Are binaural beats haram?
We are a sound generator, not a religious authority, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is describe exactly what the sound is, since that is what the question usually turns on.
This is a question for a scholar you trust, not for a website that makes audio tools. What we can tell you precisely is what the sound consists of: continuous sine tones with no melody, no rhythm in the musical sense, no instruments, no lyrics and no recorded performance. Whether that counts as music is exactly the distinction the different opinions rest on.
What this generator actually produces
- Pure sine waves, generated in real time by your browser. No recording of any instrument or voice is involved.
- No melody or harmony. The pitch does not change unless you move a slider.
- No musical rhythm. A binaural beat is a slow interference pattern between two tones, closer to a hum with a wobble than to a drum.
- No lyrics or speech, in any language, anywhere on this site.
- Noise beds are filtered random signal — the same category as rain or wind.
If you want to hear precisely that and nothing else, a single pure tone or a noise bed is the simplest case: one steady sound with no structure at all.
Where the opinions differ
Scholarly positions on audio range from permitting most of it to restricting instrumental music specifically, with widely held middle positions. Sounds that are not musical — natural sound, the human voice unaccompanied, functional tones — are generally treated differently from music in these discussions, which is why the composition of the sound matters to the answer. We are describing the disagreement, not taking a side in it, and we are not qualified to.
If the answer matters to you, ask someone with the standing to give it, and take the description above with you: continuous synthesised tones, no melody, no instruments, no voice. That is a more precise starting point than "binaural beats", which people picture as anything from a hum to a full ambient track.
One thing we can settle
Some pages present binaural beats as spiritual or consciousness-altering technology. They are not: they are two tones a few hertz apart, and the evidence for anything beyond that is thin and inconsistent. If the concern is that this is a mystical practice in disguise, the honest answer is that there is much less here than the marketing suggests.
Questions
Are binaural beats considered music?
That is the disputed point. They contain no melody, instruments, voice or musical rhythm — they are continuous synthesised tones — but whether that places them outside "music" is a question for a scholar.
Is white noise haram?
Again not ours to answer, though noise is generally discussed in the same category as natural ambient sound rather than as music.
Do binaural beats affect consciousness or spirituality?
There is no good evidence that they do anything beyond producing a perceptible beat. Claims to the contrary are marketing.