“Nothing in the Quran bans music,” says Timur Kuran, a professor at Duke University.
Right!
“Nothing in Quran prohibits music. Nothing. Period.” So says D Tazeh, whose Twitter bio says he or she is “Global Health & Human Rights | Director
@Harvard @HarvardMed | @MIT | Bringing @Tether_to Afghanistan | @AfghanEvac | Special Advisor to UN.”
Right again!
But both of these respected and learned authorities, whom everyone in the world would assume know much more about Islam than some greasy Islamophobe such as Spencer, are not telling you about these ahadith:
“‘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)
Now, why would they keep such things from you? And why am I the only one who will dare to tell you of the existence of such traditions?
“Taliban set fire to dozens of musical instruments they claim will cause ‘destruction of society,’” by Arpan Rai, Independent, August 1, 2023:
Religious police deployed by the Taliban set fire to dozens of musical instruments blamed for the “destruction of society”, local media reported.
Sheikh Aziz al-Rahman al-Mujahir, area chief for the western province of Herat in the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, said music led to “misguidance of the youth and the destruction of society” and said people could be “corrupted” by it.
Photos released by Taliban officials and the ministry showed a massive blaze in an unspecified location. Four men were seen standing next to a bonfire of music instruments collected from across the country….
“In 2021, Taliban banned music in public places. Musicians have been executed, and musical instruments are regularly confiscated and burned. These horrors take place in the name of Islamic purity. But nothing in the Quran bans music,” said Timur Kuran, professor at Duke University.
“Taliban create bonfire of ‘immoral’ music equipment, and let me tell you, they are not the only ones, some Islamists in my native country used to tell me the same ‘Music is haram’,” said Nervana Mahmoud, independent political commentator on Islamism, on Twitter….
Michael Copeland says
Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
Righting the wrong by hand, such as….
by breaking musical instruments
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” q5.6
FYI says
“Misguidance of the youth and the destruction of society”
How about… a Chamber Orchestra?..Too soon after 611 A.D?
Handel’s Messiah?..Too provocative?
A night out with the Talban;no music,no jokes,no Beer,no fun
Hoi Polloi says
Banning the singing of little girls so they aren’t wasting time when they should be washing their husbands’ underwear. And lying that islam doesn’t call for that.
Repeatedly promoting pedophilia and lying to hide the truth in order to do so:
https://reduxx.info/north-carolina-charlotte-pride-awards-child-sex-offender-with-2023-harvey-milk-award/
This is the same guy they already lied for in the bathroom wars and they’re still trying to legitimize him.
It’s as if it’s true when people claim the powers that wannabe are pedophiles.
Fitna says
Just another example of religion turning humans into gullible idiots. Once you fall for that lie that there’s a magic fairy in the sky that wants you to do certain things, the amount of dumb shit people will do, no matter how evil, stupid or monstrous, is endless.
They don’t stop for a moment to wonder if it could be wrong or bad. Mohammad the schizophrenic, woman-hating, racist, pedophilic scumbag also happened to hate music. So he had his minions do the dirty work to get rid of it.
Apart from the development of language, science, technology, philosophy, music is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But then Islam comes along and says life is supposed to be terrible, miserable, boring, full of pain and suffering and violence…and that’s what we get in Islamic states.
Islam ofc doesn’t just wage war on music, but also women, unbelievers, science, gays, Jews, intellectualism, compassion, equality and civilization in general. What Islam does like is mass rape, murder and destruction.
Why does the West ignore the jihadi elephant in the room that wants to destroy everything we hold dear?
Stupid Biden/Obama/Bush/Trump, all had the golden opportunity to lay waste to these evil savages. What did they do instead? Play footsies with the Taliban, building roads, bridges, and stadiums which the Taliban used for stoning gays and women for the non-crime of adultery. So much for “changing hearts and minds.” All they’d done is make Muslims hate us more.
Now the US pulled out like a bunch of chickens (because of the Biden admin, ofc the military is powerful) and give the country over to these same savages that aided the 9/11 hijackers. Not only that, they gifted them with billions of dollars of high tech equipment to slaughter more innocents with. Americans should be absolutely furious with their gov’t for abandoning the cause of freedom.
We could’ve fixed Iraq, Afghanistan and other mideast countries. In fact I recall a General mentioning they had plans to do exactly that, turn the mideast into secular-democratic countries, but thanks to moronic politicians that great idea was left on the wayside.
