{"id":2859,"date":"2013-07-07T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2013-07-11T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:58:36","slug":"referring-to-the-quran-as-form-of-music-describing-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/referring-to-the-quran-as-form-of-music-describing-musical.htm","title":{"rendered":"Referring to the Quran as a Form of “Music” or Describing it as “Musical”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful…<\/em><\/p>\n

From the unique writings of the late scholar, Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd<\/strong> (may Allaah have Mercy on him), is a\u00a0beneficial 700-page dictionary of “bad language” called\u00a0“Mu’jam al-Manaahee al-Lafthiyyah”<\/em> in which he identified and\u00a0refuted\u00a0incorrect, inappropriate, and\/or impermissible words and phrases that some people use.<\/p>\n

In this book (p.117), he included how some people refer to the Quran as “music” or “musical”, or having musical tones or rhythms,\u00a0and commented:<\/p>\n

These are unacceptable descriptions\u00a0because of three issues:<\/p>\n

[1]<\/strong> This is claiming a likeness between Quranic Verses and impermissible musical instruments.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/strong> Music is an art form that draws people into disobedience and wickedness, so how could it resemble the Magnificent Quran, the Speech of the Lord of all the worlds, that which guides to eemaan (statements, actions, and beliefs of faith) and the Straight Path?!<\/p>\n

[3]<\/strong> Allaah the Exalted has refuted the idea of the Quran being poetry and exonerated it above that (claim), so how could it (the Quran) then resemble the voices and instruments of musicians?! (something far worse)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the Arabs who have\u00a0picked up these kinds of repugnant phrases from books that the scholars have been warning against\u00a0(like\u00a0Sayyid Qutb’s “Thilaal”<\/em> for example),\u00a0it is also hoped that those who have lent their ears to\u00a0certain ignorant\u00a0and reckless preachers in the English language would also abandon the use of these kinds of phrases and distinguish themselves as people who speak about Allaah and His Book with\u00a0respect.<\/p>\n

And Allaah knows best.<\/p>\n

Translation and commentary by Moosaa Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful… From the unique writings of the late scholar, Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd (may Allaah have Mercy on him), is a\u00a0beneficial 700-page dictionary of “bad language” called\u00a0“Mu’jam al-Manaahee al-Lafthiyyah” in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,84,347,85,87,96,64,59],"tags":[569,561,566,567,565,564,395,563,562,568,265],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allaahs-names-and-attributes","category-aqeedah-manhaj","category-corrections-2","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-general-reminders","category-islamic-manners-behavior","category-original-articles","category-translations","tag-bad-language","tag-bakr-aboo-zayd","tag-fee-thilaal-al-quran","tag-mujam-al-manaahee-al-lafthiyyah","tag-music","tag-musical-quran","tag-quran","tag-quran-is-like-music","tag-sayyid-qutb","tag-tashbeeh","tag-yusuf-estes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}