A passing thought
a flickering flame.....
Thought I capture it here before it extinguishes.
Music.... this is what I am thinking about right now. How does it have so much power to move people to tears, at least it does that to me when I listen to certain songs...
What is it that its in music that connects with your brain so beautifully?
Listen to some lecture, I guarantee that you could hardly remember more than 50% of what you heard only if you liked it... well that's my case. That percentage may vary from person to person. But listen to same ideas in a song, I bet you will remember more than your usual percentage.
Another thought that goes through my mind is more related to the apparent ban of music in Islam, or at least that is what I have been hearing since childhood. Then I have read about Muslim philosophers like Al-Farabi writing about music. Then now there is Sami Yusuf that is sometimes subject of criticism by some Muslim ulema, and then there are so many other singers singing what they call nasheed. So I think Music per se is not banned in Islam. And the discourse here is not of lawful or unlawful, it is rather of ethical or unethical, this is my view: where does the music starts become unethical? This is what should be looked at, not that the entire music be banned when it can and does contribute so much positively.
Just a flickering flame of thought in my mind.....
