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In the Persian Sufi book Diwan i Shams i Tabriz it is written: "We do not attend musical assemblies nor employ music. In our position there is more harm than good in it. Music improves the approach to the consciousness, if heard in the right way. But it will harm persons who are insufficiently developed. Those who do not know this have taken up music as if it were something sacred in itself. The feelings they experience from it are mistaken for sublime ones; sentiments are aroused, which is no basis for further progress."--Bahaudin Naqshband, leader of the Naqshabendi-Dervish Order

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 316