Page 373 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

God Loves Music, and Causes His Servants to Love It

Music and dance are blessings of paradise made lawful in Islam.
It is God Who creates music, songs, musical instruments, fine cos-

tumes, adornments, dance and all lovely things. He makes people
love all these blessings and has created the soul in such a way as to
enjoy these delights.

The Torah also describes how the Prophet David (pbuh) sang
psalms to the accompaniment of lyres, timbrels, cymbals and
sistrums, and how he danced before God; it also says how there were
people who envied that dancing. In the same way that there are peo-

ple in Muslim societies today who try to ban what is lawful, so we
learn from the Torah of the existence in those days of people who
foolishly tried to ban music and dancing among the Jews. They even
foolishly criticized the actions of a prophet.

... David and all Israel were celebrating with all their

might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, tim-
brels, sistrums and cymbals.... (Torah, 2. Samuel, 6:5)

Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the
LORD with all his might, while he and all Israel were
bringing up the Ark of the LORD with shouts and the
sound of trumpets. As the Ark of the LORD was entering
the City of David, Michal*, daughter of Saul, watched
from a window. And when she saw King David LEAPING

AND DANCING before the LORD, she despised him in her
heart. (Torah, 2. Samuel, 6:14-16)

* Michal, daughter of Saul, is one of the wives of David

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal
daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, "How the

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