Music: Permissable Or Not: Part 1

I remember an incident i read about a prophet(R.A) of earlier times, i think either it was Hazrat Musa (R.A) or Hazrat ISSA (R.A).

He (R.A) was walking on his way to meet with ALLAH at a designated spot. On his way, he saw a shepherd with sheep, saying, ALLAH i wish you could come to me, so i put oil in your hair, so i comb your hair, so i put new clothes on you etc etc.

The Hazrat (R.A) got very angry and stopped him and said, you dont know what ALLAH looks like and you are saying such things. The shepherd got hurt and stopped.

The Hazrat (R.A) moved on and had a meeting with ALLAH and in the end ALLAH said to that Hazrat (R.A), you shouldnt have stopped that shepherd for loving me the way he does, for I like the way he loves me.

The Hazrat (R.A) on his way back, apologized to the shepherd and asked him to carry on the way he loved ALLAH.

Now, considering your reply to the post, you have no idea what spirituality is. otherwise you swouldnt have said about forms or shapes at all.

An ashiq doesnt hear WORDS of the songs to express his love, its the THEME of song which drives him crazy, which is “love” or better known as “ishq”.

Secondly, you are again wrong about the instruments from spirituality point of view, an ashiq wants to think of his ishq always.The basic point of instruments being illegal is because they can drive a person to a crazy (junooni) state and he makes vulgar moves on such tunes also.

But here,its all different in spirituality, the ashiq just wants to meet his mehboob. He doesnt care about anything else, the negativities of instruments are nulllified straigthaway because neither they take him to the devil, nor his accomplices but to his mehboob.

In spirituality, mind has no value, its the heart that matters, coz ishq can stay in heart, not in mind.
A devil can change ur thoughts the mind, not through the heart. and ishq (ALLAH) resides in hearts of HIS lovers.

You are taking spirituality from philosophy point of view where as spirituality has nothing to do with sciences or philosophy, it has to do with soul(rooh) of a person and so is thus called Roohaniat.

As for gaining spirituality through music, yes that happens in some silsilas through qawwalis, because in qawwlis when a person goes in “wajd” state, he is at extreme point of ishq and his soul(rooh) controls his body at that time.