Re: Religions and Compromises!
That is also my question and thats why I’m calling it a compromise. But I’m indecisive whether it did good or bad to the religion. What is good for a religion? flexibility at the cost of doubts or rigidity to make it irrelevant for coming periods.
There is also some factors which differentiate a religion from other. Religion like Islam which got some central figure (call it leader, prophet, founder, etc) have an impact of that personality, like Islam can’t be understood without going through the history of Prophet’s life (we call it Seerah). Such religion have a set pattern based on what that leader preached and practiced. On other hand, religions like Hinduism which got no founder ( If I’m not mistaken, there is no person which can be called founder of Hinduism) are flexible as compared to first category of religions.
Prophet (SAW) didn’t like music or we don’t find any details from his life (which is well documented BTW) that he went to visit parties where music was played or poetry was recited as was the tradition in Arabs. So, it was inferred that music is Lahwa o Lahab (time waste) in Islam.