I knew this Albanian guy in Chicago, a teacher, very islamic. We had very interesting discussions on the validity of my profession. Anyhow, found a couple sources if you want to read
http://www.wakeup.org/anadolu/05/4/must ... ri_en.html
http://www.inter-islam.org/Prohibitions/Mansy_music.htm
At the emergence of Islam in Hijaz, the first year of Hegira-flight, 622 A.D., spiritual newness dawned on the world. The religion of Islam prospered, and nothing else mattered. At first all was aesthic happiness and austerity. When Prophet Mohammad (sws) passed into greater glory year 632 A.D., his Companions sought, like their holy Prophet, to keep the minds of men only, away from the malahi or forbidden pleasures of old, including wine, women, and song.
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Although the Quran neither contained nor mentioned specifically any words against music, the purists of Islam began to collect a'hadith (sayings) of the Prophet Mohammad (swas) which supposedly condemned listening and singing to music. Hard-core purist fuqaha legists used these proported sayings of the Prophet with considerable effect. These fuqaha forbade any kind of music save what was tolerated by the Prophet and according to their own specific interpretations. Eventually the four legal schools of Sunni Muslim's thought, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi, Hanafi,and with the Shia Jafari and Zaydi who had their own fuqaha-legists who also decided more or less against listening to music; and the subject developed a controversialliterature on permissability. It grew on, and still is a topic of heated debate by conservative fundamentalists on into comtemporary times.
Between this and no pork, this religion sounds like no fun.
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Flying Rabbit Wrote:
I don't eat it every morning, I do however, pull it out sometimes.
