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 is also depicted as saying:
(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
“Taliban To Ban Music In Public In Afghanistan Because It’s Un-Islamic,” by Jet Encila, Business Times, August 27, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Taliban has said it will ban music in public in Afghanistan because it is forbidden in Islam, despite the assurances given by the insurgent group that it will be more tolerant than it was two decades ago.
The restriction on public playing of music acts as a return to one of the harshest policies of the Taliban in the 1990s.
The previous emirate only allowed religious chants, with nearly all other forms of music forbidden because it was viewed as a distraction that could encourage evil thoughts.
In an interview with The New York Times, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid laid out the group’s plans to rule Afghanistan. From 1996 to 2001, music in public in the country was taboo, while the Taliban ruled the country.
“Music is forbidden in Islam…the only exception to the ban during the Taliban’s original governance in Afghanistan was for some vocal religious pieces with no musical accompaniment,” Mujahid said in quotes by the Times.
The Taliban have long considered music a dangerous and deceitful influence. And with the insurgents in control of Afghanistan again, musicians are in hiding, afraid the Taliban will hunt them down….
“It is a totally uneducated and almost illiterate people who are misinterpreting Islamic ideology,” Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghani-Australian founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, said in quotes by Digital Music News.
“There is nothing explicitly written against music in the Holy Quran,” Sarmast said, pointing out that the Taliban’s interpretation is based on a controversial “hadith,” a report on the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad….
owensgate says
No Haydn string quartets, no Mozart symphonies, no Brahms, no Shubert 9th Symphony, no Beethoven “Missa Solemnis”. How sad for these ignorant goat humpers. Praise the Lord for Charles Martell and his 732 Battle of Tours that stopped the Islamization of Europe, and what would have been the greatest loss of Judeo-Christian Western civilization.
gravenimage says
+1
Westman says
Taliban – Artless, heartless, and clueless. Lord of the flies, all grown up into sociopathic society, still feeding on cr–.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban to ban music, as ‘Music is forbidden in Islam’
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All perfectly Islamic–and what the Taliban did last time they were in power.
So much for “Taliban 2.0″”…
Elizabeth Lawson says
Oh GREAT! No music in Islam – but LOTS of misery, slashed throats, rape of defenceless women and girls, paedophelia, sodemy, whipping, stoning, beating, murdering, arson, sexual slavery and where possible, genocide. Let’s not forget either the perfectly obvious reality of the incalculable ignorance, stupidity and moronic ‘culture’ that led these Neanderthal to believe that they belong in any other place than that of HELL.
Veron Holness says
No music.
Well they wouldn’t want anything to drown out the cries of their victims.
To them that is indeed music to their ears
sidney penny says
Why does Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghani-Australian say that the hadith is controversial ?.
Why do the Taliban not tell their supporters in Pakistan that music should be banned because it is forbidden in Islam, Is it because Pakistanis are ” Indians” who love music and even their movies have music and songs
gravenimage says
Nothing “controversial” abou this Hadith–it is a “Sahih” Hadith, considered completely reliable. It is just embarrassing for Muslims to have to eplain to Infidels.
Krishna says
because pakistanis are not as islamized as afghans due to legacy british rule and indian culture love of music
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Bye, Bye Kabul Airport. Flew my C117 to levee, but the levee was dry. The day the music died.
Infidel says
Given what I have heard of islamic music, they’re probably on the right track
eastlight says
I’d probably live there just to get away from ‘rap misic’.
Infidel says
Much as I disdain rap, I’d pick rap over islam
gravenimage says
I take your point, Infidel.
Moreover, though, Rap–which often has no musical accompanyment–is like Nasheeds. You actually find a lot of Muslim Rap artists. Plus, Rap and Nasheeds both glorify violence.
Check Burry says
Maybe its because they have The Blues.
Miserable bastards eh. How about churches blaring out Roll over Beethoven at 7am every Sunday morning if near any musso community. Fair & Balanced eh.
Giacomo Latta says
”Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”
If most Christian get-togethers and even the lives of Atheists are harbingers then song also encourages a lightness of heart. That is simply unacceptable in one’s jihadis. A notable exception to this is rap ”music.”
European pagan says
Music is forbidden in Islam – but some Muslim countries send singers to the Eurovision ?
PMK says
They’ll never hear a Mahler or Tchaikovsky symphony. It’s their loss.
OLD GUY says
Back to the cave and herder lifestyle in Afghanistan and anywhere islam rules. I guess that the islamic people that listen and allow the singsong call to prayer are going to get violently punished with the pouring of molten lead into their ears. What really needs to happen is the pouring of lead bullets into the Taliban and all other islamic jihadists.
David Foot says
Islamic law is a mess and really it is more a bag of different precedents, and customs and sayings and the Quran trumps everything else when making laws.
So Islamic law is one which was made for to support a religion, and the times of Muhamad and what he said in those times counts as “law” for some.
This creates intricate problems as times change, and I will tell you a joke about Islamic “law” so that you can understand the problems which it causes like this one with music.
A London cabbie (taxi driver) picked up a Moslem passenger and as they go along his passenger tells him to turn off his radio because in the times of Muhamad there wasn’t this playing of music.
So the cabbie turns his radio off and then stops the cab and tells the passenger to get off.
The passenger asks why? And the cabbie replies that in the times of Muhamad there were no cabs (taxis) so he should wait for a camel
So that is the problem with precedents like this one of music, what precedents from the past can be of use today in a very different world? There is no “Islamic Pope” or central authority in Islam so who is right?
gravenimage says
Muslims generally accept “Bi’da”–innovation–when it benefits Islam. For instance, even the most pious Muslims embrace modern weaponry.
OLD GUY says
I hope RAP is considered music by islam. It needs banning, talk about being offensive, every other word is M–F or C–T. But then again some think an Irish Leprechaun mascot is more offensive than RAP music.