Re: Is Music Haraam ?
Looking at the ‘translation’ you have posted Hypnotix certain things can be concluded:
- Shabbir Ahmed is the author of it.
- It has been written to secularise Islam
- It has been written to rationalise the ‘ghaib’ aspects of our belief system.
Apart from it being an attempt to be more palatable to a CNN/CBS/BBC audience, it does however turn a blind eye to some linguistics that the Qur’an uses. Hence he fails on many levels to depicts the truth of the Qur’an as a translation. At the very best the above posted is an interpretation, but a translation it is not.
Verse 59 misses out the essential term [from among you] which is from the Arabic ‘minkum’. Note he chooses to pen the words ‘office-bearers’ alluding to the working elite rather than the ‘people of knowledge’. Because it is an error to say that those who have political authority have any such authority over issues in the Deen. Early Islam had these positions superimposed in one person. i.e. Khaliphs, but now this is not the case. In this verse he chooses to change referring to Allah (SWT) and the Prophet (AS) to simply referring to the ‘Central Authority’. This is a problem twice over. It is understood that referring to Allah (SWT) means the Qur’an or Hadith Qudsi, referring to the Prophet (SAW) means the hadith and his Sunnah. Also, the Arabic says, ‘fa’in’ which means ‘then if’ but the translation simply says, ‘if’. Which means we have lost the order of priority, the precendence that is inherent in the Arabic is lost.
Similar problems are found in the next verses’ translation. However, I note the same thing has cropped up about the Shaitaan. He has reduced the pronoun of Shaitan to rebellious desire. This is also false, as the Arabic says, ‘WayoureeduShaitaanu’ meaning ‘and (but) the Shaitaan Wishes’. How can evil desires wish something? A wish is itself a desire?
My final point is that this translation is itself not taken from any ‘Central Authority’ so it shoots itself in the foot.