The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

T H E D E V I L ' S
D E C E P T I O N S
being that so-and-so acts in this way.
The taste for music has got so firmly fixed in the hearts of some
of them that they prefer it to recitation of the Qur'an, and it works
on their feelings more than the Qur'an.This is because of the dominance
of secret passion, the sway of natural inclination, though such
persons think otherwise.
Abu «Abdu'l-Ral:iman al-Sulami said: I went to Marv in the lifetime
of Abu Sahl al-Su'luki, who before my arrival had held on Friday
mornings meetings for the study of the Qur'an and readings of
the whole Book. I found when I arrived that he had put an end to
these meetings and instituted a meeting for singing by Ibn al-Fargharu
at that time. I was displeased there at, and kept saying that he had
substituted a singing session for a Qur'an-reading. He asked me one
day what people were saying. I replied: They are saying that the reading
of Qur'an has been stopped and a singing session substituted.
He replied: He who questions his teacher will never succeed!.
These are the callers for Sufism; they require that a student surrender
to his teacher completely! We should surrender to no human
because we ought to be controlled by religion and sound intellect,
unlike animals controlled by the whip.
Section Five:
The Ruling of Singing from the Perspective
of the $iljis
Some $Ufis claimed that certain types of people must be encouraged
to listen to songs inspite of songs being considered by some to
be a sin, and by others to be disliked.
Abu 'Ali al-Daqqaq said: Listening (to music) is forbidden to the
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