Music in Islam
Muadda Ibne Ziyad says: Seeing his condition, Imam (AS) said: The above narration clearly indicates the knowledge of the Infallible of the energy system within humans and the way loud and hard-core music can reduce the force field's rate of vibration in one's energy system. Further, the bath with water - as noted before - has the ability to stabilize and reduce the suffering at the energy level and introduce powerful, vibrant and highly charged energy into ones system. Water has the ability to do just that.

Islam has always prohibited its followers from listening and becoming engrossed into music and musical instruments, and the scientific and medical community is just now revealing the reasons. The long-term physiological effects of any kind of music to the human body and soul are evident in scientific literature. True, several studies have indicated that instrumental and classical music to have strong and healthy effects on the central nervous system as well as the autonomic nervous system, thereby enhancing the healing process. However, music in modern societies has undergone a large metamorphosis, and this change is what needs to be avoided, in particular the rock n roll.

The effects of rock n roll music, and other types of fast, noisy, irritable music has been extensively investigated to have major unhealthy ingredients to cause several known physical, mental and spiritual damage to the individuals concerned. The harmful effects on the energy system remain to be desired.

Effects of Noisy, Loud, Piercing Music - e.g. Rock n Roll, Rap
According to Dastaghaib al-Shirazi (AR) in his Greater Sins: Apparently, loud and piercing music happens to significantly disturb the harmonious relationship between the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems in humans. This leads to an unbalance and a major shift in the body equilibrium.

It is well known that the energy system, which surrounds the human body, can be affected, indirectly by music and sounds. The way the energy is affected is in the variations and resonance of certain select vibrations of the tune. How we feel, what kind of emotional state we are in, obviously has a direct bearing on our energy. Barrios-Choplin and Tomasino (1998) studied the effects of different types of music on mood, tension and mental clarity. With grunge rock music, significant increases were found in hostility, sadness, tension, and fatigue, and significant reductions were observed in caring, relaxation, mental clarity, and vigor.

Bradley, Harris and Titus (1992) observed persons at a state mental health hospital by direct care staff and indicated that the persons appeared to act in ways that are more inappropriate when hard rock or rap music was played in an open courtyard, than when easy listening or country music was played. In brief, the results demonstrated that behavior that is more inappropriate was observed under conditions in which hard rock and rap music were played than when easy listening and country western music were played.

Clark (1992) reports that excessive noise exposure (through listening to some types of music) annoys individuals, produces stress, impairs the ability to communicate, interferes with work and play activities, and, in high enough doses, produces permanent damage to the auditory system, which leads to significant hearing loss.

Exposure to increased noise levels was even observed to impair wound healing in surgical patients and in rats (McCarthy, Gourmet, and Daun, 1992). Apparently, the high level sound and/or noise is able to penetrate into the energy system, create blockages and lower it's vibratory nature, and even replace the existing info-energy with information with that which may be unfavorable and inciting. The negative effects of such music on a growing baby in the mother's womb are also apparent.

Data pertaining to whether noise can increase the risk of damage to the fetus is a case in point. A study published by L. D. Edmonds, P. M. Layde, and J.D. Erickson in the July-August 1979 issue of the Archives of Environmental Health found no significant data suggesting an effect of noise on fetal development in pregnant women who lived near airports. However, in the October 1997 issue of Pediatrics, the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement based on a review of research on the potential health effects of noise on the fetus and the newborn. The committee concluded that: Apparently, neonatal care units are traditionally relatively noisy places, replete with beeping machines and the hum of conversation, and research by Gerhardt, DeCasper and others is raising awareness and questions about how the sounds preemies are exposed to may influence normal growth and development.

The research, which has received more than $1 million from the Navy, the National Institutes of Health and the March of Dimes, contributed to federal workplace safety guidelines that today limit the duration of extremely loud noise exposure for pregnant women. The opposite is the effect on the fetus when it comes to soothing and classical music (Kaminski, 1996).

Temporary hearing loss can happen, after you have been exposed to loud noise for 15 minutes or less. If you have temporary hearing loss, you will not be able to hear as well as you normally do for a while. You may also have tinnitus, which is a medical term for ringing in the ears. Your ears can feel full, too.

If someone is exposed to loud noise over a long period, like every day, permanent hearing loss can occur. This means the person's hearing will not ever be as good as it once was. That is why construction workers and factory workers need to wear ear protection. Lawn mowers and power tools, like chain saws, can also be loud enough to affect a person's ability to hear high-pitched noises. This kind of noise also can cause a person to have tinnitus all the time. Listening to extremely loud music a lot can cause the same kind of damage, especially if headphones are used. Some famous musicians have lost hearing and developed tinnitus.

Studies have revealed that as children grow they are exposed to sounds that can threaten their health and cause learning problems. For instance, in the September 1997 issue of Environment and Behavior, Cornell University environmental psychologists Gary Evans and Lorraine Maxwell reported that the constant roar of jet aircraft could cause higher blood pressure, boosted stress levels, and other effects with potential life-long ramifications among children living in areas under the flight paths of airport.

Other human and animal studies also have linked noise exposure to chronic changes in blood pressure and heart rate. For example, in the July-August 2002 issue of the Archives of Environmental Health, a team of government and university researchers concluded that, Exposure to sound acts as a stressor-activating physiological mechanisms that over time can produce adverse health effects. Although not all the effects and mechanisms are elucidated, noise may elevate systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate, thus producing both acute and chronic health effects. Apparently, Emoto (2004) describes in his book that classical music had a positive effect on water and the well-shaped crystals they formed, and that rock music developed malformed crystals when exposed to the same distilled water.

The above narrations have indicated only some of the many psychological, physiological and negative effects on the energy fields from certain kinds of music, and to abstain from such music is a prescription to all Muslims.

Effects of Noisy, Loud, Piercing Music on the Energy - HOW Music May Lead to Fornication
As we have noted earlier, Quantum Physics demonstrates that everything is made up of vibratory fields. You have a physical body, emotions, mind, soul and spirit, each of which can be considered a vibratory field. Sound can cause different effects in each one of these fields. Some types of music stimulates our emotions and mind, some types heal our body. Other vibration breaks down our force fields, possibly leading to mental, physical and spiritual challenges.

Illicit and sexually oriented music (words, actions and behavior inclusive) has been documented to have a noteworthy impact on one's energy system by not only lowering the vibratory nature of the energy fields within that person, but also replacing the information within the energy of that person with sexual excitement and aggressive behavior. Music like some rock and roll for instance, has been shown to amplify one's sexual energy (Losey, J. 2000), and the reason why the tradition of the Prophet (S) stands correct, in that: Qur'an further states: The understanding is that, as one's body and mind is affected by any piece of music, one's energy system, and information within, is also affected. According to Losey (2000), this influence is only indirect through the conscious state the music engenders. For that reason, two people can listen to the exact same piece of music and have their energy affected in completely different manner.

Studies with plants have further indicated a very strong relationship between the health of a plant and fast, loud, and piercing modern-day music. The effects of such music on the plant's energy are reported to be disastrous, damaging, killing or restricting the plant's growth almost perpetually.

One such study by Pierrakos (1978) suggested that the energy of a plant could be severely affected by loud noise such as rock n roll, or rap music. He found that the force fields of a plant contract markedly when a person shouts at it from a distance of five feet, and loses its blue-azure color, while its pulsation diminishes to one third. The effects of such music on the energy are therefore significant and can lead to other immoral acts and the info-energy fields are transformed.