Test of Faith

None of us knows exactly the melody used when the Qur'an was recited for the first time. And there is no answer to the question: did the revelation received by the Prophet Muhammad include it in the form of a kind of 'notation'? In movies depicting the early days of Islam, even the call to prayer is not musical, when Bilal bin Rabah announces it for the first time.

In these movies, Bilalthe sixth person to embrace Islam, according to Abdullah bin Mas'udclimbs a small hill every time the call to prayer is to be made, and shouts it in all directions. In the time since then, the small hill has become the towers of modern mosques. In Bilal's time, the call to prayer was not remotely melodious, but simply consisted of the words in the call spoken in a loud voice.

July 14, 2015