Note 101 — AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR RUKN AL-DIN BIBARS AL-BUNDUKDARI AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
I have repeatedly noticed that singing and all music are, in religious parlance, “Makrúh,” blameable though not actually damnable; and that the first step after “getting religion” is to forswear them.