatest hits. Since then it's been a step-by-step process back to full musical health. Shortly after 9/11, he sang an a cappella version of Peace Train by video link to the charity concert in New York for the victims. It was the first time he had performed a Cat Stevens song in public in almost a quarter of a century. Then he penned some affectionate liner notes for a box set of his old songs. Further charity performances followed for Bosnian refugees and Nelson Mandela's Aids charity. Late last year he appeared on stage with a guitar for the first time since the 1970s at a Darfur benefit. There was also a re-recording with Ronan Keating of his classic Father Son. And now, at last, there is a new single: Indian Ocean, the first song he has composed since he retired from music in 1978. A six-minute epic inspired by the tsunami tragedy, it boasts all the melodic facility of old and the yearning of his voice remains unmistakable. It was released this week as a download only; one of a batch of new songs, if it's well received, an album will follow. Even so, he is reluctant to talk in terms of a comeback. "No, it's not the return of Cat Stevens," he laughs. "But I've re-examined my past body of work and you can call it a rejuvenation. It's a natural _expression_ of my concern as a Muslim and as an artist. I believe both can exist side by side, particularly when the cause is right." We meet in a south London studio where he's rehearsing a semi-autobiographical musical called Moonshadow, based on the songs that in his 1970s heyday provided the soundtrack to broken hearts in bedsits across the land. It's immediately evident that something has changed in him. Although the beard is still worn mullah-length, he looks younger without the Islamic garb we have grown accustomed to seeing. His demeanour is different, too: his eyes twinkle and his conversation is regularly punctuated with laughter. As one of his colleagues says, he has learned to "lighten up". And with that has come a return to music. "I don't think I ever actually said music was blasphemous. But I needed that break. I had to get away from the business because I didn't want it to divert me from my chosen path. I found what I was looking for and the Koran gave me the answer to the big questions in life. It would have been hypocritical to go on as before and be a phoney imitation of myself. But I never said I'd never make music again. It was just that there were a lot of other things I had to get on with in my life." Born Steven Dimitri Georgiou to a Greek restaurateur and a Swedish mother in 1947, he grew up in London's West End and went to a Roman Catholic school in Drury Lane. He had his first hit, I Love My Dog, in 1966; his record covers of the time depicted a
