I think a nice solution would be for the band themself to, at the beginning of the concert, set the guidelines for how they would like sisters to respond or appreicate their performance. If it came straight from them most likely i would be honored. Maybe make it a point next time to announce at the beginning “Sisters, we appreciate your support and would love it if you would show that support by waving your glowly stick. Our best female fans are the ones who bring their haya to our concerts.”

Someone wanna call their PR guy a memo? ;)

My thought exactly.

May Allah reward you InshaAllah.

Wasalaam

Abu Ninja

p.s. How anyone can say music is ok and these anasheed concerts are ok after listening to Kamal el-Makkis beautiful lecture ‘The End Of Music,’ in my opinion has to be a follower of hawaa.

We need to understand that the scholars, who have deep wisdom and insight into this religion and the reasons for its legislation, have pointed out that music (in whatever form) is usually accompanied by evil things – alcohol, dancing, gender mixing etc. etc. This is the very nature of music. I once heard Sh. Suhaib Hassan say that everything has a key to it, and “Al-ghina Miftah-u-zina” – Music is the key to zina.

mcpagal:

Therefore, asking ppl to ‘calm down’ is not going to solve anything because the *essence* of music (even with Islamic wordings – doesn’t matter – is anyone really paying attention to the wordings?) is that it is a doorway to evil and therefore the only solution is to shut this door for good. Because its sole purpose is only ‘entertainment’. And the sad part is that we’ve now made an ‘Islamic’ justification for it.

I know that many scholars have permitted anasheed etc. but there is a difference between a brother/sistetr impromptu singing a nasheed in an informal gathering that has a nice Islamic meaning to it that encourages good deeds etc. vs. making a whole professional industry out of it where Muslim nasheed ‘artists’ get paid to entertain other Muslims. There is a world of difference in that and we have to understand this and know that we are headed in the wrong direction if we encourage such activities in our communities.

I was shocked to see some of the youtube videos linked from this article. If I hadn’t known better, I would never have been able to tell that this was an Islamic event with Muslim performers and Muslim attendees. Are we really so keen on spending this much money (stage, lights etc.) to listen to a nasheed when our brothers & sisters are suffering all over the world? How would a Muslim in Gaza feel if he saw this concert?

We need to hold ourselves accountable before we are held to account.

I think a lot of the time the bulk of the blame lies with the audience, not the performers. Its the young girls that are doing the screaming after all! Seems like they’d seriously need some basic education on ettiquettes and stuff. If you’re so little in control of yourself that you start screaming for a bunch of guys on stage, then there’s probably bigger problems there.

The first nasheed concert I went to, a whole bunch of the sisters who were stewarding were waving their arms and shrieking to the performance… They were older than I was! I thought ‘dude… they’re singing tala’al badru alayna, calm it down. I asked them to stop dancing and stuff, but they were very offended. It looked really bad because they were the stewards of this event, they should have been setting an example.

The performers do have responsibilities though – I think they should tone it down and keep things simple. Last time Native Deen were in town, there were flashing lights and everything during their performance, and they were trying to hype up the crowd every so often. It made me feel really uncomfortable. I think it’s also different if the sole purpose of the event is the concert, rather than just having some nasheeds as light entertainment during a wider programme.

In essence: everybody should calm down… :P

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1282756,00.html

the article makes the point that many of these individuals who are in this form of entertainment are no different than eunuchs/castrated males in the Middle Ages who sang and danced for kings/queens. Shouldn’t be all that surprising since many of them have admitted to being and promoting homosexuality actually:

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/11/jordan_knight_urges_boy_band_members_to_

http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/music/2005/8/ukboybands2.html

keeping in mind that the guy who recently manufactured most of these boy bands in Florida i.e. N’Sync and Backstreet Boys just went to prison:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/orl-bk-lou-pearlman-boy-band-052108,0,3312606.story

Q: these are the people and forms of entertainment that we are holding up as role models for Muslims?