Therefore, know that songs have particular characteristics that sprouts the heart with hypocrisy causing just as water sprouts plants.
they distract the heart and prevent it from contemplating on, understanding, and acting in accordance with the Qur'an. This is because the Qur'an and songs can never coexist in one heart, since they are contradictory to each other. In fact, the Qur'an forbids pursuing vanities, ordains chastity, avoiding lusts and reasons leading to error and prohibits following the steps of Satan. Songs, on the other hand, encourage the very opposite of these virtues. Singing excites hidden lustful desires and entice people to do obscene acts. It also encourages unlawful bisexual and homosexual relationships. Its effect is identically like that of wine, in that both stir up lusts. In fact, singing is like a brother, deputy, ally and intimate friend of wine, between whom Satan concluded the covenant of unsolvable correlation. Moreover, it can be described as heart's spy, ardency stealer and mind licorice. To clarify, it penetrates heart passages to reach heart secrets and then occupies the imagination faculty from where it gets out whims, desires, vanities, flatness, frivolity,
,levity and foolsihness. You may see a man appearing to be full of dignity, wisom, delight of faith, solemnity of Islam and beauty of the Qur'an but once he listens to songs, his mind is disturbed, diffidence fades away, virility dwindles, delight vanishes, composure dies away, Satan becomes happy, faith complains about him to Allah and the Qur'an becomes inaccessible which thus, supplicates Allah (Exalted be He) not to make it coexist in one heart with the Qur'an of Allah's enemy. The man then deems good what he had deemed bad before listening to songs and starts to disclose the inner secrets of the soul. Staidness and calmness are then replaced by gossip, lying, ecstasy, and crackling fingers. The man then swings his head, shakes his shoulders, beats the ground with his feet, strikes his head, leaps like flies and turns like a beast moving a cartwheel. He then starts to clap hands as women do. Such a man may sometimes moan out of sadness and sometimes cry like a mad person.
An expert from among such listeners was truthful when he siad:
Do you remember the night when we gathered listening to good songs until morning? When the cup of songs was distributed among us and we were intoxicated without drinking. we felt nothing but the ecstasy full of joy that spread out there. When a caller to desires (singer) shouts out vanity soon becomes willing to come in. We then have nothing but our souls to sacrifice for the sake of eyes of the beautiful.
Some pious men said, "Listening to songs causes some people to be hypocrites, others to be stubborn, others to be liars, others to be selfindulgent and others to be frivolous."
The most likely effect of songs is loving imagery and deeming lewdness good. Moreover, being addicted to it makes reciting and specifically listening to the Qur'an unfavorable to the hearts. If this is not hypocrisy, what then should hypocrisy be? To further clarify this issue, singing is the Qur'an of Satan, as we will mention later, and thus, it may never coexist with the Qur'an in one heart. Moreover, the essence of hypocrisy is that someone's apparent practices differ from his inner intention. The practices of a lover of songs may fall within no more than two categories; either be brazenfaced, in which a case he will be an open profligate, or pretend to be pious, in which a case he will be a hypocrite. In the second case, such a person will show love for Allah (Exalted be He) and hoping the Last Day while his heart is full of desires and love of things disliked by Allah (Exalted be He) and His Messenger (peace be upon him), including the sounds made by musical instruments and other things excited by songs. The heart of such a person will, in fact, be occupied by such bad things and void of loving things that are loved by Allah (Exalted be He) and his Messenger (peace be upon him), which reflects pure hypocrisy.
Furthermore, belief consists of verbal expression and practice, i.e. pronouncing the truth and acting in obedience to Allah (Exalted be He) . This notion may only result from Dhikr (Remembrance of Allah) and recitation of the Qur'an. On the other hand, hypocrisy consists of saying falsehood and doing bad deeds which may result from songs. Besides, signs of hypocrisy are saying Dhikr scarcely, laziness to come and offer Salah (Prayer) and performing Salah so quickly, which are the most likely characteristics of all lovers of songs. In addition, hypocrisy is based on lying and singing consists the most lying poetry as it beautifies the ugly,