Contrary to the article below, the Taliban have not altered the Qur’an. Nor do they have their own version of Islamic law. They just enforce aspects of it that others ignore.
“‘Imran bin Husain narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: ‘In this Ummah there shall be collapsing of the earth, transformation and Qadhf.’ A man among the Muslims said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! When is that?’ He said: ‘When singing slave-girls, music, and drinking intoxicants spread.’” (Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2212)
“It was narrated from Abu Malik Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘People among my nation will drink wine, calling it by another name, and musical instruments will be played for them and singing girls (will sing for them). Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, and will turn them into monkeys and pigs.’” (Sunan Ibn Majah 4020)
“Narrated Aisha: Abu Bakr came to my house while two small Ansari girls were singing beside me the stories of the Ansar concerning the Day of Buath. And they were not singers. Abu Bakr said protestingly, ‘Musical instruments of Satan in the house of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) !’ It happened on the `Id day and Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, ‘O Abu Bakr! There is an `Id for every nation and this is our `Id.’” (Sahih al-Bukhari 952)
This is the height of cruelty. The instrument was central to the expression of this poor man’s soul. This is every bit as illustrative of the cruelty of Sharia as is the flogging of adulterers.
Video : Taliban burn musician's musical instrument as local musicians weeps. This incident happened in #ZazaiArub District #Paktia Province #Afghanistan . pic.twitter.com/zzCp0POeKl
— Abdulhaq Omeri (@AbdulhaqOmeri) January 15, 2022
“In Afghanistan’s Paktia Province, Taliban Burn Musical Instrument In Front Of Musician,” by Ajeet Kumar, Republic World, January 16, 2022:
In another jolt against the musicians, the Taliban burned down a musical instrument in front of a singer on Saturday. According to a video tweeted by a senior journalist of Afghanistan, Abdulhaq Omeri, a local musician can be seen crying in front of the Taliban who has burnt all his musical instruments publicly, while the others can be seen recording the video of the miserable condition. As per the details mentioned in the tweet, the incident was reported in Afghanistan’s Paktia province. “Taliban burn musician’s musical instrument as local musician weeps. This incident happened in #ZazaiArub District #Paktia Province #Afghanistan,” Omeri said in a tweet….
According to an earlier report by the Tolo News, the Taliban had ordered to ban all musical concerts at weddings and other social events. Even, they ordered the hotels to separate male and female guests in the wedding ceremony. Earlier, the extremist group had banned music in vehicles. It is pertinent to mention here that the Taliban passed a series of controversial orders against women after they assumed power. Earlier in December last year, the Taliban ordered to remove all the banners and posters that featured pictures of women.
Taliban cites Sharia law behind all recent changes
In the last week of December 2021, the Ministry of Virtue and Vice addressed a letter to all the women athletes wherein it directed women not to visit sports and health centres alone. The Ministry recommended women can “visit the places along with a male companion.” While narrating her ordeal, Ramzieya Saedi, who is a member of the Rostami wrestling team and the national Taekwondo team, accused the Taliban of the worst phase the sports sector is undergoing in the country. According to a report by a local media organisation, the Directorate of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (DPVPV) has ordered to behad female mannequins, as it violates contentious “Sharia” law….However, some of the Islamic nations including, Afghanistan has altered the verses of the Quran according to their political beliefs.
mortimer says
Some musical instruments are so excellent that the destruction of one would make a grown man weep. Think of a Stradivarius violin in comparison. Other musical instruments have a great sentimental value. They are irreplaceable.
The Taliban are savage, uncivilized barbarians who don’t care about their country’s culture and history. They see only the interests of their Bronze-age Death Cult in any transaction.
Perhaps the most humiliating and unnecessarily stupid action in American military history is the abandonment of Afghastlistan to this terrorist organization called ‘The Taliban’.
The Bribed-man posing as the leader of the US has no shame about this, because he is apparently an amoral opportunist.
gravenimage says
Not just that, Mortimer. While in the civilized world it is easy (if not always inexpensive) to buy a musical instrument, I very much doubt that this is the case in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Michael Copeland says
“Righting The Wrong By Hand” is part of “Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong” in the Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”.
It includes “breaking musical instruments” (q5.6).
mortimer says
Very good. Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Michael and Mortimer.
Michael Copeland says
It looks, by the huge tear in his jacket, that the musician may have had quite a struggle before yielding up his instruments to their crowing destroyers.
At a wedding a few years ago the Taliban invaded the proceedings, destroyed the instruments, and tied up the musicians to a tree where they remained overnight. Jihadwatch recorded it.
Infidel says
Not to speak for the Taliban, but the quality of apparel in that part of the world is really substandard: they tear just in the process of normal wear, and don’t need one to be in a struggle. This man would probably have been killed had he dared resist: all he could do was watch and weep
David M says
He’s lucky those bastards didn’t throw him on the fire as well.
Check Burry says
I thought it was The Beattles, sorry no it just has to be the stones, thats what they do to anyone who goes of the straight and Very narrow.
Wellington says
The more Islam exists, the more the closing of the mind exists. The so-called glory of medieval Islam is due to 1) vast exaggeration; 2) parasitical usurpation of non-Muslim achievements by the Islamic world; 3) actual Muslims who were only nominally Muslim and in trouble with Islamic control-freaks all along—Avicenna and Averroes come foremost to mind here; 4) outright lying about the medieval Islamic period, both by Muslims and subservient dhimmis to this very day.
Hey, no Beethoven in the Islamic world or even a Buddy Holly, eh? No Fra Angelico or Titian either. Helps prove my overall point which is that Islam, unlike any other major faith, is retrograde, even barbaric, to the core.
A la Luther at Worms in 1521, here I stand, I can do no other.
Infidel says
Actually, Wellington, if RS’ theory about Mohammed not existing and islam being invented by committees in Baghdad and Buqhara are correct, then chances are that most of those ‘Golden Age’ figures like Avicenna and Averroes were not muslim at all, since islam was being put together during their lifetimes and only after the ‘gates of ijtehad’ were closed that islam started being enforced on the denizens of the Abbasid caliphate
Wellington says
A beautiful sentiment, Infidel.
gravenimage says
Infidel–with the greatest respect–I don’t think that Robert Spencer has ever averred that Islam still did not exist in the 11th and 12th centuries. If it was invented out of whole cloth–as is likely–this was some centuries earlier than this.
But I certainly agree with you that Avicenna and Averroes–both heavily influenced by Aristotle–were *hardly* orthodox Muslims.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Musician weeps as Taliban burn his musical instrument
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Poor guy. He’s probably lucky that they didn’t murder him, as well.
As noted, this is all orthodox Islam.
Krishna says
If taliban practices most authentic Islam
By banning music and dance but here comes to muslimzz to say said they are altering sharia law no wonder why Afghanistan can never change
Check Burry says
Was it an Ofender? To islam?
Walter Sieruk says
The destructiveness of the Taliban goes much further then when they destroy Musical instruments and store mannequins. For the fiendish and murderous Taliban also destroy people by viciously killing them in a number of cruel, brute and sadtic ways