Just thinking, you know, as you do, about the rulings concerned with the Sāmi‘ and the Mustami‘ i.e. the “casual listener” and the “present listener who is listening with intent”.
If that’s still confusing then let me give its most common use in fiqh: in the books under the chapter for sujūd’l-tilāwah (those prostrations performed for the recital of (15) certain verses of the Qur’ān), it is said in the Hanbali madhab that the one who is sitting with the reciter and listening intently, following every word in the ayah etc, should also prostrate with the reciter as he is a Mustami‘. As for the guy passing by, who hears the verse but had no intention to stop and listen, then there is nothing upon him because he is just a Sāmi‘.
So anyway: my question is that the mass majority of scholars hold it impermissible for a person walking in a market in which there is music playing to sit down to listen properly and enjoy it and chill out as it were. Likewise, they hold it to be okay for a person to walk through said situation and continue on, despite the fact they have heard what they just did.
But what about the one who walks up, carries on walking but starts kinda’ mouthing the tune, with his heart bopping to the bass of the good ole’ days (is that a little smile I see on his lips?) but (of course) he carries on walking.
Just thinking, you know, as you do… 
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July 11, 2007 at 4:42 pm
well i suppose that person is neither here or neither, but walking into the grey areas- between a permissible action and an impermissible action
July 12, 2007 at 1:32 am
Obviously this happens to you often then….? Like your giving a prescription to a customer an this tune comes up on an you remember all the lyric’s like you wrote them! An you’re just about to burst into song? And then a sister /brother come along and you start humming instead some ayahs of the Quraan? Thinking phew! Dodged that one good or you’re saved by someone else asking for a prescription drug… come on we know what’s going on……..lol
July 12, 2007 at 5:01 am
Aye man!!
that’s naughty!! lol
sometimes when happens to me.. i feel like im being attacked man! – you know, as you do…
.. but i guess at times odd one comes up and you’re thinking: NOOoooooo! can’t be listening to this! you know, as you do…
July 12, 2007 at 10:08 am
it’s called being human… as one is… you know :p
July 12, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Is that why you’d say it’s ok to watch certain TV and movies, because they all have music playing in the back, but if you’re ’sami’ then it’s fine?
Because I asked a certain scholar if we could regard the music on the TV as ‘umumul-balwa’ and he suggested that this is not the case, because to watch it is not a necessity.
July 12, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I was shopping with a friend once. Suddenly she sings out, “Is my body too bootylicious for ya baby.” I looked at her like :-O as singing such lyrics is obviously not befitting for a practising Muslimah and I knew she didn’t listen to music. The strange thing was she didn’t even realise she was singing along. We left the shop sharpish.
July 12, 2007 at 10:12 pm
nice post
July 13, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Smack yourself upside the head to stop yourself. That might help, no?
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