The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Eleven: The Devil's Deception ef the $ufts
They make rhythms for these songs that take the listener out of
modesty and excite his love for playfulness.
They use several musucal instruments including the duff that has
metalic ringers, and the flute. These are the songs of these days.
Before we discuss its pemissibility, prohibition or disliking, we say:
A wise person must give advice to himself and his brothers to
warn from Iblis's deception. Also, he should generalise and apply
the same ruling to all types of songs.
It is known that people's habits are similar, so if a normal youth
claims that his attitude is not affected with songs we would accuse
him of lying, because all people's attitudes and levels of religiousness
is affected by songs.
If someone claims that he gazes at (women's) beautiful eyes and
small noses and fair skins in order to gain more apprecation of Allah,
The Maker, then we say that gazing at lawful things that do not
entice lust will gain you the same appreciation.
Indeed being pretentious is the worse of things. How would The
Knower of all Secrets be fooled by someone's pretentiousness?!
How could we agree with the $itfts claim that discussing the physical
attributes of women is not forbiden?!
As for he who says: "I do not listen to these songs for worldly
reasons. I only do so to take heed of the wisdom therein," we say
that he is making two mistakes:
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