Is Music Haram?

Music is haraam, but there is halal music too. Some music from Yusuf Islam, some anasheed, music which does not have bad language, which does not have instruments except for the duff, are halal. All of the other instruments are haraam, they are haraam because it is hypnotic, addictive and they have a way of sneaking into the heart and taking a hold of it in a way that 10 years from now you have forgotten the song but if you hear two or three notes from the song you will remember the whole thing, this is where the addiction comes from, Prophet (ﷺ) said that people will make these instruments halal meaning that they are not halal.

There are good things that can replace this, like there is plenty of halal music, but Satan does exactly what he did to Adam and eve (عليهم السلام) i.e., tempting them to eat from the forbidden tree, big question is was that the only tree in paradise, no there were many other trees, in fact paradise was full of trees but there was only one tree in the middle which was not halal for them and Allah said don’t eat from it, Satan came to Adam and eve and he told them that one bad tree is the best tree in the whole of paradise, if you eat from this tree you will become kings and will live forever, so this was the trick of Satan, he fools them to think that one bad tree was the good tree, this is what he is doing now, all the bad things in our list like foul language, swear words which are only a few but you leave the thousands of good words and focus on the bad words because Satan tricks you into thinking that these are the cool words your friends are saying so you should say them too, so this is part and parcel of Satan’s plan to seem the haraam things pleasing to us although there are so many halal things to do.