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‘These are the words of someone who fully understood singing & its effects = for no one regularly sings or listens to song except that his heart falls i= nto nifaq without him realising.

If such a person understood the reality of nifaq & its end he would see it = in his own heart.

Never do the love of song & the love of Qur’an come together in a person’s = heart except that one expels the other.

I & others have witnessed how heavy the Qur’an feels to singers & song-list= eners; how they coil when it is recited & 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 move= d to do anything by it.

But when the Qur’an of Shaytan comes, la ilaha ill-Allaah!

How they lower their voices & settle down!

How their hearts feel at peace & how the crying & emotions start, how moved=  they are inwardly & outwardly & spend on clothing & perfume & staying up h= oping for a long night ahead.

If this is not nifaq then it is certainly the way to it & its foundation.’

Imaam ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah [d.751H]
Madarij as-Salikin, vol.1, p. 487