We’re going to have to go back there again. Islam isn’t done with us by a longshot. I expect more large scale terrorist attacks as the Muslim population explodes in the West (pardon the pun).
We should just have one simple goal when it comes to this death cult, which is to end Islam, whatever it takes…including tactical nukes if it comes to it.
Keith O says
None of this is in any way shocking.
Islam as a whole and the various feeble minded followers who think they know everything, have never created anything in their miserable primitive lives.
All they are capable of is destruction, so their actions here are simply normalcy for them.
James Lincoln says
And to think that the Taliban is sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals…
Fitna says
Good point James…they can fund their global jihad and get wealthy at the same time. Ofc the Taliban don’t deserve any of that wealth and should be wiped out.
What every nation needs is a secular-democratic govt and for Islam to be eliminated. Then that money can go to the ordinary Afghanis to enrich their lives.
Ofc it’ll probably take a civil war for that to happen and there’s little to no interest in the West so far to help rid the world of Islam, just yet.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the reply, Fitna.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s only worth anything b’cos of our obsession w/ “climate change”. Absent that fanaticism, there is no way a business case could have been made for this segment of the car market. For starters, one would want an affordable bill of materials so that the end product too would be affordable, but that’s not the case. Unlike oil, which is abundant in a lot of countries, including the US, these rare earths (“Yes, Virginia, they are called “rare” for a reason!”) are found only in a few places on earth, & accessing them involves getting involved w/ kleptocrats and warlords, whether it’s in Afghanistan or Congo or Argentina or anywhere else. As a result, there will be a high procurement cost, not the least of which would involve bribes/cuts to various middlemen up that supply chain. And this is w/o even going into other factors, such as grid capacity, the existing car service ecosystem, and so on
The bright side: I’ll leave it to the Chicoms to figure out a way to con the Taliban out of a good deal of that ? ?
Suburbanbanshee says
It is a curious fact that a lot of religious movements that seem to be into bad things, are also into destroying the same good things. For example, dogs, humor, and musical instruments are fairly common targets of immoral religions.
Meanwhile, it’s a fairly common Christian line of thought to say that demons hate church bells, hate beautiful music, hate humor, and are easily detected by dogs.
Maybe it means nothing. Maybe it means something.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Can we send some musicians there as well, like Cardi-B? I’m sure the Taliban would appreciate them ?
Westman says
Because Muhammad had an epileptic brain and a tin ear, millions of people are derived of music? Thousands were killed and are still dying for their musical expression.
Ayatollah Khomeini: “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
“No fun in Islam” – very true without music. Where are the great classical music compositions of Islam?
When the Jihadists say, “We love death more than you love life”, they are strictly expressing their capture by the book of conquest, a book which was designed to cause testosterone-laden men to think they are killing, sacking, and pillaging to promote Islam and thereby aquiring the ultimate carnal rewards.
This was a brilliant stroke in the creation and advancement of Islam – legitimize the stealing of wealth from the unbelievers through war, and mandate a large portion to building Islam. This is similar to the Christian Church’s weaker notion of tithing. Islam went steps further by keeping life mundane and offering young men their ultimate carnal desires as “holy” rewards for dying in battle.
In the modern era, Muslim men aren’t waiting for war to try to satisfy their desires. They are migrating to Europe and the US while the Taliban remain in their medieval mundane state.
Fitna says
Well said Westman.
Michael Copeland says
“In the modern era, Muslim men aren’t waiting for war to try to satisfy their desires. They are migrating to Europe and the US …”
As Mr. Spencer has pointed out, Islam affirms that those that migrate are also promised paradise, simply for migrating.
22:58. Sahih International:
And those who emigrated for the cause of Allah and then were killed or died – Allah will surely provide for them a good provision.
FYI says
1.The complete history of islamic music:The Taliban era
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2.The Encyclopedia of Iranian Sh’ite comedians
{foreword by ayatollah khoimeni}
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OLD GUY says
Why yes there can be no music or joy in islamic life, only hate and misery.
FYI says
A Taliban music festival
No Music
No Musical instruments
No Women singing*
No Dancing
Burqas worn at all times for ladies
Allowed: islamic humming,Nasheeds{mmm..mmm..mmm},spoons
Banned :Jew’s Harp{obviously invented by Jews},Kazoo,Triangle{“Cease say not 3 it is better for you”:muslims might be misled by the Christians 3 gods{allah,Jesus and..MARY},Hindu Sitar etc,Hare Krishna Tambourines,Bagpipes are from shaitan HARAM
“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 section r40