خلاصه ماشینی:
'' These were the questions that were once put to Ibn-Taimmiyya, 'in answer to which he says in his usual homiletic manner that Sama' of the pious people means listening to the verses of the Holy Qur'an only.
9 In the opinion of lbn-Taimiyya this sort of Sama' is A~l al-Iman, (fundamental faith), because God delegated to the Prophet a mission to the people, who, if they listen to it, will find salvation, and if they turn away from it will be misguided and rendered unfortunate.
" He then took a rag from those torn pieces and suspend• ed it from the throne of God. 5 The Prophet of Islam never allowed his disciples to assemble in order to listen to songs accompanied by claps or beatings of the Qadib, (wand)6 or Duff (tambourine).
') · Ibn-Taimiyya's explanation of this Hadith is that to listen to a song was not the habit of the Prophet or his disciples, and this is why Abu-Bakr called it Mazmur ash-Shaitan, (flute of the devil), but that a man commits no sin if he hears a song· accidentally.
were ofopinion that Sama1 ( of the Darwishes) was permitted in Islam for a specialclass of people, nay for them it was even better than listening to the Qur'an in many respects=- it was nourishment for the heart, a kind of food for the soul, and a sort of guide to spiritual elevation.
al-Hasan of Basra, The report made by Abu- 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami and Abu'l• Qasim al-Qushairi that such a kind of music was lawful to Imam Malik and the Madinites is, according to Ibn-Taimiyya, false.