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As far as Imam Zaid Shakir he has talked music in this video towards at Imam Suhaib has made his views on music known through his website www. Therefore, there should be width in our dealing with it. The fact that we are putting it on MM here probono, shows that we respect their work and their contribution to the Chicago community.

No one can deny that. May Allah help them in spreading the good, and forgive them for their mistakes, because none of us are exempt from making them. Even if the musical acts that went up were within the realm of scholarly disagreement, I think THAT would be a hugely positive step. The law of God is the law of God. Could you tell me when is the next Akon concert coming to Chicago?

Akon is muslim; also note the internet sarcasm. Sisters in full hijab sitting in churches and singing hymns with the congregation. Muhajjaba sisters from Muslim countries telling converts not to wear hijab and to pretend as though they were still nonMuslim to draw in other nonMuslims. My wife remains close friends with one of the sisters told to do this. Those who are sincere will come because they are sincere and Allah wants to guide them, not because we failed to convince people.

Our job is simply to convey with what resources we have, not flip hearts. Allah knows best, our intention is to promote the good of the event.

Good points Siraaj… if I may add a couple of comments. This should NOT mean that if a sister does not wear hijab, she should be excluded from making dawah. The dawah would, Inshallah, help such a sister get closer to Allah.

By that reasoning, I should not be involved in dawah for all the fajrs I have missed. If that happens to reverts, what about people who are interested in Islam? Can we really tell them, straight off the bat, that if they accept Islam they will have to totally give up music? Of course, we start them off with learning to pray and helping them have a better and closer spiritual relationship with Allah first.

I think this is where the value of choosing a fiqh madhab shines because it removes the need for delving into esoteric fiqhi details when all the person really wants is to worship Allah. Middle Ground, there is a BIG difference between a woman not wearing proper hijaab who is giving dawah, and between some one who missed fajr and giving dawah. But in any case, a woman not wearing hijaab might be able to give dawah to other women, but to her to go out in public and give other men dawah without wearing proper hijaab, then that is not permissible on so many levels.

Siraaj, those minority of scholars who dispute the authenticity of this hadith in Bukhari are by no means scholars of hadith.

The only one who disputed the chain of that hadith in Bukhari was Ibn Hazm and only some of the modern people followed him blindly just because what he says serves their own purposes and opinions. Well this hadith has many chains which are recorded by other than Bukhari, and so the criticism of Ibn Hazm were about the chain of Bukhari only, not to mention that they were inaccurate because Ibn Hazm rahimahullah was not a scholar of hadith.

So either way, what they are doing is wrong, regardless of whether you have some fallacious fatwas which try to say that music is permissible. Amir MR. Abu Noor Al-Irlandee. Amir, I agree with your sentiment, but the truth is alhamdulillaah IMAN does get a lot of media coverage.

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