Why Islam Cannot Create Classical Music




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Fifty years ago (1965) while studying the subject of Near Eastern Religions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a fellow student and I got into a discussion of a verse on modesty in the Quran (1) where God orders women to cover their bosoms and other adornments from the eyes of men.

But then we came to this injunction: "And let them [the veiled women] not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment." Which is to say, it is not enough to cover one's body with hijab down to the soles, women must not stomp around to make their trinket-anklets jingle, a sound that could excite in a Muslim man's mind the vision of their hidden sexy ankles which may in turn lead to filthy, disgusting thoughts.

So Muslim women must not only hide their adornments from the eyes but also from the ears of unrelated men.

Because of this prohibition, I have no doubt that the Qu`ran forbids a woman's bosoms from twerking to the tune of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik:

YouTube, Sara X Does Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”

This is the major reason the faithful of Islam will never create great music.




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ENDNOTES


(1):

The Quranic Arabic Corpus, Qu`ran - Sura 24, sūrat l-nūr (The Light), verse 31

And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.



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