{"id":10463,"date":"2018-08-01T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=10463"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:36:36","slug":"listening-to-subniminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/listening-to-subniminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to subniminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 02575<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by:&nbsp;<\/strong>Mufti&nbsp;Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Hi, I&#39;m a Muslim girl, I wanted to ask you a question is listening to subliminal haram?<br \/>\n\tI&#39;m using subliminal to lose weight, and I&#39;m planning to use subliminal later for body hair removal, but I wanted to know if subliminal is haram to listen or not. I&#39;m not addictive to this is just that I want quicker results with weight loss for this subliminal its says if you believe they&#39;re work they actually will work for you if don&#39;t believe they won&#39;t work. Am I allowed to listen to subliminal?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The Cambridge dictionary defines subliminal with the following words:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&quot; not&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/recognized\" title=\"recognized\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">recognized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;or&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/understood\" title=\"understood\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">understood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;by the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/conscious\" title=\"conscious\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">conscious<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/mind\" title=\"mind\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">mind<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">, but still having an&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/influence\" title=\"influence\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">influence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;on it:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/leader\" title=\"leader\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">leader<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;was&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/interview\" title=\"interviewed\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">interviewed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;in&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/front\" title=\"front\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">front<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;of a&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/factory\" title=\"factory\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">factory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;to give the subliminal&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/message\" title=\"message\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">message<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;that he was a man of the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/people\" title=\"people\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. (https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/subliminal)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">There are two points to mention when it comes to subliminal.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">1)There is no evidence that subliminal alters peoples appearance, physique or weight. Whatever happens in this world, it all happens because of the will of Allah <img title=\"sub\u1e25\u0101nahu wa ta'\u0101la (glorified and exalted be He)\" alt=\"sub\u1e25\u0101nahu wa ta'\u0101la (glorified and exalted be He)\" class=\"islamic_graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/islamic-graphics\/img\/black\/20\/swt.png\" height=\"12px\">. So a person losing weight is not because of subliminal but it is because Allah has willed it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">2) Subliminals are like hidden messages and there is a precedent of that in the Shariah called Ilhaam, where a person gets an inspiration to do something good and that the inspiration comes from Allah <img title=\"sub\u1e25\u0101nahu wa ta'\u0101la (glorified and exalted be He)\" alt=\"sub\u1e25\u0101nahu wa ta'\u0101la (glorified and exalted be He)\" class=\"islamic_graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/islamic-graphics\/img\/black\/20\/swt.png\" height=\"12px\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The conclusion we can come to is if messages which are against the values and principles of the Shariah are found in the subliminal messages, then it will be impermissible, otherwise, it will be permissible.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">(Mufti) Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 02575 Answered by:&nbsp;Mufti&nbsp;Mohammed Tosir Miah Question Hi, I&#39;m a Muslim girl, I wanted to ask you a question is listening to subliminal haram?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}