Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. - Al-Ghazali

فإنَّ العبدَ صعيفٌ ، والزَّمانُ صعبٌ ، وأمرُ الدِّينِ متراجعٌ ، والفراغ قليلٌ ، والشُّغلُ كثيرٌ ، والعمرُ قصيرٌ ، وفي العملِ تقصيرٌ ، والنَّاقدُ بصيرٌ ، وإلى اللَّهِ المصيرُ ، والأجلُ قريبٌ ، والسَّفرُ بعيدٌ ، والطَّاعةُ هي الزَّادُ فلا بدَّ منها وهي فائتةٌ فلا مردَّ لها ، فمن ظفرَ بها . . فقد فازَ وسعدَ أبدَ الآبدينَ ، ومن فاته ذلك . . فقد خسرَ مع الخاسرينَ ، وهلكَ مَعَ الهالكينَ

A fourth group of people climbs from ignorance and pretends to possess the rational faculty. They suppose that the highest felicity is the expansion of honor and fame, the spread of reputation, a multiplicity of followers, and the influence of the command that is obeyed. Hence, you see that their only concern is eye service and cultivation of the things upon which observers cast their glance. One of them may go hungry in his house and suffer harm so that he can spend his wealth on clothes with which to adorn himself so that no one will look at him with the eye of contempt when he goes out. The types of these people are beyond count. All of them are veiled from Allah by the sheer darkness that is their own dark souls.

ليس فى الإمكان أبدع مما كان