THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum As-Sabt. 25th day of Jumaadal Awwal. (Saturday 9th January 2021).

HOW GIVING UP MUSIC MADE ME MORE PRODUCTIVE. BismilLah. 

Let's finalise from yesterday's Reminders;

So here are the benefits I got from giving up music. Quality of prayer significantly improving.

A friend of mine said that salah is a barometer for a persons life. It accurately indicates your relationship with ALLAH. If your salah is good, then everything else is good. Even if you are going through obstacles, as long as you have your salah that you are performing with sincerity and humility, your eeman will be your strength. However when I listened to music, I found that it became stored in my heart and mind like data, only to be played out when I was talking to my Lord.

You know those times when you’re praying and everything is silent, and in the back of your mind, a song is replaying over and over which makes it hard to concentrate… You get onto your third raka’ah and you’re like “wait is this the third or fourth raka’ah?” It made my salah feel like basic physical yoga rather than a conversation with my Lord. A little something like this:

For me that stopped after giving up music. I was no longer feeding my soul what could be considered audio pornography, instead I was feeding it with Qur’an and beneficial knowledge. If you want to remember ALLAH in your prayer, remember HIM more outside of your prayer, and letting go of music really helps I discovered.

This was probably the biggest benefit to my giving up music because developing a stronger relationship with the Qur’an helped me be more connected with ALLAH than ever before.

Rather than replacing the music with silence, I replaced it with the Qur’an and Islamic lectures so that I would be learning more about my deen.

Even if you are someone who doesn’t have strong eeman, seeking to learn more about deen pushes you closer to our Creator. It’s really strange but the more connected with ALLAH  I’ve become, the less appealing dunya appears  to me. There are many other benefits I gained and to gain when you get closer to ALLAH. May ALLAH keep guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.