Re: Is music a form of food for the soul?
I read above posts quickly.
Here are my thought on 'music'.
There are three schools of thoughts among muslims.
1- One who absolutely is against any kind of instrumental or vocal music.
2- Second which allows certain musical instruments including Duff or what we call it Drum or Percussion, Beat kind of instruments.
3- Those who base their belief on the basis of Duff and singing etc. allowed by the Prophet SAW and say that music in the form of pure music is not really un-islamic as long as it has some boundaries. (Those who play in middle ground)
There is an extension of these thoughts **which everyone including **non-muslims seem to agree.
4- Any music inciting a person towards what we call 'Haijaan' or disturbance of mind or lose mind enough to commit inhuman/animalistic acts is prohibited.
Hence, in my humble understanding,
A- Music by itself has nothing to do with soul.
B- We do not even have ANY understanding what soul is and we talk about its so called food?
C- The so called universal saying of "music is the food for soul' is just a myth and nothing but a myth. It is created by the people who wanted to make people have firm belief on music power.
D- Music just affects your emotions in one way or other by something which depends upon the brain power of 'listening/comprehending/processing by brain cells'.
*It is just another stimulant to these cells and create a certain response.
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Until someone defines soul, music is just another stimulant of brain cells in certain way.
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Music and singing do have a **short lasting effect on a person's feeling. Does this mean affecting soul? Not really known.
Reciting Quran in certain way does the same thing as singing. Up and down of pitch or notes in reciting Quran has very similarity to what we call music. Only difference is that one is reading God's words and other is reading human written sentences or verses.
DEFINITION OF MUSIC IN MY OPINION:
**Music should be looked as a mathematical way of creating sound in a regular order.
In other way, its just a 'regularly irregular' production of sound.
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