who shows the way strays from the path. He either perishes or suffers hardship for a time before returning to the path. The “guide who shows the way” is the Messenger whom Allah sent to mankind as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner, calling to Allah by His permission, a shining lamp, and a guide to a straight path—the path of Allah, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth.

The effects of Satan manifest themselves among those who engage in devotional listening in the manner of the days of ignorance: foaming and frothing at the mouth, dreadful screams, and other things resembling the condition of those whom Satan afflicts with seizures. Thus, depending on the sound, they find within themselves a surge of the impulses Satan desires: ecstasy in blameworthy passion; anger and aggression against someone they wrong; or slapping themselves, tearing their clothes, and crying out like someone stricken with grief and bereft. These and other satanic effects also afflict those who gather to drink wine when they become intoxicated. Intoxication through captivating sounds may become like intoxication through intoxicating drinks: it turns them away from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer, and deprives their hearts of the sweetness of the Quran, of understanding its meanings, and of following it. They thus come to resemble those who purchase distracting tales to lead others astray from Allah’s path. It also sows enmity and hatred among them, until they kill one another through their corrupt, satanic states, just as someone who casts the evil eye may kill the person it strikes.

For this reason, some scholars have stated that such people are liable to retaliation and blood money