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Sufi Teaching on Music:

(1) "Do not train yourself to music in case this holds you back from higher perceptions."--Ibn Hamdan (medieval)

(2) "They play music and cast themselves into states. . . . Every learning must have all its requirements fulfilled, not just music, thought, concentration."--Mainuddi Chishti, in a letter to disciples, referring to ecstatic states. The master explained further the fact that love of music was not enough, that emotional feelings produced by music were being confused with spiritual experience.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 317