Comments on: Who said you can’t make good music without instruments?

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By: MR

MR — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:38:15 +0000

So basically we just have to record our voices making unique sounds and then digitally engineer it to sound like a real song that uses instruments but everything is generated from the mouth.

I’d like to see a good scholarly approach to this, becuase this is music.

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By: theManOfFewWords

theManOfFewWords — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:11:19 +0000

I think the song is a cover and not an original. That’s a little disappointing as I was hoping for some unique stuff. But whatever. Iz they Mozlems?

Regarding the “vocal music” thing I did hear Sh Yasir Birjas say a few negative words about an album that sounded exactly like instrumental music but only used human voices. He didnt exactly give a fatwa only disapproval.

The human voice is indeed far superior than musical instruments.

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:39:03 +0000

I’m not gonna go into details b/c frankly I don’t have the knowledge.

You may want to read the following:
http://forums.almaghrib.org/showthread.php?t=22994

By: CONFUSED

CONFUSED — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:25:22 +0000

To say that peoples voices that somehow can sound exactly like instruments or synthesized sounds that can do the same are ok, but other music is not sounds a bit Yahoodi-ish, like how they wear wigs but cover their own hair and consider it a hijab.

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:35:16 +0000

Im not a scholar on this subject, and I’ve only begun to read up on it. The basic premise is that the sounds have to come from a source that is permissible. (there’s a lot more to it and inshaAllah when I start my book study with my teacher on the subject I’ll post the result here).

If its from the mouth its all good. Allah-swt has allowed it. Most instruments out there that they use, are not allowed according to the major scholars of Islam.

By: Confused

Confused — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:36:32 +0000

I’m not sure I get it, if we can somehow find a man that is capable of making sounds that sound exactly like instruments, we can sample and use him to give us a library of music that sounds no different from instruments?

Is computer generated music then ok, because no strings are actually involved?

By: AlBaraa

AlBaraa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:35:03 +0000

SubhanAllah. Allah-swt’s creation is far superior to man’s psudo-creation. Amazing how one’s voices can produce such sounds