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On adaan intonation/singing and "islamic music" and other applications

cunug3aad

3rdchild · Hamitic boy
I decided to do a bit more research on this because whenever a video pops up of some american revert or something doing the adaan in their western scales and tunes half of the comments are filled with people disapproving but not knowing why and the other half saying you dont sing it you recite/tune/chant/perform/whatever-synonym it. Which is a ignorate argument in my opinion when you have content like this

where at any point you click he is either moving up and down the tune or gap between the words or very maybe he is actually saying something. The only main difference between this and those videos of western maqaamaat as i would call it is that typically western scales are in major key while arab scales are in minor key so it is very clear that something fundamental is different between them even if upon analysing you find the diffference is actually quite small. Think of it as doing the adaan in maqaam cajam which when you think about it no one ever does the adaan in maqaam cajam. That maybe why everyone thinks like this

I decided to do a research on the fiqh of the xukum and sunan of the adaan, using the book الفقه المنهجي على مذهب الإمام الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى The methodological fiqh upon the madhab of the imaam alShaaficii may Allaah have mercy on him, and it is co authored by the sheekhs الدكتور مُصطفى الخِنْ والدكتور مُصطفى البُغا وعلي الشّرْبجي Ditoore Mustafe alKhin iyo Ditoore Mustafe alBughaa iyo Ditoore Calii alSharbajii

There are sunan on how the adaan should be conducted and of them that are of importance in my opinionare the fifth and eight and tenth. The fifth goes as follows

أن يرتَّل كلمات الأذان، وهو التأني فيه، لأن الأذان إعلامٌ للغائبين، فكان الترتيل فيه أبلغ في الإعلام.
That he recites (tartiil) the words of the adaan, and he is patient in it, because the adaan is an anouncement for the absentees, and tartiil has been most eloquent in announcement.

The eighth goes as follows

أن يكون المؤذن صيَتاً حين الصوت، ليرقّ قلب السامع، ويميل إلى الإجابة، لقوله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لعبد الله بن زيد - رضي الله عنه -، الذي رأى الأذان في النوم: " فقم مع بلال، فألق عليه ما رأيت فليؤذن به، فإنه أندى صوتاً منك" (رواه أبو داود: ٤٩٩، وغيره). [قال في المصباح: أندى صوتاً منه كناية عن قوته وحسنه].
That the mu'adin should be strong in voice when he calls, so as to make the heart of the listener tender and make them inclined towards responding, because of his saying - sallallaahu calayhi wasallama - for Cabdillaahi ibni Zayd - Allaah be pleased with him -, the one who saw the adaan during sleep: "So stand with Bilaal, and cast upon him what you saw and let him make adaan with it, for indeed he is lower in voice than you" (abuu daawud narated it:499, and others). [He said in alMisbaax: "Lower in voice than you is a metaphor about (his voice's) strength and goodness].

And the tenth goes as follows

عدم التمطيط بالأذان، أي تمديده والتغني به، بل يكره ذلك.
Not stretching the adaan, i.e. prolonging it or singing it, rather that is disliked.
In a video series sharxi of the book by الدكتور سامي محمد صبح Ditoore Saamii Muxammad Subxi he adds that الخروج عن النمط المألوف هذا مكروه Going outside the usual manner, this is disliked

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cunug3aad

3rdchild · Hamitic boy
There are a couple reasons why i believe the culemaa dislike excessive singing in these applications like the adaan and quraan recitations and others. For starter it brings into question if the main point of this recitation is to seek the interpretation of the aayaat and khayraat of Allaah and listen to quraan/adaan or if the point is to show off the voice and listen to extravangant voice and quraan is just there. Also is the fact that using the western singing scales could be seen as imitatting the gaalo and applying it onto quraan. The western musical scales are usually quite extravagant anyway and it does not bode well with quraan where moderation is prioritised

I think this is a consequence of a muslim population who are unversed in arabic language and thus are unable to understand the words of the quraan, so they seek its beauty more through beautiful voice of recitation. It is very easy for people to get mixed up into nice sounding arabic tunes is khayr then they start to listen to all the content of omar hisham alaraby and go down the nashiid rabbit hole, you meet people who have anaashiid playlists for the gym or something and they have no idea what any of them the words meaning . Then there are some people who go to maher zain concerts where he sings original songs of dikri and nabi amaan complete with instrumentation on the stage instead of reading quraan or something. At a point the hope of islamic music drawing people closer to the diin must be brought into question

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cunug3aad

3rdchild · Hamitic boy
Tell me why i seen a muslim christmas song complete with lalala ilaaha illallaah adlibs :snoop: the population has lost the plot

The rulings of singing (الغناء in arabic) vary but here are the basics
- singing with musical instrument is xaaraam (with the exception of daff drum like a tambourine)
- singing woman to men is xaaraam (woman with women is fine)
- singing man if what he is saying is good content and not singing too much that it distracts from obligation then it is fine according to some and disliked acording to others
- if it is bad in virtue or excessive then that is xaaraam

The scope of singing in most other cultures is wider than the scope in english, for example somali poems or general spoken word stuff could be sung to past the time like hees of geel jirahaa ama beerley they sing farming songs, whereas that is not seen in english much the only things that are sung are done so with big budget instrumental and autotune and all that fitno, The issue with comparison between the west and our traditional cultures is that a lot of stuff we both do like singing and poetry and wax kale. But the west takes everything and drives it up to maximum xaaraam and so those are forbidden, but then it is taken by people that the better harmless form of it that we practice is also forbidden when it isnt. Or vice fersa something isnt forbidden traditionally so people think the way the west does it is also permissible. Gaal raacid waa mamnuuc
 

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