Waleed Basyouni – Is Hanging Wind Chimes Allowed in Islam- Islamic Perspective on Wind Chimes & Bells
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The transcript describes a culture where people use a variety of sounds to make music, including a variety of sounds like bell or metal pipes, and even a variety of sounds like wind chimes. Some people believe that these sounds are meant to protect animals from bad dreams and may even be meant for religious purposes. However, there are mixed opinions on the matter, some suggesting that the sounds are meant to make people listen to music, while others argue that they are meant to make people avoid bad dreams.
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We have a brother whose mother-in-law
gave him a gift, wind chimes, and he
is hesitating to put it in the balcony.
So he wants to know if it's okay
to do that.
Wind chimes, this is basically the one who
produce type of sounds or sometimes like sounds
like a bell or musics, like metal pipes
and stuff like that, colors, beautiful colors.
Here the people who might be hesitant to
it because of produce a sound like the
bell, like the jaras.
And in Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Sayyidina Muslim
and others, he said that when he saw
people putting bell on the neck of the
animals, like sheaves and all that, he said
the angel will not be in the company
of people who saw this.
People put it on the neck of a
camel while they're traveling.
And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said the angel
will not be in the company of people
who have jaras.
And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered people to
remove it from the neck of the animals.
And it looks like they used to put
it for the purpose of protection.
Or it could be they put it because
they want to locate where they're at, basically.
That's what usually they do it for.
And Imam Nawawi Rahimallah said that the majority
of the Muslim jurists said this is to
say it's disliked, it's frowned upon, it's not
like forbidden, haram.
Others said no, it is.
Some scholars said it is haram because it
is similar to the bell that they use
in churches.
So that led some of the ulama to
differentiate.
If it is put for religious purpose, it
would be haram, not allowed.
For protections, it became like superstition or for
protection, that will not be allowed.
But if it is simply for the purpose
of locating or just to make a noise
so you know that it is where the
animal is, that will be allowed.
Even like the wind chimes, in this case,
it's not for the sake of protections.
Some people maybe believe it catches the bad
dream or, you know, like there is something
called dream catcher.
I don't think it's the same one.
But people do that, and that's not allowed.
Or for the sake of protection from bad
dreams from the shaitan, that will not be
allowed.
Or for the purpose of, as a music
instrument, tarab, so people like listening to it,
it's not allowed.
It has a comforting effect.
That's the fatwa of the committee of fatwa
in Saudi Arabia, when they were asked, they
said if a person do it for the
sake of, it's like a music, to listen
to music, and for them music is haram,
so it will not be allowed.
And also for the sake of protections will
not be allowed.
But if the sake of just making a
noise, making or making sound so you know
it's windy, you know, or somebody, when you
open the door, it makes a sound, you
know, close the door, for the purpose of
just getting your attention, they said it's allowed.
They said the same thing about the bell
in regard to schools, or in your doorbell,
they said even if it's the sound of
it, it's like a ring tone, or it
is a bell, so it is allowed for
that purpose.
And I think that's a kind of middle
approach to the issue.
Allah swt allows, but still the person can
avoid these kind of things, it will be
better in general.
Especially if it's a very, some of them
produce really, it sounds like music.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright.
Jazakallah khair, shaykh.
Oh, yeah.
Kam shalom.