life without music (my experience)

Hello from Japan. I'm a non-muslim and I was born and raised in the non-religious country, but I really can relate islamic teachings. I just started to learn about Islam. Most teachings are new for me but those are all so logicall. Thank you for sharing the idea.

"Music always takes me somewhere else, where the Quran makes me grateful to be where I am" woww you described that so well I have always felt this but could never put it into words. If I ever have a podcast I wld want you as a guest just to have these types of conversations with you.

81 days without music here. My head and heart feel much lighter and calmer Alhamdulillah. And I feel more drawn towards the Qur'an.

"it's not even about music, it's about depending on things. Depending on things that we don't have control over. And for us to be strong minded, and for us to achieve amazing heights in life, we have to learn to be independent of many things, including certain stimuli." I loved this podcast.

" Music always takes me somewhere else, where the Quran makes me greatful to be where I am "

i am not muslim and i’ve noticed the ways that us gen z are so uncomfortable with silence. girls in my dorm at school have to play music in order to shower. i’m not quitting music by any means but i do agree that it’s important to be conscious of how seemingly innocuous things can make us incapable of being in silence with our own thoughts

I think I have a music addiction and that it has severely affected my ability to focus on studying. This was so interesting to watch and a little validating

I wasn’t trying to quit music, i was just busy trying to get close to Allah and he gifted me with forgetting about music Humduli’Allah Allah truly is the most generous. I am so thankful to find music annoying now. Allah is the greatest and he keeps his promises. May Allah keep us on the deen and protect us from ego and shaytan.

Quitting music is a form of dopamine detox. The funny thing is that when you quit simple pleasures everything becomes more attractive sort of. And when your dopamine receptors come back to normal, that’s when you have to choose to get “hooked” on what you know is positive and productive. Doing what we have to do isn’t always fun. But when you give up everything else and give yourself no choice that’s when it becomes interesting, allowing you to finally enter flow.

Farah. I cant express how much you've helped me. 1 month ago, i saw this video the day after i quit music. Today, like the moment you had, i had a moment when i was listening to a Quran recording and everything changed. I dont think i wanna listen to anything ever again, it touched my heart like nothing else and i say this as someone who used to listen to music 24/7. In this past month, I've gotten so much closer with Allah, much closer than i ever have before. Thank you. So much.

im crying right now. i feel so nice to have someone share the same experience as me. im almost 18 rn and i left music in early 2021. i felt so alone. but i still persisted. i come from a family where music is very common and it was very difficult to stay firm because there were so many ways of slipping away but alhamdulillah Allah guided me. it was by far the most difficult thing i ever had done. i used to listen music on max volume in my earphones and feel the vibrations in my veins but when i stopped it i felt so empty. i did workouts without music, skipped all the songs part in movies, muted my instagram reels whenever a song was playing, played games without music, deleted my playlist...it just felt very different. at times i wished i could listen to music freely again but ive come so far with so much control i dont think i could ever go back. you are the first person i heard talk about this struggle so freely and realistically. i feel so heard and known. in the car i would force the radio off whenever my siblings put on songs, i would mute the songs playing in movies, i would tell them to mute their phones whenever they were watching a video that contained music, i stopped my parents from watching a singing talent show programme so in a way i kind of felt like a burden telling people do this dont do that and i even felt like a vibe killer. but i knew by doing this i would prevent others from sin as well because i would never ever want my loved ones to fall into sin and get punished for it. its also so difficult trying to explain to people why i took such a big decision...but alhamdulillah always <3

I’ve been feeling called to Islam and I’ve been watching many of your videos to try and see your perspective as a Muslim, and can I just say, wow. Your words ring so true to me. I came into this video thinking “that’s silly, how can music be bad for you? Cutting it out is so extreme” and here I am, at the end of the video, now thinking about how I can cut music down in my life. Your faith in Allah is beautiful, thank you for making these videos and introducing all these wonderful ideas to so many people

"Life isn't supposed to be feeling good all the time" ربي يجازيك كل خير.

I quit music after the episode and whenever I feel the urge to listen to music or when I feel emotionless when listening to Quraan I listen to this episode and know why I even started جزاك الله خيراً

Farah Farah Farah. You’ve NO idea how much I (just like alot of others here) needed this. Subhan’Allah. This video truly came as a sign. I quit music a little over two years ago but in the last few weeks I realised that i was slowly relapsing because how much i was getting exposed to music in my educational institutions. The guilt was gradually decreasing and i am afraid that i might actually have went back to listening fully to it astagfirullah. But this, right here, is exactly what I needed alhamdulillah. When i had first quit, I only listened to the Quran and it was amazing but then I slowly started listening to vocal versions of nasheeds and nasheeds where the music was produced with hand and now i feel like the latter was a mistake as it still gave me the feeling of listening to music despite being hand produced. In the last fee months I also started listening to vocals versions of bollywood songs, another mistake right there. But now i can clearly see where i went wrong and know what not to do. “Being tested by Allah is an honor,” yeah, this is going right to my wall. I have also been having really hard time because of various reasons but this reminder has made me look at those sufferings and my grief as a blessing and a way for greater good rather than a burden. So thank YOU. Jazak’Allah khair. May Allah bless you immensely and keep you steadfast on his path.

I wouldn’t like to quit music, but I do think it’s necessary to have moments of silence in our lives.

I accidentally stopped listening to music for a whole year one time because I was living abroad and I made some new muslim friends who practice the religion, and I found myself listening to khutbahs and the Quran rather than listening to music everyday. At one point I heard music in a restaurant and I remember feeling like annoyed by it subhanallah. And I realized I hadn’t listened to music for many months, and I remember feeling that my heart finally felt at peace. Music makes you feel like you’re on a roller coster of emotions, and the Quran keeps you content and stable.

I'm so dependent on music and It took me too long to see this ugly truth. I've been cutting down from it lately. I can't say I'm completely off music. I was scrolling ig and heard a song I like, I came to YouTube to listen to the full version and you video was such a beautiful reminder. Jazaki llaho khayran dear 🌷

I cut music out of my life for around 2 months and then i started to listen to music again and have been struggling to cut it out of my life again. May Allah bless you for sharing this, you have helped me so much with not just cutting out music but increasing my iman and helping me to realise that i need Allah and only Allah in my life. Allahuakbr

“The songs maybe what we want but not what we need” Amazing sentence 🥹❤