Music vs Quran: What Are You Feeding Your Heart?

Muiz As-Siddeeqi
Apr 26
1 min read

Music vs Quran: What Are You Feeding Your Heart?

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:

"Whoever increases in listening to poems [or music] to improve his heart, his desire to listen to the Qur'an will decrease to the point where he’ll hate it!"

(Iqtida’ al-Sirat al-Mustaqim | V.1, Pg. 542)

SubḥānAllāh...

What a terrifying reality!

Every sound that enters your heart either brings you closer to Allah — or drags you further away.

When you flood your ears and soul with music — no matter how "beautiful" it sounds — you are hardening the very heart that was created to love the Qur’an, to love Allah, to love His Words.

You may think you're "improving your mood"...

But you're actually poisoning your soul slowly.

Until one day, when you open the Qur'an, it feels "heavy"...

When you hear an āyah, it feels "boring"...

When you stand in prayer, your heart feels "empty"...

And you don’t even know why.

The Qur'an and music cannot coexist in one heart.

Ask yourself:

What am I allowing into my heart daily?

Which seeds am I watering — the seeds of īmān, or the seeds of heedlessness?

Action plan: