Ahmed Adheeb is on the defensive about bringing in foreign musicians to perform in the Maldives because Islamic law forbids most forms of music. In the West, publishing this information brings one swift charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” but apparently many people in the Maldives have been reading “Islamophobic” literature, as they now believe that Adheeb is defying Islam by bringing in musicians.
Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith Qudsi, or holy Hadith, are those in which Muhammad transmits the words of Allah, although those words are not in the Qur’an.)
Muhammad also said:
(1) “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
(2) “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”
(3) “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”
(4) “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”
(5) “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” — ‘Umdat al-Salik r40.0
“‘Intentions are to promote Maldives, not defy Islam’ says Minister,” by Shan Mohamed Anees, Haveeru Online, January 4, 2015:
Foreign artists and musicians are invited to perform in the Maldives as a means to promote tourism and has nothing to do with religion, said Tourism Ministry Ahmed Adheeb.
Minister Adheeb told Haveeru, in response to public discord over two Indian musicians playing in the Maldives on New Year’s Eve and American R&B artist Akon’s performance scheduled for Thursday, that they are simply a means to promote Maldives as a brand.
“These shows are for promoting Maldives’ tourism” the Minister said “While the entire world has started to see Malé City as a lair that harbours members of the Islamic State or extremist militants, foreign artists performing here will show the world what the situation here is truly like”.
“Maldives does not belong to the Islamic State” he added.
But it is increasingly a Sharia state in its own right.
…The government had originally arranged for Jamaican rapper Sean Paul to perform in Malé for New Year’s Eve. However, after an online death threat, supposedly from Maldivian jihadi factions, he bowed out.
Salah says
“Maldives does not belong to the Islamic State” he added.
That’s weird. Many Muslims are trying to distance themselves from the Islamic State. Are they subtly trying to distance themselves from Islam itself?
I think the atrocities commited by the IS are doing a great favor to all of us, including Muslims.
On an egyptian TV talk show, one Muslim apostate publicly and openly asked his host: “Show me one atrocity commited by the Islamic State that hadn’t been commited by Muhammad himself.”
Islam is dying but, thanks to our political correctness, a lot of innocent blood will have to pay for its final coup de grace.
Angemon says
Harvey Nextman says
What’s really hypocritical coming from Muslims that believe that musical instruments are haram, is that without musical instruments they wouldn’t be able to sound those calls to prayer five times a day. The study of sound waves, electricity, and audio go hand and hand as the technology improved over the last century. The study of how strings, woodwinds, horns, percussion create sound is directly related to the study of frequencies of light and sound and the recording of those things using magnetic strips, and now digital technology and the movement of electrons over wires. So, in a sentence, they forbid the use of technology that gives them the technology to broadcast the forbidding of its use. Sayyid Qutb in Milestones thinks this is okay, but retrospectively, they are too shortsighted to understand that Islam is preventing them from advancing technologically.
el-cid says
Here, once again, is an irreconcilable difference between Islam and the ideology in which I was nurtured.
Music is perhaps the purist expression of humanity that we all share. Musical fusion enables deep and immediate communication between diverse cultures.
But, music is not part of Islamic “Civilization”. Any Muslim who participates in Music is a hypocrite.
What more does anyone need to condemn Islam?
abad says
You know a religion like Islam is perverse when it claims the joys and pleasures of life like music, wine, beer, BLT sandwiches are all of Satanic origin.
Kepha says
I sense a very resource-poor state getting very, very worried about sources of income.
Over the holidays, my very PeeCee extended clan expressed general agreement that places like Turkey and even Indonesia were definitely “out” as foreign tourism destinations, Islamic ferment being given as the chief reason. Considering that the Maldives have nothing but coral beaches, sun, and palm trees, I suspect that Ahmed Adheeb is also getting feedback that tourists from affluent countries are skittish about Muslim-majority lands.
judith carabe says
In the Maldives the muslims have genocide all the indigenous Christhians. And now except for the tourists this islands are Christhian free.
Guest says
Being against music says it all, really.
pumbar says
So Akon (a con?) will be playing there. That’s taken the place off my holiday list.
Semeru says
Double hypocrisy
Akron is moslem
Mirren10 says
”Double hypocrisy
Akron is moslem”
Not really.
‘Rap’ is just about the only ‘music’ islam would consider halal; it has no music, just vicious and violent misogynistic dirges, accompanied with repetitive drumming. Just like nasheeds, really.
As for Akron, as a mohammedan, he knows other mohammedans will be happy to murder him at the drop of a rap, if they feel like it.
Angemon says
Semeru posted:
“Double hypocrisy”
Does a “double hypocrisy” act like a double negative?
pumbar says
Semeru, like Akon, putting the “C” in “rap”.
Marken says
“Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings….”
In contrast, the first book written and published in America was The Bay Psalm Book 1640, here is an example relevant to this article::
Unto Jehovah all the earth,
make a joyful noise;
make also a cheerful sound,
make praise and likewise rejoice.
With harp sing to the Lord; with harp,
also with a Psalms voice.
With trumpets, cornets sound, before
the Lord the King rejoice.
Translation of Psalm 98: 4-6 1004 BC (modified a bit to modern English)
The first American Koran was published in early 1800’s, the introduction basically joked: can you believe people really believe this stuff?