* AOCE issues a statement on ‘singing’ the Qur’an and warns against an abusive wave against the Qur’an and Muslim

  • 20 September 2024
* AOCE issues a statement on ‘singing’ the Qur’an and warns against an abusive wave against the Qur’an and Muslim

* AOCE warns against the graveness of ‘singing’ the Qur’an and calls for a legislation to regulate AI uses with sacred text


Over the last few weeks, the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) has been detecting and investigating what has come to be known as ‘Qur’anic songs’ or ‘singing the Qur’an’, which has marked an extreme way of approaching Qur’anic verses by means of musical composing and singing along Western musical lines and genres in terms of origins, culture, and performance. In so doing, the extremist minds behind these offensive productions allege that they seek ‘innovative’ ways of depicting ‘Qur’anic parables’. These productions are promoted via anonymous AI-based accounts.
The AOCE stresses that the Qur’an is the miraculous revelation of Allah; a doctrine that renders prohibited any musical composing thereof. As a way of deceptively luring the audience to those accounts, their admins cite the prophetic hadith, “He who does not recite the Qur'an in a pleasant tone is not of us”, suggesting a likeness between the meanings of ‘pleasant tone recitation’ and singing. This is but a lie and deception as it falls foul of the semantics of the Arabic words used and the explanatory commentaries by all hadith narrators and commentators in Muslim history. Rather, the Arabic words used mean to recite in a pleasant tone. Abu Mosa Al-Ashaary, a companion of the Prophet, was reciting some Qur’anic verses when the Prophet passed by him, saying, “You have been given a Mizmar (sweet melodious voice) out of the Mazamir of Prophet Dawud (David)”. Other hadith commentators said that the main Arabic misused word in the deceptively cited hadith means to ‘do without’, namely; a Muslim living without the Qur’an or paying no heed thereto would be parting away from what is becoming of a true Muslim.
The AOCE warns of an abusive wave against the Qur’an, Muslims, and, more generally, religions. It is a wave that has started with Qur’an burnings, tear-ups, and manipulated presentation of Qur’anic verses. Being promoted under the pretext of facilitated memorization, this non-Muslim-like wave of composing reveals how ignorant the perpetrators are of the divinely created Qur’anic melodious, intonation, and pitching prerogatives as manifested in the various ways of sound recitation approved by tajweed scholars over centuries. That very wave further ignores the fact and prerogative that the Qur’an has been revealed and learnt, first and foremost, by means of recitation to ensure accurate reception and imitation. After all, that historical well-founded line of read-through of the Qur’an for purposes of learning by heart, education, and exegesis have brough about an almost endless line of great reciter performances from almost all countries, particularly Egypt.
Therefore, the AOCE calls upon the esteemed Legislative Power in Egypt to enact a law to regulate AI uses, in general, and its uses with sacred texts, in particular, to prevent such extremist instances and any reactions thereto. It would be a legislative step that may very well be copied by other countries

Print
Categories: Observatory News
Tags:

 


 

A Year into Endless Genocide… AOCE Contiues to Uncover Violations and Massacres by Zionists
     Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) continues its efforts to remind the whole world of the incessant, now year-old, acts of terrorism, massacres, and war crimes by the Zionist occupation. Amid shameful silence...
Sunday, 13 October, 2024
Grand Imam Congratulates Sisi, Armed Forces, and Egyptian people on 51st Anniversary of October/Ramadan Victory
     His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, extends his heartfelt congratulations to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, our valiant Armed Forces, and to the great Egyptian people on the occasion...
Sunday, 6 October, 2024
AOCE Receives Polish Diplomats and Lectures on Extremism and Confrontation Strategies
On September 24, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) received a group of trainee Polish diplomats as part of its ongoing effort to raise awareness of the dangers of extremism and its growing impact on global stability. During the...
Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
* AOCE issues a statement on ‘singing’ the Qur’an and warns against an abusive wave against the Qur’an and Muslim
* AOCE warns against the graveness of ‘singing’ the Qur’an and calls for a legislation to regulate AI uses with sacred text Over the last few weeks, the Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) has been detecting...
Friday, 20 September, 2024
Grand Imam Congratulates President Sisi and Islamic Nation on Prophet’s Birthday
     His Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb extends his heartfelt congratulations to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the Islamic nation on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet of...
Thursday, 12 September, 2024
Al-Azhar Denounces "Al-Mawasi Massacre" in Khan Yunis
     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns in the strongest terms the bloody massacre carried out by Zionist entity, Tuesday, in al-Mawasi camp, Khan Yunis, targeting displaced people with bombs and missiles, in an area designated as...
Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
US condones Zionist human rights violations, again!
     The US State Department spokesperson, Mathew Miller, announced that the US has decided not to restrict military aid to an Israeli battalion accused of human rights violations after it concluded that they were...
Thursday, 15 August, 2024
Al-Azhar condemns Al-Tabi’in massacre, Gaza
     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns in the strongest terms the brutal bombardment carried out by the Zionist entity, Saturday at dawn, against Al-Tabi’in school, which shelters displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in...
Sunday, 11 August, 2024
1345678910Last