(From Mas'adah ibn Ziyad) A man said to Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام: 'I have neighbors who have female maidservant singers who sing and play the lute. Sometimes I go to the restroom and prolong my stay to listen to them.' Al-Sadiq
عليه السلام replied: 'Do not do that.' The man said: 'By Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, I do not approach them with my feet; it is only that I listen with my ears.' Al-Sadiq
عليه السلام responded: 'By Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, have you not heard Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted, say: "Indeed, the hearing, the sight, and the heart—all of those will be questioned."' [Surah Al-Isra
17:36] The man said: 'It is as though I had never heard this verse from the Book of Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted, from an Arab or a non-Arab. Certainly, I will abandon it and seek Allah’s
سبحانه وتعالى forgiveness.' Al-Sadiq
عليه السلام said to him, 'Arise, perform ghusl (ritual bathing), and pray as much as you like, for you were persisting in a grave matter. How terrible would your state have been had you died in that condition! Seek Allah’s
سبحانه وتعالى forgiveness and ask Him for repentance from everything He dislikes, for He dislikes only the repugnant things, and leave repugnant things to their people, for everything has its people.'