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Top Saudi cleric slams preachers who approve music & singing
 [RT] The Grand Mufti of Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, said that the Moslem preachers who have been recently approving singing and listening to music by worshipers were being insubordinate, local media report. Abdul Aziz Al ash-Sheikh said that such "recalcitrant" preachers went against their own convictions, by changing their stance after decades of banning music. The Grand Mufti also criticized preachers who used fictional stories in their sermons and in advising their flock. "We have the book of God (the Koran), it’s enough and there is no need for such fairy tales," he said, as cited by Okaz daily. According to the Grand Mufti, the Moslem faith "strictly forbids" such things as listening to music and singing. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... some Saudi preachers have been recently insisting that the ban on music in Islam was questionable. Last year, the imam of Quba Mosque in Madinah, Sheikh Saleh al-Maghamsi, said that Saudi Arabia ‐ where concerts have been outlawed for decades ‐ was "in bad need of novelty and modernization." "As for music, three Moslem scholars have said different things," Maghamsi ‐ who believes that only singing, but not music, should be banned ‐ was cited by Arab News. The Saudi General Entertainment Authority has been pushing for relaxing the strict Sharia rules in the country. In his interview with Rooters in April, the Authority’s head, Ahmed al-Khatib, said that Riyadh could be transformed "99 percent" to look like London or New York. In March, live music has made its comeback to the Saudi capital with renowned Arab singers, Rashed al-Majed and Mohammed Abdu, performing in Saudi Arabia for the first time since the 1980s. The entertainment authority’s primary goal was the reintroduction of cinemas across Saudi Arabia, Khatib said. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-01 |
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