is music forbidden in islam or not and is listening to nasheeds forbidden or not?
Answer Hi listening to nasheeds not forbidden Stop the music! Before becoming a Muslim, music was an essential part of my life. One of the most difficult I’ve ever done was to sell my piano and guitar. I learned to play the piano when I was a little girl. My mother was a music teacher and I used to sit and play and listen to her teach. Then one day I sat at the piano and started to play. She was surprised I’d picked up so much by just listening in the background. From that time onwards she taught me what she knew, and so my life line was born. During lonely childhood years I filled my time with playing music, singing and dreaming my dreams. Then the turbulence of adolescence began; the time when childhood fades into an misty cloud of childish dreams and fantasy that cannot be real. The growing up years of gradually understanding the double standards, injustice and foolishness of humanity and my part in it all. Whenever a question arose in my mind, a question to which I could find no an