If this dictum (from Mullah Abdul Rauf, of the Herati Mosque in Kabul, quoted in April 2006):
Music is not banned in Islam but to get enjoyment from music is banned.
... in fact actually explains quite a lot, on a profound level. I mean, historically speaking, it is obviously inaccurate, on all merits. No, the profundities to which I refer have to do with it entirely as a modern phenomena, of the particularly rigid sect of Islam that gets so much play today. Even if this means that only "sacred contemplation" of music is permitted, that still is deeply disturbed. To forgo the most immediate effect of any kind of music — namely, it's capacity to first entertain (and then, possibly, educate and enlighten) — is to go against what I hold to be fully-embodied perception. In other words, it goes against the grain of humanity.
I mean, common sense-wise: do you know anyone healthy who gets no enjoyment from music, whatsoever? Would you wish that "condition" on even your deepest enemy? And wouldn't that, honestly, actually be Hell incarnate, that state where there's no enjoyment whatsoever from the play of tones in time?
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By Colmar |
8:06 PM I'll see your Mullah, and raise you an Ayatollah:
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam." - Ayatollah Khomeini
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