Waleed Basyouni – Is Hanging Wind Chimes Allowed in Islam- Islamic Perspective on Wind Chimes & Bells

Waleed Basyouni
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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

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gave him a gift, wind chimes, and he

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is hesitating to put it in the balcony.

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So he wants to know if it's okay

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to do that.

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Wind chimes, this is basically the one who

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produce type of sounds or sometimes like sounds

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like a bell or musics, like metal pipes

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and stuff like that, colors, beautiful colors.

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Here the people who might be hesitant to

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it because of produce a sound like the

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bell, like the jaras.

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And in Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Sayyidina Muslim

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and others, he said that when he saw

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people putting bell on the neck of the

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animals, like sheaves and all that, he said

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the angel will not be in the company

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of people who saw this.

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People put it on the neck of a

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camel while they're traveling.

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And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said the angel

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will not be in the company of people

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who have jaras.

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And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered people to

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remove it from the neck of the animals.

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And it looks like they used to put

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it for the purpose of protection.

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Or it could be they put it because

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they want to locate where they're at, basically.

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That's what usually they do it for.

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And Imam Nawawi Rahimallah said that the majority

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of the Muslim jurists said this is to

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say it's disliked, it's frowned upon, it's not

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like forbidden, haram.

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Others said no, it is.

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Some scholars said it is haram because it

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is similar to the bell that they use

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in churches.

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So that led some of the ulama to

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differentiate.

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If it is put for religious purpose, it

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would be haram, not allowed.

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For protections, it became like superstition or for

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protection, that will not be allowed.

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But if it is simply for the purpose

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of locating or just to make a noise

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so you know that it is where the

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animal is, that will be allowed.

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Even like the wind chimes, in this case,

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it's not for the sake of protections.

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Some people maybe believe it catches the bad

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dream or, you know, like there is something

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called dream catcher.

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I don't think it's the same one.

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But people do that, and that's not allowed.

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Or for the sake of protection from bad

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dreams from the shaitan, that will not be

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allowed.

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Or for the purpose of, as a music

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instrument, tarab, so people like listening to it,

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it's not allowed.

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It has a comforting effect.

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That's the fatwa of the committee of fatwa

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in Saudi Arabia, when they were asked, they

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said if a person do it for the

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sake of, it's like a music, to listen

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to music, and for them music is haram,

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so it will not be allowed.

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And also for the sake of protections will

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not be allowed.

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But if the sake of just making a

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noise, making or making sound so you know

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it's windy, you know, or somebody, when you

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open the door, it makes a sound, you

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know, close the door, for the purpose of

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just getting your attention, they said it's allowed.

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They said the same thing about the bell

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in regard to schools, or in your doorbell,

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they said even if it's the sound of

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it, it's like a ring tone, or it

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is a bell, so it is allowed for

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that purpose.

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And I think that's a kind of middle

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approach to the issue.

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Allah swt allows, but still the person can

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avoid these kind of things, it will be

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better in general.

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Especially if it's a very, some of them

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produce really, it sounds like music.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Jazakallah khair, shaykh.

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Oh, yeah.

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Kam shalom.

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