These clerics only banned music at weddings. They must be moderates. Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella songs encouraging jihad), I am excoriated as a greasy Islamophobe, but it’s nonetheless true:
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 ….” — Reliance of the Traveller r40.0
“Clerics Oppose Music, Dance At Pashtun Village Weddings,” by Anisa Ajmal and Abubakar Siddique, Gandhara, October 9, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Hard-line Muslim clerics in a conservative northwestern Pakistani village have announced a boycott of music and dance at weddings.
Clerics representing three major Islamic sects this week announced that they will not administer marriage ceremonies in Ghondi, a large village in Khyber district on the Afghan border, if celebrations include music and dance. The district, named after the historic Khyber Pass in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, was a hotbed of sectarian tensions and Islamist militants a few years ago.
The announcement is part of a wider morality campaign in which clerics, conservative activists, and even government organizations have banned music, television advertisements, TV shows, and mobile phone apps in the name of battling vulgarity and immortality across Pakistan. On October 9, Islamabad decided to block social media App TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral” content.
Rights campaigners and liberal activists, however, have opposed such bans because they violate basic freedoms enshrined in the country’s laws.
Islamist clerics in Ghondi see things very differently. “The Ulema have decided to act against vulgarity because our area has suffered tragedies and calamities,” Maulana Dilawar Darwesh, a senior cleric, told Radio Mashaal while alluding to Khyber’s recent troubled past when attacks by Islamist militants and the military operations against them killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands into displacement.
“People complained to us because they were sick of the noise at night and the dance performances by transgender people during weddings,” he said. “Our decision is not arbitrary. On the contrary, we acted for miniating peace and reforming the society.”
The decision this week says clerics from the Deobandi, Brelvi, and Panjpiri subsects within the larger Sunni denomination have decided not to administer Nikah or the ritual Islamic marriage ceremony that ties a couple into a wedlock if the wedding celebration will include music and dance, particularly by transgender performers….
AnnChristine says
Islam is misery and squalor and pain and bloody violence living in hovels and shanty towns —No forward thinking is allowed!
mortimer says
Islam is a misery that excludes the glories of culture that give inspiration, pure pleasure and dignity to human lives.
Islam sucks the joy out of life, especially for women.
gravenimage says
+1
Lion heart says
Annechristine : Islam forbids music while it allows Muslims to rape non Muslim women and girls especially Christine & Jewish women ( Quran 4:24 ) as Muslims did to Iraqi Christians at the hands of ISIS when they took them as sex slaves and raped them for being considered what the right hand of Muslims possess and also because Christian girls& women used to wear jeans and tights etc.. ( in other words ) for adopting western-style clothes , and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq . Islam is a cancer that should be eradicated .
Linde Barrera says
To Lion heart- So very happy you got out of Iraq alive. God bless you and yours.
There is a theory put forth by Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University called “The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”. 2 of the 8 intelligences he has identified in humans are the musical intelligence and the physical intelligence. A person with the musical intelligence can create and interpret music, sing on key, play an instrument, and has a good grasp of rhythmic beats, which is related to the logical-mathematical intelligence. The physical intelligence involves gross motor coordination (using your muscles to catch a ball, throw a ball, kick a ball, dance) and fine motor coordination (cut with scissors, string beads together, use glue and tape properly, put puzzle pieces together).
If many (but not all) humans were created with these intelligences either by God, or as some people believe by “The Big Bang” Theory, how then can Islamic doctrine say that playing music, singing and dancing is bad? No one has ever been able to explain that rationale to me. Very strange!
Lion heart says
Linde Barrera : thanks ! God bless you too ! Speaking of music , I have a YouTube Channel called ( Music Legends ) and it’s mainly about music especially Lebanese music and particularly the Lebanese music legend ( Elissa ) where I have translated many if her music from Arabic into English in my Channel and I also have dedicated it that channel to expose Islam especially to my fellow Canadians and to the rest of the western world especially to raise awareness among the youth and young generation of the western world especially to my fellow Canadians where I have translated many of my videos about Islam from Arabic into English! You guys can watch it and share & download. any video you want
European pagan says
There will be very boring weddings
mortimer says
Yes, I attended one. As boring as watching paint dry.
BTW, at traditional Muslim weddings, the bride doesn’t attend.
European pagan says
Once, many years before, I was invited to an ahmadiyya wedding. Men – one room, women – other room. At least the food was delicious.
owensgate says
For real contrast, attend a “Cajun” wedding!
Vladimir says
Ah-yee! Lol…
Jim H says
Absolutely!!
