‘Abdullah b. Mas’ûd –
Allah be pleased with him – said:
Singing sprouts
hypocrisy (nifâq) in the heart as water sprouts greens and herbs.
Ibn Battah, Al-Ibânah Al-Kubrâ Vol.2 p469, and Al-Bayhaqî, Al-Sunan Al-Kubrâ Vol. 52 p231.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzîyah –
Allah have mercy on him – said in Madârij
Al-Sâlikîn, Vol.1 p487:
These are the words of
someone who fully understood singing and its effects, for no one regularly
sings or listens to song except that his heart falls into nifâq without him
realizing. If such a person understood the reality of nifâq and its end he
would see it in his own heart. Never do the love of song and the love of Qur`ân
come together in a person’s heart except that one expels the other. I and
others have witnessed how heavy the Qur`ân feels to singers and song-listeners;
how they coil when it is recited and how they get angry with a reciter when he
recites too long for them (in prayer etc);
and how their hearts do not benefit from what he recites: they are not moved to
do anything by it. But when the Qur`ân of Shaytân comes, lâ ilâha illallâh! How they
lower their voices and settle down! How their hearts feel at peace and how the crying and
emotions start, how moved they are inwardly and outwardly and spend on clothing
and perfume and staying up hoping for a long night ahead. If this is not nifâq
then it is certainly the way to it and its foundation.
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Source: https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/planting-nifaq/