Giacomo Latta says
Especially if it’s past her bedtime.
somehistory says
Anyone against the so-called “marriage” of children to lusty, dirty, filthy old moslim males….dance and play music so loud it can be heard in the U.K. and out over the ocean waves.
Don’t allow children to be sacrificed to the devil on the altars of lust and hate. Play the music and dance so that dirty, filthy, evil old…or young…moslim males cannot take the little children for daily rape and bondage.
gravenimage says
Yes–music and dancing: licentious. Raping children: “chaste”. How morally warped is this?
God, I hate Islam.
somehistory says
Disgusting, revolting, despicable , evil, demonic. Everything from islm opposes the Goodness from our Creator. Because islam is from satan the devil. Not one redeeming quality. Not one virtue. No value is found in it.
It’s adherents follow the dictates of mankind’s enemy.
Do you recall when King David had the Ark of the Covenant brought to Jerusalem? He was so overjoyed, he was dancing.
Both dancing and music…which David also produced…are gifts from our Creator.
islam is a horrible curse from satan the devil.
mortimer says
Leftards who support the arts and entertainment industries often support Islam as well … at least until they realize that Islam discourages ALL THE ARTS … visual, musical, theater, poetry and even photography.
When Leftards realize that Islam KILLS THE ARTS, and Muslims don’t buy tickets for artistic venues, they feel less enthusiastic about Islam.
Art will languish and die wherever Sharia law is imposed.
Vladimir says
True. While I have a definite critique of what is good and acceptable in the arts and entertainment, and definitely see immorality easily getting a foothold in minds and hearts effected by aroused passions (sadness, lust, anger, etc,,,), the Islamic solution is even more vile by immorally cutting people off from part of what makes us human. Even the Angels sing, so we too can sing. And God’s creation is good, so we can picture it and create as well.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Mortimer and Vladimir.
Christopher Watson says
The Islamic world has no writers, artists, actors, composers, or any other creator of art. They have no imagination. Denmark produces more books in a day than the Islamic world does in 20 years. There may be moslems who want to create or invent but are beaten down and killed. In a thousand years we will remember Goethe, Milton, Confucius and thousands of others. But no moslems whatsoever.
gravenimage says
Famously, there are more books translated into Spanish in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in a thousand years.
FYI says
What about one of yusuf islam’s {formerly cat stevens}tuneless nasheeds to his ‘lord’ allah?
Surely that would be acceptable at an islamic wedding although it would probably go down like a lead balloon.
“….it doesn’t matter where you are born islam is the best..for allah knows who the good muslims are..
to give us VICTORY OVER THE KUFAAR ..for he’ll be there where the good muslims are..
jellah allah yahoo- allah hoo akbar”
Wait a minute:all us non-muslims are the KUFAAR..
Does allah know who the bad muslims are?Yes,they are killing,raping and persecuting the kufaar on behalf of their ‘lord’:but the “good” muslims would never ‘slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”koran 2:191 would they?
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim clerics say they won’t administer marriage ceremonies if celebrations include music and dance
……………….
There is no joy in Islam.
FYI says
allah may hate music,musical instruments and women singing yet the Biblical God is fine with these things.
King David playing the HARP for Saul
“Whenever an evil spirit came on Saul,David would get his harp out and play it.The evil spirit would leave and Saul would feel better and be all right again”
I Samuel 16:v 23
Mary,a Jewish woman singing a song.
“My heart praises the Lord,my soul is glad…”
Luke 1: 47-55
So clearly God{YHWH} is Ok with music,musical instruments and women singing but not allah the sad Arab god.
In fact allah promises to punish anyone who listens to a songstress:
“On the day of resurrection allah will pour molten lead into the ears of
whoever sits listening to a songstress”
Reliance of the Traveller Umdat al Salik r40.1
So by allah’s ‘reasoning’ anyone who was sitting listening to Mary singing would have to be tortured?
A JEWISH woman singing a song:that’d kill allah.
Note to muslims:do you see how clinically INSANE your god ‘allah’ is?
If it is OK for King David to play a musical instrument what sense does it make for musical instruments to be condemned in islam?
If it is pleasing to the God of the Bible to hear Mary’s song of praise to God then what sense does it make for ‘allah’ to have a problem with women singing?
allah the Arab makes no sense,neither does his imperfect ‘perfect’ koran,his religion or his ‘prophet’ who knew nothing.
James Lincoln says
Now I know why that Pakistani Gala Biscuit commercial got pulled…
gravenimage says
Yep:
“Pakistan: Biscuit ad banned for being ‘against Islam,’ and ‘people across the country are scared’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/pakistan-biscuit-ad-banned-for-being-against-islam-and-people-across-the-country-are-scared